Stay Disciplined – Eric Thomas Motivation

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1:00Because we find the right people for your roles fast. Which is our absolute favorite F word. In fact, four out of five employers who post on Zippercruder get a quality candidate within the first day. F***! Fantastic! So, whether you need to hire four, forty, or four hundred people. Get ready to meet first rate talent. Just go to zippercruder.com slash zip to try Zippercruder for free. Don't forget that zippercruder.com slash zip. Finally, that zippercruder.com slash zip. I want you to know something. That the bigger your dream is. I want you to understand the heart of the grind. There are those of you who are looking at that person or that thing and saying, it's messing you up. That's not the truth. You're messing you up. You have to get to a place where you become comfortable with being honest. We're being uncomfortable. We no longer place ourselves in positions that make us feel good. Because listen here, boo.

2:00Some of what you want. Some of what you trying to get ain't in the comfort zone. And so what you want is not in the comfort zone. You got to come out of the comfort zone to get what you want. So, do me a favor. Let it destroy you. So, let the dream destroy you. Here you die. Redefine you. Build you back up. Make you stronger. So, I need you to be here to spare you. I just need you to be real. And most of you in this room, you can't give up six months. You can't give up eight months. You can't let stuff go for a few weeks. Like you can't let girls go. Some of you just can't let boys go. Some of you just can't let parties go. Let it go. Then you want to be successful. If you want to dominate in the area. You got to let everything go. But that thing you're pursuing. You can't chase two rabbits and catch both of them.

3:06And I want you to get to the point where you are mature enough to say that even though it does not feel good, even though I don't like it, even though it's not something that I want to do, I can't keep doing what I feel because it's not going to take me to try to get to. At the end of your feelings is possibly not being. But at the end of your principle is of promise. And some of you are where you are. If you can be real with yourself, you have gotten yourself in some mess because of your feeling. And we go to sleep and wake up talking about the drain. We go to sleep and wake up talking about the drain. We go to sleep to wake up. Talk about what we did when we first started. Talk about where we are, examining what we did right, what we did wrong. Listen to me. You got to eat the drain. You have to sleep the drain. You have to dream the drain. You have to see it when nobody else sees it. You have to fill it when it's not tangible. You have to believe it when you cannot see it.

4:06You've got to be possessed with the drain. In every single day, you've got to wake up and put for a pack. Because some days, you're not going to feel like, get up, but the dream of going to push you. You wake up every single morning and you go after it. Your mindset is the reason why you're not where you're supposed to be. I need you to confront you because you don't want holding you up. I need you to confront you. I need you to look in the mirror and tell you you are not going to do me like this no more. You're not going to continue to sabotage me. You're not. You're not going to keep procrastinating. I need you. You're not. So you've got to ask yourself. You've got to ask yourself, what's your why? What motivates you? What pushes you? What drives you?

5:06And if that thing is internal, if nobody has to call you, if nobody has to prod you, if nobody has to reward you, if nobody has to give you anything, if you are self-motivated and self-regulated, you can have it, you can be it, you can do it. If you would get to a place where you'd stop letting people and themes take you into your feelings and take you off your game plan, you would see yourself reach success more than you've ever seen before. And you're not winning because you're not talented. Is that other dumb stuff you're doing while you're not winning? And you've got to let it go. You're not serious about you. And you're all you. It allows all you. You're all you to bring your excellence everything with you. You need to put yourself on punishments. You need to tell you no more TV, no more snacks, no more desserts, no more no. We working out now. No more alcohol, not right now. You need to tell you that you owe you something.

6:10There's absolutely nothing you can't have, nothing. You can have whatever you want, but it's to be very close to you. You cannot. You will not have anything if you're not willing to put in sweat, blood, and tears. If you think you're going to pay any other fare, you twist it. And I need you to understand that the bigger your dream is the earlier you're going to have to get up. You owe you to not make excuses. I live on my turn. I owe myself. I owe me. I owe nobody else. There's only one person responsible for your dreams become a reality. If you walk out of here, you don't get the job, you don't have a job. Don't you cry about it. You act yourself. We'll have like not done. I'm telling you to dream your dream because I want you to sell it. I want you to taste it. What makes a person average?

7:18Is their focus? And so what you're focusing on throughout the course of the day, it has to change. What you're looking at. What you're reading. What you're watching. The conversation you have. You must now be focused on your why. And you must be focused on your dreams. You must be focused on your goals. When you are great, you don't focus on a week. When you are great, you don't focus on a month. When you are great, you don't focus on a year. I'm not setting things up. We're planning. But what I'm talking about is you concentrate on the 24-hour that's in sunny and you're there. I want you to focus on here right now. Don't you worry about when you get home. You concentrate on this opportunity. You don't worry about tomorrow. You concentrate on this opportunity with all your life, with all your soul, with all your heart. You focus on this. And tomorrow we'll take care of ourselves. If you were just believe that your day coming, that the sacrifices you are making today, they're going to pay off. But if you do not believe, it ain't going to happen.

8:24When you say it to yourself, this is what I want to accomplish. You're not the only person that wants to accomplish it. And now I ask you this question. What do you do when a thousand other people want exactly what you want? You can't play as much as you used to play. You can't go where you used to go. You can't do what you used to do. And now you've got to push your grind up to match your dream. I need you to pick your grind up. There's nothing wrong with your dream. You have a great dream. But your grind does not affect your dream. I need you to wake up every single day. I need you to use your 24 hours like you've never used to before. You have to find a routine and stick with it. And then when you find something good, stay with it. Everybody wants to be number one.

9:25Everybody wants to be the best. Everybody wants to succeed. Everybody wants to have to be and do what they feel they've been called to do. You need to take personal responsibility for your life. It's about no more excuses. It's about no more trials and tribulations. Not not happening, but getting in your way. It's about doing whatever it takes. You are getting up as early as you need to. And your grind has to match your dream. You are where you are because of your feelings. You're not on principles right now. That's not what drives you. You would be a millionaire right now. You stopped going back to bed. Yeah, you got to mentor. Yeah, you got to book. So what? The books can't make you get your butt up.

10:25Everything that you want, everything that you dream of, everything that you want to possess is phenomenal and set for you. Is it that you're not where you're supposed to be because you don't have what it takes? Are you not where you're supposed to be because you don't have the opportunity? You always want to blame other people. You want to hold other people to the fire but you're not holding yourself to the fire. You just said you're giving 50%. You owe you an explanation. You'll need to look at yourself in the mirror and say why are you only giving 50%. What's wrong with you? Every single day, if you do what you say, you're going to do. You're going to get what you dream to get. Rich people always tie. They realize it's their most important commodity.

11:26They don't watch a lot of TV. They don't do a lot of entertainment. If they're not... You ever 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, get the groceries, and still have enough charge to visit your in-laws in the next county. But they don't need to know that. And the best part, you won't have to buy gas at all. The way forward is electric. Explore EVs that fit your life at electricforall.org. Fortunately, Zippercrooter figured out how to fix all that. And right now, you can try Zippercrooter for free at zippercrooter.com slash zip.

12:28With Zippercrooter, you can forget your frustrations. Because we find the right people for your roles fast, which is our absolute favorite F word. In fact, four out of five employers who post on Zippercrooter get a quality candidate within the first day. Fantastic! So, whether you need to hire four, 40 or 400 people, get ready to meet first-rate talent. Just go to zippercrooter.com slash zip to try Zippercrooter for free. Don't forget that zippercrooter.com slash zip. Finally, that zippercrooter.com slash zip. Okay, they're studying their craft and getting better at their craft. Yeah, so what I had to learn how to do was, I had to say, yo, when the lights go off, who is Eric? What am I working on? What's my north star? What's important to me? What makes me happy? There is no excuse for not living up your fullest potential, no excuse.

13:28And a lot of y'all scared. Just walk into it. What's my north star? What, why am I here? What's my purpose like? Leave your mark. But with this right here in your skill set, this thing can take you wherever you want to go and then take your kids wherever you want them to go. You've got to take your focus off of what's not happening and put your focus on what can happen. So if you're focusing on a negative, that's what you're going to get. That's what you're going to see. Most people were close and they ever thought they were to finishing that big thing, but they never finished it because they didn't feel like finishing it. What they were doing and it was paying. And most people quit in the pain because the pain hurts so bad that they don't know if they want to keep going to get to go. You what you say you're going to do and you make no excuses and you don't let nothing get in your way. And this is critical.

14:28What don't you have? Because all these things are going to stop you from getting to that next level. What don't you have in terms of getting to that next level? What don't you currently have? Because what you don't have, you start doing your homework so you can what? So you can all get that. You owe yourself. I didn't get here making excuses. It's your life. I would love to tell you that on the road to success, everything is going to work out. It's not. It's going to be a dog fight. Well, you want what it looks like, but you don't know what it feels like. So do me a favor. Do you want it or not? The truth is you've got to find something within. You've got to find something within and that's got to push you and that's got to elevate you and that's got to drive you and that's got to move you. I need you to give you your best.

15:29I need you to give you your all. I didn't say your kids. I didn't say your spouse. I didn't say your best friend. I need you for the next 30 days to give you every single thing you got So the only thing you're missing now is are you willing to get up and do the work? Well, we're gonna we're gonna complain y'all we go work You have a chance to control your destiny that my friend is the American dream not a Cadillac No more blaming no more. I want to hear it no more. I want to hear it Just teach you did me wrong. This professor did me wrong. My mentor didn't my mama did my daddy didn't stop the blaming If it's your life, I need you to take complete ownership of it. It's your life. You make excuses For why you wrote you make excuses for why you stuck and it is easier to make it somebody else's fault

16:30Then the man up and looking to me and say it was so far. It's easy to put on somebody else. Why cuz then you ain't got to do nothing You never looked at yourself in the mirror and said you let you down and till you get to that point you let you down Tell me what you complain about Winners complain winners want to hit themselves talk Champions do not complain why because they're focusing on what they said they wanted to do as a goal And Your problem is you're not intentional and deliberate. You wake up on Monday. You might be strong, but by Wednesday Are you hearing them tell you you're not intentional and deliberate? You are hoping you are hoping that the best is going to happen to you and the best never happens to you Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and say I'm not giving up on time I'm not going to work on time. I'm not putting in a hundred and twenty percent when I'm at work. I let me down

17:33You are a champion think like one. I Value myself enough to give a hundred and twenty percent or don't do it The dream is yours, but you're saying I'm not worthy of the other dream. You're probably not, but you've been given to you anyway I'm not smart enough. You're probably not, but it doesn't matter It was it was given to you and it's now your responsibility to do something with it You've been given it. It's the gift that you never open. It's the gift. It's yours I'm telling you set a standard. I Went got my GD then I got my four-year degree then I got my master's degree then I got my PhD And I ain't smart, but I said a standard so when my kids came in this world They mama got a master's they daddy got a PhD. They at least got to finish high school. I Said a standard multi-millionaire as a speaker from the bottom up. I said a standard

18:36And when you find out what your why is and your why gotta be deeper than you when you find your why You don't hit snooze no more when you find your why you find a way to make it happen It's like people want change more than they want to change You cannot be a prisoner to your preference You cannot be a prisoner to your own preference meaning That just because it's what you prefer if you lose and you lose it Period and so you don't make your preference the God you make winning or losing the God So if you're losing you have to do something different so that you can win You have to self-assess and you can't let you off the hook because as you was two of y'all It's a winning you and a losing you and you do deserve to be a winner

19:39For those of you who want to change You don't have to be wired. You're already wired to be critical You're already wired to peep out flaws. You are you wired to do it? What you need to do is take that same energy and apply it to yourself You have to go intentional and deliberate How many times do I criticize others versus how many times are criticized myself? If it don't drive you don't want that So whatever it is you see that you don't have if it drives you go I want that and then you got to change but you can't say you want that if you don't want to change And you start like oh man, I want that I want that experience, but you don't change as a human So you can't get that experience. You can't change your life, but I change in your mind, bro I want you to be brave enough when something's not working do it right you can't keep doing

20:43What you were doing before because you lose it Anytime you want anything you don't have you have to do something to get that because if you were the person that could have it You would already have it you'd have it already you don't have it and so you want it so you have to become something different But if you can't implement the necessary changes in your life, you won't be able to improve yourself or your situation If you want to change your situation you got to get in new information I'm committed, but I don't know that I'm convicted. Here's what I want you all to know We have to be careful because some of us get an attitude Because we're looking for things that people who are convicted get when we just commit it And but I just want you to stop Expecting what people with convictions have when you just commit it Stop doing that because now you mad like oh, okay, so coach ain't gonna start me

21:46You just committed you ain't got no conviction to the gang you just played when it's time to play that person is up all day Every day run it lived in way Michael Jordan was convicted about basketball Kobe was convicted about basketball Some of us we let our feelings like I ain't feeling it. I'm not with it. That's why I know I'm not convicted to run it because I always Run when I feel like I Never miss today when I felt like I've never run though when I've not felt it One of the things you have to do is operate in conviction and I could be Be clear what do you want what do you want specifically like you need to be clear on what you want And I was willing to go through whatever I had to go through to get you get what I wanted. I knew what I had that's not what I wanted And so it's difficult for you because you don't have no clarity I just knew what I wanted I knew what I wanted I was clear on it You can't always be the most talented in the room you can't always be like naturally gifted naturally talented

22:52But watch this you can be the most competitive you gotta wake up every day and compete you gotta go after it I need you to eat, sleep, breathe, dominate Paying attention being locked in and focused Listen to me very closely. I take it personal when I do what I do wake up every single day. I was here before I was here I was up this morning here. I've been here before I was in this spot right here. I was talking up right here I envisioned it. I saw it already You can't win it if you can't see it If you can't dominate it practice you can't dominate when the lights come home. I get up every morning at three o'clock I dominated three o'clock in the morning. I dominate when everybody's sleep. I dominate it for the morning six in the morning Hey, I go back to bed. Why? Because y'all just get up You have to play the win you have to be competitive wherever you are Whatever your space is, this is my space right here. You have to be competitive

23:56Whether you like it or not, whether you feel comfortable or not and you have to get into a space where you got that dull And I realized that most of you in the room the reason why you're not going to get to where you're supposed to get to It's because you don't know how to get there Discipline is you do it so long and so hard and you're so passionate about it That even when you don't feel like it you still operated the highest level You ever 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 get the groceries And still have enough charge to visit your in-laws in the next county But they don't need to know that And the best part you won't have to buy gas at all The way forward is electric Explore EVs that fit your life at electricforall.org

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