Push Yourself, Make It Happen - Best Motivational Speech Compilation

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What would it cost you if you quit now?
What would it cost you if you stop fighting?
We all have those moments when we want to quit,
when we want to throw in the towel,
where we don't see the end game,
and the target is not clear.
I know you think it's over,
but you got to go again.
Leave every excuse behind.
You can't quit.
You got more left in you.
You are not a quitter.
You are not a one-hit wonder.
You are called to do something great.
Try harder, reach higher, run faster, stand taller.
It is the man that refuses to quit.
It is the man that refuses to put down his gloves
that separates winners from wannabes.
It doesn't matter how broken,
how weary and devastated you are right now,
that pain will not last forever.
I don't want to win one time.
I don't want to be noticed one time.
I don't want to make history one time.
I want to do it over and over and over again.
Do it again, no matter how hard it was,
no matter how much you cried and you sweat and you bled.
Do it again, because in the end, it will be worth it.
Someday, at some point in your life,
you're going to be able to look back and say,
man, I'm so glad I didn't quit.
I need you to wake up in this new day,
in this moment and seize the opportunity.
You are alive for a reason.
Don't let anybody tell you you don't have what it takes.
There is more left in your tank.
It's your time.
It's your turn.
You've doubted yourself long enough.
People have left you, overlooked you, undervalued you, underpaid you.
It's your time to connect.
It's your time to get paid.
It's your time to sign the deal.
It's your time.
If you're going to be fully persuaded about anything,
persuade yourself to keep going.
And the more that you influence you, you will influence the world.
So keep going, because it's all worth it in the end.
Do it again.
It is the man that comes back round after round
that may have taken a beating physically,
but he is not broken mentally, that comes back
round after round after round after round.
And he goes back into the dark room and he puts the work
and he comes back out into the light.
And he puts on a show.
Put on a show.
Will you put in the work?
Will you stay the course?
Will you try it again?
You're either going back or you're going forward.
The reason why you didn't win is because you gave up too soon.
Everybody wants a comeback, but nobody wants a setback.
You can't have a comeback without a setback.
There is a warrior inside of you that will emerge.
There is a person that refuses to lose
that will be birthed out of a setback.
You are going to experience loss.
You are going to have seasons in your life
where you're not going to understand why and how you got where you are.
So you got this.
There's more left in that tank.
Keep striving.
There's always another way, another approach,
a different perspective, another angle
that you can try not just harder, but you can try differently.
Whatever the goal is, it's time to shatter the ceiling above your head,
to break records, to shatter the status quo,
to punch through targets.
It's your time.
I don't know what your dream is,
but if you write it down and you put the work in
and you beat on your craft and you give it everything you have
and you give yourself to your work,
at some point, everything's going to begin to shift and change
because you refuse to quit.
No matter how many times I face this giant,
I am surrounded by walls a hundred times taller than me.
They got to fall down because I have made winning a habit.
Continue on marching forward.
Do not give up.
I don't care how many times you have lost.
I don't care how many people have counted you out.
I don't care how many times you talked yourself out of it.
You are breathing to win.
You are breathing to live a life of abundance.
Run on the field again.
Step into the arena again.
Try it one more time.
And after you do that, you're going to come back for more.
Go back and win.
Let me tell you something you already know.
There are enough people who have not believed in you.
There are enough people who have walked away from you.
There are enough people who told you,
you don't have what it takes.
You don't measure up.
You will not finish.
There are enough people that are counting you out.
There are enough people that are saying you can't finish.
Do not join them.
A warrior only needs one more opportunity
to reveal to the world that he is more than just a dreamer.
I don't care what the scoreboard says.
You have an opportunity to shock the world.
It is in our nature to be very disempowering,
pessimistic, negative people.
Sometimes we just don't feel like moving forward.
But I need you to know that there are people who are depending on you.
There are people that believe in you.
There are people that are rooting for you.
And they are expecting you to win.
With each day that is presented to you,
you have an opportunity to change everything.
That all you have is all you need.
Win again.
Punch through again.
You got to get out of this trying mentality.
I'm going to try.
I'm going to give it a try.
I will.
I will break out of the I'm going to try.
I'll try to smile.
I'll try to be happy.
I'll try to make it a good day.
I will smile.
I will make it a good day.
I will win again.
I will bring my A game again.
I will give it everything I have again.
This mentality, this approach to living
is what builds the bridges to the future.
This is how we cement our legacy
by being the person that gives again,
believes again,
does it again,
picks up the pieces
and tries to put the puzzle together again.
Try it again.
And eventually winning will become a habit.
So keep going.
Until you have won some small victory
for humanity.
Sometimes I got to look myself in the mirror,
ask myself, is that all you got?
Come on, you're prepared.
You're conditioned.
You've been beaten.
You've been battered.
You've been broken.
You've been left for dead.
But there's more because you're breathing
and you feel it.
So if you can feel it, you can push it.
So push past.
The truth of the matter is
that's not all you have.
There's more left in you.
I know you're tired.
I know you're weary.
I know you've been brought to tears.
All the blood,
all the sweat,
all the sacrifice,
all of the suffering.
I know you want to quit right now,
but this is not the time to let go.
This is not the time to doubt.
This is not the time to quit.
Keep going.
Use it to your advantage.
See the pain as a stage.
See the pain as a plane.
See the pain as an opportunity.
You gave me an opportunity
to reinvent myself.
You gave me an opportunity
to come out of my grave
that you put me in.
You left me for dead.
I'm coming out alive.
I'm coming out kicking.
I'm coming out swinging.
You left me
and thought I wouldn't overcome.
You forgot about me.
You let go
and thought I couldn't survive.
But I'm here.
It's not always about people.
Sometimes life,
most of the times,
life will blood in your nose.
Life will leave you in a cardiac arrest.
Life will leave you in an accident.
Life will knock you upside your head
and dare you to get back up again.
Use the pain
because there's more left.
I'm talking to that person
in the hospital bed.
I'm talking to that person
that lost their mother.
I'm talking to that person
that lost their father.
I'm talking to that person
who didn't get picked on the team.
I'm talking to that stay-at-home mom.
I'm talking to the future engineer.
I'm talking to that future entrepreneur,
that hustler.
I'm talking to that person
who's been called to do something
nobody's done in their family.
I know you're going through
an unprecedented amount of pain
but you can press through it
and you can feel it.
You can lift it.
The time is now
to do what has never been done.
Use the pain!
So I hear the crowds calling
and even if they're silent
I will call myself.
Why do we go through life
and we feel like we can live without pain
and we can avoid pain
and we can go under it
or go around it?
Pain is like pressure
and without pressure
there is no diamond.
And I'm just wondering
if there's anybody out there
that's listening to me
that is sick and tired of complaining
about the pain.
I don't make enough.
They didn't believe in me.
They weren't there.
They didn't see it.
They didn't pick me.
I didn't get the raise.
I didn't get the promotion.
She walked out on me.
He abused me.
My kids are ignoring me.
My teenagers are driving me crazy.
I'm just wondering
if there's anybody
that want to stop complaining about it
and is going to use it to your advantage.
Imagine if you could use pain as a fuel.
Imagine if you could use the pain
as a passport.
Imagine if you could use the pain
to push you,
to condition you,
to prepare you
for the stages
and the rooms you've got to walk into
and the tables you've got to sit at
and the stages you have to stand on.
What if the pain can make you better?
What if the pain could build muscle?
What if the pain could cause you
to reach higher,
to leap farther,
to run faster?
What if the pain could help you?
What if all pain isn't hurt
but it's help?
Because you wouldn't have prayed
like you pray had you not been hurt.
You wouldn't love like you love
had you not been hurt
because you know what it's like
to hate somebody.
So you refuse to go down that path.
Use the pain.
A musician plays his instrument.
Play pain.
Play it.
When pain shows up at your door,
when people try to inject it,
inflict it,
use it to your advantage.
Oftentimes it feels like
it is impossible
and insurmountable
feat to get past the beating.
But as long as I can feel it,
I'm not in a state of paralysis.
If you can feel it,
you can move it.
I can feel this.
I can move this.
I'm not paralyzed.
I can feel this.
It's heavy
but it's got to get out of my way.
When life throws you a weight,
lift it.
I'm not complaining
because life got heavier.
I'm celebrating
because I'm getting stronger.
Let's go.
Use the pain.
Your perspective is everything.
You got to see this thing differently.
You got to find a mirror
and see this thing differently.
And I got to speak these affirmations
and I have to believe,
I have to believe
even if I'm bleeding,
even if I'm broken,
I have to believe
that this came to help me,
not hurt me.
It made me better.
I'm not bitter.
I'm wiser.
I'm conditioned now.
I see this thing differently now.
I'm able to move and navigate
and breathe different
and talk different
and walk different
and build differently.
I'm not building out of anger and revenge.
I'm building from a place of abundance.
Pain is inevitable
and it is unavoidable.
You cannot live without pain.
How you navigate that pain
will determine
how you propel into your purpose.
Use the pain.
Use the pain
to push you into a place of abundance.
Use the pain
to push you into a place
where your very existence is life-giving.
Use the pain
not for revenge
but for fulfillment.
I don't want you to die
because you wanted me to die.
I don't hate you because you hate me.
I don't want you.
I don't want you to lose everything
even though you took everything from me.
I want everybody to win.
If you can hear my voice
I want you to win.
I'm talking to people that have lied on me.
I'm talking to the people
that have given up on me.
I'm talking to the people
that have walked out on me
after I gave you everything.
I'm talking to you.
I want you to win.
I want everybody to win.
That's how you know you've used the pain.
Not to inflict pain
but you've converted that pain
into fuel.
So there needs to be a conversation
on the inside of you
about conversion.
Convert the pain into fuel
not payback.
Payback is for punks.
I don't need you to hurt like you hurt me.
I want you to win
because I want to be better.
I got to be bigger.
I got to be the better human being.
I got to be the one who is existing
that's life-giving.
I got to be the one that can do better.
I got to be the one that
after you knocked me off of the mountain
after you pushed me off of the hill
after you dragged me off the staircase
I was climbing
after I wiped the blood out of my eyes
and spit up whatever I need to spit up
and cough up whatever I need to cough up
I'm coming back to help you.
I need everybody to win.
Pain is inevitable
and it is unavoidable.
The question is
can you leave where you've been?
Can you close the gap
between pain and promise?
So it's time to come face to face with pain.
Look yourself in the mirror
and ask yourself
how much more can you take?
Ask yourself the question
is this all you got?
The more you run
and the more you lift
and the more you train
and the more you dance
and the more you sing
and the more you advance into the beauty
the brilliance of your future
the more that you move forward
and you advance
and you do it for your mother
you do it for your father
you do it for the one that believed in you
you do it for God himself
who put you on this planet
to make an impact
and leave a legacy
ask the pain one question
is this all you have?
Is this all you got?
While I'm lifting these weights
I know it hurts
but ask that dumbbell
is that all you got?
Ask that treadmill
is that all you got?
When you're in rehearsal
when you're practicing again
when you're beating on your craft
ask yourself
is this all you got?
Self, I got more in me
you thought you were empty
but you had a quarter tank
some of you had half a tank
some of you had three quarters of a tank
there's more in you
my content creators
my entrepreneurs
my musicians
come on
my keynote speakers
my captains of industries
my CEOs
from the captain to the cashier
there is more in you
it hurts
when we hit in the gym
it hurts
when we're lifting these weights
and we're trying to accomplish a goal
it hurts
it's painful
it's daunting
it's cumbersome
I don't want to do it
I'm sweating
I'm bleeding
I'm crying
I'm suffering
but after I've suffered
there is a reward
stay at home father
stay at home mother
lawyer
doctor
hygienist
author
I don't know who you are
where you're from
but there's more in you
you may be hurting
you may be dying on the inside
but you still got life left
you gave them everything you had
and they left you for dead
I know what that feels like
to be left for dead
after you gave everything you had
I know what it feels like
you give
and you pour
and you sow
and you believe
and you give them everything you have
and they leave you for dead
and you are either going to lie
in a state of paralysis
or feel the pain
the truth of the matter is
if you can feel it
you still got life left in you
close the gap between pain and promise
the gap is closing
the gap is closing to this
use the pain
we all have two people
and I'm not saying you're crazy
we have the easy voice
that's that voice that we all love
that's that very comfortable voice
that that's that mommy
holding you saying it's gonna be okay. Doesn't care how good you are, just loves
you. Just loves you no matter how messed up you are in life. So that's that one
voice. This other voice that we walk very far away from is a voice saying hey man
you ain't doing shit. So we try to get this voice out of our head completely and we
live over here in this land. So what you have to do first is turn up this voice
over here. The voice saying things to you that aren't nice. That it's in our head
saying you know what man you you're not you're not doing shit. I'm not saying to
put yourself down. I'm saying listen to the truth and the truth isn't in the 20%.
The truth is in this other part of your brain saying look man you're wasting a
bunch of percentage here. We have 80 more percent that we're not tapping into
because in this other 80% is suffering, pain, failure, failure, failure, self-doubt,
darkness, and then a whole bunch of light. But to get to this light you got to go
through all of this. So a lot of us know that. I can get over here but over here
man this is much better because I got to go through this journey that is not fun.
This this from 20 to 100% this shit in between is not fun. So we decide to
live over here. So everybody goes how do you do that? You know exactly how to do that.
You know exactly it's it's not a magic trick. There's nothing I talked about
that's a magic trick. It's all back down to a very primitive mindset of we just
have to do. It's like breathing. Breathing becomes normal. Like we didn't know that
that that we're doing. That's how you have to live your life. When that alarm
clock goes off at 4 or 5 in the morning your mind says no. You just say this is
what we do. It's what we do now. Because to get to where you want to go the
amount of pain involved, I'm not saying physical, I'm not saying you got to break
yourself off. The amount of mental pain of how many times you're gonna have to
do something that you don't want to do to get to where you want to go. When I
was 297 pounds and I was fat as hell trying to be a Navy SEAL the scariest
thing in the world to me even to this day was that that could have been the
rest of my life. I thought then I was trying hard. That's the scariest thing in
the world. I thought then 297 pound working for Ecolab, spraying for
cockroaches, making $1,000 a month. I thought that was me at my 100%
potential. Come to find out a few years later I wasn't anywhere near that. 106
pounds less, graduated Navy SEAL training, went on to do all these other things.
Looking back on that, that was me trying hard. That's why people gotta understand
what is in us we have no idea until we start trying hard. And I mean really
trying hard when you're obsessed with hey this is my new norm. My new norm is
that wow this isn't always fun. It's not always meant to be fun and that's when
you know you're trying hard. Is that and so people listen to us that maybe you're
at 20% or 30% you know about yeah I'm going hard I'm going max and yet they're
not seeing the results. Like how do they actually shake themselves out of that?
We're all in a battle with our own brains. That's all life is. It's the most
proper thing in the world is your own brain. It can work for you or against you.
And as opposed to focusing on all those bad things that happened, all the things
you didn't have, the people that called you names, all the stuff you were doing
again and you start thinking wait a second I just visualized this and now I
can take it to the next level, next level. Because the visualization got you
through. It did and I was able to visualize the end. So before so when I
was 297 and I was all fat and out of shape and I couldn't run a quarter mile
and I was drinking milkshakes and eating boxes of doughnuts. I visualized man how
would it feel for a brief moment I was so there was 22 guys that graduated. I
watched this segment on TV about these guys going through Navy SEAL training
and I couldn't even, I wasn't a great swimmer, I was afraid of the water, all
this crap man. But at the very end it says 22 guys, this command officers up
there and he gives this great speech. I was like man I wonder. So I started
visualizing me being a 23rd guy in these dress whites sitting there with these
guys getting that Navy SEAL you know graduating this Navy SEAL training. I was
like God. So I put myself there. I was like man that's an amazing feeling. I put
myself there at 297. Not even able to do anything that these great men were doing.
I said man if I could feel that, that would change my life.
I could just feel that.
One, it lasts for one second. You get that certificate, you walk across the stage and what's next?
But I didn't know that then. My mind was that I thought I live in that moment
forever. So I said wow man if I could just feel like that. If I could feel like that.
And what was that feeling you wanted so bad? Respect? Accomplishment?
No. Victory. I wanted to win. Not like beat somebody else. It wasn't about that. I just
wanted to go the distance. Everything in my life when something got hard I quit.
If it was reading that's where you know I wasn't great at reading, I wasn't
great at writing so I just quit. I couldn't catch on as fast as you. I had to
work harder than you. So I quit. You know I wasn't great at things so I quit. You
know I'm not good at this. Like man if I could just go that distance, that extra
mile, to just go, just to finish. I want to finish. I want to feel victory and
victory for me wasn't winning it was just finishing. So I said you know what
if I could feel like these guys feel it would change my life. But what I realized
the best feeling I had was when I was by myself trying to lose this weight. I had to
lose it in literally less than three months. 106 pounds in less than three
months. And literally I started feeling victory just by putting myself in the
battle. It wasn't about going to Navy SEAL training. It wasn't about being the
23rd guy in that chair. I started realizing man just by going to war with
myself every day and putting these challenges and these goals and these
obstacles, these insurmountable obstacles. So it wasn't about losing 106 pounds. Me
losing 5 pounds was an accomplishment. Me losing 10 pounds and then 50 pounds and
the more I did this the more I gained confidence. And then the more I gained
confidence the more I realized these guys can't do what I'm doing right now. I
had no coach. Had no trainer. Had no money. I didn't know how to lose weight. I had no
knowledge of what I was doing. I was just working. I was just sacrificing. And then
through that all these different tools started coming up. But I would have never
found these tools if I didn't put myself in a very uncomfortable place. We all
look for toughness. We all want it. But we look for it in a comfortable
environment. You will not find toughness in a comfortable environment. Those of
you who are listening to this, whoever hear this, you will not find it.
Some of you don't even realize you have unfinished business. You need to go back
where you left off with a new perspective. Go back to the gym. Go back
to the drawing board. Go back to the business. Go back to the relationship. Go
back to the burning building. You have unfinished business. All you got to do
and show up with a new game plan and a new perspective. You got a finished
business. You have unfinished business. You got work to do.
Perspective is everything. Let's go. I need you to hear me loud and clear. How
you see this thing is everything. You cannot change the past, but you can
change your perspective about it. You gotta see this thing differently. Stop
complaining about the divorce. Stop complaining about the job loss. Stop
complaining about the relocation. Your viewpoint is your advantage. Thank you
for breaking up with me. Here's what you did. You opened up another opportunity
for somebody else to come into my life. Thank you for firing me. You gave me an
opportunity to explore entrepreneurship. I'm not bitter. I'm better. Perspective is
what changes the game. Everybody wants increase and abundance and lifestyle
change and new zip codes and new area codes, but you only read once a week and
you only work out once or twice a month. And so the reason why you don't have
what it is that you see, the reason why what's in your head is not in your hands,
it's not your reality, it's because your perspective opposes your potential. You
don't have it because you don't see the value in it. If you believe you've been
called to be the difference maker, the game changer, the disruptor, the person
that comes into a room and commands the atmosphere, if you believe you've been
called to be necessary and not grossly irrelevant, then everything you do,
everything you see, everything rises and falls on your perspective, your
perception, your viewpoint. How do you see this thing? What happens when your
perspective, your perception diametrically opposes your reality? If
you are going to give and grow and evolve and attain and become, everything
rises and falls on your viewpoint. Show me somebody that hates to work out and
I'll show you a man that almost lost his life and the doctor said if you don't
work out, you'll die. One sees it as cumbersome, one sees it as a problem,
another one sees it as a privilege, he sees it as his second chance, his new
lease on life, that I have to work out, I get to work out, I get a chance to live a
little longer. So one person sees the gym as a prison and another person sees the
gym as a passport. One man came within inches of losing his life and another
man has never come within a hundred miles of losing his life and he only
works out twice a month and somebody else works out four or five times a week.
The reason why you only do it once or twice a month is because you don't see
the value. Your viewpoint is either your advantage or your assassin. Your
viewpoint will either get you going or get you killed. We see a storm, we see
rain and we think depression, we think I can't do anything. Instead of thinking
grass can't grow without rain, roses don't bloom without rain. Number one,
there's one thing I need you to stop saying and that is I should do something.
That perspective, that viewpoint, that ideology, that philosophy,
that mindset is going to get you bankrupt. I should start this. I should stop that.
I should forgive. I should. You don't get what you should, you get what you must
have. I must work out X amount of times a week. I must forgive. I must evolve.
I must become. I must retain. I must grow. I must live. I must evolve.
I must go to the next level. I must live in this type of house. I must drive this
type of car. I don't care how bad you think the shoes are that you are wearing,
there is another man in this world who would kill to walk a mile in the pair
that you wear. Marcus, what does this mean? This means that what you are complaining
about, what you hate, what you can't stand, what you want to walk out of,
what you want to give up on, there is somebody out there that would die to be
in your position. And so, here's what I need you to ask yourself,
is this problem an issue or is it an opportunity? Some of you,
all you've been waiting for your whole life was an opportunity.
What if losing your job was the opportunity? What if the divorce is
an opportunity? What if the bankruptcy is an opportunity?
What if the one you love was an opportunity for you to reconnect with
somebody and forgive them? I need you to see the bigger picture.
I need you to have a little gratitude. You need to learn how to smile.
You need to work out. I know you hate the gym. I know you hate to lift weights.
I know you hate cardio. I know you don't like drinking water.
I know you don't like taking care of your temple. You think it's the hardest thing
to do in the world to commit. But there is somebody who's in the grave
today and if they had another opportunity to live, they would enthusiastically,
with great confidence and courage and consistency, do what you hate just to live
a little longer. Find the positive. See the bigger picture.
Guard your gratitude. The trial, the tribulation, the adversity,
the giant is not your assassin. The giant is your opportunity.
Are you going to complain in the face of conflict or are you going to seize
the opportunity? I don't care what it is that you're trying
to achieve, what you're trying to accomplish, what you're trying to give,
how you're trying to evolve, what you are looking to become.
Everything rises and falls on your perspective. Stop complaining about the
jealousy and the envy and the backbiting and the person that gave up on you and the
person that wasn't present and the person that lied to you and the person that
attempted to manipulate and control. I'm not weary, I'm wiser.
I'm not toxic, I'm triumphant. I see this thing differently.
This season that you've entered into did not come to break you.
It came to build you into the man or woman God has destined you to be.
Change your perspective. There's a reason why they say,
see the light at the end of the tunnel. If you don't see that light,
you're going to lose your mind. You will lose yourself.
You will snap in half if you don't see past this.
The challenge for many of us is that we got to see past our present pain and end
to the fruitfulness of the future. The right perspective makes the impossible
possible. You cannot change the past,
but you can always change your perspective. No problem could be solved from the same
level of consciousness that created it. The severity of your problems is a matter
of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them
become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as
problems, but opportunities. The right perspective is the instrument
you need, the tool you need. It's a discipline.
It's an advantage. If you change the way you look at things,
then the things that you see will change. Knowledge, a speech,
a motivational moment will not sustain you unless you put it into perspective.
How will you see the rest of your day? Because how you see the rest of your day
will oftentimes determine the way you see the rest of your life.
Shift your perspective. If you can change your perspective,
you can change the future. Many of you listening to me right now,
you have unfinished business, and you need to go back to that dream,
back to that idea. You have a date with destiny.
You have unfinished business. It's time for you to go back to the drawing
board with a new perspective. It's your viewpoint, and watch this.
Your perspective actually shapes your language, and your language shapes your
world. And so if you don't start thinking right,
you're not going to talk right. And if you're not talking right,
you're not going to experience the world that you see in your head.
I don't know who God has called you to become, but what I can tell you is if you
keep seeing it the way you have seen it, you will never become it.
Everybody wants next level. Everybody wants wealth and influence,
and everybody wants to be this esoteric novelty. But listen to me,
you will never experience any of this showing up in your next season with the
same viewpoint. The right perspective makes the impossible possible.
Pain is inevitable. Pain is unavoidable.
We can't live without pain. How much pain can you endure?
Are you willing to use your pain? Sometimes pain can be your friend,
and sometimes pain can be your enemy. There will always be pain.
There will always be betrayal. There will always be somebody that doubts you,
somebody that overlooks you, somebody that underpays you,
somebody that undervalues you, somebody that talks the talk but doesn't
walk the walk, somebody that's with you but not for you.
We're always going to experience pain. You just got to understand how to use pain
to your advantage. You've been through too much to retreat.
Don't run from the discomfort. Lean into it, feel it,
and remind yourself that it is only temporary.
Pain can lift you up even when you're feeling down.
Pain will remind you that you are still alive.
Pain will push you beyond your threshold. Pain is just doing its job.
So use it because it's always going to be there.
There will always be a measure of pain in your life.
In order for things to change, you've got to be willing to get up and do something.
You don't have to be perfect, but you've got to make a move.
Pain is an indicator light that lets you know that you need to take action on something.
See, we're talking about the game. We're talking about growing.
We're talking about suffering so that you can go further.
The choice is yours. Use the pain to your advantage.
Pain doesn't mean you're finished. Your pain is trying to get you to get up.
See, there's the physical pain. There's the mental pain.
In fact, there's even the spiritual pain.
It could be a painful day emotionally. It could be a painful day relationally.
It could be a painful day financially.
Are you going to complain or are you going to use it to your advantage?
Your pain is calling you to a higher level of thinking and a higher level of performing.
We have to come to a conclusion and know you've got to hurt so you can grow.
It hurts when we hit in the gym. It hurts when we're lifting these weights and we're trying to accomplish a goal.
It hurts. It's painful. It's daunting. It's cumbersome.
I don't want to do it. I'm sweating. I'm bleeding. I'm crying.
I'm suffering, but after I've suffered, there is a reward.
For those that are fighting and battling with mental stress, let me remind you.
If it did not make you, it can never break you.
You got to know how to rise above it. You got to know how to endure.
You got to know how to fight for it.
And that pain, there's never a day off.
Maybe this pain wasn't my enemy.
Maybe this pain was building me up even through the hardship.
So instead of a temporary fix, I'm challenging you to use your pain as fuel
so that you can begin to design the life you want.
You see, you can't build muscle without discomfort.
You can't build a business without experiencing challenges, rejection.
You can't get a strong and fit body by just laying around and eating whatever you want to eat.
No, in order to get there, you have to experience the pain of discipline.
Imagine if you could use pain as a fuel.
Imagine if you could use the pain as a passport.
Imagine if you could use the pain to push you, to condition you,
to prepare you for the stages and the rooms you've got to walk into
and the tables you've got to sit at and the stages you have to stand on.
What if the pain could make you better?
What if the pain could build muscle?
What if the pain could cause you to reach higher, to leap farther, to run faster?
What if the pain could help you?
What if all pain isn't hurt, but it's help?
I'm going to use the lessons I've learned to my advantage.
Let pain serve its purpose.
Use pain.
You're not supposed to go through life without a struggle.
You're not supposed to go through life
without some kind of a setback.
Throughout the course of your life, you will build on it and you will grow from it.
If you really want to grow, you've got to be willing to admit when you are the issue.
There were times when I was ready to give up, but I pushed through the pain and I made it.
And that means that you can make it too.
Just like you made it through your last storm, you're going to make it through this one.
Dry those tears and get back to work.
Dry those tears and get back to your mission.
When pain shows up at your door, when people try to inject it, inflict it, use it to your advantage.
I'm not complaining because life got heavier.
I'm celebrating because I'm getting stronger.
Let's go.
Use the pain.
Your time is not up yet.
Your time is right now.
Your time is at this moment.
And through the pain, you must rise up again.
But as long as I can feel it, I'm not in a state of paralysis.
If you can feel it, you can move it.
I know you're tired.
I know you're weary.
All the blood, all the sweat, all of the suffering.
I know you want to quit right now, but this is not the time to let go.
What are you going to do with your pain?
Keep going.
Use it to your advantage.
