BEAST MODE ACTIVATED – Eric Thomas’ Most Powerful Motivational Speech 🔥
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This is going to be hard because some of you young and you like still worried about what people think about you. So you don't want to be honest in front of people. I want you to think about what level you want. Are you giving 90, 80, 70? Let's see what I'm saying for a minute. I gave everything I got. I have no more to give. Like I really put 120 into this. So raise your hand if you're giving 120. Like I ain't got no more to give E. I need you for you to admit where you are. What is it going to take for you to give every single thing you got? What is that going to take?

It's consistency. And so I got to go to bed at a certain time. I got to wake up at a certain time. There's certain things I can't eat, certain things I can't watch, certain things I can't do. And I'm talking about that grind. I got an opportunity. You got an opportunity. So here's the deal. When you have an opportunity, why would you give 80% when you have an opportunity? Somebody answer that for me. Y'all talk. Why would you give 80%, 70%? Why wouldn't you always give 120%? This right here, for a lot of y'all, y'all ain't got no discipline. It's killing you.

It's killing you. And you don't even realize it's killing you. It's killing you. You know, I thought if you were a good person and you do right by people, that people will take your kindness and give you kindness back. But what I realized is sometimes in this world, the kinder you are, the more they try to play you like a fool. I was delusional. I'm nice to you. You're nice to me. Don't always work like that. Sometimes it's nice to me and I take advantage of you.

So some of y'all, you delusional. I just need you to do me a favor. When you are delusional, you can never get the outcomes you want because the premise in which you're operating from is a lie.

So you got to work from truth and some of us don't want to deal with truth because it's so difficult. ET, you dropped out of school. ET, you grew up in a certain community. 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.

So I need you to be a huge favor. I just need you to be real. And the reason why a lot of y'all don't want to be real, because some of you would rather be in a lie and at least have a lie than not have anything at all. So when you play, you have to compete. It's sports. It's basketball. Why wouldn't you give 120%? Talk to me. What would make you not give 120%? You got to answer it.

You play that level every single time. It doesn't mean you're gonna score every time, but the effort has it. You can always give 120% efforts. You can't dictate if the ball gonna always go in. You can't dictate what kind of game you're gonna have. You can't dictate how your body is gonna respond to moving around. But you can dictate your what? You can dictate your good. You can dictate your... You can always give 120% efforts.

Like, here's the deal. When y'all go play tonight, tomorrow, my goal is for you to go 120. So you're going to have the right people in here helping y'all. But if you're giving me 70, 80, 90, you ain't giving me 120. You're not going to get out of this experience what you're supposed to get out. That's my job. Why don't you always give 120% effort? That Eric Thomas that grew up in Detroit, it had like that Detroit mentality. While I love it, it doesn't transfer to every community.

I had let let the dream destroy you let it strip you let it remake and mold you don't be afraid some of you afraid listen to me wherever you from if that's where you from if you leave you can always come back I promise you I promise you when you come back you can get right back in the conversation ain't nothing gonna change I promise you whatever world you're from if you go to other worlds you can always go back to that world

The version of you that you are right now is a blessing but it won't take you to the next level. What got you here won't take you there. It's your turn. You shouldn't feel guilty. It's your turn. It's your time. You've blessed everybody else. You've set everybody else for success. You've compromised you for them and look where you are. It's time for you.

And so for a lot of you, you're not doing nothing because you don't have any purpose right now. You don't have a sense of purpose. You're not waking up for nobody. And I need you to get that engine. I need that drive because you know what to do. You're the right person to do it, but you just can't seem to get out of bed. You can't seem to do what you're supposed to do. Every time you come up against a trial or a tribulation, you let it stop. You got to find your why and your why is what's going to start you.

If you're not giving 120, I'm not mad at you. My job is not to dog you out. Because once we go back out, my goal is to come here and take you to that next level. From today on, you play whatever your best game is, you play that level every single time. It doesn't mean you're going to score every time, but the effort has it. You can always give 120% effort.

Life don't go on regardless. Mental toughness. It is in those times we have to be stronger than we've ever been before. Why? Because they need us more than they ever needed us before. I just want to make sure that the life we got left, that it's sweeter than the life that if I wasn't focused and I wasn't doing what I was supposed to do. And we're going to make it the best possible. It's your life. You got it. What you going to do with it?

I want to ask you a question, seriously. How many of you are in this room? You like your E, it is my life, but I ain't been in control of it as much as I should be in control of it. And after today, I'm taking more control of it. Let me see your hands, be honest with me. Come on, let me see your hands. So let the dream destroy you, tear you down, redefine you, build you back up, make you stronger. The first version of Eric Thomas, the high school dropout, that guy would have never been able to stand here and help you. I had to destroy that Eric Thomas.

Listen to me. I was literally homeless. I was coming to church not really taking showers I wasn't brushing my teeth and this guy looked at me and said you need to get your GED You need to leave Detroit. I'm gonna send you to college because greatness is upon you. I was 16 17 years old I had never spoken a day in my life and this guy saw it

Like he saw something in me that I didn't see and he gave me permission to be where other people said I couldn't be. He gave me permission to believe I was great. He gave me permission to think I could change the world.

You better go inside. You still looking outside for the stuff that's already inside. You still looking for someone to save you when you already your superhero. You looking for some information from somebody when you already got what you need in your head. It's just time for you to get up and be the best version of you. It's not an option. And the reason why some of you are not where you're supposed to be, you've given yourself an option. You've given yourself an out. You've given yourself an excuse.

You've given yourself room not to do it, but you have what it takes.

No matter who you are, if you're average or if you're good, when you get around greatness and you stay around greatness, you start listening to great podcasts and reading great books and you start hanging around great people and you start becoming a part of great masterminds. God, you just evolve. And I don't know what happened, but every year I went from a high school dropout and homeless to I started to be coming every single day more of who I am. And I can't believe it. My next goal is to win the Nobel Prize. Why?

I had to come up with something.

I am giving you permission to be great. I'm giving you permission to be everything you were called to be, to do everything that you're capable of doing, to have everything you're supposed to have. Listen to me. You have to be careful when you hang around average people. All they're going to do is tell you what they can't do. And that's okay that they can't do it, but that has absolutely nothing to do with us. We can go crazy.

from being homeless in high school dropouts to having PhDs, writing books and becoming the voice of a generation. We can do whatever we believe we can do and we don't need anybody's permission to do it but ours. You are brilliant. You are special. Yes, you're different and yes, you're not doing it the traditional route, but greatness is upon you. You gotta keep going. You gotta keep going. You gotta keep going. In the 12 years to get the four year degree, turn it to a master's degree.

And the master's degree turned into a PhD. God, I can't believe it. So here what I'm saying. Opportunity. You have an opportunity of a lifetime. When you understand you have an opportunity, you play a little different. Here's what I want to tell you. If you're going to get it, you're going to have to have that dog. You're going to have to have that dog. You're going to have to be that dude that say, I'm not just going with skills.

There's a there's a one type of dude who feel like because he's gifted that it's just automatic role for him Let me tell you out something you are gifted, but you better humble yourselves You got skill and you got will to total different things you were born with certain things But to get to the next level and not just get to the next level to study at the next level You gotta have will when you get to that next level

And the problem with some of you in this room, you don't have no drive. You ain't got nothing pushing you. You ain't got no reason for waking up in the morning. You ain't got no reason for pushing past that pain. You have no reason. You better find one before you get out of here today. Listen to me very closely. When you graduate and you get a job, if you want to get paid, you never say no. You always say it can get done. Even if you don't think it can get done, just say it and try to make up something.

I'm being real. I'm being real. I don't deal with people who say, or they get paid real low in my company. They like maintenance when you say, I don't know how, or I don't think it can be done. I'm like, okay, cool. You want to be like at the end of the year when bonuses didn't pass out, you won't be getting no bonus. What I need you to do is I need you to kill the noise. I need you to embrace the I am. And however you get it done, I need you to get it done.

I can means I have the ability to do it. I got what it takes. I have the ability to do it. I will. I have the willpower to make must my wife needs me. I must my son needs me. I must my daughter needs me. We can, we will, and we must get through this. This is an ad from BetterHelp Online Therapy.

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