A DISCIPLINED MIND IS A DANGEROUS ONE - Motivational Speech

it's not the critic who counts it's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done it better the credit belongs to the person who's actually in the arena whose face is marred with blood and sweat and dust who at the best in the end knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst if he fails he fails daring greatly it is not about winning it's not about losing it's about showing up and being seen the reason why we go back to old habits is because our goals are too lofty we're not achieving our goals fast enough we don't we're not proud of ourselves for the small accomplishments what we need is we need this monstrosity of the thing to happen say i did it no there's a process that you have to go through and patience is the process everyone goes through moments of doubt and despair so you need something to protect your mindset against that loop because it will chip away at you and the belief is very simple you don't do things that don't serve you so what i want you to do is think about something you want for you that's real for you that's important for you that will give your life some special meaning and power and i don't even want you to say i can do that i don't want you to assume that that when you say this even when you face tremendous setbacks it will be a benchmark to keep you in the game to keep you moving forward and experimenting and readjusting your strategy and your plan of action continuously looking for ways to win that can keep us going that will enable us to act on our dream what's one of those keys that will begin to help us to discover the secrets to our dream say it's possible and i will make you guys one promise right here today the game you're playing please listen to this so that you don't end up wasting years of your life like i did mine the game that you're playing is not success the game you're playing is not money the game that you're playing is brain chemistry it's about fulfillment the only thing ultimately that's ever going to matter in your life is how you feel about yourself when you're by yourself you say to yourself every day it's possible if you're plagued by feelings of inferiority you should rectify the most obvious inferiorities well if you have some faults and you feel insecure and inferior because of that well you should now it shouldn't be so much that you're crippled by it and unable to take action you shouldn't be beating yourself into the ground because you're not everything you could be because no one is and if you beat yourself into the ground then you can't get up and improve we all have these feelings in our bodies and our minds and our souls i act on mine a lot of us who are afraid of something we allow our minds to choose the path of least resistance so we go a different route i'm afraid of something that's telling me you must you must do that you have to go that way and most of us don't understand that mentality we go left and we wonder why we haven't fulfilled something in our lives it's because we continue to take the journey that is mapped out they pointed out an inadequacy is a pathway that you can travel down right a recognized inadequacy is as soon as such a gift in some sense if it's accurate i'm in it because you think well what should i do what should i do with my life that's a real complicated question oh here's an inadequacy excellent you have a you have a goal now to get to that next level is to understand that the person that you are has gotten you as far as is ever going to get you so you've got to become a new person you literally have to adapt now the great news is that is what humans are wired to do well by the same token you don't have to force yourself or motivate yourself to think negatively to be depressed to beat yourself up over the head to feel loaded with guilt you don't have to make any effort to do that your mind is on automatic it will do that by itself but if you want to begin to move into your own personal greatness if you want to begin to really enjoy a happy successful healthy life you've got to be willing to go against the tides you've got to be willing to harness your will where i want to be where do i see myself tomorrow the next year the next year from that and it takes a lot of self-discipline have a vision of the person you could become and to reach the pearly gates as it were see who you could have been contrast it with who you actually are and be disappointed by the gap between them and i love chasing that i think it's a beautiful chase but what i hope you guys will do if you ever find yourself at the pearly gates disappointed in how much farther you could have gone to simply ask one question of yourself every day did i give it my all today guys the struggle is guaranteed the struggle is guaranteed the struggle is guaranteed the success is not [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] you