EVERY WAKING HOUR OUTWORK THEM

You'll gain confidence by going to a spot that makes you feel good when the alarm clock goes off in the morning get up don't wait don't hesitate get up and you realize through hard work you can outwork anybody man how badass they are a real man in the dark when nobody's watching he put me in work a real man when coach ain't even watching he's studying film on his own because he's he lost the process obsession is going to be Talent every time you got all the talent in the world but are you obsessed is it all you ever think about let's face it it's you against you out there you have to be willing to outwork everybody in the world I became obsessed with being the baddest [ __ ] that God ever created am I that I don't care I believe it he said before you even become number one start to Proclaim it and saying long before it happened the journey getting there was hard ly going through it gotta be the hardest workers in the room don't [ __ ] the opportunity up and you will be a champion if you will be obese you're gonna have to go through something day after day after day when I have to grind have to grind aren't you ready to take a break yes but listen to me I can't why cause I grind for Jalen I grind for Jada I grind for Dede I grind for my mother are you hearing what I'm telling you so the days I want to hit that alarm clock I think about my why I can't quit no one will outwork me no one don't tell me you want it show me you want it are you willing to put in that time are you willing to study films are you willing to run those sprints all the way through not halfway [Music] you see the game of football was created the realm of Gladiators it was Arena a barbaric people Chansey for the warrior who kills the most you see football comes from the same bloodline of gladiators and when you step into that Arena oh it takes a special man to step into that Arena because when you step into that Arena you don't know if you're gonna walk out you don't know if you will live after these 60 minutes [Music] but that's what makes you special that's what separates you from the normal from the mediocre young king you gotta display something foreign that's the will to be unselfish because football takes a certain mentality to play it [Music] there's no better feeling in the world the smell of those hot dogs and hearing that band on Friday night there's no feeling better in the world and walking out on Saturday my door your friends and family watching see what you do all off season [Music] is what a season will be and once you understand it King this game it's not for nice people [Music] some play the game to just see the crowd [Music] and others play it to make their bloodline proud to take Mom out the projects and put sister in college [Music] to dress their mother up and give her the world to one day stand outside of a beautiful home and say this belongs to you Mom I ran those wrists I ran those heels I broke my arm you Mom [Applause] when I was bleeding for you Mama [Music] see Mama this gang yes it's dangerous [Music] but it teaches us how to be a man it teaches us responsibility thank you it teaches us to go to class because without it we can't do what we love and let's play the game of football believe that you have enough take all that pain that you felt the entire life and right now I'm talking to one of you seniors before you step on that field take yourself back to that dark place a place where you had no hope and I want you to remember how far you came and when you step on that field sign up a Friday night [Music] you look your teammates in the eyes and you tell them we didn't come this far to only come this far quiet [Music] foreign [Music] you know Denzel Washington talks about consistency the importance of consistency you got to put in the work you got to go for it but you have to have consistency because without consistency and putting in the work the dream is nothing but a dream right and I get all of that but you have to be able to look at yourself and you have to be able to be honest with yourself and know when you mess up because when you mess up it's going to get you what I mean when I say it's going to catch you is at some point you're going to look at you and you're going to say I didn't try I didn't go for it but I often tell people this particularly when it comes to relationships relationships come and go things don't work out sometimes there is nothing on Earth worse than when you know you're the reason see if somebody mistreats you if somebody that you love don't want you no more but you wanted them and you treated them right and blah blah blah but didn't work out it hurts but you'll be fine yeah yeah most people will be fine when you're not fun is when you know it was you and you messed up you messed you heard that everybody you've run across has had apprehension about who they are where they are where they're going Etc but really the most important thing it requires like a literal look in the mirror asking yourself how you will feel if you never try because there's no one that could become all they could be without looking at us absolutely what is your definition of greatness my definition of greatness sustained Excellence anybody could be great for a moment anybody could have their moment in the Sun but who you truly truly are at a particular craft it's whatever is done over a sustained period of time to me first take being number one is not what I'm proud of I'm proud of the fact that it's been 11 years [Music] the fact that I was able to do that at a continuous level that means I had to put my head down and just be about the business and do the work I'm brilliant because I know I'm not I steal from those who are and I learn from them and I disseminate that level of Brilliance that I got from other people always giving them credit number one laughs number two here's the biggest thing I think I'm the best because I think about about the company how can I help how can I make my bosses more money how can I get some of it that mentality that's the game is what makes me the best that's a game changer because what I'm saying is I'm not saying I'm the best because I articulate myself on television better than anybody else even though I think I work as hard as anybody but I work more than anybody or that I got even though I've been number one for 11 years in morning television part of the interruption is number one on ESPN not me I'm not those guys they're the institution you see what I'm saying I understand who I am but what I'm saying is is that you show me what winning is for the brand and I'm gonna bust my butt to go and get it for you I've shown I'm trustworthy that you can trust that I'm gonna be at the top or I'm gonna go to I'm gonna go down swing but there is never a moment that I'm on the air that I don't think about what they want [Music] and a lot of times it's just like a musician if you Jay-Z you run a Rock Nation you're a billionaire blah blah do you make music just for yourself or do you think about what the audience would want if everyone could take this in and realize it's about the win-win when I was playing high school ball as a freshman trying to make the varsity but I wasn't as good yet but I was tall so they put me in there right but I would listen to the coach and say in complaining about some of the starters who weren't hustling is that we need more hustle I need you guys diving for balls jumping out of bounds and I was just like I'm gonna be the hustle guy I'm gonna do what he needs what he wants so I can play and try to help him with me that got me on the team it's like working for a company it's like if you can help the company make more money and show them that they're going to want to continue to support your growth it's a win-win so this is for me that's brilliant and I don't think a lot of people probably think you think that way they don't because if I wasn't interested in making a difference if I wasn't interested in impacting the lives of others in a positive fashion they would have not been interested in giving me the time of day I had to be interested is something greater than myself to get their interest to elevated me being as excellent as I could possibly be on a day in day out week in week out month and month out year in year out basis why is the truth so important you have to have the truth in point the true self is found in that very uncomfortable Zone we all look for toughness we all want it but we look for in a comfortable environment you will not find toughness in a comfortable environment those of you who are listening to this you will not find it the only way you find it is to drown yourself in a position where you're just out of sorts where you can't swim and you're drowning we are drowning will you say no it ma'am dad once you come face to face with who you are you have a starting point [Music] it's in our head saying you know what man dude you're not you're not doing [ __ ] you're wasting a bunch of percentage here in this other 80 is suffering pain failure failure failure self-doubt Darkness and then a whole bunch of light but to get to this light you got to go through all of this [ __ ] you're not succeeding you're not cheaping it's because you're afraid to go in that dark place to find yourself you're setting goals you know you can reach and when you do that that fear that is security that doubt that's where you grow you must always set goals and you think you cannot achieve and then there you get better when that alarm clock goes off at four or five in the morning your mind says no you just say this is what we do it's what we do now because to get to where you want to go the amount of pain involved the amount of mental pain of how many times you're gonna have to do something that you don't want to do to get to where you want to go [Music] every day you must ask yourself did I do enough and then once you do this over and over and over again it becomes like breathing I don't want to live this lifestyle but to get to the other side of this have to so if you really want it you realize what trying is and what trying is not aim is inevitable pain is unavoidable we can't live without pain how much pain can you endure are you willing to use your pain sometimes pain can be your friend and sometimes pain can be your enemy there will always be pain there will always be betrayal there will always be somebody that doubts you somebody that overlooks you somebody that underpays you somebody that undervalues you somebody that talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk somebody that's with you but not for you we're always going to experience pain you just got to understand how to use pain to your advantage you've been through too much to retreat don't run from the discomfort lean into it feel it and remind yourself that it is only temporary pain can lift you up even when you're feeling down mean will remind you that you are still alive pain will push you beyond your threshold [Music] pain is just doing its job [Music] it's always going to be there there will always be a measure of pain in your life in order for things to change you've got to be willing to get up and do something you don't have to be perfect but you've got to make a move [Music] is an indicator light that lets you know something talking about the game we're talking about growing we're talking about suffering so that you can go further choice is yours use the pain to your advantage that Eric Thomas that grew up in Detroit and had like that Detroit mentality while I love it it doesn't transfer to every Community I had to let let the dream destroy you let it strip you let It remake and mold you don't be afraid some of you are 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 God you here won't take you there 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 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 so you start hanging around great people when you start becoming a part of great masterminds God you 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 from being homeless and 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 got to keep going you got to keep going you got to keep going in the 12 years to get the four-year degree turn into a master's degree and the master's degree turn into a PhD God I can't believe it I went from being a High School Dropout from being homeless living in abandoned buildings to eating out of trash cans to Dr Eric Thomas to write him six books guys are you hearing what I'm saying today stop playing small and start playing big because yeah all right all right all right let's stop on three one two three ah one two three one two three [Applause] I am [Applause] foreign 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 going to 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 to 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 he gave me permission to start something that had never started in my family before he gave me permission to say I am I am oh listen to me very closely when you graduate and you get a job if you want to get paid you never say no you never say it can't get done don't you ever say out your mouth it can't get done even if you feel in your heart it can't get done you all said out loud you let the broke folks say that you let the folks they firing first to that you always say it could get done even if you don't think you can get done just say it and try to make up something I'm being real I'm being real I don't 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 well I don't think it could be done like okay cool you won't be like at the end of the year when bonuses getting passed out you won't be getting no bonus but I need you to you to chill the noise I need you to embrace the I am and however you get it done I need you to get it done [Music] not everyone needs to understand your purpose not everyone needs to understand your mission [Music] but the truth is it's about passion it's about discipline it's about awareness it's about accountability you should know that being uncomfortable is not the end for you it is a wake-up call that you have been comfortable for far too long people think if they're in a comfortable state that everything is okay but it's not okay because when chaos shows up you've got to have the ability to push through it to fight through it [Music] why were you at the gym so many hours because you were trying to get it [Music] why did you turn down those parties and those drinks and those drugs because you were trying to get it now it's time to grind now it's time to fight now it's time to believe now it's time to know get your success story has yet to be told it ain't gonna happen by itself it's not going to change by itself but you got to be prepared to put in the work to get to that next level and go beyond [Music] you Rise Up from negativity you Rise Up from Fear you Rise Up from doubt you Rise Up from weakness you Rise Up from the excuses you tell the world that you've got work to do so you gotta stay dedicated you got to keep on pushing forward you got to keep on fighting the good fight you've got to put aside the excuses because excuses won't lift you up excuses won't give you the power that you truly need don't sit back and have a pity party don't sit back and wait for an opportunity to happen it is up to you to go out there and get the opportunities you want success then go get it you wanna be better then be better you want something more than what you have right now then you got to have the desire within your heart and go strong and go with everything you have I'm ready to wake up each morning knowing that every day is a new adventure this is what it's all about the future but now my mind is clear you have to wake up from the lazy mentality you got to get past this mindset of thinking that everything is supposed to be easy believe me when I tell you I know what it feels like to be uncomfortable but I'm not the only one that had to suffer through something I'm not the only one in the world that had to go through some kind of agony some kind of lost some kind of setback but I didn't give up I didn't quit I had to realize that I need to be uncomfortable I didn't say that hey why am I doing this and why is this happening to me what did I do I didn't say that to myself so today you rise when they put you down you rise when emptiness starts to keep inside of your heart you rise when you start to feel that no one cares about you you rise when everyone thinks that you are less of yourself I'm here to remind you right now that you have everything you need to rise you know that good things Don't Come Easy but you are ready to embrace the hardship this is my life you are stronger now than ever before the time that you have right now is to make a difference make it possible through the gun and the bad make it possible do better be better keep moving never quit be productive be strong be powerful and from the bottom of my heart rise up and conduct your business pain doesn't mean you're finished your pain is trying to get you to get up see there's the physical pain there's the mental pain in fact there's even the spiritual pain it could be a painful day emotionally because it's a painful day relationally it it could be a painful day financially are you gonna complain or are you going to use it to your advantage your pain is calling you to a higher level of thinking and a higher level of performing we have to come to a conclusion and know you got to hurt so you can grow it hurts when we hit in the gym it hurts or we can lifting these weights and we're trying to accomplish a goal it hurts it's painful it's daunting it's cumbersome I don't want to do it I'm sweating I'm I'm bleeding I'm crying I'm suffering but after I've suffered there is a reward for those that are fighting and battling with mental stress let me remind you if it did not make you it can never break you you got to know how to rise above it you got to know how to endure and you got to know how to fight for and that pain there's never a day off maybe this pain wasn't my enemy maybe this pain was building me up even through the hardship [Music] so instead of a temporary fix I'm challenging you to use your pain as fuel so that you can begin to design the life you want you can't build much muscle without discomfort you can't build a business without experiencing challenges rejection you can't get a strong and Fit Body by just laying around and eating whatever you want to eat now in order to get there you have to experience the pain of discipline imagine if if pain is a fuel a fuel imagine if you could use the pain and passport and pain to push you to condition you to prepare you for the stages and the rooms you got to walk into in the tables you've got to sit at and the stages you have to stand on what if the pain can make you better what if the pain can feel muscle what if the pain could cause you to retire to LEAP further to run faster what if the pain could help you what if all pain isn't hurt but it's help I'm going to use the lessons I've learned to my advantage let pain serve its purpose you [Music] you're not supposed to go through life without a struggle you're not supposed to go through life without some kind of a setback throughout the course of your life you will build on it [Music] and you will grow from it [Music] if you really want to grow you've got to be willing to admit when you are the issue there were times when I was ready to give up but I pushed through the pain and I made it and that means that you can make it to just like you made it through your last storm you're gonna make it through this one dry those tears and get back to work dry those tears and get back to your mission when pain shows up at your door when people try to inject it inflict it use it to your advantage [Music] I'm not complaining because life got heavier I'm celebrating because I'm getting stronger let's go use the pain [Music] time is not up yet your time is right now your time is at this moment and through the pain you must rise up again but as long as I can feel it I'm not in a state of paralysis if you can feel it you can move it I know you're tired I know you're weary all the blood all the sweat all of the suffering I know you want to quit right now but this is not the time to let go what are you going to do with your pain [Music] [Music] thank you [Music]