JUST ACT LIKE THE PERSON YOU ARE TRYING TO BECOME - Powerful Motivational Speech Video

Whenever you think of something that you really desire, imagine that you have it already. It is so powerful that it is awe-inspiring and all I suggest you do is try it for a little while. Just imagine, close your eyes, drive it along, think about it if necessary, stand, relax, do whatever you want, but just imagine that you've already accomplished it and try to get the feeling. Get the feeling. As though it were already a success, as though it were a past tense, as though it were already accomplished, that you don't have to worry about it again, you've already got the feeling. Right, like if you can't sit still and ignore notifications and focus for a day, nothing great will get accomplished because it's not about what you want, it's about what's required and whether that's your best or not is irrelevant, it's just there's a price tag and you got to be willing to pay for it or you don't get the thing and a lot of times it's not what you want. The fear, it's a construct of the mind in the first place. Who says it's going to happen and where is the evidence it's going to happen, where's the evidence it's not going to happen, you don't know, stop thinking about tomorrow. The music is playing here right now, but this fear of the future, this anxiety of what if, yeah what if and what if not, both of them are there, but the problem with the fear is, it's very strong. Because the one thing you can be absolutely certain of is that the tables will turn, that's absolutely guaranteed. So in other words, if you're on a high, be humble and if everything has gone wrong, be hopeful and keep going. Just remember, nothing ever stays the same. So the truth is, I repeat, you must keep going, the rewards will be there for you. What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? If you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that you could not fail, what one thing would you set as a goal for yourself? Because sometimes answering that question will tell you the one thing that you've been put on this earth to accomplish. It's not what you get that makes you valuable, it's what you become. So part of the key here is to set the kind of goals that will make something of you. Don't set them too low so that you don't have to grow and you don't have to read and you don't have to try and you don't have to stretch, don't set them too low. There's a good middle road here to follow, goals that will inspire, goals that will help you grow, change, develop and become better than you. It's normal to not know what you're doing. If you did, it wouldn't be called growth. High-five your fear, uncertainty and doubt and carry on. Do you get tired, stressed, sad, hungry, frustrated, unfocused? Do you feel misunderstood? Great, you're human. Nobody's coming along to fix your problems for you. Nobody's going to wake up tomorrow and go out of their way to come up with some sort of master plan as to how you can be saved from your reality. The fact of the matter is, people are wrapped up in their own life. They got stuff going on, they've got problems of their own that they're trying to solve and you know what they're not doing? Asking how you can fix it. So instead of sitting around waiting for someone to come save you, figure out how to save yourself. Just keep going, keep going. We're not done yet, you know? We're not done yet. So by the time it's done, I feel I have a full circle and I'll be what I want to be. Why is it called self-mastering? Because it is something you need to discover about yourself. It is not something other people are going to discover about you. Next time you go into the situation or you have a feeling coming up inside, no matter which one it is, just ask yourself where is the root of that feeling right now? And this you can do with many, many things. Take the time and watch yourself. Sometimes we call it also turn the view inward. It's the hard part and it is the one that opens the greatest doors. This analogy is my favorite analogy of all time. It's about an ancient Chinese bamboo tree and the process, remember that word, process. So growing this tree was just insane. So obviously you plant it in the soil, you water and fertilize it, but you have to water and fertilize it every single day. You miss one day, it dies in the ground. Now here's what's crazy is that nothing grows from the surface for five years. So you're watering something, you're working towards something and you cannot visibly see the fruits of your labor. You guys ever been there? I put in so much work, I'm doing everything right, but I'm not seeing the results I want to see. Though what do most of us do? Many of us give up. Here's what's incredible is that on that fifth year of watering this tree, it only takes nine weeks to grow nine feet tall. Here's a question that we have to ask ourselves is, did it take nine weeks to grow this tree or five years and nine weeks to grow this tree? Answer's obvious, right? It took five years plus those nine weeks. Everybody saw the nine weeks, everybody sees the blow up. Everybody can see that, but what they don't see is the underground work, the working while everybody else is wasting time. The believing, even when you go through failure and failure and failure, even when people give up on you, even the people who you're doing it for, can you still water that dream? Can you still water that goal? Someone asked, do you struggle? Yeah, absolutely. I struggle. So does everyone. But the thing I struggle with is the thing that I choose to wrestle with. It can only be an opponent. It can only be something you struggle or wrestle with. If you choose to stay in that arena, there are other arenas that for you to step into, for you to walk in and realize that you are equipped and that you have a mastering skill. Every one of you has a skill, something that you're great at. And if you could ever hone in on that and build your competence on the repetitions you put in developing that mastery, whatever it is that comes into your life that looks like it's a giant, there's something bigger on the inside of you. You just have to find out what's your mastery. And when you master that, you'll master what you're supposed to be. The rule of a hundred states that if you spend a hundred hours in a year, which is 18 minutes a day, all of us in any discipline, if you spend 18 minutes a day, which is a hundred hours a year, you'll be better than 95% of the world in that discipline. Working on something that you really care about. You don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. Passion, the heartbeat of one's journey becomes the driving force. When your work aligns with your heart's desires, motivation becomes second nature. Let passion guide you through the labyrinth of life where every step is a purposeful stride towards fulfillment. Succeed, you must fail. Failure is not the opposite of success. It's a part of it. I want you to fail and I want you to get up and do it again. Every time you fail, you want to step close. You have to let your failures teach you. Sounds harsh, but the beauty of it is once you figure it out, once you figure out how to build yourself from the ground up, that is something that nobody can take away from you. And you will know no matter what happens, if everything was taken away and you had to start over from zero, you've done it before, you can do it again. And that is a level of confidence that most people wish they had. The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. There's ******* excuses here. And every excuse that you tell yourself, every lie that you tell yourself, every little story you tell yourself about not being able to do what it is you want to do because of whatever it is, that's just you. That's just you telling yourself another thing that will keep you where you are for a longer period of time. Where you are is somewhere that we don't want to be. Fear of failure. Fear of failure can keep you from taking risks. It can leave you sitting there paralyzed into not taking action. But I don't want you to overcome fear of failure. I want you to be afraid of failure. Fear of failure is good. Fear of failure will keep you up at night planning, rehearsing. But in order to become that somebody, you've got to discover what is it that my body loves doing? What is it that my mind can't keep off of it? What is it that keeps me up at night? What is it that stirs me up when I see it? What gets me emotionally involved, engaged, and connected? Fear of failure will keep you training hard. Fear of failure will stop you from cutting corners. Fear of failure will keep you working, thinking, striving, and relentlessly trying to be more prepared for battle. So I want you to be afraid of failing. Because you found your calling. And calling is the exact word you want to use because your passion and your purpose have been calling you before you were born. 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 stop 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. There is no secret. There is no quick fix. There is no hack. There is no path of least resistance. The quickest way for you to go from where the you are to where you want to be is that you're trying to avoid doing it. But I'll tell you right now, you might not be in control of what the world gives you, but you're always in control of what you accept. This life is not an external battle, my people. This life is an internal war. Your greatest battle is here. So my question I want to ask you right now is, what are the things that are in your control that you can change right now? You can control and change the internal dialogue that you're having within yourself. I want you to be horrified, terrified of sitting on the sidelines and doing nothing. That is what I want you to be afraid of. Waking up in six days or six weeks or six years or 60 years and being no closer to your goal. You've made no progress. That is the horror. That is the nightmare. That is what you really need to be afraid of being stagnant. So get up and go. Take the risk. Take the gamble. Take the first step. Take action and don't let another day slip by. The very thing you're pursuing in your life is very simple. It is fulfillment. That's it. Now, I sum up fulfillment very simply. How do you feel about yourself when you're by yourself? Do you feel good? Do you feel like you're making the most of your life? Are you tapping into what So you really have to work hard for a set of skills that matter to you. Now the skills have to matter. That's a key part of the equation. Once the skills matter to you and they allow you to serve not only yourself but other people and then you actually go and serve those people. But I want to make sure that everybody understands the game that you're playing is a game of neurochemistry. A fool never learns. A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Life isn't fair. We have to understand that. It shouldn't be fair. It's a trial ground. It's a testing ground. It's built to make us harder. It's built to make us as strong as we can, to test us, to drive us. So mentality is the only thing that gets us through life. I was an underdog. We are all underdogs in life. Even the baddest person in the world should think that way. So you should always have an I've never arrived mentality. Time is limited. How many Wednesdays do you have left? How many months? How many weeks? How many years? How many minutes? That clock is ticking and it's gonna run out. There's people with dreams. Incredible dreams. Beautiful truths. Heartwarming dreams. But who executes? Without execution, those dreams are nothing. Without execution, those goals are nothing. Without execution, those ideas are nothing. Without execution, you become nothing. The plan, the idea, the thoughts doesn't matter. If you want to win, you have to execute. Why not you? Why not you with good self-esteem? Why not you starting to change and setting goals? Why not you starting to make progress toward financial independence? If I can do it, you can do it. If we can read, you can read. If we can change, you can change. If we can figure it out, you can figure it out. If we can turn it around, you can turn it around. There isn't anything you can't accomplish. And so I want to say it to you personally. Why not you? It's not really about what you want. It's about what you're willing to do to get it. And in that, maybe you have to give something up that may not be a good habit to replace it with a better habit. Whether it's how you recover, how you sleep, how you dissipate. Everybody got to make that decision. So it's not just about what you want. It's about what are you willing to do to get it? That's what it all comes down to guys. You are creators. Every human being is a creator. As you think, so shall you be. I believe we're creators and I believe we create with every thought and every word. We really do paint our world with our thoughts. You can almost create your entire world. Not almost, you actually can. But we can all do it as we don't realize the power we have. Yeah, you can see it, you can do it. That's what we are. We are creators. We are manifestors. Clarify and define your vision for yourself in the highest possible way that you can see it. Be delusional even. Right at the apex of what your mind believes is possible, maybe push past that even a little bit and define it. And then number two is like, believe it. And three is work towards it. Do not give in to the lie that none of this matters. Do not give in to the lie that all you're good for is all you're good for. Above all, resist the urge to believe in half truths someone spoke about you. The logical fallacies that say you messed up this one thing, so you must have messed up everything. You couldn't get that last relationship right. What makes you think you'll get this one right? You got fired from that last job. What makes you think you're any good in the workplace now? If you really want redemption for the times that you came up short, then you need to keep your eyes looking forward, not backward. Because your greatest life is ahead of you, not behind you. You are going to suffer. It is going to be hard. It is going to take all of your energy. It's going to kick you in the face a thousand times. You're going to be demoralized. You're going to be frustrated. You're going to be angry. You're going to be bitter sometimes. This is why it's so important to build yourself into someone who can execute regardless of what your mood is, regardless of what your circumstances is. Because if you could execute when things are f***ed up and everybody else bails and everybody else quits, what kind of advantage does that give you over the long haul? It gives you a tremendous advantage. And if you could become the kind of person that cannot be stopped by outside circumstances or going through a tough time or being in a bad mood or being unmotivated, how can anyone f***ing beat that? It's the biggest lie in the world. You may have said it to yourself today. You may have heard it today and it's this. I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it when I wake up. I'll do it after I finish this. I'll do it when I retire. I'll do it when things are easier. I'll do it when things go back to normal. Seneca said, the one thing all fools have in common is that they're always delaying to start. They're always getting ready to start. Marcus Aurelius says, you could be good today. Instead, you choose tomorrow. We choose tomorrow because we know it's not a real choice. We're not actually going to do it. It's just kicking the can down the road. It's a lie we tell ourselves. It's the biggest lie in the world. We don't say we're never going to do it. We say we're going to do it later, but we're not. I think we all struggle with something in life where we're not confident in. And once we understand, like I said, how powerful we are, how powerful our minds are, then there shouldn't be nothing that we can't accomplish. Every day, you have an opportunity to be a new person. You can just wake up tomorrow and decide, I'm going to be totally different. I'm going to act different. I'm going to talk different. I'm going to behave different. Don't get so caught up in the sunk cost fallacy of being you that you never change and you never evolve. Don't let the amount of time that you've spent being who you are stop you from being who you could be. I'm here to tell you right now, you're going to make it. I know it doesn't feel like it. I know you look around and see nothing but despair and defeat. You look at the scoreboard and see that you're down by 25 in the last quarter. But I'm telling you right now, you're going to make it not because of what's on you, but because of what's in you. What's in you is somebody who doesn't give up. What's in you is somebody who knows what defeat tastes like, who knows what it's like to go through the trials and the tribulations. Somebody who knows that they want to leave a legacy for the people to come after them. Somebody who doesn't live their life inspired by ego or fame or accolades, but somebody who wants to make a genuine impact, who believes that leaving all people places and things better than they found it is a life worth living. That's why you're going to make it. So don't give in. Don't you quit on me. See this race all the way through the end. You have to believe that this moment is preparing you for something amazing that hasn't happened yet. Keep going. And so I repeated that over and over and over and over and over again as I wanted to throw in the towel, as I would start to bash myself, as I would start to feel sorry for myself. I'd be like, no, there's just no way I'm going to believe that something amazing isn't going to happen. I've worked too hard. Something amazing that hasn't happened is coming. Don't let the amount of time that you've spent being who you are stop you from being who you could be. Just because you've been a certain person up to this point and people know you to be a certain way doesn't mean you can't change all of that right now. When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most, but never stop fighting. No matter what anyone says, no matter how they try to compromise your vision, if it's in your gut, if it's in your soul, there's nothing, there's no worldly possessions that should come between you and your expression. In my life, I've learned that success has three components to it. The first, you must be diligent to get there. It requires waking up every morning, right on time with your alarm, going to the gym, reading the books, hammering away at your craft day in and day out. You must be diligent, knocking on its door until somebody answers. And second, you must be consistent to stay there. Because it's not enough just to knock on enough doors, get to the top of the mountain and look out at the view and say, wow, what a beautiful sight. You must be consistent if you want to continue to see that vista. But third, that's only one vista. There are many more peaks for you to climb. And if you want to climb more peaks, then you must be grateful. Don't waste time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden and the butterflies will come. All of us have this tendency to chase, to go and push for all those things that we want in life. And what the quote teaches us is that the better path is to mend our garden, to actually work on ourselves internally. And those things that you are seeking will come to you. If you mend your garden, you become the magnet that attracts the things that you want in life. There is a strange feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that. But there is always the fantasy that sometime in future, the real thing will come about. That one day life's duties will be out of the way and that you can finally start doing the thing you want and living your life fully is a myth. I think it's a lie. You know, when you're standing at the edge of a cliff and it's most scariest to jump, that's when you jump. And when you leap, that's when the net appears. You know, courage isn't the absence of fear. It's doing it afraid. You know, that's also faith. Like if you saw the net and then you jump, that's not faith. You knew that was down there. Faith is like, okay, I'm standing at this cliff. I don't see anything down there. I'm incredibly scared. I don't know what's going to happen. And then you jump. And then the net appears, the power of faith. That of huge steps is continuity. That one is your friend. Repetition is your friend, not huge jumping. It is the repetition of things that starts to embody something inside of you. But ultimately it's repetition. If you don't fail, you're not even trying. I'll say it again. If you don't fail, you're not even trying to get something you never had. You have to do something you never did. First step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it. There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. Very simple. This is what I believe and I'm willing to die for it. Period. I mean, there are no manuals, no shortcuts, no secrets. You write your own manual. You develop your own shortcuts. You find your own secrets. You go where you're drawn to go and you learn by doing the work. I mean, if you're scared, if it all seems like too daunting, if the machinery of it all seems too big and scary and overwhelming, it's great. You wake up in the morning and you do it anyway. Don't get better automatically. You only get better because you intentionally make a decision to get better. You have to go from being a person of good intentions to a person of good actions. That's the great separator. Most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and then launch. Get started. Take action. Do something. Move. The act of taking the first step is what separates the losers from the winners or the winners from the losers. There are times in life when you're going through a hard time and you think you're going through a test. That's not the test. The test is how do you go through the hard time and if it's a test that you are designed to fail, how do you handle that failure? Your story is going to be the greatest story that's ever been told. I'm so glad that you got overweight. I'm so glad that your mindset's all over the place. I'm so glad you haven't been treating the people that you love the greatest. I'm so glad you haven't been working your ass up. I'm glad you haven't changed people's lives or making enough impact yet. I'm glad you got comfortable with complacent because when you change the story is going to be that great. The understanding that winners write history which means that no matter how difficult whatever the season that you're going through is, just win. Keep going until you win and then once you win you can rewrite whatever history you want and that has gotten me through those harder periods because I just knew that I needed to get through to the other side. You really want something? You're gonna find a way ultimately and it might not be today or next year or five years or ten years but this thing takes priority and precedent over all other things. When you don't want something as much as you think you do, of course bro. Just like you said, don't nobody want to live a hard life. We all want to make life easy for ourselves, for our families, for our mothers, boom boom. That's amazing and the thought of that is amazing. Sometimes your desire might not be enough fuel. You gotta have a strong desire and when you have a strong desire that outweighs all other ----. You are going to die one day and every single person whose opinion you're afraid of is also going to die one day and in 300 years it's probably not going to matter to people whether you did the thing you said you were going to do or you let people's opinion beat you into submission and I got news for you. Whether you do it or not, people are going to see. They're either going to make fun of you for trying or they're going to say that you have so much potential and you just didn't try in life or whatever. No matter which direction you go in, it's going to come with some bullshit. You can put up with people's opinions and people's comments and actually do the thing you want to do or you can put up with people's opinions and people's comments and die with regret. What you choose to do with your life as long as it doesn't harm anyone else isn't that important to people. Most people are just focused on their own ----, doing their own thing, worried about their own life. There is no guarantees. Even if you work hard, there's no guarantee it's going to work out. I do believe hard work pays off but no one tells you when and that's the test. Can you maintain your patience when you don't know when the end is coming? You don't know when it's going to pay off. You just believe in yourself regardless of who believes in you. Take ownership. Don't make excuses. Don't blame any other person or any other thing. Get control of your ego. Take ownership of everything in your world, the good and the bad. Take ownership of your mistakes. Take ownership of your shortfalls. Take ownership of your problems and then take ownership of the solutions that will get those problems solved. If it seems impossible, it's even better. You do it anyway and as you go, like I said, remember that amidst all that machinery, you're the one who's going to make the picture. You and the spark. In the end, they're one and the same. You guard that because it's precious. Now it's time to get to work. Maybe this chapter of your life is meant for you to do it alone. Maybe this is the time for you to practice independency, to do the things you've always known but kept putting off for some reason. Maybe this phase is for you to be a little bored and lonely because it might be what you need as you're putting the pieces back together. It might not be fun but it's necessary because in order to evolve into the next version of yourself, you need to find out who you truly are. Everything you do, every choice you make, move you in the direction of what you say your vision is and when you do that, the forces of light rise up to meet you. The reason why most people have such chaotic lives is because they're living in chaos in their head and as soon as you get clear, it clears up. You may be in your darkest hours. Know that night don't last forever. There's a morning coming in your life. Stay down till you come up. You have to learn to do things you hate in order to do the things you love. No payoffs come without sacrifice. Imagine how much further you'd be if you did things even when you didn't feel like doing them. People think there's some complex formula to winning when the most basic one is do what you said you were going to do before it became inconvenient. Practice, practice, practice and do not accept failure. Maybe it shouldn't be repetition. Maybe the answer should be persistence because we all repeat something but very few of us really will persist. Get out there. Do what you want to. Do not accept no. If you love what you do and it's making you happy, all the hard work and perseverance will pay off. I once had a guidance counselor tell me that I shouldn't play basketball, that it would never amount to anything for me. His negativity towards me made me stronger. You can't stop people from trying to limit your dreams but you can stop it from becoming a reality. Your dreams are up to you. The more you value comfort, the less you value progress. This comfort is a necessity for fulfillment. We are made to face challenges, to set goals and conquer them and to build great things. Realize that the resistance in your mind is the only thing that makes things hard. So embrace the difficulty because that's where you'll find your true purpose. We all know when we're reliant it's exactly the person we want to become. The question is do we believe we can become them? Very few people are going to tell you but growth hurts. Becoming the best version of yourself comes with a lot of goodbyes. Sadly, the only way for some people to learn to appreciate you is to lose you. It's really uncomfortable but you need to do it if you want to grow. The pain that you feel today though is going to be the power that you're going to feel tomorrow. It's not glamorous. It's lonely. As you start changing, everything around you starts changing. It's not even fun in the beginning and so you'd either have to have an incredible amount of hope or a ridiculous amount of inspiration and delusion or you have to be in so much pain that the alternative to continuing this pain that you're in is to try something different because it's the only thing that might be slightly less painful than what you're doing. Most people lack the ability to master the mundane tasks. They get bored very easily. They don't feel like doing things. They don't understand that to build a life, it is mundane. It is the same things day in and day out. Operating at a high level, holding a high standard, executing with discipline. Most people just can't do that because they don't have the endurance to do that. They don't have the fortitude to do that. They don't have the perseverance to do that which is why it's important for you to build yourself into someone who does. That way you can follow the path to success because there is only one path and the only path there is is day by day by day by day over the course of a period of time. You've got to be okay that there's going to be people that don't think you're qualified. You got to get okay that there's going to be some people that want to see you fail. You're going to have to get okay that there are going to be some people that never understand you, that never support you, that never cheer you on and you're okay to do it without their applause. You're okay to do it without their approval. You got to get to a season and a space and a time where it's okay. I wasn't doing this for you anyways. Nobody is going to give you anything that you have not earned. Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. You have to remember that whatever you've gone through, it pales in comparison to the hardships previous generations endured and they overcame them and if they overcame them you can overcome them too. Courage. Courage is the key to life itself. There are a lot of people who were born in situations about just I'll never get out of this. So they won't. I say to people say well I would like to have done so and so and so. Some of you could have done it. So well I couldn't get out Man the bus runs every day. You will offend people as you're pursuing your vision. You even believing that anything is possible will offend people. You maximizing your potential will offend people who are so limited in their thinking that instead of progressing their lives and their mindsets, they want to stop you from being the best version of yourself and you can either live your life to please them, shrink yourself to a point where they will be happy and comfortable with you, or you can have the shameless audacity to do it anyways, to go after your dream anyways, to learn, to grow, to maximize your potential anyways regardless of who it offends. You do what you love, you will work harder than you ever have worked and are harder than you could ever imagine. Your dreams will call for that kind of commitment. It took an insane work ethic for me to get here. It took time and commitment and sacrificing. If a person would sit down and let their body relax, totally relax, and then start to visualize in their mind, see themselves the way they want to see themselves, see how you'd like to live your life, see yourself living it that way. Now understand that that's a picture in your mind and then take that picture and describe it, write it out in the present tense, start to read it and read it and read it and read it every day, carry it around and keep reading it. The one point that all the great teachers all down through history have all agreed on, they've been in complete unanimous agreement on, we become what we think about. Now it may be fantasy at first, it might even appear to us as being a lie, but if you read often enough, you'll start to believe it. Art is art. About change is not making the same choice as you did the day before and the moment you decide to make a different choice, you're going to feel uncomfortable because you're stepping from the known into the unknown. See, you can do anything. You can get up any hour, read any book, take any class, make any change, develop any skill, do any discipline. I mean, you can do it all. When this how and the why, or when the why starts to grow, the how gets simple. Most challenges, opposition, adversity that we encounter are internal, even though on the surface it looks to be external. Because when you come up against something, whether it be a person, situation or circumstance, in perception, our perspective will go to a space and place that is external. When the course and the path to victory is internal, meaning we possess everything we need in order to be victorious over the things that we encounter. But we look at problems, situations, circumstances, adversities as something to be external, when really it's something that's internal because we possess everything we already need in order to get through it. There's a peculiar magic in realizing you're not the same person who started the journey. It's not a loss of who you were, rather it's an evolution into the person you are always meant to become. Embrace the transformation. Fear is a mile wide and an inch deep, and so it looks like this ocean that you're going to step into and drown. But as soon as you step into it, you realize it was not that deep at all, and you can keep walking through it. Face your fears, whatever they are. The fear that we might not do a good job. The fear that it might not turn out as we hope it would. The fears that are lurking there, some that have come and have been there even maybe since our childhood. Life is consisted of both fear and faith. Faith, of course, is the ability to overcome your fears. But what you have to do in terms of your fears about perhaps your own inadequacy, not feeling strong enough at the moment, you just have to face those fears. You just have to go to work on it. The pursuit of your goals will rarely be easy. You're going to feel discomfort, frustration, and self-doubt most of the time. But instead of getting discouraged, understand that there's growth in the struggle. You can't become someone you've never been by doing the things you've always done. Be proud of the effort you're putting in. Be patient with the results, because it's only a matter of time before you come out on top. It's a part of life. You know, we were made to evolve and grow, and that means you're going to outgrow people. That means you're going to outgrow situations and places and things, and that is okay. Most people will not understand your obsession, your drive, and your determination. Success is a lonely journey. That's just a reality. And most people are not going to understand why you're so driven, why you're so obsessed. And if you try and make them understand, you're going to end up frustrated. The best advice I can tell you is go on the journey by yourself. It is the best journey, man. Leveling up, becoming the best version of yourself is the most awesomest journey you will ever go on, but it's a journey that you will probably go on by yourself. You always have to be the person who roots for you before everyone else does. And it's usually a single clap in the auditorium for a very long period of time. It is a slow clap that's just you rooting for you. Sometimes sitting there thinking about the life that you want to live and the person you want to be and that simply isn't enough. If thinking about all the things that you want in your life isn't enough to get you going, why don't you sit there and think about the things that you don't want, all the feelings you don't want to experience, all the pain you don't want to feel. If you just can't visualize the bright future ahead of you, why don't you sit there and contemplate all the darkness that you're going to be surrounded by if you don't do what you need to do. Like sitting on your deathbed wishing you could do it all over again differently, but you can't. Wishing you had done what you need to do now when it's too late to do it. Ask yourself the question, what does the future look like if I don't do what I know I need to do? Once you've take that first step, you've looked the beast in the face and you'll start progressing not linearly, but exponentially in speed. So what's cool is that it doesn't really matter how small that first step is because it'll start doubling and anything that doubles grows unbelievably quickly and so that's a very useful thing to know too. I think the bigger question is do you know yourself? You know, I think like there's unlimited people who are successful and happy that got straight A's and there's unlimited people who are successful and happy who got D's and F's. The question is who are you? Which version of the game are you? What do you like? Who do you want to be? And I think that's what you need to focus on. You cannot wish for a strong character and an easy life. Each is the price of the other. What if what you're going through isn't hard? What if you're just sensitive? At some point you have to forget what other people think about you. Nothing you do has to make sense to anyone else. Your dreams don't have to align with what others think is best for you because you're the one who has to live with the consequences of your actions. Start prioritizing your happiness above being a people pleaser. It's your turn to be the main character of your story.