GET BACK TO WORK | Motivational Speech Compilation

TJ LaFaver compiles motivational speeches about grinding through suffering and failure. The core message: obsession and work ethic beat talent, dreams require protection, and the answer to everything is to get back to work.
Chapters
The only difference between me and you is I wanted it more. I wanted it more. It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend. Because most people are weak. Most people don't want to go to that extra mile. Most people don't want to find that extra because it sucks. The best way to contend with problems, with issues with adversity is action, is by taking action. From that day forward, I made a promise that I will give it everything I got. That way I'm a winner no matter what. I'm drowning. I'm misera, I'm suffering. I'm broken. But I'm not going anywhere. Get back to work. It's time to get back to work. You must suffer. You must suffer. You could turn anything in life into something if you just keep showing up one foot in front of the other, one step at a time. Next thing you know you're at the top of the mountain. A lot of people can take one more step but they choose not to. I don't know if you can take two steps. You get to answer that question after you take the first step.
Failure is so important. Like failing and fucking up and making mistakes. It's very important. That's how you learn. See the bad feeling that you get from something that you shouldn't have done or wish you didn't do or wish you did better. Like especially failing at something where you half assed it and you just feel like a fucking loser. Like that just teaches you, teaches you to get your don't know what to do and you're not sure where to go and you don't know where the right direction is. Start walking and start looking for opportunities and they'll show up. Your great life is in front of you. It's not behind you. What you did back there ain't got nothing to do with what God got for you. What you did back there was learn the lessons to get you to where you are at this particular moment, right here. But what God got for you. Do you know man, that you can actually mess your life completely up? You can jack it all the way up and you can turn around, get it right. I'm just not good enough. If I'm not good enough, we always say that I'm just not good enough. And then we try something else. I'm gonna make myself good enough. And that became my mentality. I'm gonna make myself good enough. I don't believe in talent. I'm here because I worked hard my whole life. Without that work, no one in this room would Know who I am, except my family. So to all the kids around the world watching, paying attention and aspiring to be like one of us or even on the stage someday, put the work in and watch the magical ride you go on. There is no perfect time to start. You gotta start now and changing your life. We're all being tested in life. And guess what? This is one test you can't cheat on. We all have our own death. Some of us are obese. Some of us are depressed. Some of us insecure in the military. Have this big old rucksack on the back. Have batteries, water, extra gear. Your extra gear is the shit you're dealing with in life. And the only way to overcome it is for you and you alone to face it. You have to do your best work when you're at least motivated. So those days you don't want to do it, guess what you. You gotta do. You gotta suck it the fuck up and do it. Stay hard.
If you're going to try. Go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. Take some action. Because, yeah, nothing changes. And nothing changes, man. It's waking up early and going to bed late and grinding out every second in between. Every single day. Obsession is going to be talent every time. You got all the talent in the world, but are you obsessed? Is it all you ever think about me? Let's face it, it's you against you out there. When you walk on that court, you have to think, I am the best guy out there. Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one. When it feels scary to jump, Ian, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise, you end up staying in the same place your whole life. And that I can't do. You have to be your best self and your least motivated. And that's the tricky part about all that shit. Motivation is just a word. You have to have these different things in your mind on where you want to go. And know that motivation is not going to get me there because I'm not going to always be motivated. It's like a happy person wants 10,000 things. A sick person just wants one thing, right? So it's your. It's your unlimited desires that are clouding your peace, your happiness. Well, hang in there. Don't quit. They ain't been in your shoes. They say they have, but they don't know what you're going through. What I will ask you, though, is can you give me one more day? I'm not asking you for a week. I'm not asking you For a month. I'm not asking you for a year. Can you give me one more day? Big smile out of you. You're up too old. What's the story? Are you not happy? Or you're only half happy? Or still to be happy about you're too old. Job's not finished. Don't put on the show. Fricking win the game. Don't put on the show. You win the game. Don't put on the show. You win the game. Don't put on the show. You freaking win the game. Since I first got here, I never stopped working. Today was when all the work paid off. Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something.
You got a dream, you gotta protect it.
People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period.
Nobody believes in you. You've lost again and again and again. The lights are cut off, but you're still looking at your dream, reviewing it every day and say to yourself, it's not over until I win.
If you want to see if you're a brave person, what they call the 4:00 in the morning, courage. Wait. When things go completely to pieces, when things are the worst, when your very best deal falls apart and your rent is late and you're tired and you're sick and everybody is mad at you and your car doesn't work, then it's the person that picks themself up and says nothing is going to stop you. The best quality in the world that you can develop is to develop the quality of being unstoppable. Develop the quality of being unstoppable. Say in yourself that no matter what life throws at me, it'll never stop. No matter how rough it gets, I will never quit. I say chase your dreams, man. Do that thing, man, that keeps you up at night. That thing that bothers you, man, that makes you trip. You can't quit thinking about it. That thing, man, that you wake up in the middle of the night, you got a new idea, that's what you got to chase. Cause anything else, it's gonna disappoint you. You're gonna forever be sad, man. If you don't chase that dream, it's gonna forever be miserable. Man, I would hate to die. Never do the thing I was born to do. If you win enough days, you win the week. If you win enough weeks, you win the month. If you win enough months, you win the year. And if you win enough years, you win life it's that simple. Whenever I get to a low point where I think, why do I even bother? I just remind myself, this is when most people stop and this is why they don't win. There's no losing, only learning. There's no failure, only opportunities. There's no problems, only solutions. Failure is the mother of all success. It's time to get back to work. Stop hearing yourself talk. Get off the podcast. Don't be on social media too much. Cut out all the fucking noise. Get back to the fucking mental lapse. Because that's where the knowledge came from. You're always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing 10 miles down the road. But you can do anything you want. You are bound by nothing.










