A motivational speaker pushes you to leave your comfort zone, cut out negative influences, and embrace hardship as the price of growth. He uses running, the gym, and guitar as examples: two days won't change you, but 100 days will transform you completely.
I found out at that moment, 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 passed. Go listen to all my music. It's the codes of self esteem. It's the codes of who you are. That's the main thing. People are controlled by thoughts, their perception of themselves. They're slowed down by their perception of themselves. If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything. I was taught I could do everything. Just stay focused, you understand? Keep your mind straight on the prize. Don't let nothing get in between. Gotta be fully focused. Can't let shit get in between the way you and your goal. You gotta just do it. Just do it. You may be in your darkest hour.
Know that night don't last forever. There's a morning coming in your life. Stay down till you come up. Isn't it about time you become that person you knew you always could be? How do you do that? You break the mold, guys. Do something away from the normality of what you've been doing. You can't talk it all the time, you gotta walk it.
Get out of your damn bed, get off your phone, get out of the soft and addictive comfort zone and get after it. Decide clubs, partying, trying to fit in and socialize. Rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird. The more weird you are is a reflection of how committed you are to focusing on your shit. Molding and shaping and developing your ideas and your craft. So that when it's time for you to make your rounds, you gonna fly. Be the guy who embraces the ugly, the miserable. Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind to do anything successfully in life. You're gonna want it as bad as you want to breathe. And if you want it that bad, if you're willing to give it that much, you get a big P. What you want, anything you want can happen. Become a reality. You not gonna understand it. You just gotta survive it, doc, right? And by surviving it, the lessons come, the blessings come, the perspective comes. Most importantly, and hopefully the peace comes. Sometimes things are gonna be so tough. Stop fighting it. Stop trying to understand it. Just survive. Against all odds. Against all odds. I don't know why we want to take the Harves. I don't know why the man above gives me the hardest role. But there's nothing the man above don't put you in situations that you can't handle. And I just kept that same positive attitude. Like, instead of saying, why me? But saying this is what he want me to do.
You have to get rid of the anchors in your life. If you're running a boat and you're trying to move forward as fast as possible, you cannot have anchors holding you back. You have to cut those lines and you got to replace those lines and those anchors with propellers. People who are loose, loyal to who it is you're trying to become. People who are going to hold you to a high standard, people who are going to push you to be better. The magic you are looking for is in the work you're avoiding. We all look for toughness, we all want it, but we look for in a comfortable environment. You will not find toughness in a comfortable environment. I was trying to look for it everywhere. The only way you find it is to drown yourself in a position where. Where you're just out of sorts, where you can't swim and you're drowning. I think the easiest thing in life is to give up on whatever, whatever you're focused on or whatever you're hopeful for. The hardest thing is to continue to keep going, but we have to, like, we have to continue to hold on. If you had to create a human, what would you put them through to make them tough? It probably wouldn't be a really chill life. Yeah. What would you put them through to make them patient? We probably wouldn't give them things immediately. And so it's like, we want these traits, but each of the traits has a price tag attached to it. It's just like, do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing? And so I think if people reframe the period of life that they're going through as the price that they're paying out of their wallet, that the wallet is their time, seconds of life that they're trading for it, then I think more people would be willing to make the trade. Because at least when I look at myself, like when I'm 80 something years old and I'm looking back at my life, I want to have these traits. But in order to have those traits, I know I have to go through these things. And I think for me, that's given me a lot of comfort in hard times. The real message is we all started from no way. I mean, we all had bullshit jobs. We all felt like losers. But through time and effort, you build a stronger human, you build a stronger body, you build a stronger mind, you build accomplishments in will and momentum, and then you look back and you go, hey, man, I'm not washing tables anymore. You know, I'm not. I'm not washing dishes. I'm not cutting lawns. I'm not digging ditches. Yeah, I'm a different person now. But I used to be. My idea was to run four miles for my first run. I didn't know how bad it was gonna fucking hurt me. I used to run before I was fat, and I was like, fuck it, I can do this. I ran a quarter mile and walked home. I walked home and sat on my couch and cried. I went to my mom's house, who was about 40, about maybe 20 minutes down the road, and cried again. Her couch, saying, I can't do this shit. I don't know what I'm gonna do. And my mind just kept with me and kept, fuck. You're not good enough, man. This isn't for you, man. These guys are bad. On the planet Earth, you're not that. One day in the gym is basically imperceivable.
Two days in the gym, you don't recognize any change whatsoever. A hundred days in the gym.
And you're almost a new person.
Right? You've seen those before and after pictures. One day of playing guitar.
One day of playing guitar, you can barely play one chord.
100 days of practicing guitar, and you can play literally almost any song. When you do anything, it adds up. When you do nothing, it amounts to zero.
So take the small steps every day, do what you're supposed to do, and don't expect some incredible results in one day or two days or 10 days. Worthwhile things take 100 days, they take 500 days. Maybe they take 5,000 days. They take time. Eliminate all external distractions. You know, that's what's going on. And just focus on the process itself and enjoying it every single day. Chopping wood, carrying water. You know, greatness is not meant for a few chosen people. It's meant for those who persistently pursue their dreams every day and make that choice when they wake up.
