Focus on Your Dream – Stay Locked In

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1:01What kind of investment have you made in you? You don't want it better than you want to party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. You most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep. Some of you love sleep more than you love success. And I'm here to tell you today if you're going to be successful, you've got to be willing to give up sleep. There is no short cut. There is no hack. There's no sweatless solution. You're gonna have to work. There is always weakness to work on. Always a lot of them. Why would we allow ourselves to make easy excuses? Why would you allow that? All you're going to make today count because that's all you can control. And that's all that matters. It doesn't matter where you start guys. It doesn't matter what talents you're born with. It's about where you finish. And this race isn't over. It's not over. You could still come in first in the marathon. But you got to start today. You got to start now. You have everything you have. Everything you need is inside you when I realize

2:07that that doesn't mean just because you don't think you're good enough. Doesn't mean you can't be good. Doesn't mean you can't be great. Doesn't mean you can't carry on. But it's not going to always be like this. Your condition is not your conclusion. Nothing is impossible. So you have to decide before you leave. What's that first thing that's been impossible for you? I want you to attack it and overcome it. Because if you run from the adversity that you're going through today, you'll forever be at that level and what you're going through for the rest of your life. One day you'll look back on your life and appreciate the struggle and have nothing but gratitude for everything that happened along the way. And you come to recognize that in return you're given the chance to earn the greatest edge of all and one that can never be taken away. You have enough right now to change your life. You have enough right now to flip this world upside down. You have enough. You got enough power. You got enough anointing. You got enough grace. You got enough patience. You got

3:10enough gifting to make your money. Get out of debt. Get yourself together and change everything about your world. Realize that you have the ability to make an impact. You have an opportunity to change that story in your head. Put yourself out there because when you do amazing things happen. The essence of life is growth. The essence of life is growth to do the best you can. And here's what's interesting. Humans are the only life form that will do less than they possibly can. Humans are the only life form that will settle for less. Every other life form except human beings strive to its maximum capacity. How tall will a tree grow? Approximately. As tall as it possibly can. You never heard of a tree growing half as high as it could. No trees don't grow half. Trees send their roots down as deep as possible. Stretch their limbs up as high as possible.

4:10Produce every leaf possible and every fruit possible. As a matter of fact, you never heard of a human physically growing half. We keep growing until we're done. Now that's a part of life we can't control. It's genetically coded. And that's probably why we keep growing until we're done. Because we can't control that part. It's the rest of our growing that we control. The growing of our minds, the expansion of our minds, that we can control. And that's what tends to get away from us. All life forms inherently strive to their max except human beings. Now why wouldn't you and being strived to their maximum possibility? Here's why. Because we've been given the dignity of choice. It makes us different than alligators and trees and birds. The dignity of choice makes us different than all other life forms. And here's the choice to become part of what we could be

5:19enough to get by or to become all that we can be. My best advice for you is to choose the all. Earn all you can. Make all the friends you can. Read as many books as you can. Develop as many skills as you can. See as much as possible. Do as much as possible. Make as much fortune as possible. Give as much of it away as possible. The max. There's no life like it. I'm telling you once I got on track, I've never looked back. Pick up the challenge. Go for it. Take the best of the two easies. Take the root of it's easy to get ahead. It's easy to do all you can. It's easy to succeed. It's easy to have financial freedom. The more you do, the more you get. See if you're playing at safe, you're not going to win. If you're playing at safe, like that old saying, you know, you were talking to your little girl,

6:20better to be safe than sorry. Well, that's a bunch of crap. It's not better to be safe than sorry. It's by trying things that you figure out how far you can go. You got to get outside the box. Like it's reported, Edison tried 3,000 ways before he built the incandescent light. He said he didn't fail 3,000 times. He said there was 3,000 different steps to building a light bulb. Well, there's different steps to get to where you're going. And I really do treat winning and losing exactly the same. I do not let it upset me. Do you think that's a big part of why you're so successful? Well, it's part of why I enjoy it. Yeah, I think it is because I try anything. Like if I'm into an idea, the idea of losing never enters my mind. See, I have worked with giants. I had the good fortune of working with Sredmond Hilary. He was the first man to stand on top of the world.

7:27And I worked with him on three different occasions. And the only difference in Ed Hilary and Bob Proctor is his size. Now, he's gone now. But he was a big man. He shook hands with me. His hand wrapped right around mine. I felt like a dwarf. And he talked into him like it never entered his mind. He wouldn't get to the top of the mountain. But he failed in 1951. He failed in 1952. There wasn't until 1953 that he got to the top of the mountain. People had died for centuries trying to do that. He said, I know if I could sit in here. I got to hold it out here. Still a man wrote that in the book. You can see it in your head. You can hold it in your hand. And that's right. Yet if you're not prepared to lose, you're never going to win. Because you're always playing it safe. And there's no reward, man. Dare to go forward. Winston Churchill once said, courage is rightly considered the foremost of the

8:27virtues because upon it all others depend. Courage is the chief distinguishing characteristic of the true leader. It is almost always visible in the leader's words and actions. It is absolutely indispensable to success, happiness, and the ability to motivate other people to be the best they can be. Follow through on your vision. In a way, it is easy to develop a big vision for yourself and for the person you want to be. It is easy to commit yourself to living with complete integrity. But it requires incredible courage to follow through on your vision and on your commitments. You see, as soon as you set a high goal or standard for yourself, you will run into all kinds of difficulties and setback, refuse to compromise. You will be surrounded by temptations to compromise your values and your vision. You will feel an almost irresistible urge to get along by going along. Your desire to earn the respect and cooperation of others can easily lead to the

9:32abandonment of your principles. And here is where courage comes in. Stick to your principles. Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character. The first form of courage is your ability to stick to your principles, to stand for what you believe in and to refuse to budge in as you feel right about the alternative. Courage is also the ability to step out in faith, to launch out into the unknown and then to face the inevitable doubt and uncertainty that a company every new venture avoid the comfort zone. Most people are seduced by the lure of the comfort zone. This can be likened to going out of a warm house on a cold windy morning. The average person when he feels the storm swirling outside his comfort zone rushes back inside where it's nice and warm. But not the true leader. The true leader has the courage to step away from the familiar and comfortable and to face the unknown with no guarantees of success. It is this ability to boldly

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