Latest / Motivation Mindset Podcast / You Can Do It: Be Better Than Yesterday, Every Single Day
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- 0:01Speaker 1: As a child, my parents always told me you could
- 0:03Speaker 1: be whatever you want to be, you can do whatever
- 0:05Speaker 1: you want to do. And it was something I heard
- 0:08Speaker 1: my parents saying it, but I didn't totally believe it yet.
- 0:11Speaker 1: I went out in the world and I carried myself
- 0:13Speaker 1: and I held my head high, and I stood there
- 0:15Speaker 1: and I look people in their eyes, and I talk
- 0:17Speaker 1: to people as if I was deservant of everything that
- 0:20Speaker 1: this planet has awful. He who says he can and
- 0:24Speaker 1: he who says he can't are both usually right.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Well, you shouldn't be afraid of taking risks and pursuing
- 0:32Speaker 2: something meaningful, but you should be more afraid of staying
- 0:35Speaker 2: where you are. If it's making me miserable, you're paying
- 0:38Speaker 2: a price by sitting there being miserable. And you might say, well,
- 0:41Speaker 2: the devil I know is better than what I don't.
- 0:43Speaker 2: It's like, don't be so sure of that. The clock
- 0:46Speaker 2: is ticking. And if you're miserable in your job now
- 0:49Speaker 2: and you change nothing in five years, you will be
- 0:51Speaker 2: much more miserable, and you will be a lot older.
- 0:54Speaker 3: Most things that never get done never get done.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Because they never get started. You prograsty.
- 1:02Speaker 3: Procrastination is a cure. It kills plans, and it kills projects.
- 1:09Speaker 4: And it kills dreams. See here's what I'm looking at.
- 1:14Speaker 5: What are the uses for your life right now that
- 1:16Speaker 5: you haven't.
- 1:17Speaker 4: Even reached for you?
- 1:19Speaker 6: See, I believe that when you don't have enough encouragement
- 1:21Speaker 6: to act on your dreams or ideas, or you're not
- 1:23Speaker 6: enlightened enough, the life will act on you.
- 1:26Speaker 5: You've got to continue to work on yourself personally, to
- 1:34Speaker 5: work on yourself professionally, to continue to achieve technical mastery
- 1:38Speaker 5: of the information that's out here. You've got to set
- 1:40Speaker 5: high standards that will begin to set the pace. You've
- 1:43Speaker 5: got to decide to be relentless. You've got to decide
- 1:46Speaker 5: never to give up. You've got to find some reasons
- 1:48Speaker 5: within yourself that will give you the stamina when life
- 1:51Speaker 5: catches you on the blind side to get back up again,
- 1:54Speaker 5: to keep on calling and coming back again and again
- 1:57Speaker 5: and again.
- 1:58Speaker 7: Every opportunity of the last opportunity, every opportunity, I have
- 2:01Speaker 7: to reprove myself again.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Because the day you'll be conking gents.
- 2:05Speaker 8: Day you stop me valuating yourself, the day you stop growing,
- 2:09Speaker 8: the day you stop getting better, is the.
- 2:11Speaker 5: Day you die.
- 2:12Speaker 7: Is the day the person who's trying to catch you
- 2:15Speaker 7: will get you.
- 2:16Speaker 9: I'll get around to being happy, I'll get around to
- 2:20Speaker 9: making my masterpiece of my life.
- 2:22Speaker 4: I'll get around to my dreams.
- 2:23Speaker 9: I'm going to get around to fixing this relationship that's broken.
- 2:26Speaker 4: I'm going to get around to feeling those emotions.
- 2:29Speaker 9: And then it's another day and another day, and they
- 2:31Speaker 9: keep it in the distance until there are no more days.
- 2:35Speaker 9: And I don't care if you're eighteen years old listening
- 2:37Speaker 9: to this, twenty eight or forty eight. We don't know
- 2:40Speaker 9: if we have one more day, or one hundred more days,
- 2:43Speaker 9: or a thousand more days, but we know this, there'll
- 2:45Speaker 9: eventually be a time where we don't have any more days.
- 2:49Speaker 5: Practice only makes improvement. Perfection doesn't exist.
- 2:53Speaker 4: They need to take it out of a dictionary. It
- 2:55Speaker 4: doesn't exist.
- 2:56Speaker 5: Practice only makes improvement. You can always better your best.
- 3:00Speaker 5: You have not done your best work.
- 3:02Speaker 10: Yet, all right, I'm one day better than I was yesterday.
- 3:10Speaker 10: And that's how we have to look at life. That's
- 3:13Speaker 10: how we have to look at these situations. And eventually
- 3:15Speaker 10: you'll stop feeling the way that you feel right now,
- 3:18Speaker 10: and because of the actions that you're taking by the
- 3:22Speaker 10: time that you stop feeling Because here's the thing. If
- 3:25Speaker 10: you did nothing, if you just continue to like live
- 3:28Speaker 10: and you did nothing, all right, you will eventually get
- 3:33Speaker 10: over this because time cures the.
- 3:35Speaker 4: Painful news your success. Every day. Success is a daily thing,
- 3:40Speaker 4: not a destination thing.
- 3:42Speaker 11: Because so many times people have a tendency to devalue
- 3:49Speaker 11: the moment today. What they do is they greatly value
- 3:54Speaker 11: the destination, and so they kind of talk about, well,
- 3:58Speaker 11: when I get there, or if I or when I
- 4:01Speaker 11: do that, or when I accomplish this, and they don't
- 4:04Speaker 11: understand that success is a daily thing. And I'm here
- 4:08Speaker 11: to share with you that the secret of success is
- 4:11Speaker 11: determined by your daily agita.
- 4:16Speaker 3: Life can be overwhelming. That's the way life works. It
- 4:20Speaker 3: is testing you. It is going to throw problems at you,
- 4:25Speaker 3: and it is going to throw them at you all
- 4:27Speaker 3: at the same time. This is the way life works
- 4:30Speaker 3: Murphy's law. It is easy to feel beaten when you're
- 4:33Speaker 3: faced with all those problems at once. Well, let me
- 4:37Speaker 3: tell you that does not mean give up fighting. In fact,
- 4:41Speaker 3: it means the opposite. It is time for you to
- 4:43Speaker 3: fight harder, to dig in, to go on the war path,
- 4:49Speaker 3: to assess what the problems are and decide which one
- 4:53Speaker 3: you are going to attack first.
- 4:55Speaker 7: Because along the process, what's more important what you acquire
- 4:58Speaker 7: are who you become. And a lot of people think
- 5:01Speaker 7: what they acquire is the thing that makes them who
- 5:04Speaker 7: they are. No, it's who you become. In the process
- 5:06Speaker 7: of chasing what you want to acquire, right, change.
- 5:09Speaker 4: Expectation for appreciation.
- 5:11Speaker 7: Extract the lessons and the blessing from the situations that
- 5:14Speaker 7: didn't turn.
- 5:15Speaker 4: Out the way you want them to turn out.
- 5:16Speaker 7: The most importantly, man approach it and eliminate the outcome.
- 5:20Speaker 7: Here's what you.
- 5:20Speaker 4: Should know about winning before you chase it. When he's
- 5:23Speaker 4: not loyal to you, he doesn't care about you.
- 5:25Speaker 5: Winning doesn't care how sore you are, when he doesn't
- 5:27Speaker 5: care how what sleep you get, when he doesn't care how.
- 5:29Speaker 7: Hard you work.
- 5:30Speaker 5: At times, winning requires all of you and then more,
- 5:33Speaker 5: and it promises you nothing. It's a mastermind of creating
- 5:36Speaker 5: for you're a doubt in your mind.
- 5:38Speaker 4: It causes setback after setback. So the question is about winning.
- 5:41Speaker 4: Are you willing to spread whether this is or known?
- 5:45Speaker 8: If you can get a mental image of the person
- 5:47Speaker 8: you would most like to become, begin now to act
- 5:49Speaker 8: as that person would act, and everything you do gradually, imperceptibly,
- 5:54Speaker 8: you will actually become that person. Before you can do something,
- 5:58Speaker 8: you must first be something. Before you can do what
- 6:01Speaker 8: you would most like to do. Who was first become
- 6:03Speaker 8: the person who can do it.
- 6:05Speaker 12: Everything that hurts you, find a way to overcome it.
- 6:13Speaker 12: Everything that you feel is difficult for you, find a
- 6:19Speaker 12: way to.
- 6:19Speaker 4: Still do it.
- 6:24Speaker 11: The future belongs to the risk takers, not the security seekers.
- 6:28Speaker 11: Life is perverse in the sense that the more you
- 6:31Speaker 11: seek security, the less of it you have. But the
- 6:34Speaker 11: more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that
- 6:37Speaker 11: you will achieve the security that you desire. Whenever you
- 6:40Speaker 11: feel fear or anxiety, and you need to bolster your
- 6:43Speaker 11: courage to persist in the face of obstacles and setbacks,
- 6:47Speaker 11: suit your attention to your goals.
- 6:49Speaker 4: Create a clear mental picture of.
- 6:51Speaker 11: The person that you would like to be, performing the
- 6:53Speaker 11: way you would like to perform. There's nothing wrong with
- 6:57Speaker 11: thoughts of fear as long as you temper them with
- 6:59Speaker 11: thoughts of courage and self reliance. Whatever you dwell upon grows,
- 7:05Speaker 11: so be careful. This brings us to a very important
- 7:09Speaker 11: mental principle called the law of accumulation. The application of
- 7:15Speaker 11: this law is a fundamental reason for success in every field,
- 7:21Speaker 11: including yours. This law says that every great life or
- 7:26Speaker 11: great career is an accumulation of hundreds and perhaps thousands
- 7:31Speaker 11: of efforts that nobody ever sees or appreciates. Great success
- 7:37Speaker 11: is the result of countless hours, maybe even months and
- 7:41Speaker 11: years of preparation and hard work towards the goal of
- 7:46Speaker 11: becoming very good at what you are doing. This law
- 7:50Speaker 11: of accumulation says that life is very much like a
- 7:53Speaker 11: balance sheet with both credits and debts. Every time you
- 7:56Speaker 11: do something positive to enhance your abilities and to improve
- 7:59Speaker 11: your life, you get a credit on the credit side
- 8:01Speaker 11: of your ledger. Each time you waste your time or
- 8:05Speaker 11: neglect to take advantage of an opportunity to learn and grow,
- 8:09Speaker 11: you get a debit on the debit side of your ledger.
- 8:13Speaker 4: Here's the key. Everything counts.
- 8:16Speaker 11: Everything that you do or fail to do is written
- 8:19Speaker 11: down and totaled up on your balance sheet. Everything that
- 8:22Speaker 11: you do or fail to do counts in some way.
- 8:25Speaker 11: Nothing is neutral. Everything is either moving you toward a
- 8:28Speaker 11: better life or moving you away from it. Everything counts. Successful, happy,
- 8:36Speaker 11: self confident person is an individual who has consciously and
- 8:41Speaker 11: deliberately built up a lot of credits on his or
- 8:44Speaker 11: her balance sheet. An unhappy, negative, or insecure person is
- 8:48Speaker 11: a person who has a lot of debts on his
- 8:50Speaker 11: or her balance sheet. Because the only things that count
- 8:55Speaker 11: are your actions, it seems that every positive and constructive
- 9:01Speaker 11: action you engage in adds up and increases your levels
- 9:05Speaker 11: of self confidence and self esteem. The law of incremental improvement,
- 9:11Speaker 11: perhaps the most important corollary of the law of accumulation,
- 9:15Speaker 11: is what is called the law of incremental improvement. This
- 9:18Speaker 11: is really the law that explains how you move from
- 9:21Speaker 11: wherever you are to the top of your field. This
- 9:24Speaker 11: is the law that explains all great success in America
- 9:28Speaker 11: or anywhere else in the world. This law simply states
- 9:32Speaker 11: that a person becomes good at his or her chosen
- 9:34Speaker 11: field by improving incrementally continuously over a long period of time.
- 9:40Speaker 11: The development of the unshakable self development will open up
- 9:44Speaker 11: such possibilities for you as you cannot now imagine. You
- 9:48Speaker 11: will be able to dream bigger dreams, set bigger goals,
- 9:52Speaker 11: make greater commitments, and plunge into life more wholeheartedly than
- 9:56Speaker 11: you ever have before. Self confidence is the hinge on
- 10:02Speaker 11: which the gate of individual achievement terms. When your self
- 10:06Speaker 11: confidence becomes unlimited, you will be able to realize more
- 10:09Speaker 11: of your potential than you could under any other circumstances.
- 10:14Speaker 11: More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle wrote that happiness
- 10:19Speaker 11: is a condition. It is not something that is achieved
- 10:23Speaker 11: by pursuing it directly, but rather comes as a result
- 10:26Speaker 11: of our engaging in purposeful activities. We develop the confidence
- 10:32Speaker 11: to tackle larger goals by applying our energies to the
- 10:38Speaker 11: accomplishment of smaller goals. We build up our confidence as
- 10:43Speaker 11: we move forward until we reach the point at which
- 10:46Speaker 11: there is nothing that we won't take on. In fact,
- 10:51Speaker 11: the habit of setting and achieving ever larger goals is
- 10:55Speaker 11: absolutely indispensable to the development of ever higher levels of
- 11:01Speaker 11: self confidence and personal power. You can only really believe
- 11:06Speaker 11: in yourself when you absolutely know that you have the
- 11:09Speaker 11: ability to do what you set out to do. True
- 11:12Speaker 11: self confidence does not come from positive wishing or positive
- 11:17Speaker 11: hoping or positive thinking. It comes from positive knowing, based
- 11:22Speaker 11: on having proven to yourself over and over again that
- 11:25Speaker 11: you have what it takes to get from wherever you
- 11:28Speaker 11: are to wherever you want to go Self confidence is
- 11:33Speaker 11: a state of mind. It is an attitude, and as
- 11:36Speaker 11: an attitude, it is more important than facts. However, it
- 11:41Speaker 11: must be based on facts to be the kind of
- 11:44Speaker 11: self confidence you can rely on in a crunch. Your
- 11:48Speaker 11: job is to do whatever it takes to convince yourself
- 11:53Speaker 11: in your heart that you are absolutely unstoppable and that
- 11:57Speaker 11: you can achieve anything that you put your mind. If
- 12:02Speaker 11: self confidence is an attitude of mind, it is based
- 12:06Speaker 11: on mental principles and mental laws. Foremost of which is
- 12:11Speaker 11: thought is creative. You are not what you think you are,
- 12:15Speaker 11: but what you think you are. As you systematically and
- 12:20Speaker 11: deliberately change your thinking about yourself, your outer reality changes
- 12:24Speaker 11: to conform with it. Your thoughts create your life, including
- 12:28Speaker 11: and especially your thoughts with regard to your feelings of
- 12:32Speaker 11: self confidence. The reason that goals are so important is
- 12:35Speaker 11: because of these mental laws, the consequences of which are
- 12:39Speaker 11: inevitable and inescapable. You are happy and successful to the
- 12:43Speaker 11: degree to which you conform your life and your thinking
- 12:46Speaker 11: to these.
- 12:46Speaker 4: Laws and live in harmony with them.
- 12:49Speaker 11: The first law, which we have already discussed, is the
- 12:54Speaker 11: law of cause and effect. This law is so simple
- 12:58Speaker 11: and powerful that you need to remind yourself of it
- 13:00Speaker 11: all the time. Everything that happens in your life, success
- 13:04Speaker 11: or failure, wealth or poverty, health or illness, happiness or unhappiness,
- 13:09Speaker 11: self confidence or insecurity are all subject to this law.
- 13:15Speaker 11: The Bible teaches this basic law as the principle of
- 13:21Speaker 11: sowing and reaping. It says that whatsoever a man soweth,
- 13:25Speaker 11: that also shall he reap. This especially refers to the
- 13:28Speaker 11: thoughts you think. If you sow positive, optimistic, uplifting thoughts
- 13:33Speaker 11: in your mind, you will reap positive, optimistic, uplifting events
- 13:37Speaker 11: and experiences in your life. It cannot be otherwise. If
- 13:41Speaker 11: you sew clear goals and objectives in your mind, you
- 13:44Speaker 11: will reap clear results and rewards in your outer life.
- 13:47Speaker 13: Every time you reach the next level, you grow, and
- 13:50Speaker 13: every time you grow, your potential changes. After you conquer
- 13:55Speaker 13: that challenge, you discover that what you are now capable
- 13:59Speaker 13: of has changed. You have more strength to conquer higher mountains.
- 14:05Speaker 13: If you are going to reach your true potential, you
- 14:07Speaker 13: have much bigger challenges to face. There's an unlimited amount
- 14:11Speaker 13: of mountains to climb because your growth is unlimited. And
- 14:16Speaker 13: because your growth is unlimited, that means your potential is
- 14:19Speaker 13: also unlimited. It's never ending, a never ending journey of
- 14:24Speaker 13: growth and expansion.
- 14:26Speaker 4: Your growth is unlimited in every area.
- 14:30Speaker 13: What can I do now to make those changes so
- 14:33Speaker 13: I can reach the next level in my health because
- 14:36Speaker 13: the new energy I will get from better health is
- 14:38Speaker 13: going to help me get to the next level in
- 14:41Speaker 13: other areas as well. What can I learn or commit
- 14:45Speaker 13: to now to make that area of my life better?
- 14:50Speaker 13: Can my mental health and self image be better? What
- 14:54Speaker 13: can I work on every day to make sure my
- 14:56Speaker 13: inner talk and sense of self is better? Because the
- 14:59Speaker 13: better I feel about me, the better I am going
- 15:01Speaker 13: to show up in this world. When I get to
- 15:04Speaker 13: the end of my life. I want to know for
- 15:06Speaker 13: sure I left nothing on the table. I want to
- 15:10Speaker 13: know I gave my heart and soul to reach my
- 15:13Speaker 13: truest potential. I want to know I did all I
- 15:17Speaker 13: could to carve out the greatest version of me. No regrets.
- 15:22Speaker 13: That's what it's about, having zero regrets. And you can
- 15:27Speaker 13: only have no regrets if you gave every ounce of
- 15:29Speaker 13: your soul while you were alive on this planet. Every
- 15:33Speaker 13: area can be mastered, So I am going to master
- 15:37Speaker 13: every area. What's the point in having one piece of
- 15:40Speaker 13: the pie. I'm cooking the whole thing. So I'm going
- 15:43Speaker 13: to enjoy the whole thing, piece by piece until my
- 15:46Speaker 13: soul is full. And it will never be full until
- 15:49Speaker 13: the end of my life when I look in the
- 15:52Speaker 13: mirror and can say honestly, I gave everything to be
- 15:56Speaker 13: my very best and I'm proud of who I have become.
- 16:00Speaker 13: Until that day, I will not stop. I want to
- 16:03Speaker 13: know what my life would be like if I just
- 16:05Speaker 13: gave everything I have for my goals and dreams, not
- 16:08Speaker 13: just one day every day.
- 16:10Speaker 4: What if I got better every.
- 16:12Speaker 13: Day, not just one day, a new piece of knowledge
- 16:15Speaker 13: I could use to benefit my future. How great could
- 16:19Speaker 13: I become? Ask yourself that question? How great could I become?
- 16:24Speaker 13: What areas of my life could be the very best
- 16:27Speaker 13: they have ever been? What could I commit to right
- 16:31Speaker 13: now to make absolutely sure I am pushing for my
- 16:35Speaker 13: highest potential. I want you to make that commitment today.
- 16:39Speaker 13: Do whatever you must do to ensure you get to
- 16:42Speaker 13: the end with no regrets.