The Greatest Motivation You'll Hear Today | Ep 76 | David Hulman

Are you listening carefully? If you change today, today will change your life. I wasn't born in the normal way. I was born a bit different to everyone else. My parents needed IVF treatment, so it means they took my mum's eggs, my dad's sperm, they put it in a dish, put the dish in the freezer, and they tried various combinations. They put the sperm and the eggs in three separate dishes. Dish one is the best stuff. Dish two not so good. Dish three is the worst. So they tried dish one, which is the best sperm and the best eggs. Dish one didn't work. Some of you may see where this is going. Dish two didn't work. Finally, they tried dish three. And here I am. I wasn't born in the normal way. I wasn't born perfect. And isn't it just like us to find reasons why we were not born for success, why we were not born to achieve, how we can look at others and say they were born for greatness? We blame the lack of resources that we have with the environment we have, the conditions. We look at life and say, why didn't you give us more? But we don't do anything about it. And therefore we give the responsibility and the autonomy back to life. The same life we say is unfair and unjust. Well, how does that make any sense? Our generation has more resources than anyone ever before, but we are the least resourceful generation. People used to speak up in history at the risk of being killed. Now people don't speak up at the risk of being laughed at. And people walk around as if waiting for a sign from God or a higher power or someone else telling them to finally start their life. People walking around saying, when's it my turn? When's it my turn? When's it my turn? We've all had a moment. We've had our sign. It was the day we were born. We're not waiting for anything else. We're all waiting for you to just show up. But I'm not trying to stand on any mall high ground here or be a hypocrite, because I've been there. At 16, I was playing football on a gravel tennis court and all of a sudden smoke starts to descend across the court. A boy comes up to me and says, david, can you smell that burning? I sniffed. I said, yeah, I can smell the burning. I can see the smoke now. My mum's side of the family is Christian. My dad's side of the family is Jewish. I'm half Christian, half Jewish. I could see the smoke. I pointed at the Chimney to the house across the road. And he said, yeah, I think the smoke's coming from there, isn't it? He said, david, why don't you go knock on that door, see if they let you in? I said, what do you mean? Why would they let me in? He said, because they're burning all the Jews in there. Why don't you go join them? And this wasn't a rare thing for me to hear. I was, end of the school day, go back to my room all alone. I told this story recently at a conference. A man came up to me afterwards and he said, david, I'm not surprised you went back to your room. You must have been devastated. I said, yeah, man, I've bawling my eyes out. But that's not the reason why I went back to my room. I went back to my room to plan. He must have misunderstood the story. So I went back to plan. Not for revenge or retribution, to plan my success. Because I. I wasn't going to let that comment or any others or the abuse knock me off course. Not my momentum. I didn't know what greatness might look like. I didn't know where I might be able to go, but I knew I could go somewhere and had to develop the emotional muscle and the strength to get there. If you change today, today will change your life. So I changed my thought process, I changed the actions, I changed what I would do the next day, how I could help people. If you change today, today will change your life. If you don't believe me, let me take you on 10 years further forward. 10 years further forward after that story, and at the same school I went to, a boy, the same age I was, was bullied at school for being a vegan. He went home and took his own life. How do you define your moments? Because everyone defines their moments differently. It can be a tough world out there. But if you change today, today will change your life. The way you do things, the way you operate. These days, I get people coming up to me and saying, because they listen to my message and they believe that if you change today, it will change your life. They say, david, you know, how can I be like you? How can I do what you do? They say, I will do anything to be like you until I tell them what I had to do. Are you willing to do what I had to do to get here? They say, how did you write your book, David? How did you start your business? How do you go and speak at this conference or that conference? When I do, I tell them this I wonder if my parents will ever hear this. My parents did everything to have me. They paid the money to have me. They failed and failed over again with the IVF treatment. They kept failing. They kept failing. They kept failing. They put all their emotional mental resources into it, put their money into it, put themselves into it because they wanted a child. Because they wanted me that badly. They gave me life. And I am damned if I don't do something about it to give something back to life. So I pose the question, what will you change today that will change everything? Sam?