when I was at the height of my career in the WWE I felt that for the very first
time that I was close to accomplishing everything that I wanted to accomplish
in wrestling and I quietly walked away kind of shook me a little bit because
wrestling was all I knew at that time and I had dabbled in acting but yet I
also felt that I wanted to do more and I wanted to achieve more and I wanted to
grow I wanted to grow as a person I wanted to grow as an entertainer and
that I wanted to reach as many people as possible not for the box-office value of
it but before the connection and I had come from a world where I was connecting
with an audience every night and I wanted that connection and I wanted to
not only be good as an actor but if I made the transition into acting I wanted
to be great I knew going in the cards are stacked
against me there's a shelf life to a career if I just wanted to get by on
popularity I didn't want to be in that position I
wanted longevity if that's the goal then I have to do everything I could possibly
do to know the business of Hollywood from top to bottom from acting to
marketing to an executive level to a producing level to a directing level and
just know it as a whole that would inherently make me a greater asset and I
appreciate all the people in the beginning of my career as I was coming
up who took the time who took the effort who took me and because I had to educate
myself and I had to be a student of the game know your business know your
business become a student of the game and surround yourself with brilliant
people and go to work the number one thing that's gonna change
your life the only thing that will change your life change your business
change your money change your relationship is you must raise your
standard I know that sounds boring stupid basic but it's the truth the only
thing that changes our life long term is what we raise our standards what does
that mean that sounds so boring and dumb it means that all of us in life have
things we want we don't get what we want we get what we have to have the right
said earlier we all get what we tolerate in ourselves and other people but when
you know what we're willing to tolerate something that's when your life changes
the difference in people is their standards period
the difference in people is their standards period and what I mean by
standards everyone in the world has a list of things they think they should do
I should lose weight I should work out I should spend more time with my kids I
should work harder I should make more calls I should I should I should I
should and then you know what people don't do their shirts and they get mad
at themselves and they what I call should all over themselves they beat them stuff
up about what changes people is when your should becomes a must when suddenly
the thing you said should happen has to happen that's when human beings change
it's like if you want to take the island and you're the head of the army and you
want to take the art island the most powerful way to take the island is burn
the boats cuz if there's no way to go back it's amazing what happens when it's
a must to do something versus it should that's what makes human beings succeed
that's what I discovered that happens to you in life that you will go through
things and while you're going through them you can't understand why it's
happening to you but after you go through it you get back and you look at
it and you say oh now I understand why I needed that lesson
have you ever happened do you sir did it ever happened to you but
that I did I couldn't understand it there but after I got through it then I
saw that that was preparing me for bigger and better things as you go through the
challenges of life and you look at it and embrace whatever comes to you don't
run from it step toward don't try and duck it like
most people do say most people want it easy see if you easy come easy what easy
go see but when you go out what you're going to deal with and you deal with the
difficult difficulties of it when you handle those hard things close at hand
making those hard decisions right now that you don't want to make learning
those things that you don't like to do but you know that in order for you to
get where you want to go this is one of the hoops that you have to flip
you
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