Eric Thomas - How To AVOID Being Average! (Motivation)

find the gap don't complain don't murmur don't talk negative that's average people talk normal average people talk problems the greats talk solutions average people use their time to whine and complain average people say it's their boss fart it's their mother's fault it's their average people i used to be average i used to say when is my daddy coming to get me when is my biological father gonna come in my life and when i would talk like that i ended up getting kicked out of school and while i talked like that i ended up being homeless and while i talked like that i was broke and then one day i woke up and said eric nobody's coming to save you nobody's coming to get you but you can go to the library and get yourself [Applause] you can start reading books you can go back to school you can start coming to conferences and i went from an average way of talking and behaving to taking ownership and saying yo it's your fault somebody said how's it your fault your daddy's not in your life i said listen to me i tried the blame game it didn't work i'm nowhere where i want to be so i'm just going to take ownership why at the end of the day is my life is not his i don't know where he is i don't know what he's doing but apparently i ain't that important that he came looking for me so stop crying about it and do something about it go get your ged and go to college get out of the city of detroit and start all over again and i was blessed to get my ged and go to alabama southern hospitality unbelievable let me tell you something what i love about the south is like they'll put you on punishment if you don't say hello i love it and like in the south you guys say hi every time you see him like i saw you this morning how you doing in the afternoon how you doing i saw you this morning well this afternoon now how you doing like i'm doing good then i see him at night how you doing i said you just spoke to me twice a day it's that night how you doing and then we stop and we talk i love southern hospitality if you have it okay we're gonna leave that alone all right so so say it with me i will never be average on three one two three right some of you saying average i will never be average say it like you mean it one two three good i'm feeling it i'm feeling it one two three i will take ownership we're going to add that one two three i love it i love it she got it we're gonna do it together we're gonna do it together i will never be average i will take ownership one two three come on come on come on come on i'm talking to somebody i'm talking to somebody we gonna get it out of you right now we go you eight percent you the eight percent of the 92 percent we're gonna get it out of you we're gonna get it out of you on three we're gonna get it out when you leave this room you will take full ownership and the reason why i say it's my fault even when it's not my fault because when i say it's your fault i give you power i give you control over my life and i will never give another human control over my life it's my fault it's my problem i'm coming up with a solution for it it's my fault it's my problem it's my solution i'm taking ownership come on stand with me i'm taking ownership come on i'm taking ownership come on i'm taking ownership i need everybody to sit down here's what i need to do if your father wasn't in your life your mother wasn't in your life you were a foster child something bad happened to you somebody verbally sexually abuse you it's not your fault but if you've been giving power to those people i want you to stand right now and take your power where are you i want you to stand and say i'm not doing it no more i'm not giving nobody else power no more i'm taking it where are you i need you to stand i need you to stand i need you to stand listen to me closely i'm not saying it's your fault but it's your solution i'm not saying you didn't do it but you owe it to yourself in this country to let that stuff go so you can be what you're supposed to be now i'm gonna count to three because it's somebody else you got a lot of pride and that's why you where you are right now let your ego go you're amongst family let your ego go you're amongst family let it go you need to stand because you're still holding somebody else hostage for what they did to you and i need you to let it go where are you i want you to stand right now one thank you thank you too thank you let it go come on let it go let it go come on let it go where i see you i see you i'll see you come on somebody else come on this just number one i gotta get past this one i gotta get past number one you're still sitting come on you're sitting come on let it go let her go let him go they don't they don't you don't they don't deserve that much power over your life let them go i know they hurt you let it go they only still have power because you're still holding on to it stop being average average people can't forgive average people can't let go the greats we do whatever it takes for self-preservation we do whatever it takes to be happy you think i wanted to let my biological father off the hook you think i want to let him off the hook he left my mom he left me you think i want to let my man off the hook i was with my family my whole life i thought he was a friend of my family i didn't know he was my father i know my grandma i know my aunts i know my cousin i just thought he was a friend of the family and i asked him why he said your mother said i said my mother said how dare no you're right my mother said that wasn't the answer i was looking for but if that's the answer you have i'll take it and i'll take the rest of my life and i'll be happy the rest of my life come on come on come on come on come on i want you to say i want you to stay with me i can i will i must come on i can this is your life not mine you should be more excited about your life than i am i can i can i will i must get past this i can i will i must hold on one second one quick second cause i want to talk to the successful people you two can get past the success you live in right now you you're not finished if you're alive you're not finished i know you feel good about yourself because you're doing better than your brother and your sister you're killing a lot of americans but the creator ain't comparing you to your sister he compared to you the gift that you have he's not comparing you to your brother no i'ma say it one more time the creator is not comparing you to your sister your mama might be you your mama's like she killing the game compared to her brothers and sisters she's the best in our family that doesn't mean that the creator that doesn't mean i don't mean a creator is going well done you still got more in you so i want you to say cause you're looking at them like oh yeah y'all can we did you must no no you got another gear in you so everybody i can i can because i'm capable i will because i'm strong i must because they counting on me no no no no i was homeless y'all i was homeless that's why on my my son spent 11 grand i was homeless i don't ever want him and his sister to know what it's like to be homeless people say well they've got to go through it they do but don't not homeless god you can figure something else out heartbreak or something you know what i'm saying not homeless are you hearing me i i must i live in america there are other people that are inspired by me we can't keep talking about the people who lived in america in the early 1900s we can't talk about people henry ford the vanderbilt we are the vanderbilts of this time frame we are the forwards of this time frame we're the louis vuittons at this time we're the hiltons at this time we're the marriotts of this time it's our time it's our turn for it is gone it's our time it's our time for our family to understand wealth it's our time to take our wives or a trip for 30 days and not have to worry about anything it's our time for them to get manicures and pedicure it's our time to let them live a certain life it's our time it's our turn it's our country let's eat it up let's enjoy it i can i can i can i will i will i will i will my way through every situation every trial every triple a i will my way through it i don't care if it's cancer i will my way through it i don't care if it's ms i will my way through it i don't care if i'm struggling in school and i'm trying to get a degree i will my way through it i don't care if you fail the boards go again i don't care if you fail the law exam go again will your way through it some things you can scale yourself through some stuff you got to will your way through there are some things that you're naturally gifted at others you got to will your way through i will my way through homelessness i will my way through that ged i will my way through that phd i will myself to 30 years plus a marriage i will my way through to be a better father i will my way through those books i will come on i will come on i will i must i hate to tell you this but at some point you're gonna die no no i'm just i just i hate to tell you that i'm just being real you're gonna die no no no no you're gonna die so if you know you're gonna die why are you playing it safe why you act like if you play a safe you're gonna get another 30 years i don't care who you are you're not gonna make it to 200 years i don't care if you eating brussels sprouts they just don't get to 200 no more so if you only got a 10 left 20 yet left 30 left in america why not make it the best 20 you've ever had before the best 30 the best 50 you've ever had before i prayed i told god i want another 18 325 that's that's 50 years i said god before i got here i don't know how i got here but now i know how so can you give me 50 with this wisdom and this knowledge because i kind of lucked up on the first 50. but i think i got it now come on let's go come on i can't i will i must i can i will i must hey if you enjoyed this i got another one you're going to love it's right there click on it see you in there my favorite interview is probably kobe because we have a relationship and we have a connection together from whatever he comes it would probably be kobe probably a couple of these mob stuff that i do and some of these

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Published: Fri Aug 13 2021