Larry Weidel argues that successful people race toward their goals with intention while others drift passively through life. The difference comes down to internal motivation, patience, and consistent effort over time.
Questions this video answers
Hebrews 12.
J. Vernon McGee (a "Through the Bible" audio/book reference).
I just put a video out on drifting and the dangers of drifting. And so the thing is like, well, what should I do if I can't? You know, I'm not supposed to drift. What should I do? Work on something, Study, learn. What you should do is race. Whatever you want to do, you've got to get moving toward it and pick up the pace. You, you know, if there was a pot of gold out in the middle of the street, you would run to it. You're not going to sit and kind of wander over to it and take your time. And I mean, if something great you want in your life, you got a race toward it, you know, that sends a signal into your brain even, you know, to wake up your subconscious, you know, and all of a sudden you start getting ideas that you know wouldn't come to you before when you're, you're. Because your subconscious says, he's not serious yet. Why should I bother? But, so the thing is, racing is. And race with patience. That's what it says in Hebrews. I was listening to a J. Vernon McGee five year through the Bible thing, and he was talking about it, Hebrews 12. It's like race with patience towards your goal. You know, you don't race like a maniac and, you know, burn yourself out, but you race with patience so you can keep your wits about you. That's the thing about the mindfulness and the presence of mind, emotional stability. You can handle bumps in the road when you've got the patience. But you want to be racing, you want to be moving, you want to be. Pick up the pace, you want to. You want to be stretching forward. And this idea of working is just. When you say, I'm working, it's just so easy to lie to yourself that, yeah, I'm working, yeah, I'm working, yeah. How many people you say, you know how, yeah, it's going, going pretty well. But they're not in gear, they're not engaged. It's the people engaged to get the promotions, move to the top, build the companies, get the raises, you know, have all the great things in life that they want, you know, that's. It's the people that engage. And in every walk of life, most people are lazy. 50% of the people are lazy, just going through the motions and you're good. Those are who you're going to be by being engaged, you know, moving fast. And there's certain things you realize when you're moving fast that the lessons don't even occur to you when you're just kind of puttering along. But you can, you know, when you're moving faster, you can recognize the patterns. But any, any walk of life, any executive suite, any corporation, you know, unless it's you're working for Elon Musk or someone like, you know, you know, a great leader like that. Most things, people are going through the motions. The same in sports. You got professional sports teams. You know, the coaches do make their money because what they do is they get the players make. Giving them money and a big contract's not going to get up to put out, make a big effort. It's the coaching, the inspiration, it's the little daily competition, it's the little friendships, the, you know, whatever it takes to trigger that work ethic, take it serious, move fast response and the coach who's working with people and living with them and a fired up coach can find those things. And that's what we, you know, that's what, that's what you want to look for. You want to find ways to get people racing towards their goal. If they're not racing, then nothing great is going to happen. So anyway, you know, it's the all Stars that are racing. You know, they're putting in the extra effort and I guess that's what it comes into is the extra effort. And that comes from your internal motivation. You're really doing what you want to do. You're not doing it to please other people. You're not doing it just to put in the time. You're doing it because you got something special at the end of the road that you want for yourself. Maybe it's just to be able to perform at a high level and use one of the enjoyment of doing whatever that activity is. High level. Maybe, you know, maybe you want to build the biggest company or best team or you know, run the biggest charity drive in town or set a record or something. But you get something inside, you got to tap into something inside you that will trigger those kinds of, that consistent type effort. And so anyway, how do you go about getting where you want to go, doing great things, doing something special with your life? You race and it really comes down to either going to drift or you're going to race. And if you have a team, you're going to have a team of drifters or you're going to have a team of race.
