Rico Sharp argues that everyone is born with a divine purpose to overcome obstacles and prove their greatness. He uses animal archetypes like eagles and lions to illustrate innate strength, insisting that pain and opposition are essential for growth, and urges listeners to reject mediocrity and run toward challenges.
Chapters
Why were you born? Why are you here? You were born to conquer terrain. You were born to scale mountains. You were born to climb to the highest height, to do what has never been done, to go where no one else have ever gone. You were born to prove To this world, to yourself, to humanity, that I am here, that I am someone great. You were born to slowly rise above every obstacle and every terrain and every task and every daunting mountain. You were born, ladies and gentlemen, So that you can see what you're made of. To let the world come see what you're made of. You were born to be a cliffhanger, a glider, a skydiver. Someone that will leap to higher heights. Someone that will soar across the open sky. Someone that will swim upstream with the The force and the power of the great salmon. Someone that will go against the grain and prove that I have what it takes to do what needs to be done. You were born to survive the terrain, to endure elements. You were born to go to a place where you can freely inhabit whatever it is That you're set out to accomplish. Is it going to cost you something? Yes. Are you going to bleed sometimes? Yes. Are you going to feel pain? Yes. But like the great stallion, you will continue to run and push your way through. Push your way through every force and every opposition. Push your way. Pass every obstacle. Rise up above the depths of whatever sea you must swim across. Come out of that underground cave that wants to swallow you up and come up for air and determine that this is my moment, this is my time, this is my time to soar like the great eagle. This is my time to flap my wings and to experience limitless boundaries. This is my time to climb. It's my time to climb mountains. It's my time to scale walls. It's my time to do the things that nobody believed that I could do. It's time to prove to myself that I have what it takes. And not only do I have what it takes, But ladies and gentlemen, I am who it takes. You are who it takes to do things that have not been done. You can survive the rapid waters that comes to drown you. You can fight against the current. You can survive the forces. And with every obstacle You can conquer with every terrain. You can overcome the challenges because you have what it takes and you are who it takes. You were born to be your best at all times. You were born to go to a place where you can experience total freedom in your life. You're born to be liberated. You're born to be free. Free from failure. Free from your past. Free from mistakes. Free from other people's opinions. Free from mediocrity. You were born to be your best at all times. I submit to you, love you, believe in you, and forgive you. You can't love others if you don't love yourself. How can you believe in others and doubt you? How can you forgive others and yet penalize yourself day after day? You are your greatest friend, so stand by you. Be as the great lion, dominate your territory. Let your voice be heard. Let your roar be felt. Conquer the land. You are the king of your domain. You have the strength and the force to be able to run on and experience what lies ahead. You have the strength of the great horse that refused to bow down to the obstacle. You have what it takes to go where you've not gone, to do what you've not done, to have what you've not had, and to live how you have not lived. The power is there. It's inside of you. It's inside of you. What you need is an opportunity. What you need is an opposition before you. What you need is an obstacle before you. Because the tiger that's on the inside of you is hungry. I'm hungry. The lion on the inside will only show its strength when the opposition is on the outside. Let your roar be felt. Let your power be felt. Let your impression be felt. Operate with stealth. Operate with grace. Operate with wisdom. For peace and calmness comes after conquering. Peace and calmness comes after victory. You want peace? You want calmness? You want retirement? You want rest? You want a harvest? Well, rise up and fight for it. Rise up and believe in you. Rise up and understand that life is what you make it. Life is not a fairy tale or a storybook. You have the opportunity to be as the great oak tree whose roots run deep down into the earth, that endures the storm and the rain and the floods and the heat and the drought. And yet at the end of every season The oak tree still stands. Give life all you got, because all you've got is life. All you've got is you. All you got is an opportunity. What are you going to do with the time you have? Learn from the wisdom of the bald eagle. Whose eye is as— The vision that is compared to no other. The great eagle sees beyond the plains and the mountain. He stands tall and looks low, and he waits for the moment, for he knows that it cannot be defeated. And that no prey can escape its great talons. Be as the great mountain that stands assured knowing that I am created to be here. I'm created to make a difference. I'm created to be sturdy. I'm created to live. I'm created to outlast. Ladies and gentlemen, I submit to you, maximize your moment. Your life It's not what others say it is. Your life is what you say it is. Your life is not what others want to make it. Your life is what you make it. Don't let life toss you around. Don't let life cause you to faint. Don't let life bully you. And by all means, don't let life kill you. You don't have to die before you experience and realize your dream. Every time you wake up in the morning, it's a new day. Your mistakes from yesterday have passed. Your mistakes from last week are gone. It's time now to release your sorrow, release your regret. Time to let go of your mistakes. It's time to deny your failure the reality that it needs in order to exist. It's time to believe in you. It's time to give life your best. It's time to put your all into practice. It's time to put your all into motion. It's time to live your best life because your best is yet to come. Reminisce not another day of the good old days. Reminisce not another day Reminisce not another day of how things used to be. Reminisce not another day of how you wish things were, but rise up and make them what you want them to be. I give you this moment, this moment for you to run, this moment for you to tread, this moment for you to be free. This is your moment. This is your time. You are ready to conquer everything. Run to your next opposition. Run not from your opposition, run to your opposition. Run not from your fear, run to your fear. Run not from what lies ahead of you, run to what lies ahead of you. Run to your tomorrow, run to your finish line, run to your breakthrough, run to your victory. Run to your future. Because life waits not for anyone. Life will not slow down for you. Time will not stop for you. Do not stop. Do not quit. Do not give up. There's been moments of my life where I felt like quitting. I felt like giving up. Because I was going through storms. I went through times where everything got so cold and it seemed like everything was freezing over in my life. It seems like everything had froze up and I was at a standstill. But then I realized that life is what I make it. Nobody has the power to control my destiny. No one has the power to tell me what my life can or cannot be. That power has been given to me. Your Creator placed you in this world, gave you an open vision of heaven so that you can see That the sky is the limit, and that no matter what you must go through, all things shall work together for your good. That's why it's important, ladies and gentlemen, to always be a dreamer, to always be a believer, to always have courage, to always understand the time And the seasons that you're in, because there will be times that you will feel alone. There will be times where it seems like your harvest has dried up. There will be times when you will feel like you can't go further, but you must, you must go on. You cannot quit. You cannot lay down. You cannot retire. Bleed if you must, cry if you must. I'm not gonna quit. If you must, scream if you must. Find yourself in the arms of someone who loves you and squeeze them if you must. But when your weeping is over, when your time of digress is over, when the pain has subsided, rise back up again. Because life awaits you. Your moment awaits you. The dawn of a new day awaits you.
