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today i need you to embrace what comes
hard
today i need you to accept the challenge
today i need you to fall in love with
the process
there will be plenty of opportunities to
get discouraged
to lose your passion and think that it's
not meant to be
but if you're going to reach your
destiny you have to have
a made-up mind if you give up after the
first time
or the fifth time or the 30th time what
that really means
is you didn't want it bad enough there
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should be something you're believing for
that you are relentless you are not
moved by how impossible it looks
you're not discouraged by how long it's
taking you don't give up
because people told you no your attitude
is
if i have to believe my whole life i'm
not going to stop believing
i am not going to take no for an answer
i'm not going to settle for mediocrity
i'm going to keep pursuing what put in
my heart
and ask yourself what do i really want
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what do i really want and write it down
writing causes thinking thinking creates
an image
and you get these images going you're
building a vision in your mind
it's the visionaries that change the
world
think of that but what
keeps that competitive edge what keeps
you on top
is the ability to think
and prepare mentally over and over and
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over again the body has limitations
the mind does not we focus so much
on what goes on from the neck down
that we forget it all starts from here
everything starts from it if you're not
mentally ready
you're never really physically prepared
and that's where the preparation starts
what would your life be like
as you look toward the future if you
decided
i'm not going to allow my peers to stop
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me
and i'm saying to you whatever you got
to do do it because if you don't
life is gonna whoop you until you
surrender
so when you're young and you make
mistakes don't let them eat you up
cause everybody that that made it that
made you got to
fail in order to win hey look man to
understand how to hit the game when they
shot you got to miss the game when it
shot
you know you've got to be tough because
the road to success is always under
construction
it's never a clear path to success
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the people who become successful are the
people who have
a relentless attitude
and you just got to hang in there
through the bad breaks because the bad
breaks is coming
but they usually come right before the
big break is about to happen
you get a series of bad breaks and it
stumbles up a lot of people
my life and my success
is to say to anyone you can stumble
you can fall you can get back up again
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no matter what you face
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no matter how bad it is going to be
when there is a challenge
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and by a challenge i mean anything in
life any
any challenge anything that you're
facing the only
way to overcome the challenges that you
face
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is to start walking
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take that step every day
no matter what you are facing
get up and start walking
i have the ability to see the end before
the beginning even begins and what that
means is i know that to get to the very
end
i can see it right now so before i went
to butts and i was losing
weight i saw myself walking across the
stage
at 191 pounds that's what i had to get
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to to get into the door
i saw myself six months a year later
whatever's gonna take me to do i saw
myself walking across that stage getting
that
certificate of graduation from buds and
i was able to be there
at 300 pounds and that feeling
that i was nowhere near that feeling i
was able to put myself there
a million times every day and that
feeling of like
my god that is going to feel amazing
that's what made me suffer that's what
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allowed the pain to be real and say
this is worth it i want to feel for this
next 18 months it took me 18 months to
finally become a navy
to finally you know just get through
butts 18 months six months
took me 18. that's what woke me up every
morning was i'm gonna put myself through
this much
pain and suffering for a few seconds
that's all it is a few seconds of joy
it's so worth it man i said people don't
get so i'm able to put myself
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at the finish line even though i have no
finish line
but at the finish line of an event
before i even start them
and say how are you going to fill it
into this visualizing this is my
biggest tool of life that's why i i've
been able to
put myself in cold water put myself in a
100 mile race
millions of times before i've done it
and i'm able to go
through the race and see i'm going to
feel it my 50. almost to the
almost to the exact exact feeling
right so when it comes up it's no
surprise no surprise i've already done
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this a million times
i recommended the last time i was here
the little book richest man in babylon
and i said i've lectured now to over
three million people
guess how many have actually gone and
got this little book
answer very few
my best guess is ten percent
such an easy thing to do this little
book number one is easy to find number
two it's easy to buy the most you can
pay for it six seven eight dollars you
can borrow that from your kids
but if it's easy to find and easy to buy
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and if it's easy to read why wouldn't
everybody go get it
we don't know i don't know nobody knows
here's how profound it is some do and
some don't
now here's the numbers about 10 do
we don't know the mystery of that and
i'm telling you 10 years from now those
numbers will still be the same
the numbers don't change only the faces
change
i used to belong to the 90 who couldn't
be bothered even if it was easy
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how many people have a library card
answer three percent
97 couldn't be bothered guy specializes
in happy hour but he doesn't have a card
and now readily and quickly blames the
government and blames his
company and blames the pay scale here's
my advice to you today walk away from
the 97 percent
don't talk like they talk don't go where
they go don't act like they act
don't specialize in what they specialize
in throw away the blameless they cling
to
you got to be consciously conscious
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today because
your environment can hypnotize mesmerize
and paralyze you
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the other thing is take full
responsibility for your life
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oscar wilde once said responsibility is
what we expect from
somebody else this is very true
most people dread accepting
responsibility that's just a fact of
life
and we can see it in operation every day
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we can see ourselves getting hot under
the collar when the dentist keeps us
waiting
and we're sitting there reading old
magazines when our appointment was
30 minutes ago and we don't stop to
think that we forgot to mail in this
month's mortgage payment
we can see ourselves growing angrier and
angrier
because of business contact is supposed
to call at noon
and here it is almost two o'clock and
the phone still refuses to ring
but we don't stop to think about the
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calls we ourselves have forgotten to
return
while we've been so busy fuming
we can see ourselves writing an angry
letter to the airline because a flight
was delayed
but we don't write an angry letter to
ourselves
when we're late for something even
though that might not
be a bad idea at all
yes we can see avoidance of
responsibility all the time
in both our personal and professional
lives
and here's something else we can see
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just as often we can see that most
people
aren't as successful as they wish they
were
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do you see there's a connection between
these two very
common phenomena i certainly do
and by the end of this session i hope
you'll agree with me
i hope you'll understand that it's in
your best interest
to take responsibility for everything
you do
but that's only the beginning i'm also
going to suggest that many times it's
even best to accept responsibility
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for the mistakes of others especially
when you're in a managerial
or leadership role i can hear you saying
what
accept responsibility for someone else's
mess-ups
why would i want to do something like
that
well that's a fair enough question and
over the next few minutes i'll try to
answer it
one of my weak points in my personal
life is
i don't like technical stuff
so even though i have to be on twitter
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and instagram and facebook
i don't care for that so guess what i
find somebody who loves to do that
you know i find somebody who has a
strength where i will have a weakness
and i partner with them all you're
trying to do is get to the goal
no one gets there by themselves
everybody needs help
now when you know what you got going for
you be
confident not cocky managing your
strength
knowing what they are and don't let
nobody talk you
out of it and that gets you fight ready
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you get fight ready like that
you got to know you helps you develop
your skills
all the while you're developing your
strength
it's it's not you just got to keep
developing the strength don't let
anybody talk you at the same time
you must work on improving your
weaknesses so i've had to in spite of
myself
get on instagram get on twitter get on
facebook i gotta do the videos whether i
want to or not
because the world is moving to social
media if i had as many followers as kim
kardashian
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i probably wouldn't even have to do this
tv show
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during the years when professional
basketball was just beginning to become
really popular
bill russell who played center for the
boston celtics
was one of the greatest players in the
pro league he was especially known for
his rebounding and his defensive skills
but like a lot of very tall centers
russell was never much of a free-throw
shooter
his free-throw percentage was quite a
bit below average in fact
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but this low percentage didn't really
give a clear picture of russell's
ability as an athlete
and in one game he gave a very
convincing demonstration of this
it was the final game of a championship
series between boston and the los
angeles lakers
with about 12 seconds left to play
the lakers were behind by one point and
boston had the ball
it was obvious that the lakers would
have to foul one of boston's players in
order to get the ball
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back and they chose to foul
bill russell this was a perfectly
logical choice since statistically
russell was the worst free-throw shooter
on the court at that moment
if he missed the shot the lakers would
probably get the ball back
and they'd still have enough time to try
to win the game
but if russell made his first free throw
the lakers chances would be
seriously diminished and if he made both
shots
the game would essentially be over
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bill russell had a very peculiar style
of shooting free throws
today no self-respecting basketball
player anywhere in america would attempt
it
aside from the question of whether it's
an effective way to shoot a basket
it just looked too ridiculous whenever
he had to shoot a free throw
the six foot eleven russell would start
off holding the ball in both hands about
waist high
then he'd squat down and as he
straightened up he'd let go of the ball
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it looked like he was trying to throw a
bucket of dirt over a wall
but regardless of how he looked as soon
as bill russell was fouled
he knew the celtics were going to win
the game he was absolutely certain of it
because in a situation like this
statistics and percentages
mean nothing there was a much more
important factor at work
something that no one has found a way to
express
in numbers and decimal points
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simply put bill russell was a player who
wanted to take responsibility
for the success or failure of his team
he wanted the weight
on his shoulders in a situation like
this
no possibility for excuses no
possibility of blaming anyone else if
the game was lost
no second guessing bill russell wanted
the ball
in his own hands and nobody else's
and like magic even if he'd missed every
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free throw he'd ever shot in his life
before this
he knew he was going to make this one
and that is exactly what happened
that is what virtually always happens
when a man or woman accepts
responsibility
eagerly and with confidence
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