BE DIFFERENT - Transform Challenges into Success
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What could you be?

What could you be? What could you be if you worked as hard as you could? What could you be if you imposed real discipline in your life? What could you be? What if I could? What if I could pull this off? What if I could pull off this miracle? What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be? How will I feel at the very end if I can defy all the odds?

You have to understand that there's a journey that takes place in your career, in your life. Every transformation always gets worse before it gets better. It's supposed to be that way. The journey you're embarking on is not an easy path. It's not for the ill-hearted or the weak-natured. It's for the strong people. And before you embark on this journey, mentally, you have to prepare yourself for it. No one's going to get worse before it gets better.

Life tests the big dreamers, the passionate revolutionaries. It's almost like a weeding out process. Only the strong and the best get to live their hearts on. You know what? If it was easy to get to world class and extraordinary, everyone would be doing it.

Every dream starts off small, but you want to start and move it forward each and every day. And while everyone else laughs at you and criticizes you, pay no heed to them. Keep on moving your dream forward because there is something magical about sticking to your dream longer than anyone around you thinks you have a right to stick to that dream.

You ain't got no choice. You can't go back. There's no options at this point. It's do or die, baby. We do not have time. We're about to go get it. It's all for the getting. You can do it and you're not leaving. Listen to me. We ain't going home. We ain't going nowhere. You ain't going nowhere until you get it done. We doing what we gotta do to get what we gotta get. Go into that goal that you want to.

set up their project, get going on those things. You want to be the best version of yourself that you possibly can be. Most people will never be like that. You don't want to fall into that trap that most people fall into. They get comfortable, they get relaxed, they settle for a life that they don't really want. But it's comfortable, it's easy.

You don't want that. You want a life that is above average, extraordinary, far beyond what most people can conceive. If you want a life like that, you have to hustle. You have to get going. Get up out of your seat and move. You have to take massive action. It's hard. It sucks. It can sap you of your mental and physical energy. But you need to get going and get up after those things that you want. No one's going to do it for you.

Work on yourself every day. Get better. Improve. Learn. Extend yourself. Push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push the boundaries that you're accustomed to. That's the only way to grow as a person.

And so.

I need you to do me a huge favor. All your excuses, all your good reasons, everything that's keeping you from doing what you're supposed to do, I need you to put it behind you and say, yesterday was the last day for that foolishness. Yesterday was the last day to say, I don't have enough money to do this. I don't have enough money to go to school. I don't have enough money to get a computer. I don't have what it takes. I'm not smart enough, right? I don't write well enough. I don't sing well enough. That's why I didn't do my CD. I didn't write my book because I'm not on that level. Listen to me.

You better hear what I'm saying. Yesterday was the last day that I want to hear an excuse. It's over with. Recognize the excuses are not valid. They're conjured up. They're fabricated. They're lies. And how do you stop the lies? You stop the lies with the truth. You have time. You have the skill. You have the knowledge and the support and the willpower and the discipline to get it done.

What you pay attention to is what you will get.

And the more attention you give something, the more you feed it, the stronger and more powerful that thing grows. You need to face, master, and channel your obsessions into an engine of massive, energized momentum for the success you desire. You can be who you want to be. You can do what you want to do. See what you want to see. It's all in your power and no one else's. Go out and get it. If you get knocked down, get back up again. You can never fail if you never give in.

If you stick with it, stay with it, become obsessed with it, feed it every day, I guarantee you, possibilities will take place.

Do I just sit there and settle? No, I don't. I say enough's enough, man, and I'm going to make a change, and I'm going to keep going until I get it. You chase something that you believe you deserve until you get it. And it doesn't matter what happens to you. It doesn't matter how many times you get fired. It doesn't matter how many people don't believe in you. Just go until you get it. That's the point. Are you tired yet?

Some of you need to get tired. You need to be tired of what's going on in your life. Get tired of your habits. Get tired of the actions that you're putting in every day. You gotta change, man, or nothing changes. I woke up one day and stopped making excuses. I woke up one day and stopped playing the blame game. I woke up one day and looked at the man in the mirror and was like, yo, bro, what are you doing? Wake up. It's showtime. Let's go.

How do you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of your physical appearance, in terms of your health? Do you take care of yourself? Are you allowing yourself to get overweight and out of shape? Are you conscious of your health? Are you watching the food that you take into your body? Do you make a deliberate effort to exercise? You know, it was George Burns who said, we cannot help getting older, but we don't have to get old.

And many of us get old before our time because we don't take time to take care of ourselves. Your environment is a very good indicator on a scale of 1 to 10. Is it what you want it to be? Do you find it desirable? Are you satisfied? The job or career that you're involved in. Someone said that 85% of the American public are unhappy with their jobs. Are you spending 8 hours a day just doing time?

Doing something that you don't find challenging, that does not make you stretch mentally, that does not stimulate you, that does not inspire you. Something that you don't find a sense of fulfillment in it. If you're doing that day in and day out, it has to affect how you feel about yourself, your level of motivation, your relationships. What kind of impact is it having on your life? Is it nourishing or is it a toxic relationship? Does it drain you or does it build you up? Ask yourself that.

How motivated are you to do something about it? Your contribution, your actions. What are you giving? Many people will leave the universe without a trace. No one will know they were here. In fact, under their name, we could put under there, not used up. Will anybody know that you came this way? What contribution are you giving? What will you leave? What will be different because you came this way?

For me, it's like no brain left behind, right? Because I live with that identity for so long. And my message to people, whether it's on stage or on podcast or anything, is that, you know, we are more than what we're demonstrating, that we've been sold this lie, that people are taught through school. Like when I do these demos and I on stage memorize a hundred names and words and numbers forwards and backwards, and it appears effortlessly, I

I always tell people I don't do this to impress you, I do this to express to you what's really possible because the truth is everyone can do this too and so much more.

We were taught a lie that somehow our intelligence, our potential, our learning, our memory somehow is fixed, our creativity is fixed, our thinking is fixed like our shoe size. And what we've discovered more about brain science in the past two decades, we've discovered more than the previous 2000 years. And what we know is that we're grossly underestimated in our own capacity to be able to grow, to be able to contribute, to improve our intelligence and our influence and our impact.

And I'm really, I want to kind of pull the veil behind and just say, hey, this is about transcending. You know, this is about ending the trance, ending the trance that we're not good enough, you know, that we're not smart enough, that we're not this genius and telling the truth. And the truth is we're faster and we're smarter than we think. And not just to be able to memorize things, but be able to really solve significant challenges. And maybe that these challenges that we're going through are the lessons that we need to learn.

to learn the most. Not all of us go through struggles, right? In our health, our relationship, whatever it is, but through struggles come strengths. And people don't talk about this as much. And I probably have a post-traumatic stress from it, going through brain injury after brain injury. There's also post-traumatic growth, which you know, as widely talked about. But there's some people that go through immense amount of trauma and difficulty and challenge, but they come out of it

actually more empowered. They say to themselves that because of going through this, I found a new strength. I found my superpowers. I found a new meaning in my life. I found a new level of commitment. I found a strength, a mission, if you will. And a lot of them attest that they wouldn't trade that experience, no matter how painful it was at the time, for anything.

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