Everyone says, well you should be
harmless.
Virtuous.
You shouldn't do anyone any harm.
You should sheath your competitive instinct.
You shouldn't try to win.
You know, you don't want to be too aggressive.
You don't want to be too assertive.
You want to take a backseat
and all of that. It's like
no.
Wrong.
You should be a monster.
An absolute monster.
And then you should learn how to control it.
It's impossible to respect yourself
until you grow those mental teeth.
And when you grow those teeth
you realize that you're dangerous.
You begin to demand success for yourself.
You're no longer wishing
or hoping things work out
you're gonna make it happen no matter what.
So you start carrying yourself
with a different level of
confidence and conviction.
That says to the world
I will not stop.
I am going to assess the situation
I'm going to come up with a plan
and I am going to execute.
I'm gonna go get it
because I'm built for it.
If you set out, and you say you're gonna do something
do yourself a favor
and don't lie to yourself.
That is the worst thing
that an individual can ever do.
The people in life that win
play offense, not defense.
Stop backing into everything
stand up.
Bow your back a little bit.
Start to walk a little different.
Start to be that best version of you.
You can do it in your quiet way.
You can do it the way you do it.
But somehow they gotta look at you
and go, okay, I won't monkey with that one.
I need you to put the type of effort forward
that the world knows
don't come for me.
You have to develop a doggedness.
You got to have some toughness in you.
And the only way to develop toughness
is you got to practice being tough.
And you cannot practice being tough
by quitting
every time you get tired.
By stopping
every time you don't feel like it.
By giving up
every time it gets challenging.
That's what's wrong with people now.
People don't make it
because they always give up
when it gets hard.
"You know, it's so challenging now."
"You know, they were talking about me."
"I feel weak."
"I'm tired."
Life don't give a damn about you being tired.
You got to get about the business now.
You want to be successful?
You got to get at it.
We gonna stop all this soft sh*t
and all that mess, man.
You gotta get at it.
You got to tear their mouth out.
When you go out there
I need you to have that dog.
When you get out there
I need to kill to be killed, when you get out there.
When you get out there
whatever you can get, go get it
'cause they're gonna get it before you get it
and they ain't gonna give it to you
so you go out there and get what's yours.
A true monsters mentality
is when you're willing
to forgo rest
forgo comfort
forgo personal desires
forgo
whatever it takes
to be better than you were yesterday.
And every single time you feel like quitting
remember all those hours and days you sacrificed
to get to where you are.
It's gonna take you
getting ahold of the thing
and not letting go.
You're gonna have to fight
and fight
and fight
'till you can't fight anymore.
Whatever it takes
I will do
whatever I have to do
to get to the other side.
To make it over.
To press through this.
Nothing will hold me back.
Nothing will stop me.
If there's something that you want
and you're hungry for it
you got to do whatever is necessary until.
And when you give the best you can
and that's not enough
you must do what is required.
And don't give up on yourself.
Don't throw the towel in so quickly.
Many people give up on the one-yard line.
There will be things that will happen to you
in life that will get you down.
But you must always stand up inside yourself
and know that you can handle this.
You've got to stand up to it and say
I'm going to do this anyhow.
And I'm not going to let you stop me.
And you've got to be so relentless
that you're always looking for a way
to get over
always looking for a way
that you can break through
always looking for a way
that you can win
always looking for a way
that you can strike a telling blow.
If you tell that thing
I'm here
just like you here
and I promise you
I ain't leaving without the degree.
I will not leave without that goal.
I will not leave without that dream.
I will not leave this university
I will not leave this job
I will not leave this client
I will not leave this opportunity
until I'm successful.
And you can't go back to that same old mindset.
You got to focus on this new day
this new mindset
these new goals.
You can do it.
Because that monster inside of you
won't give up.
That monster inside of you
won't give in.
That monster inside of you
won't throw in the towel.
Failing doesn't mean you quit.
It means you failed
but get back up
and continue to push that bar
higher and higher and higher.
When you're constantly pushing
and getting up earlier and getting up earlier
and getting up earlier
and fighting through pains and discomforts
you don't care about failure.
You actually welcome it.
That means you set the bar so high
that it's like, oh, I failed.
That's where I need to be.
Now I gotta figure it out.
You have to be an uncommon
amongst uncommon in your world.
It takes everything
and then when you think you've given everything
you've just begun.
