Name: You'll Only See This Once, Right Before Everything Changes | Motivational Speech | Trent Shelton
Uploaded: 2026-03-16T21:32:36.000Z
Duration: 11 min 1 s
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The imperative

Close your eyes and please listen to these words.

I don't know if you know this, but you only get one life.

And every single day you wake up, you have a choice.

You can sing your song of greatness, or you can let the world silence that voice.

You see millions of people die with regret.

My question is, is that going to be you into your final days of life knowing you're about to die with your dreams?

Because you never acted on making those dreams come true?

Knowing you're not going to meet the greatest you.

Because you wasted so much of your life not doing the things you were created to do.

Please don't experience death knowing you settle for less.

Please don't get to your final days of life knowing you didn't give your best.

Because once this life is over, it's over.

So you got to stop living life like you got another shot at this.

There will come a day when tomorrow doesn't come.

You can face everything and rise, or you can fear everything and run.

You can go forward, or you can just watch it go by.

Failure only exists in the life that doesn't try.

Why be the one that lives but never feels alive.

Be the one that knows the sky is the limit because you wasn't afraid to fly.

You might not be in control of how you die, but I promise you this.

When you know in your soul you got so much more to give.

Because only impossibles that exist are the ones you create.

You'll miss 100 of the shots that you don't take.

Because only strikeout in life is not stepping up to the plate.

What matters is what you do with that dash.

Between your birthday and your death day.

There's millions of people that said tomorrow, next year, next time.

It took their gifts, it took their purpose, it took their dreams, it took their mission to the grave.

The road to become the greatest you and living legendary has just begun.

You're a choice away from a new beginning, and you're a commitment away from a new life.

Go make the world respect your greatness.

Like I said in every single video, every single message, it all starts with you.

My mom went through a whole battle with cancer, brain cancer.

And I saw my hero just, like, wither away.

If you look to the bottom right, you see me in the hospital.

I ruptured my Achill in two places playing my nephew.

Listen, when you turn 40, don't play basketball.

Mentally, I was in the worst place in my life because I couldn't do what I love to do, which was be active to the top, right?

You see me and my brother is carrying a casket.

Two weeks after my mother died, my grandmother died.

If you're gonna live a legendary life, adversity is coming for you.

48 hours after my mother died with my daughter Maya.

And she's laying in the bed, and I'm in my guest room, and

I'm planning my mother's funeral, literally how she wanted it.

And Maya is asking all these questions about honey.

I'm like, dang, you were giving me emotional support.

My daughter Maya goes outside, and I get back to planning my mom's funeral.