THIS IS WHY I SUCCEED - MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO - GYM MOTIVATION

you're not a hero in your own eyes you're not you're not someone who you respect you know you're doing what you got to do to get by but ultimately you're not respecting yourself and I think we all have a certain amount of appreciation and respect for hero figures you know like we all look at like the guy who never lies and it always does the right thing and [ __ ] helps everybody out and that's the John Wayne character you know that's that's the ultimate hero and he's like this is a battle that you will fight for the rest of your life but the key is to fight it not to give in don't give in to that resistance to fight just to fight that resistance and in doing so every day you do so you have won the battle for that day and you will continue to fight that battle and when you look at your own life and you don't stack up you're a thief you stole money from your wife's purse and you know you don't want to smoke cigarettes but you [ __ ] have to you can't deal with the stress and smoke you devalue yourself you slowly start devaluing yourself you look at yourself you realize that if you were judging yourself you would judge yourself on failure so no matter who you you can't pretend you're the hero of your story you can be the hero of your own story that woke up today you could be the hero of your own story that at forty years of age stopped got out of bed and said I'm not doing this anymore only by my instincts and only by my morals and my ideals and my mind and I'm gonna be dead honest with myself because I'm realizing this is not gonna last forever and I'm gonna get myself in shape but I'm gonna eat healthy and I'm gonna do this because this is this is me now [Music] I decided this is me and people have to realize that you are not your past you are not all the times you [ __ ] up they're not all the times you were drunk [Music] that's not yet what you you are the person who's learned from a great deal of experience when you're alone with your thoughts you get an idea of what your thoughts actually are you live your life just acting constantly on the momentum of other people's expectations of you wanting to be liked by these other people you can run into a trap and you you you set up a life that you didn't really want your life is certainly some sort of a journey it's certainly some sort of a journey you're trapped in this situation where you have a mortgage you've got credit-card bills you've got student loans you have to pay you have a bunch of [ __ ] going on you have to continue to feed and all that and especially if you have a family and you have to feed them oh my goodness then you're fully locked in you can't take any chances whatsoever and oftentimes people make the mistake of getting stuck and it is just a tactical mistake just like it would be a mistake if you got stuck on a video game just like it would be a mistake if you followed a map incorrectly and you get stuck in the woods your life is certainly some sort of a journey it's certainly some sort of a journey and we have to all be aware that when we're making journeys we're not going to always make the right steps and sometimes you have to back up and try again and if you're in a position where you can't back up and try again you've trapped yourself as people define themselves by the past instead of thinking about who they are now instead of they they still look back at a mistake they made and don't just get past that mistake grow and learn but dwell on it think it defines them I mean there's definitely pitfalls in life you're gonna run into him we all are know you can learn and grow if you survive somewhere along the line they didn't face enough of the adversity to realize that there's sometimes you just got to get up and get [ __ ] done there's sometimes we have to [ __ ] pull yourself up and you have to push forward even if you want to stay in bed having that safety net just provided him with a way to stay in bed kept him weak of an opportunity every time things go wrong every time things feel terrible you have an opportunity to learn from whatever makes you feel terrible and never allow it to happen again push forward the system will set out honey pots for people to get trapped in the system will set out the ideas of retirement the ideas of the golden years providing you benefits providing you a healthy work environment why well because they want people to work for them they don't want people to realize their own dreams and escape they want to set it up so that you stick around stick around some sort of an unsatisfying world it's up to you to see that video game problem to see that issue as it comes up on the map known I think this is a right turn to see all the problems that could potentially lay in front of you and calculate your your future and then also look around all the people that didn't do it and look at the misery that they're in and learn it you don't want to be like that and most people get stuck in these patterns or they define themselves on the person who doesn't follow through on their ideas or a person who doesn't pursue the real interests and loves you define yourself by that well you know I guess when I start things and I quit no you don't know you have started things and you quit and it gives you a horrible sense of regret that's made you define yourself by that you don't have to do that I look back on anything I've ever done mistakes ever made a paths that I you know what's something I put out that I didn't quite yeah maybe I waited three months before I released that or maybe I should have you know rieta to that blog post a couple more times for I put it online or things that I've done have driven me crazy but yelling at someone I didn't have to yell at them for whatever but the most important thing is always for all people to recognize that you're not who you were a year ago you're not who you were five years ago you're not who you were last week so you gotta regulate how much you dwell on regrets of the past you really got to be careful it's also directly proportionate to the amount of hardships that people face in life their ability to face hardships you know and there's a lot of folks that live life on a cushy cloud of marshmallows and [ __ ] and then one day something goes wrong and then look at the people that are have kind of taken chances and navigated their way what did they do differently [Music] what insight into their own mistakes are they willing to delve into that you're not that you step back and go you know I don't I just don't want to look at myself that closely but the person who's able to look at themselves the closest is gonna get the more rational results seize the day winning isn't everything it's the only thing do not wait for your ship to come in swim out to it when the going gets tough the tough get going you miss on our percent of the shots you know take if you can dream it you can do it wherever you go go with all your heart if man has done its best what else is there success is going from failure to fair without losing your enthusiam a few don't succeed try try again genius is 1% inspiration 99% perspiration I think I can I think I can I think I can there's no substitute for hard work willing is not enough we must do live the life you imagine do or do not there is no try action is foundational key to all success discouragement fair the two of the share of stepping-stone success that yours not to dream lies but to dream or to dream it all the time you don't know where we're going you will wind up somewhere else just do it I heard those quotes growing up all the time when I first heard something I memorized them others I wrote down but not one of them motivated me for more than a day or two it was a much less inspirational quote that inspired me from a much less famous person it was a doctor at UCLA he said Steve you've got inoperable tumors all over your liver worst-case scenario you have five years to live and I can't control the cards I'm dealt just how I play the hands if you need inspiring words don't do it today's talk is not about death it's about life and how to live specifically about childhood dreams and about how you can try to achieve them dreams will come to you if you live properly the dreams will come feed and I was dreaming always dreaming it was an easy time the dream when you turn on your television set and men are landing on the moon anything is possible and we should never lose that spirit okay bad news I cancer I was dying but I got more bad news you are all dying too and what are you dying to do don't skate forward any further in your life without answering that question [Music] you but I basically just given you all the same diagnosis I was given your time is limited and that's a real diagnosis so what now [Music] okay like most people when they're told they're dying you're probably going through the five stages of grief the first stage is denial I'm not dying I'm healthy stage 2 is anger stage 3 is bargaining okay we're all dying stage 4 is depression stage 5 the final stage is acceptance okay I'm not immortal [Music] so what now let me tell you what I did when I was told I might only have five years first of all I got a lot of advice a lot of friends want to help Brenda my wife told me that maybe this this news would give me a whole new perspective someone else told me that I should live every day like it was my last so what were my childhood dreams being in the national football news this is one of the childhood dreams I didn't achieve all right and it's very important to know that if you don't achieve your dreams you can still again a lot by trying for there's an expression I love experience is what you get when you don't get what you want but most wonderfully my parents did was they let me paint my bedroom I said one day I want to paint stuff on the walls and they said okay try it a rocketship and we lived in a ranch so I wanted an elevator I wasn't sure where it would go [Music] but the great thing is that they let me do it and they felt that letting me express my creativity was more important than the pristine nature of the walls the brick walls that are in our way are there for a reason they are not there to keep us out they are there to give us a way to show how much we want it [Music] but what I kept coming back to when I had time by myself and no one was giving me advice was my dreams the dreams I had put aside the ones that I thought I had plenty of time to reach but now that I realized I had a finite amount of time I'd ask myself what did I want to accomplish I'm not a worst-case scenario guy but if I really only had five years to live what was it that I wanted to make sure happen for me as a comedian it was a dream I had since I was 12 years old it was for my comedy on The Late Show with David Letterman so let me be clear before I move on I was a comedian already okay I was making a living at no day job full-time comedian making a good living and comedy clubs colleges corporate events around the world that was a pretty big feat in itself but six years into my comedy career I kind of stopped chasing the Letterman dream I was waiting for it to come to me I was waiting for some day not chasing it anyway that's a very important lesson for all of us mortals here today some day isn't on the calendar Friday Saturday Sunday that's on there about four times a month no someday but when it comes to our dreams it's probably the busiest day of the week cuz someday right so learning that lesson I just try it decided that I was gonna refocus my attention back on that tree I was going to pull out all the stops and I gave myself a goal of getting on Letterman within one year I was going to make someday happen I started yelling my dream to anyone who would listen started calling in every favor I was over I found out everyone who worked on the show and begged them to help me get it audition I even started asking people at comedy clubs after they see me to email the show and beg Dave to book and guess what I didn't make it my ironically named deadline came and went but I was so renewed about my dream and my newfound passion for it I decided to get myself in an extension one more year to get on letter didn't happen and then another nope sounds like bad news right well it was I would have loved to get on the show in that first year but something great happened over there those years those three years words meant dying they were spent living living a dream and let me tell you there is something if you've ever chased a dream you know that it lights a fire in your heart that whether you reach it or not it warms everyone around you and everything around you so I decided you know what I'm gonna keep going cuz that dream is so important you can't wait can't wait for some day to happen you need to make things you need to make things go out wouldn't the world be a better place if if we're all inspired if if the world wasn't full of uninspired people I know I felt better when I was inspired why do people stop chasing their dreams I don't think people choose to be uninspired [Music] why do you think people stop chasing their dreams everyone wants to achieve them why do people leave them behind it was a tough question to answer I wanted to give her an honest answer not some cliche response or a motivational line so I thought about it for a long time I knew that cancer it motivated me to pick my dream up again but why did I stop chasing it in the first place why does anyone stop well when the answer came to me was hard to swallow a little own spit out and say it loud but I told her we're all taught that life is tough life's a [ __ ] life is hard but it's not pretty easy right pretty easy to skate by and go through life right we wake up everyday most of us in the world with the roof over our heads a big comfy bed under our butts fridge full of food most of us in the world especially here in America never have to worry about starvation or homelessness we have friends and family that will help us out when those things come those are the things that made life dangerous 100 years ago now we complain hip fly physics and beans this isn't a statement on modern society this is a statement about motivation life is easy easy to stay 5 [Music] [Music] it's pretty easy to grow up put your dreams aside leave your passions behind take a job that you read you don't even really mind raise some kids who will most likely be inspired to do the exact same thing go from point A to point B to Point C until you end up at point Z where you pass away and there's a line of people waiting to get up and tell everyone else who knew you what a good life you had nothing bad about that nothing wrong with that but nothing great about it nothing inspiring about that it's easy to look at a dream as something way off in the distance something that might or might not be accomplished a thing an object a goal thought that runs through our mind every now and then a noun a dream is also a verb as to be lived it has to be done has to be further - has to be acted about it needs to be chased it's not just a idea or a result to dream encompasses every step that it takes to get there so I'm gonna give you all a challenge here figure out the answer to that question what are you dying to do don't stay forward any further in your life without answering that question but if you don't know the answer don't go to sleep tonight without answering that question don't wait till someday to answer that question there's nothing more important in your life than figuring that out when you do figure it out then when you go to sleep sleep like a kid again because then you'll be going to sleep not to dream but with the dream and waking up thank you [Music] I told you about my dream I didn't reach my I Letterman dream by my deadline or my extended deadline nope it took me five years ladies gentlemen please welcome Steve Maison five years of living five of the years of living for that dream and I was very lucky my tumors here in that time they didn't grow i stayed healthy but I had that wake-up call and I'm giving you all the same wake-up call we're all dying but if you're not chasing your dream you're already dead I don't think complaining and whining really solves the problem this is Jackie Robinson first black major leaguer had it in his contract not to complain if people spit on it this is the instinct that says you've had enough this is the instinct that says you've you've given it your best shot you can you can stand down you can back off you can take a knee this is the instinct that says you can rest now do not listen to that instinct do not listen that instinct is a liar and wants to bring you down that that's the instinct that's a defense mechanism it wants to give you an out place to run to a lot of people never get to where they want to be because they'll never stop complaining about where they're at I must say it again a lot of people will never get to where they want to be because they will never stop complaining about where they're at the word complain means to remain or to stay overnight so if you want to stay right where you're at just keep complaining about it and I can pretty much guarantee you that you'll still be there and they'll tell you you did the best you could now they'll say the DAC the deck the deck was stacked against you and they'll say it's not your [Music] and they'll tell you it's okay to stop it's okay to settle it's okay to give up [Music] and that is the instinct you need to fight you need to push back to smash into the ground not take the easy way out do not give up based on instinct if you are forced to stand down to retreat so that you can build Andrea tack simple but make that decision based on logic not on the instinct of surrender and defeat get up go fight on my history of being sort of on all sides of my journey you know I didn't I didn't have success very early and I went through some very dark times and you know the main one thing I kept doing is you know inspiring myself looking for inspiration and growing and and it hasn't stopped and I want to keep doing that and I also want to inspire others you know there are millions of me sitting at home right now and they don't know it and it's just good to be able to get any sort of platform tests or to say come on man go for it so listen man knows yes I don't do things for money and I've been broke most of my life so because of that I can't sort of suddenly go I need to do a job just to get some cash you know I mean I know that a lot of times it is people's motivations because people need to eat but in my position I've been poor most of my life so now I think I think my imaginations always kept me going in the rain you know just imagine myself collecting awards just imagine myself you know I mean getting big parts imagine myself working with the grass actors my imagination was the one life and then I mean like I've known you know Harvey thinking but he just kind of like yeah but I see myself driving that car one day but I get [Music] actually if I can see myself doing it I can probably do it she can't bottled up it sell it to someone you can do it when you can't but everybody can imagine themselves you know [Music] I'm innocent poor not to give yourself boundaries which we can do quite easy okay people talk about aiming for the skies sometimes even aiming for the skies is intimidating just don't give yourself boundaries your sky and my sky might be different than I meant but neither of us have touched the sky if we give ourselves boundaries and I mean whatever your sky is whatever your biggest dream is but I've already touched that you know so in other words what sky where does the sky end I'd rather people down you know what I'm not gonna restrict myself to the guy and I can only do this so I can only do that or I have to do it this way or I have to do it that way the first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it there's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan a I was 16 contemplated being an actor I was in sound systems deejay and I mean you know it was like that or this so I was going back to D now I always have a studio I would have turntables always been doing that a long time in an amine and there was a there was a drive to be famous to be you know that that pinnacle to be that guy and I'm not not that not

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Published: Tue Jul 11 2017