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They wrote me off. I ain't right back though. That's the problem. I ain't right back. Let's go. I'm going to show you how great I am. In that dark room is who you are. But in that dark room is where you have to create another human being that walks out of that darkness.
You need something to get out of bed for and fight for. If there's potential inside of you, which you know is there, but you're too scared to tell anyone else about it, and you go on and on, get older and older and older and older, and the windows of opportunity start to close, and you knew it could have been given birth to, but you never did it, I promise you, it will haunt you forever.
It'll be more. It's a living nightmare, dude. How did you get mentally and emotionally so strong where it doesn't bother you? You kind of got to get over yourself. It's not about you, man. Like, okay, you feel embarrassed. You're not that important. Get over yourself. That's where you go. Get over yourself. You are all listening to a lot of they, and almost always they, are losing. And they just want you to lose too.
They may not realize it. I don't know if you've heard it. It's called misery loves company. I want to see what you can accomplish through hard work, through dedication, through commitment, through teamwork. When you go through the discomfort, you got to go through the pain and suffering, but your life becomes great. If you choose comfort, you go through pain and suffering and you end up hating your life. Both are uncomfortable in their own right.
you just got to know when to make the choice my friends you've got to stop listening today and you need to lean into being un wavering my edge was my intensity my ads was my focus uh and my commitment you know i put everything into the game i prepared
I dreamt about it, I visualized it, I always prepared myself mentally for whatever is coming. That fact that you have the ability to do something and you're too weak to turn the key and start the engine on it is a greater disappointment and a greater burden to carry than any of this physical sweat equity or pain in the gym or sacrifice. All that is just nothing compared to a life
Well, you're burdened by regret, guys. You need to be afraid of the right thing, and you should be afraid of contaminating your soul with deceit. That's what you should be afraid of. That will definitely do you in, and I know exactly how. What happens is, you know, garbage in, garbage out. The old programmer's saying goes, and so you'll fill your head with nonsense, and no one will call you on it except you, but you can still that voice if you try hard enough.
Right, like you're worried about how people may perceive you and like you're walking around and it's embarrassing because you shot five air balls Get over yourself, right? And then after that it's okay. Well, why did those air balls happen? Got it. I don't listen to all that bullshit. I listen to motherfuckers like this man. What's wrong man? I'm fucking tired dude. Why you tired? Because tomorrow I gotta do the fucking shit again man. Whatever the shit is that made me fucking nauseous and sick to my stomach, it made me hurt.
There's no ending. And that's the person I listen to. That's the person who's gained knowledge. You gain knowledge through suffering. And on the other end of suffering is a world that very few, very few have ever seen. It's a beautiful world because that's where you find yourself. You're standing at the precipice, the edge of the greatest move in your life. And the time is now like never before to take a leap of faith.
It takes faith to jump off of the edge. It takes faith to step into your purpose. It takes faith to step into your destiny. It takes faith to pull away from everything that is familiar, to step into uncharted territory, to become the person you are.
to be. It takes faith. Can you disappear for 30 days? Put in the work. And that's something, right? To fight, let's say, against hell and for heaven. That's something to fight for. Especially when you say you're going to do something and then you follow through and you do it. Not at the end when you cross the marathon, you finish it or your hands raise. I'm talking about right now.
the small steps in between the big successes that everyone sees. No one sees this. Right now, I'm saying, like, there's a confidence to it, man. There's a bad mother... that's right here, you know, that...
It's getting ahead of the competition. There's an overwhelming sense of fulfillment and pride and satisfaction with that. I didn't have to shoot up anything. I didn't have to drink anything. I didn't have to go party or anything. All I had to do was just go work out. And now what's going to happen is a residual effect of that. Not only does my body grow, but my belief in whatever my current endeavors are
They're just, they seem closer. They seem like, you know, I can reach out and grab on them. And you don't get that sense of confidence by going through society's rhyme to reasons. You know, you do your own thing, you know, especially when everyone else isn't doing it and they call you crazy or whatever else. Oh, you're in here and people are driving by you and you're like, what the f*** is that guy doing up so late?
Well, what's up so late mean? I don't know. It's the moments in life, the decisions you make on a moment-to-moment basis that add up to be the guy or not the guy. You're already stuck. You want it. And yet you can't jump. And courage should be applauded. Courage needs to be understood. And courage's relationship with adaptability is a very big deal. I promise you.
You will never regret your acts of courage. Ever. I want you to think about me knowing that I'm comfortable being very uncomfortable. And I want you to think about when you went through fucking hell week. How uncomfortable you were and how bad you wanted to quit. Knowing I'm not thinking that fucking way. So the dark side is something that I've designed. It's an evil place I can go that very few things can hurt me. I use the hurt you're trying to put on me
I flip it upside down and use it. You try to use it for kryptonite? No. It's power pillows for me. I'm using it for strength. How you address it is you face it. You face it every day. You face it every single day of your life. Where you say, okay, like if you're fat and you need to lose weight, it's patience. It's patience in this fact of accepting who you are right now. I'm fat. I don't like myself.
Except the fact that if you lose three or four pounds, that's a huge accomplishment. You have to live in your own world. You cannot judge yourself. That's why social media and all these things are horrible. You can't judge yourself off of the so-called competition that we have made up in our mind. The things that how people look, how people act, how smart someone is. This is a race that you run completely alone.
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