1:43:10Absolute Motivation · Essay
Stick to What You Said You Would Do
A 103-minute compilation of the most-quoted voices in motivational content, all pressing the same point: your word to yourself is the only contract that matters.
May 17thThe argument in one line.
Staying relentlessly focused on your own growth — and refusing to let external opinions, comparison, or doubt derail you — is the single decision that separates the life you want from the one you settle for.
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- You are in a season where discipline has slipped and you need a hard reset on why the work matters.
- You consume motivational content during workouts, commutes, or morning routines and want something that sustains intensity for 40 minutes.
- You know what to do but keep stalling — and respond better to confrontation than encouragement.
- You are studying the motivational speech compilation format to understand pacing, speaker selection, and immersion design.
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- You are looking for a step-by-step framework or actionable system — this delivers philosophy, not process.
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- You find aggressive accountability framing demotivating rather than energizing.
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This is a 40-minute immersion-style motivational compilation from Absolute Motivation — no single narrator, no chapters, no tutorial arc. Multiple voices cycle through ten interlocking themes anchored to one central argument: the gap between where you are and where you want to be exists because you are comfortable, not because you lack resources. The practical payload is scattered but real: stop confusing the desire for success with the willingness to earn it, install rituals instead of relying on willpower, learn the lesson and leave the event, and measure your value internally rather than through external validation.
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00:00 – 03:00
01 · Patience and the Seed
Opens with a seed metaphor — growth happens beneath the surface before it is visible. Transitions into hard-work testimony: late nights, all-nighters, the faith that effort will pay off.
03:00 – 10:00
02 · You Are a Liar
The most confrontational section. Direct accusation: if you say you want success but will not do the uncomfortable things, you do not want it — you like the idea of it. Introduces excuses as comfort admissions. Bridges into Stoic urgency via Seneca and memento mori.
10:00 – 17:00
03 · The Unbeatable Person
How do you beat someone who gets stronger through every setback? You cannot. Introduces earned confidence and discipline as a byproduct of doing what others will not.
17:00 – 22:00
04 · Goals and the Machine
Goal-setting as the master skill of success. Self-reprogramming metaphor — you are the machine, not the bad programming you inherited. Level-up circle argument: you become the average of who you spend time with.
22:00 – 27:00
05 · Lay Bricks
The problem is not circumstance — it is letting circumstance make you stop laying bricks. Introduces the mentor framework: learn the lesson, leave the event.
27:00 – 32:00
06 · Change or Stagnate
If you do not change, the next six years look like the last six. Covers behavior-as-identity: behave as you wish to be until it becomes your new norm. Genius-as-practice argument.
32:00 – 35:00
07 · Work Works
No substitute for putting in the work. Self-doubt as self-sabotage. Failure as data — you are a fan of LeBron because you have not finished your own story yet.
35:00 – 37:00
08 · Your New Life Costs Your Old One
Radical honesty about what change actually costs: comfort zone, relationships, being liked. Every life is a reflection of choices made.
37:00 – 39:56
09 · Pain Has a Purpose
Two types of pain: action and inaction. Closes with how to survive tragedy — go deeper than the mind, into love, faith, hope, meaning, and purpose. Final image: what will emerge is a new person.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- The excuses you make — no time, no money, no connections — are not obstacles. They are admissions that you are comfortable with where you are.
- Discipline exists only as a result of doing the things most people are not willing to do. You cannot buy it or inherit it.
- Genius is not about genetics. That is a seduction society uses to keep you small. Genius is about practice and the right rituals.
- Your new life is going to cost you your old one — your comfort zone, your sense of direction, some relationships, and being liked.
- There are two types of pain: the pain of action and the pain of inaction. Both hurt. Only one transforms you.
- Everything in your life right now — everything you have and do not have — is a result of your past actions. Until you accept that, you cannot move forward.
- The confidence you need to carry out the life you want is an earned characteristic. That is why it is so valuable.
- If you want the next six years to look different from the last six, you have to change. If you will change, everything will change for you.
- Stop tying your value and worth to external achievements — money, title, car. Those can disappear overnight.
- What you are looking for is on the other side of thousands of days of unrecognized work that feel like they will not pay off, but eventually do in the biggest way.
- Learn the lesson, leave the event. There is no going back — only forward with what you learned.
- Rather than trying to impress people who do not care about you, start impressing the next highest version of yourself.
- Self-doubt is not a truth about you — it is a projection of a temporary hurdle inflated into a permanent identity.
- Work works. No matter what you do, no matter who you are. There is no shortcut around it.
Focus is a daily decision, not a personality trait.
WHAT TO LEARN
The gap between the life you want and the life you have is not a resource gap — it is a decision you make every day when you choose comfort over discomfort.
- Excuses about lacking time, money, or connections are admissions of comfort — not statements of fact. If you genuinely wanted the outcome, you would find the path.
- Discipline cannot be borrowed from willpower. It is built through rituals and routines practiced until they run automatically.
- Genius is not inherited. The narrative that talent is genetic keeps people from attempting things. Practice is the mechanism, not genes.
- Change has a real cost: relationships, comfort, being understood. Accepting that cost upfront removes the sting when it arrives.
- Both action and inaction are painful. The difference is that the pain of action transforms you while the pain of inaction compounds silently.
- Measuring your worth by external markers — income, title, possessions — is structurally fragile. Those can vanish overnight. Internal benchmarks cannot.
- When a goal closes on you, learn the lesson and leave the event behind. Carrying the event forward buries the lesson under resentment.
- The habit you need to install is not more motivation. It is a behavior you perform even when motivation is absent, until it becomes the default version of you.
Terms worth knowing.
- Memento mori
- A Stoic practice of regularly contemplating your own mortality to cut through procrastination. The video cites Seneca: the point is not to be depressed by death but clarified by it — forced to act now rather than deferring to a tomorrow that may not exist.
- Pain of action vs. pain of inaction
- A framing used late in the video: the discomfort of doing hard things (action) is acute and forward-moving; the suffering of avoiding them (inaction) is chronic and compounds. Both are painful — the distinction is which one builds you.
- Immersion loop
- A video format designed for repeat background listening rather than single-watch instruction. No defined chapters, no single host — engineered to sustain ambient motivation over a long session.
Things they pointed at.
03:10bookSeneca (On the Shortness of Life)
03:10bookMemento mori (Stoic practice)
Lines you could clip.
01:14
“You're a liar. You say you want it badly, but you're not willing to do the things that are actually going to propel you to success.”
03:10
“It's not that life is short. It's that we waste a lot of it.”
19:03
“Genius is not about genetics. That is a seduction that society has told us to keep you small.”
28:21
“Your new life is going to cost you your old one.”
37:59
“There are two types of pain. The pain of action and the pain of inaction.”
12:52
“What you're looking for is on the other side of thousands of days of unrecognized work that feel like they won't pay off, but eventually do in the biggest way.”
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00:00The hardest part of life is waiting.
00:06Waiting for things to change, waiting for opportunities, waiting for the life you imagine to finally begin.
00:13But patience isn't about doing nothing. It's about trusting that growth is happening even when you can't see it yet.
00:21Just like a seed under the soil, it looks like nothing has happened. But beneath the surface something is slowly becoming stronger.
00:31You're gonna have late nights. You don't have all nighters. You're gonna have days where you sleep late, wake up late.
00:36Ain't gonna add them days, but you just know you're doing it for the greater good. You know that these nights gonna pay off, bro. You're not putting in this work for no reason.
00:45I'll be damned if I put in this work for no reason. There will be a reward for the work that you put in because hard work is always blessed.
00:56You win the medals in the training. You just go to collect them in there in in the fight.
01:03I worked so hard. I know everything that I did that I did everything that I could and there's no way that I'm not gonna walk out from that afternoon with the victory.
01:14You told yourself you was gonna do a lot of shit, you're not doing it. You're a liar. You say you want it badly, but you're not willing to do the things that are actually going to propel you to success.
01:24You want to be the best version of yourself, but you don't want to take no risk, you don't want to get uncomfortable, you don't want to grow, you don't want to do the things that scare you. It sounds to me like you just like the idea of being successful. All those excuses that you're making, you don't have the time, you don't have the money, you don't have the resources, you don't have the connections, you don't know how.
01:38All that is is you saying I am actually comfortable with where I'm at and I don't care to change because if you really care to change, you would figure it the out.
01:48It's a process. It's a standard. It's an expectation.
01:53High standard, high expectation, it's accountability. Right? It's discipline, commitment, toughness, work ethic, pride.
02:00You know, it's wanting to be great versus wanting to be normal. And you know, normal kind of equals average and average is okay. My business average is the enemy and to be great, you got to have special focus, special commitment, special preparation and discipline, and the ability to say no to some things.
02:26People who have done phenomenal things, the journey that people go through, what is the inner conversation that they have, the inner monologue? How do each of us navigate through our own insecurities and our own moments of doubt?
02:39And then when you have those doubts, understanding where do those doubts come from in the first place? I once you understand that, then really you can create anything one. It's just a matter of first how to navigate the journey of the self.
02:50Once you have that, you can be dropped into any industry whatsoever and you can figure it out.
02:58Do not become a slave to your own mind. Your thoughts dictate your actions and your actions dictate who you are. The first step to realizing your full potential is to think clearly and think positively.
03:10It's not that life is short, Seneca reminds us. It's that we waste a lot of it. And why do we waste it?
03:16Why do we waste this precious resource? Because we think that we have an unlimited amount of it. We think we'll get to it later.
03:22Marx Maria says you could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow. Right? And we do that because we think we have tomorrow.
03:28We tell ourselves that lie. What you could say is the biggest lie in the world. Right?
03:31I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it later. I'll do it when the kids are older.
03:35I'll do it when things go back to normal. You don't know that you have that. That's the power of this stoic exercise, memento mori.
03:41Memento mori is the embracing of the moment that you were in and the acceptance that you might not get that many more future moments. That's the power of memento mori.
03:51It's not supposed to be depressing. It's supposed to be clarifying. Right?
03:55It's supposed to make you do that thing now to stop believing that you have time to waste.
04:03Whatever's in front of you isn't as big as you make it out to be. We start to make these very small things enormous because we allow our minds to take control and go away from us.
04:17We have to regain control of our mind. We've all overcome so many things in our lives, but we forget them.
04:26And a lot of times, we don't spend enough time like reflecting back in our lives realizing how great we truly are.
04:34We go through something, we put it back, and we go on. And life is gonna always challenge us, always challenge us.
04:42And during that challenging moment, we panic. We forget who we truly are.
04:48Most situations usually we can find the strength to handle them just through having the right mental process.
04:57What exactly are you waiting for? Everything that you have been wishing for is right there waiting for you. All you have to do is show up.
05:05If you make a consistent and honest effort in pursuing your dreams, you will succeed.
05:12You wanna get to a level where you can't even believe that this is your life. That's how I feel. And I also know that anybody can do it.
05:22That anybody can do it. You just have to begin to look at yourself as the machine and that you are not the person that created you, not the person that created the bad programming that you were forced to learn to operate with, but you are the person that has complete control to reprogram it and start version one of you right now.
05:47You are now the platform and you are going to be able to continuously upgrade yourself, guide your evolution in a harmonious and peaceful way where you will continuously now achieve your goals, reach your milestones, become the person that you always dreamed you could be.
06:08And at the end of it, you've now developed the skill to continuously get better and better at operating you, the machine, till the day that you die.
06:22How can you beat someone who cannot fucking quit? How can you beat someone who every time they go through a hard time, they get better and they get stronger instead of getting weaker and getting demoralized?
06:36How can you beat someone who looks back on all the tests that they've had and said, yeah, that one's dude. Okay? As opposed to the person who's like, oh my god.
06:46I can't believe this happened. And then in two months, another thing happens. Oh my god.
06:49I can't believe this happened. It's gonna be the person who has a stoic mentality who looks at it and says this.
06:56Okay? Alright. We'll get through it.
06:57And then the next thing happens. Well, won't do that again, but we'll get through it.
07:04You can't buy what you're looking for. Nobody can give you what you're looking for. What you're looking for is on the other side of thousands of days of unrecognized work that feel like they won't pay off, but eventually do in the biggest way.
07:19The confidence you need to carry out the life you want is an earned characteristic and that is why it's so valuable. Discipline exists only as a result of doing the things that most people are not willing to do.
07:35So recognize that what you're searching for is a tall mountain to climb, but there's no sense in letting that scare you.
07:42Just start taking the steps.
07:48When our brain starts to go through suffering, when our brain starts to go through pain, or starts to go through insecurities, when we start to feel uncomfortable with ourself, our brain gives us a way out.
08:03And that way out is usually quitting or taking the easier route. If we're able to look at ourselves and face whatever we're running from, we can do a lot more than we think.
08:16You feel pain, you feel suffering, you feel discomfort, you stop right there. Everybody has a wall in their mind.
08:24It's a wall, and it stops us from going further. Most walls have a door or a window. You have to find that.
08:32You have to have the courage to find that. And once you open that door or that window, you'll realize how much further you can go.
08:42In psychology, there is an expression called a sense of control.
08:47People are happy when they feel they are in control of their lives. And people are unhappy when they feel they're out of control or controlled by other circumstances.
08:58So the starting point would be to teach people to set goals. Setting goals is the master skill of success because from it everything else is possible and they can be personal goals, financial goals, but teach them how to set goals. So learn how to set goals first day.
09:15What are your goals for this week, this month, this year, five years? Where do you want to be in ten years? You can change as you get new information, but start off with an idea of where you're going And then make plans to achieve the goals.
09:29And then organize the plans. Now, each day you plan your day in advance and you use your time and you work on achieving the goals that are important to you. You set priorities and you do things of high value rather than things of low value.
09:46You don't owe anyone an explanation for keeping your circle tight and your energy protected. Silence isn't weakness.
09:54It's strength that doesn't need an audience. Not everyone will get you, and that's okay.
10:01Those who resonate with you will understand without you having to say a word. Stay true to yourself.
10:08Preserve your energy for what really matters. In a world loud with distractions, be the calm that others need.
10:20The people we admire the most are the ones that stand alone. They're willing to take risks. They're willing to take chances.
10:28They're willing to be outliers, that don't follow the rules, that understand what it takes to be great.
10:36Understands you have to be different in order to succeed. You have to take a different path.
10:42You can't follow what everybody else is doing.
10:50Who you are today is going to continue to be the person you are if you don't change anything about you or around you. You have to start looking and saying, who am I affiliating with?
11:01And what level are they at? And if I'm at equal level with them, I have to start looking for new people to affiliate with. If I'm going to become the average of the people I hang out with, then I wanna make sure I'm leveling up in who I'm hanging out with.
11:15It's when I get complacent and I decide to coast, that's when I roll backwards. So I wanna keep driving.
11:22I wanna keep driving to the next level. I wanna find out what motivates me and I wanna go after it. I have to define that.
11:29I have to figure out what it is that motivates me, but then I can go after it. And I can find the people that have done it. I can find the people that have blazed that trail.
11:39And I can follow them. I can follow them to a certain point. But just like if I'm walking through snow and I follow the person in front of me and I walk in their tracks, eventually, I have to go make my own tracks.
11:51But by following through those tracks, I've realized I understand how to walk through that snow even better. So when I venture off of my own, yeah, it'll be slow at first, but I'll know what I'm doing because I've seen it done.
12:02I'm gonna learn from others. I'm gonna do what they did to get to where they are, and then I'm gonna grow and do it even better.
12:10I'm gonna level up by finding people who've been there before me.
12:17You're not failing because of the circumstance or situation. You're failing because mentally you let the circumstance and situation make you stop laying bricks. And and you're not successful because you keep laying bricks, not laying bricks, laying bricks, not laying bricks.
12:32If you would just lay bricks regardless.
12:36The way I do it is I ask myself what's true. But you can write a narrative in your head and spin yourself down a negative path and beat yourself up and second guess and go back. But what's true is you made what you thought was the best decision in the moment, and then you leave it behind.
12:52I have a mentor of mine that says learn the lesson, leave the event. You leave the event behind and you learn everything you can from it and there's no going back.
13:06What are you doing? Just you. What are you doing?
13:09You stop hoping. You stop dreaming. You stop setting your expectations high.
13:13What are you doing? That's not the you that's always been you. What are you doing?
13:17You've let them get in your mind. You've let them lower your expectations. You let trials, tribulations, nose after nose, fog you down.
13:24What are you doing?
13:28One will believe in you until you believe in you, and then the more you believe in you, the more the world will start believing in you. Another way shape it is every visionary was initially ridiculed before they were revered.
13:44So I want you to think about that. Believe in your vision, your mighty possibility, go out there and do the work required to make your vision real.
13:51And if you do it, step by step, day by day, eventually the world will say, wow, you're a genius.
13:59Challenging times blow. And when I think about periods in my life that were just an absolute struggle, financially, emotionally, in relationships, it's horrible.
14:12And here's what I would always tell myself. This challenge is molding and shaping and strengthening me in ways that I didn't know that I needed.
14:25Because the thing about strength in life and character and resilience is those things like steel, they're forged in the fire of your life.
14:35And so you create that when things are hard. And so just keep waking up and doing the best that you can and know that one of these days you're gonna wake up, you're gonna get through it.
14:48You're gonna see a stronger, braver, and more resilient you staring back at you.
14:55Everything in your life right now, everything you have, everything you do not have right now are all results of your past actions, and that's hard to accept for a lot of us. But until you accept that, you will not be able to move forward. And when you do accept that, you take ownership and control over your life.
15:21When I wake up every day, there's only one voice I have to listen to. It doesn't matter whether I achieve all of my goals or I don't achieve all of the goals.
15:32In three generations. I'll be forgotten, and the only people who were nacing against me will also be dead.
15:38And so then it's like, just do it for me.
15:47You're more capable than you think. Tough times can destroy your confidence and lead you to doubt yourself.
15:54But just because you struggle doesn't mean you're incompetent. If anything, it's a sign that you're growing and exploring potential that you didn't even know was inside of you.
16:04So take a chance on yourself. Do the hard things even when you don't feel ready.
16:10You have what it takes to fight through the discomfort. I believe in you. I hope you believe in yourself too.
16:18Want to achieve something serious? You need to be serious. You can't achieve something seriously impactful if you're joking around and if you're losing your focus all the time and if nothing is important in a way to you.
16:31So that means setting priorities, knowing when is the time to invest the energy, when it is the time to release energy, when is it good now to recover, when are you really feeling this is now starting to be the limit.
16:46These are all very, very fine aspects that only you know.
16:52There is no success without action. That's a fact. If you're not acting on what you know you should do today, the question I have for you is, what are you gonna do it?
17:04Honestly, the only time you have is now. It's it's the only time you have. So I would encourage you, make today count.
17:13It's more powerful for you to do what you wanna do to become who you wanna be even if it's uncomfortable because that's what's gonna actually change and rewire your psychology and your thinking.
17:27But the key is really behave as you wish to be even though it's foreign and uncomfortable until you behaving the way you wish to be becomes natural in your new norm.
17:45People are impatient. They want results too quickly. They don't appreciate the amount of hard work that goes into actually crafting the life of your desires.
17:58And I think as a result of that, when they don't see results immediately, they burn out and retreat to what's safe and what they know versus welcoming failure, welcoming uncertainty, getting comfortable with risk, and remaining persistent in their vision to create something more in alignment with their authentic self.
18:24You have to condition yourself to take action. You have to program yourself to take action.
18:32There's a moment where you can either take action or you can let it pass. And if you don't take action, that moment grows.
18:39And it grows and it fills itself with all kinds of instability and concern and wandering and more hesitation and it doesn't work, you fall apart.
18:49If your default mode
18:51is to pause, is to hesitate, is to wait, you're gonna miss out and you're gonna miss out a lot.
18:57And in the end, if you hesitate, you're gonna lose.
19:03Genius is not about genetics. That is a seduction that society has told us to keep you small.
19:11Genius is not about genetics. It's not about giftedness. Genius is about practice.
19:20And if you do the practice, you get the results. Genius is also about your routines and your rituals. You look at the great athletes, it's not their skill, it's not their willpower.
19:32It's they install the right rituals and routines to the point where their practice is automatic.
19:41Your habits matter. They're not just small choices. Your habits are your blueprint for tomorrow.
19:48Every action you take has a ripple effect on your future. You can't hide from it. Self care isn't a suggestion.
19:55It's a non negotiable. It's the visible evidence of the respect you give yourself. Don't underestimate the power of your choices.
20:05What you do today matters, so make it count.
20:11Another day has passed my friend and look, you're still here. And as we take a look back, you'll come to find out a couple of things.
20:20But you made it through the stress. You made it through all the difficulties. You made it through all the blockades that this life loves to put in front of you.
20:30You get to look towards tomorrow because you're still alive, my friend. So I ask you this question.
20:37What's stopping you from doing it all over again?
20:41Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them.
20:49You gotta act, and you've gotta be willing to fail.
20:53You've gotta be willing to crash and burn. If you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.
21:08I bet you and I have a lot in common. We're not the strongest, smartest, or richest people we know.
21:16We're not the fastest or most connected. We're not the best looking or most talented. We don't have the best genetics.
21:23What we do have is something a lot of those other people will never have, the will to work. If there's one unavoidable truth in this world, it's that there is no substitute for putting in the work.
21:37There is no shortcut or growth hack or magic pill that can get you around the hard work of doing your job well, of winning something you care about or of making your dreams come true.
21:53Work works. That is the bottom line. No matter what you do, no matter who you are, my entire life has been shaped by that single ideal.
22:05It's all in your mind. Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted.
22:17You will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.
22:29Self doubt is one of the many ways we can become enemies of our own progress, saboteurs of our destinies. This can come up as a result of us amplifying our incapabilities. We seem to project failure into our future based off a temporary hurdle.
22:43Either one that we have overcome or one that's currently in our path. But your analysis of yourself cannot be built on a foundation of deceit. Now while it is okay and absolutely necessary to locate your flaws and weaknesses, it is not okay to marinate in them.
22:57It is not okay to let them overtake your identity. You are not inadequate. You are not insignificant.
23:02And you are not someone who is incapable on the very chain of greatness you so desperately seek.
23:08Bruce Lee quote, he said, in great attempts even failure is glorious. Failure shows you who you are. The reality is you love failure.
23:18You just don't love it when it's yours. But when it's Kobe, oh, yeah. You know, when it's LeBron, oh, yeah.
23:22He he didn't win these championships. Look at him now. Yeah.
23:25You a fan of LeBron, you're really a fan of yourself. You just haven't finished your story.
23:30You know, that's that's one of the biggest things that just continues to keep people in shackles is the story they just keep telling themselves each and every day about why they aren't good enough, about why they can't do something, about how it won't work, you know.
23:45So really challenge yourself to change the story, change the narrative, the ability to write out our own story, the ability to manifest and to create the things that we wanna create in this life.
23:59You wonder why you feel like you're not capable? Because you're telling yourself that you're not capable.
24:09Stop telling yourself you're not capable. You are capable.
24:15Tell yourself I am capable. I have everything I need to try to do what I want to do.
24:23You have everything you need to be capable, but don't listen to the stories you tell yourself.
24:32Question of worth it is reliant on an outcome. We don't make these things for an outcome.
24:40It's not the mindset to make something great. The outcome happens, you're making the best thing you can make.
24:48It's a devotional practice. Whatever happens after that happens. And that part happens after it is completely out of your control.
24:58You are responsible for your life.
25:02And if you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.
25:19What matters is now, this moment, and your willingness to see this moment for what it is, accept it, forgive the past, take responsibility, and move forward.
25:34Seneca famously said, we do not learn in school, but in life. If you want to live a life of success, if you want to develop into a complete person, you must learn from life, the experiences, the people, the places that you go to, and understand that the culmination of your experiences is what gives you the knowledge to make better decisions for your future.
25:55But I decided to learn from my experiences. I decided to put myself in situations that were uncomfortable so that I could grow and become better. And the better you become, the better life gets.
26:07If you want the future to change for you, you've got to change. If you don't change, the next six years of your life is gonna be just like the last six.
26:16You'll still be behind on your bills. You'll still be behind on your promises.
26:21If you will change, everything will change for you. If you will get better, everything will get better for you.
26:29If you'll change your philosophy, if you'll change your habits, if you'll refine your thinking, if you'll change and accept some new disciplines, if you'll turn the corner where you've been in the past and go for a new life of the future, all kinds of remarkable things will happen for you if you will change.
26:48Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept a way to lose.
26:57To accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
27:13If you had tough shit happen to you, it sucks, and it's not your fault. But now what? Where do we go?
27:19My 2¢, win anyways, and prove that you can win even when the chips are stacked against you and you're dealt a lousy hand. Because we can't get dealt a new hand, we gotta play the cards we got rather than hoping the dealer rules in our favor.
27:34So again, what do you do with your shitty hand? The only thing possible, you play it the best you can.
27:42Understand that your attempt to be better cannot be based off your previous understanding of your lesser self. You are not who you used to be no matter how little the difference is. Remember this, just because you can't do something right now or haven't been able to do so in the past, does not mean you won't be able to do so tomorrow or sometime in the future.
28:10It takes courage to bloom. So I want you to know that in this season of uncomfortable growth that you are way braver than you think.
28:21Your new life is going to cost you your old one. It's going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense of direction. It's going to cost you relationships and friends.
28:31It's going to cost you being liked and understood. It doesn't matter. All you're going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are.
28:42Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.
28:52Everybody has a desire to do something, but they don't have that that they don't know how to really complete the process of dedicating themselves and having the discipline to do it.
29:03If you've got the desire, you gotta match match that desire with your dedication and you gotta match it with your discipline.
29:11No idea how limitless you are when you don't care what other people think or say about you.
29:18It is fear that drives that. It is. And most of your mates that you hang around with are just as afraid because you pick somebody like yourself to hang around with.
29:29If you feel like you lost your way, I would say congratulations. If you're lost that only means one thing, you're about to be found.
29:39And sometimes you need to lose your way in order to find a better way. Sometimes you need to lose certain things to gain better things.
29:46Sometimes certain doors have to close that you want to keep open.
29:51So a better door Sometimes the reason that you're suffering is because you just won't let go of the thing that's biting you. And so one of the rules is if people are impeding your development, you sacrifice your relationship with them.
30:06Right? It's a very very rough rule.
30:10Rather than trying to impress people who don't give a shit about you, just start impressing the next two point o version of yourself. Like what would the next highest most stoic version of you be impressed by today? Would would it be impressed by the fact that you're 're going to bed earlier?
30:24That you're waking up and getting your workout in? That you're eating right? What would the future itself be impressed by?
30:30Make a list of three to five things and then start doing those things like those are the things I love impressing the future me versus trying to impress the people around me.
30:40I think something that keeps people so stagnant is the fear of stepping into the unknown, know. Staying where we are is painful when we don't like it but we allow the fear of stepping into the unknown to keep us in situations that we don't even like because we're scared to take that leap.
30:57We're scared to to really, you know, put ourselves out there and lean into that uncertainty, but you gotta understand that uncertainty is a gift. It is a gift.
31:09It's quite possible that things could turn out better than you could have ever imagined. Sometimes scenarios play out in our lives and things don't work out the way that we wanted them to. And the reason for that is because the universe knows that you deserve way better.
31:26So when the door closes in your life that you really wanted to enter, first breathe it and then get really excited because the next door will be the one that was made for you.
31:42And I think as a as a human sometimes you feel like you always gotta wait for the right time. What makes sense to you to actually start executing, to actually start stop making excuses, to doing the things that you always really want to do.
31:54I'm starting to find myself now being like, no, there is no right time to do anything. You just gotta start doing.
32:04If you have a goal, you have a responsibility. A responsibility to rise to the level required to achieve it.
32:11A responsibility to respect yourself enough to put in the work. It won't be easy, but if it was, everyone would do it.
32:20There wouldn't be so many early mornings, failures, or sacrifices.
32:25Everything that comes with the struggle is what turns you into the person who's capable of achieving the things that you want. So stop shying away from the challenge. It's your responsibility to face it.
32:38Expecting it to be easy is what makes it much harder than it ever is. And the path of the exceptional person is one of an exception, which means that you are not with other people.
32:49It won't get harder. Like, this is the hardest part. And so if you can just make it through this, everything else is downhill.
33:08You get to where you want in life just not in the way you imagine. And that's because the path that's paved is far different than path we paved.
33:18Just don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do or can or cannot achieve. Just don't allow it.
33:26Just do not allow it. Be whatever you want to be.
33:32Stop tying your value and worth to external achievements. How much money you make, the position at your company, what kind of car you drive.
33:42Your value must be linked to something greater than material things that can disappear overnight.
33:50Greater than what the world defines as success. Instead of looking out here for validation about your value, look internally.
34:01Look at your heart. Look at your intentions. Look how far you've come.
34:06Get your idea of your value and worth from that. It will free you in so many ways. Stop looking out here for your worst and value.
34:19Look inside and look up.
34:24We believe that the biggest obstacle we have to overcome is out there and many times the call is coming from inside of our own house.
34:33I think that the worst enemy that many people have is voice that's inside of their own head. Now this voice has probably maybe come from the outside world Mhmm. But we've now internalized it.
34:41You know, we have become our own worst enemy in some regards.
34:46You have to stay busy. You have to find yourself now. You have to find out who you are and it's gonna take effort, man.
34:55I hate to tell you that because I know it's probably gonna be hard sometimes, but you can do it.
35:00How I keep positive I would say is every time it gets tough and when I feel like I don't wanna do it, there is someone out there in this world laying on a hospital bed begging for a second chance at life.
35:15I don't think I have any excuse to not go hard.
35:19It's easy to give up. It's the easiest thing in the world to do. I am I'm done.
35:23But what's hard is going, yo, yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as could. Nothing happened from that.
35:31I'm gonna do the same thing again today, but I'm gonna try to go harder. That's the hardest thing in the world. And give a 100% and and be in the same position that you were each day, but mentally know that you're trying and trying and trying.
35:46That's that's a real that's a real grind.
35:50Your current situation is not your final destination. There's more to your life and I know right now it's hard for you to believe that, but I need you to believe it. Like everything you're currently facing is building you for something greater.
36:05You're more than your struggles, you're more than your pain. I know you feel like nobody understands you, nobody gets you, I know you feel alone and isolated. Try to flood your life with appreciation.
36:14Even for the little things, the small things, for breath in your body, for your heartbeat. Because appreciation is the first step to elevate in your life. So I wanna tell you, I'm proud of you for not giving up
36:25and it's so easy to. Your work ethic reflects your gratitude which ultimately leads to your results. The grateful person shows up early.
36:34The grateful person gives full effort. The grateful person asks several questions. Look around you, you can tell those who are grateful by their work ethic.
36:44Those who are gray in any profession understand it starts with the understanding that you are capable of going from nothing to everything.
36:54But they here's the thing that if you have a very clear vision and you're absolutely convinced and have the faith in your vision, then all the work that you need to do becomes easier because there's a purpose for it.
37:11Haven't you imagined a better life? Okay. Who who you think he showed it to?
37:16He showed it to you? Why you think he showed it to you? Because he wanna give it to you.
37:20But if you don't work, if you don't ask him for it, he cannot give it to you because he created us with the power of choice.
37:28It's not okay for you to be a weak loser. It's not okay. And the reason it's not okay is because you could be way more than that and it's a crime, an ethical crime for you to allow all that necessary potential to go to waste.
37:49It hurts you. It hurts your family. It hurts the world.
37:53Really, really it does.
37:59There are two types of pain. The pain of action and the pain of inaction. The pain of action is blunt, in your face, and forces you to grow.
38:08For every hour we suffer through sharpening our skills, being proactive, and restoring order, we don't reduce the amount of pain we face, but rather we take it on the chin. We sign up for it upfront.
38:20And because of this voluntary acceptance, day after day, we gain the strength to shoulder it. By embracing pain instead of running running from it, we are simultaneously transformed by it.
38:31We become someone we are proud of, someone that others can depend upon, which in turn gives meaning to the pain. And it's this feeling of growth and progress that helps us feel useful to ourselves, useful to others, which gives the suffering a purpose.
38:47I don't think anyone who suffered a tragedy that has gotten through it in some way will tell you I needed to find deeper meaning in my life. Once something has happened that is a tragic event, a loss, a death, or anything that is a setback, some people numb themselves.
39:04But that doesn't mean the pain is not there, it just means you're not feeling it. Tragedy is just too strong, too powerful for the mind to fathom. Let's be honest, the mind cannot deal with it.
39:14So you have to go deeper than the mind. And the place that's deeper than the mind is love, faith, hope, meaning, and purpose.
39:23And that's what you hold on to for your dear life. You can just forge it. Some days are gonna be harder and some will be easier.
39:30Sometimes it's very painful. And if you can move from one day to the next, you get stronger whether you know it or not and ultimately what will emerge is a new person.
39:39A person that you'll see that you went through the fire and you become a more powerful person in the process.
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The bait, then the rug-pull.
The hardest part, the opening voice says, is the waiting. Not the doing — the waiting. And patience, it immediately clarifies, is not the same as doing nothing. That distinction — between passive endurance and active trust in growth you cannot yet see — sets the entire 40-minute frame.
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