NO EXCUSES - Motivational Speech

you don't become legendary by accident you don't become the greatest shoe by accident you don't become that person you're created to be by accident you become that person by being intentional by saying you know what this is what I'm gonna get out of this year right now you should be saying this is what I'm gonna get out of this moment this is your life you have to figure it out you have to figure out what's best for you but I will tell you this a made-up mind most people have made up their mind that you know what it's done most people say oh my plans didn't go the way they're supposed to go so I'm just gonna take it but not you you're gonna make up your mind and you're gonna be that one percent at some time or another have agonized over making a decision some decisions of major decisions and also there are a lot of small decisions that we don't make that they tax our minds they drain our energy they create a lot of anxiety and nervousness and mental torment because we don't take care of it we decide not to decide which is a decision deciding to decide to act is a major major challenge for all of us and there are things that happen to us along the way experiences that we have that prevent us from working through the mental block of acting of doing those things that we know we ought to do you don't have what you want stop telling yourself the story because you don't have the money over time that's [ __ ] it's because you haven't committed yourself where you would burn your boats if you want to take the [ __ ] Island burn your [ __ ] boats and you will take people when they're going to be gonna either die or succeed tend to succeed fight through the pain and come out the other side strong and tougher and better and free from that storm free from the darkness if you just do what you want right now all the time one of the problems with that is you're going to get yourself in trouble people are self-conscious and can see the future we have to bind our actions in the present in relationship to our future selves you have to act now so you don't hurt you tomorrow and you next week and you next month and you in a year and five years and ten years and that's actually a community community of potential cells that extends across time you sacrifice the whims of the moment so that's delayed gratification and maybe a definition of maturity you sacrifice that because it's a better medium to long-term contract or Covenant with yourself validation validation is the need to have someone tell you that you're you're good in fact you want somebody to tell you great it's not about them they cannot be the voice that Echoes and determines whether or not your gift your talents your abilities are worthwhile you've got to be able to look in the mirror and know that you've given your all all you want to do in life is end up empty every talent that has been given in you the everything that was given to you as a seed inside of that little body of yours at Birth grows into the trees that have deep roots that go outside of you and into the lives of others so that you become everything you were supposed to be and they see everything that you're supposed to produce wherever you are right now you're exactly where you need to be and I'm going to say that because one of the major reasons why you do not have what you want your life is that you invalidate wherever you are you are so quick to trash yourself you're so quick to go this isn't happening fast enough I'm not doing enough I'm behind I'm overwhelmed that that trash talk is what keeps you from moving forward so you got to start telling yourself every day you're exactly where you need to be is what is there that you know you need to do that you want to do this but for some reason or another you've been holding back for some reason or another you just have not been able to gather your nerves or be able to work through the procrastinating or putting it off or justifying or blaming some reason or another you just haven't done it and you know you ought to do this you really want to do this but you don't know why you haven't done it because in order to begin to reinvent your life you've got to make a conscious deliberate determined effort if you wake up in the morning you start having negative thoughts Man this ain't my day I woke up on the wrong side of the bed I just don't feel myself in the middle of the day if you feel yourself doing that just talk for a second and start going over in your mind everything you have to be grateful for everything you already have because what you have is substantial you just haven't gone over the list and taken inventory in a long time but the fact that you can walk that's a blessing the fact that you woke up That's Another Blessing the fact that you can see think reason That's Another Blessing the ability to dream is a blessing the fact that you have an opportunity to get it right is Another Blessing the fact that you have any measure of Health That's Another Blessing because people who make things happen people who are legendary like yourself people who take it to the next level people as I like to say are rare breeds that are rare they don't depend on motivation to move because they know they will never move if they depend on motivation they will never create if they're paying on motivation they will never change if they're dependent on motivation what they do they they move to create their motivation most people move until once they're motivated but rare B people create their movement to create the motivation [Music] so I'm here to tell you that it will take longer it will be more difficult it will require more effort on your part but you know what I can tell you about that when you do the hard things you will have a happy and easy life [Music] but if you constantly choose to take the path of easy and negotiate and compromise you will have a hard life a hard life that ends with regret you see everyone has to go through something but it's the something you go through that also must go through you when it does you'll come out of this thing pure gold the way you can get pure gold is to go through the fire stop asking God why and embrace it and say what's next [Music] thank you foreign [Music] thank you [Music]