The most important thing
to do first thing in the morning is get yourself in a powerful state. If you're in a great mood you will produce great results, you will have a great day. The better your attitude the better the results you produce. The better your attitude the better you can handle, overcome and thrive through
challenges and difficulties that come your way. So get yourself in a great mood, do whatever it takes to get that feeling first thing in the morning. Whatever works for you meditation, reading,
gratitude, music, exercise these are all good options
that get you in state. When your mind is positive and clear you can handle just about anything. Can't you? And when you can face
challenges with a clear mind, they lose their power. They no longer halt your progress, they no longer have
a strangle over your day or your life. You simply choose
the best way to move forward and move on. Most people don't start
their days like this, most people aren't happy, don't be most people. Be the minority, the minority who start their
day with positive expectations. Look at yourself in the mirror
and repeat to yourself Today is going to be a great day No matter what happens,
today I will see the good. No matter what happens,
I will do the right thing. No matter what happens,
I will give my all today. Today I will give my best so tomorrow will be better. To lock me in bed is torture. People that can spend days
and days and days in bed I marvel at them I look up under the sheets,
what do you have in there that keeps you in there that long? Say thank you for grace, thank you for mercy,
thank you for understanding, thank you for wisdom,
thank you for parents, thank you for love,
thank you for kindness, thank you for humility,
thank you for peace, thank you for prosperity. Say thank you in advance for what's already yours. The most selfish thing
you can do in this world is help someone else. Why is it selfish? Because the gratification
of goodness that comes to you, the good feeling from helping others nothing is better than that. And I ask, what do you want? Because the days you don't
feel like getting up out of bed, the days you feel like quitting,
giving up and giving in. Listen to me, the only thing that's
going to get you up out of that bed The only thing that's going to
make you strive pass that obstacle, get past that brick wall. The only thing that's going to make you
get up and do what you're supposed to do? Is what you see. When you wake up in
the morning look at your goals your goals won't tell you
what time to get up Are you hearing me? Don't be afraid of missing out, be afraid of being in the exact
same place as you are now. One year from today, five years from today,
ten years from today, struggling to pay the bills, struggling for energy, struggling to find
that passion in your life, Visualize what you are going to do today to get more out of your life. Do it every day and every day you will love the life
you have created for yourself You know You know When you are guilty of wasting time and laying
in bed, and you're being lazy. You know it, whether that was 7 o'clock in
the morning or 6 o'clock in the morning, you know it. You have to start the cycle of
waking up early by waking up early. Success is not convenient You have to do what is required
to accommodate success. Holding the line, maintaining the standard, giving no slack, none. That's the discipline. There are opportunities that
are going to come your way and there might be some
other things going on and you have to make a choice,
you have to ask yourself the question. What do you want? Because if you don't know what you want nothing else matters. How I'm about to use my time Is it positive?
Is it purposeful? Is it leading in the direction
of where I'm going and the meaning of my life? Is it productive? And is it profitable? But when you know what you want,
E- why do you wake up at 3? Because I know what I want. One thing the discipline
definitely does help you with is it helps you get things done and when you get things done when you, you actually do things you- you- you have more success. I wake up, boom and I go pursue. And if you're going to
really be successful in life, if you're going to have it, if you're
going to be it, you're going to do it I need you to take personal responsibility and I want you to say,
"The reason I'm not at amazing yet is because I hit the snooze button. That's why I'm not amazing right now." A big part of success is just
not being lazy and just doing it just get- it's like 90% of it
is just showing up. The reason why I'm not amazing right now is because I couldn't get up early enough because I told myself
"I'm not an early person" Get there and start working like... you're not going to feel perfect every day. If I felt, if I only worked out
when I felt good, I'd be a fat dude. I'm not at- I'm not amazing because I would prefer to make
excuses than make adjustments that's why I'm not amazing. Because there's a lot of
days I don't want to do it and it's pretty much
the same with everybody that... that actually gets good at something. I want you to do me a huge favor I want you to stop talk about
this person didn't do that, that person didn't do this, this thing- guy had that I didn't grow up here,
I didn't get this advantage I didn't get...
Kill it, kill it. That you, you get, there's got
to be those days you push through. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
Why haven't you reached amazing yet? Just keep it 100 I'm not amazing because I'm lazy. Just, just look at yourself
in the face and be honest I'm not amazing because
I would rather spend my money on shoes, I would rather spend my money on stuff than to make a sacrifice
in a book or fly abroad. I'm not amazing because I'm not
doing what I'm supposed to be doing to be amazing. And getting up early is not only
an incredible competitive advantage because most of your competitors are asleep but getting up early is
a great gift to give yourself you get more life. I always tell my-
I always say that I'm like... The most lazy disciplined person I know because I don't want to do it - Yeah
- but I always do If you want to be an artist,
if you want to be an engineer I don't know,
but I want you to start the year off. We are not talking about
you know fake dreaming and just writing goals down to be doing I'm talking about knowing what you want because when you know what to want
that's where the drive come from, that's where the passion comes from. When the thing is done, when the discipline
has been implemented remember what that feels like
and then remember that those minutes and those hours turns into weeks and months and years and holding the line
in those critical minutes will put you in an infinitely better place physically, and mentally if you maintain the discipline. If I don't have my morning routine game I feel, you know, out of sorts. So I think it's true for everybody, you
got to own your morning, you gotta win it because that starts
and sets up everything else. People need that
discipline, those routines that will help the best day even go better, get some momentum and be
okay if that momentum is small Because it will build trust that momentum builds. Trust
those gloomy and bad dog days. Trust that those are going to be there, honor the difficulty. When we honor the struggle
instead of hate the struggle we can really achieve extraordinary things because our mindsets in the right place. Now the first night you're going to
have a hard time going to sleep What you do is the next morning
you wake up early anyways that first night you only got
5 hours worth of sleep, and now you're tired
throughout the day. Good. Because then when you
get to bed that night you will turn off that computer,
you'll be able to go to bed earlier like you wanted to. You can live on six hours of sleep. So you have 18 hours, you have 18 hours I want to know what you're
doing with your 18 hours? Because you can work here
9:00 to 5:00 and that's 9 and you can travel for
an hour here and there respect, nice little solid commute Oh, you want to be a family man? Mazel Tov you can spend 2 hours with your kids What are you doing
with those other 5 hours? You're watching House of Cards,
you're playing Madden, You're relaxing from the other intense ten. - Gary, I already spent eleven hours
- Well great, then don't complain or want more. Respect that by getting
rest and this and that you were giving up
opportunity to go into a new world You want the audacity to have a 1% life Let's just call what it is. You want to live as well as
the 1% to 2% in the world It's not very complicated,
the math is very wrong. Like you, if you want to have
one of the best life's in the world which is, you live on your terms You have to pay your dues to get there and you have to be
lucky enough to figure out that you had talent in the thing
that you actually want to do because you can work 24 hours a day and if you stink at golf or you're
not a good content producer or your logos look like crap I would
make then you're going to lose. So, that's what you gotta do. The most important thing you can do is win the morning. Just win the morning man. It is not easy but it is worth it Find out what you want to
go and do and go after it. Because so many years go by
and you look back and you're like "What have I actually
done in the whole time?" Because you haven't been living
a life in line with your personal values you've been living someone else's life. Don't freaking do that to yourself.
It's insane You want to get to where you want to be only you. Not what someone else thinks,
not what the magazines think not what Instagram tells you. Stop comparing your life to other peoples', stop living in the deadly
world of comparison You're comparing yourself to other people and you're putting yourself down,
you're lowering your self-worth. You're enough. You've already got exactly
what you need inside of you all you need to do is develop yourself,
start to step into your fears and allow these things to
come out and you'll be firing. You'll be going straight for your goals,
you'll be going straight for your dreams and then you'll be able
to look back and go I'm so glad that I was brave enough and I had the courage
to step into my fears because there would be nothing worse than to get to an older age and look back on my life and know
that I didn't go and do something because I was afraid, because I was afraid
of other people's opinions. It doesn't matter what other people think the only thing that
matters is what you want. What are your personal values?
What are your dreams? What impact can you have on the world? If you can line up your personal values,
create a mission statement that can actually have
an impact on the world you'll be drawn into it. You don't need to motivate yourself, you don't need to copy
other people's quotes and other people's sayings and post
them up on Facebook and Instagram You'll be coming up with your own quotes,
you'll be coming up with your own sayings because you're pulled into it. You're living a life in line
with your personal values and your mission statement
is having an impact on the world. This is coming from with inside
of you, not from someone else. It's the only way the best person you'll ever be is yourself That's it. No one else. You are you.
It doesn't matter if you're strange, it doesn't matter if you're different, it doesn't matter if you
don't fit in with other people Be you If people like you, if people love you for who you are,
they'll hang out with you forget the cool kids,
forget trying to fit in with other people, forget trying to do things
that other people want you to do. If you start chasing after
your dreams, make no mistake, there's going to be people around you, there's even going to
be people close to you that's going to try and bring you down because it doesn't line up
with what they want. Forget it, go after what you want. It doesn't mean they're trying to
sabotage your efforts for success It just means they don't
want to be left behind, it just means they don't
want to be left alone, they don't want to be left on their level Just because they don't have the courage to step inside their fears
and see what's on the other side. This is where the growth is. You find out your fears,
you step into them, you get on the other side
and things continue to open up for you. Where I started was I knew there was a few
things standing in my way from where I was now to where
I wanted to be in the future. So what I've done,
I wrote down my top three fears because my main fear was that I knew if I couldn't step into a fear
that was a little bit smaller then there was no way
that I could build the courage and be brave enough
to step into number 1. So I created a methodical
systematic approach in order to start to step into my fears and it's identifying your top three fears. What's number 1?
What's number 2? And what's number 3? Number 1 being most scariest number 2, and then
number 3 the least scariest Now don't get me wrong,
number 3 is going to be freaking scary But once you put some things into place once you start to step
into that number 3 fear and you come out on the other side of it you build the confidence. By default your self-confidence
and your self-worth goes up. You increase your self-worth, you increase your
self-confidence by default. This is what automatically happens step into that number 3 fear and get on the other side of it
and bang you'll be looking at number 2 You step into number 2 you get on the other side of that one and now you got the balls,
you got the courage to step into number 1. And unless you do it in a methodical
systematic approach like this it can be too difficult. Some people can do that
but some people can't they need to start off
with something easier and that's what I needed to do. This system is what works for me
and I want to share it with you because I'm sure you're going
to get some benefit out of it. I'm not telling you that
this is the only system, the only way to step into your fears but this is what worked for me
and I want to share it with you. If this is what appeals
to you then go for it. Sit down, write your top three fears, hit number 3, hit number 2,
and hit number 1 and there's so much on the other
side of your fears, it's insane. If you think about it, imagine this is where I am right now and this is where I want
to be in the future. There's all these barriers in between from here to my future This is my end in mind this is my ultimate goal I want to go from here to here There's all these barriers,
there's all these walls in between and what are they? They are other people's opinions,
they are other restrictions they're your friends and family maybe that's stopping you or telling you to not
actually go for your end in mind to go for your end goal. This end in mind is the one
that sits in the back of your head, the one that you daydream about, It's almost like you don't
even need to identify it You're just innately
thinking about it constantly. What's that end in mind?
It's going to be blurry but once you start to
bust down these barriers it becomes a little bit clearer. It becomes like this vision starts
to get real, starts to get tangible. It's almost like you can
reach out and touch it. So what are those barriers in between from where you are now to where
you want to be in the future? What are these barriers? And I guarantee that those three fears, the top three fears you broke down that's going to be inside your gap the gap from where you are now
to where you want to be in the future. So that's why it's so powerful Identify these top three fears 3 2 1 and you'll be on your way, you'll be making progress, you'll build momentum towards that
end in mind, towards that ending goal. Now look. It's going to be hard, it's going to be tough
and it's going to be freaking scary But the longer and more often you push on these barriers,
you push on these walls, the longer you push on those walls it'll eventually fall over then you push on another one,
you become stronger You become mentally stronger just as if you were to push
on a wall for a day after day you're going to become stronger and eventually that
walls going to fall down. You're doing the same thing,
you're just doing it mentally push on those walls
they'll eventually fall down and what you want to happen
you'll end up creating a domino effect. You'll just be pushing wall
after wall after wall down and the next wall even though
it was bigger than the first one because you're stronger, you'll be
able to push it down even quicker. And sooner rather than later, you're going to build massive momentum, you're going to build huge progress
to get to this end in mind to get to this goal, to close that gap from where you are now to
where you want to be in the future. Inside this gap even though it's scary this is where the growth is, right here. This is where the growth is identify your top three fears and you'll progress much, much
quicker to your end in mind. This is what I call
accelerated self development. Nothing accelerates your growth quicker than stepping into your top three fears. Now in regards to building a business, most people are so afraid
to take this first step It's like,
"Oh it's not going to work out. What are my friends
and family going to think? What if I fail?
What are they going to think then? It doesn't matter.
It's irrelevant. Because if your mission statement is there, if it's strong enough, if it's big enough
and in line with your personal values and the impact that you
want to have on the world then the opinions of
other people don't matter. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. Your mission statement
is everything, it will guide you. Now through these hard times
when you're building your business, when you step into
the shoes of an entrepreneur and you're grinding through it every day You're doing what it takes Some mornings you're leaving
once the Sun come up because you haven't even been asleep,
you've worked through the whole night. It's happened to me many, many times and it's not because I'm just trying to
punch out the hours and brag about it it just eventually happens. You just work through the night and it was just normal, it's weird. It's weird to hear that
if you haven't heard it before but it's probably going to happen to you. If your mission is strong enough that's the same that will happen to you Now during these hard times, even if you feel like
you're not making progress even if you're not getting
the financial return that you expected, even if that financial return
is taking longer and longer Just remember, in the beginning, when you're grinding through the hours, when you're putting in
all those all-nighters that's where you're making your millions. You're not making it later on
five years down the track when you finally close your first deal
or the best one yet or whatever it is It's now, it's in the beginning, it's those hours, it's that growth, it's that pushing those walls down, facing your fears, stepping into them,
seeing what's on the other side that's when your millions are made. And it relates to business,
it relates to personal life. Identify those top three fears number 3, number 2 and then number 1 It's not just to face those
three fears and that's it. Those three fears are the ones you
continually step into and expand on them you do something larger within that fear. Stepping into those fears and growing from it,
seeing what's on the other side it ends up transferring and leaking
into other areas of your life. It's not just you do that and that's it. Once you're stepping into
number 3, number 2, and number 1 it's benefiting everything,
everything affects everything else and you start to create these links and these links to
other areas of your life. These are high moments,
the light bulb moments in your life where because I've stepped into that fear
now I've got the confidence to do this whereas I wouldn't have done it before. You know, maybe I wouldn't
have started this business, maybe I wouldn't have even taken
the next step to chase my dream if I hadn't have gone
and stepped into these fears. Maybe I wouldn't take that first
step to make the first investment, maybe I wouldn't take that step to get up and speak about
what I'm passionate about. All these things, you step into your
fears at least in other areas of your life it's a catalyst for so much more. This is accelerated self-development. It enhances your whole life,
it enhances your relationships, your personal life, business, career, your performance, your recovery,
your sleep quality, your mental health Man, when you step inside of your fears
and you come out on the other side it is the best thing ever. I grew up partying with alcohol and eventually throwing
some drugs into the mix "Wow amazing" put some drugs into the mix
and have the best night ever, right! Man! The way that I feel on a daily basis now from what I've been doing,
the life that I live, eating clean, whole foods, balanced blood sugar levels, living a life in line
with my personal values, having an optimum morning
routine that I do each day, living an active lifestyle that's
in line with my personal values in the environments, areas, disciplines, and sports that
I love to be in and around. And then continually
to step into my fears, meditating on a consistent basis and having an impact on the world
that's in line with those personal values. I wrap all this together the feelings that I have during the day. There's moments during every single day that it's better than any party,
any drug that I've ever had in my life. And what's best yet it's repeatable, it's reproducible, it's sustainable
and it gets better and better. Drugs, alcohol and partying
isn't sustainable. What I do now is and not only that
it gets better and better. When you're using stimulants it's not the same as when
you first experienced it. The feelings drop off and eventually you
have to go and take more and more of it It's like coffee, the first cup of coffee, great And then you end up
having 3 or 4 cups a day and you never get back to that
same feeling as the first one. But living the life that I live now, it's sustainable
and it gets better and better. It's freaking amazing,
and I want to share it with you. I want to inspire you
to identify your top 3 fears start to step into them
and see what's on the other side because inside that gap where you are now to where
you want to be in the future that's where the growth is, remember that. That's where the fears are, you've got no choice
but to go through your fears You can't jump over them,
you can't walk around them, you have to step into them. If you do try and jump
over and walk around it that's when you're going
to get to the point years down the track
and looking back on your life and you're going to have that feeling of "Man, I can't believe I didn't
do it because I was afraid, because I was afraid of other people's
opinions and whatever else it was." There will be nothing worse
than to have that feeling What sort of life do you want to live?
What are you passionate about? What are your personal values? Create a mission statement around
that and how it can impact the world and you'll be pulled into going
for that mission statement and having your impact on the world. You might need to find outside motivation Where's your motivation
going to come from? It has to come from within, it has to come from
your mission statement and the impact that you're
going to have on the world. This is the best way to build
a company, to build a business What impact can you have that's
in line with your personal values and your mission statement and then you can profit
financially from that and then you can have a bigger impact. This is the future of building a company it's not just about making money the more money you make the bigger
the impact you're going to have that's what you need to think about. Eat clean, whole foods,
balance your blood sugar levels and enhance things through
supplements if need be. Identify your personal values, create a morning routine around that, get your active lifestyle that's
in line with your personal values, meditate on a consistent basis or do something that
relaxes you or de-stress you, read a book, you don't have to sit there
and meditate with your legs crossed but do something that is a form of
meditation, that is a de-stressor. The silent meditation is what works for me. Then identify your top three fears, start to work through them and once you've stepped into one all you do is expand on that
and step into it even more. The second one once again, expand on it even more
and step into it again. Number 1, expand on it even
more and step into it again. And now you've got this complete system, this beautiful life, that's your life adapted to what you really want
and where you're going, the way you see the world Chasing your end in mind Now you're seeing what's
possible for yourself, now you're seeing what's possible
in order to have an impact on the world. My name is Adam Phillips I'm the founder of Life Grip and my mission statement is improve mental health
and prevent disease through nutrition, meditation
and active lifestyles. I hope I've inspired you
to do something similar create your own mission statement step into your fears and have an impact on the world.
