LATE NIGHTS AND EARLY MORNINGS = SUCCESS

make a decision

and the decision is simply this are you

ready

to take the next step listen

no more stressing that's it i'm not

about to let you stress anymore

the stress about graduating is over

the stress about that paper you got to

write the stress

about the new coming year the stress

about going to school

the stress about those grades we now i'm

not about to let you stress now

that stress is over now is the time

for you to stand up

you can travel the world and study

students

and their behaviors and their mindsets

there is a science behind achievement

now it's time for you to get fueled up

yeah i want you to get mad

i want you to get sick and tired of

being sick and tired i

i want you to get sick and tired of

being average

when you want to let go when you want to

surrender

when you want to stop when you're ready

to quit

when you have failed and failed again

let me remind you what got you here

remember how you felt when you started

you were hungry

hunger got you here a strong desire

got you here you were desperate to break

curses in your family

you were desperate to break the cycle of

poverty and depression you were

desperate hunger

catch you here remember this

every dream requires discipline

every dream requires discipline i want

you to get sick and tired

of failing over and over again i i want

you to get mad yeah i want you to get so

mad

that you start studying like you've

never studied before

i want you to get so mad that you go

ahead and buy some books

i want you to get so mad that you grab a

tutor

i want you to get so mad like you've

never done your homework before

i need you to get fired up are you ready

are you ready

because now is your time

life is a test and in life

there are ups and there are downs

and so accept the responsibility see

yourself as primarily responsible for

your outcomes and your experiences

you are going to need discipline

motivation will help you get started

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but discipline is going to keep you on

the road to your destiny

you got to be self-motivated you got to

find purpose

in what you do by discovering personally

meaningful goals and dreams

if you're going to be a successful

student if you're going to come out on

top you've got to start managing your

time

the rigors of academic life can be

brutal

long days of classes long nights of

studying

and low cash flow requires you to be

frugal

projects case studies pop quizzes and

final exams

will test your morals and your scruples

but you keep pushing

and pushing because you know one day

all of that hard work and studying will

pay off

and be fruitful

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they didn't know that you had that

hustle in you

they didn't know that the beast that you

were becoming they wasn't doing anything

but add more fuel to the fire

they ain't understand what it felt like

to struggle

they didn't understand that the

competition was you

all the haters that went against you all

the people that doubted you

they didn't know who you was becoming

you've seen many others succumb to

academic demise

and wind up with the wrong letter on

their transcript

the dreaded w which painfully stands for

withdrawal

but that's why you draw the line because

you made a vow to choose incline over

decline

fast forward over rewind redesign over

recline

and hard grind over poutine wine

you made the choice to dig deep within

and thus the only w you will ever get

will be the w that stands for win

because winners like you pick themselves

up when they stumble and slip

winners like you understand that it's

impossible to never trip

winners like you are strong enough to

say no when their friends want them to

take a sip

one is like you trust the process so

steps they never ever try and skip

and that chip on your shoulder it

remains to remind you of all the

doubters naysayers and haters

that said you would never walk across

that stage and receive that paper

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but more fuel for your fire just make

success

so much greater because you're

overcoming the sour taste of now

to get to the sweet taste of later

you adjust to all the different

personalities of your teachers and

professors

and enjoy those that are super cool but

stay mentally prepared for those that

are stressors

blessings seem to find you because the

universe conspires

to make sure everything falls into place

because you've got so much heart

passion and desire

your fire keeps burning turn your haters

into your motivators

and never let anybody else's opinion

be bigger than your own

understand the struggles that you go

through

are helping you to get to your destiny

the adversity

in hills that you have to run the

mountains that you have to climb

it's taking you to greatness

so i'm telling you don't run from the

adversity

don't run from the problem

because if you don't face it you can

become it

it's gonna make you stronger

it's gonna make you better

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you wanna leave a legacy

and contribute to the greater good

so for now it's the uncomfortable

discipline

and sacrifice because the cash out in

the future

means today you got to pay the price

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so that means when your friends ask can

you go

your heart wants to say yes but your

willpower says no

because mr jones thermochemistry 3202

ain't no joke

and so you got to be locked in and stay

woke

because he's all about business and

doesn't give

any rope

so if you miss any assignments or fail

any test

you have very little hope of passing his

class

but you will pass this class and you

will pass it with flying colors

because you my friend are an academic

hustler

and thus you put in the time the effort

and asks all the right questions to make

sure all of your bases are covered

the vultures will hate you try to give

them vision

but they never put on the right frames

and thus that sight was blurry

and that gray reflected it

and now they want to throw shade at you

but your shield deflected it

you tell them winning in progress over

here so please eliminate the negative

vine

it's time to remove them from your

circle

so when that person comes up to you and

says do you know what time it is

you look them dead in the eye and say

it's winning time because that's where

your mind is at

see losers focus on winners

winners focus on winning winners wake up

every day with this mindset

that no matter how successful they are

no matter how great they are

they always act like they're losing they

always act like they're the underdog

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that way they keep the edge what's your

mindset

are you thinking that you're gonna win

no matter what

now i'm not saying that winning is

everything what i am saying

is wanting to win is

if you think like a loser losing will

find you

henry ford said whether you think you

can

or whether you think you cannot

you're probably right if you can find a

way

to positive in the middle of a negative

situation

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then you my friend ultimately win

don't think for one second that you were

put on this earth to lose

you were born to win

because there's a success formula head

heart hands

you could think about things in your

mind set goals in your head and

affirmations kpis

objectives but if you're not acting with

your hands and you're procrastinating

raise your hand if you ever

procrastinated before right

all of us if there's a gap between your

head and your hands

check in with the second h which is your

heart right the emotion

we do things emotionally we are

emotional creatures we're not logical

we're biological dopamine oxytocin

serotonin endorphins we're this chemical

soup

and so we want to be able to activate

that so head hard hands another way of

putting

it are our eyes information that's good

great but sometimes you listen to a

podcast there's a lot of information but

there's no

inspiration to use it fair

but sometimes you can listen to a

speaker or learn something and it's

inspiring

but you don't know what to do so you

have information you have inspiration

and then you have

implementation where you're doing it i

feel like when you get all three eyes

together

you have the most powerful eye which is

integration that's my goal for all of

you

is that when you read something you

listen to something you you know you

learn something it becomes part of who

you are

it's integrated here here and here

and then you have an alignment in what

you what how it performs

is it looks like magic to people

when you know when somebody is aligned

and they're in their element it looks

like it's effortless

you know these flow states it's powerful

there's three parts to it

that i focus on you know when how many

of you ever been in a zone

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where and and that's how it is when i'm

reading it's just

it's a piece to it it's like somebody

who's fit and has strategies if they

have to climb a mountain

it looks like it's effortless because

they've just done the work and they have

strategy and they have tools to be able

to do so

and somebody who maybe doesn't have

those resources

it makes it's up more effort is that

fair so actually learning

how to do these things it's easier like

when i read a book i still read a book a

day

it's just part of my practice it's part

of my mental hygiene

and i feel like it's the number one

exercise because reading is to your mind

like

exercises to your body and some of you

are already doing this so i'm preaching

to you so i'm going to show you how to

do it better

but those of you who aren't on the other

spectrum reading at all the average

person reads like

two books a year now if you're reading

like more than that that means

somebody's reading a lot less

right on the on the other side but it's

the best exercise for your brain people

ask me all the time how do i keep my

brain young and how i keep it energetic

and as i grow older

reading reading but the problem is a lot

of people don't indulge in it because

they're not good at it

and i wouldn't be playing a lot of golf

if i was horrible at it all the time

but in psychology they have something

called the confidence competence loop

that the more competent you get at

something the more confident you get at

it

and then the confidence will make you do

it more and you get more confidence and

then

the cycles through positive momentum

right and you have examples of that in

your own life

so what i'm asking you about here the

second part

is the inspiration is why must i use

this

who's counting on me to be to win today

you know what i mean first because some

of you and i bring this up because some

of you really will do more for other

people than you will for yourself

so knowing that about yourself

self-awareness is a superpower

then tap into that you don't have to

change it tap into it who's counting on

me to like be at my best

and then you're more likely to do it and

the reason i know this is because

when i was driven so much it was really

my family

who i wanted to make proud like we all

have our reasons right

and one of my favorite books is start

with why it's

a must read book by simon sinek and you

want to start with your why

because reasons reap results

reasons reap

and results want you to use that same

analogy in your head

when you sit down at the desk when you

get to school

when you get on the bus you get on the

train you start walking

you get to the library five

four three two

one go when you get to the next lesson

five four

three two one go when you're looking for

the inspiration

you're looking for the feeling and

feelings are temporary feelings come and

go you can't control

how you feel you know that already but

what you can control

is your level of discipline the level of

discipline that you have

to get started and that's what you can

do to help you get there

it's not fun to wake up early and

read and read and read and it might be

boring

to sit alone in your room or alone in

the library

studying it might not be fun it might

not be easy but it is profitable

it does give you results think about all

of the great people

that we admire in our society and the

things that they must have had to go

through

in order to make it look effortless

motivation is not just gonna find you by

chance it's gonna find you warming up in

the gym

it's gonna find you with that pen in

your hand 10 minutes into that study

session in the library on a sunday

when there's no one else around none of

your friends joined you

motivation might even find you like me

when you get rejected by

every single university you apply for

sweating

working hard straightening yourself

pushing yourself

to get things done and there's only one

person

in this world who can make it happen and

that person my friend

that person is you that person is the

one that looks right back at you in the

mirror and you need to

stop looking for guarantees from your

teachers

or from the curriculum and don't get me

wrong you know there's plenty of holes

in education there's plenty of things

that

i don't agree with but you have to learn

to play the game

and this is the what these are the words

that i wish i had heard

when i was younger push yourself get it

done make it happen stop

looking for external motivation and

start

building that fire inside of you

start adding more logs more petrol to

those flames

every single day and when you're waiting

where

it's safe not only are you wasting time

but you are murdering yes i use that

word intentionally you're murdering

that success that you crave because

potential doesn't activate itself

on the sidelines it activates itself

when you're taking action when you're in

the arena

when you see the people who had less

potential than you

achieve more because they did what

they got it done they made it happen so

the only thing that i want you to take

away from this video is what

you're either growing you're either on

the attack

or you're on the defense and that means

you're decaying there is

no room for an in-between so push

yourself stop

waiting and commit today

the only thing that you need to do is to

take action

and motivation is what's created as a

byproduct

and we have so many things the entire

culture

that revolves around creating the

feeling

instead of doing the action and that's

the single thing that you need to know

is if you're looking for the motivation

to study if you're looking for the

motivation to work hard

if you're looking for the motivation to

get started you're looking in the wrong

place

the only place that you need to look is

that the book

is that the pen the only thing that you

need to do

is to get started sit down at your desk

turn your phone off close all of the

extra tabs in your window that you don't

need

and get going ultimate goal

should be to make each and every day of

your life

a wednesday and i'm not talking about

the day of the week wednesday

i'm talking about w i n

s wednesday

see winners are willing to go longer

work harder

and give more than anyone else does

when two winners collide i love those

epic battles

because you hate to see somebody lose

and in that instance no one really loses

one team got the victory the other team

learned

see winners are not people who never

fail

winners are people who never quit when

is our people who never give in

their mindset is i'm in it to win it

and they always feel like it's winning

time

if right now you feel like you're a

loser i need you to do me a favor

find yourself a mirror and repeat after

me

i came to win i came to fight

i came to conquer i came to thrive

i came to win i came to survive

i came to prosper i came to rise

i came to fly i believe in me

right now i subscribe to the thought

process that it's winning time

victory lives in me and although i may

not win every battle

you gotta say to yourself i will rise

every time i fall i will win

and it may not be immediately but i

definitely will win

because champions don't show up to give

everything they want

they show up to give everything they

have

for far too long you've allowed the

volume

of your past misfortunes your past

setbacks

and your past failures to play way too

loudly

in your speaker of life i need you to

turn

down your past failures and make room

to turn up your future successes

so your problem is you keep waking up

each and every day from a great night's

sleep

twelve o'clock one o'clock two o'clock

whenever you wanna wake up

my problem is you're not even tossing

and turning in your sleep

just one thousand percent comfortable

but then you wake up every day

complaining about you not being where

you want to be at in your life

at least if you're gonna sleep do some

tossing and turning so i know something

is uncomfortable

because all the growth happens in the

uncomfort zone

when you're comfortable you can't grow

you refuse to raise your standards

you refuse to push yourself

he refused to give a little bit more

give a little bit extra

the difference between ordinary and

extraordinary

is that little bit of extra

maybe there was a a particular class

that you

felt like you couldn't make it past yeah

yeah maybe the beginning of your story

comes hardship maybe the beginning of

your story was rough but i got good news

for you there's another chapter

and the next chapter is gonna be your

best chapter

i said the next chapter is gonna be your

best chapter because the next chapter

you're getting ready to write something

new the next chapter

it will say happily ever after your

next chapter is gonna be better than

your last chapter

because it's not about how you start

it's about how you finish

are you waiting for somebody to tell you

to go all right here i go

go what are you waiting for are you

waiting for a bell to ring okay

ding ding ding ding ding what are you

waiting for what are you waiting for

i'm ready i dare you to write that put

it somewhere some comment

put it somewhere say i'm ready

i'm ready to build a legacy i'm ready to

make my mark

i'm ready to do this for my family i'm

ready to do this for my mother

i'm ready to win for my father i'm ready

to make my last name

bigger than my first name i'm ready to

make history

i'm ready to do something nobody's ever

done before

i'm ready to speak to every mountain in

my way and tell that mountain to get out

my way

i'm ready to make a difference i'm ready

to do something in my community

i'm ready to be the leader in my

neighborhood i'm

ready to study i'm ready to finish these

papers

i'm ready to get this diploma i'm ready

to be educated i'm ready i dare you

right now

just to say i'm ready it's my moment

it's my time i'm not just

hyped up i'm informed and transformed

and ready to do something that nobody

ever thought i could do

how you gonna finish what are you

waiting for

what are you waiting for

it's gonna get hard sometimes i'm

telling you right now

it's not going to be easy but it's worth

it

maybe you're listening to me right now

you want to lose weight or you

you're trying to pass the final exam or

maybe there's just this

feat that seem as though it is

impossible

to turn your pain into progress turn

your pain into progress

i need you to be uncomfortable with

average

i need you to be allergic to average

i need you to come to the end of

yourself

so many people are depending on you

a student is hard-working a student is

mentally tough

have the ability to adapt have a

character

consistency demonstrate courage on the

daily

stay motivated stay positive earn your

respect

have a winning attitude breathe compete

make no excuses set goals practice great

habits

stay focused you want your future

you got to outwork everybody on that

field

you got to outwork everybody in the room

you got to learn how to perform under

pressure you got to leave it all out on

the field

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everybody want the future but everybody

wants to be average