GET TO WORK - Powerful Motivational Speech (Featuring Eric Thomas)
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You can't start where I am now. You gotta start where I started. I want you to live the life you were meant to live. You hear me? Not the life that was given to you. What do you want? This is what we're supposed to be doing today. Do me a favor. Don't holler at me until you do it. So you have an opportunity of a lifetime. I need you to take it serious. Let's go to work.

When you get the opportunity from day one, you get hungry day one and you stay home. And so I'm telling you, you hang around the right people, they will give you dreams for yourself that you didn't have for yourself. You are nothing but the sum total of the people that you're closest to. You can start from wherever and get to wherever you want to get to. That's what I'm asking you to do. What fuels you? The reason why you're so lazy is not because you don't have the ability. You're so lazy because your dream is so small.

Don't be upset by the results you didn't get from the work you did not do. I didn't get the results because I didn't do the work.

Like if somebody gets you an out, take it. Like I don't care how hard it is, how difficult. If you have somebody that's willing to rock with you, hold your hand in the process, encourage you, motivate you, inspire you. Like stop saying I'm not good enough. Stop saying my family, we don't do this. Like stop with the excuses and take the opportunity that's given to you. Shoot the doggone shot. You're wide open. Take the shot. So do me a favor. Let it destroy you.

So let the dream destroy you, tear you down, redefine you, build you back up, make you stronger. So I need you to be in his favor. I just need you to be real. Man, it's crazy, but, you know, I had a couple of things in my life that I wanted to accomplish and I never and I didn't get them done. You know, and I know it's not too late, but I kind of like got to that point where it's like.

you know, I just can't do it. Like I put forth for valid effort and I just can't do it. And so he was like, Oh, what was one of them? And I was like, what you just said, a hundred miles. I wanted to run a marathon. And he was like, Oh, okay, cool. You really want to run a marathon? And I was like, in my mind. Yeah. You know? So he was like, no, no, no. You for real? I said, bro, I'm not.

as for real as I can be about something that I want to do but that I didn't do. So he was like, "Oh, okay." I just finished speaking. And so I was like, "Let me check Tim out." And so right after it was over, so he was like, "All right, well, if you want to run a marathon, come on." And I was like, "What?" He was like, "Come on, let's go get started. We'll do it together." And I was like, "Okay, bro, like right now?" He was like, "Well, if you want to do it, when would be the best time to do it?" And I was like, "Okay, I guess now."

You can't run a marathon with someone who's never run a marathon. You know what I'm saying? Like you have a better chance of running a marathon with somebody who ran a marathon, like who really has the mindset, like they ran it. So they know what it takes.

How many people in your immediate environment, those people who are in your sacred circle, represent people who are on the same mission as you? Or do you have a bunch of people on your list who are not on the same mission as you and those individuals are pulling you down? I have cut off the people who are not on the same mission with me and I've surrounded myself with people who have the same values, who have the same mindset, and people who want to accomplish what I want to accomplish.

And we go to sleep and wake up talking about the dream. We go to sleep and wake up talking about the dream. We go to sleep, wake up, talk about what we did when we first started. Talk about where we are. Examining what we did right, what we did wrong. Listen to me, you gotta eat the dream. You have to sleep the dream. You have to dream the dream. You have to see it when nobody else sees it. You have to feel it when it's not tangible.

You have to believe it when you cannot see it. You've got to be possessed with the dream. And every single day, you've got to wake up and put forth effort. Because some days, you're not going to feel like getting up, but the dream is going to push you. You wake up every single morning and you go after it.

When you wake up, nothing is going to come to you. Nobody is going to give you anything. I still have to work. And when the sun comes up, I still have to get to running.

So you've got to ask yourself, you've got to ask yourself, what's your why? What motivates you? What pushes you? What drives you? And if that thing is internal, if nobody has to call you, if nobody has to prod you, if nobody has to reward you, if nobody has to give you anything, if you are self-motivated and self-regulated, you can have it, you can be it, you can do it. Everything you've ever wanted, son, you're right there.

Not only will you have what other people don't have, you'll do what other people can't do. In order for you to be able to do what you need to do like a Tony Robbins, there's some things that you don't have in your arson that if you can just admit you don't have it in your arson, then you can go get it. But until you admit that you don't have it, you'll never be able to do it. If you know why you're doing something, it's easier to do it. When you don't know why you're doing it, it's hard. Or when the reason that you have to get up

It's not as strong as the reason why you need to stay in the bed. It's going to be tough. I've got dreams. I have goals. There are things that I want to accomplish. I'm not satisfied. Like, I don't sleep well at night. The bigger your dream is, the more effort you're going to have to put in.

I look around at other people who are living a certain way, who are driving a certain way, who are experiencing life. And ET, I want that. And I've robbed myself. I have not been true to myself. I've not done the things I need to do. There's absolutely nothing you can't have. Nothing. You can have whatever you want, but listen to me very closely. You cannot, you will not have anything if you're not willing to put in sweat, blood, and tears. If you think you're going to pay any other fare, you twist it.

I wake up every single day. I know what I gotta do. I know where I gotta be. I know what my gift is. I know what my purpose is. And I just need money to house all this. He has a dream and a goal and he'll do whatever it takes. And I need you to understand that the bigger your dream is, the earlier you're gonna have to get up. What's that thing you keep thinking about?

I'm telling you to dream your dream because I want you to feel it. I want you to taste it. I want you to know how close. I want you just like when the weather is changing, you can feel it. I want you to be able to feel when you're getting closer to it and closer to it. But more importantly, I want you to know when you dream your dream that there are other people who are dreaming the exact same dream. What if you're not the only one that wants what you want?

When you said to yourself, "This is what I want to accomplish," you're not the only person that wants to accomplish it. And now I ask you this question: What do you do when a thousand other people want exactly what you want? I want you to know something: that the bigger your dream is, I want you to understand the harder to grind. Everybody wants to be number one. Everybody wants to be the best. Everybody wants to succeed. Everybody wants to have to be and do what they feel they've been called to do.

I'm walking out of here next level. When you're a forward thinker, the only thing you're afraid of is business as usual. Workday is the AI platform that transforms the way you manage your people and money today so you can transform tomorrow. Workday, moving business forever forward.

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