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this video is brought to you by our great friends at audible just go to audible.com slash motivation or text motivation to 500 500 and start your free trial now I can guarantee you you will never achieve anything greater than your highest aspiration I never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to eat because you can go 21 days maybe 30 but without eating I never said it when you want to succeed as bad as you want water because you can go about three days or so without it I said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe you're never gonna be great if you don't look for the 5% and so nobody out there is listening to him it's ain't God or he's just so much smarter than me so I'm not gonna become we're five billion dollars I switched my mind to something else I switched my mode into something else write it for me is the equivalent of Maximus Decimus Meridius and gladiator taking up the dirt smelling the dirt it's go time compare yourself to who you were yesterday and not to who someone else is today and that's a game you can win if you would get off the couch stop murmuring stop complaining you've got to go through a hold of the level in every area of your life you create your own destiny and secure the future you envision you can do anything you want that you have passion for because that eliminates up most of the crowd because most people don't follow their dream and you need to know that the baseline is family you know it's important because otherwise you'll blame that on yourself that's not what you need but what some of you need is to go from 70% to 120 percent someone you need to go from 80% to 120% plus what will not happen is quick what will not happen it's failure what will not happen my life speaks louder than words because when I began to change my life I'm gonna learn to make good choices I'm gonna learn to be responsible I'm gonna be dedicated I'm gonna have good characters and morals and values I'm gonna own up when Rahl I'm gonna be truthful to I'm gonna stand up for what I know is right and I want anybody changed me and maybe that's not where you're at right now but you can get there and these are the attributes of success men if you want something in life you gotta be willing to do what nobody else is done if you keep doing the same thing they've always done and it's the definition of insanity if you want to change you're gonna have to be willing to change I do what you don't want to do that you know that you got to do to be where you want to be I don't know your vision I don't know your mission I don't know what you want to be take stock of where you are you know what your advantages are what your disadvantages are and then we start with little humility on the path of incremental improvement don't let your words guide you let your actions guide now it's time for you to dig deep ask more questions spend more time and study hard create a what a circle of people that are succeed in the class that you're struggling in and stick to him like glue it's bloody hard to be a high-performance person I see everyday people with this mentality that the world owes them something the simple answer here is that you need to work harder and faster there's really nothing else life is a series of choices at that moment that choice was quite honestly hard work put your head down and do the training and take the pain and eventually it's going to pay off and on those days where you just got to get through an impossible to do list you really have to feel that if you put your head down and you take the pain it's going to pay off and since I'm going to do this I'm going to harness my will and I'm not going to let anything stop me I deserve this hard work is the most precious asset you have you know while the other guys sleeping I'm working what other guys eaten working but it don't work if you don't work I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks nothing there is no in-between you're either growing or you are decaying if you want something you have got to be relentless this is a winners quality you have that quality within you when you're hungry you don't care about the facts you don't care about the odds if you want to be an anomaly you got to act like one why are you only giving 50% what's wrong with you you said your goal was to pass every class you said your goal was to never again finish last most people what they're doing is they're all it's mountain called success and they're all strolling around the bottom of this mountain and they're looking for an elevator to carry them to the top mm realized yet that there is no Cannella Vega and I'm already half way up the stairs I'm not getting up on time I'm not going to work on time I'm not putting in a hundred twenty percent on their work I let me now all right if you work hard and you never give up you can literally achieve anything break it down and add just a little water just a little more focus and just a little more time management and just a little more patience just a little more listening just a little more discipline to get something you never had you have to do something you never did I never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to eat because you can go 21 days maybe 30 but without eating I never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want water because you can go about 3 days or so without it I said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful and so one of the things I want to do for you as an educator today you don't necessarily need better skills per se that's not what you need but what some of you need is to go from 70% to 120% someone you need to go from 80% to a hundred and twenty percent the reason why I'm giving a hundred and twenty is because your dad is not in your life the reason why I'm giving 120 is because your father's in prison the reason why I'm giving 120 is because your mom is working two jobs the reason why I'm giving 120 is because your grandma's raising you the reason why I'm giving 120 is because you live in the community where education is not valued so I don't care what you do academically when you leave here you can't go and get credit for getting AIDS that in your neighborhood in your community nobody affirms you for reading at a certain level nobody affirms you for doing well in your a CT or your SAT where you come from education is not affirm so even if you are a scholar you have to keep it to yourself you have to suppress it so the reason why I give 120 is because your dad is not there to get paid and your mom was too tired to give a hundred and your grandma is washed out so she's giving 50 and y'all do that little stuff about you gonna eat but y'all they got no doggone motor you get tired wake eat you practice for one or two days you roll out you do a couple hours you tired but yet you compete against people right now that stay lifestyle and you think they bout to let you take they lifestyle I don't want to do it as much as I want to eat I don't want to do it as much sunny dream I want to be the best in the world as bad as I want to breathe I want to be the Michael Jordan of education I'm gonna be the LeBron James of Education and I ask you this question I ask you the question today are you giving 120 I never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to eat I never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want water I said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful like I told my professor what happens if I fail he said what happens if you pass I said but what happened if I don't get it what happened about putting all this years and it don't work out he said but what happens if you put it on here and you get it you got skill and you got will you got skill and you got will to total different things you will blow with certain things but to get to the next level and not just get to the next level to study at the next level you gotta have will when you get to that next level so when you play you have to compete when you have an opportunity why would you give 80 percent when you have opportunities if I answer that for me y'all y'all talk about what you get 80 percent 70 percent why wouldn't you always give 120% forever you might get it but right now what oh I can't hear y'all you may get it but right now I want you don't have it you have nothing to fear guys you already overcame all kind of stuff because a lot of you don't see that what's gonna take you to that next level that's gonna separate you from everybody else cuz you gotta have some that separates you what's gonna separate you from everybody else right I don't know what that is for you but just talk about when you hear about we're in my videos one of the things you notice that separates me from everybody else I don't do what any of my videos I don't curse enough you've never seen me cuss before you've never seen me drink before you've never seen me smoke I'm not against drinking and smoking but my brain is I don't drink I don't smoke what are you gonna do to separate yourself like I do things that separate myself remember the passion that I have when I speak the grind that I had when I do what I do what are you going to do to separate yourself people you're not even gonna be hanging out with all I want to hear this eat they grind it like they've never ground beef oh gosh I want to hear that out they're handing that rock by heat they monsters eat they like freaks out here he like they going hard he that's all I want what's the more stuff that's keeping you from doing what you supposed to do I love it you have an opportunity of a lifetime and and and and what what I'm trying to get you understand is when you understand you have an opportunity you check you play it look different show me your friends and I'll show you your future unless you want average in America married two point four kids with one and a half dogs but I can guarantee you you will never achieve anything greater than your highest aspiration if you want a million you'll make a million not a million five if you want 10 million a hundred million and you'll never exceed that if you change a billion lives that's a formula to become a bidding there and change the world time cost lives show me your friends and I show you your future you want to know why you're off stop just look at the bubbles you hang around with I do what you don't want to do did you know that you got to do to be where you want to be Ted Turner just gave his 75th anniversary party on CNN a few months ago and he has he makes a couple of comments and he says number one and I'm not suggesting this for everybody it's how I lived though first ten years of my starting CNN I slept on my couch oh hey I didn't have an apartment Bill Gates slept in the office Steve Jobs slept in the office and I can go down a whole list now these are super successful mega-wealthy guys I slept in my office not everybody's willing to make that sacrifice but it's not the only thing but even if you don't sleep in your office if you want to send your kids to a better school if you want to be able to take care of the hair your mother when she gets dementia if you want to be this all takes money [Music] when I want my children aren't getting any of my money when I die not not one centavo not one penny and to my kids are cool with it one of them's not so cool with it I'm not gonna you know I think at Andrew Carnegie by the way Andrew Carnegie arguably the richest most successful entrepreneur of all time he said the the best thing that you can have for a child as him to be born into poverty and I agree lack of self-esteem lack of self-worth now they think they have self-worth they think because they made a few bucks but in actuality and when they measure it against the other eight ten twelve people sitting around the table they realize or they start the question hell maybe I was just lucky now all of us when you're only a one-trick guy or gal think was that lucky now I've done it so many times I know I wasn't lucky I might have been lucky the first time but I'm not having lucky to fifteen twenty forty fifty I know that okay but maybe I was lucky the first time but my life changed when I went I was a pretty much a haphazard kid got a lot of trouble got arrested four or five times thrown in jail and this is when my dad's a cop but then I went I volunteered for the draft in 1966 at the height of the Vietnam War and I'm with OCS and that changed my life because it was a really first real high performance thing that I could measure myself against out there with other people two-thirds of all fortune 500 CEOs have one thing in common military background really two-thirds of those two-thirds have something else martial arts what do you learn in martial arts Brian discipline focus a lot of people don't believe they deserve to be there I convinced them and we have these drills why you belong there a lot of people that come there you know with money that have made money think they made it by accident right I just had one of my superstars who's made a hundred million bucks tell me in the last week you know I'm not sure I'm gonna have another lucky accident and I said you did it I mean you you know you tried a lot of things I believe Thomas Edison I would I wouldn't it down to ten thousand times okay I would have hired an engineer from MIT to do it but I mean I've tried a lot of things nobody's failed at more things than I have and the first hundred million are successes but I could write a book about failures that it'd be I mean because I've tried a lot of different things because failure is just testing and one of the reasons I've been so successful in generating this equity and value in my kids and I call you all kids is because I convinced them that making a mistake is okay your parents probably told you you can be anything you want but you can't that's horse you can't if it's all juxtaposed so but what you tell them is that you can do anything you want that you have passion for because that eliminates all most of the crap because most people don't follow their dream you know like they say in the sound of music you can't have a dream come true unless you have a dream now I still dream I dream a technic caller I say my affirmations and goals every single night it's bloody hard to be a high-performance person once you come face-to-face with who you are you have a starting point all right I'm not real smart I have no nothing nothing that's my starting point now we can move from there but if I tell myself I'm strong I have courage I'm smart and all these are lies you continuously push that starting point backwards so that starting point is the truth I talked to this one kid the other day college is kicking my I said what are you gazing that off of I go are you trying but yeah I'm trying man I'm studying hard I go what are you gauging trying hard off of well in high school I didn't have to try at all and I made great grades in college I'm trying hard you're trying hard compared to what you did in high school which was it came easy to you so your reality is something you created off of something easy so you trying hard is two hours of studying I'm going to tell you the difference in trying hard and trying hard trying hard is something in your mind just doesn't stop where we know two hours isn't enough so it's all about you know reality in which you're basing things off of what is in us we have no idea until we start trying hard and I mean really trying hard when you're obsessed with hey this is my new norm my new norm is that wow this isn't always fun and that's when you know you're trying hard when you quit your mind says we're done so there's no expansion when you say uh-uh this sucks I'm drowning a miserable of suffering a broken but I'm not going anywhere he's not leaving so we got to expand we got a growth we got to figure this thing out and these starts engage parts of your mind you never engage before but you can't engage it talking about what I want to do I can't get this paragraph I can't remember what's this paragraph to pass this test breathe again still not getting it breathe again where's not getting it write it out and that's I started learning okay well I can't I gotta write out everything I do and then write it out again no matter again and guess what happened I got it I got it I realized if I keep going back and going back and going back until this just becomes your mind will say okay we're gonna figure it out because he is not going to stop the voice in my head so you know what man you're gonna die never even trying to reach your full potential and how's that going to feel what I do my life speaks louder than words because when I begin to change in my life I'm gonna learn to make good choices I'm gonna learn to be responsible I'm gonna be dedicated I'm gonna have good characters and morals and values I'm gonna open up when wrong I'm gonna be truthful I'm gonna stand up for what I know is right and I don't like anybody changed me and maybe that's not where you're at right now but you can get there and these are the attributes of success man if you want something in life you gotta be willing to do what nobody else has done if you keep doing the same thing you've always done it's the end it's the definition of insanity if you want to change you're gonna have to be willing to change good choices will always have good results and I was making a lot of bad choices and autom bad decisions and I was basing my value my words off your opinions and I learned something listen to me everybody in here I want you to understand something your value is never based off any of the opinions of anybody in this room who cares what anybody thinks or says about you they are not your merit system they are not your system of work you are who you say you are by your actions but the choice in the decisions that we make have consequences good or bad when I went to prison at 23 listen I came from a broken family I had been labeled and unmarked and identified I had battled hurts and pains and wounds I had suicidal thoughts and I had battled so far me drugs and alcohol it consumed me I lost all dreams and goals I felt like I had made too many mistakes to change listen I felt like what I had every reason to say you know what life is too tough and I quit I live with these three principles and I promise you man they will change everything about who you are hard work works make good choices good things happen and value people I decided ten years ago literally when this all happened and I went to prison I wanted to be out like you know what I want to make this promise I want to keep it to this family I come from out of brokenness I don't know where to start but what I do know is the importance of the choices that I make and so literally I wrote the word change the world and I slapped it on a little prison cell window and every single day I woke up and I realized make good choices great things happen aim small miss small make good choices great things happen you see every choice that I can make listen I can't control what you think about me I can't control your opinion of me I can't control what you say about me but I control how I react respond and what I do with my life I'm in control of my life I don't let external factors control me I'm in control of my life because sometimes a life can be tough life can be challenging and sometimes the opticals in front of you seem like they're too big it's easier just to lay down but you know what I remember I remember one liked that you should look at me on the kids that list and Nathan life is never going to give you anything but if you make it if you build it nobody can take it from you because hardwork and tenacity and refusing to quit and chasing your dream you'll get there I promise you maybe you don't hit the start if you let on the moon you don't don't give up when you go after and you stop care about the opinions people around you stop the landing everybody from your hurts take ownership of your life take off your mask don't feed the bear make good choices be a best friend encourage somebody be a voice of hope and inspiration this is your moment the simple thing is this see if your joy your sadness your happiness your misery is determined by something or somebody around you the chances of you being joyful in your life is removed for every one of you your life is precious isn't it it's a precious life if something is precious where do you want to invest this life into what do you want to invest this precious life if this is a worthless life throw it somewhere if this is a precious life what do you want to invest this life and do if you look at it this way you will find something truly worthwhile to do if you think in terms of how to earn a living how to get this kind of thing that kind of thing then you will do something silly that you will regret for the rest of your life most people are a regret that's why they're going around joylessly because they're not doing what they want to do they are not creating what really matters to them they're doing something for a living learning and living is not a big deal for a human being every creature every worm insect bird animal is earning their living isn't it so with such a big brain what is a big deal about earning a living say your ability to do things is not because you want to do things I want to do something is my desire desire is just an intention an intention won't make things happen an intention will only set direction still you have to make the journey we become to go Lorien goal-oriented means we are interested in the consequence but we are not interested in the process process is an end in itself if you are absolutely devoted to the process something will come out but now we are interested in the consequence not in the process this goal-oriented nasai want to get there I want to get there no I want to win the race see if you treat life as a race if you have to win it you have to get to the finish line soon you want to if you get to the finish line ahead of all these people you won the race you know what the finish line is we'll be negotiating where to bury you if you if you go outside in the garden and try to catch an aunt who is born here I was grown up here and probably he'll die here if you try to catch him he'll say ok crush me if you want is it so he'll do everything to protect himself he values his life isn't it very much so no tiny little creature that we may not even notice we may step on him without even seeing him unfortunately but he values his life immensely does he know he's got spark but you a human being at least on this planet you're the peak of evolution physiology at least what the most evolved creature on the planet means is it has the most complex neurological system and it has the highest level of cerebral capability that means you can think you can remember you have memory you have a very vivid sense of memory and a fantastic sense of imagination an ant doesn't have such a vivid sense of memory nor does he have any great imagination yes some but he has a presence of mind about the life that he is living hey guys it's Gordon here from motivation to study and I wanted to take a second to give a shout out to our great friends at audible for partnering with us on this video personally I can never find the time to read as much as I'd like to an audible is a great way to stay informed inspired and entertained and the shortest time possible with audible you can get pretty much any book in any genre and listen to it anywhere you are as it has the world's largest selection of audiobooks and audio entertainment including audible originals which are stories created exclusively for audio including documentaries exclusive audio books and 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motivation to 500 500 give it a try and learn how to be the best version of you I can hear the advice of a lot of different people and say okay thank you thank you thank you this is what I want to do and I'll stand by it I will never blame someone for my decisions no it's my life conflict fight back I'm saying this put together your thoughts logically and come back at me like I want you to convince me that I'm wrong like find the holes in my argument find the gap in my thinking it's like here's my strategy and I am prepared to do what it takes to stay alive like what I tell my investors is like all you need to know is that I will be standing at the end of this match that's it and like if I have to all of a sudden do an uppercut that I've never done or like switch the southpaw out of nowhere okay I'll do what I have to do cuz I'm gonna win this by in the end say whatever you want to say about someone's fighting style and they won they won wanting very much to make sure that little girls who look like me believe that they can do anything and believe that they can do more than just media and entertainment in particular and believe in the value of their perspective and so that's what gets me up in the morning and then everything else the details it's like it kind of I could push through that day and what I found is that instead of trying to live a successful life if you aim to have a successful day if you have 13 out of the 24 hours of your day if you won those hours you won the day and if you win most of the days in a week you won the week you know we just need a simple majority here if you win you know most of the weeks in a month there you go most of the months in a year most of the years and and all of a sudden look at that without even trying you've been able to kind of get somewhere when I say you know I Know Who I am I guess the the unset portion that was like and then for the things I don't know about myself I'm open to finding out and so I think the idea is to think about our lives as a constant research experiment who I thought I was and what I thought I wanted when I was 19 is to a certain extent similar you know now but there's also a lot of a lot of difference in the nuances and the details of the execution and I think what it is is that like we we all have a core like is our soul that is our kind of ethos that were born with that's that's our ethical nature that we get from our families and our friends and like art where we grew up that you know ideally and hopefully it's good and I think that Nugget that's always unchanging and you have to figure out who that is what you know what that is inside of you as soon as possible and I've always been a very reflective person I've always been someone who who asked myself you know every six weeks or so am I happy just and it's a really simple thing it's just like the answers are either yes or no and if it's a no it's like okay well am i doing things that while right now maybe I'm not like blissfully happy are working toward something that I know will make me happy you know what I mean like in am I generally happy with the idea of the trade-offs that I'm making right now or that I have to deal with you know does that make me happy and if that's a yes it's like okay cool but if it's still a no it's a ghost stop everything no this doesn't make sense but so with that you come at Gillig okay I need a solution and so I started doing the check-in which I do just it's more like you can sense if you take some time to be quiet you can sense when you're not in equilibrium and then that's when you ask that's it just running running running running running without taking a time to just know where you are I mean then there's probably gonna be other symptoms when you're just overeating or overdoing this or not sleeping like you'll people will be able to tell you yeah you don't look balanced if you asked I was able to stay Who I am by being open to learning about Who I am from those who had been working to figure out themselves as well and I think it takes a certain sense of humility to be willing to to listen to those people but also I think it takes us a certain sense of logic I guess and just like dynamic thinking to realize that what they're telling you is simply part of your full concept of yourself not the all you know not the total of it and you know it is your life it is your unique perspective it is who you are that has brought you here so anyone who invests in you is going to want you to be who you are they're going to have to trust that being who you are even if it's different from who they are that that's going to be the thing that's going to take this to the next level no matter what how did you get your mindset into this alter ego to be comfortable being black mama I switched my mind to something else I switched my mode into something else write it for me it's the equivalent of Maximus Decimus Meridius and gladiator picking up the dirt smelling the dirt let's go time you got to put yourself in that cage when you're in that cage you are that character right so that was my mental switch it was like an actor getting ready for a film you got to put yourself in that cage when you're in that cage you are that character and when you leave there is something completely different when I'm in that cage broke don't touch me don't talk to me leave me alone the definition of work what is the definition of work activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result working hard is the cost of entry of winning you know nobody on earth that's made it that didn't work hard there's a point in time where you have to absolutely get up and stand on your own two feet and say this is the way in which I want to leave my impact on the world every day trying to be better and trying to prove yourself by one or two percent fulfill things set yourself a cup of sauce do-or-die toss today yeah I'm done feel better move on to the next scene when does it work I don't know your vision I don't know your mission I don't know what you want to be I don't know who you want to be I don't know how big you want to build I don't want to how big of a legacy you want to leave I don't know your vision I don't know your standards I want to take calculated risk to dream and to build to fail and to succeed for us to set goals and not achieve them it's on us there has to be a burning desire inside of us to do more be more I heard someone once say that greatness is within you but it's dormant it's bottled up just waiting for the moment to unleash and show the world how great you really are yeah you got to lead by example you got to show that's what I tried to do so think of your first week of classes as your opportunity to establish positive momentum it was a everyday process and trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses I don't want anybody to be able to say what he's not willing to do the work so everything I saw whether it was TV shows whether it was books I read people I talked to everything was done to try to learn how to become better everything everything and so when you have that point of view then literally the world becomes your library to help you to become better at your craft imagine if you wrote it down you knew you're going to achieve it imagine if there was no procrastination and the things that we do imagine for a moment if you were someone who went out and executed on the things that you said you were going to do because self commitment is something that you absolutely have written on your heart like what if we were the people who absolutely operated on the words that we told ourselves you know you want to be a little bit better in some way tomorrow than you are today but it's not gonna be in a linear path again these go through cycles of stress and recovery if you're doing your best if you're really laying it out there there's nothing nothing more you can do I'm just I'm doing my best and there's nothing nothing more than that compare yourself to who you were yesterday and not to who someone else is today and that's a game you can win because you could be a little better today than you were yesterday and that's a good thing you're a little better that that's a good thing and you know no doubt there are some things that you could improve with you if you sit meditate for any length of time about what you're not doing optimally answers will spring to mind you know you could be getting up earlier bearing yourself to who you are now that's a game you can win take stock of where you are you know what your advantages are what your disadvantages are and then you start with little humility on the path of incremental improvement and you know incremental improvement compounds and so you can get a long ways trajectory in some sense is more important than position for human beings I mean if you're starving to death that that's not the situation that I'm describing but you know if you've got the bare necessities of life you're not surrounded by absolute privation what you really want is to see that you're on an uphill path you know something that's got the right slope and and you can start anywhere on that path and you can improve half a percent a day or a quarter of a percent a day and you think well that's not very much it's like it's a hundred percent for years and that doesn't count compounding you know which means it's actually gonna happen a lot faster I think that the possibility that you can make yourself slightly better on a continual basis is I think that's something that's accessible to everyone I think that's equivalent to leading a virtuous licen you know I talked about the terrible catastrophe in some sense of differences in intelligence and differences in conscientiousness and so forth and the the downside of the meritocracy but there is something to be said for virtue and truth you know and that is one thing another thing that I've noticed about people who've been phenomenally successful is that they really do they really do everything they can to live a truthful life that you can get a bloody long ways by being honest the first thing I think you need to understand is that these people that you're comparing yourself to you don't really know very well what that means is that you see their shiny outside but you don't see the reality of their life people have hard lives and even people who are comparatively fortunate have hard lives the ideal that you're observing that makes you jealous and resentful is in large part an illusion that's created by your own mind you're you're quite different from other people and you shouldn't be comparing yourself to them because they're not like you you know they don't have your family they don't have your temperament they don't have your troubles they don't have your abilities the only the only person that has those is you compare yourself to who you were yesterday and not to who someone else is today and see that's a game you can win most creative people fail at producing their creative product and monetizing it right so your default position if you're a creative person is you're gonna fail and so and that's because it's hard to come up with something new and it's [ __ ] and it's hard to present it to the market at the right time and it's hard to market it like those things are really really difficult and so what successful entrepreneurs do is they just keep doing it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and eventually if they're fortunate one of their ideas happens to hit the right place at the right time and so that's also Darwinian in some sense you know you're creating all these little enterprises that are sort of alive they're they're run by people after all and even if your idea is good that doesn't mean it will be successful there's so many things that have to be taken into account so this is partly why persistence and that's part of conscientiousness is so useful it's like you know what are they safe if at first you fail then try try again and and that would probably mean try something different rather than the same thing but persistence is helpful because it enables you to run many many experiments and and you need to know that the baseline is failure you know it's important because otherwise you'll blame that on yourself you know and some of that's useful because there's probably some things that you could improve them out yourself but it's very difficult to go from zero to one you know it's very fear starting out as a salesperson for example the hardest sale is the first customer and then you know they get easier with each additional customer be careful who you share good news with because you want to share good news with people who are going to be genuinely happy for you and that's one way that you can identify those people who are on your side be careful who you share bad news with because that's equally tricky you know you you you want someone who will listen to you when you're having trouble and allow you your grief especially if it's a consequence of something tragic and who won't try to one-up you you know because often when you're talking to people they'll be thinking about what they have to say that's worse and that's not helpful if you need a listening ear make one room in your house as beautiful as possible I talked a lot about already about the necessity of cleaning your room which is you know in some sense of foolish piece of advice because it seems so obvious but it's not obvious at all and you'll find if you try it especially if you're in a household that's not very functional that you'll encounter obstacles that you couldn't imagine existed while you're trying to put your life in order and you can take your surroundings beyond order and and and move towards beauty and that's unbelievably useful another sunrise provides another opportunity for you to undo the unwise things that you did that almost led to your academic demise since health as well you exercise your option to revise your study habits and to the surprise of not only you but all of your instructors and advisors you all of a sudden appeared smarter and wiser see they had you flagged for failure but never had the heart to tell you [Music] I know so many students can relate to the struggles in this story but very few ever overcome and achieve the glory because so many fit until the low is me category instead of the OS me category which nine out of ten times it is so you're the one that keeps getting to class late you're the one who decided not to study because you had that date you're the one that never asks questions and keeps making mistake after mistake after mistake you're the one that keeps making excuse after excuse after excuse for why your academic status is in an unsatisfactory State so the question I have for you why are you even enrolled in school if you have no desire to try think another reason it's because she forgot about you and this is the very moment I need you to go stand in front of a mirror and look yourself item it's hard shoot because you were born with great is embedded in your soul you were born with a gift to share in a phenomenal story to be told you were born with a will to succeed and the brilliance to create and achieve goals you were born to be mentally and physically rich and receive your pot of gold but up to this point your storms have not produced the rainbow and that's it's time for you to take a different angle a different approach so right now I'm your new mentor I'm your new coach and I'm not here to stroke your ego I'm gonna get you away from them turkeys and back to soar with them Eagles because you forget that you said your wife was to be the first one from your family to graduate with honors you said your wife was to never again be average and to do that you had to be a scholar you said your wife was you fill in the blank and let that be all the fuel that you need to put back in your tank and now that you realized I expect you to quickly rise up your class ring and get back on track to graduate which means more money in the bank you can thank me later but right now you got to pay for this too and you got to do what you got to do which means focus concentration and execution until you get through so this is the moment that your gray skies of academia turn blue [Music] you told all your slack and friends to do them because your back to do you because you refuse to being at 57% of students that don't graduate on time your light was still in flickering but now it's about to shine they might not like it but they got a respected greatness requires planning so you created a daily success checklist because you were failing miserably because you were unprepared in reckless Fred and so you had a one-on-one with your advisor and even visited your own campus career spatulas because you would never fall even in the winter spring awesome through all your pitfalls and blunders you kept down easy even if it was gonna be so this is for any student who feels like their life and school balance is unbearable for any student who feels like in a certain class they're just doing terrible any student feels like the damage to that grade is not repairable any student who feels that giving up is acceptable because giving up is unacceptable and for an incredible individual like you I know you're human and the times you will be skeptical but please believe me when I say any mistake you made it's correctable and you just have to remember you have impeccable strength to power through and overcome any hardship so let this propel lift and give you the inner fight to remember your why and your gift and help you create that mental shift that allows you to pick yourself right back up whenever you slip and remember all of your files and trips are preparing you for that magical trip and the ultimate feeling of satisfaction and elation you'll get when you walk across that stage with your arms held high get your diploma and throw your cap up in the sky spray the celebrates job well done it's what that moment will signify you are an unbreakable force and don't you never ever ever forget that this is a great day too you're never gonna be great if you don't look for the 5% you know I think that you can pick up from from talking to me that I'm not on a different level okay these are pretty simple basic tools and so nobody out there is listening to him and saying god or he's just he's just using words and he's just so much smarter than me so I'm not going to become worth five billion dollars that book is bull okay he's just naturally smarter than me I think you can see that I'm no smarter than anybody else in this room I just used certain little basic tools to be successful every day take the word no out of your vocabulary worried about your customer no spare customers use the ninety five five rule separate yourself from everybody else be the bull at whatever you do and on and on and on well you just got to keep punching and just take care of your business and you just realize until they come and shut you down or lock the doors or you can't get product or whatever until you can't make a payroll you'd be surprised what you can take though and and you just keep punching and punching and believe it or not times you know get good and it goes back to what I once again preach when times are really bad we forget there ever gonna be good again and when times are really good we forget they're gonna be bad again I don't fear anything but I'll worry about everything and the day you stop worrying in good times the paddle will get your behind and and and so his greatest things are in life and I know your own a few steps or a few incidents away from something bad happening you can never forget it I'm taking the next steps right now to get to the next level because always that's my sport let's go play pick-up basketball let's go to the office and play business and that's what I do every day I go to the office and play business you got to know what you know and what you don't know and and I knew that I understood business you know I think you know if you know business or not and people ask me should I go get my MBA and you know what I usually tell them you know if you need to go get your MBA if you don't have it inside of you and you understand economics and finance and and operations and business then you need to go get it I knew that I didn't need it it was just a god-given gift you've got to know your god-given gifts and everybody has it everybody in this room has it right here so do what you know was your god-given gift and find a way to use that as your path know your numbers no matter what business you're looking at always know your numbers number to realize that we're not successful if that consumer does not come to us whether they're eating in your restaurants where they're playing in your casino and and and whether if you don't have a good product on that basketball court the fans are not going to come and buy those tickets the sponsors aren't going to come and therefore you're not going to have the money to pay for those good players next year you're not gonna go to pay russell westbrook and james horan each forty million dollars a year you've got to always remember we're only as good as that's taking care of that consumer one of the things I teach everybody especially my kids don't assume anything I people think if somebody walks in and gives you an answer that it's the right answer and and and even when I tell somebody to do something I don't assume they went and did it all I asked him a week later did you do that that I asked you to do because that was really important to me oh my gosh I didn't do that and I think that's the biggest mistake people make is don't assume that everything's running right don't assume anything you can go to work every day and separate yourself from anybody else and it's no different than the sound guy on this set if you pick up you know what this sound guy is really really good and he's worried about this and he's worried about that then all of a sudden you tell somebody you need a good sound guy this and then they end up on this person because of a recommendation all of a sudden this guy is known as the best sound guy in LA because he's paying attention or she's paying attention to details that the other sound people don't know you know what I hear an ambulance out there let's cut it you know just the little little little bitty things and I just think that it's easy to separate yourself from anybody else no matter what your position is if if you go to work for a company and you don't go up the corporate ladder it's your fault thanks for tuning in to this video sponsored by the good folks at Skillshare if you like great deals like I do make sure you click the link in the description right below this video I'm very excited about today's book the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People your mission statement makes you the leader of your own life you create your own destiny and secure the future you envision is this abundance mentality that is so important for creating success it's because most people listen with the intent to reply not to understand if I can go there in the mind I can go there in the body one thing that's absolutely important to creating an innovation is diversity Golden Nugget number one be proactive your life doesn't just happen whether you know it or not it's carefully designed by you and the choices you make you choose to be happy you choose to be sad you choose to make fast decisions and stick to them you choose to waver on your decisions you choose success you choose failure you choose courage you choose fear just remember that every moment every situation provides you an opportunity to make a brand new choice in your life and when you do that it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results being proactive is about taking responsibility for your life you can't keep blaming everything on your parents or on your grandparents on your siblings proactive people recognize that they are what Covey calls response able they don't blame genetics circumstances conditions or conditioning for their behavior they know they choose their behavior reactive people on the other hand are often affected by their physical environment they find external sources to blame for their behavior if the weather is good they feel good if the weather is crap they feel like crap all of these external forces that are outside of our mind that are outside of our control they act as stimulus that we respond to now between the stimulus and the response is your greatest power you have the freedom to choose your response one of the most important things you choose is what you say your language is a good indicator of how you see yourself a proactive person uses proactive language I can I will I prefer so on and so forth a reactive person uses reactive language I can't or I have to or if only reactive people believe they are not responsible for what they say and do they don't have a choice instead of reacting to or worrying about conditions of which they have little to no control proactive people focus their time and their energy on things that they can control the problems challenges and opportunities we face all fall into two areas the circle of concern and the circle of influence proactive people they focus their efforts their time their energies on the circle of influence they work on the things they can do something about their health their children their parents problems at work reactive people on the other hand they focus the majority of their efforts in the circle of concern things that have very little control over when you gain an awareness of the areas that you spend most of your energy that's how you can make the first step in becoming a proactive person golden nugget number two is based on imagination the ability to envision in your mind which you can't at present times see with your eyes it's based on the principle that all things are created twice there's the mental creation which is first and then the second which is physical creation the physical creation follows the mental just as a building follows a blueprint if you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are in what you want in life then you empower other people and other circumstances around you to shape you and your life by default and you don't want to do that you want to be in control it's about connecting again with your own uniqueness and then defining the personal moral and ethical guidelines within which you can most happily express and fulfill yourself begin with the end in mind means to begin each day each task or each project each relationship with a clear vision of your desired direction and destination and then continue by flexing your proactive muscles to make things happen golden nugget number three put first things first to live a more balanced life you have to recognize that not doing everything that comes along it's okay there's no need to overextend yourself all it takes is realizing that it's alright to say no one necessary and then focus on your highest priorities habit one says you're in charge you're the creator being proactive is about choice habit 2 is the first or mental creation beginning with the end in mind it's all about vision habit 3 is the second creation the physical creation this habit is where habits 1 & 2 come together it happens day in and day out moment by moment it deals with many of the questions address in the field of time management but that's not what it's all about habit 3 is about life management as well your purpose values roles and priorities what are first things to you Golden Nugget number four think win-win now think win-win it's not about being nice and it's definitely not a quick fix technique it's a character based code for human interaction and collaboration most of us learn to base our self-worth on comparisons and competition we think about succeeding in terms of someone else failing that is if I win you lose and if you win I lose with this type of thinking life becomes a zero-sum game there is only so much pie to go around and if you get a big piece there's gonna be less for me it's not fair we all play the game but how much fun is it really win-win sees life as a cooperative arena not a competitive one win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions win-win means agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying a person or organization that approaches conflicts with a win-win attitude possesses three vital character traits integrity sticking with your true feelings values and commitments maturity expressing your ideas and feelings with courage and consideration for the ideas and feelings of others and finally abundance mentality believing there is plenty to go around for everyone to go for win-win you not only have to be empathetic but you have to also be confident you not only have to be considerate and sensitive you also have to be brave to achieve that balance between courage and consideration is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to this win-win philosophy Golden Nugget number five seek first to understand then to be understood communication is the most important skill in life you spend years learning how to read how to write in years learning how to speak but what about listening what training have you had that enables you to listen so you really deeply understand another human being probably none right if you're like most people you probably seek first to be understood you want to get your point across and in doing so you may ignore the other person completely pretend that you're listening selectively hear only certain parts of the conversation or focus only on the words being said not the meaning of the words so why does this happen it's because most people listen with the intent to reply not to understand you listen to yourself as you prepare in your mind what you're going to say next the questions you're gonna ask et cetera etc you filter everything you hear through your life experiences and through your frame of reference you check which you tear against your autobiography and see how it measures up and consequently you decide prematurely what the other person means before he or she finishes communicating golden nugget number six synergize now put simply synergy means two heads are better than one synergize is the habit of creative cooperation it's teamwork open-mindedness and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems but it doesn't just happen on its own it's a process and through that process people bring all their personal experience and expertise to the table together they can produce far better results that they could not do individually synergy lets us discover jointly things we are much less likely to discover by ourselves it's the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts when people begin to interact together genuinely and they're open to each other's influence they begin to gain new insight do you truly value the mental emotional and physiological differences among people or do you wish everyone would just agree with you so you could all just get along differences should be seen as strengths not weaknesses they add zest to life last but certainly not least golden nugget number seven sharpen your saw now sharpen the saw means preserving and enhancing the greater asset you have you it means having a balanced program for self renewal in the four areas of your life physical social emotional mental and spiritual now here are some examples of different activities physical beneficial eating exercising and resting social emotional making social and meaningful connections with others friends family mental learning reading writing teaching spiritual spending time in nature expanding spiritual self through meditation music arts prayer service as you renew yourself in each of the four areas you create growth and change in your life sharpen the saw keeps you fresh so you can continue to practice the other six habits you increase your capacity to produce and handle the challenges around you when you sharpen your saw without this renewal the body becomes weak the mind mechanical emotions raw the spirit insensitive and the person selfish feeling good it just doesn't happen feeling good is something you have to work on living a life in balance means taking the necessary time to renew yourself again it's all up to you it's all in your circle of influence it's something you control you can renew yourself through relaxation or you can totally burn yourself out by overdoing everything just remember that every day provides a new opportunity for renewal a new opportunity to recharge yourself instead of hitting the wall all it takes is the desire knowledge and skill to know how to do it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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