No Excuses

When you feel like giving up, don't.

When you thinking about giving up, don't.

When it look like you ain't gonna make it, keep going.

When they tell you you can't, come on man,

who are they?

When they tell you you're not gonna make it,

don't believe them, man.

Don't believe them.

You got to be relentless.

Don't give up.

Don't give up.

Stay in it.

Stay focused.

Quitting guarantees the failure.

Once you quit, it rules out any chance of succeeding.

The mere waking up every day,

putting the next foot in front of the next foot,

at least keeps you in the game.

But you can choose in the midst of all of this that's going on

to be happy.

In spite of life's challenges.

See, a lot of us because of our limited vision of ourselves,

a lot of us who begin to focus on problems and enable them to overwhelm us,

we begin to think that we have no options, we begin to believe

that there's no way out.

Well guess what?

There's always a way.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

We have 2 primary choices in life, we can either accept conditions as they exist

or we can take the responsibility to change them.

See, a lot of people want to exempt themselves from taking responsibility,

all they wanna do is talk about the problem.

Every time you see them they'll tell you their story,

over, and over, and over, and over again.

No, no.

You wanna take responsibility for your life.

I got me here, I can get me out of this.

And I'm getting out.

I'm not gonna be a volunteer victim.

I'm unstoppable.

This will not get me down.

You've got to make those kind of declarations to yourself.

I have never met anybody who became incredibly successful

in any area of their life until they had suffered

and sweated, and sacrificed,

and kept their focus, and fought

through tears, and trials, and tests.

And if you have a dream and you commit to it,

it will come to pass.

You must have patience and engage

in consistent action.

We live in a world, ladies and gentlemen, where people want instant gratification.

They want it right now.

No.

It's simple, but it's not easy.

It's a system that if you work the system, it works

if you work it.

But make no mistake about it, it's hard.

And you are the determining factor.

The people who make it in this world, look around for the circumstances that they

want, and if they can't find them, they create them.

It's you, that you must take personal responsibility

to make it happen.

It's hard, no, easy is not an option.

However, ladies and gentlemen, what you will discover is

that it's worth it.

Write down 5 reasons of why it is worth it

for you to become a diamond.

To experience that level of achievement.

What is it that will give you the drive?

What is it that will ignite

the courage in you to get up

and come back again and again and again

How is it that you would be able, what reasons that can tap in

to that deep down feeling that goes to your gut,

that no matter how many times you get knocked down,

that you're coming back?

Listen to me, this is how you do it, first,

over 6-7 years ago, with no money,

no human resources, no building,

no funding, no support,

the first thing we did was we dreamed,

we wrote the dream down, we rehearsed the dream,

we looked at the dream, we talked about the dream,

we slept with the dream, we woke up to the dream,

we wore the dream, and now boom.

It's our reality.

And for some of you, you stopped dreaming.

You dream for a week and you stop 'cause things around you don't look good.

You dream for a month and when you get hit in the mouth,

you quit and you give up.

you dream for a while and when people tell you you're crazy,

and when people tell you you're stupid, and when people tell you it can never get

done, you stop dreaming

and you go back to knowledge.

And I dare you to use your imagination.

I dare you when you're broke to use your imagination, I dare you when you're rich to use your imagination,

I dare you under every single circumstance,

keep dreaming, keep looking at your dream,

keep focusing on your dream, keep going

after the dream

because that's where true success is.