You have time You have the knowledge
and the willpower and the discipline to get it done. Your heart, your life, your happiness is your responsibility and your responsibility alone. One day you're going to realize
your life is yours, and there's a lot of people
important to you that surround it but ultimately it's yours. Then you must decide Where you want to invest this life Invest in something worthwhile. You have to picture yourself there wherever it is,
you've got to picture yourself there. Alright, the next step
is you've got to believe it. Number one in your life's blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth and your own somebodiness. Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. See sometimes,
we can't say, "I can do that" but what we can say, that "it's possible" that I can have my dream" as we run toward it, as we work on it day in and day out. They were going to make a change and then they made it. This is your moment It's not tomorrow It's not next year. It's not when you're going to graduate It's right here, right now and every choice you make
you're impacting that thing. We're going to be lions You know when a lion is injured when a lion is bleeding he licks his wounds and he keeps walking. Your time is one of the most powerful tools you'll ever have. Lay hold of it And when that thing tells you to quit you look at it in its eye and say
"I ain't going nowhere I will break you before you break me." You would be like a shark. You would think like a shark. And you can't go backwards,
and if you stop swimming, you will die. If life knocks you down try and land on your back because if you can look up,
you can get up this is the year to what? breakthrough! Act like you hear me! - This is the year to what?
- Breakthrough - This is the year to what?
- Breakthrough Act like it! Breakthrough! The moment and the time
for you to change your life is now. Always feel that you count Always feel that you have worth and always feel that your life has ultimate significance. You choose what you're looking for because what you look for you find that's how life works. Make good choices, great things happen But you've got to believe in you. So believe. Why is it that we don't
believe in ourselves? That as soon as things
get tough in our lives we start doubting ourselves, we start thinking that
we're not going to make it, stressing, worrying, imagining things that
may go wrong in the future. We need to understand, the human mind is
the most powerful tool we own but it can also be the most destructive and we need to learn how to take control of the direction
of our mind and our emotions. Your mind is going to provide you
with the greatest challenges in your life because it is so powerful. So if you can conquer your mind you can pretty much conquer
anything else around you, literally. When writing the story of your life, make sure you hold the pen. Make sure not only that you hold the pen but you write the script from your heart be brave when writing your script. It's your story and there are
no limits to what you can have, what you can do or what you can be. How bad do you want it? You've got to prove it to yourself that you want it bad enough,
Its gotta hurt you not to get it. And that's when you're going
to learn to conquer your mind. Your mind will no longer be able to say no because your inner heart
and mind are aligned and now nothing can stop you. It's easy to be all
positive and consistent when everything is going your way. But that's not right, that's not realistic Are you going to be one of the very few
to stand up when things are tough? When everything is going against you? Will you be able to believe in what's right and what brings results to your life? That's when your character will shine. That's when your story will be born. Your story is valuable. Your story of success. You can't build a story if you stop now, if you give up. The world is
full of people who gave up, the world needs hope, we all do. The world needs you to stand up, to fight through your challenging moments, to shine through the dark times, to love through the hate, and to be the difference
in an indifferent world, to believe in yourself. Most people are bloated with
ordinary thoughts and mindsets. They're so full of average that
they have no more appetite, but you have to have
an appetite for extraordinary. Beyond what people are doing
think beyond them There will always be doubters,
and people below you and people trying to put you down
so that they can feel higher. But you've gotta stay true to yourself, believe in your mind,
have some tunnel vision then one day you will have your moment Because anything is possible
if you just believe. Feed your dreams. If you can suffer through setbacks,
through pain, rise up with resilience once again, and again and again. One day this world will
tap you on the shoulder. And say, "This is your time to shine." You can have, be,
and do anything you want You just have to believe. Things that we can't control, we can't plan for but they come anyway This can be in relationships, the workplace, the family, It tears us down When things start to go to chaos and all you want to do is grieve. See I went there so many times in my life
and it made me someone out there that Understands life. Understands that pain is necessary, understands the unexpected obstacles. Stop You gotta dig down deep today even when you're crying, even when that girlfriend or
boyfriend is walking out of your life. I need you to be prepared because sometimes when
terrible things happen to us we go into this dark shade and we stay there and we believe that this darkness
will be our home forever. But you gotta understand
that every pain is a lesson. Every lesson that you learn
in the process of life, is turning you into something. It's turning you into
something phenomenal. See dreams, admirations they're not easily obtained You gotta have a walk through a storm with no umbrella But know and trust in God that you will not get wet Yes, life is painful and it removes some
of the greatest things we ever had but one of the the hardest things
to do is to keep going, is to keep chasing See, sometimes when people leave
we believe that that's our entire life, we believe that That's our existence but we are more because like my grandfather used to tell me "Will, your dreams
they never live down there." What now is dedication? Relentless effort
to achieve your dreams putting a plan together, not just jumping into the water we go like this, put a strategic plan together
to be greater than you were yesterday, to be greater than anything, anybody could ever imagine. See this thing about dreams we believe that is up to
other people to believe in and the truth is, the only person
that needs to believe in you is you. From a deep sleep you awaken to your daily battleground Another round with life and by the end of the day you're
broken, battered, and beaten down. You're slowly losing your mind and you keep checking the lost and found. Hoping for a profound moment, that gives you the strength to
mentally and physically rebound. You were once bound and determined
to block out all of the noise and all of the background sounds but life sniffed out the fear in your soul like a bloodhound and turned your smiles into frowns and changed your happiness
into tears of a clown and as you stand in a trance spellbound That's when I come up
and tap you on the shoulder And when you turn around I say it's time for you
to turn your life around. I say it's time for you to get back up
because life just knocked you down. I say it's time for you to swim
because you're about to drown. I say it's time for you
to human up my friend and stand your ground. No retreat. No surrender. No retreat. No surrender. I need you to remember you have a God-given right to be
a member of the next-level society And that means you must
fight through the anxiety. That means you must never
concede and go down quietly. That means you have to
ignite your inner flames and show life that you are
explosive and fire. I know you come from what
you perceive as nothing. I know you come from a home where
there was never much hugging and you never felt much loving. I know your childhood is filled
with memories of dream crushing. They told you you would never
amount to much of nothing. And up to this point
you've been proving them right. Up to this point you've
show very little fight. Up to this point you keep walking
in darkness and avoiding the light. Up to this point you've been blind. But today, but today my friend I’m your optometrist because I'm about to give you sight. No retreat. No surrender. No retreat. No surrender. You're at war with life and life does not fight fair. Life could care less
about your daily stress, and all your crazy mess, your failure to progress,
your lack of success, the fact that you're not living your best. I need you to dig deep
into the depths of your heart and remind yourself that
your heart has not stopped yet And that means you haven't dropped yet. And therefore you refuse
to throw in the towel. Life is simply trying to beat you down and put you to the test No retreat. No surrender. No retreat. No surrender. I know you come from what
you perceive as nothing. I know you come from a home
where you never got much hugging. I know your childhood is filled
with memories of dream crushing. They told you you would never
amount to much of nothing. All of the fear and hatred in your heart. It's time for you to disown it. That inner child of your past you have totally outgrown it. Don't you get it the best of you is already inside you've just never shown it. But what life failed to realize is that because of everything
you've been through in your past all of the setbacks, heartbreaks, failures, losses. You are prepared for any and everything life could possibly throw at you. So after a series of
vicious body blows from life you come back with a flurry of jabs and a wicked uppercut and you look life dead in the eye and you scream No retreat. No surrender. No retreat. No surrender. Because you remembered that
the champion that resides inside is now primed and ready
to be unleashed to the world and all of the pressure
has formed a diamond and the timing is impeccable. for this incredible transformation
from the basement to greatness. So, please pardon the lateness, but I heard a wise man say,
"Better late than never." So no matter what the weather the storms of the past have
made you wiser and more clever. You just have to know your worth and never let no human
walking on the face of this earth tell you different. You are royalty Against all odds you can, you will, and you must overcome, never fear, and persevere. This is a great day to win. Probably one of the biggest, most important
things that we can do as human beings is to deal with failure. See most of us as kids are brought up
with this universal belief that failure is bad, right? That losing is bad and a failure or losing
means embarrassment, it means humiliation,
it means we're not good enough, it means that we should not
ever even try something unless we are absolutely
100% sure that we can win. So what happens is when you go through life and this happens over and over again We don't go for that job
in case we don't get it. We don't make that phone call to say sorry in case our apology isn't accepted. We don't, we don't, we don't. It wasn't until I started to
love failure and look for it I started being successful
in what I was doing. You know, failure is a massive
part of being successful. You have to be comfortable failing. You have to learn to love it. And to do that, the first step you have to forget all of those
associations that we've got about failure. You know, you've got replace
them with positive ones. You know when people
look at successful people or people that have what they want They have this delusion that
they have got where they are by miraculously succeeding at
everything that they've done without failing And the odds of them doing that
without failing are like zero. See they've failed to realize that
that person that they look up to, that person that they want to be,
that person that's on top has failed more times than
they can possibly imagine. Don't fear failure, learn to love it, learn to live with it everyday and realise that it doesn't
exist as the world knows it. You can have anything you want, be anyone you want, but you're going to have to work. Hard work is the universe's
great equalizer Hard work is the thing that
has leveled the playing field and given the average Joe,
the underdog, a shot at the crown. Alright? If you work hard
and you never give up You can literally achieve anything. Stop looking for the easy way. Stop looking for the shortcut because let me tell you there ain't one no matter who you are you have where you are right now
and where you want to be. And there's only one road
or one path that takes you there and that's hard work, baby. You have everything you need
to have everything you want but you must get to work. Let's think of some things
that might happen if you try to do the thing that
you've been wanting to do for years. Okay, well, it might not
work the first time. It might not be as easy as you thought. People might laugh at you
and talk about you behind your back. You might get hurt. But if you keep taking action in spite of all this stuff
that might happen, guess what? Sooner or later,
you're going to start winning. Remember, there ain't no
such thing as failure, baby only feedback. Now, let's talk about what
will happen if you don't act. Well, you will keep getting
the same results you get now, you will keep getting treated the same, you will keep making the same money, you will keep doing the things
you don't want to be doing. And worst of all, you will get to the end of your life and regret that you didn't try. You see, there's no other way. I mean the decision really is a no-brainer so to make yourself take action, you've got to make a decision and that decision has to be final. People take action and get it done
when they have had enough. They decide and they say,
"that's it, I'm done, no more" No more will I be treated like this. No more will I be overweight. No more will I be in a job that I hate. At the moment your brain thinks like this "Trying this new thing will be
hard, it'll be risky, etc, etc" Basically associating
taking action with pain. So, what you need to do
is to train your mind and focus on the pain
you'll get if you don't act. And to reinforce that focus on all the pleasure
that you will get if you act. The most important thing though is to know that you're not alone. I've been there,
your friends have been there, the celebrities and famous
people you follow on social media that you look up to, they've all been there. No matter how perfect someone
else's life seems from the outside just remember that they all
deal with pain and darkness too. So it's okay not to be okay. Pain is there to make you better. Without struggle there can be no victory. And let me tell you, when you've been through pain, when you've fought for where you are You ain't going to let anyone
take away what you got. When you've earned it and paid your dues and suffered and failed
and been hurt and been down and you get back up over and over. When pain and struggle
comes to face you again you look it in the face and stand it down because you've been through too much. You're too strong now Everything that has happened
to you up until this point has made you who you are and it will continue to mold
you into who you will be All the pain, all the sacrifice,
all the heartache, all the criticism is always going to be there but you've got to go through it. Your life won't turn out how you plan it. It turns out how you work for it. How you wake up and you chase
that dream every single morning It's what you give
your time and your energy to that takes you to the next level. Wake up every single day thinking about 'how can I change my life?' How can I stand on a stage with the giants It's like a man going
100,000 miles per hour and you haven’t even started the engine. But first you must ask yourself, are you willing to fail a few times? Are you willing to lay down and bleed so you can see the dream
that you dreamed about? Are you going to beat the obstacles? That freshman that's getting
ready to go to college are you going to take
the obstacles that come with it? Are you going to study
when they party? are you going to dream when they sleep? This is the question
you must ask yourself. Greatness will only come to you if you run to it. Greatness will only arise
when you stand in the fire and you're not afraid to get burnt. This means you got to work This mean you have to grind when they sleep. You gotta grind when they won't you've got to grind
when you do not feel like it. And this in all areas of life,
school, sports, your religion. Consistency is the tunnel to greatness. Consistency will turn
an ordinary man into something he never thought he could be. See the difference between a good player and a great player See a good player does just a minimum to get by. The great player pushes
his body past the limit. He leaves every single drop of blood on the field. And whatever he does in life he wants to be remembered as the greatest. He does the extra ten when the coach only asked for twenty. He runs that extra mile when the coach only asked for five. You see they won't understand this dream They won't understand this grind,
this blood, sweat, and tears of waking up every day doing
something over and over again Knowing that you might not even get paid for it knowing that you won't even
have a meal to eat at night. You see that is the true sign
of a champion. Mistakes happen, trials and tribulations happen,
it does happen, but you got to keep going, You got to keep believing. I'm reminding you of how great you are Many individuals on this earth
have slipped into a coma and they began to sleepwalk through life They begin to do the very minimal They begin their death. See, this type of greatness
I'm talking about, I'm talking about When I die, they can't even fit
another body in the church because of what I gave the world. You see, you see all these men
standing on top of the world you think they're special,
you think they're everything but you don't know
what they did to get there. You know what my favourite saying is? You must learn how to live full so you can die empty. It's a saying by Les Brown, listen to me You must be willing to live full so you can die empty. But we all back for it. But I want to tell you this
that you are phenomenal. You are a King, you come from royal blood. You stand on the tip top of pyramids, you are royalty, King. You are a light, you are a star. The question is,
do you believe you are?
