How to UNLEASH Your Inner LION | Eric Thomas' Advice in 31 Minutes

You can't do it. Don't put your limitations on me. I'm dead to your limitations. Your limitations don't exist in my world. In life, when you roll the dice, worst case scenario, you're gonna land on average. So don't be average, because if you don't try, you will get to average. When I made a decision— ah, when I made a decision to follow my destiny, I felt it calling me. My destiny was calling me. Hello, Believe Nation.

My name is Evan Carmichael. My one word is believe, and I believe that entrepreneurs will solve all of the world's major problems. So to help you on your journey today, we're going to learn from speaker, educator, and entrepreneur Eric Thomas and my take on his Top 10 Rules for Success Volume 3. Rule number 3 is my personal favorite, and I'd love to know which one you guys like the best. And as always, as you're watching, if you hear something that really resonates with you, please leave it in the comments below. Put quotes around it so other people can be inspired. You might win a prize as well. And also, when you write it down, it's much more likely to stick. Stick for yourself as well. Enjoy.

If you're gonna do what you say you're gonna do, be what you say you're gonna be, you're gonna have to lion me out. That gazelle stuff, I'm trying to tell you, you a gazelle, you're gonna come up short. You a gazelle, you're not always gonna get what you want out of life. You a gazelle, it's gonna be— you're gonna have an average experience. You a student, I need you in lion mode. You a teacher, I need you in lion mode. You an entrepreneur, I need you in lion mode. You trying to lose weight, lion mode. You can't do nothing significant in gazelle mode, nothing. Nothing impressive happens in gazelle mode. Nothing happen when you running. Nothing happen in run mode, give up mode, quit mode, scared mode, fearful mode, nothing happens. Everything happened in lion mode, like I'm coming to get you. I love it. Y'all ever seen the one where the lioness is kind of sitting there and she double-dutching and all the beasts is running by and they just keep going and she just in preparation mode and out of nowhere, there is no music, no preparation. You just see my man come out of nowhere and just boom, bam, grab one, boom, boom, rip the heart out. That's lion mode and you gotta get to a place where you start executing. Somebody just help me out. Check it out. Last year, the greatest news in the NBA, the greatest story in the NBA last year was what? Greatest story told in the NBA last year offseason was what? Kevin Durant left to go to Golden State. Durant like, I'm out. I don't know where y'all come from, but that hurt hard because they supposed to be boys. Look at this picture for me. For a minute, because this is why if you're gonna be successful, this is where I need you to go right here. What a pick! This was the one where you play your boy first game, you and your homie was cool, right? And this is where you emotionally cut him. This is when you cut my man. This is when you see my man and he trying to be cool, he trying to act like he ain't leave you high and dry, he trying to act like the goals and the dreams y'all have. This the one where he clapping and you look my man in his face and say, you dead to me. And that's why most of you will never be successful because there's some stuff in your past you keep holding on to. And you gotta get to a point when you ready to grind and you ready to get to the next level. You look at people you used to be close to and say, "You dead to me." You dead. 42 triple-doubles? We shouldn't even be talking about the MVP. Ain't nobody else even— if somebody else make it close to the MVP, the NBA is rigged and I'm through with them.

They saw my man at the beginning of the season, I'm talking about, I'm talking about high octane.

They said if he keep doing that all season, what's gonna happen?

They said he keep running himself like that, he gonna burn out. My man ain't burnt out. He don't look like, he ain't close to burnt out. But you know why they said it? 'Cause they can't operate on that level for that long.

So people will try to put their limitations on you. I can do 6 gigs, I can do 7. We can leave here tonight, you can take me to a church, I'll give you another hour. You can't do it. Don't put your limitations on me. I'm dead to your limitations. Your limitations Limitations don't exist in my world. Those are your limitations, keep them. Go home, watch them on TV. Go home, read the newspaper about them. Go home and look in the mirror. Go home, call your homeboy and y'all talk about your limitations. I ain't got none. I get off the plane from going to Dubai and get on the ground and I hit it. And some of y'all holding on to stuff you shouldn't be holding on to. It should be dead to you. Doggone, go do a funeral if you need to and get rid of that junk. Like, bury it, do whatever you gotta do. But it's weighing you down, it's killing you. Every day you waking up thinking about it. You shouldn't be thinking about it no more. It should be dead to you. Move on and move towards your greatness. I forget those things which are behind and I press. I press toward the thing. I press. I don't got time for that no more. It's nothing personal. I ain't got nothing against you. I don't hate you, but I love me. Look, you don't even know what to do if you don't know who you are. And so I want to tell you, if nobody's told you, Perhaps your mom didn't tell you today. Perhaps your dad didn't tell you today. I don't know, maybe your teacher had an attitude and she didn't say it before you left school, but you are amazing. Yup, I said it, bring it in. I said it, you are amazing. That's right, I'm gonna say it again. You are amazing. And you need to understand something, I do not get paid to do this. I've been doing this for 8 years. I have no sponsors. I don't think somebody sent me like $5 to do this. So ET, why would you keep doing it year after year, month after month, week after week?

Why?

Because I know something about you that you may not know about yourself. You are amazing. And it's time for you to act like you're amazing. It's time for you to do the amazing, right? It's time for you to know you are amazing. So listen to me, I'm gonna give you an assignment. But before we go there, I gotta let you know I'm telling you the truth.

Now when I was a high school dropout, when I was homeless, right?

When I was getting kicked out of school, I'm just gonna keep it 100. I did not know I was amazing. I told you before, no disrespect, but my biological father wasn't in my life. So I didn't have him to tell me when I got up every day, "ET, you are amazing." Like me and my mom had some challenges. So my mom wasn't necessarily telling me, "You are amazing," right? And so I was eating out of trash cans, right? Listen to me. I was getting kicked out of school. Like, I was in the mall, stealing from the mall, getting in trouble, getting arrested. Listen, and some pastor brought me to church, right? And I'm telling you, my man would tell me on a weekly basis, you are amazing, and it's time for you to act amazing and do the amazing. So I want to say this to you real quick. You are not your test score. Are you hearing me? Look at ET. I've never done well on a standardized test. You are not your grades. You You are amazing. You're not what happened to you, where you were born, what circumstance you come from. You are amazing. You hear me? You are amazing. And the day you recognize you're amazing, the day you understand how amazing you are, everything changes. Look, my standardized test, they didn't change. My test scores didn't change. My grades didn't necessarily change like that. Like, it's when I became aware of the fact that gifted, that I'm special. And I need you to understand something. When you recognize who you are, when you, when you realize how amazing you are, there's certain things you're not gonna do no more. When you recognize how amazing you are, there's certain people you're not gonna hang around no more. When you realize how amazing you are, there's just certain things you're not gonna do no more.

Because eagles and pigeons don't run together. And when you realize, sweetheart, that you're an eagle, my brother, when you you realize you're a king, my sister, when you realize you're a queen, things are gonna change.

Why?

'Cause queens don't do what everybody else do. Kings don't do what everybody else do. And so I'm telling you, you are amazing. Now draw me a line, and I want you to do me a favor. That's right, I said it.

Draw a line, and I just want you to put one thing on there.

Matter of fact, two things. Put amazing and put super duper amazing. And I just want you to write down all the things that make you amazing. Like, for real, just sit down. For real, I don't care about your teacher. We ain't talking about your grades right now. We're not talking about what you did in school, what you didn't do in school. You're not talking about where you were born, where you come from. We're not talking about that. Look, look, look, all that aside, I just want you to write down, I'm amazing. Why? I'm a people person.

I'm amazing.

I'm intelligent in my own right. I'm amazing.

I'm an artist.

I'm amazing. I do music. I'm amazing.

I love people. Like, whatever. I don't know what it is. I'm amazing.

It everything that makes you special, everything that makes you, you. And then I want you to get up. Listen to me, I love you guys. That's why I do what I do. Now it's time for you to recognize how amazing you are, right? So just do that for me. Just write down how amazing you are. I just want you to look at it in the morning, look at it at night, look at it in the evening. And I'm not telling you something I read in a book or something somebody told me. I'm telling you I went from being who I was to who I am now. And guess what? My biological father never came back in my life. Like, I'm being 100. Like, nothing changed, but I woke up one day and realized, yo, to eat. So what your father wasn't in your life? You're still amazing. So what you got kicked out of Detroit public school? You still amazing. So what you ate out of trash cans?

You still amazing.

And there's nothing your circumstances could do about it. And so the difference between the old ET and the new ET is that I know by the grace of God I'm amazing, and you're amazing too. So I need you to do me a favor. I need you to start acting like it. It's your boy ET, son. I I believe in you, and now it's time for you to believe in yourself.

Now a lot of young people talk about the Black Mamba. The Black Mamba, let me tell you something, when you talk about the Black Mamba, you talk about practice. It's a must-have. I watched this dude lose a game, a game. I don't even know if it was the playoffs. I think it was like a regular game against the Miami Heat in Miami, South Beach, Florida. I don't know if you've ever been there before, but it's— you want to go.

It's a nice place to to just hang out. Especially if you on the road playing ball, it's a nice place after the game to go get dinner, sit on the beach. It's a nice— and I'm sure if you NBA, they probably got a VIP section for them on the beach. And unfortunately, the Lakers lost to the Miami Heat because Black Mamba missed a wide open shot in the corner, set shot, he missed it. What he did for the next 3, 4 hours while everybody else was getting dressed and going on the beach, he sat there for hours shooting the exact same shot over and over and over and over like he had never won a championship.

I'm like, now hold up, where everybody else at on the Lakers? They need to be out there as a squad. Like, but, but the Black Mamba's out there doing his thing. Like, I'm not on them, I messed up, I gotta practice. And this is not a coach practice, This is not an organization, the organization didn't call this one. This was just flat out, the black mamba was saying this is a must-have. And where most of you go wrong, you're not even 4.0 and you're not studying. Like, you're not even a 4.0 student. Like, you got a 2.0, a 2.5, a 3-something and you still not really studying like that because for you it's like, ah, it's not a must-have. It blows my mind. I work with professional athletes, I work with D1 athletes all over the world, and when I look at Twitter and Instagram, it blows my mind how dudes on Instagram, I'm like, bruh, you have not won a championship. Like, that's what you come here for, to win a championship. And so if you don't win a championship, I don't even know why. It's people broke. I don't even know how you had enough time to do a 30-second video. You broke. How did you have time to do a video? How did you have time like to do a dance routine when you should be practicing. You should be lifting weights. You should be looking at film. You said, not me, that you want to win the tourney, that you want to win it all. You want to go to the Final Four. How do you want to go to the Final Four but your schedule don't look like the Final Four? What are you tweeting about when you broke? Now listen, what I want to talk to you tonight about is don't be average. Don't be average. Average people make a certain amount of money. Average people live a certain type of lifestyle, and I'm not disrespecting average people. I'm just saying, if you have a choice, don't be average. Because in life, when you roll the dice, worst case scenario, you're gonna land on average. So don't be average, because if you don't try, you will get to average, right? So let's not shoot for average, because average is going to be there.

So I need you to be what?

What's the P word? I need to be what? Come on, I need you to be what? I don't need you to be nothing else. When you do your job You do it in a way where no, that you cannot get fired.

Talking to my wife today, she's like, I want you to clean up. I'm like, we about to get into it. She's like, I want you to clean up.

I'm like, how?

Because I know you want it a different way than how I do it. I clean average.

I'm just being real. I clean average. So when you say clean, you have to break that down because I know with my clean and your clean, it's two different cleans. No, I'm trying to help you. It's two different cleans. My wife said you don't clean, you shift. So you take stuff from one area and you put another area, that area clean, but then the other area, when I clean, you don't see nothing, everything's gone. Some of you, when you get a job, you shift, you don't clean.

So I need you to find out what productive is. When you get to that internship, you get that job, you get in that relationship with that female, that male, whatever you do, I need you to find out what product— not what you think productive is, find out what's really productive. And you do that and you ain't going— they can't get rid of you.

Anybody got any haters in the building? Let me see your hand real quick.

Got any haters in the building? Let me just see your hand real quick.

Good.

Write some of them down, right? Just write the name or two down.

I just said get it out your system, right?

Just get it out your system.

Look, people will hate on you. It's okay. As a matter of fact, I told y'all this before, like, do me a favor, do not dismiss your haters because sometimes iron sharpens iron. Like, sometimes you need a little pressure to get to that next level.

So do me a favor, don't dismiss your haters.

Some of the stuff they say is true.

Like, don't dismiss all of it. Some of the stuff your haters say is true. Let me tell you something, some of your haters are going to give you a perspective that your mama not going to give you, because your mama, she's going to always tell you this.

For real, most of y'all mamas—

now some of us have different mamas, but most of our mamas are going to tell us that— like, my mom not going to do that, but I'm saying most mamas, they just gonna, you know, ah baby, Yeah, you're right. They're not gonna really chastise you. So you need your haters because your haters are gonna point out stuff, right? So we're not gonna dismiss our haters altogether. We're gonna listen to 'em. We're gonna hear what they're saying and we're gonna make sure that their perspective is not, their perspective is wrong or right. And we take the stuff that we can take, the stuff that we can't use, don't worry about it.

I got an older white male. He probably in his 60s maybe, right? And my man says to me, you know, like, I heard what you said, ET. "but how do you sustain it?" I'm like, "Okay, say it." I'm like, "All right, say it again 'cause I wanna make sure I'm hearing what you saying." He like, "You talk about going 120, you talk about going hard, you talk about having what you want, being what you want, do what you want, okay, I get it, but how do you sustain it?" I'm thinking, "Is that a real question?" I said, "Listen to me very closely. How did I start this whole presentation off?" He said, "Write down the people name that you love." I said, "Duh, if you waking up every day and thinking about your wife, wife, duh, how do you not sustain it? If you wake up every day and you looking at your son, how do you not sustain it? You think I'm gonna put my kid's life in the hands of some other man? You think that's my role as a father? You think my role is to allow my kids to come here and pay all this money to go to school and do everything they did and now they gotta go beg somebody else for a job? That's not my role or responsibility. Sustain it? What do you mean? How do you not sustain it? I'll ask I'm asking you, why are you not pumped up? Why you have days off? I'm asking you why you give 70%. You don't love nobody? Is there not somebody that you don't love more than yourself? Is there not somebody you waking up for? Is it not somebody you grinding for? Somebody told me that they get distracted easily. Let me tell you something.

The reason why you getting distracted easy, because you don't got 8 or 9 things you wake up to every single day and say, I gotta go get that.

Many of you are getting distracted because you don't have something that's You need something stronger than a distraction. You need something stronger than a distraction. You're getting distracted with parties. You're getting distracted with smoking. You're getting distracted with drinking. You're getting distracted with sleeping. You're getting distracted with video games. Why? Because the video game is stronger than your goal. I tell my homies all the time, bro, if it ain't got nothing to do with— y'all be playing. I'm like, if it ain't about the money, you just singing it. I'm for real. Don't be blowing me up.

I went to Redbox about 2 months ago. Went to go get me a Redbox. I told C I was getting a Redbox and he joked, you still getting Redbox? I'm like, yeah, what's wrong with Redbox? He's like, Netflix, you ain't on Netflix? I'm like, nah, I don't wanna watch TV. I said, I don't wanna watch no movie on my little small computer. He's like, your little small computer, put it on TV. I said, I can't put my stuff on no TV. I don't wanna buy one, no auxiliary cord all running through my crib like that. He's like, nah, the smart TV, bruh. I'm getting paid and I ain't got no smart TV. I need you to hear what I just said. I got bread and I got the same TV I bought when I moved into the house. Why? 'Cause I could put on and that joker come on. Y'all laugh and you like, why would you do a TV like that? 'Cause I remember back in the day when you used to get the hanger with the aluminum foil and drop that joker on and it's cloudy, cloudy and you trying to do what you gotta do. So what I got is way sweeter than that.

We used to have to, this old school, you had to turn to get the station. Station 2. Then you do, do, do, do, do, 7. Right? And that joint went off at night. Y'all TV don't even go off. Our TV like 11 o'clock. Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light. Your TV go—

I could just go and cash me out and get a brand new one. But the reason why I don't do it is because a healthy sense of scarcity is great. You get too much, you got too much. You get everything, you lose your bite. I can't afford to lose my bite. 'Cause there's other dudes out here doing what I'm doing. And if they do it better than me, my kids ain't gonna have the lifestyle they have. My wife is retired at 45 'cause she got MS. She cannot go back to work. I cannot let you beat me. So I'm not gonna go buy 3, 4 cars.

Scarcity. You cannot have everything you see. It's not healthy. There's a part of lack that make you hungry. There's a part of eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that make you deeper than the dude that's eating 5-star meals. Man, let me tell you something, man.

I promise you on everything I love, if I could do my life all over again, I promise you I would. I'm glad my daddy wasn't in my life. I swear to you, I'm glad I lived in abandoned buildings. I swear to you, I'm glad I got my GED. I look at cats who way smarter than I am and they ain't got no dog. They ain't got no bite. I'm looking at grown men who ain't where they want to be in life, in no part of their life, and they waking up at 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning.

I'm like, bro, what you smoking? I thought you was a Christian, you wasn't on no drugs. You on drugs. Are you invested in you? Do you care about you?

So what you need to transition from with your entitled self, what you need to transition from is friends and fun. You need to stop having it. Until you get to where you want to be in life, you need to stop having all that fun. And you need to just start making up in your mind, just start saying you broke.

Just start saying it, 'cause you probably are, for real. Even if you got some money, you probably got your parents' stuff.

It probably don't belong to you, which means you didn't earn it, is what I'm talking about.

So if you have something that you did not earn, you have to stop telling yourself that you have something. Look, you gotta hear what I'm telling you. I'm trying to help you. I only take pictures of clothes that belong to me. I don't put my boy's shoes on and then take a pic in it like they're mines. No, and what I'm trying to tell you is you are broke, but you don't realize you broke because you're living somebody else's life. And if you're living somebody else's life, what you should be able to do is say, I am grateful that this person is trying to set me up for greatness, but I won't I'm gonna fake it like it's my life.

All I'm saying to you is when you act like you got something that you really don't, then you don't have the drive that it takes to be successful.

You can't make a difference until you make a decision. Ah! You better hear what I'm telling you, man. I'm talking about the secret to success. I'm always telling you how I went from one spot to the next spot, and that was it right there. Listen to me, catch the first principle. You gotta hear it. A difference until you make a decision. So for real, some of you, man, you keep crying. You complaining about your job. You complain about where you are financially. You complain about your relationships. You complain about your opportunities. You complaining, complaining, complaining. Listen to me. You murmuring and complaining. You complaining and complaining. Shut up! Stop complaining and do me a favor. If you want to make a difference, all you got to do is one thing. This is how you get started. You want something different? Listen to me. All you got to do is make a decision. That's it. And for those of you who've been making the wrong decision, all you got to do is make the right decision. But if you want to make a difference, make a decision. Are you hearing what I'm telling you? What I'm trying to do for you to take you to that next level is I'm trying to give you control of your life back. Some of you, you ain't got control. You talking about your job. You got control. Listen to me. Some of you talk about your economics like you ain't got no control. You got control. I want you to know that your life right now is the sum total of your decisions, not your mama's decisions, not your daddy's. Listen to me. Even if you made their decisions, you decided to make their decisions. So I need you to do me a favor. I need you from this day forward, for the rest of your life, make a decision. And I ain't talking about, again, something that I read.

I'm telling you what I experienced.

I remember being upset. Okay, the word is pissed off. Forgive me. When the boss gonna tell me I can't go see my daughter get her award. You heard me say it before.

It burned.

It burns. She gonna— you can't go see my daughter's getting an academic award, 7, 8 years old. Ain't nothing like having your daddy in the building. And my boss tell me I can't go. So guess what? I let it burn. And then one day I made a decision and I made a decision to walk away. And let me tell you something. I walked away and 2 weeks later the video went viral. When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, went viral. But it didn't go viral until I made a decision. The video never went viral when I was complaining. It never went viral when I was I was murmuring. It never went viral when I was talking just to be talking. But when I made a decision to walk away, when I made a decision— ah, when I made a decision to follow my destiny, I felt it calling me. My destiny was calling me. And when I decided to stop letting it call me but I chased after her, we went viral. Make a decision. You give 70% effort, the most, the optimal that can come out of giving 70% energy is what?

70% outcome.

That's it. So y'all gotta do me a favor, for real.

I'm not playing. Like, the energy y'all give off sucks.

Like, it ain't no other way for me to say it. It sucks. And I don't care about the energy you giving me right now, but if you taking this energy you giving me into the real world, you, you gonna be average. So when you get out of here, I'm talking about I need energy. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world, because sometimes when you smart people still don't notice you. People always notice what? Always. If you're not careful, you'll get electrocuted. You have to pay attention to energy and things that energize.

That's all I'm asking you to do. I'm saying most of you are not successful, not because you have reached your highest level of success. You are not successful because you stopped focusing on it.

You quit focusing on it. You got a job and then you just stop.

All right, y'all gotta do me a huge favor. All right, look, I know, I know the power of one.

Trust me.

Look, don't get too analytical of me. I know the power of one, but I'm telling you, sometimes to make a milestone become a reality, you gotta get it done by twos. One of the greatest basketball players that ever played the game.

Yep, Michael Jordan. Oh, a spectacular move by Michael Jordan. Yep, Michael Jordan didn't do it alone. Come on. Come on, come on, come on. You got— when you say Mike, you gotta say Scottie Pippen. Are you hearing me? LA, LA, baby, when you say Kobe Bryant, like for real, for real, you, you can't go without saying— when you talk about that era, you can't go without saying Shaquille O'Neal. Are you hearing me? Sometimes, yup, the Power One is great. MJ was doing his thing on the solo. Yup, Kobe was doing his thing on the solo. But you got to keep it 100. When Jordan had Scottie, ah, magical. Magic happened. Oh, when Shaq was with Kobe, ah, magic happened. And what I'm telling you is, as long as I was doing it by myself, yep, as long as I was doing it by myself, I could never get that dissertation done. The power of two. No man, and I mean it, no man is an island. And let me tell you what changed the game. What changed the game is when I met with Dr. June. What changed the game is when I sat down with Dr. June and I had some accountability. Can I say it? Ah, accountability partner. Your problem is you're doing it by yourself. Your problem is you don't want nobody to know that you got— I know, I know you're afraid for them to see your weaknesses. I know you're afraid to be vulnerable. Yup, you're afraid to tell them your dream. You look, you gotta tell somebody. Somebody gotta hold you accountable. I'm not telling you to tell the world, but one other person needs to know, and one other person needs to hold you accountable. And my life changed. My milestone became a reality. Listen to me, I'm giving you the secret to success. The day I told Dr. June I want to get it done, and Dr. June looked me in my face and said, don't play with me. Don't play with me. Are you ready? Look, I— not only do I have a PhD, not only have I sat on many committees— listen to me very closely—

I can and will help you to get through this, but don't play with me.

You got to be serious. And Doc said, all I need you to do, you tell— you tell me— you tell me when you want this PhD. You tell me when you want to be finished with this dissertation. You tell me when. You tell me, and I'll tell you how— how— I'll tell you what you have to do every single day, how many pages you have to write, how much research you have to do, how much time you have to spend on it. Listen to me, it did not become a reality. It didn't become real until I sat down with Dr. June and we made a commitment. Are you hearing me? Before it was just an idea, before it was just a thought, before it was just something I said, but when I sat down, mano a mano, man to man, mano a mano, Man to man, when I sat down and I made that commitment and I shook his hand, when I looked him in his eyes and said, "I'm ready to get it done," all we did was meet every Monday. Are you hearing me? I know this sounds too simple. I know it sounds too good to be true. All we did was sit down on Mondays at 9 o'clock and every single week he said, "This is what you need to get done if you are a man and you do what you say you gonna do." and you make no excuses and you don't let nothing get in your way, I guarantee you in a year's time, if that's how long you want this process to take, I guarantee you we can get it done.

But what I can't do is I can't do it for you, but I can show you what it takes to make it. And I didn't want— there was a part of me that I never really wanted to link up with nobody else because I really didn't want to fully expose myself. I didn't really— he said to me, kid, you've never written a dissertation before, how would you know how to do it? That's what I'm here for. And when you get that life coach, that's the problem with some of you. You can't get to that next level because you're trying to do it on your own. You're trying to do it in your own strength. And I'm not saying there's no power in one. Mike was murdering the game, putting up 60-something against Boston. Mike was dunk contest. Mike was doing it. But Mike never reached those milestones by himself. He had to bring somebody else into his sphere of influence.

Thank you guys so much for watching. I made this video because Sam Mendimasa asked me to. So if there's a famous entrepreneur that you are going to profile next, check out the link in the description and you can go and cast your vote. I'd also love to know which clip resonated the most with you. What lesson are you going to take from this video and immediately apply to your life or to your business somehow? Leave it down in the comments below. I'm really curious to find out what you have to say. I also want to give a quick shout out to Matt and Dan from the Square Peg Round Hole podcast. Thank you guys so much for picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word, and having me on your podcast. It was an awesome experience and I hope you guys enjoyed my book. Thank you guys so much for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love.

I'll see you soon. I need you to do me a favor. I just need you to expect to win. Yup.

Yeah.

You like, come on, E, that simple? Look. Number 1, I need you to expect to win. When you wake up in the morning, I expect to win. I expect it to be a great day. Listen to me very closely. I do not get up at 3 o'clock in the morning to lose. I used to be a loser, high school dropout. I used to be a loser, homeless. I used to be a loser, eating out of trash cans. Listen to me, this ain't no feel-good stuff. I used to be a loser. Now listen to me. All I do is win. And the first thing I did, I said, look, it's unacceptable. I will not be a loser. All I did was say to myself, I expect to win. Listen to me. When I get up at 3 o'clock in the morning, I expect it to be a great day. When I grind, I expect to win. When I wake up, I expect a miracle. I expect that phone call. I expected to have marital bliss. I had kids. I expected to have a great relationship with my kids. When I went to school to get my PhD, I expected to pass. Are you hearing what I'm telling you? I wake up every day and I expect it. All I need you to do, let's look, don't practice to fail. Are you practicing to fail? Are you going to class on time, doing all your homework to fail? So number 1, mental toughness. Everything you put your hands forth to do, expect to be successful. Expect it to be positive. When you set out for a goal, expect that it's gonna happen. That's all I need you to do. Number 1, expect it to happen. What if I told you that you never ever have to come up short again? So this is all I need you to do for me today. Listen to me, this is all I need you to do for me today is to declare that it's over. That yesterday was the last day that you were a loser. Like yesterday was the last day you expected to lose. Like yesterday was the last day you expected, listen to me, to come up short. Like, all I need you to do is declare for me, like, losing is over. All I need you to do is speak up and say, I expect to win.