IT'S TIME TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF IN 2027 - Motivational Speech

the most dangerous man in the world is a man who finally believes in himself because he's not looking for motivation he doesn't need it and he's not waiting on anybody to believe in him because frankly no one does he's dangerous because he knows what he's capable of and he acts accordingly you don't need everyone to believe in you you need to stop being one of the people who doesn't you win some you lose some like they always say you live to fight another day you're You're going to lose in life. Things are not going to go as planned. And guess what? That is okay. You have a goal in mind, and I know you're going to get to it. But oftentimes, that goal that we have in mind, the path to get there is not going to be perfect. It's going to be rough. You're going to win some days, and you're going to lose some days. But so long as you don't give up, you will have another day that you can fight for that dream. people that say you can do it and you're going to have people who say that it's not going to work and both of those cards you have to be like delusional enough to know that both of those are irrelevant you know the people that support you love that but it's irrelevant the people that hate it that's irrelevant it's what the source inside says you need to do on this journey to your dreams you will encounter many losses failures setbacks mistakes pain people that you thought would always be there will be there no more but on this journey you will also realize many things that you never knew before you will realize that dreams are given to be achieved you will realize that you are much stronger than you could have ever imagined you can't give up that's the one rule. Everything else is allowed, but not that. The only move that actually ends it, the only one that you don't get to make, it's quitting for good. If you write down what you're supposed to do tomorrow, tonight, and you do it, and you had a good day, made progress in your life. Now imagine if you did that for a week. Now imagine if you did that for a month. Now imagine if you did that for a year. Now imagine if you did that for five years. Where would you be if you actually did what you're supposed to do? And there's a saying that goes, do so much work that it becomes unreasonable for you not to succeed be consumed by your ambition let it haunt you chase you burn you if you must because nothing is more painful than abandoning your own becoming do so much work that when someone sees you they see someone who chose obsession over order they see someone who chose to win over watching someone else win there's a saying that goes the darkest valleys create the strongest people. A tree does not fear the wind. It grows roots strong enough to hold and you are no different. The storm will shake you. The dark will test you. Life will hit you harder than you think you can take, but fear no evil because the very storm that tried to break you becomes the reason that nothing can move you. You have two choices. You can use your energy to worry, or you can use your energy to believe. You choose. I know your time, but it's the fourth quarter now. If you ain't come to win, then you should have just stayed at home. If you ain't come to win, then you should have never started at all. This is what it's all about. All the pain, all the suffering, all the tears you shed, everything that you went through this year comes down to this. This is your opportunity to make it mean something. Get excited. Don't put your head down get excited about this this is your opportunity to make all the tears all the pain all the betrayal all the heartbreak mean something do not make a mockery out of your pain right now by giving up by quitting by saying it's too hard it's too disrespectful to look at any challenge that you're facing and say that it's too hard so you're saying that you're not built for this so you're saying that you don't have what it takes so you're saying that you don't have enough power within yourself to overcome whatever it is that you're going through to make all this mean something to get to your dreams and goals to get to the point of your life that you knew you were destined for the only person that can bring it to you is you i sacrifice everything what i have i will sleep train eat repeat and that's it obsession yeah i think it's it's not about DNA i think more than blood i think it's about mental your brain how you think about this how how there is like you want this or no there is not like 50 50 it's like okay i want this and i want other you cannot you that is like not between you have to be in somewhere it's black and white yeah i think one of the hardest things to hear after you don't get your way is keep working but it's also one of the only solutions to be successful you're not going to get your way most of the time in your life just keep working hard work pays off no one tells you when you'll never know the true feeling of accomplishment if you never face the setback. You'll never know the true meaning of confidence if you never had to bounce back from anything. Just keep working. If you're not getting what you want, keep working. If you are getting what you want, keep working. One thing's for sure, overthinking is overrated. For every time you set your alarm and then sleep in, someone else is obeying it. For every time you say you should go to the gym but then don't, someone else is breathing heavy. For every dish that you should wash but instead let pile up in sink and become a headache for later. Someone else isn't compelled by the same laziness. I know this because that someone else is me. Every decision you make is an opportunity to build respect for yourself. And every opportunity that you pass up on is just another piece of evidence that you are not the person you say you want to be. We let our feelings dictate what we do and we have to do the opposite if you want to change you have to lead with the actions that align with the way you want to feel after you've done the actions you have to take action first because if you allow your feelings of i'm tired i don't feel like it it's hopeless why bother that feeling will dictate you doing nothing and that's going to keep you on the right side of that page if you just look at that list that you created of all the things that you know you should be doing that would just uptick your happiness slightly or make you slightly healthier, slightly this or slightly that, then like the person on the left-hand side of the page. And then every time you take that action, your feelings will fall in line and you'll start to feel more like that person. For you to constantly win, win, win, win this voice over here, the real you, is saying, kid, you're nobody. You've always been nobody. You don't hear that. That's true voice that's the real reality of David Goggins at 24 years old it's not a false reality and then you had to create another voice over here that is saying you're better than that other and you're in the freezing cold water that both voices don't want to but you win and goes through of water to the studying to the running to losing weight to how you eat to how you function as a man, every day of your life, you're winning these battles. Choice. You can go for it, or you can just watch it go by. But I'll tell you this, exist in the heart that doesn't try. Don't be the person that lives but never feels alive. Be the person that knows the sky isn't the limit because they wasn't afraid to fly. You might not be in control of how you die, but I promise you, you're in control of how you live. There's three decisions you're making every moment of your life. You're making it right now. Everyone's listening is making these three decisions. you might be making them unconsciously so then your life is driven by the environment first decision is what are you going to focus on are you going to focus on what you have or what's missing and if you're focused on what's missing that can make you grow but if that's what you focus on continuously and you add one more pattern it'll create frustration anger sadness or even depression and the second pattern is which one of these do more do you focus more on what you control or can't control if you go in a pattern of focusing what you can't control what's missing distress inside of you is always going to be there because think about it there's plenty of things that aren't missing and there's plenty of things you can control. But when you're focused on what I can't do and what's missing from my life, there's an emptiness. Now here's the third one. Do you tend to focus more? I think we do all three, but more on the past, the present or the future. If you're focused on what I can control, what I already have that's beautiful in my life and what's happening right now that's beautiful or what I'm going to create, you're not going to have that level of stress. You'll still have problems, but you're not going to have the anger or the sadness or the overwhelm. It's never too late. If you're alive, you can get better. If you're alive right now, you can improve your condition. You can improve your situation and it starts with improving the way you think That's the most important thing. The way you think of things, the way you think of things, the way you address things You've got to change that. There's a place in your heart where your dreams live and your intuition thrives. So hold on to your dreams tight and realize, I know it sucks but realize that you might have to move in some silence for a while and that's the most courageous thing that you can do because you're choosing to listen to that deepest part of you rather than the noise and the doubt the people that you thought that you trusted most people don't change they live the same six months of their lives hundred times in a row and then they die they go to the same places they make the same jokes they tell the same stories they work the same job and then they die and it's all because they were never willing to be uncomfortable because they were never willing to change and a lot of people get really uncomfortable when I talk about this but most people are average the average person stays stuck in the same patterns and so if you want to have a different outcome you have to walk a different path so you have a goal a vision and for whatever reason you can't bring yourself to do the things that you need to do in order to get there and it's not like this the things that you need to be doing or are difficult in any way or are a mystery you know like everyone knows what to do so it's not a matter of how it's a matter of will where do you find the will evidently it's not going to be motivation because motivation doesn't trump laziness so so what what needs to change how do we find the will many of us are too focused on everything that's going on out here external factors right and when the physical world doesn't reflect what we want in our minds it leaves us frustrated and confused and exhausted and discouraged and a whole bunch of other things that no one wants to feel whereas what needs to happen is we need to embody the person that we want to become on the inside we need to adopt their mindset we need to adopt their mental framework. We need to replicate their behaviors. So naturally the physical realm will kind of just reflect that. Your family and friends may not get it right now and that's all right. They're going to ask questions. They're going to make fun of you and that is okay because you're going to make them understand. You're going to make them understand by going out and getting the result you want. They're going to understand real quick when you have the body they want, the bank account they want, the car they want, the house they want, the family they want, the life they want. It's going to go from why are you doing that to how did you do that. You can try to convince them all you want. You can talk to them until you're blue in the face, but the fact is the only thing that's really going to convince them that what you're doing is right is when you get the result. Nothing you can say to these people, no amount of convincing is going to speak louder than you having an undeniable stack of evidence that shows exactly why you're doing what you're doing. You forgot who the f*** you are, bro. You got so caught up in other people's opinions and the way the world looks at you that you forgot what got you here in the first place. Forget everybody else, bro. Forget the crowd. Forget the clubs. Forget whatever it is. You have nobody to prove anything to except yourself. You don't have as much time as you think, bro. Before you go, let me show you something. You see this guy? Remember what he said? Nobody is going to hit as hard as life. It's not about how hard you can hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. Keep moving forward, bro. Keep moving forward. never complain never explain and what it means is don't complain about life don't explain what you're doing or why you're doing it just do it stop whining and complaining all you're doing is making people think bad things about you looking weak and when you complain a lot you have a mindset where everything is kind of a potential complaint stop whining and stop explaining yourself and just do things in the world and let your actions speak for themselves i think whenever we're going through a hard time we just want it to end but it's those moments that allow us to appreciate the good ones do it sad do it angry do it heartbroken do it miserable do it excited do it energized do it happy do it tired do it confident do it discouraged do it anyway however you got to get it done make sure it gets done that's what separates the winners from the losers That's what separates those that get what they want from those that only talk about what they want. So whatever you gotta do, get it done. The only thing standing between you and the life you want is committing to the process longer than anyone else is willing to. You don't need every answer. You just need the discipline to face what's in front of you day after day, hour after hour. Will it feel impossible at times? Absolutely. But it's in those moments where you rise above your doubts that you begin to create something special. This isn't about being ready. It's about being relentless. You got this. The universe only gives us what we think we're worthy of receiving. So then people who show up for themselves every day, they start feeling pretty damn worthy. Like, hey, they're like, I'm worthy for this. Not like an entitlement way, like something, but they just like, I feel like it's gonna happen. I'm worthy for it. You're not ready for what you want until you believe you can get it. All things are possible if you believe. and you get it when you believe it you get it when you believe you have it and that's the key it's like people still they sit around going when's it going to come when's it going to come when's it going to come when's it going to come and that's the wrong way you have to go it's here it's here it's here and you really get this your future for the most part is not consciously created it's unconsciously remembered because you're actually being informed by something that you're still hurt by and as a result of not accepting where you've been you're going to have a concern for where you're going for me that for me it burns and i will not stop until i do i do these things i always have this saying why be normal when you can be the best so when i do my things i don't want to be normal for me normal it doesn't exist i want to make the difference and when you make the difference you are being the best for me it's a challenge so in reality i'm fighting against myself not against others because i want to be the best version of myself and take me and myself to limits and try myself That's the purpose and not be compared with other ones because I don't compare myself with them You are going to pay a price. Now, whether you pay that price now or whether you pay that price later, that price is going to be paid. Paying the price now means doing what you need to do right now to build that version of yourself that's going to create the life that you desire in the future. And there's a reward for paying that price up front. And then there's people who choose to pay it later. Those are people who say, I'm in my 20s, my 20s should be spent having fun And those people pay a price, but they pay it later. Right now they're having fun, right now they're carefree but they're destroying their future And by the time they get to be 35 or 40 or 50 years old, they're going to be pinned into an existence that they cannot tolerate But I have good news. Nothing hard lasts forever. There's only three things that can happen. You either quit, it gets easier, or you get better. So no matter what, it always ends. You only lose when you quit before you see it all the way through. And I think that's incredibly encouraging. So no matter how hard whatever it is that you're doing is, but no matter how hard it is, you either quit, it gets easier because something changes externally, or you get harder, something changes internally. But no matter what, it will end. Think about it like you're mining for gold, right? You're chiseling away underground and you've got this pile of gold. You don't know how far away it is, but it's underground and you're digging towards it. This difficulty of swinging the pickaxe can end when, one, you walk out of the mine and say, the second is that all of a sudden you hit a soft patch and then you're like, oh my god, I'm digging so much faster now, this is great, and then you get to the gold. Or, you just start swinging the axe harder because you get more muscled, you get more efficient with your movements, and you just keep chiseling away, even if it goes from dirt to rock. You just keep chiseling away at a slower pace, but you eventually break through and get there. But in all three of those scenarios, hard doesn't last forever. Everyone talks about balance. You can balance your life, you're good. You can make sure that your work and play are balanced. Life isn't going to be about balance. You'll find that if you find someone that forces you to sit on the teeter-totter of life and you find your feet dangling, you'll have no solid ground. No, you're not here to take sides. You're here for the takeover. It's time for to go after every one of your dreams in such way that no one can question what it is you want you want it all not for you but just for everything that comes after you for your bloodline and for those who had the right to trust your mind those who understood that there was something different about you you're doing it for them for everyone that believes that no is an absolute you have to break through and show them that on the way through all those no's is an absolute yes but it must bring out your best and if you're not willing to be tested you're not willing to have a testimony but if you can get a testimony it means you have a story and when you tell that story here comes the glory for those of you out there going through tough times right now facing adversity and some uncertainty in your life I just want to remind you that you've had big goals you've had big dreams you've had big ambitions and when God or the universe whoever your higher power is is about to set you up to achieve and receive those big goals dreams and ambitions that you set yourself up for it's got to first test you he's got to first put you up against adversity adversity is the resistance that you build your mental and emotional and gratitude muscles against right we go to the gym you work out you build your physical muscles, don't forget that we have to build our mental, emotional, and gratitude muscles so that when we receive the blessings, when we receive the good things that are to come, that you can appreciate them better. So the adversity you're experiencing now, there's a reason behind it. Keep pushing through and you will receive the benefits, but it's never on your timeline. You know what's the worst thing for your heart and your mind is when you fail, when you get rejected when you fall is to complain about it because now what you did is you just gave complaining life and it's funny when you give complaining life what does it do it attracts other individuals that complain find meaning in the struggle and the struggle will become meaningful find meaning in the challenge and you'll start to become grateful for the challenges that arise in your life and what's the meaning the meaning is or is is to develop you into the best version of yourself. The meaning is for you to grow and evolve. Find that meaning in everything that you go through. And it's not always going to make sense to you on why you're going through this certain thing. Finding meaning does not mean making sense of it. So often when we try to make sense of everything that happens to us, we create more resistance, more frustration. Embrace it and find meaning in it. So I'm going to embrace what this is. And I'm open to learning. I'm open to the growth. I'm open to the shifts that can come from this. And I'm going to assign meaning to the situation as an opportunity for me to develop. People want their life to be free of struggle and conflict. They want a smooth path in front of them. When you face adversity or things aren't going quite well, you have to reassess who you are. You have to reassess your opinions. You have to say, maybe I'm not doing this the right way. Maybe my patterns of responding in the past aren't working out. Maybe there's something wrong with me. How can I learn from this moment? How can I get past this particular obstacle? If you never have failure, if you never have conflict, you are never going to develop yourself in life. So conflict is something you must welcome as a test and a challenge and a way to strengthen yourself up. Because life is harsh. Life is difficult. And If you're not tough in this world, you're going to have a life of pain. Comfort Zone is killing you, and it is painful to watch. And it's not even a big, dramatic battle that you're losing, but a slow, silent, unnoticed death of your potential. And in some ways, that's even more sad. It's like watching someone blow out a candle for the final time. No explosion, just darkness. Every time you hit snooze, every time you break a promise to yourself, every time you choose comfort over discipline, another piece of you fades. Until one day, there is nothing left. No fire, no drive, just the sour aftertaste of regret and bitterness. But here's the thing, you're not dead yet. The flame is not out, you've still got fight left in you. And guess what? There is nothing better than a comeback story. Start now, small steps every day. I promise you, as soon as you gain some momentum, it will get easier. Hell, it will become fun. Just promise me you will not let the flame go out. This is the idea that most people walk down this path that isn't really theirs. they're handed this default path this default definition of success these default settings of meaning and accept them as their own and march blindly down that path and they wake up in 50 years and maybe wonder what the hell they just did with their one life that they got a shot at and you are the hero in your hero's journey that is not a grandiose statement that is true you get one shot at all of this so engage in something that matters to you i like it when the water it's warm in the shower but I built the muscle that allows me to turn it this way to make it cold to build that muscle of doing the hard thing I never want to go for the run I like how I feel after I have to force myself to do it I have to push myself to do it and I built the muscle that not just pushes myself to do it but also pushes myself while I'm doing it to go further or to go faster. And it's that same muscle that I draw on when I find my attention wandering. You build this muscle, this discipline inside you that you can draw. And the Stoics would call this the command of oneself. Seneca says, no one is fit to rule who is not first master of themselves. The greatest empire is command of ourselves. Confidence is not something you could fake. Arrogance is faked. it's people pretending to be somebody they're not or better than they are because they know they haven't done the reps see confident people don't have to walk around telling you they're ready because they look ready you can just tell they're ready because they've actually gone through the reps and they truly are life is the same way as the battlefield challenges are coming and if I do the reps if I do the hard work before I get to those challenges I'm going to be confident and I'm going to be ready for those challenges now I'm not going to go out and actually look for hard things to do I'm going to try to do what I want to do and meet my goals but it doesn't have to be harder just to make it feel like I've done more. But if they come, I want to be ready. When I get ready and I gain that confidence by doing the hard work when nobody else is willing to, by doing the hard work after hours, by getting up every single day knowing that if I go through the motions and the reps and the rehearsals, I can be ready and confident when challenges happen. When you do them now and you gain that confidence, that success is going to continue to grow. Go out every single day knowing you're ready for the fight or you're ready for the challenge because you've done the reps and you have the confidence and let life bring you because you know you're gonna win we're not able to think the most powerful weapon in the world we walk around with it it's our mind it's our brain you have to be able to go into a very dark place in your mind and figure who you are go back to what you want to do what's your purpose we can't figure our purpose out or why we're here or why we've been born or whatever because our it's so loud in our mind we don't have any quiet time with ourselves to sit back and say what do i really want there's so many different dialogues in our head that we can't think so my biggest thing is you have to be alone in a very dark place in your mind to think about what is important to you it says in that manual it says other than death all failure is psychological other than death all failure is psychological think about that. Just think about that. This failure, this upset, this catastrophe. If you aren't dead, then it's just psychological. It's in your head. Now, this does not mean that you won't lose some battles because you will. We all will. The biggest trophy that I ever got in my entire life was me, was really figuring out me. It's not about money. It's not about fame. It's not about being accepted by your peers and everybody else. It's about figuring out who I am and being happy with who the I am, even though I'm going to be judged for all these things. Nobody understands you because how could they? If you spend your whole life trying to be like nobody else, work harder than the average person, care more than anybody else would, what makes you think they'll understand? What you're looking for is rare. The same goes for me. It might sound like bad news that this understanding you're looking for isn't easy to come by. But that's exactly why you want it. You know you could have the run-of-the-mill life that's easy to get. But it's not fulfilling. So recognize that more value requires more responsibility. And that responsibility is genuinely something to cherish. If you don't change what you're doing and how you do it, I'm going to tell you the future. The world breaks everyone. You already know it's going to be wretched. They're very good, they're very gentle, very brave. If you break, the fight is just beginning. There's no shame in being a broken man. This will be the story that I will one day tell. You just pick up the pieces. Rebuild it just the way it was, brick for brick. That means the harder it is, the pain that's going to come, it's going to come in waves. The more epic the story. You must build belief. You must build confidence. By consequence, the more epic the hero. You're not ready for what you want until you believe you can get it. You don't have enough faith in yourself. You have to believe you can. You need to have a shift in your perception of yourself. Really convince yourself that you can do it. And if that's the game that we're playing, if I can construct my belief system, if I can choose at any moment. Step into your fears and continue to push yourself to go on. Something happens for you. To believe something that's more empowering than I was believing the moment before. It will enable you to transcend yourself. Find your impossible. That's what you have to go after. Winners define themselves by what they made happen. And losers define themselves by what happened to them. It fills me. It's stressed out. I'm like mad. Because I'm out of time. I'm out of time. I'm running out. I haven't become the person I want to be yet. How do you believe? How do you change a belief? Interesting subject because I'm going to tell you something Your results are nothing but the manifestation of your belief system when you're working on something you want to achieve You have got to stand up to that voice You've got to sell yourself every day on your abilities on what you're doing on the goal that you want to reach You've got to sell yourself every day Every day, every day, according to your level of belief, it will manifest itself in what you're doing. It's a belief system you have to have. If you expect to lose, you will. I know a lot of guys are very talented. A lot of women are very talented, but they don't think they can do it. And they don't. This is why thinking is so vital. This is why a goal is so important. Because we will become that. This is why people who set goals achieve them. The trouble with men is not in achieving their goals. They do that. It's an establishment. Well, I think there's an infinite source of supply. We've been endowed with mental faculties that the most erudite scientists won't even guess at. I think most people wander around in a deep sleep, and they don't think. They don't invest in themselves. And the second they wake up and start doing that, everything starts to change. A million dollars is not a lot of money. We're creative beings. We're working with an infinite power. And once we start to understand the power of our mind, and then start to understand how to utilize it properly, then we'll understand that we can do virtually anything whenever you look at somebody that's been successful do not allow yourself to make them extraordinary at your expense you're capable of whatever it is that they're capable of but it comes down to the mental constructs that you're going to have to build and leverage in your own mind in order to do something great and that became my driver we set out to actively ask one question what would we do and love every day even if we were failing. Nietzsche said, I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and impossible. The fact that something seems impossible shouldn't be a reason to not pursue it. That's exactly what makes it worth pursuing. Where would the courage and greatness be if success was certain and there was no risk? The only true failure is shrinking away from life's challenges. Everybody wants to win but in In order to know how to win, you've got to know how to lose. Because you're going to lose more than you're going to win. But every time you lose, what do you gain from it? So every time I've lost, people say, you've got to jump right back up. You've got to get back right on your feet again. And I disagree with that. After you lose, or when you get knocked down, stay down there for a minute. I don't look at failure as failure. I look at failure as your first, second, third, fourth, fifth attempt. I look at them as attempts. I don't look at anything as failure. Because when you want to try to do something, not trying is failure. Courage to act. Part of being hungry when you've been defeated, it takes courage to start over again. And as you convince you, as you sell yourself, every day, every day, every day, you will begin to see a difference in the things that you're doing. Selling yourself on your ability to perform a job, to achieve a certain objective, Telling yourself every day, here I go again And I got what it takes This is my day And nothing out here is going to stop me 95% of the game, like I said before Is right up here, guys If you guys can believe you can do this Then today I'll no longer be a f***ing loser Today I'm going to change my f***ing path I'm going to get on the path of success I don't care how long that road is I'm going to see it through no matter what Because you know what? I've been living enough years in this sh-hole, I don't wanna be here anymore. I'm not happy with this. I'm tired of making excuses. I'm tired of going through the same circle of emotions. I don't wanna be different. And as I know, every single day I'm getting older, meaning running out of time. It has nothing to do with who you are today. Don't worry about that. I'm not very interested in the person that I am today. I am a far cry from the person that I can imagine and the person I promised myself that I will continue to work to become. So it's not about who you are, it's about who you wanna become and the price you're willing to pay to get there. You're gonna be attacked, betrayed, exposed, and humiliated, and you'll survive that. A lot of people can climb that mountain. It's the way down that breaks them, because that's the moment when you are truly alone. And what will you do then? Can you summon the will to fight on through all the pain and rise again? That will be the defining question of your life. And I think you already know the answer. You're gonna be remembered forever. I just keep losing. I mean, some people just supposed to lose or balance in the universe. I mean, like, are there just some people on earth who are supposed to be here just to make it easier for the winners? Like, really? Resistance is a symptom of the way things are, not the way things necessarily should be. Actual victory belongs to things that simply do not seem fair. Let the bad push you like a broken branch in the river's current. Well, the problem that most of us have is we think that we're all alone. We think that we're the only ones going through all this stuff. I thought it. Your vision becomes very narrowed. And what happened to me was, all I did was I peeled back. I peeled back, and I was able to get on top of a mountaintop in my head. And when you're high on that mountain, you have a great vantage point. And I was able to look down at the world. and we are all of us are jacked up some of us hide it better than others but we're all jacked up and once you realize that you know you gotta come out of your shell you gotta accept who you are you gotta accept the demons that life gave you that maybe you gave you whoever gave them to you you gotta accept that you gotta be looking in the mirror look them in the eyes okay i'm gonna start fixing these things but if you think that you're by yourself the reality of your life becomes very very horrible and you're not we are all jacked up and once you realize that man you just you you don't even look at the crowd anymore you look at your own race you do your own race you do your own thing and you finally find out who you're supposed to be in this life if you are struggling to find fulfillment please watch this not everything is going to make sense all the time not everything is going to feel right all the time there is so much uncertainty that comes along with this journey and we're not even 100 sure where we're going to end up but that's not the point if we were certain of these things if we always performed at our best if we never struggled there would be no journey you must shift your focus back to your process because your process is your fulfillment it is your rock your constant stop trying to find fulfillment realize that it's yours if you want it the person who never needed to be told to do the right thing to the person who has all the motivation in the world the person who knows they will be successful i'm sorry i know your future ahead is an amazing one but i also know your problems never had the luxury of relatability almost everyone in this world is an obstacle to themselves but they sure have company and their struggle while your struggle is a lonely road you know it pays off i don't even have to tell you that but i promise you i understand you are relatable to those that'll do big things and it is okay that that comes in small quantity but as you grow you lose certain homies because it's called closing the gap this is the gap when we start this is the gap as you grow notice how you grow and they don't so how do you close the gap you got to come back down when you come back down you lose so you got to keep going up that's why closing that gap got to be them catching up to you and if they don't catch up you got to leave them behind because you get to the point now where you got to start cutting out you know what i'm saying and it's like you can't look back when you cut them out because if they meant to be there they're gonna be there our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us your playing small does not serve the world there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you we were all meant to shine as children do it's not just in some of us it's in everyone and as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same as we are liberated from our own fear our presence automatically liberates others if you're going to try go all the way otherwise don't even start if you're going to try go all the way. This can mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your mind. Go all the way. It can mean not eating for three or four days. It can mean freezing at a park bench. It can mean jail. It can mean derision, mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, but how much you really want to do it, and you'll do it. It's by rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything you can imagine if you're going to try go all the way there's no other feeling like that you'll be alone with the gods and the knights will flame with fire do it do it all the way all the way you will ride life straight to perfect laughter it's the only good fight there is you can't see the proper light if you have never indulged in the very, very deepest dark times. It's not negative. It's just something that we don't want to dive into when something like this appears. But it's part of this life. There is no way to run around. So to embrace the darkness one at one goes hand in hand with on the other side appreciating the light when it comes. The life you want isn't out of reach. It's just outside your comfort zone. You can't build the life you want if you just keep clinging to the same old patterns this journey is on you sometimes it's going to feel hard maybe even pointless but that's where perseverance kicks in push through the resistance one day at a time and watch what happens when you refuse to give up on yourself if you had to do it all over again would you make the same choices you can't run from who we are but destiny chooses us fate destiny these words get thrown around like they're some kind of magic like the universe has already laid out a perfect plan for your life, and all you have to do is wait for it to unfold. But let me tell you something. That's not how it works. Destiny isn't something that's handed to you. Fate isn't some predetermined path that's just waiting for you to stumble onto it. If you think it is, you'll spend your whole life waiting, hoping, wondering why things aren't happening for you. That's not destiny. That's passivity. And there's a big difference between the two. Your destiny, your real destiny, is out there. It exists, but it's not waiting for you. It's waiting on you, waiting for you to step up, waiting for you to take the first step, waiting for you to stop hoping that life will hand you something and start creating it for yourself. Here's the truth, and it might be hard to hear. The universe doesn't care about your dreams. It doesn't owe you anything. It's not going to put success, meaning, or purpose into your hands just because you want it badly enough. If you want to chase your destiny, you have to be willing to fight for it. You have to be willing to bleed for it. You have to be willing to go to war with yourself for it. And yes, I said with yourself, because that's where the real battle is. It's not the world that's stopping you. It's not the obstacles, the competition, or the circumstances. It's you. It's the voice in your head that tells you, you're not good enough. You can't do this. You're going to fail. It's the fear that keeps you small. The doubt that keeps you frozen. The excuses that keep you from taking the risks you know you need to take. But here's the thing about fate. It's not fixed. It's not rigid. It bends to those who are willing to act. It's forged by those who refuse to accept the life that's been handed to them. Who refuse to settle for less than what they're capable of. Fate doesn't decide your future. You do. And let's be honest. Chasing your destiny is terrifying. It's uncomfortable. It's messy. because to chase your dreams to go after the life you want you have to let go of the life you already have you have to be willing to step into the unknown to take risks to fail not once not twice but over and over again that's the price of destiny that's the cost of greatness most people aren't willing to pay that price most people look at their dreams and think that would be nice but they're not willing to sacrifice for it they're not willing to risk their comfort their security, their ego, and so they stay where they are. They settle. They let their dreams die inside of them, slowly, quietly, until they convince themselves that they never really wanted them in the first place. But not you. Not if you're still listening. Because if you're still here, there's something inside you that refuses to settle. There's something inside you that knows you're meant for more. There's something inside you that's willing to fight for it, no matter how hard it gets, no matter how many times you stumble, no matter how much it hurts. And let me tell you, it will hurt. Chasing your destiny will break you. It will push you to your limits. It will force you to confront every fear, every insecurity, every weakness you have. But that's the point. Because destiny isn't just about what you achieve. It's about who you become in the process. It's about the strength you build, the resilience you forge, the person you create through the struggle. You have to understand something. The version of you that's sitting here right now. The version of you that's safe, that's scared, that's comfortable. That version of you cannot achieve your destiny. It's not capable of it. If you want to claim your fate, you have to let that version of yourself die. You have to shed the old you, the weak you, the you that's been holding yourself back. And that's hard. It's painful. Because growth is painful. Change is painful. But you know what's even more painful. Regret. Looking back on your life and realizing that you let fear win. Realizing that you had a chance to create something incredible, and you didn't take it. Realizing that you let the life you could have had slip through your fingers, because you were too afraid to reach for it. Don't let that be your story. Don't let fear, doubt, or comfort keep you from chasing your dreams. Because your destiny is out there. And yes, it's going to take everything you have to reach it. But isn't that the point? Isn't that what makes it worth it? Fate doesn't favor the passive. It doesn't reward the ones who sit and wait. Fate favors the bold. The ones who step into the fire. The ones who take risks. The ones who fail and rise and fail again. Because they know that every failure is a step closer to their dreams. So, what are you waiting for? Stop waiting for permission. Stop waiting for the perfect moment. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you're ready. You'll never be ready. The stars will never align. The perfect time will never come your destiny isn't a gift it's a challenge it's a test and the question is are you willing to face it are you willing to do what it takes no matter how long it takes no matter how hard it gets no matter how many times you fall because if you are you're willing to step into the unknown to fight for your dreams to claim your fate then there's nothing in this world that can stop you. Not the obstacles. Not the failures. Not the doubts. The only thing standing between you and your destiny is you. So stop waiting. Start moving. And don't stop until the life you've dreamed of is the life you're living. Your fate is yours to claim. So claim it.