sometimes you need your feelings hurt so you can wake up and focus on yourself…

you have to have the truth to have a starting point if you want to know what makes people happy write down progress equals happiness think about it you can achieve everything in the world and still go is this all there is you can achieve something and be excited but for how long the only way you stay having excited is to keep growing it's like life is hard it's a crucifixion that's right and so it's no wonder they think that it's like okay fine first of all we're going to take it seriously yeah you're suffering and adrift and you have your reasons despite that there's more to you than you think and you know that too once you come face to face with who you are you have a starting point all right i'm not real smart i have no courage i have no self-esteem i have no nothing nothing that's my starting point now we can move from there but if i tell myself i'm strong i have courage i'm smart and all these are lies you continuously push that starting point backwards so that starting point is the truth progress is everything if you're making progress on your body progress in your mind progress in your motion you're going to feel happy when you get there you feel excited but again for how long a year now because we're not made to just sit and you know be successful we're made to grow we're made to then actually grow we have something to give we're up here because of 4 a.m we're up here because of two a days or five a days we're up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way if anything tried to bring us down we used it to make us stronger we were never satisfied never finished rest at the end not in the middle and i took that to heart you envisioned something you got clear about it and then you started thinking about all the reasons why you wanted it your being is limited and flawed and fragile this immense potential but constrained in this tiny little living space but the fact that you have limitations means that the plot of your life is the overcoming of those limitations and that if you didn't have limitations well there wouldn't be a plot and maybe there would be no life and so that's part of the reason why perhaps you have to accept the fact that you're flawed and insufficient and and live with it and consider it a precondition for being your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world once you put away your phones and your computers your brain is the only thing you have when you're going through depression when when you're going through hard times you're going through death real like you're alone but there's 24 hours in the day when you're alone in this brain and your brain is talking to you in all kinds of ways and it wants to control you and pull you in these different pockets if you can't control your own brain and your brain controls you you got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there [Music] you got to control it if not it's over [Music] courage is also physical again courage does not mean you're not afraid courage means you're afraid but you do it anyway i don't know what the limits are it's like if you were the best person you could be you know truly if you decided to live by truth and to aim at the good and you really did that you put your whole heart and soul into it like you were like that's what you were staking your life on because you're staking your life on something who the hell could you be great ideas are never going to interrupt you they have to be pursued and you if you don't pursue them you're going to get what everybody else has which is all this fear all this uncertainty all this stuff won't work because everybody's focused on what won't work what can't happen why because they're afraid they're afraid to fail they're afraid to try and feel like they're not enough so you gotta stand guard that mind by feeding your mind you have a certain amount of potential within your crowds you may find what you have contemptible because you're not in a position of power this modicum of possibility that's been granted to you is beneath you and so you do nothing with it and so you get nothing from it you take that seriously you do the small things you can the humble things that you can to put yourself together tiny embarrassing ways that are real and if you do that enough you'll fortify yourself you're not a manager of your life you're a creator of your life how do you create your life you get hungry for something don't you last one big head game you play with yourself if you lose it's because you allow life to get in your head you know perfectly well you could be far more than you are and you don't know what the upper limit of that is you cannot get to the mountaintop without taking a few missteps ask yourself what's the opportunity from the failure and get in the game because when you get to the last hour of your last day it will not be the failures you regret it'll be all the risks you didn't take when you push beyond what's comfortable it develops this determination inside you the sense of will [Music] you can decide that you're going to stand up to life you can decide that i'm gonna live each day as if it were my last you can you have the power to make that decision you decided there's something you wanted so bad that you unleashed all your desire you became obsessed with it [Music] you