ONE OF THE BEST MOTIVATION EVER (Eric Thomas 2018)

listen to me very carefully can i say this they sell cars they sell homes you can get those we're wired differently we have to set a goal that if we hit that goal we're guaranteed to make sure all that other stuff in the middle is going to happen all right so i need to do me a huge favor i i i need you your appetite so e.t why three o'clock in the morning why don't you sleep my appetite my appetite i say e.t i want more i can do more if i accomplish this without a father what if i accomplished this with my mom being a teenage mom if i accomplished this as a high school dropout now that i have people like glenn in my life now that i have people like bob proctor in my life now that i have people like john maxwell in my life what can i accomplish now if i can accomplish these things from this start now that i'm at this place knowing what i know now what can i count and i want you to think about that i want you to think about more than just what you're going to do financially more than what you're going to do in this industry in the next three years right more than that i ask you the question what's your appetite what are you going to do that will ensure that when the alarm clock goes off that you are already up 10-20 minutes before your alarm clock blows up why you've heard me say it before no alarm clock needed my passion wakes me up listen to me no alarm clock needed when glenn said six o'clock i don't know how it happened jet lag and all went to sleep about three and the body just boom 540 woke me up hey guys it's time to get up we got to go to the lobby at six o'clock nine o'clock a.m call 11 o'clock our time i don't know what happened but boom five minutes before 11 the body woke me up no alarm i haven't used an alarm clock in over 20 years what is it internally aired i want to be successful i want to execute i want to make all my dreams become a reality i want to do everything i said i'm going to do so my appetite increases it gets stronger every year i want more every year i want to do more every i want to help more every year i want to be bolder i want to be better i want to be stronger every single year every single year your appetite should go up you should never get settled you should never get settled you should never get content every single year i told you i've been married for 24 years so you think after 24 years e.t could just go to australia right and just chill no no i'm asking my wife what are you wearing before i leave because i want to iron your clothes for the 11 days when i leave what are you wearing i call my son i need you to make sure the meal prep i need to make sure the bed is clean and everything i do some i need you to do it and i'll give you a couple i wire you a couple dollars so i want just take a picture of it and i'll wire you why because when you get content when you settle somebody's chasing you somebody's coming from behind and somebody's trying to take your spot and so every single day when you wake up you got to set new goals new benchmarks you got to raise the higher and higher and higher so you can make your dreams become a reality all right i'm gonna show you i'm gonna show you listen to me a true hunter watch me watch me a true hunter is wired differently he's wired differently doesn't have the same makeup listen to me what makes a gazelle a gazelle is how he's wired what makes a lion a lot okay let me explain to you when a lion sees a gazelle and the gazelle sees the lion both bees see each other at the exact same time when the gazelle sees the lion because of how he's wired he automatically fear takes over when the lion sees the gazelle he lights up it's show time the hunt is on this is what i was made for and if you've ever studied a lion [Music] and it's natural environment watch this guys if an animal is wounded the lion won't even do what it won't attack the lion will only attack if it's the real if it's healthy and it's running it's like all right here we go now all right if a light like oh the gazelle was like oh the lilac let him go it's no fun in that he's already dead right for real there's some of you there opportunities that you're like it's too difficult it's too hard nobody can do it you're not wired properly a lion welcomes the challenge as a matter of fact they don't get excited unless it is a challenge wire differently because they'll immediately when a gazelle immediately sees a lion the first thing it thinks about is let's go first thing the lion does like let's eat so you gotta do me a huge favor if you're gonna get to a certain level you gotta welcome it so so everybody's like e.t man you're so positive everything in your life man you just you just got it going on i'm a real lion and with a real lion you'll never know you'll never know what's going on in my life because i'm a lion and under every single circumstance i'm a lion so i lost five odds to cancer in the last six years i lost two last year lying still tg i am still [Music] you never said you never saw this is a special service announcement from eric thomason eta my aunts have died therefore we'll be taking a six-month hiatus from tgim no actually my eyes death made me go and do tgim like i never did it before most of you heard the mixtape not over not even a year ago went to the doctor's office with my wife look guys you always know something's wrong when the doctor when it takes your physician like 45 minutes to 50 to come in like something doesn't take that long physician comes in puts up the x-ray shows my wife points to the brain and said we found seven legions on your brain i'm a lion my wife looked at the doctor the doctor looked at my wife my wife looked at me i'm like i don't have four you know i have seven liters on my brain why is my wife looking at me because she like you a lion and you're gonna be able to tell me if i can get through this or not and so my wife looks at me i'll be honest with you guys when they first told us she had seven leaves on the break she didn't break she didn't break a sweat but then they said you have to stop working till we find out what it is and she said how long said three months six months she started i got to stop working because she's a she's a beast so the disease didn't bother her but the fact that you can't hunt anymore that bothered me so my wife looks at me and says what god no words but she kind of looks at me like okay this is terrible we've been together since we were 16. you've helped me to get out of everything what now i said we can we will we must we got a son graduating from college you need to be there we got a daughter that's going to finish high school in two years you need to be there you can get through this oh i'm wired differently i started crying i didn't say why me why my wife i'm doing good to the world i'm not hurting anybody why me i'm wired differently we a t-shirt came from it a video came from it that has over a million hits that inspired people called what i can i will i must turn it into a t-shirt we turn tragedy into triumph we turn try that's what lions do lions don't cry lions don't give up lions don't quit lions hearts that's what we do for a living and if you are a true lion it does not make a difference what the circumstances is so what we're in the recession we made more money in the recession than we've ever made before as a matter of fact it was the recession that birthed us we welcome the recession uh y'all need a motivator now more than you've ever needed one before it's a recession guess what it's show time this is where my gift is needed the most the ch the world is in a fix i got it listen to me very closely if you're gonna walk three years glenn said it three years that dream that you have that money that you want if you're gonna make it happen you're gonna have to be wired differently it's only one other cat from detroit that made it out we both went to college in huntsville alabama he still lives there but out of the 20 guys that used to run together only two of us made it out of the city and only one of us are doing big things now listen to me a lot of people you meet in life will talk it a lot of people talk about what they want to do and how they want to get four points and i laughed because when we do aop when we do open house and the students come from detroit flint saginaw and we say you know what kind of grades everybody named mama write a 4.0 i never seen a student right i'm going to get a 2.0 in math everybody do the 3.5 4.0 but the reality is at the end of the first semester when we get the grades back very few kids get 4.00 very few get 3.5 i never see anybody right i'm going to get in math 103 a 1.0 but yet at the end of the semester midterm when i'm doing mid-term eval i'm seeing like 1.00 one fives zeros i got a couple people coming in 1825 zeroes i'm like i don't remember nobody putting zero down so you need to understand before i talk about this you need to understand that what i'm about to tell you to do i did it i lived it so if you want to make six figures you can't just be talking about you want to make six figures you hear what i'm saying to you tonight if you do the three things i tell you to do tonight i guarantee you whatever it is you want to do in life you'll be able to do now let's get away from money i got to get deep with you let's get away from money nobody in my family has ever really been married they don't do the married thing right here can you hear what i'm saying somebody can attest to that raise your hand if your family don't do the marriage thing raise your hand people in your family they don't do the married thing now watch this i've been married happily for 14 years and i've been married for 16. all right so i only had two rough years but in order to get to 16 let me tell you something my marriage is so man i'm telling you it's so butter tight i was see i might not they might not be mature for this or not but last night i was me and my wife was slow dancing about eight o'clock at night to luther that's where my relationship is it's the middle of the day people don't do that during the middle of the week they might do it on the weekend we slow dancing on monday i ain't watching monday night football i don't even care nothing about monday night football cause i'm with luke dan's with my father my family they don't do the marriage thing but i bowed when i was a teenager that not only am i gonna get married i'm only marrying one person for the rest of my life but i'm telling you in order to do that you gotta go deep you just can't live no a normal life and get to that level so three things real quick i'm gonna share with you now deandre told you last week that you should be writing stuff down don't come here if you're not going to write it down because it don't make sense you're getting some free stuff from the bulk of us that people pay thousands of dollars for c will tell you i've gone to la this summer and for two days they gave me 15 grand that was only for consulting that wasn't for speaking when i walked away from la i walked away with 20 grand how many people you know make 20 g's in two days that's like ten thousand dollars a day and was i working hard no i wasn't working hard why because i got the secret right here i found out i shouldn't even be giving it to you tonight for free oh he was working hard he right but i gave him a little check he got a little check all right he'll get a bigger one next year all right but three things i'm about to say these three things this is not about eric thomas listen to me these are principles that have stood the test of time principles that have stood the test of time and if you do what i'm about to tell you right now you will be able to accomplish whatever you want to academically financially relationally whatever so three things all right i'm gonna tell you this story i gotta get out of here the first one is when i first said i want to make six figures my boy marcus flowers who's probably making seven figures right now he came to l.a too he was with us in la you see all the videos with all the stars those are his cars they're driving around in you see the houses that the rappers those are his houses in atlanta that he owns and they come in and play on so he's making seven he taught me how to make money this is the first thing he came he told me a story and the story is about you guys have probably heard about this before it was a it was a young man who you know he wanted to make a lot of money and so he went to this guru right and he told the guru you know i want to be on the same level you are and so the guru said if you want to be on the same level i'm on i'll meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4 00 a.m he liked the beach i said i want to make money i don't want to swim guru said if you want to make money i'll meet you tomorrow 4 a.m so the young man got there at 4 00 a.m he already rock and roll got on the suit he should have worn shorts the old man grabs his hand said how bad do you want to be successful he said real bad he said walk on out in the water so he walks out into the water watch this when he walks onto the water it goes ways deep so he like this guy crazy adrian like i want to make money he got me out here swimming i didn't ask to be a lifeguard i want to make money he got me so he said come on a little further walked out a little further then he had it right around this area to show the area so this old man crazy he making money but he crazy he said come on out a little further came a little farther it was right at his mouth my man like i'm about to go back in here this god is mine so the old man said i thought you said you wanted to be successful he said i do he said walk a little further he came dropped his head in held him down hold him down my man getting scratching holding him down i got you i know you brushed it out but i got you you had him held down i needed you for illustration he had him held down just before my man was about to pass out he raised him up he said i got a question for you somebody answered the question for me he said when you were under water what did you want to do i'm looking for a different word though then lip what's that word said i wanted to breathe he told the guy he said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful [Music] i don't know how many y'all got asthma here today but if you ever had an asthma attack before you short of breath sob shortness of breath you wheezing the only thing you're trying to do is get some air you don't care about no basketball game you don't care what's on tv you don't care about nobody calling you you don't care about a party the only thing you care about when you're trying to breathe is to get some fresh air that's it and when you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful and i'm here to tell you number one that most of you say you want to be successful but you don't want it bad you just kind of want it you don't want it better than you want to party you don't want it as much as you want to be cool you most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep some of you love sleep more than you love success and i'm here to tell you today if you're going to be successful you've got to be willing to give up sleep you got to be willing to work off for three hours of sleep two hours if you really want to be successful some days you will have to stay up three days in a row because if you go to sleep you might miss the opportunity to be successful that's how bad you got to want it you got to go days without listen to me you got to want to be successful so bad that you forget to eat beyonce said once she was on the set doing her thing three days had gone by she forgot she didn't eat because she was engaged i never forget uh when 50 cent was doing this movie i did a little research on 50 and 50 said that when he wasn't doing the movie he was doing the soundtrack and they said when do you sleep 50 sleep he says sleep sleep is for those people who are broke i don't sleep he said i got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality football players how many football players got anybody like football in here raise your hand anybody like football emmy schmidt i used to be a cowboy fan before they did my boy tom landry wrong i used to be a cowboy fan and watch this there was a commercial emma smith had won his first super bowl and he had this commercial when he was lifting weights i don't know if you saw the commercial when he was lifting and he said he said emmitt said you know what i won a super bowl so i can rest now yeah you do doing this bench press so he said i want a super bowl so i can rest now so he throws up about 325 boom and he rests for about two seconds then you see that he'd already won a super bowl he said i think i'm gonna take a rest and he rests for how long one second most of you won't be successful because when you're studying and you get tired you quit and i'm here to tell you today if you got somebody came to my office the other day crying i said look don't cry to give up try to keep going don't cry to quit you already in pain you already hurt get a reward from it don't go to sleep until you succeed listen to me i'm here to tell you today that you can come here you can jump up you can do flips you can be excited when we give away money but listen to me you'll never be successful until i don't have to give you a dime to do what you do [Music] you won't be successful until you say i don't need that money cause i got it in here so listen to me emma smith said this at the end of the commercial emmitt smith said all men are created equal some work harder in pre-season i'mma say it again because you might have missed it all men are created equal some work harder in pre-season so that means that there are some people who are going to see the professor going to see the ta and even when the professor says i don't meet with you my ta meets with you you say i want to talk to your t.a that's what it is i don't pay the ta i pay you to teach me so you're gonna have to find some time to meet me if i got to meet you at the mall if i got to meet you at your house you are going to see me listen to me all men are created equal some work hard in preseason when i went to college guys were way smarter than me 4.0 3.0 they went to the ivy league high schools came to oakwood from these great high schools most of them are not doing what i'm doing why because it's not about where you come from it's about hearts you come to a place where you know being smart ain't enough you got to have hearts that's number one watch number two number two catch number two i wrote a dial i want to make sure you got it it says to be watch this watch this we're talking about sacrifice now the important thing is this you're right and why i'm saying it because i only have about three more minutes listen to me the most important thing is this to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become that's the number two thing you got to catch that one to be able to listen to me at any moment some of you you can make sacrifices when monday night football is not on you can make a sacrifice but when the game come on for some reason you just attach to it for some of you when your favorite show come on you you can be you can make sacrifices on sunday when ain't nothing going on but when your favorite show comes on monday bam some of you you focus into the phone ring and you like i gotta answer it if i don't answer the phone i'm gonna die i'm saying to you today that there are some of you if you give up your cell phone you will be successful but your cell phone is more important to you than your success i'm gonna say it again i'm gonna hurt somebody i'm gonna hurt somebody some of you need to give up your cell phone because the time you spend on your cell phone could be used for your success the time you could be using to be successful you're using it on the sale and the cell phone is not bringing you nothing but a bill and somebody has told you you couldn't live without it i'm talking about going deep now giving up stuff watch what it says to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could be i don't do well in math you're right you ain't never studied i'm not good in writing because you have never written before but i dare you to fail in writing for a whole year to see if you can get to the end i dare you to fail i dare you to take that same class over and over again i dare you to stop dropping classes like you saw always want to give up i'm dropping why are you dropping i'm so grateful that the slaves didn't drop and quit say i'm just going to stop i'm a slave i'm just going to be a slave i'ma quit listen to me the slave said we will live because one day we will become we won't always be slaves so today although we're slaves we're going to act like we free and one day our children will be free if the slaves would have just said we quit we give up we would have died in the middle passage but some slaves said i don't care what we go through we're going to survive this 400 years of slavery we're going to get through this and you can't get through 18-25 you can't get through a writing class and you got tutor after tutor resource after resource the problem is you ain't never felt no pain before you're soft it's a soft generation you quit on everything our people did not quit harry and tubman not only made it she went back and got some more she said you know what i made it but i'm gonna walk all listen to me shh not ride the bus i'm gonna walk all the way back down to the south to get some more and you quitting on 1825 now watch this you quit after you listen to me you get a sleeping bag and you wait for them you wait for the first wra instructor to come in and you come out your sleeping bag i need help [Music] you quit after you do that you quit after you had listen to me uh wra party i'm i'm having a party everybody come over i got food everything and let them get over there let it be all the best writers all right a food y'all i wanna have a writing party i'm serious you quit then you ain't even tried yet last one i'm sorry last one listen to me pain is temporary it may last for a minute or an hour or a day or even a year but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place if i quit however it will last forever listen to me i'm telling you as i leave telling you as i leave i was homeless for two and a half years and the problem with most of you you never felt no pain before y'all spoiled y'all spoiled some of y'all spoiled just bottom line your parents have done everything for you you never had to do nothing for yourself you're spoiled we're gonna keep it real tonight some of you are spoiled brats every time you ever got in trouble somebody in your house got you out of it every time you've done something you're not supposed to do people say eric your mother's a tyrant you're right she kicked me out you're right she's mean but she developed a man because she put me out there and said you're gonna have to grow up and some of you have never learned to grow up and so every time something gets hard you quit you call mama i dare you to take a little pain i dare you i dare you not to go home somebody said i don't go home i feel bad go through it you ain't gonna die at the end of pain it's success you're not gonna die because you're feeling a little pain i'm not eating like i eat at home that's why you're about to go to the next level because if you keep eating like you head at home you'll keep being a boy or a girl it's time to become man woman so don't don't worry about a little pain my greatest asset is i was homeless so i can't feel a whole lot of pain i've already been alone there's not a whole lot a lot not a whole lot of hurt i can feel on a little paper on a little test so i leave you i leave you listen to me we have gotten to a point where it's midterms and we're moving forward the days of you getting money i'm not saying we quitting but i'm saying today has got to go from external to internal you have to give it everything you got no more tv no more parties no more playing if you don't have a 4.0 what you need to be doing is studying get off the phone i'm sorry i'm not available until the end of this year [Music] now i'm for real you reach the right number but you call me at the wrong time call me back january 1st about to get busy now huh i want you to have a countdown of your own and say when the countdown is over with the real watching me because when i was homeless i knew something's wrong i knew that wasn't the best of me and one day i said will the real eric thomas please stand up would a real eric thomas please stand up stop being this high school dropout stop giving up stop sleeping on the street stop walking up and down finco avenue like you ain't got nothing and get your ged stop being afraid to take a test stop being afraid to go to college cause your daddy didn't go and your mama didn't go stop being afraid and be the best eric thomas you can be but listen to me it's going to be hard it took me 12 years to get a four-year degree but i got it and guess what on a degree it don't have dates so if it took you four and it took me 12 it don't show up nowhere but i'm exactly where i wanted to be because i realized i gotta commit my very being to this thing i gotta i gotta breathe it i gotta eat it i gotta sleep it and until you get there you'll never be successful in life but once you get there i guarantee you the world is yours so work hard and you can have whatever it is you want you will not quit in the universe you will keep going in your business you may lose but you will not stop you will not quit you will keep going i also told my wife you wrote this this this disease will not defeat us this disease will not break us it will make us better and everybody that knows my family knows that we took a chronic illness and we took our family to a whole other level we took a chronic illness and we took our marriage to another level we took a chronic illness and we beat it and we will continue to beat it until we destroy it and to annihilate it until she no longer has it are you hearing what i'm saying you cannot stop you cannot quit i remember we came home from the hospital the doctor gave her a long needle like that i said how long did she have to do it she said she has to do it every day i said okay every day for how long she said every day for the rest of her life i said i will not accept that there are things in your life that you are accepting because somebody told you that accepted i don't care if you're a doctor i will not accept that we will not we will not shoot her with what we will not give her a shot with that needle every single day for the rest of her life three months later i got a call that says that now it's a little shorter and you only have to do it three times a week as opposed to every day that's what i told them i'm grateful i still won't i'll still accept that you think that because it's only three i would be excited i will not accept it stop accepting everything stop letting people tell you what you can and cannot do i will not accept it i don't care if you're a doctor i will not accept it we kept doing our homework and we found out about appeal that you can take i was like that's what we need we need to feel and i find like the pill shrinks the legions on your brain i went to the doctor she said i would have told you about it but um i don't think your insurance company is going to be willing to pay for is ten thousand dollars a month hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year insurance company denied my wife went back the second time they did not told my life stop begging i'm 120 do i give you 10 dollars a month or do i give you a hundred twenty thousand dollars now to get it for the year i will not i will not let my wife whatever it takes i will not let her take the i will give 120 i will speak more i will get better i will get degrees i will get training i'll do whatever it takes i will put your health first and you will not be defeated you will not be destroyed you will not use a cane you will not be in a wheelchair we will beat this some of you in this room you are not able to activate your greatness because every time a trial or tribulation comes you fold you give up everybody every time somebody calls you and tell you you can't do it you take it personal every time somebody tells you you don't have what it dates you embrace it and now you gotta stand up to it i never been one time with my wife i never felt discouraged i never felt that it wasn't possible my wife told me just a couple days ago she says today i feel like i felt before i got ms she had a weekend when she felt great and i told her it's for a weekend today but soon it will be for the rest of your life we will not break we will not retreat we will not give up we will activate our greatness and we will know what it's like to live the 120 say i will live to 120 come on i will live to 120 come on i went from being homeless eating out of trash cans traveling first class thousand dollars in engagement back at home every star nba nfl whatever i consult them i went from being a high school driver a lot because i said don't get much money i need you guys to be 124 all right last one all right so most of you may know this guy michael jordan this is this is so important all right because there are three types of people they're average they're good they're great now the average didn't have to activate anything to be average averages it comes with the body when you're born average just comes it's a part of the package right everybody starts there average then you go from average you activate good and then you activate great and michael jordan was considered one of the greatest nba players that ever played in the game why because he had more championship than anybody in this particular year great great great is not okay i gotta put this in perspective for you because michael jordan has six this is critical kobe bryant has five there's another guy tim duncan who has five magic johnson has five listen to me he has i just told you he's a great he's considered the greatest player that ever played basketball this guy has six championships i just told you magic has five kobe has five tim duncan has five and nobody's saying they're the greatest player that ever played in the game he does not have 20 more than the next guy he does not have five more than the next guy he only has one more but that one more makes him great it does not take a lot to be great it just means that you do a little bit more than the average person that you were around it doesn't mean you have to be a god that you have to be a beast it just means that you're doing more than the average person that's in your circle so i love tony robbins while i love les brown while i love bob parker i realized it was one thing they didn't have when i did my homework and none of them have advanced degrees so i said if i get an advanced degree i put myself they all wrote books they're all on youtube they all travel the world but they don't have advanced degrees and by getting one or two advanced degrees i can separate myself from those guys why because even if i lose my career i can be a professor at a university i can move to australia and become a professor at a university right here melbourne championship just a couple more to the next person just six just one more than the average other guy that could have been great now what's so important this guy this guy in the one of the greatest games like the grand final he's in the grand final in the nba he's in the grand final and he's sick he has the flu he's running the temperature of 102 degrees and he's dehydrated this is michael jordan one of the great the last game this guy is dehydrated this guy's running a fever but yet he's still playing the game he still shows up when the average player is sick they don't show up this guy is sick and he shows up and in the nba back at home the average player scores 16 points this guy scores 38 points with the food this guy scores 38 points dehydrated they're calling more timeouts than ever called before they're dragging him to the sideline and they're giving him fluids and he comes back in and scores 38 points to win his sixth championship and so i started doing my homework and i asked how do you get 120 when you sick how do you get 120 with the flu and you're playing against the great teams on the other side like it's not like a regular game this is you playing the best of the best and you still put up 38 points this is what i realized guys it's called muscle memory when you do something every single day every single day all day no days off no plays off when you're the first one in and the last one to leave even when you're sick your body reproduces what you do regularly and even though michael jordan was sick because he was never average his body didn't even know how to produce average even when he was sick his body gave him back greatness you're wondering why you can't get to that next level while there's a glass ceiling because sometimes you take days off and you take plays off and if you're going to take over the south coast you're going to have to no days off no play you're going to take the weft you're going to have no days off no plays off you're going to want everybody else to sleep you're going to have to be up and that's how i got here i get up at 3 o'clock in the morning that's how i got here i'm giving away free content that's how i die here you

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