YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF - Best Motivational Speech ft Eric Thomas
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I remember being homeless, high school dropout. My daddy didn't. My mama got pregnant at 17, south side of Chicago. If they just would have got together and got married, they would have been. You're 29. How long you gonna keep talking about your daddy? You're 20. Come on, how long you gonna be talking about your mama got pregnant or something? You're 20. You owe you, Eric. You owe you. Your mama don't owe you nothing at this point.

Your daddy don't owe you nothing at this point. You need to get that GED. You need to go to college. You need to handle your business. Are you hearing me? You owe you. The reason why I speak with so much passion, ET, why do you speak with so much authority? Because I'm talking about my life, not something that I read. I ate out of trash cans. I had no business eating out of trash cans. I lived in abandoned buildings. I had no business living in abandoned buildings.

But ET, your daddy wasn't in your life. Your mom was a teenage mother. You grew up, come on, look at your search. That's not an excuse. There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential. No excuse. You know what's so funny? We want people to make guarantees to us, but we're not willing to make guarantees to ourselves.

Now for real, I'm going to say it again. Like you, somebody gave you a 30 day guarantee. In 30 days, you don't make what they told you was going to make. In 30 days, you got an attitude. You want your money back, but you've never demanded your money back from yourself. You've never looked at yourself in the mirror and said, you let you down. Until you get to that point, you let you down.

You've never, you're not brave enough. You want to put it on somebody else. The reason why I'm not successful is because of my boss. Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and said, I'm not getting up on time. I'm not going to work on time. I'm not putting in 120% when I'm at work. I let me down. I value myself enough to give 120% or don't do it. That's the problem with some of you.

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 owe you an explanation. You need to look at yourself in the mirror and say, why are you only giving 50%? What's wrong with you? You need to put yourself on punishment.

You need to tell you no more TV, no more snacks, no more desserts, no more. No, we working out now. No, no more alcohol. Not right now. No, I can't handle it right now. You need to tell you that you owe you something. I'm still going to get you where they are. Why? Because I owe it to myself. And can't nobody stop me but me. And you need to get rid of them excuses. You need to stop pointing fingers at people. And you start pointing fingers at yourself. What did you not do?

I'm just saying, I ain't even telling, I'm not even asking you to do nothing. I'm just asking you to acknowledge that you can't let it go. And it's killing you. I ain't ask you to take no classes or I ask you to do nothing. You just, it's killing you and you wake up to it and you go to sleep to it.

And it's killing you. You can't wait for nobody else to fix you. You can't wait for nobody else to mature. You can't wait for nobody else to get to that part in their life. You can't wait. I got great things in store for you. All I'm asking you to do is let this go so I can give you everything you've ever wanted. So I can put you where you always want to be. So I can put you where I ordained you to be, son. I gave you a gift, but I can't play like you play. Humans play. I don't play. You got to fix this.

It's something in your heart. You made up in your mind because of the way things went down. You made up in your mind to be bitter. You had options. You chose bitter. You chose angry. Now you hurting yourself. You done dropped out of school. You living in a abandoned building, son. You killing yourself. All my people that know me know me know like, yo, he been doing what he was doing. But yo, when he came back from there and he forgave his father, he took off. You're ready to let that thing go finally forever. You don't know how much time you got left.

I'm telling you, I've been there. I've been there. I had to drive that 700 miles to go knock on my father's door to let him. I said, God, why I got to go all the way down here and talk to my man? Why I got to ask him? Why I got to make it right? He said, because it's your life and you can't wait for nobody else to make it right. Most of y'all struggle because you don't know what you're here for.

And you're intimidated when you see other people because you're not who you're supposed to be. And that's why you feel intimidated. Once you figure out who you are, you walk in the room and look at anybody. Not down, but you look up because you know who you are. And you're still walking around here taking the narrative that people said you were instead of creating your own narrative. Write your narrative and make it plain to yourself. You hear me? Surround yourself with like-minded people. Stop hanging with people who are still talking about people.

You should be talking about yourself and how you try to blow up. You should be writing your vision, not talking about their vision. You should be looking at your own vision. You running around here hanging with people who going to jail. No, you're running with people who are doing stuff that's going to take you to jail. You're listening to music that talk about death. Something bound to happen to you if you listen to stuff that's talking about death. Start listening to life. Now I'm going to tell you this story. I got to get out of here. Probably heard about this before. It was a young man who, you know, he wanted to make a lot of money. And so he went to this guru, right?

He told the guru, you know, I want to be on the same level you are. And so the guru said, if you want to be on the same level I'm on, I'll meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4 a.m. He liked the beach. I said, I want to make money. I don't want to swim. Guru said, if you want to make money, I'll meet you tomorrow, 4 a.m. So the young man got there at 4 a.m. He all ready to rock and roll, got on the suit. He should have wore shorts.

The old man grabs his hands and said, "How bad do you want to be successful?" He said, "Real bad." He said, "Walk on out in the water." So he walks out into the water. Watch this. When he walks out into the water, it goes waist deep. He said, "Walk a little further." He came, dropped his head in, held him down, hauled him down. My man getting scratchy, hauling him down. Just before my man was about to pass out, he raised him up. He said, "I got a question for you." Somebody answer the question for me. He said, "When you were underwater, what did you want to do?" He said, "I wanted to breathe."

He told the guy, he said, when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful. And when you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful. And I'm here to tell you, number one, that most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kind of want it. You don't want it badder than you want to party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep.

Most of you won't be successful because when you're studying and you get tired you quit don't cry to give up cry to keep going Don't cry to quit you already in pain. You already hurt get a reward from it Don't go to sleep until you succeed. Listen to me I'm here to tell you today that you can come here. You can jump up you can do flips You can be excited when we give away money, but listen to me You'll never be successful until I have to give you a dime to do what you do. I

When I went to college, guys were way smarter than me. 4.0s, 3.0s, they went to the Ivy League high schools, came to Oakwood from these great high schools. Most of them are not doing what I'm doing. Why? Because it's not about where you come from. It's about heart. You come to a place where, you know, being smart ain't enough. You gotta have heart. The most important thing is this. To be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become.

Some of you, you can make sacrifices when Monday Night Football is not on. You can make a sacrifice. But when the game come on, for some reason, you just attach to it. For some of you, when your favorite show come on, you can make sacrifices on Sunday when ain't nothing going on. But when your favorite show comes on Monday, man, I'm saying to you today that there are some of you, if you give up your cell phone, you would be successful. But your cell phone is more important to you than your success.

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