four o'clock in the morning I wake up 4:30 4:45 I'm doing some sort of cardio
open these garage doors it's still dark outside I do this and then I'll have
breakfast and then I will go do all my strength and conditioning training at a
gym for about an hour and then I'll go to seg we are every probably about five
hours of sleep it's 4:45 a.m. it's still dark outside look at that lights just
went out and I'm getting ready to kill this AM cardio you can't even see me but
it's gonna be so good it's bad
you'd do anything you never want to do anything half-ass especially when it
comes to your training get in the intense execute on it and then get out
for a lot of guys out there and I was certainly one of those guys in my 20s I
thought I had all the answers didn't know shit by the way in my 30s I'm still
trying to find myself and a lot of guys are out there hopefully when you hit the
40's you're hitting a nice stride I'm gonna do it they need to do this job
right I need to stay focused on it I need to get the best offer that possibly
can we live down here in South Florida hurricane season
but it's time to go to the gym we got to get to the gym and there ain't no
stopping us like I'm gonna be the baddest motherfucker walking all right
empty gym the way we'd like it it's Sunday just finished my warmup this pain
ought to be fun I worked out twice before everyone wakes
up all right workout number two I'm out working all my competition all right
Saturday afternoon empty gym the way we like it
it's leg day which means it's gonna be sweaty painful and fun a
close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the person
who doesn't even know he's locked up
the most powerful tool that you have right now in your life in your body is
your mind
give me a new perspective give me a new way and I'm looking at my situation give
me a new way and looking at my circumstances get my mind ready for this
year
you can't please everybody but they're people who have the fear of rocking the
boat oh yes it's gonna be some struggles it's gonna be some challenges it's gonna
be some tests but even the struggles are an opportunity for me to show off the
victory if my mind can handle the change
the life is too short for that too short and unpredictable moseying through not
trying to disturb anything not trying to shake anything up not trying to make any
waves unless yoga I'm never going to be I can't get any younger I can't roll the
clock back
you are wasting time you Pasco and step open to the future
when you set goals when you have an intention on something that you want to
change about your life your brain helps you what it does is it opens up a
checklist and then your brain goes to work trying to remind you it was cold it
was winter in Boston and for the first time in three months I had beaten my
habit of hitting the snooze button
and it's really important to develop the skill before you are boxed and buried
decide that you're gonna box and bury your fears decide that you're going to
begin to live life on a new level seeking out new horizons that you're
gonna find more love and more joy and more ways to give I wanted to change my
life and I think most people that are miserable or that are that are really
like dying to be great and dying to have work we want to change we want to live a
better life we want to create more for our families we want to be happy the the
designer is there again it's about how do you go from knowledge to action
so the first thing in the story that's important is realizing that the answer
was in me and my mind was telling me pay attention
so when you begin to say what is it that I want to leave what contribution that I
want to begin to make what difference do I want to make in life what is it that I
want to do with the rest of the life that I have left what what chances I
need to take what risks do I need to begin to embrace what fears do I need to
step on what areas of my life of my dad right now what dream you can even live
your dreams or live your fears you have got to get to a point where you say I'm
sick and tired of living like this has got to be more let's see that's when
people go out and strike out on their dreams how you going to make it I don't
know but I will I'm gonna keep on kicking I'm gonna cut them off is
I'm never going to give up the beats a game this is RHIB this is real life
champ work on you get what you gotta keep you don't work hard you get naughty
you get nothing you gotta work head
you will on get what you gotta get you don't work hard
nothing you don't get enough not zero nothing zero nuts
keep whoops work on Luger what you gotta get
come on why I'm going to fight I'm going to work I'm going to press forward I'm
going to learn I'm going to do everything in my power every single day
I'm going to do everything in my power to become a Victor and not a victim of
let's go champ let's go champ pain is temporary it may
last for a minute or an hour or a day or even a year but eventually it will
subside and something else will take its place if I quit however it will last
forever you want to get better you want to self-improve stop looking for a
shortcut and go find your alarm clock and find your discipline and fling it
your guts and your passion and your drive and find it you will and then
and then you will find your freedom
if you're afraid of heights work on some rock climbing climbing if you're afraid
of the water the time to swim it's time to surf it's time to get out there if
you're afraid of pull-ups if if you're prey to pulp do polls if you're in
squats do squats if you're afraid of public speaking go speak in public if
you're afraid to start a business start a business
and eventually you will overcome that fear but the hard part is
take that first step you've got to take that first step
got to take that first step against the fear against the fear of the thing
if you die today what dreams what ideas what books what
leadership what voice what story will die with you
of the dreams the ideas the abilities the talents given to you by life but you
for whatever reason you never pursued those dreams you never use those talents
you never use those gifts you never use those abilities and there they are
standing around your bed looking at you but large angry eyes saying we came to
you only you could have given us life and now we must die with you forever and
the question is if you died today what dreams what ideas what books what
leadership what voice what story will die with you I said empty your mind
deforms shapeless like water now you put water into a cup it becomes the cup you
put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle you're putting the teapot it
becomes the teapot now water can flow or it can crash be water my friend
let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to
dream and that you could for example have the power within one night to dream
seventy five years of time or any length of time you wanted to have and you would
naturally as you began on this adventure of Dreams you would fulfill all your
wishes you would have every kind of pleasure you can see and after several
nights of seventy five years of total pleasure each you would say where how I
was pretty good
let's have a dream which isn't under control
well something is going to happen to me that I don't know what its gonna be and
you would dig that and come out of that and say wow that was a close shave
wasn't it then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make
further and further out Gamble's as to what you would dream
and finally you would dream where you are now you would dream the dream of
living the life that you are actually living today that would be within the
infinite multiplicity of choices you would have we're here on chance and
we're
the nature of love is self-abandonment not clinging to oneself throwing
yourself out that keeps things moving that's the
nature of life so in this idea then everybody is
fundamentally the ultimate reality not God in a politically kingly sense but
God in the sense of being the self the deep down basic whatever there is and
you're all that only you're pretending you know
you would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today
people want to know how to stop the laziness they will know how to stop the
procrastination and you know they have some idea in their head you know some
kind of a vision what they want to do but they don't know where to start in
order to start it you know they don't know where to start and say they say hey
where do I start and and when's the best time to start
and I have a very simple as your friend here and now that's it you want to
improve you want to get better you want to get on a workout program or a clean
diet you want to start a business you want to write a book or make a movie or
build a house or a computer or put together some mobile application where
do you start
you start reading it and when do you start you start right now I had beaten
my habit of hitting the snooze button I couldn't believe it and I thought wait
a minute counting backward citizen dumbest thing I've ever heard in my
entire life well the next morning I used to get in
at work the next morning I used it again and a fourth the next morning I used it
again and it worked and then I started to notice something really interesting
there were moments all day long all day long just like that five-second moment
in bed where I knew knowledge what I should do and if I didn't move within 5
seconds my brain would step in and talk me out
of it every human being has a five-second window might even be shorter
for you you have about a five-second window in which you can move from idea
to action before your brain kicks into full gear and sabotages any change in
behavior because remember your brain is wired to stop you from doing things that
are uncomfortable or uncertain or scary it's your job to learn how to move from
those ideas that could change everything into acting on look for the job that you
would take if you didn't need a job
don't sleepwalk through life and don't don't say it's all gonna be great you
know I'll do this and I'll do that and you know I'm just marking time does it
to be over
you really want to be doing what you love doing and you can't necessarily
find it on your first job given all the opportunities that are there in in the
world to try and figure out the thing that actually makes you want to get up
in the morning the thing that you actually love I feel this thing that
should exist and you take that leap of faith that it may work I would still go
home from whatever that day job is and I would try to do it because I love it not
because I really want to make a certain amount of money figure out the thing
that makes you tick find that thing that young people feel like if they don't
know what they're born to do that there's somehow broken and I think that
it needs to be looked at differently which is that it means if you don't know
that thing it means that every door is there's the possibility and if you can
find that thing and deal with the pressure of maybe not making the amount
of money that you would like to yet we're not getting to the company you'd
like to get or not having success with your startup yet these are all things
that I think you can swallow if the thing you're doing speaks to you it's
that constant pursuit of the unobtainable which is kind of magic
really to approach something with a kind of
excitement that is shared in this weird way where you just know it makes you
happy it'll say I'm working on this thing but I don't know if Ian's gonna
like it feel sort of like this boring thing that I love you know and it's
amazing how often that boring thing that you love becomes a sensation I think the
key is to do that I would say don't stress yourself out your voice is as
important as anyone elses
so it's a lot easier to actually write a screenplay than you think it is might
not be good but most people talk about writing screenplays but don't actually
write them the people who write them you're already like in you know the top
10% because you actually have written it I have the same work like someone's
trying to take it all away from you you actually work like no one's spending 24
hours working 24 hours to take it all away from you when sometimes people
don't have the determination the will and the steadfastness the tenacity
they are they giving them the slightest struggle
really viewed myself as particularly talented view myself as you know
slightly above average in talent and where I excel is ridiculous sickening
work ethic you know while the other guys sleeping I'm working and a lot of other
guys eaten I'm working you know hard work pace I put in a hell of a woman
purple Paisley I'm sitting at the top I I poured it all on the line I show up I
perform and I get the results from that and discipline doing it - hey take it
but do it like you love it you know always testing yourself forcing yourself
to the limit do you have to have some ability
but then it's just how much will I really do think there's just a thing
people underestimate it doesn't sound sexy
it doesn't sound cool how much no one work ethic you know and just how badly
do you want
that's what I'm success in general all about sacrifice for my experience every
damn person who said I wouldn't be anything I'm crushing them every day
not only so the question is how much have you always
don't know who you are I don't know what you're going through I'm not here to
pretend that you know I understand what you're going through or how you feel in
your life I think the biggest disability that we have as human beings is unbelief
everything starts with a vision and a man without vision dies
hate the idea of potential being wasted in this world you know how it is if you
didn't go what you've gone through you wouldn't be who you are today
is it as I kept trying new things new doors kept opening because you don't
know what your future is you just don't
you'll never know what's gonna happen you never know what what the future
holds for you go for it try it because another thing I am no different than
anyone else out there I am NOT here to say I have a superpower and it was all
this it was just trying go home let's see
what happened
patience let's say don't complain when you're waiting in a line you ain't going
to growing patience until you put in a place to wait
there there are some times where you're going to wish that you could rewind and
and do things all over again there are times where you just wish you could
forget memories and you try to drown those memories in alcohol or different
pleasures and maybe get distracted by the goals and ambitions of your life and
try to put the past behind and move forward
you should wake up worried terrified every morning but don't be worried about
our competitors because they're never gonna send us any money anyway let's be
worried about our customers and stay heads down focused one of my jobs as the
leader of Amazon is to encourage people to be bold and people love to focus on
things that aren't yet working and that's good it's human nature that kind
of divine discontent can be very helpful but you really you know it's incredibly
hard to get people to take bold bets and you need to encourage that and if you're
gonna take bold bets they're gonna be experiments and if they're experiments
you don't know ahead of time though they're gonna work experiments are by
their very nature prone to failure but big success is a few big successes
compensate for dozens and dozens of things that didn't work
I've made billions of dollars of failures at amazon.com literally
billions of dollars of failures
because we know from our past experiences that big things start small
the biggest oak starts from an acorn and you've got a record to do anything new
you've got to be willing to let that acorn grow into a little sapling and
then finally into a small tree it made me one day it'll be a big business on
its own the Amazon started as a very small company it was me and a few other
people I was driving all the packages to the post office myself in my 1987 Chevy
Blazer you can't skip steps you have to put one foot in front of the other
things take time if there are no shortcuts and but but
you want to do those steps with you know passion and ferocity
it's easy to have ideas it's very hard to turn an idea into a successful
product there are a lot of steps in between it takes persistence
relentlessness
it's a stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you
can have some control
do something you're very passionate about I wanted to project myself forward
to age 80 it's okay now I'm looking back on my life I want to have minimized the
number of regrets I have and you know what I knew that when I was 80 I was not
going to regret and having tried this I was not gonna regret having wanted you
know trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was
gonna be a really big deal I knew that if I failed
I wouldn't regret that
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