THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE. KEEP GOING. - Powerful Motivational Speech ft Marcus A Taylor and Jeremiah Jones
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Despite everything that happened to you, you're still here. And I promise you, my friend, that is no mistake. That's a purpose. A purpose for you to live, my friend. A purpose for you to live a life worth living. Don't you get it? So right now, I need you to find a way to keep on living, my friend. I need you to live. I need you to live. I need you to live. I need you to live. Do you hear me? You keep on living, my friend.

The darker the night, the brighter the day, my friend. You see, what anxiety loves to do is it loves to add up. What fear loves to do is it loves to add up. What all past trauma loves to do, it loves to add up. What all worry and doubt loves to do is it loves to add up, my friend, into one big fist.

And try to knock you down until you're gone my friend But no if you keep breathing past the anxiety you'll make it if you keep breathing past the fear You'll make it if you keep breathing past the trouble you'll make it if you keep breathing past the worry and death you'll make it Is if you don't do something the other man is not doing then you're gonna get knocked off

I don't care how many people have counted you out. I don't care how many times you talk yourself out of it. Go back and win. Listen, my friend, you see, you and me, we're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend. We're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend. I promise you. We're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend.

You are breathing to win. You are breathing to live a life of abundance. You are breathing to manifest what it is that God has put inside of you. Write it up again.

Negotiate it again. Call back. Send the email again. Send the text message again. Do not give up. Walk on the court again. Run on the field again. Step into the arena again. Try it one more time. And after you do that, you're going to come back for more. You are establishing a new nature, a new protocol, a fresh government of how you conduct business today.

Let me tell you something, my friend. The cause of your downfall will be because of you. Nobody else but you. You keep looking around, trying to place blame on things, people, everything else, instead of looking in the mirror at oneself and looking at who caused this in the first place.

You close the door on yourself because you are afraid to look within yourself and see who did it, my friend. You are the one, but you have the key to unlock that door and become something more. It's your time. It's your turn. The wait is over. Get up and give back to yourself. We can get so wrapped up in this swirl of busyness, distraction, and noise that we lose ourselves.

I understand, my friend, the pain. It won't stop. The suffering, it won't cease. And it's hard to see it. It's hard to see a better outcome for yourself, my friend. I understand. But look, if you just believe and you keep believing and you hold on to that, brighter days are coming. Weather through the storm, my friend. Weather through the pain. And I promise you, you will come out victorious.

You just have to keep believing that if you do that, you're going to be okay. You are not a quitter. You are not a one-hit wonder. You are called to do something great. A lot of you really messed up the first two quarters of your life. And if you're like me, you've got to believe you've got a third quarter and you've got a fourth quarter. And after all that's been said and done, every blessing and every battle, every memory and every image of the past, release yourself from the trauma, torment, and pain of it all.

Step into your third quarter. Step into your fourth quarter. Be fully persuaded that it's your turn and it's your time. I don't care what the scoreboard says. You have an opportunity. A warrior only needs one more opportunity to reveal to the world that he is more than just a dreamer.

If you're going to do something in your bloodline, if you're going to pass something down generationally, if you're going to be a light, then sometimes you're going to have to get up when you don't feel like it. You know what, my friend? I think you're stronger than that. And I think you're capable of much, much more. So bring it out.

Bring it out every single day that you live on this earth. Bring it out every single day that you open your eyes. Bring it out every single day. Bring out the best version of yourself, my friend, because we still have work to do.

There are seasons and timetables and there are rooms I've got to walk into and there are hands that I have to shake and there are contracts that I have to sign and there are deals that I have to close that are going to require me to lose sleep sometimes. And so if I believe power of the future, then I got to be willing to get up.

You got the chance to wake up today, but somebody else didn't. You got the chance to eat your breakfast, wash your face, brush your teeth, but somebody else didn't. You got the chance to walk out your door, go to work, go to school, go about your day like nothing else happened. But unfortunately, somebody else didn't. My friend, you get the chance to do it all over again, but somebody else will not. My friend, take advantage of the time you have.

Get dialed in. If you're listening to me, let this be a moment of transformation and motivation. But let this moment not just move you, but change you to take action, go back and win. Listen, my friend, you see you and me, we're going to make it.

We're gonna make it, my friend. We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it, my friend. I promise you. We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it, my friend. We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it, my friend. We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it, my friend. We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it. We're going to make it, my friend.

by being a person that gives again, believes again, does it again, picks up the pieces and tries to put the puzzle together again, try it again and eventually winning. It'll become a habit, flight, progress, success. It will become our way of life, our code of conduct, our government. This is what I do.

I'm motivated. I'm dedicated. I'm groomed. I'm conditioned. I'm ready to conquer the day.

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