SACRIFICE = SUCCESS 2.0 | Best Study Motivation

If all you want is success, you will not have it.

And so if ALL YOU WANT IS THE SUCCESS,

IF ALL YOU WANT IS A TROPHY, THEN YOU DON'T WANT A STORY,

A PROCESS, IF YOU don't want TO BE MADE INTO SOMETHING,

then you you've already missed it.

You've already failed.

You've already tanked.

And so once you get this, everything changes.

What have been the biggest obstacles in your life?

WHAT HAS STOPPED YOU?

What has hindered you?

What has provoked you to get lazy?

When life pushed you down.

When everybody said you are not enough.

When you told yourself, "I quit because I can't finish."

And you got back up the next day and kept going.

Sacrifice is going to have to become your companion and no longer your enemy.

Too many of you think sacrifice is your enemy.

Sacrifice is a curse word.

Sacrifice is bad.

I don't want to sacrifice.

Well, guess what?

You cannot have success without process without sacrificing.

You cannot have it.

If all you see is success,

then you've missed the entire moment because it is the journey.

It is the grit.

It is the grind.

It's the prayers that you pray.

It's the tears that you have cried.

It's the rejection that you've had to take on your back.

And so we all know these things that we've got to sacrifice often times.

Sometimes it's sleep.

Sometimes it's your relationship.

Sometimes it's those urges

that we might get

and we got to sacrifice those urges we got to sacrifice.

Is it fear that we need to let go of?

Is it unnecessary stress?

Come on.

Is it those unidentified triggers?

What is it?

What hobbies do I need to let go of?

What people do I need to let go of?

What opinions of people do I need to let go of?

what's wasting my time?

And so when sacrifice becomes your companion,

it is only then

that we can begin to step into the process of what is required to

climb mountains.

Everybody wants to get to the top of the mountain,

but nobody wants to climb.

Sacrifice is going to build me.

Sacrifice is going to prepare me.

I'm going to be equipped.

I'm going to be conditioned.

Destiny is haunting us, breathing down our necks,

asking us when are we going to step forward.

When are we going to march into this thing?

The future is very expensive.

I I don't know what it is that you want to do,

but everybody's got something they want to do.

Everybody's got something they want to become.

Everybody's got somewhere they believe they've been destined to go.

And often times we don't hit these targets because we're not considering the cost.

Then I just want to share with you things

that you need to start sacrificing right now.

Number one, your time.

You got to get used to sacrificing your time.

If you're going to achieve it, if you're going to become it,

if you're going to go somewhere,

then you're going to learn how to have to sacrifice your time.

You can't have the future.

And you don't know how to wake up at 3:00 in the morning,

4:00 in the morning, 5:00 in the morning.

You can't have the future.

You will not be able to manifest if you're sleeping when the world sleeps.

So, you got to learn how to get up when everybody's sleeping.

You only have 24 hours in a day.

You got to learn to manage the time that is given to you.

This means that you can't binge watch your favorite television show every day.

This means that you can't be on social media every day.

This means that you can't do whatever you want all day

and think you're going to manifest

and become this person

and achieve this feat.

It's not going to happen.

Number two, you got to surrender comfort.

I I need you to get out of your comfort zone.

If you're going to be successful, if you're going to achieve it,

if you're going to become it,

you've got to break out of your comfort zone.

Some of you, YOU HAVE FINANCIAL GOALS, YOU HAVE RELATIONAL GOALS,

you have health goals, but you're comfortable.

You're comfortable in the current toxic relationship you're in.

You're comfortable being overweight.

But I'm just wondering

if there's anybody that's listening TO ME THAT'S JUST FLATOUT TIRED OF being comfortable.

Number three, past versions of yourself.

There is an irritation.

There is an anguish

and a pain that we all carry

when we show up in a new season.

The old version of ourselves.

Every season requires a new version of yourself. >> >> another version of discipline

and focus and intentionality

that you got to sacrifice the old you.

I know you keep celebrating small wins and what you accomplished 5 years ago,

2 years ago, what you did in high school.

I need you to find a mirror

and I need you to say goodbye to the old version of yourself.

In the next 3 to 6 months, you're going to make you proud.

The next thing that's got to go is fear, pride, and ego.

For many of us, FEAR IS DISGUISED AS RATIONAL AND PRACTICAL.

And and FEAR IS DISGUISED AS A PLANNING AGENT.

I'm just planning out the process, and I'm just going to wait.

I'm just kind of walking myself through everything and and and processing everything.

And so fear cloaks fear disguises itself as as process.

And and I'M TALKING TO YOU.

I need you to find a mirror.

And I need you to bind up the spirit of fear.

And I need YOU TO TELL YOURSELF, I AM NOT AFRAID.

I am not afraid.

If you were to ask me, what do I fear?

I don't fear starting.

I fear never starting and sleeping on my potential.

I'm terrified of not manifesting

and becoming the version of myself I was destined to be.

So, the next thing you're going to have to sacrifice is that vice.

Now listen, I I don't know what your vice is.

If you're trying to lose weight, your vice could be ice cream, chips, cupcakes,

cookies.

If you're trying to be financially fit,

your vice could be splurging on clothes and entertainment and food and recreation.

Sometimes you're going to have to surrender that month, that quarter, that year.

It takes a lifetime of discipline.

Can you surrender WHAT YOU HAVE POSSESSED?

Can you surrender what is possessing you?

SOME OF YOU ARE POSSESSED BY SOCIAL MEDIA.

It's no longer a servant.

It is a master.

Social media is a beautiful servant.

But it is a terrible master.

Can you surrender social media?

Can you surrender your time?

Can you surrender yourself?

Can you surrender your mind?

Can you surrender your will?

Can you stop choosing what's killing you?

IF YOU'RE GOING TO ACHIEVE IT, if you're going to manifest it,

if you're going to do this thing, then you're going to need some stamina.

Come on, believe it.

Come on.

You got to start speaking that stamina over your life,

speaking that endurance over your life.

Believe it.

Believe it.

If you're going to be extraordinary and you can't make ordinary sacrifices.

There are levels to sacrifice.

There's sacrifices that everybody makes.

Sacrifices in every scene of our lives.

And then there are some extraordinary sacrifices.

You can't have the future

if you can't surrender something that's no longer serving you.

You cannot manifest.

You cannot become the next version of yourself.

You cannot experience a higher quality of life unless you sacrifice.

There are some things that you love too much.

There are some people that you've kept in your life.

They are toxic.

They add no value.

They are no longer serving YOUR VISION.

IT'S TIME FOR THE NEXT VERSION OF YOURSELF.

SNAP OUT OF IT.

THIS VERSION OF you is not going to carry you in this next season.

You're going to have to sacrifice who you used to be.

Michael Jordan has a $2 billion net worth.

That's beautiful.

But what was the cost for all of that?

How did HE WIN GAMES?

HOW did he win championships?

HOW HARD DID HE PRACTICE?

HOW CRAZY WAS HIS FAITH?

HOW MANY VACATIONS DID MICHAEL JORDAN HAVE TO TURN DOWN?

HOW MANY PARTIES DID HE HAVE TO WALK OUT OF?

HOW MANY PEOPLE HAD TO BE AMPUTATED OUT OF HIS LIFE?

EVERYBODY WANTS TO CELEBRATE THE $2 BILLION EVALUATION OF HIS ENTERPRISE.

But it came at a cost.

It came with some sleepless nights.

It came with some long practices.

It came with a lot of nos.

No, no, no, no.

I can't do the party.

No, no, no.

I'm not going to do the drinking.

No, I'm not connecting with them now.

I don't need THAT CIRCLE.

NO, IT CAME WITH A LOT OF NOS.

IT CAME WITH A LOT OF SACRIFICE.

IT COMES WITH A LOT OF REJECTING.

IT COMES WITH A LOT OF awareness of what is not serving the vision.

Had a temperature of over 100°

and won the game over THE JAZZ

AND 95.

A CHAMPION.

BUT HE SACRIFICED COMFORT.

HE SACRIFICED CONVENIENCE.

HE HAD TO SACRIFICE AND REJECT THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD THAT SAID,

"YOU'RE CRAZY.

YOU'RE SICK.

YOU NEED TO REST.

YOU NEED TO SIT DOWN."

If I'm going to seek success,

I've got to define what sacrifices are required in order to step into it.

I cannot have it.

I will not see it until I've counted up the cost. you'll find yourself

connected to a 100 people

that think they know what you should be doing to get where you're supposed

to be.

And so, I've got to begin to shut the mouths of the people

that don't know the cost,

the price that I have to pay.

You may HAVE PAID THAT, BUT I MAY NOT have to pay that price.

I can learn from your mistakes.

I don't have to fall down the same ditch as you fell down.

I don't have to flop down the same stairs you flopped down.

That's your price.

THAT'S YOUR CAUSE.

I'VE GOT ANOTHER WAY.

I'VE GOT A DIFFERENT MENTALITY.

I JUST MAY BE A little bit more creative than you.

I just may be a little bit more innovative.

I JUST MAY HAVE MORE FAITH THAN YOU.

I DON'T HAVE TO FALL LIKE YOU FAIL.

I DON'T HAVE TO HURT LIKE YOU HURT.

I CAN LOOK UP AND get up.

When did you get to the point where you snapped so easily?

When you let go so easily.

When you gave up so easily.

I know what it's like to feel like if I keep going,

I'm going to waste my time.

We all get to this point in our life where we ask ourselves the

question,

what have I held on to that should have been amputated.

All of us are holding on to something

that is familiar and we are comfortable

and it has become our paradigm,

our pattern, our way of life.

And if we're honest, we can't see ourselves without this thing.

I don't know what it is for you.

Everybody's got a different thing, person, place,

something that needs to be amputated out of our life,

cut off that's no longer serving us.

And so my question to you really is,

I know you have your eyes on success, the endgame, the trophy,

but what conveniences haven't we let go of that have become cancerous to us?

If we're honest, we should be able to write out a whole list of

things that we're not doing

that we were destined to do.

But but our forward motion has been halted by something.

Are you willing to confess to yourself?

What haven't you been willing to surrender?

Why is it that you think what's killing you is is helping you?

You're bleeding out.

You're directionless.

You don't even have an an idea where you are.

and you're so comfortable yet you're

so annoyed because there's something deep down on the inside of you

that knows that you're not where you're supposed to be.

And so now we've got to start talking about the things

that we need to sacrifice.

What is it that needs to be amputated?

That I thought was assigned to be an aid to me

that I thought was a help

that I thought was an assignment is actually my my assassin.

It's the things in our life

that we think are helping us

that we're assigned to

that are often times assigned to kill us.

What have you claimed to that should have been amputated years ago?

I don't know what it is.

Cuz you know, I don't have to know.

You need to know.

Is it laziness?

Is it procrastination?

Is it ego?

Is it fear?

Is it doubt?

Is it rejection?

Is it abandonment?

Is it just pain?

I mean, what is it?

What is it?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why haven't you been able to succeed in specific areas

that you've set out to conquer,

that you've set out to dominate, that you've set out to be the best?

Why is it that you haven't been able to succeed?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Ask yourself these questions.

And what haven't you been willing to sacrifice?

We all know the list.

There's no time to get amnesia now.

We all know the list of things we got to sacrifice.

Are we going to have immediate gratification and long-term dysfunction?

Or are we going to have long-term gratification and short-term discomfort?