- [Narrator] Have you
ever thought to yourself, why is it so hard for me to stay motivated or how come I can't get the motivation to go to the gym or to eat healthy or simply to work hard
at school or at my job. What is it that all these
other motivated people know that I don't know? Well, you're about to learn their secret. I want you to imagine
that you are an old man who's on his deathbed. There are nurses around
you, doctors around you, your family is around you,
and everyone is looking right at you. Your son walks up to you
with tears in his face and says, dad do you have
any regrets in your life? You turn your head away from
him, look up at the ceiling, and then you start to feel this weird, visceral feeling in your stomach. It starts to swirl around
and it quickly spreads to your entire body. Then suddenly the entire room turns black and your life begins to
flash before your eyes. You see your childhood
bully, your first kiss, the day you got married, you
even see your son walking off to college for the first time. But then, you start to
remember all the things that you wished you had
done more of in your life, and all the places that you
wished you had gone to see, and all the time you wasted
doing pointless things. You start hearing questions like, what if I had traveled around Europe like I always wanted to. How different would I have
felt if I had worked out and got that body that I always wanted? What if I had asked out
that really cute girl back in college? What if I had quit my job
and started my own business? What if? Those two words are the seeds that grow into the poisonous plant called regret, and having regret inside you when you are on your deathbed is a
very scary thought to me. The only way to make sure
this doesn't happen is to live your life like
a boat floating at sea. Most people will tell you
that stuff like work ethics, self-discipline, goal-setting are the keys to getting what you want in life, but this is only partly true. Stuff like that are the things
that make the boat move, like having a strong sail or
having a good steering wheel. But having a fully functional boat that can go over any wave,
overcome any obstacle that can withstand any
storm is totally pointless if you do not have a clear destination of where you want to go. Now some people think they
know where they want to go and they might tell you that
they wanna end up somewhere with a high paying job, with
a family and a big house, and they wanna drive around in nice cars, but a lot of the time that life that they're describing
is not their own life. It's the life that their
parents want for them. It's a life that their
friends want for them. It's a life that the movies
and social media tells us that we should want to have. But what is even worse
than choosing a life that is not your own,
is settling on a life. Because living that okay
life is a lot easier than really going after what you want. If you don't want to die
with that horrible feeling of regret, you need to figure out exactly what you want to do, and
the only way to do this is to become incredibly self-aware. If you want to go live up in the mountains and make wooden birdhouses
forever, then do it. If you want to drive
around in that Maserati and have that big house, then do it. There really is no right
and wrong answer here, but you have to figure
this out for yourself, but the really hard part
about doing all of this is that you have to stop
caring what other people and what society thinks of you. If you were raised in a very
quote unquote regular household where your parents worked
a normal nine to five job, it's really, really hard to tell them that you want to do something
that's totally different, that goes against what they want for you and what everyone else expects for you. But you cannot let this fear stop you, because life is too short
not to stay true to yourself. But, if you find yourself having
trouble staying motivated, just remember this one,
poisonous word, regret. Imagine that you're on your deathbed, and then thinking to
yourself, there's so much more I wished I would have done with my life. There's so much that
I would do over again, but now I, I have no energy, and there's just nothing I can do. There's so much that I regret. It doesn't matter what your gender is, how tall you are, what you
look like, how smart you are, none of that matters. The only thing that matters
is having a desire within you to get what you want,
and it's never too late to start on this journey.
Made me regret watching this video and slumped me down further.
What was the one word? Don't think I need to use 4mins of video to hear just one word.
Watched the vid. Thanks for sharing!