This content was created by Thomas Anglero. This content was uploaded by Thomas Anglero. This is a podcast episode titled "I am Brave...I am Brave..." (Soul of Innovation) dated 2019-01-08. The excerpt is a motivational dialogue led by host Thomas Anglero with a second speaker (labeled SPEAKER B). The content is an energetic motivational talk encouraging listeners to take bigger risks, be brave, commit to daily small steps toward their dreams, use visualization, and stop comparing themselves on social media. Metadata: content_type PODCAST, thumbnail URL provided in metadata.
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Welcome to the Soul of Innovation podcast. I'm your host, Thomas Anglero, and I'm fired up because I am done with not taking risk. I thought I was taking risks before. I am going to be massively taking even bigger risks now. And here's why. And this is why you're going to be taking risks too. This is— I'm fired up for you because this is a motivational speech to get you to do more. Here's the deal. Most of us— let's talk about you, right? You are probably happy with everything that's going on in your life. Every day is so, so, so. You're happy. You know what's going to happen. Nothing unexpected. Things are planned out. If you have kids, you have everything planned out.
Probably have a calendar where you write all the events going down.
Everything's everything, everything.
What about you?
Do you have a picture in your head? Do you have a thought in your head where you see yourself being someone doing something else? Or completing something that you started a long time ago? Or performing someplace on some stage? Or maybe by yourself, just performing by yourself, or maybe being in the woods by yourself, something as simple as that.
Do you see that picture of you, and have you not been able to fulfill that dream? Why not? You have to. You have to. Life ain't gonna change for you. Life is the way it is. Life is changing all the time because there are other people out there doing things and those changes affect you. But here's one of the secrets. By you doing something, by you taking a step, by you maybe picking up a musical instrument, you affect change and then you change other people. For you to reach your dream, all you gotta do every single day, at the very least, is do a little bit towards your dream, a little bit towards what you see in your mind's eye when you close your eyes, when you lay down at night, when you're in the moment, when you have a few moments just for yourself and you think about yourself.
You know what you see when you see that picture, whatever that picture is you see of yourself, to do that, to get there. Now, I'm not saying you're gonna get there one second later. That's not how it works. But you do something towards that. There will be probably 100 steps, maybe 1,000, maybe 1 million steps, but it's not about you getting there. It's about the things you're gonna learn as you take those steps to get there. A lot of us are gonna meet people who change our lives, and that was the purpose of having that damn dream, that vision of ourself, that life was saying to you, you need to have that vision so that you can take steps towards it so that at that moment when you take that step, that 932nd step, that 932nd action, that you met someone or something happens or you have an epiphany that changes your life.
The change in your life comes from you, from you doing little things that are consistent basis. You have to be brave. I want you to tell yourself, "I am going to be brave. This is who I am. I am going to be brave." Can you say that? I am going to be brave. In fact, let's change that. I am brave. I am brave. I am committed to doing something for me. I am committed to doing this, whatever this is.
You know what you need to do right now. What is that step that you need to do right the hell now to fulfill your dream, to get you to your dream? Remember, it's not one step and you're there. It doesn't work that way. It's what is the very next step that you can do? Do you need to open a book? Do you need to go to a webpage? Do you need to start writing down some notes? What is that very next step that you should be doing?
Say it. I am brave. You got this. Do you hear me?
You got this.
It's all you, baby. I don't want you holding back.
I don't want you ever finding any excuses from Anyone else saying this person did this, this happened here, it doesn't freaking matter. How committed are you to you? How bad do you want you to be the ultimate version of you? Aren't you sick and tired of all the frustrations you have? We all have personal problems. A lot of people are married and are extremely unhappy. Stop freaking complaining. What is it that you can do in that marriage so that just this very moment, what is this one little thing you could do to make yourself happy? I guarantee you, if you're happy, the other person in your marriage will be— see that and they'll be happy too. And if that person sees that you're happy and gets really nasty, guess what?
That's not a good marriage.
You know, you know what you need to do. But you wouldn't, won't know that unless you change yourself, unless you be brave and do and take this moment for you.
I am brave. This is you. This is your moment. This is all about you. Do you see that picture of you being happy? Do you see that vision in your mind's eye? Close your eyes and see that vision of yourself. Where are you? What do you hear when you have that vision? Do you hear people? Do you hear sounds? Look down. What kind of clothes are you wearing? What is the color of the clothes? Exist in that moment right now. Do you see you? Yeah, that's you. Hi. That's you. Don't let anything, anyone, any comment, anything external stop you from being you. Go for it. Take this moment. What is the next step? What little thing you can do right now? And then tomorrow, what is the next little thing you could do? If you really want to be aggressive, what is the next thing you can do the next hour? Why don't you set aside 30 seconds, 1 minute, per hour of your day that you're awake. A minute an hour, that's all. One minute an hour committed to, if it's not an action, how about just spending a minute an hour thinking about that person you just met, that you dressed in whatever clothes that is. Spend one minute holding on to that vision of you. That brings that reality of you and your reality now even closer, and it changes things because you start getting committed. You started telling yourself, I am brave. Don't let anyone's comments stop you. Don't let anything stop you. Challenges will be ahead of you. That's what life is all about. If you look at what's going on around the world, and doesn't matter what time of the year or what year you're listening to this thing, it doesn't matter. We have things happening in Europe We have things happening in African content and the United States is— wow. Guess what? That's always going to be that way. In your life right now, ignore all that. What can you do to be the real you, that person inside of you that you now see? Commit yourself. Be brave. Be brave. Say to yourself, "I am brave." I think we all need that commitment to ourselves, to say that to ourselves every single day. I am brave. We've lost confidence in ourselves.
We lost the belief in thinking or knowing that we can do things that we haven't done before because society has convinced us for some ridiculous reason that, "No, I'm not supposed to be that I'm not supposed to have that job. I'm not supposed to think of myself that way. What crap! Say it to yourself, I am brave. I am going to go against society. I'm going to fulfill my dreams. It doesn't matter what other people think of me. Stop with that thinking process. Shut off damn social media for a while. That's the very opposite of the way you should be thinking. You get on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and all this stuff is always looking at somebody else's world comparing it to you. That's not you. When you are the ultimate version of you, people are looking at you, and that's the way your life is supposed to be. Say it to yourself: I am brave. I am going to be me. I am committed to me. I am brave. I am brave.
It's okay that you're gonna be alone on this.
It's okay that there's nobody to talk to during this time.
It's okay because you are brave. And isn't that a powerful thing?
No one can take that away from you.
And now no one can stop you, whether it's business, personal, finance. Remember, you are brave. I am brave. I am brave.
I am brave. Say it. I am brave.
I am brave. I am brave. Now nothing stops you. Nothing can stop you. Yes! I believe in you.
This is Thomas Anglero.
I'm fired up for you. Nothing's gonna stop you.
Absolutely nothing, no one, uh-uh. This is all about you.
I am brave. I am brave. Mm-hmm. Got it? Good. Love it. Go forth, spread beauty and light. I love you. Take care of yourself. Until the next time. I am brave. I am brave. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
