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Don’t Forget the Life You Promised Yourself
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Here's a shift worth noting. Better health care is care that meets patients where they are. United Health Group is bringing it directly to living rooms. This is a win for patients managing chronic conditions. And here's the interesting thing. By closing those care gaps, administering in-home exams and identifying risks earlier, more diseases can be prevented and patient outcomes can improve. In 2025 alone, United Health Group patients received over 19 million home visits. Learn more at unitedhealthgroup.com slash commitment. Few things are as uplifting as the greatest moments in sports. And nothing brings us together quite like team USA at the Olympic Winter Games. From NBC Universal's iconic storytelling to the innovative technology across Xfinity and Peacock, Comcast brings the Olympic Games home to America, sharing every moment with millions. When team USA steps onto the world stage, we're not just watching. We're cheering together. This winter, we're all on the same team. Comcast, proud partner of Team USA.
This is the left, today we smile, next day we cry. The question isn't, can you handle the situation? The question is, can you handle your mind? Can you manage the thoughts and the emotions that are trying to poison your progress? Forget managing the situation. Manage your mind. The most discouraging times were when you're putting effort and you're not seeing progress or results. This can psychologically mess with you to not believe that enough effort is going to produce progress. And for the rest of your life, you're just going to be like, well, even if I give my best, nothing's going to happen. Even if I love this person, nothing's going to happen. I'm like, okay, first week no results, second week no results, third week no results, fourth week no results, fifth week a little bit of results, sixth week a little bit of results, seventh week a little bit of result, star really working. Uh-huh, 90 days, that's only seven weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks, 10, 11, 12, 13th week, bam! Oh, this works. You're much better than you think you are and you need to remember that most of the doubt and most of the things that you struggle with
were installed in you by people around you who have already given up on what their life could have been. And they want you to do so as well because it makes them feel more comfortable about their mediocre existence. You don't really have limits, you have what you have been told your limits are and you have chosen to believe that those are your limits. And that's why you have this problem going for the things you really want and instead going for the things that are more realistic. And this one is going to hurt. In the race to greatness when you're chasing it, there is no motivation. What? There is no motivation for everybody told me I need to get motivated. Motivated people chase their dreams, elevated people catch their dreams. No more gray decisions in your life. It either serves the man or the woman you want to become, the business you want, the father you want to be,
the wife you want to be, the mom you want to be, the leader you want to be, the business you want to have, your actions either serve and take you towards that version of yourself. Or those actions take you away from that. If you get rid of, well, maybe kind of, you know, surfing on my phone a little bit or doing this a little bit or being jammed Netflix a little bit or hanging out with those negative people a little bit. No, no, no. You want to go to the next level? You don't want it's like to generate the kind of money impact and purpose that you know you can and want to. Then there's no gray anymore. Listen bro, I don't have motivation, I have this discipline. Motivation, it's temporary. Today you have motivation. Tomorrow wake up early, you don't have motivation. When I wake up early morning training, I never have motivation. I have only this discipline. I don't have motivation. I today not go to training. No, bro, motivation is good. This discipline is bad. Believe in yourself, there's nothing wrong with having confidence.
There's nothing wrong with being delusional. There's nothing wrong with seeing things that people don't see, you know, have the consistency to make something that's real to you real life. So believing yourself, staking assistant, and it'll happen. You are who you've been looking for. So stop looking for more unless you're looking in a mirror because it's about time for you to see clearly that you are who you've been looking for. And that empty feeling you got, that hole in your chest, you only got that feeling because you think you're not blessed with everything you need. And yes, love is the answer. Love is the key, but if you can't love yourself, how can you ever love me? And loving yourself, what does that even mean? Like massages and selfies and that sort of thing? Because the more I think about it, the more it feels weird. I've always been taught that self-love was something to be feared.
I've been taught that arrogance is bad and vanity, it's not good. What should I do? How should I act? I'm supposed to love myself, but how do I even do that? How many of you within the course of your lifetime have the capacity to be peaceful? The capacity to be peaceful? If you have the capacity to be peaceful, that you are already moving in the right direction because we as human beings, naturally and innately, have the capacity to be peaceful. Because when we are at peace with ourselves, we are experiencing our enlightened conscience, yes? So this is how transformation works. We have to let go of all the golden carrots that have been gathered in front of us, of success, of accumulation, of being more, because more isn't necessarily more. Do you understand that? Pain plus reflection equals progress.
If you take away reflection out of that equation, all you're left with is pain, right? If pain plus reflection equals progress and you take away reflection, all you're left with is pain, there's no progress. And for a lot of us, when we're experiencing pain, when we're experiencing stress, when we're experiencing pressure, when we're experiencing challenges, we forget to reflect. And when you forget to reflect, you lose the opportunity for a real progress. We forget to reflect because we get distracted. We try to avoid pain or we try to numb pain. But when we reflect on pain, we have the opportunity to have progress in our lives. Treat yourself like someone you love. Treat yourself like someone you love.
Now, I've been standing, but I needed to be sitting because I couldn't believe that I had been letting myself keep forgetting that I was who I'd been looking for. And deep in my core, I knew it was time to stop looking for more, until I could look through all my fear and look into a mirror and see clearly that the man looking back at me is the only one who can make me happy and I am already enough. What's my next step? And so I'd go immediately into action. And you know, I find that when we ask the University's questions, a lot of clarity emerges. You have to ask the question first, but if you ask life, what's my next step to get to that future? Which looks impossible from this perspective? You will start to intuitively know what that next step is. So the true source of influence is your service to something high. Without that, you're living a life of manipulation trying to get something
to be successful. However, when you begin to surrender your life to something higher, an attribute of the presence, even your definition of success changes. This too shall pass. Whatever you're feeling, whether you're feeling great, or whether you're feeling terribly, it's going to pass. So helping people understand that that will pass, that there will be something beautiful again, waiting for them. We have to redefine success to be peace. Because if you are not at peace, you are not successful. You get that. If pain is driving your need to produce, if you are not successful, you're running away from something.
So it's not about who you are. It's about who you want to become, and the price you're willing to pay to get there. Become that person. Change the world. Change yourselves. They are most significant questions that a person can ask. Why am I here? What's the difference between love and between fear? How can I know? How can I line myself with the highest part of myself that I can possibly imagine? I think these are questions that we've been asking ourselves since we were species. Now we're multarsensual and we can begin to experience the things that we used to believe, have to believe on faith. Now we can begin to see for ourselves who is responsible for our lives. But the final step in creating authentic power is to give your power to a higher power.
You can have what you want and need assuming you're taking care of yourself. You're starting out with the proper attitude towards yourself, which is that you're worthy of care and respect. And there's something to you that's valuable that at least could be developed. You need to give yourself that amount of credit, like you would with anyone that you might be willing to attempt to care for and love. You can have what you want, but you have to specify it. And so you're asked to write a few sentences. Here's a shift worth noting. Better health care is care that meets patients where they are. The United Health Group is bringing it directly to living rooms. This is a win for patients managing chronic conditions. And here's the interesting thing. By closing those care gaps, administering in-home exams and identifying risks earlier, more diseases can be prevented and patient outcomes can improve. In 2025 alone, United Health Group patients received over 19
million home visits. Learn more at unitedhealthgroup.com slash commitment. Few things are as uplifting as the greatest moments in sports. And nothing brings us together quite like team USA at the Olympic Winter Games. From NBC Universal's iconic storytelling to the innovative technology across Xfinity and Peacock, Comcast brings the Olympic Games home to America, sharing every moment with millions. When team USA steps onto the world stage, we're not just watching. We're cheering together. This winter, we're all on the same team. Comcast, proud partner of Team USA. Not to be obsessive about it, but to sketch it out. Like, okay, it's three to five years down the road. And you have what you need and want to make your life what it needs to be. So that you could be a good person. In the face of the suffering of life, what does it look like? Consider for a moment the multitude of your faults.
And the direction those faults could pull you in. And everyone knows that. Everyone has a sense of how they would fall apart. It's three to five years down the road and you've let that part of your character dominate. What particular corner of hell is it that you're now occupied? And so now you have something to aim out. You have a purpose, right? And that's motivating. Like, our cause of emotion is linked to our pursuit of valuable goals. That's how our brains are set up. And so you need that that positive goal and you need something to run away from. And so you can run away from the worst in you. You can escape from the worst in you and you can move towards the best in you. I felt like we're drowning in information and we're starving for motivation. So like new ideas
about, you know, 10 top 10 listicles about how to live better or be more productive and all that stuff. I think there's this sort of false promise there. Because like, that's not the weak link. The weak link is, do I have enough drive in myself to do these things? And if we can unlock, intrinsic motivation, we can unlock that I can't help but go do this because it fulfills me. And we can connect that to long-term development. Then I think we got something much more potent and potentially transformative than post-it notes or affirmations. In order to make it stick, go brick by brick. One of the things that's interesting about having big dreams and big goals is that oftentimes the fact that the goals and the dreams that we have are so big, it makes them really, really difficult to achieve because you spend so much time thinking about how big the idea or the dream is that you become paralyzed in the moment
around taking action. How do you build a house by laying a foundation? Brick by brick by brick. You go one small brick at a time and it's exactly the same thing for your goals, by the way. So if you think about where you're at in this moment and you think about the path, the path between where I'm at and where you want to get to is the same. It is a brick path and it is comprised of a ton of little bricks that come together to take me forward. And so when you think about a goal or you think about a dream as a million little bricks that come together and lay a path forward, that's the way visually you can break down your goals. The most important conversation you'll ever have is the one you have in yourself. You wake up with it, you walk around with it, you go to bed with it,
eventually you act on it, whether it be good or bad. There's haters everywhere in this world. We have to be able to live amongst distractions and be undistracted. Stay in your own mind. Don't let them own yours. Our whole life is a set set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want you to feel discomfort. So the whole time we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that. I stopped comparing myself to other people. So I stopped comparing what I didn't have to what other people had. I left that off the table and then I started to reward myself for improving over what I was yesterday. And that's profound change because it means that you actually give
your reward structure transformed. And that's a big deal because that's your source of positive emotion and enthusiasm, encouragement, all of that. So now you can start to encourage yourself for for genuine improvement. And it's also pragmatically extremely intelligent because incremental improvement repeated is virtually unstoppable. Once you become obsessed with something, obsessed, it's okay to be unbalanced for a while. It's okay. Don't be all this stuff you would say. You got to be balanced. To be the best in the world. At what you do, the best in what you do, you have to be unbalanced to find every bit of energy and strength that you have to pull it off. Then you get balanced once you become great. Why are you so bad going crazy? Because I'm trying to be the best I can to give you the best
that I am. And it takes me obsessed to where people think you're crazy. Become obsessed with being great. It changes everything. The best gift to give yourself is to find something that motivates you. Find something that motivates you to not motivate you in a drive. What you're driven, you can push yourself very far. But the biggest gift you can give somebody is that they see your drive. They see your passion to become better. And then you can pass along that gift that you have given yourself. On to someone else to be better. That's the best gift you can give somebody. You can take your surroundings beyond order and move towards beauty. And that's unbelievably useful because while beauty calls people to their higher being, I would say, and to make friends
with beauty is to introduce yourself very carefully to one of the mysteries of life that make it worth living. Tell you in order to have something different, you are going to have to do something different. In order to have something more, you have to do something you haven't done yet. When you look up and you don't have to have a magnificent change over 12 months, have a small change over 30 days and a small change over 30 days, your breakthrough will come in needle point moves. And you'll look up look up in five years and not recognize your life. So when I say you've got a wanting, you've got to want it bad enough to fight through that period where you don't know if you're going to pull it off. You're afraid that you're going to end up being a total loser. And the people that go on to do just extraordinary things with their lives, their people that want this success so badly that they're willing to face the fact that they might
prove themselves to be a loser, which of course is an illusion and isn't actually how it plays out. But that's they needed this huge desire to help them overcome the fear that they might be as big of a loser as they think they are and that everyone else is going to finally see what a loser they are. So you have to build the design. The greatest achievers who've ever walked among us know that they all came from the same intelligence and recognize and help people to find that within themselves. The number one quality and characteristic of these people who live at the apex, who are way beyond just taking care of their biological needs, who are way airborne beyond their social needs, who are way beyond needing to be loved and so on. These are people who came here with a purpose. These are people who have a dharma. These are people who won't let anyone else determine what it is they're going to be. The number one quality of these people is that they are independent of the good opinion of other people.
They listen to an inner voice. Not weakness, vulnerability, that's a whole different thing to admit to admit to the fact that you're vulnerable. That's a form of courage. That's not a form of weakness, but that needs you to take whatever steps you're necessary to deal with that properly. It isn't some facade that you're invulnerable. No one is invulnerable by any stretch of the imagination and to stand up and face that is the best route that you have. The people that win in life don't necessarily have more vision than you. See, it's not a lack of vision always that means that you are going to lose. It's a lack of a type of vision which is depth perception. You think you're further away from the outcome and so you pace yourself like it and you jog all the time throughout your life. That means consequently they get started earlier and they finish later.
United Health Group is bringing in-home treatment directly to patients, closing caregabs, identifying risks earlier and improving patient outcomes. In 2025, patients received over 19 million home visits. Learn more at unitedhealthgroup.com slash commitment. Spring starts at the Home Depot and we are bringing the heat to your backyard this season. Fire up the flavor with our wide variety of grills for under $300 like the next grill for burner gas grill that's perfect for hosting your spring cookout. Then set the scene and turn your outdoor space into the go-to spot the patio sets for every budget. Bring it this season with grills that deliver flavor and patios that set the vibe from the Home Depot. Start your spring with low prices guaranteed at the Home Depot. Home Depot.com slash price match for details. Because the second characteristic of self-actualizing people is that they are detached from outcome. They don't do what they do because of what result is going to come to them. What motivates
self-actualizing people is this is my calling. They're everything is a teaching. The question isn't whether the teachers are there, the question is how willing are you to pay attention? How willing are you to listen to that inner voice that no one else can hear? Do what I do because of the passion I feel. I am not here for anything external to myself. I am here because I have a passion within me. You have to have the truth to have a starting point. They do want to know what makes me laugh me right down progress equals happiness. Think about it. You can achieve everything in a world and still goes this all there is. You can achieve something they're excited for for how long. The only way you stay
happy next to keep it rowing. It's like life is hard. It's a crucifixion. That's right. And so it's no wonder they think that it's like okay fine first of all we're going to take it seriously. Yeah you're suffering in a drift and you have your reasons. Despite that, it's more to you than you think and you know that too. What you come face to face is who you are. You have a starting point. All right. I'm not real smart. I have no courage. I have no self esteem. I have no nothing. Nothing. That's my starting point. Now we can move from there. But if I tell myself I'm strong, I have courage. I'm smart. And all these are lies. You continuously push that starting point backwards. So that starting point is the truth.
Progress is everything. If you're making progress on your bike, progress in your mind, progress in your motion, you're going to feel happy. When you get there, you feel excited but it gets out of your mouth. Because we're not made to just sit and you know be successful. We're made to grow. We're made to absolutely grow if something begins. We're up here because of 4am. We're up here because of two days or five days. We're up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way. If anything tried to bring us down, we used it to make us stronger. We were never satisfied, never finished. We rest at the end, not in the middle. And I took that to heart. You envision something, you got clear about it and then you started thinking about all the reasons why you wanted it. Your being is limited and flawed and fragile. This immense potential but constrained in this tiny
little living space. But the fact that you have limitations means that the plot of your life is the overcoming of those limitations and that if you didn't have limitations, while there wouldn't be a plot and maybe there would be no life. And so that's part of the reason why perhaps you have to accept the fact that you're flawed and insufficient and live with it and consider it a precondition for BA. Your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world. Once you put away your phones and your computers, your brain is the only thing you have when you're going through depression, when you're going through hard times, you're going through death, real life hits. You're alone but there's 24 hours in the day when you're alone in this brain and your brain is talking to you in all kinds of ways. And then once the control you pulling these different pockets, if you can't control your own brain and your brain controls you, you've got to tell your
brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there. You've got to control. If not, it's over. Courage is also physical. Again, courage is not mean you're not afraid. Courage means you're afraid but you do it anyway. I don't know what the limits are. It's like if you were the best person you could be. No, truly if you decided to live by truth and to aim at the good and you really did that for your whole heart and soul into it. Like you were like that's what you were staking your life on because you're staking your life on something. Who the hell could you be? Great ideas are never going to interrupt you. They have to be pursued and if you don't pursue them, you're going to get what everybody else has, which is all this fear, all this uncertainty,
all this stuff will not work because everybody's focused on what won't work, what can't happen, why? Because they're afraid. They're afraid to fail. They're afraid to try and feel like they're not enough. So you got to stand guard that mind by feeding your mind. You have a certain amount of potential within your grasp. You may find what you have contempt to be because you're not in a position of power. This modicum of possibility that's been granted to you is beneath you. And so you do nothing with it. And so you get nothing from it. You take that seriously. You do the small things you can, the humble things that you can to put yourself together tiny, embarrassing ways that are real. And if you do that enough, you'll fortify yourself. You're not a manager of your life. You're a creator of your life. How do you create your life? You get hungry for something, don't you?
Last one big head game. You're playing with yourself. If you lose, it's because you allow life to get in your head. You know perfectly well, you could be far more than you are, and you don't know what the upper limit of that is. You cannot get to the mountaintop without taking a few missteps. Ask yourself what's the opportunity from the failure and get in the game because when it's the last hour of your last day, it will not be the failures you regret. It'll be all the risks you didn't take. When you push beyond what's comfortable, it develops this determination inside you the sense of will. You can decide that you're going to stand up to life. You can decide that I'm going to live each day as if it were my last.
You can you have the power to make that decision. You decided there's something you wanted so bad that you unleashed all your desire. You became obsessed with it. Everyone in this world wants to be better to where they are right now. What's stopping you? Oh, I know you. You're standing in the way because you will put a pillar of thought in front of the thought. Don't be great. But part of the reason you choose your damn sacrifice because the sacrifice is inevitable, but at least you get to choose it. And then there's something that's even more complex than that in some sense is that the problem with being a child is that all you are is potential. And it's really low resolution. You could be anything but
you're not anything. We create so many excuses to pursuing the best version of ourselves. What's your dream? So for me failure is it's something that you should be afraid of. It should be afraid of, but that's why you should go out there and challenge yourself to fail. Because if you're not feeling that's something that means you've set your goals to pass. And you know most of us in life we work so hard for things. We think life's going to be a certain way that as you're going to discover life is never a straight line. You know we are taught that. We think line is just I'm going to go from here to there. But if you look in nature you never see a straight line in real nature. But straight line of human built it. And so it's a process of evolving, of growing, growing, growing, growing back and challenges are what really grow us.
Let me ask this simple question. What makes you happy? The thing that makes us happy is the things that we're passionate about. I really like the United Health Group is bringing in-home treatment directly to patients, closing caregabs, identifying risks earlier and improving patient outcomes. In 2025 patients received over 19 million home visits. Learn more at unitedhealthgroup.com slash commitment. Spring starts at the Home Depot and we are bringing the heat to your backyard this season. Fire up the flavor with our wide variety of grills for under $300. Like the next grill for burner gas grill that's perfect for hosting your spring cookout. Then set the scene and turn your outdoor space into the go-to spot the patio sets for every budget. Bring it this season with grills that deliver flavor and patios that set the vibe from the Home Depot. Start your spring with low prices guaranteed at the Home Depot. Exclusive supplies at Home Depot.com slash price match for details. When they say that they're face lights up, then why don't you do more of that? Well I can't because oh then you don't want to be great.
You're not ready to be great. You want to be good. You want to be okay. You don't want to be great because great takes work. Great takes a level in discipline that is distraction free. If you love something you spend time with that something. It was the beginning of understanding when do you what are the choices you make in the compounding assets that are choices? The choices we make compounding assets for our future. How do we be more true and kind to our future selves? How do we start making some more choices? Make choices that. But look at my crew. They're going to be grave courageous choices that you can look in the mirror if it works and go, yep, I'm responsible. And if they don't work and go, yep, that's on me. Quit living in them bow. You know, straddling offense here there.
Be smart. Don't be foolish. Don't dive in. Courage to take more risks. Courage to get uncomfortable. Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. If things go wrong, you hit a dead end as you will. It's just life's way of saying time to change course. And people are starving for the antidote and the antidote is truth and responsibility, right? And it isn't because that's what you should do in some some I know better or someone knows better for you what you should do sense. It's that it's that that's the secret to meaningful life. And without the meaningful life, then all you have is suffering and nihilism and despair and all of that self-contempt. And and that's not good. And to stand up and take responsibility and they all know that and and are starving for that message. And you know, if you if you were able to reveal the best of yourself to you in the world that you would be an overwhelming
force for good and that whatever errors might be made or a way would wash out and know. You can live life with ease, not with struggle. One thing is when we say work, it's a many young people, wonderful people who are getting recognized for whatever wonderful things they have done. Living them apart but generally work means always being people have been thought that them as work hard. Nobody told them them as work joyfully. Nobody told them their work should be an expression of their joy or their love. They have to work hard. If you work hard, life will be tedious. How will this how else will it be? You will do something hard only because you don't know how to do it. If you know how to do it, you would do it with ease. So without
learning how to do something, if you try to do it without enlisting enough time and perception, if life is all expression, then life becomes a big struggle. Don't react against a bad situation, merge with that situation instead and the solution will arise from the challenge. You are every person's life as a story. The question is, some people's story is a warning, some people's story is an example. Right now you're an example that's growing and expanding and you have a chance to have this be the most incredible life, but it won't be a life without challenge. And the challenges you're facing right now give you an opportunity to grow like very a few generations. What takes you years to accomplish because you just can't get over the hump. You're looking for those few seconds after you finally figure out the equation,
to get you to finally pass, to succeed. And what I began to realize is that the mind is the matrix in and of itself because I can tell you right now today in this moment, I promise you, the matrix has you. This is water. To a fish, water is so ubiquitous, it ceases to exist. Now we all have that same thing and it's playing on us and it's keeping us from becoming who we want to become. And that thing is our mindset, it's our belief system, it is so ever present, it is so ingrained into the fabric of who you are and the way that you process data, you don't even notice it, you don't even know that it's real and this is the thing that impacts your life. It is your inability to see that your mindset controls everything, that it is
water in and of itself. Now when I heard this from Shakespeare, I realized that once you become aware of the water, you can change everything, that you can go from a scared, lost kid to whomever you want to be. There's a lesson in this story, so many things are trying to come to you, so many doors are trying to open but we're so attached to who we've been, that we can't quite become all of who we're supposed to be. There becomes a time when you no longer fit in your old story. There's a new part too trying to be born for you and it requires you to own every part of the past but own every part of the possibility and on the other side of that, the diamonds that will
drop out of your mouth, the diamonds that will come birthing from your soul, the seeds that will be planted and the harvest that will grow, you will be barely recognized but better than that are the people around you. Because when you change, you is just one person but when you become a force to be reckoned with, then your voice permeates. Your gifts are alone. They were given to you because you make a difference. You make a difference in the lives of others. Your gift until you unleash it, until you unpack it, until you discover the
levels that it can go to, there are lives that will be lost because they needed what's inside of you. There are purposes that won't be fulfilled until you give away your gift. What's your gift? Those times when you get up early and you work hard, those times when you stay up late and you work hard, those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself but you do it anyway. That is actually the dream. That's the dream. It's not the destination, it's the journey. And you've got to go ahead and stop putting breaks on yourself. You've got to remember that you're significant. You've got to remember that somehow that day was in promise but you got it. That means that there was more promise still in you and we've got to pull that out. And how do you pull it out? That means you go ahead and you ignite your will with intentionality and action. You put together discipline and purpose and develop habits. Those habits are hard
to maintain because it's easy to procrastinate but not once you realize that you've wasted years already. You've wasted weekends already. Do something now. Your hardships, your challenges, your situation will either be the reason you don't make it or it will be the story you tell when you do make it and you get to make that choice. Always say to people people don't burn out quit under a cheese stock, don't accomplish because of what they do. People burn out quit under a cheese, don't accomplish because like makes them forget why they do it. What you do now will echo in eternity. What you do now will echo in other generations because there is someone who made a way for you. Someone opened doors for you. The way you give them a thank you is by what you do for others. And when you need motivation yourself,
don't look for someone to scream and yell, don't look for someone else to give you motivation. Look at yourself. United Health Group is bringing in-home treatment directly to patients, closing caregabs, identifying risks earlier and improving patient outcomes. In 2025, patients received over 19 million home visits. Learn more at UnitedHealthgroup.com slash commitment. Spring starts at the Home Depot and we are bringing the heat to your backyard this season. Fire up the flavor with our wide variety of grills for under $300. Like the next grill for burner gas grill that's perfect for hosting your spring cookout. Then set the scene and turn your outdoor space into the go-to spot the patio sets for every budget. Bring it this season with grills that deliver flavor and patios that set the vibe from the Home Depot. Start your spring with low prices guaranteed at the Home Depot. Exclusive supplies at Home Depot.com slash price match for details. Look at yourself and remind yourself why. Why you are doing what you are doing.
Remind yourself. At this struggle, this temporary pain, this fight, this fight that you're in, this is what will make you stronger and faster and smarter and better. And there with that motivation go forward. Every time I've lost, people say you got to jump right back up. I disagree with that. After you lose or when you knock down, stay down for a minute understand why you lost. What were the reasons? Why are you down here? Why did you lose? So every time I lost, I stayed down for a second. Minutes, hours, days, and when I stood up, I was different, I was smarter. Now you start putting the pieces that are necessary to win over and over and over again.
When you look back over your life, you'll see that there are many people who sacrifice and given so that you could be great. You'll only do yourself and your order to them, to be great, fulfill your purpose, chase down your dreams. I promise you, I pray. I promise you. Then when you release your potential and you unpack those gifts that are just for you, you will do things that you never thought possible, but it begins with a determined mind today. Into the fray, into the storm, into the heat of the battle, where victory is forged. And that's necessary because it's often the case that you wake up at four in the morning or at
least sometimes the case that you wake up at four in the morning when things haven't been going that well and wonder just what the hell the point is of your futile and miserable life. You have to have something real to set against that. It can't be just rationalizations about how, you know, you're a valuable person among others, even though that's true. That's not good enough. Observing courage in yourself is definitely one of the things that can help you sleep soundly at night when things are destabilized a little bit around you. So some of you are going to experience a breakthrough. Some of you are going to go back and look at your dreams and brush them all. Some of you are going to begin to look at yourself and say, hey, look here, I know I have not done all that I can do. Whatever goal that you have in mind, I want that to be a goal that will challenge you, something that will make you stretch. It was Osborne who said, unless you attempt to do something beyond that, which you've already mastered, you will never grow. What is it that you looked at in some point in time and you decided that you couldn't do it? That you talk yourself out of it? Whatever it is, bring it back out there.
How you're going to do it? That will come to you in due time. So you don't get in life with your order, ladies and gentlemen, you get in life with what you are. It depends on you. You may have to forgive yourself or some mistakes that you've made. You may have to forgive some other people so that you can unlock your potential, the trust and love and give and not hold back. You don't need these walls. You need to scale them. You need to ungluck yourself, unleash yourself, discover what's into you and unlock your potential. But life can be a lot broader than that when you realize one simple thing and that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one.
It's Murphy's Law. When the things go wrong, they always seem to happen at once and they just compound on top of each other and it's pretty easy sometimes to feel beaten when you're faced with all those issues and all those problems and they all hit you at the same time. But let me tell you that doesn't mean give up. In fact, it means the opposite. It means it's time for you to fight harder to dig in. It means it's time for you to go on the war path. But there will be the moment when the only person left to rely on is yourself.
It is therefore my first suggestion to question and ask yourself. How can I learn to properly navigate without guidance? Now just take a moment to imagine you're the captain on the ship located on the vast ocean. What you are facing is stormy weather, dark and heavy clouds. And the ship is carrying along the up and downs of the waves. In such a situation, I strongly trust that it is not enough to purely rely your actions on intellectual knowledge, to sharpen the senses and being able to see possibilities beyond what the eyes are able to see.
This truly is a sign of right knowledge. If you can list the things that have happened in your life and you can put that on a list and you somehow made it pass all of this to be in a position where you can still go make some stuff happen, that's what you have in common with every hero of every story of every autobiography of is how much happened to you that should have broke you, that did not break you so that you were able to then arrive. What's the heaviest thing that you carry around with you? The heaviest thing you carry around with you constantly is your feelings. Where do you carry your feelings in your heart? So before you can delete the mind, you got to delete here. Think about every time your heart was broken,
what happened? It opened your eyes. If you do not have clear goals for your life, you are condemned forever to work for those who do. You see in life it's very simple. Either you are working toward the accomplishment of your goals or you're working toward the accomplishment of other people's goals. If you can be honest with yourself about what you truly want and take responsibility for creating it, you will. You don't have to be special. You just have to get up every day, put one foot in front of the other and work hard to do a little better than you were yesterday. And one of these days you are going to wake up and realize that you not only changed yourself, but you are now in the middle of living the life you were once jealous of. And then you get started. And I'm going to tell you right now, it won't be easy.
It will be hard because life is hard. That's what life is. And these challenges, these challenges that you face, they're going to do their best to take you down. Do not let them stand up, dig in, line up those problems and confront them, face them, fight them. Do not let them bring you down. In fact, in fact, let those challenges raise you up. Let them elevate you. Let their demands and their trials make you stronger. You know exactly what you need to do. Stop pretending like you don't know. You continuously scroll on the internet looking for more answers, looking for more information,
looking for another way to inspire yourself to move in the direction you already know you want to move in. You're completely wasting your time. You are looking for a substitute for action. You are looking for a way around action, but there isn't one. The only way forward is action. This is about finishing the race. When you have a goal in mind, a goal setting your head, never let anyone take you off your vision, take you off your goal, never let anyone or any woman steal your glory, steal your future, steal your dreams. Never let anybody bring you down. You are somebody. The safe road is going to pay off. There are many payoffs to it, but I can't be there and have my soul be on a completely different track. It's always worth losing. It's always worth risk. So in the future, you look back at these struggles and you say to them, thank you.
You made me better. Now the undisputed first law of personal growth is this, that people will never rise above the opinion of themselves. You see, when we're able to start addressing things like unconscious programming, when we start to create the best habits that we can by programming ourselves consciously, when we start grabbing that compass needle and bringing it over to the right direction so that the 95% of the time is sleeping awake, we're able to be who we need to be. That's when we can start to achieve the real game in town, which is self-mastery. See, before you spend another penny on workshops or skills or anything, work on yourself. See, mastering the game of self-thratt human history has been the number one recommendation of virtually everybody that achieved it and then preached the benefits of it to people that usually weren't listening. But by mastering our sense of self, we're able to walk into a room
where everything's descending into chaos and retain our center. When everything's breaking down around us with the eye of the storm, it's like, move our handle it. See, that's the best way that you'll be able to handle uncertainty. And when we commit to self-mastery, we give ourselves the best shot of becoming the best and greatest versions of ourselves that we can be. You never wonder how far an EV can take you on one charge? Well, most people drive about 40 miles a day, which means you can do all daily stuff, no problem. Go to work, grab the kids at school,
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