A short motivational excerpt from Dean Graziosi in which he uses repeated rhetorical questions and imperatives to urge listeners to stop waiting for permission and to take immediate, uncomfortable action toward their goals. The speaker emphasizes personal responsibility — the only permission needed comes from oneself — and presses for action in the present moment.
If not you, who? If not now, when? And if not this, what? And if not us, who would you learn from? I think of those questions all the time. If not now, when? When am I going to say yes? When am I going to take uncomfortable action? What the hell am I waiting for? You waiting for permission. Stop waiting for permission. The only person that needs to give you permission is the person you see in the mirror. Stop. So if not now, when? What better time than right this very moment?
