MAKE THIS COMEBACK A PERSONAL APOLOGY TO YOURSELF
- Marcus Nikos
- May 2
- 41 min read

if you can see it here and you have the courage enough to speak it it will
happen vision is believing in the possibility of what could be right
seeing something in here maybe not seeing it out here but you see it here and you know that with faith persistence
dedication consistency it will come to
fruition change doesn't happen by chance it requires action it starts with
knowing yourself inside and out confront the uncomfortable truths let go of the
masks the Illusions and the lies you tell yourself self-discovery is messy
it's painful it's Relentless but it's the most rewarding Journey you'll ever go on don't stop
now you know everybody's always talking about wanting to be at the end state in the winter Circle or across the Finish
Line what they really should be wishing for wanting to be is the person that it takes to get to the Finish Line the
finish line is not the victory it's the try it's the the competition along the way it's the perseverance the pursuit of
Excellence the great determination that gets you actually to The Winner Circle or across that finish line that's the
real Victory the victory is in the try the determination the intestinal fortitude that it takes the ability to
get up when life knocks you down the willingness to go one more step and one more rep when nobody else will the
willingness to be out there when there's nobody cheering for you and nobody keeping you accountable it's just you
you need to love pain if not stay where you want I had this fire that I'm going
to be somebody and it has to be there because on all those bad days and all those days you don't want to do [ __ ] you
have to be your own motivator your own coach your own your own trainer your own
everything you're going to pursue success in your life you have to decide you're going to be on a road that most people are not on but the truth is the
Journey To Success can be a very painful journey and you can feel very alone and
it's designed that way is the feeling of uncertainty that
you don't know if all of the work that you've been spending all of your nights and weekends and off time investing in
will ever pay off and so it's this fear that you're wasting your time but the reality is that the outcome
isn't the thing that you're building the person you are is the person that you're building and that continues to work the work works on you more than you work on
it and so it's about who we become while doing the work more than the outcome from the work itself reminder for the Gladiators in
the arena who feel beat up and scarred with no hope in sight hard feels shy this is what hard feels like and this is
why most people can't do it but you can man it's always going to be a party
it's always going to be a time to celebrate and a Time time to join friends and I mean the bars are always
open always open what's not always open is the opportunity to to check the box
in life you know achieve your dreams and that's not always open success doesn't come generally in
Monumental drops it comes from small decisions made over and over again every
hour of every day it comes from making commitments to yourself to do what it
takes even when you don't feel like it it comes from keeping those
commitments if you wait to take action until you're motivated you probably
never will those who are successful take action anyway they take action when they
don't feel well they take action when other people are telling them they're going to fail they take action when
things aren't going their way they take action when things don't look right go
take action that's what brings success I think you're actually right on
the road you're supposed to be when it's hard often times we want the Finish Line without running the race just because
it's hard doesn't mean that it's not meant for you it doesn't mean that this
isn't supposed to happen it just means that you are in the middle of a
process and you have to stay on that process and that if it was easy everybody would achieve
it it's just you and your heart and your gut telling you keep going even when you
fail along the way you know that that Victory is down there that Victory is
every day getting better at who you are so you can be better in all you do pushing through the adversity going
after it celebrating the triumphs and getting through the tragedies everything that it takes to
get to the Winter Circle that's where the victory Victory is at it's getting out there taking that first step and
continuing to pursue it even when it's hard especially when it's hard that's
the real Victory and through that Victory we gain The Winner
Circle things might be tough right now but you're tougher you might have experienced the worst and I know that
bouncing back from all the times that you broke down wasn't easy but you chose
to stay and keep fighting just just know that you have a purpose the world needs you life will get better and you'll make
it through just like you always have there are many ways to get the
things that we want for ourselves in our lives it all begins with how we choose to think as you think so shall you be
seven little words that I think are perhaps the most important things that we can learn and master in our lives
this old proverb notion that I become what I think about all day long and once
you know that what you think about is what expands you start getting real careful about what you think
about everyone has the possibility to unlock something very very
[Music] special about him or herself and it's up to your actions
ultimately it's you yourself who also is able to unlock
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it doing the same things hoping to be a better person expecting the same things
out of the externals hoping that would be different the only way that you can conquer yourself and the move past this is the
renewing of one's mind in order for a man to gain his life he must lose his
life so you've got to be willing to die to who you are now to give birth to who
you are to become understand just how hard it is to work
every single day to try to be great everybody is excited in the beginning like New Year everybody started in
January jams pack every year you get to February and March habits matter habits
matter principles matter how you view what you're doing and trying to accomplish matters
if you want to achieve success you're going to have to pay the price and it won't be cheap it'll be tireless nights
long days isolation loneliness tribulation
heartaches headaches and a lot of pain but on the other side of pain is
pleasure on the other side of pain is Success those who have left their Mark
in this world believ that they were chosen for something great and a lot of us think that it's just the special ones
who get to live out their dreams it's not those who are special it's those who believe it's not those who are magically
chosen it's those who choose to be
chosen titus's question was how much longer are you going to wait to demand
the best of yourself we all know we have potential we all know we have things we need to stop doing we all know we have
things that we should start doing but we tell ourselves we'll do it later but will you so tell yourself the truth
about the situation that you're in that's what we need to do and it should hurt a little bit by the way it should
hurt a little bit there should be aspects of your life that you know you can improve upon that should hurt a
little bit here's the cool thing take ownership of those things and guess what doesn't hurt at all now guess who's in control you are but if you're having
trouble finding discipline start by telling yourself the truth about what's going on you can have what you want in 5
years but there's two conditions you have to know what it is and you have to
aim at it figure out what you want write it down figure out what you could do to start moving towards that develop a
vision and you have to do that in dialogue with yourself right it's like if I could have what I
wanted what would satisfy me and you might think well I could never get that and I could say well maybe not but I'll
tell you one thing you can move towards it and I know almost all the pleasure is in the moving
toward let me tell you a secret no one does when they
begin ideas don't come out fully formed they only become clear as you work on
them you just have to get started idea of a single Eureka moment is a dangerous
lie it makes us feel inadequate because we feel like we haven't had ours yet and
it prevents people with seeds of good ideas from ever getting started in the first place be prepared to be
misunderstood anyone working on a big vision is going to get called crazy even if you end up right in our society we
often don't take on big things because we're so afraid of making mistakes that we ignore all the things wrong today if
we do nothing people should know that you never will be able to go through life
without failures failures make us learn uh failures make you stronger pain makes
you stronger so I think all of that is good write everything you want on a
piece of paper everything I don't care use your wireless imagination if you can think it you can achieve it write it on
piece of paper read it every morning and every night come back here one year from today and see how much of that stuff
didn't came true it's easier to live a life you hate than it is to live a life
you love doing what you love can be hard because we live in a world that encourages the opposite but that doesn't
mean it's right for you no one can decide what struggle or success looks like in someone else's life you get to
choose that and if you don't then Society will decide for
you people will belittle your plan people will tell you that you have the
wrong Vision people will tell you that it will not work but here's the thing it's not their vision it's your vision
it wasn't given to them but there will be people who will try to tear it down who will tell you you don't have what it
takes who will tell you that this is impossible who will tell you that you need to be realistic but nothing great
has ever happened from being realistic in their own Hearts small minds cannot see a big
plane the higher you fly the deeper you fall okay so if you want to fly high do
it but if you fly high without somebody telling you before you starting the
flight that there will also come The Descent then I think it's kind of blind
just keep it in mind that there is something in our lifetime which is always balancing
out this idea of being happy is this concept that people have been sold right
that life is about happiness mhm but what if life wasn't about happiness what
if life is about experiencing every aspect and every emotion that life has wouldn't you want to experience the full
sudden range of emotions that life has to offer you the sadness the heartbreaks The
Joy when you have butterflies and you're feeling anxious and and you have anxiety or nervous um that's when you're most
powerful I believe a lot of people instead of homing this power and using it they allow it to to just consume them
a big challenge or big pressure is like a fire it's like a raging fire either you can allow this fire to consume you
and just take you over completely or you can gain control of this fire and harness it if you can dream it it can
potentially become yours with the right energy input the amount of work ethic necessary and a good attitude understand
that you have one life how you live it is your choice but life will pass you by you don't want to be the person that
wakes up 30 40 50 years from now and regrets what they did
I never like to look back mhm because it's
just there's really not much in it for me right it's just I always like to look
forward do I want to look out the windshield or do I want to look through the rear I rather look forward because I
know where I'm going then rather than always look at the back if you think the price of winning is too high wait till
you get the bill from regret and that bill from regret is generational and the only way that Bill gets paid off is you
got to be willing to make the hardest
decisions the energy requires to start doing something is way more than the energy required to continue doing the
thing and that the beginning of doing anything results in the lowest amount of reward both internal and external than
when you've been doing it for ages the only reason why you're not living the life that you actually want to live
is because you keep on feeding the life that you don't want to live day by day
keep on feeding the life that you don't want to
live that's a lesson that people need to hear and learn it's so important because everybody just wants to be comfortable
everybody wants to sit in the I don't want to go outside it's cold I don't want to do this it's hot like you've got to do things that you don't want to do
cuz you show show your body that your mind is the boss is telling your body what to do and then you have
control you got to do something man right if years and years pass and you're just the same dude then you're not
really living in a way I kind of feel like you're just being pushed through life I think people are where the they
deserve to be and if you look at what they did over the last 10 years their life is going to look exactly what it
should look like if you can't become aware of your own internal dialogue and you can't start to have control over
your own internal dialogue and you can't start to tell the [ __ ] voice that you have in your head to sit the down and
shut up you're going to have a very hard time making any year your
year in failure and in suffering all the answers are in there all the answers to
all the test questions the test is your life all the answers are in there you don't have to live in suffering and pain
and failure all the time time you have to learn I need to visit it I'm not going to negotiate with my
goal like I've been negotiating sometimes with my goal the time in my life where I'm most successful there's
no negotiation a friendly reminder that in three generations everyone who knew us
will be dead including the people whose opinions stopped you from doing what you wanted all along imagine that someone
you know achieves every dream and hits every goal they have years later they get old and die 2 years after that how
much do you care about as much as everyone else will if you accomplish your goals and dreams do it for
you consistency consistency consistency man that's the name of the game bro don't get much simpler into that if you
keep going every single day and don't stop they ain't ready for prime time they ain't trying to really get right
grind every day one foot in front of the other bro and I promise you going to be lapping these folks bro give it a year
Watch What Happens this dude you're living how do
you want to live how do you want to die how do you want toing be remembered that's that's it nobody can
destroy you if you won't let them whenever I get to a low point where I think why do I even bother I just remind
myself this is where most people stop and this is why they don't win got to fight it's hard it's hard as
you're going to have days where you don't want to do anything you're going to have days where getting out of bed is the hardest [ __ ] thing you ever did in your life you got to get the up
and you got to get in theing fight get serious that's number one I don't know
any substitute for that you've really got to get serious you don't have to be Grim but you must be serious go from
average to Fortune you must get serious and you must get serious about two very important things number one is
setting your goals and where you want to go designing the next five the next 10 years is so vitally important what do
you want to do economically where do you want to go where do you want to be you got to keep working your time's going to
come trust me just keep working you're not getting what you want keep working you are getting what you want keep
working you got to work your time is is going to happen you're here for a reason but you got to be ready cuz if you're
not it's on you the reinvention occurs in the micro
actions that you're taking every single day the tiny little things that that perhaps no one even notices that are
creating muscle memory around new behaviors that perhaps are very uncomfortable to you tiny little things
repeated over time is what produces dramatic change I'll get to it tomorrow I'm like
who promised you that right I'll get to it a month from now I'm like who promised you that right because light
changes so quick we live our lives and we feel as if we promised something
right but when you think about it's like when we try to control things but when you really think about the macro of life and the grand scheme of life we really
don't have any control we can control what we possess emotions attitude thought process perspective how we speak
how we respond but just life in general we have no control of
that how bad do you want this if it's as bad as you want to live breathe or sleep
I can work with you most people don't want it that badly you know how to do it
you know exactly how to be you or how to be me you don't want to do it and you
you are willing to strip yourself down to nothing and give everything that's
who I want to work with to get there luck ain't going to happen you have to
put yourself in that situation man it takes a lot of work stay focused don't listen to
nobody what's on your mind just do it cuz what's destined for you you going to
get it
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grit you need it when the chips are done and it all comes from the mind I'm struggling here I need to do something
to get myself out of this problem and that's where you get grit you think
well I'm going to do it the mind tells me I'm going to do it the body is weak
the body is tired but the grit will get me through it you have to lose your fear of failure
failure is a part of the process people who never fail never try you have to
fail you got to get it wrong to get it right you learn nothing from winning you
only learn from your failures why not why not see how much you can
earn why not see how much you can learn why not see how many skills you can develop why not see what kind of person
you can become why not see what kind of influence you can have end of every day
you look yourself in the mirror and you ask yourself did I get better today if the answer is yes and you do that for 5
years 10 years 15 years how much better are you going to be are you getting better every single day that's the
question and it's just taking small steps you don't try to get it all done in one day in one week in one year it's
the process of getting better every day and doing that for a period of years that then create the
Masterpiece I want to ask you a question what are your fears what are you scared of something that's blocking us that's
holding us back some people call fear false evidence appearing
real suffering is a part of life it is something that you cannot avoid
and the more you try to avoid it the more you prolong its impact on your life we suffer more in imagination than in
reality that's why the conversations that you have to have with yourself have to be engaging have to be empowering you
got to speak life over you when it feels like death is all around you you have to speak up and not allow yourself to be
put on mute because when you suffer in silence someone else suffers as well suffering teaches you how to survive it
teaches you how to thrive it teaches you how to win because when you come out of suffering you come out of a Survivor and
what survivors have is a game plan in life of how to make it and how to sustain and when others find the road is
clear it's because you cleared the road for them that's the challenge of
understanding that suffering doesn't last always but you can always Outlast the
suffering you will face pain on this way accept the pain smile at the pain
embrace the pain pain is the gatekeeper of Destiny
pain is there to ask you one simple question do you really want to achieve
your goals or are you just a [Music]
talker purpose no one can create your purpose for you no one can tell you who
to be so in purpose you have to create your own purpose and in evolution you
have to evolute towards that purpose it's easier to live when you have goals
to meet you understand identify with what you
love and once you love it hone in on that thing until you can
Master it to the point where people can identify that there's
no questioning your love for it there's no replacement for persistence as simplistic as that is if you want to
master something I think that's the thing most people don't do they read a little bit they listen a little bit they dip in and out they don't go day and
night night and day in total immersion in something that transforms them and also something that makes them push
through their fears because in the end that's the only thing that stops with everybody's got a story I didn't know this person I don't have the resources
they have all the things they don't have but if you resourceful you can get the money you can get the time you can get
the energy you can get anything you want times that we should proceive with
caution but it's the difference between being stopped by fear is the difference between having a fear and the fear
having you the biggest regret of the dying is never becoming your ideal self I want to
leave this earth becoming who I know deep within I I am supposed to
be sometimes you got to stop focusing and thinking about what could have happened or what should have happened
and you got to live in what is happening and focus on Surviving it because the quick as you quicker you can survive it
the quicker you can use it the quicker you can extract a lesson from it the quicker you can glean perspective from
it and for all of us we're going to encounter those defining moments in our lives right to where it's going to
hurt all you have to do is decide not to quit because within of every one of us is the
ability and the DNA to overcome and to win and when we win we never know when
it's going to happen but it comes it may not be today it may not be tomorrow it
may not be next week but the day is coming and it's not about every dog having his day it's the fact that you
don't allow the day to dog you you get up and you go after it you believe and you fight through it and it no matter
what it is that you're going through the suffering will come to an end and you will learn in the suffering that it
created pressure and when the pressure comes it'll bust the pipe and the dams of life will come open and that's why
you end up in the flow of life that allows you to win but you got to
believe that the suffering has a purpose so do
you
if you will change everything will change for you you don't have to change
what's outside all you've got to change is what's [Music] inside to have more you simply have to
become more I wish you the courage to be warm
when the world will prefer you be cool I wish you success sufficient to your needs I wish you
failure to temper that success I wish you joy in all your days I wish you
sadness so that you may better measure Joy I wish you gladness to overbalance the grief I wish you humor and a twinkle
in your eye I wish you glory and strength to Bear the burdens I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to
season your journey in order for something new to
come something old must go and that old can sometimes
mean let go of what you know until now
most people try to create a new personal reality as the same personality and it
doesn't work you literally have to become someone else if you keep thinking
the same thoughts keep demonstrating the same behaviors keep living by the same
feelings and emotions your personal reality is going to stay stay exactly
the same but if you have new thoughts that lead to new choices that
demonstrate new actions that create new experiences that cause you to feel differently you will begin to walk into
a new future times you will have to convince yourself that it's possible that you can go from zero to hero from peasant to
King if you change the way that you think and if you don't know how to change the way that you think begin to
digest new information stay away from the haters stay away from the losers stay away from the people with weak
minds and weak mentalities and find those people that Empower you find those people elevate your spirit in your soul
and understand that your potential my friend is Limitless you my friend are Limitless but you must believe and if
you can believe all things are possible all you have is this moment so you have to continuously focus on
bringing attention to this moment and keep reminding yourself that what decision can I make in this moment that
is aligned with the best version of to myself that is aligned with the vision of where I'm trying to get to if you
look at stories of Great Men of great women in history that story always has a
lot of disadvantages that will overcome there is something in the process of
overcoming hardship that creates greatness most people quit through that
process if you can survive it then your story will be a great
one you got to bet on you it's so funny that you believe in others
you would bet on others you would support others you would be there for
others but when it come to you you take a d back seat I don't understand it I'm
going bet on me I needed somebody and they didn't do
it so I decided at that point I guess I don't need you the only person I need is
me and I'll be damned if I'm ever going to need somebody I ain't need needing somebody I'll be damned if I'm ever
going to need somebody again don't be afraid of people rejecting you stick to your guns that
fear it just Withers the soul and makes what you create just like everything else out there but when you think no I'm
going to be myself I'm going to mind what's different about me I'm going to be bold and confident those who who are
trying to follow all the trends don't have impact find out what what you're good
at find out what craft or thing or what are you good at what you have an
aptitude for do you like history do you like math do you like artwork do you like music do you like you find out what
you have a natural inclination towards you find out what you're good at and then you figure out how to help other
people with that thing that you're good at and once you figure that out that's purpose 2 + 2 equal 4 so what are you
good at how can you help other people that's your purpose everything around you that you
call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can
change it you can influence it you can you can build your own things that other people can use shake off this uh notion
that life is is there and you're just going to live in it embrace it change it
improve it make your mark upon it remember you guys only have one life
on this Earth okay it's not too late to change everything get up guys make today
the day the more I listen to this the better my life gets if they don't have what you
want don't listen to what they say there's no greater waste of time than
justifying your actions to people who have a life you don't want build a vision of what you would
like to accomplish between now and the end of the year and then make a written description of that Vision paint the
picture with words Vision vision is going to direct your
life if you let it use it constructively see what you want don't spend any time
thinking of what you don't want when you get a picture in here make it big make it beautiful you'll be glad you did what
we feel is what manifests it's the energy that we put out that we get back claim it in your heart right now who do
you want to be how do you want to feel what do you want to give and what do you want to receive and ask yourself that
design your day every single day you have the power within you to design your life what you see is a reflection of
what you believe so are we going to say yes to a new belief system
now do the thing and you'll get the energy to do the thing do the thing and
you'll get the energy to do the thing don't wait start right now whether you're ready or not just say I'm going
after it I'm going to get it and your present circumstances got nothing to do with where you're going you've got to
accept yourself for what you've done wrong do your best and also find some
difficult to do cuz that gets away a lot of the anxiety that you carry around in your body difficult things make regular
life less difficult anything is possible here that you're only limited by your
imagination now it's not going to be handed to you you have to you have to find your way through and there will be
times that you're going to hit dead ends but you have to pick yourself back up you have to be smart you have to
calculate another route and then you kind of keep moving forward at some point everything's going
to go south on you everything's going to go south and you're going to say this is it this is how I
end now you can either accept that or you can get to
work that's all it is you just begin you
do the math you solve one problem then you solve the next one and it doesn't
matter how you get knocked down in life cuz that's going to happen all that matters is that you got
to get up work hard be somebody be something
more than what you see in the mirror let the world be your mirror don't let them judge you because the mirror can't judge
you you judge what you see in the
r there's a great Chinese expression a great old proverb the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago the second best
time is now just be the best version of yourself in anything that you do you don't have
to live anybody else's story sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites
or or crazy life story in order to be successful in this world but the truth is you you really don't it doesn't
matter where you come from what you have or don't have what you lack all you need
to have is an undying passion for what you do and a Relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be
successful there's a moment when every boy realizes no one's
coming to save him and that's when he becomes a man and some boys never get there and stay
children forever you're not allowed to give excuses because excuses are a sign of
weakness we give no excuses when we fail failure is just fertilizer to help
us grow as a team guys in life you know Winning is
Everything But training to win is having the will to win that is everything
whether you win or not you people are fail you got get back up and try it again but if you don't have the will to
win and you don't train to win that's what you're really missing missing the mark
guys you ever had a gut feeling that maybe you were meant for
more what if you were everything you could be fall down seven times get up eight
ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship we're all trying
to improve ourselves no one's perfect this not I'm not perfect now I never will be you're not and you never will be
but you're better than you were yesterday and you're going to be better tomorrow you know the greatest lesson my
mother ever taught me when I was a kid whatever I started I had to finish it
whether I got in the midst of something and didn't care for a coach whether I got in the midst of an organization and didn't care for a leader my mother would
never let me start something and stop because she would always say the person that you will become by enduring the
process is far more important than the person that you have to deal with in the midst of the process your present or
past results have absolutely nothing to do with what's going to happen from this
point forward you see I kept thinking well GE I such a mess up you know I've done everything wrong up till now I'm 26
I'm broke I'm not happy everything was wrong that's all in the past every
moment is a new moment success is a strange thing presumably we want success because we
think a more successful life will bring us more happiness meaning and fulfillment here's the problem we sacrifice the thing we want happiness
for the thing which is supposed to get it success failure can make you miserable but I'm not sure the success
will make you happy I am only worthy of love acceptance and belonging if I succeed now powered by internal feelings
of insufficiency this person is driven to achieve many things they're prepared to outwork out hustle and outs suffer
everyone else because they're not just running toward a life they want they're they're running away from a life that they fear success and progress
ameliorates the feelings of insufficiency therefore success and progress have become prioritized above
everything else character is the core of a person something they can't control something that comes from deep within
and it causes people to have patterns of behavior and you want to find people who
have a strong character to associate with as opposed to a weak character and what a strong character is is people who
are adaptable who are fluid who can ad MIT that they are wrong who can learn from their experience who can take
criticism so I want you to focus not on people's Charming exterior instead focus on that deep inner quality that core
that character because that's who they really are your character is creating what happens to you in life there's the
famous quote of the ancient Greek philosopher heraclitus character is
fate as I continue to experience life and find myself I realize that hope
isn't what I thought it was through a lot of Sorrow it's actually been redefined for me and I ask
myself the question what if my pain is actually my
hope so many of us are at war with ourselves within we have that inner
conflict because we're trying to portray this image that is you know acceptable in the world
around us that we think is acceptable instead of just staying true to you and yes when you stay true to yourself
you're going to people are going to look at you a certain way people are going to try to knock you off your path there's going to be a lot of external things
that you know try to sway you this way or that way but you got to stay true to you here's my best advice welcome all
experiences you never know which one is going to turn everything
on
so the question you have to ask yourself is who am I where am I going what do I
want to accomplish three major areas of goals that you have to think about the first is your personal and your family
goals these are the reasons why you're alive what do you want to accomplish for yourself and for your family write them
down Define them clearly the second set of goals that you have to ask is your business your career your financial your
material goals what is it that you want to accomplish in the external world where do you want to make your contribution the third type of goals you
have to ask about are your self-development goals and in my estimation your ability and your
willingness and your tenaciousness in developing yourself is the key to
accomplishing everything else you know that dream in you that seems
out of touch and crazy yeah that one what if that dream
was actually put in you for a reason do not buy into the fear that everyone
around you calls Logic the dreams that truly make a difference are rarely
logical be Fearless in the pursuit that sets your soul on
fire the proper comparison group for you is you yesterday first of all you're the
only control group that's appropriate to you because you have a certain set of
talents and possibilities and limitations and tragedies that are truly
unique to you shouldn't it just happen well it doesn't basically life is this
way what you put into it is what you get out of
it want their life to be free of struggle and conflict they want a smooth
path in front of them when you face adversity or 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 failur if you never
have conflict you are never going to develop yourself in life even though you
are scared can you still go through with the task even though it's risky and you don't know what's on the other side can
you still stay focused stay locked in keep working and keep pushing forward
that's the person that people want to follow you know what's the number one
way you measure somebody that's hungry very simple their sense of
urgency that's simple let me explain to you why so people say why you have no idea
how hungry I am really yeah what you do about it today oh not today but tomorrow I'm going to I'm going you ain't hungry
man you you just think you're hungry you are not hungry think like the person you
intend to become ask yourself how would the person I'd like to be do the things
I'm about to do everybody in here wants to get to the next level and very simple you can make
two lists and I can tell you if you're going to get to the next level or not make a list of what you want to do to
get to the next level and on the other side of the list what are you willing to do to get to the next level and if that
list doesn't match you are so far away from winning you have no
chance you do not have time to [ __ ] around you don't have time to play games
to be in everybody's face to not be focused on your goals every single day
counts you didn't do nothing yesterday and you didn't do nothing today every single day that you don't do nothing bro
is a day wasted it's a day that you could have got better you've developed a false belief
system in yourself of what you need to know to take action and so successful people are willing to step into the
unknown and the unprepared more than people who are unsuccessful so procrastination is really saying I got
to know a little more I got to prepare a little bit more I got to get a little bit more ready a little bit more ready a little bit more ready and you keep raising the Readiness quota to a point
where you never take action and so you got to get to this point where you're like I'm going to get into the room I'm going to start to write that paper I'm
going to start the book I'm going to get into that and I'll figure it out when I get there and most people that are
successful have this internal belief system that I don't need to know everything to take action I just need to
know enough to get in the room and I'll figure it out from there no one has ever ever achieved
anything if they haven't faced failures if they haven't had disappointments to
achieve anything in life you have to be prepared to take on the odds face
disappointment you only lose when you give up if you do not give up you will
win from the most incredible positions the fight is in the mind it's not physical it's in the
mind what are the things that you fear that's been keeping you from living your
dream that's been keeping you from doing some things that you would like to do just think about those
things you must become a Vigilant gatekeeper of everything you allow to go
into your mind anything that gets into your mind is entering Holy
Ground when you recognize who you really are and why why you've been put on this
Earth you'll start to understand why the enemy works so hard to stop you why the
negative thoughts and the self-doubt seem to come at you like bullets out of
nowhere you were not put on this Earth to the average you weren't put here to
sit the sidelines you were not put here to fail you were given gifts and talents
and skills so that you could go out and make a difference you were put here for a reason and a
purpose you were put here to be great we all have Ambitions we all have
dreams and goals and desires that we want but really what gets you to where you want are habits our daily habits
there are negative habits that you can't get rid of but there are other habits that like discipline like working every
day like taking steps to get reach your goals that are immensely liberating and
you can get rid of your your bad habits through developing positive habits right
so the goal here is to focus Less on the giant dreams and on the everyday process
of changing your thinking it's not really about what you want it's about what you're willing to
do to get it I and in that maybe you have to give something up that may not
be a good habit to replace it with a better habit 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 I feel to be at the Pinnacle of any game and any whatever you do you've got
to be a little bit gone to it you're not all there you've got to be almost insane that your craft not a lot of people can
understand that people think being consistent means never falling off track but that's not
true that's called perfection and for most that's just not realistic
consistency means staying on track most of the time and when you fall off whether it was intentional or not you
pick yourself up and you get right back on consistency is about being persistent
not perfect it can do all it takes is determination you'll get your chance
sometime it doesn't come as quick is is uh as you'd like and there's a lot of hurdles but you will get there you have
to believe in that for kids to bet on themselves take some chances get your
knowledge know what you're doing and then go two feet in and then bet on yourself if you go to somebody you ask
somebody and they shoot you down don't let that be the answer you have a passion for something and it's burning
it's your job to curate that passion I really believe that you don't take noes for
answer youve never looked at yourself in the mirror and said you let you die until you get to that point you let you
die youve never you're not brave enough you want to put it on somebody else I have standards I have value I chose to
do that you need to look at yourself in the mirror and say why are you only giving 50% what's wrong with
you nothing in life is Promised except
death if you had the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every
moment a lot of people don't appreciate their moment until it's
pass senica said there is no greatness without Stillness in it and I think
that's right what kind of success do you have if you if you miss every sunrise and sunset if you're always busy if you
never have time with your family but also if you never have time with yourself and so if you don't have
moments of Stillness in your life I would ask you what kind of life you're living and if the kind of life you're
living is really your best [Music] life if you do not have clear goals for
your life you are condemned forever to work for those who do you see in life
it's very simple either you are working toward the accomplishment of your goals or you're working toward the accomplishment of other people's
goals our actions may be impeded but there can be no impeding our intentions
or dispositions because we can accommodate and adapt the Mind adapts and converts to its own
purposes the obstacle to our acting the impediment to action advances action
what stands in the way becomes the way the secret to an art unn as turning
obstacles upside down to act with a reverse Clause so there's always a way out or another route to get where you
need to go so that setbacks or problems are always EXP expected and never permanent making certain that what
impedes us can Empower
us what is a mistake everybody will do something which will go wrong making
something wrong the first time is not a mistake it is your chance to correct
it but making the same situation over and over wrong again and wrong again
because of the unwillingness to learn something from it that is the
mistake the hardest battle that we fight is between what we don't want to feel
and what we know we must do following your intuition isn't always rainbows and
sunshine sometimes it's making decisions for the greater good that really
hurt just remember you are choosing what's best best for your soul and that
is worth it anything you want
good you can have so claim it work hard to get it
when you get it reach back pull someone else up Each one teach one don't just
aspire to make a living aspire to make a
difference the goal is to die fulfilled how do you die fulfilled you have to die
unfilled you have to empty out all of your efforts you have to empty out all
of your knowledge all of your giving all of your help everything you have into
making this world a better place bringing your vision into a reality which should impact many lives
lives there's there's a saying there's a quote that I really believe in that when the pain of the current reality becomes
greater than the fear of change that's when we change so like when you become the when the pain becomes so intense
that it's greater than the fear that you have of the unknown then you'll go into the
unknown I had to convince myself that I'm going to make it what it does it makes you feel like there's going to be
points to people going to mistake my confidence for arrogance they don't understand the process of
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it just don't give up even if right now it doesn't make sense one day I'm very
very sure when you start to see the connections and Things fall into place you will maybe also read realized that
it couldn't have been different giving up was just simply not a question was simply never an option the
winners continue where the losers stop so what stops you becoming the
fullest version it's the things in you that whisper to you that you cannot be
the things that you hope for it's not usually prohibitions it's inhibitions what stops
US are The Lies We believe that are not true launch towards your goal never
consider the possibility of failure always forward never backward always forward never backward never consider
the possibility of failure your ability to persist in the face of setbacks and disappointments is vital to all great
achievement and it's always a decision that you make it's not the external environment it's always the internal
environment opportunity mixed with difficulty opportunity mixed with challenge we've
got a chance to grow like never before but I'm telling you there's going to be many enemies that's going to try to prevent us as soon as you plant the
garden the busy bugs and the noxious weeds are out to take it and you've got to learn not only to nourish your values
you've got to learn to do battle with your enemies whatever threatens you I'm
asking you to threaten it back take care of your responsibility but don't take anything off
anybody so so many people talk about Legacy I want to leave a legacy they use
it in such a way that it sounds like it's easy but it really in order for you to leave a legacy you got to live a life
worth recording one that can be an impact one that has a voice long after
you are gone an echo that goes into Generations long after you've left the face of the Earth greatness has no moods
you can't just be in the mood to be great you can't just be in the mood to be a hard worker you can't just be in
the mood to be be disciplined it doesn't work that way it has to become who you are it has to consume you it has to be
your identity despite what I'm going through despite my past failures despite what people are saying about me I'm
going to get it done I'm going to execute it's not what I do it's who I am
and life will seem like it's giving you hundreds of reasons to not execute today
but it's just a test to see how bad you really want it the version of you that you are right
now is why you have what you have you got to make a complete identity switch to get something different and so what
happens is when people aren't ready to do that they will all will always go back to the lwh hanging fruit that
they're accustomed to because your presence will require something
different so I was just failing I kept failing and kept failing and kept failing so I had to teach myself how to
fail right what that means is when I fail I can't spend much time in that
fail Zone I have to be able to get up and get after the next day just as fast so the big thing is know that if you
have big goals and Big Dreams along the way failure is going to happen so how
fast do you get up from that the easiest thing in the world to do is to complain blame and quit and
settle that's the easiest thing in the world to do but it takes real work to
deconstruct and to reconstruct the thought process and the mindset of an
indiv idual when they're trying to change something you got to stick to the script you got to continue to take steps
every single day even if things don't always work out don't waver don't just start to go off the path because you're
not getting what you want you know what I mean and Trust the process have faith that things will work out and that this
moment what you're going through is teaching you something in life you have to have no
fear you have to have no fear you have to you have to believe in who you are and what you do and just go and get
it what are you waiting for in all honesty what are you freaking waiting
for you know there's not just going to be a day where for no reason you're going to just
wake up and say I'm going to go to the gym every day in
perpetuity you know it's it doesn't really happen most people don't need their life
they accept their life and when you accept your life you are living on
things that are not worthy of your time and effort and energy to go uphill you
have to be intentional nobody ever went uphill by accident you've never read a book on accidental
achievements you have to be intentional with what you do and who you
are as far as I can tell it's just about letting the universe know what you want and working toward it while letting go
of how it comes to pass your job is not to figure out how it's going to happen for you but to open the door in your
head and when the door opens in real life just walk through it and when I say life doesn't happen to you it happens
for you I really don't know if that's true why not take a chance on faith as well but faith not hope but faith I
don't believe in hope hope is a beggar hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over
it you know yourself better than anyone but sometimes you fall into the Trap of
believing the world you're the only one who knows what's best for you you don't need to look for answers anywhere else
they're inside of you there's going to be noise from every corner ignore it
stay true to yourself because when you do every challenge becomes a victory
waiting to happen every day Sunrise sun goes down
so that means there is a up there is a
down since we are born we have inhaled 50% of our times we have exhaled 50% of
of our times our heart the same sucking the
blood pumping The Blood also the same meaning always
5050 always the exchange between left and right up and down bright and
dark in and out success and
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failure you know the hardest thing to get people about success the hardest
thing is is to start start
man every morning when you get up say over and over to yourself do it now do
it now do it now I do it now do it now whenever you have this tendency to
procrastinate program your subconscious mind with this automatic conditioned command do it now do it now do it now
the key to overcoming procrastination is to develop a sense of urgency be the kind of person who gets things done
quickly be the kind of person who launches fast on a task five choices you know in our life
you know we can be bad at what we do I mean we can be average at what we do I
mean we can be good at what we do or we can be excellent or we can be elite all right and everybody has a choice as to
what they want to do and how they want to do that but if you're going to be excellent or Elite you got to do special
things you have to have special intensity you have to have special Focus you have to have uh a special commitment
and drive and passion right to do things at a high level and a high standard all the time it doesn't matter what
god-given ability that you have um that probably can make you good but without
the rest of it I'm not sure you ever get excellent or Elite it's someone so focused on the
future that they don't just live in now if you're looking over your shoulder over who's coming after you you can
never leave a legacy in order to leave a legacy you got to be the one looking forward you got to see the future and
predict the things that come and come off of mute and Echo your voice into the future by what you invest in others it's
about your DNA what are you investing in remember that it's not the things
that happen to you like you might not be able to control everything that happens to you right it's inevitable things are
going to happen that are out of your control but the one thing that is always in your control is how you respond your
perspective your mindset and that's the thing that you need need to be taken responsibility for and taken
accountability for is how you respond to these things that happen to you in life things are going to happen you're going
to be hurt you're going to get faced with adversity you're going to be heartbroken right you might lose
somebody whatever it may be there's so many things that will happen to you that aren't in your control and you need to
focus on responding in the way that is going to help you that is going to nurture you and help you move forward
instead of keeping you stuck don't really let anybody take away
that dream from you uh nurture it water it like you water the flowers even if
you find only one person in this world that will that will accept Embrace and
support your dreams find that person and dream big because you can make
it the goal that you seek or the prize that you're seeking is in the work that
you're not doing no matter where your goal is is in terms of its height or how delusional it may
seem he's still going to aim for it and figure out whether or not she'll get
there later something in you has to wake up
and usually the only person that can wake it up is you but if you don't have a little flame you're done I can't light
it for you and that's the harsh reality of this life that I want to get across soing bad you have to explore exam in
the insides of yourself and what do you really want out of life thoughts are the
language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body and how you
think and how you feel creates your state of being so if you think insecure
thoughts in a matter of seconds you are going to feel insecure brain is
monitoring how you're feeling and you think more insecure thoughts which then makes you feel more insecure and the
repetition of that cycle conditions the body to become the mind of insecurity
and whenever you say I am anything you are commanding your mind and body into a
destiny even if you're tired you can still go to the gym even if you're annoyed with your spouse you can still speak in a manner that's loving even if
you don't feel like doing that hard work you can still push yourself to do it your feelings aren't a choice your
behavior and your thoughts are always a
choice life is about loss as time goes on we lose fights you lose people we
love you lose our hair and then we lose our life you know it's all a loss but by
these loss by from all these losses we learn so much when everything is falling apart in your life when people are
leaving you when people are betraying you when people are not coming through with their word are you still going to
put in the work are you still going to execute are you still going to do today what you told yourself that you would do
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punishments and instead of seeing downturns in your life seeing opportunities it's just going to have
such a much better impact on the way you where you get to
whole a constant vision of what it is you want to achieve see it accomplish
and go all out find a way to win in spite of the setbacks in spite of the
disappointments in spite of your failures I I tell people fail your way
to success I have a saying as life knocks you down trying to land on your back because if you can look up you can
get up as I'm continuing to take the steps
each and every day and move in the direction that I know is aligned with you know my calling and my truth then I
know that I'll get to where I need to be when I need to be there right and all that's doing is distracting you from
moving in the direction that you need to be moving into you know and the more you
focus on what everybody else is doing the more you're going to continue to make decisions that aren't aligned with
what you should be doing