ABANDON OLD HABITS: Transform Your Life by Believing in Your Future | Brian Tracy's Motivation Speech

0:00College football is back. So, Hilton called to me the superstition concierge to make your fan rituals a reality. Need a room to match your lucky number? We got you. Want to make sure our team doesn't wash your lucky jersey? Oho, that smells lucky. Hilton's unmatched hospitality can keep up with any superstition. Even a marching bandwink up call it 555 and 55 seconds. Hit it! When you need a team that will do whatever it takes on game day, it matters where you stay. Hilton, for this day. So good, so good, so good. Cashmere, out of wear and boot are up to 60% off at Nordstrom Rack. Same on brands like Ugg, Vince and Cole Han. Join the Nordic club for free to unlock exclusive discounts. Great brands, great prices. That's why you Rack. What if right now you made a decision so bold that every cell in your body shivered with possibility. A decision that shouted to the universe, I refused to be the prisoner of my past.

1:01I choose to be the architect of my future. I stand before you not as a distant guru on a misty mountaintop but as a fellow traveler who once wandered through the desert of doubt until the mirage of excuses evaporated. And the oasis of discipline appeared in dazzling undeniable clarity. I ask you, have you felt that hidden sting that prickling awareness whispering, there is more while your habits and chains hiss back not for you? Hear me. Those habits can be shattered like glass under the hammer of a single resolute thought and that thought begins with belief. Belief is the internal sunrise illuminating dark corners where fears lurk like timid rats gnawing at the fabric of your potential. When light floods in the rats flee. Imagine you switch on a hundred watt bulb in a blackened room. At that instant, the darkness never negotiates. Please give me five more minutes. It disappears immediately so it is with doubt when belief is activated.

2:03But Brian, you protest. I've hoped before, hope fizzles. Indeed, hope is the spark. Yet without the fuel of habit, that spark dies in the cold. Habits are the daily firewood that keep your dreams blazing through stormy midnight. Picture this. Every morning your alarm rings, it is not merely a sound, it is a summons to your destiny. Do you spring up and greet the day with thank you or do you bargain for five little more minutes? Each response engraves neural pathways deeper than the Grand Canyon, sculpting a self that either ascends or descends. Small actions are chisels carving monuments, decide which monument you build, an obelisk of accomplishment or a tumble of regrets. Let's start with the law of cause and effect, a universal engine that never sleeps. Every cause you activate, every it seems trivial call you make, every extra page you read, every cookie you decline, every compliment you offer, initiates effects that echo across years. Tiny causes compounded become galaxies of results.

3:05I once met an exhausted salesman who lamented, Brian successes a lottery, I can't get winning numbers. I replied, success is a mathematical equation, disciplined action multiplied by time equals inevitable results. He changed one habit, calling two extra prospects daily, only two. Twelve months later his income had quadrupled. The equation never fails. Perhaps you're harboring the mithe of overnight transformation. You wait for a tidal wave of motivation to sweep you onto new shores. Instead, real growth resembles the slow turning of an ancient water wheel. Each bucket lifts a modest splash, yet persistent revolutions power entire mills. Your water wheel is self-discipline, add one new productive splash each day, and the wheel of life will grind out golden flower of achievement. Stagnate and the wheel rusts in idle self-pity. Why do we cling to habits that sabotage us? Because familiar chains feel oddly comfortable. We tiptoe within a prison cell whose door is unlocked, afraid the bright corridor of possibility might demand responsibility.

4:08Today, yesterday. Walk out. How? With a micro habit I call the five minute launch. Choose a goal, fitness, learning, sales performance, parenting harmony, spiritual peace. Then dedicate five minutes at the same time each day to that endeavor. Read five minutes, stretch five minutes, journal five minutes, hug your child five minutes with no phone in hand, five minutes is laughably small, yet it's the key that turns the lock of inertia. After five, momentum begs for ten. Ten begs for thirty, and soon the habit has swallowed your old identity and spit out a renewed version glowing with confidence. A client once told me, Brian, my mornings are chaotic, I hit snooze. College football is back, so Hilton called to me the superstition concierge to make your fan rituals a reality. Need a room to match your lucky number? We got you. Want to make sure our team doesn't wash your lucky jersey? Oho, that smells lucky. Hilton's unmatched hospitality can keep up with any superstition. Even a marching bandwick up call it 555 and 55 seconds.

5:11When you need a team that will do whatever it takes on game day, it matters where you stay. Hilton, for this day. I'm going to go to 125 years with new moments still add. Discover it all in Nordstrom stores and at Nordstrom.com.

6:11Clarity, calm, higher sales, deeper joy because of those tiny steps. The chaos was never outside, it was in his habits. He changed the inside and the outside rearranged itself like iron filings drawn by an unseen magnet. Ask yourself which minuscule habit if practiced daily would set dominoes falling toward your greatest aspiration. Identify it now. Do not wait for a miracle cloud to spell it. The first word that flickers in your mind is the one you're subconscious screams for. Write it. Commit. Post it where your eyes cannot escape. This is your trigger, your cue. The brain loves cues. CQ, perform routine, receive reward. Embed your cue into the architecture of your day so obviously you could trip over it in the dark. Want to exercise? Place your sneakers beside the bed. Laces open, work out clothes draped like a flag of victory.

7:35This is the way to help your body to be hidden, curated, surround yourself with people who fertilize ambition, not those who piss toxic cynicism over delicate seedlings. Rearrange your desk, your kitchen, your social feeds to promote the growth you desire. If temptations lurk like crow's pecking seeds, block, delete, distance. Your future harvest depends on today's landscaping. Consider the habit of language. Words are powerful chemicals. ingest negative words and you poison your potential. Repeteed declarations until they echo inside skull and heart like timeless chance. I am responsible. I am disciplined. I am relentless. Each affirmation rewires the neural grid forging mental exoskeletons against adversity. Does this sound too dramatic? Let history testify. Rockefeller wrote gratitude lines daily. Mandela recited in Victus in prison. Eleanor Roosevelt repeated,

8:35Do one thing every day that scares you. These were not flukes. They were engineers of habit patterns. If such titans wielded simple routines dare you dismiss them as trivial. Maybe you fear failure. Hear me. Failure is fertilizer. It stinks yet nourishes. When a habit lapses, do not call yourself names, call it data. Analyze what cue failed, what reward felt weak, adjust, and reboot. A toddler falls hundreds of times yet never labels itself non-walker. Emulate that tenacity. Every tumble is tuition in the University of Achievement. Now a crucial insight. The habit you forge for yourself ripples outward. Your children watch silently. Colleagues observe subconsciously. Strangers emulate unconsciously. When you anchor one radiant habit, you become a lighthouse guiding many ships through snarling seas. I adopted the one hour early wake reading habit decades ago. Countless seminar attendees have copied that practice and transformed entire communities. Your private victory becomes public inspiration. Action must follow awareness.

9:36Close your eyes and visualize tomorrow morning. See yourself executing the new habit with precision. Feel the emotion of pride swelling. Neuroscience confirms mental rehearsal primes the motor cortex. Making action smooth. Colleagues football is back. So Hilton called to me the superstition concierge to make your fan rituals a reality. Need a room to match your lucky number? We got you. Want to make sure our team doesn't wash your lucky jersey? Oho that smells lucky. Hilton's unmatched hospitality can keep up with any superstition. Even a marching band wake up call it 555 and 55 seconds. Hit it! When you need a team that will do whatever it takes on game day, it matters where you stay. Hilton for this day. This episode is brought to you by Nordstrom. For 125 years Nordstrom has been part of your story. The stylist who found the perfect outfit for your big interview. The first pair of walking shoes for your one year old. The tomato soup you shared with your sister at the cafe. These are the moments that make Nordstrom. Nordstrom.

10:38Bigger small. We're here for all of it. Celebrating 125 years with new moments still add. Discover it all in Nordstrom stores and at Nordstrom.com. They're automatic. Then open your calendar and schedule the habit. What gets scheduled gets done. Vague intention is a ghost. Scheduled intention is a warrior. Set reminders, alarms, sticky notes, accountability partners. Broadcast your commitment so loudly that quitting would embarrass you more than persisting would strain you. Let me share my START framework. S. Select one habit. Tether it to an existing routine. A. Allow micro steps. R. Reward immediately with celebration. Even a fist pump. T. Track progress visibly. Chains on calendar. Check marks, graphs. Follow START for 30 days and momentum becomes self-sustaining. You might ask, Brian, what if my environment is toxic? Co-workers gossip. Family mocks my goals. I reply. Be the thermostat not the thermometer. A thermometer only reflects temperature. A thermostat sets it. You raise the emotional temperature of any room through consistent model behaviors. Patients will turn critics into curious onlookers. Then maybe into allies.

11:51Visualize the compound. Result. One extra prospect call equals five weekly, 20 monthly, 240 yearly. At a 20% conversion that's 48 new clients. Maybe $48,000 extra or $480,000 depending on industry. One daily salad over fries removes 500 calories. That's 182,500 annually. Approximately 52 pounds of fat never stored. One chapter daily is a bookshelf yearly. An informal PhD in any discipline. The number scream truth. Small hinges swing massive doors. Yet some still cling to some day. Someday is a mythic island that sinks a little deeper each night beneath waves of reluctance. Rescue yourself today. Years ago I scribbled a note, Thurt CR. The pain of discipline weighs ounces. The pain of regret weighs tons. That slip of paper became my compass. Whenever temptation whispered, I felt the crushing weight of regret. Immediately I chose disciplines lighter burden. Adopt that perspective and you'll sprint toward right action. Remember to pair habits with purpose. Saving money for no reason breeds miserliness. Saving to

12:55fund your daughter's education or a charity well pumps passion into every deposit. Purpose is the octane that fuels persistence when boredom threatens. Tie each habit to a vision that ignites your soul. Let's craft one together. Imagine it is one year from today. You wake before sunrise with energy. You meditate five minutes reviewing your written goals. You exercise, oxygen flood cells and you radiate vitality. Over a protein breakfast, you read 10 pages of an industry classic. At work, your intention is laser focussed. You complete MIT's most important tasks before noon. You speak words of encouragement to your team, elevating morale, back home you dine mindfully, share gratitude around the table, trade screens for story time with children, hold your partner and pray briefly. Sleep arrives swiftly deep as ocean trenches. You have created this day sculpted it by habits. Multiply such days and you build a life that invites the applause of angels. Skeptical begin anyway. The seed contains the forest though unseen.

13:55Habit contains your future though unproven. I promise the second week will be easier than the first. The second month easier than the second week. Eventually the habit will guard you. Performing automatically while your conscious mind innovates greater dreams. Let's address time. Many wine. I have no time. Nonsense. You have 168 hours weekly. The same allotment given to Da Vinci Beethoven jobs. They mastered time by mastering habits. Track your hours. You'll uncover pockets of waste disguised as square and rolling gossip reruns worry reclaim those minutes and redirect them into your new routine. Time expands when used with intent. The habit journey is not solitary. Enlist a partner, declare hold me to my promise. Choose someone supportive yet demanding. Text nightly completed or missed. A Miss day resets the count. Public accountability transforms week wishes. The first month for ball is back. So Hilton called to me the superstition concierge to make your fan rituals a reality. Need a room to match your lucky number. We got you. Want to make sure our team doesn't wash your lucky jersey.

15:02Oh that smells lucky. Hilton's unmatched hospitality can keep up with any superstition. Even a marching bandwink up call it 555 and 55 seconds. Hit it! When you need a team that will do whatever it takes on game day, it matters where you stay. Hilton for this day. We've been waiting for you for 55 years with new moments still at discover at all in Nordstrom stores and at Nordstrom.com. Now let's ignite emotion. Emotion is the catalyst turning knowledge into action. Close your eyes again and imagine remaining stuck. Unchanged habits. Same waistline, same debt, same arguments, same emptiness, five years hence. Feel the acid of regret. Good. Let discomfort motivate.

16:09Next envision five years of steadfast habit. Strong body, commanding career, overflowing generosity, serene mind. Feel the adrenaline rush of possibility. Anchor that pleasure. Bounce between pain and potential until motivation sizzles like electricity, writing steel cables. Then move. I challenge you. Right on paper the one habit you pledge to initiate within 12 hours of reading these words. Sign it, date it, post it publicly. Social media, office board, refrigerator. Tag me if you wish. I will virtually cheer. Then act no analysis paralysis imperfect action beats perfect hesitation. You are not limited by genetics economy politics or yesterday's mistake. You are limited only by the consistent actions you choose or refuse choose wisely. Every habit is a vote for the type of person you wish to become cast enough votes and no recount will overturn your new identity. I began as a high school dropout washing dishes habits lifted me onto global stages. If a former dishwasher can train executives write books travel the world what can it determine you accomplish the answer is astounding believe it build it begin the clock is quietly ticking let your new habit tick even louder break those old chains forge new links of gold. Then watch your life surge like a rocket toward the stars you once only admired from the ground.

17:30This episode is brought to you by born in Roma fragrances by Valentino Beauty the iconic fragrance duo Donna born in Roma Oda Parfum is a feminine fragrance featuring juicy black current central Jasmine Woody cashmur and warm vanilla. It's masculine counterpart. Wombo born in Roma Oda, has notes of fresh violet leaf, aromatic sage green vetiver spicy ginger and mineral salt shop at macy's dot com. Close your eyes. Exhale. Kill your body relax. Let go of whatever you're carrying today. Well, I'm letting go of the worry that I wouldn't get my new contacts in time for this class. I got them delivered free from 1800 contacts. Oh my gosh, they're so fast and breathe. Oh, sorry. I almost couldn't breathe when I saw the discount they gave me on my first order. Oh, sorry. Namaste. Visit 1-800-contacts.com today to save on your first order. 1-800-contacts.