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I am not coach right now, I am your conscience.
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You're in a fight between will and skill. I say will first because that's what you are.
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You're locked and loaded with skill. You're practicing every day, you're putting in your work.
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You're buying everything, you're making investments. You're living your dream,
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you're walking like your dream. You're surrounding yourself around your dream,
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you got mentors - everything. You're putting more work in. You got your skill.
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Now is the test of your will. It is a mindset thing you are in right now
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it is a mindset thing because your challenge. Your challenge ain't moving, your
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mountain, it is not moving. You don't feel like you making any progress.
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You are not physically moving when you see everything else around you, other
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people around you moving, you're not making progress, you're in the
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test of your will right now cuz life says it has a little more test for you.
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It's no different because we messed up, because you fell off the wagon, you've
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been on alcohol and drugs and you gave up on life and you dropped out or you've
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been to jail one time, two times, three times and you really want your dream to
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happen and you putting in your work and nothing's happening yet.
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Every transformation always gets worse before it gets better.l
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It's supposed to be that way. When you embark this journey you must know that
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it's gonna go down before it comes up but when it comes up, it's gonna go so
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much higher than you've ever been. The action of making progress is progress. The, the
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push itself, the fight, you get up and swing and miss - that's progress. You get
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up and you run at - get what you want with everything you got and you miss,
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that's progress. The effort of making the attempt. it's progress. It must happen. It
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can't do anything but move. You can't do anything but make progress. You're pushing
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and you're pushing and you're pushing and you're pushing and you're doing
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everything right. You're tired, you're exhausted and ain't nothing happening yet.
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That word is what you're waiting for. 'Yet.' Because I promise you, if you keep
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pushing, if you keep giving me all your effort, it will happen. You have to be
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equipped mentally to endure this process. Knowing what you're about to go into is
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step one. Knowing it's an uphill battle, but a winnable one and one that's
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achievable and at the end of this race guys, you're going to be more capable. The
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first step guys, is knowing it's a tough road. As soon as you decide to stop
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looking for answers in other people and miracles somewhere down the yellow brick
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road, and click the heels of your mind, and set your affections on
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things that are above, you could have been free years ago. All
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jealousy, all pettiness, all unforgiveness, all strife, all malice, all confusion, all
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blaming other people for your mistakes. You got till midnight to get rid of
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every poison that's hindering you, every inflexibility that's stopping you from
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what God is about to pour into your life woe be unto you if you go into
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another year and waste another year with the old mentality while somebody in the hospital
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begging God for the opportunity that you have right now. You better step into this moment.
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My COMMITMENT and obsession is always to be better today than I was yesterday
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If I have to make sacrifices to do that: so be it. If I have to tell that person I
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can’t go out drinking with him anymore: so be it. Because that’s not what I value.
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Anything or anyone that is taking me further away from my dreams has to go.
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I’m committed to self development not self destruction, and you know, any person
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that is meant to be with me on the journey, will choose that higher road
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with me. Yes, a tougher road, but it is also a much more rewarding one. I want my life to
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mean something. To be able to look back at my life and say, yeah, I made some
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tough decisions, but they were the RIGHT decisions. So many people don’t get it.
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They piss their life away every weekend for what? So they can complain
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about their current circumstances for the rest of the week? THERE'S NO CHANCE!
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I’m in charge of my own life! It’s all on me! I take responsibility. I take action.
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You will never hear me complain about another person or circumstance as the
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reason I’m not where I want to be. If I don’t like where I am… Time to knuckle
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down and work harder! I am a perfect reflection of the hard work or lack of
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work I put in. And luck, that only comes to those who have paid their dues.
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If I am weak in a certain area, it won’t be for long.
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Because I’m committed to be better. I will learn, I will read. I will make it happen.
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I will FIND A WAY. I will WORK until that weakness is turned into a strength.
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No one can beat me, because i don't give up! I'm RELENTLESS! You might knock me down,
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but i NEVER stay down! It’s time to RISE. RISE UP to your potential!
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RISE UP past your limitations! RISE UP past your family or friends limitations!
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Set the standard for those around you! Don’t conform to the standard,
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like a sheep. Get out and LEAD THE WAY! GET UP. RISE UP! MAN UP!
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My college ball career was over. I got offered a job to become a hospital
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administrator. 2-year program, $75,000 job
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and right before I took the job, my daddy called me on the phone. Let me tell you
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about my daddy. When I was a little boy, my daddy would
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always pick me up. When he came home from work he picked me up, when he saw me in
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the nursery after church, he picked me up. No matter how long he worked, no matter
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how tired he was, my dad would always pick me up. So when I had my kids, I would
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always pick up my kids. When I got home, sometimes I was tired and they would have a bottle in
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one hand, and they just lifted up their other hand, and they knew what
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daddy was supposed to do, my job was to pick them up.
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This is a spiritual interaction. When you pick up a child, it is a spiritual
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transaction. When you pick up a child, you change their
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perspective.
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When you pick up a child, all of a sudden they can see the world the way you see it.
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I don't care what your children have done, there is nothing they can do for you to stop picking
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them up. Whether my daughter's a drug addict, I don't
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care I pick her up. My son messes up, I don't care
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pick him up. I don't care. You pick them up.
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That is your job, Mama. That is your job, Daddy. That is your job
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grandma, that is your job granddad, your number one job is to pick them up and
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change their perspective.
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My saddest day, one day my daddy looked at me and said boy you too big, I can't pick you
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up anymore but when he couldn't pick me up physically, he would pick me up
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emotionally, he would pick me up spiritually.
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I had a great dad because he would always pick me up.
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He would always change my perspective.
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So my daddy called me on the phone and he asked me a question he said son you
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had a tough year, what's next? I said dad I'm gonna be a hospital administrator.
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He said not bad but let me ask you a question, son do you believe you're an
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NBA player? You cannot produce yourself in there son, if you don't think so, go take the
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job. But if you believe you're an NBA player, go for it.
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My dad had self-control and discipline and waited for my answer and
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my answer was yes, you're right Dad. I can't work the rest of my life. Playing in the NBA is a dream
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I've had ever since I was a little boy.
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He said, go for it son.
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I limped back into my coach's office with a cast on my foot,
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tears in my eyes. I said Coach what do I need to do to play in the NBA? He said, do
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two things and you can play in the NBA. Lose 20 pounds and shoot a three-point shot
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with range you can play in the NBA. If you lose 20 pounds and shoot the three-point shot with
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range you can play in the NBA. I lost 20 pounds and every day I would shoot 500
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shots a day, every single day. I got invited to training camp with the
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Dallas Mavericks and not only did I make the team, I became the first ever undrafted
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rookie free agent in the history of the Dallas Mavericks to start opening night!
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Could you imagine what was going through my mind:
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I had not started a basket-ball game since high-school. I got to the arena, they dimmed the lights, and they put
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the spotlight right on me. Right in the spotlight I saw my mama right there, and all my brothers and sisters
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and then I saw my dad,
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and i pumped my fist,
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and he pumped his fist, and tears streamed down my face. Thank you for all those timeouts,
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thank you for making sure I was always home when the streetlights came on.
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Thank you for making sure I could always hear your voice. Thank you for always
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changing my perspective. I got a simple simple simple question for you..Here is
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the question - Do you believe that one day you are not going live in the world that
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was given to you that's right but you are going to actually live in the world
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that you dream of..
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You gotta make every single second count.. You gotta go in the future and see it baby..
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And than you gotta come come back in the present...
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And you gotta take that big goal, that big dream, that big reality, that;s what I said,
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You gotta take that big reality... And you gotta take small steps to make it
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managable... To make it so your dreams become a reality..
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Think BIG, Dream BIG but start small.. That's right START SMALL - remember what I
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told start where you are... with what you have, because what you have is plenty..
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But the biggest enemy you have to deal with is yourself... There is an old African
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proverb that says: If there's no enemy within.. the enemy outside can do us no harm...
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You don't have to personally be perfect.. Do you hear me?
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There are those of you right now you should've cut a CD, you should've wrote
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a book, you should have gotten in school and get that degree.. You should've
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started your own business.. There are so many things you should've done..
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You should've done.. But you didn't do it because you are.. SCARED...
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You say scared of what? - I ain't scared... You are scared... You are scared
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of failure, you are scared to make a mistake.. You are scared.... that you are not perfect...
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And I'm telling you today you ain't gotta be perfect. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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You don't have to be perfect to get what you want.. to do what you want,
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to have what you want, to be what you want... You don't have to be perfect.... It's a LIE.
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There will never be a point in your life... where it's the right time...
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to do a great thing... If you are waiting for that perfect perfect
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moment... That perfect timing... is not going to happen.. You know what you have to do?
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You have to create the perfect time and the perfect opportunity and the perfect situation.
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So a lot of people become comfortable... They stop growing, They stop wanting
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anything.. They become satisfied....
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People getting ready to go to jobs that they don't like, jobs that are making them SICK
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You see when you are not pursuing your goal you are literally
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committing spiritual suicide. When you have some goal out here that you are
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reaching for that takes you out of your comfort zone.
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You'll find out some talents and abilities you have... That you didn't know you had.
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When the messenger of misery visits you? What are you going to do?
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What will keep you in the game. There are things that you think you'll never need to know
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that you may only need to know one time
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in your life but that could save your life because you had that knowledge.
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Unless you attempt to do something beyond that which you have already
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mastered you will NEVER GROW. What is it that you looked at some point in time
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and you decided that you couldn't do it. That you talk yourself out of it.
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You waiting for your next door neighbor.. to make it happen for you... It may not happen.
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If you want on your mother or your father... They may be so ancient in their thinking.
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that they don't understand this opportunity that you have
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and if you wait on them that may never get done. You don't pay average
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people to be phenomenal, you don't pay good people to be phenomenal.
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You just are phenomenal and you will attract phenomenal. What reason can you
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remember that you can call on, that you reach on, that could make you
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get back up? Find that reason. If you are not where
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you are, if you're not where you wanna be... If you don't have what you want to have
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If you are not where you think you should be at this particular place, it has nothing to do
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with the system, but it has everything to do with the fact that you're not making
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a sacrifice. I want you to make that dream become a reality. Because if you
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don't you will be working for somebody else to make their dreams become a
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reality. The Question is - What are you gonna do with your time?
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What drives you? - Greatness is a lot of small things done well.
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Day after day.. Workout after workout.. Day after day... When things don't
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work out for you, when things happen that you could not anticipate, what are the
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reasons that you can think of that can keep you strong.. You will never ever be
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successful.. Until you turn your PAIN INTO GREATNESS. Until you ally your pain
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to push you from where you are, to push you to where you need to be. Stop running
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from your pain, and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize
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a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself. See it's easy to be
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on the bottom. It doesn't take any effort to be a loser, doesn't take any
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motivation, any drive in order to stay down there on a low level. But it calls on everything in you
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you have to harness your will to say I am going to challenge myself. What you did
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last week don't count. Today, Today is the only important day.
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There are 86 400 seconds in a day... And how you use those ate critical.
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You got 86 400 a day.. And what you do today is going to seep into who
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you are. Nobody's gonna talk about what you did last week. You have this opportunity
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of a lifetime. It means absolutely nothing if you don't take advantage of it in the
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lifetime of this opportunity. I got a saying that when life knocks you down
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try and land on your back because if you can look up, you can get up and if you want
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a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it,
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to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it, if all that you dream and scheme
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is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it see it's time now
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if you wanna make this your decade, you gotta start saying yes to your
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life. You gotta start saying yes to your dreams. Yes to your unfolding future.
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Yes to your potential as opposed to saying no.
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When you die, die or leave, leave no dream left behind guys, leave no opportunity
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left behind when you leave this earth, accomplish every single thing you can accomplish.
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Listen to me. You're gonna be here one day but you'll never get here if you give
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up, if you give in, if you quit and finally guys you gotta want to succeed
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as bad as you wanna breathe.
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What people think about you and the possibilities for your dream is none of
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your business. The attitude is it can't be done because they haven't seen it
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history is being read but it's also being written by people with imagination.
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It's necessary you take responsibility for it. That you make it happen, that you
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don't give up, that you don't take any objection or disappointment or defeats
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personally, that you keep on keeping on, that you don't decide that I can't make
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it because you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, that you realize
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that's a part of the program. As the physically weak man can make himself
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strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make
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them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.
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To put away aimlessness and weakness and to begin to think with purpose is to
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enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the
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pathways to attainment. Who make all conditions serve them and who think
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strongly, attempt fearlessly and accomplish masterfully.
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He who would accomplish little, must sacrifice little. He who would achieve
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much, must sacrifice much, he who would attain highly, must sacrifice greatly.
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What are you gonna do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference? Major step to
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human progress - discipline. If there's one thing to get excited over
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that's it. Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the
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necessary things.
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Because the story you have about your life, or about your business,
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about the area of life, is not where you want to be.
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Your story is what's making this stuff.
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Yes, it's hard, it's hard, and we will do it hard and once if we do it hard, and we got through it, and
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we realize it was worth it and once you discover it was worth it, it is done.
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Study the things that can change your economic, social, spiritual, personal life
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so you don't want to wind up at the end of your life and discover that you've
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lived only 1/10 of it.
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Maybe you're at the darkest point of your life and you're ready to give up. You're at a point
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in your life when you feel like it's do or die. You're going through so much pain
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you're going through so much agony, you're ready to give up, you're ready to quit.
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I've got one word for you - warrior! Woo! Warrior! Fear. It's not real.
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The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future.
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It is a product of our imagination causing us to fear things that do not at
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present and may not ever exist.
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Fear is a choice.
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Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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I want your dream to be so clear that when you wake up in the morning all you got
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to do is step in your dream and the first step for me was seeing something I
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was not before I was. You can do it. Where you are is temporary!
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You will not be there for the rest of your life.
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I don't care what happens in your life, I don't care what it looks like, I don't
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care where you are, every single day you wake up if you're going to have energy
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if you're going to have passion, if you're going to have drive, every day you
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wake up you've got to start with that vision. This is a mentality like, you got
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to live this, you got to eat this, you got - every single thing you do is not a choosing
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it's a way of life. It's got to possess everything you do, it's got to own.
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There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
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I want to see how far I can go, I want to see what I can acomplish, I want to see
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what I can do, what I can be, what I can have, I want to see I don't want to see
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what I think I can do, I don't want to see what think is possible, I want to
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see what my life will looks life if I don't count the cost and I was willing to go
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further then anybody was willing to do. You can't do anything without faith it's
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impossible to accomplish anything without faith, so i need you to believe.
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There is still time, as long there is a breath in your nostrils, as long as you
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can wake up in the morning The first step before anyone else in the world
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believes it, you have to believe it So I need you to believe Cause if you're
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willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you
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want to get, who's got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got
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something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to
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someone, something... and you're told no, even after you paid your dues? Who's got the
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right to tell you that, who? Nobody! It's your right to listen to your gut, it ain't
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nobody's right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be
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and do what you want to do!
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you gotta do, what you was called to do you gotta do, what you was born to do
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you gotta do, what works for you, because if you do what works for you gonna blow up.
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It's in your DNA! It's who you are!
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You are a warrior. It's time for you not to back up. Not to give up. Not to give in.
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Either you get knocked down and you get back up you get back up, you get back up and you continue
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to throw shit against the wall. Listen to me very carefully you are a warrior.
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It is time for you to fight.
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I know you have that warrior inside and now I just need you to activate it.
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Keep going, as dark as it gets keep going.
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As difficult as it gets, as much as it seems as if the world is
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crumbling down around you and there's no way out, keep going.
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See most people stop, they don't get it, they quit, they quit reaching for their dreams.
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I noticed that there are those who are squashers of dreams. Now, I don't know why these people do this.
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I don't know why the naysayers or squashers do this. Grow stronger and then inspire
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others to become the strongest version of themselves that's how we evolve.
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I go beyond the fears and limitations of other people. I control my life.
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No matter what road you take in life there are always going to be things
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you have to do that you just don't want to don't do. Go and do the thing. Look, you
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only get this life once. Every experience that we have leads us to who we are and where we stand
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and that's always the right place to be. If you can't, you must. If there's something that
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you can't do because there's an obstacle in your way
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that means it's your responsibility to do that thing so that you can destroy
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the obstacle.
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Failure is necessary.
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Failure is success and success is failure. They need each other. The more failings you
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have, the more success you have, the darker the night, the brighter the day.
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The harder the ball hits the ground, the higher it goes up.
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Pain is a beautiful thing. Challenge is what life is about. A life without
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challenge, a life without pain, is a life without growth. So not only do I embrace
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the challenge, embrace the pain but I even look forward to it. Send me a
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challenge, please give me some challenges here because I need to be tested, I need to
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be stronger, I need to grow. You know they say there's a Judgment Day. I believe we
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face multiple judgment days while we're walking on earth. The judgement today is
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today. Judgment Day is now and the judgment is
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going to allow you to live a life of hell now or to choose your own Kingdom.
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Listen to me very carefully you are a warrior.
