The BIGGEST MISTAKE That Holds You Back | Future’s Path to Greatness

Good morning, Believe Nation. Today's message is do what you love. Over to you, future. I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going. I wake up every morning.

I'm most comfortable when I'm in the studio and nothing else matters but the music. You got this love for something that you think about, you sleep and you dream and you wake up and you breathe it and you want to live it. There's so many options. There's many ways to blow up. There's many ways to be known and to get success and to be successful. It's just about picking that way to fit you.

So here's the path for so many successful people. You get an interest in something. You want to try something, so you try it. You suck at it, but you really enjoyed it, so you come back and you do it again, and you try to get better, and you improve. You come back, you suck a little bit less, but you're still really bad, but you love it so much you have to keep doing it even though it doesn't make sense. Even though you're not seeing any kind of return, you just love doing it. Even though people are telling you that you're crazy, even though your parents or your friends are saying, what the heck are you doing? This doesn't make any sense in the world. You have to keep doing it because you love the process. And slowly, here's what happens. You get a little bit better, you get a little bit better, you work harder, you get a little bit better. Now suddenly you're average. You're just average, but you're still spending time, you're still spending effort, you're still hustling to try to get better at it. You still have the people around you saying that you're crazy, that you're never gonna make it, that the numbers are against you, against you, that why don't you do the smart, safe, practical thing to do and go in that other route instead of doing this thing? Because now you're just average. Like, I gotta keep doing it, I love it. So you do more, you practice harder, you hustle, you hustle, you hustle, you grind up more. Now you're good, now you're good. Now maybe you've made even a little bit of money off of it, whatever this hobby, passion thing is of yours. And you still got the people saying, ah, you're never gonna make it, like, you're just making a little bit of money, you know, how are you gonna ever turn that thing into a career? It's never gonna happen for you. There's no way. Like, look at all these massively talented people who are ahead of you. You think you're going to compete with those guys? You think you're going to win in that game? It's not going to happen. But you love it. You love the process. And so you work harder and you continue to practice and you get good and you get better and you improve and you improve and you improve. And now you're above average. You're better than good. You're starting to get great. Maybe you're starting to almost make a full-time income from this thing. and people will still look at you and say, "Well, you still— why you— you still doing this? Why are you still doing this? You spent these years working on this thing. You should have been way ahead in some other career. Now you're paying your bills, but you're never going to be that great thing." What do you do? You love the process. You keep working at it. You keep working at it, and then you get great, and you get amazing, and then you win. That's the success story for almost every successful person that we profiled. They sucked at the start. But they loved the process and they kept going and they improved and they got better. That's how you win. If you feel this thing inside you where you love the process of doing something, don't be so concerned with how it's gonna work out, 'cause quite often the idea that you have in your head is not how it's gonna work out. The end result is not what you're chasing, the process is what you're chasing. When I started this YouTube channel, it wasn't to become YouTube famous. That wasn't part of my goal. I didn't even know how I was going to ever make money off of this. Making money helping entrepreneurs. The first thing I did was 3 people showed up to a free event. How are you ever going to make money off something if you can't get more than 3 people to come to a free event? And the world opened up to me in a way that I never thought possible. I never thought I'd get a book deal with Penguin Random House. I never thought I'd be asked to join boards of directors in different companies and get paid to do it. Never thought I'd work with big brands. Who would then hire me out to work with them on projects. I never thought these things would happen, and it wasn't even on my radar as in my business model or my plan. What I wanted to do was create amazing content to help entrepreneurs. Helping entrepreneurs feeds my soul, and I had to find a way to do it even if I never made any money. And it's because I had that passion and determination that I ended up making money. That's how it works. So find the thing that you love doing, that you have insane passion towards, and figure out a way to do that as much as possible. Practice as hard as you can, even if you absolutely suck at the start. Because that's the thing that's going to make you come alive. That's the thing where you're going to deliver insane value to the world at some point when you get really good at it. And the only way to get there is to practice and practice and practice and practice and practice and stop listening to the people around you who say that you'll never make it and you can't do it. So the question of the day today, guys, is what do you love? Leave in the comments. I'm curious to find out. I also want to give a quick shout out to James Mitchell. James, thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book. Your one word. Really means a lot to me, man. Appreciate the support, and I hope you're enjoying the read. 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, and I'll see you guys again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso.

Statistics said if I did that and I stopped going to school and that's all I did was hang in the hood, that I wasn't going to be here today. So that's why I still hang with the same people that I was with back in the hood, and I changed my mentality. I don't think the same way I was when I was there. I opened my mind up. I thought broader. I thought outside of my horizons. Like, you got to think outside the box because that's the only way you're going to get out. When you trapped in the trap, you really mentally trapped in the trap. And it's me, me like, man, I want to make sure my people just know that that's just not the end of your life. Like, if somebody tell you these statistics, that's not you. You're gonna fight statistics and go to the next level. Like, statistics said I wouldn't even be here talking to you right now if I would have listened to them and tell them how my life would have been. They say 1 out of 10 people, they're gonna be like this, or 9 out of 10 Black males, if they do this, live this way, they gonna do this. You know what I'm saying? There's no way around it. They gonna tell you it's nowhere around. So if you in the hood right now, you standing on the block every day, them police just riding by, that old lady that's looking at you, that's calling the police on you, the people who ride by just looking at you like, laying nothing, your pants sagging, they think you ain't gonna never be nothing. They think you're gonna be like that for the rest of your life. Like, who is the person to tell you that you're gonna be standing on this block all your life? It's supposed to be a point in your life where you only be here for— you give yourself a year or two. You from here. It don't do no good for you to be here all your life and you spending majority of your life, 22 hours out your day, trying to prove you the hardest in the hood. You come from this. You was born in this. You— when you came home from the hospital, you went to the hood, you know what I'm saying? So you don't live your whole life this way for all your life. You deserve to live in a different neighborhood, better yourself for 3, 4 years out of your whole life when you've been living this way. Probably some dudes been living that way for 20 years, 23 years, been in the hood since they came home from the, from the house building. They still trying to prove to the hood how hard they is, and they end up not making it because they didn't prove to theyself. You got to prove to yourself that you want more than what the hood have to offer. At the end of the day, when I— for my first song, when I first made my hit, I knew what I can do, you know what I'm saying? I know the type of artist that I am. I know the caliber of music that I can come with and I know I can continue to do it. I was born to make music and when you got a gift for something, you just gotta know how to utilize it. And when I found a way to utilize it and just make the most of my opportunity, I know I have to be, I'm an artist, I have to stay in the studio and create all the time. You know what I'm saying? If I was to lay off and not go to the studio, then all those he say, she says, it might would've came true. But I know the work that I was putting in. The key to success is like, when you haven't been successful, you don't know which the key to success or happiness how to be successful. You know the right moves you're making in every move that you're making, and you striving, and you just achieving certain things that you made goals for yourself. You set goals and you achieve goals, but at the end of the day, you still set the standards high for when you reach a certain plateau. And then, you know, man, I got to go to that next level, you know what I'm saying? When you want to be successful, like, success is different from other people, you know what I mean? People, you know, like, success for me is just making music, and then success, being successful, is just, uh, like winning a Grammy You know what I mean?