THE POWER OF DREAMS (2025) - Best Morning Motivational Video Speeches

I stopped by to ask you, are you willing?

Are you willing to do what you've never done before,

say what you've never said before, so you can be the man,

the woman you've always known yourself to be.

>> Are you willing?

Are you willing to to tell any part of you

that doesn't serve your future,

any part of, you know,

the procrastination and the

and the worry and the doubt

and the am I good enough?

Anybody know what I'm talking about?

Yes.

Yes.

Uh, and the who can I be over there

if I've been this person over here.

If you're willing to stop and look at all of it and say,

"I appreciate you.

You got me to this point, but in order for me to go further,

I'm going to have to leave you here."

Ask you, are you ready?

Are you willing?

Because most people sign up for the goal.

And this is my new awareness.

They sign up for the goal

and you focus on the goal

and you get really,

really committed to the goal.

And then you got to go through something to get to the goal.

And then you sit the goal down.

I'm going to invite you.

Don't sign up for the goal.

Sign up for the inconvenience it's going to cost you.

Sign up for that.

Sign up.

I sign up every day.

Every day to the inconvenience.

The goal looks sexy.

The inconvenience looks costly.

But if you sign up for the inconvenience,

then the goal will take care of itself.

Every day.

Say yes to whatever it takes, no matter what.

Repeat after me.

Stretch me.

>> Stretch me.

>> Challenge me.

>> Challenge me.

>> Make me own my greatness.

>> Make me own my greatness.

>> Don't let me off the hook.

>> Don't let me off the hook.

>> Hold me accountable.

>> Hold me accountable.

>> To the change I'm to make.

>> To the change I'm to make.

>> To the inspiration I'm to bring.

>> To the inspiration I'm to bring. to the motivation

that I am. >> to the motivation

that I am.

>> Hold me accountable.

>> Hold me accountable.

>> I want to be held accountable.

>> I want to be accountable.

>> I'm not afraid of my greatness.

>> I'm not afraid of my greatness.

>> I'm not afraid of my imperfections.

>> I'm not afraid of my imperfections.

>> I am genius.

>> I am genius.

>> Ever evolving.

>> Ever evolving.

>> I am breakthrough.

>> I am breakthrough.

>> Ever happening.

>> Ever.

>> I am >> I am >> enough.

Come on, kid.

This is your dream.

You said you wanted to be great.

You said you would never be broken.

You said you would give everything you had.

You made a promise to your teacher.

You made a promise to your mama.

You made a promise to your daddy.

But you never made that promise to yourself.

This is your life.

It's time for you to get busy living

because for far too long you've been getting busy dying.

So what's it going to be today?

Will you sleep or will you leap?

Will you take that leap of faith?

Will you jump?

Will you put yourself in a position to land softly on your bed of

dreams?

I know the fear got you shook.

It can never happen for you.

Yes, it can.

I need you to believe in you because we believe in you.

Your mama believes in you.

Your daddy believes in you.

Your peers believe in you.

I know.

But you had one encounter with a doubter, one encounter with a naysayer,

one encounter with a hater, and you let it break you.

I need you to believe in yourself.

I refuse to let another person make their impossible mine.

And I need you to do the same thing.

Refuse to let another person make their impossible yours.

I need you to chase your dream.

And if you run fast enough, you just might catch it.

So now it's time for you to pick yourself up

and start trying because the strength within you is much stronger than the forces

trying to break you.

Everything you need to go to the next level, you already have inside.

The will, the strength, the passion, the heart, the desire,

and you never have to accept the mental shackles, the mental chains.

I'm telling you from experience,

you always have the choice to power through and make that necessary change.

Never let the darkness block the rays of sunshine that are reserved for you.

Because winners find a way, losers find an excuse.

Oh yeah, you will get hit.

You will get cut.

But true champions get up off their butt and keep grinding.

And they refuse to lose. and they never ever ever give up.

This is your life.

Come on, kid.

This is your dream.

And I need you to be team you.

Yes, you can.

I need you to find a mirror.

And I need you to look at yourself.

And I need you to say to yourself, I know I can do this.

This is my time to shine.

I am more than a conqueror.

I am an overcomer and I refuse to let this life break me.

Success is mine for the taking.

See, it's okay to mess up.

Just don't give up.

Never let someone who allowed their dreams to die kill yours.

They going to talk talk.

But I need you to block out

that noise and go do

and do and do some more to put yourself in a position for the

magic to happen.

Put yourself in a position for greatness to knock at your doorstep.

Put yourself in a position for you to rise to the mountaintop.

Put yourself in a position for you to arrive at your destination of next

level.

Because from this day forward, your new and improved mindset says,

"I will make the impossible possible.

I will make the unbelievable believable."

See, when struggle is present, growth has to be right around the corner.

You got to grow through each and everything that you go through.

And anybody that's ever achieved at a high level will tell you that's the

mindset they had when they broke through.

Don't quit now.

You're just getting started.

Keep pushing.

Power through and eventually you will break through.

Don't pray for every day to be sunshine.

Pray for the mental toughness to push through when your days are the darkest.

Come on, kid.

You can do this.

If I overcame everything I went through, I promise you, you can, too.

I got it out the mud.

All the slime, all the crud, all the grimy.

I'm from the hood.

And where I'm from on my block, they tell you that you can't achieve.

That went in one ear and right out the other.

And I said to myself,

I refuse to let another person make their impossible mine.

Just because they can't see your dream doesn't mean it's not possible.

This is your dream.

This is your passion.

This is your mission.

This is your purpose.

I need you to turn your passion into action.

Crush excuses by dominating with massive execution.

Come on, kid.

This is your dream.

Fear can't live in a space that confidence occupies.

I need you to believe in you.

Setbacks in life will make you want to scream,

but they are part of the journey to success.

So, keep going.

Never give up because this is your life and your dream.

I need you to think about your dream.

That big life dream.

The people who dream

and those people who dream big have a different kind of life than the

people who don't dream.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

>> Dreams require sacrifices.

Like my city's expensive.

Move.

My car payments are high.

Sell your car and take the bus.

This is dreams we're talking about.

We're talking about dreams.

Whether it's fear or anxiety, whatever it may be,

I believe that every single person who's going out to chase their dreams has

those voices in their head.

I think it's part of the human experience.

Stop downgrading your dream to fit your reality

and start upgrading your conviction to match your destiny.

Stay strong.

Have faith.

Keep pushing through.

I've said this before

and and I'm living proof of it is

that on the other side of your struggle is something good.

On your other side of your struggle is something better. on the other side

of your struggle is some sort of success.

>> Why would you waste one second doing something that wasn't progressing your dream?

Go after this thing called life and don't look back and have regrets.

Understand that you're at a place in a position right now

when hard work and valuing people nothing can stop you.

I promise you.

See your dream will cause you to go insane

because what you want it hunts you every single night.

See your big dogs, they won't give you the opportunity.

You going to have to take it.

I need you to remember your destination.

>> You don't realize your dreams are so important because your DNA,

who you are as a person, is wrapped up in your dreams.

No matter what happens, you will not quit because quitting is not an option.

Because you have a why.

You have a passion.

You have a purpose.

>> I have a dream.

Your DNA is in your brain.

Be the example for the crazy dreamers in this world.

You have got to make a declaration that this is what you stand for.

You're standing up for your dreams.

You're standing up for peace of mind.

You're standing up for health.

You want it.

And you're going to go all out to have it.

Today belongs to the architect.

He sees towers before they pierce the sky.

An opportunity before it transforms into the extraordinary.

He knows that what he wants most cannot be given.

It must be sculpted.

So he builds.

He builds because those skylines don't raise themselves from the earth.

The extraordinary does not appear on its own.

They are dreamed into existence by the architects of reality. the ones who seek

not to take from the world

but to contribute to it.

Today is the beginning of something new, something better, something worth remembering.

And it's existed long before the present moment, waiting for your vision, your courage,

your persistence to bring it to life.

Too many times we fail to reach into the realm of what we know

and get more of ourselves.

It's okay to struggle, to be wrong, to have to rebuild a thousand times.

But the great tragedy is closing our eyes and walking by life's opportunity.

Everything you need to rebuild the life you dream of is around you.

Your every move if only you reach for it.

See it before your eyes.

To become the architect of change.

Nothing is impossible when you are the one setting the rules.

When your hand draws the guidelines,

you are not at the mercy of the world.

You are creating it.

This is yours and there will never be a moment like it again.

So don't run from it or hope life gives you what you want.

Take the pieces in front of you and construct your masterpiece.

If you have built your castles in the air,

your work need not be lost.

That is where they should be.

Now put the foundations under them.

A foundation is not made in a day.

It's not flimsy or weak.

It's what holds everything together.

And without it, you have useless pieces.

Throw mentions a castle in the air, a goal, the answer resting above us,

hovering over everything. and everyone.

But until we put life into it,

that castle remains four walls and empty space.

It stays part of an imaginary world.

See, most people never get there because they don't understand.

They have complete authority over what's real.

They set the guidelines with a magic

that looks a lot like a single step forward with fiction

that very closely resembles progress.

Edison said, "Opportunity is missed by most people

because it's dressed in overalls

and looks like hard work."

It's not that people are lazy.

It's not that they're incapable.

It's that they don't realize how small a step is required to build momentum,

to turn a snowflake into an avalanche.

See, you look at that castle in the sky and you shake your head.

You think how nice it would be.

You flip on the TV, fantasize about million-dollar homes,

debate whether athletes are officially elite,

when you could be building a foundation for yourself, doing something for you.

All those things you want can be realized.

Every one of them.

But the road to excellence means nothing

if you don't believe you're worthy of it.

You are.

Start building.

You will be blown away by where this life can take you,

where you can end up.

Your goals take shape the minute they enter your brain.

Never has there been such a powerful tool as the human mind.

The same entity that can build a bridge to anything in the world can

shackle you down.

Listen, that visualization, that dream is there.

It's there and it's very real.

Not to keep you out, but to invite you in.

And you will see

that the only true fiction in your life is the narrative you use

that holds you back.

You want that castle in the air?

Get it.

Stop dreaming about it, wishing for it, and make it happen.

In a limitless world, why set your sights on the obtainable,

the prize within an arms reach?

Why not think bigger?

Our expectations are the foundation for our accomplishments.

The target you aim for is more than likely going to be the target

you hit.

Which means it's quite possible to do exactly what you set out to do

and still drastically underachieve for the sole reason

that you are worth more.

You are capable of more than you give yourself credit for.

But like anything, if you don't recognize and do something about it,

the impact will be minimal.

Doesn't matter that you're the fastest person in the world if you never sprint.

It's impossible to stumble into excellence

because to get there you need to one understand

that something greater exists

and two understand that you are worthy of it.

In anything you do it's better to aim high to try

and accomplish too much.

Be bigger than reality larger than life.

And what you'll find in maintaining these monumental expectations is

that you grow along with them.

You realize that what was acceptable yesterday is no longer good enough.

That it was merely a stepping stone.

The things you're capable of,

the life that's possible for you is unfathomable to the human mind.

Endless opportunities are not black and white.

They're not reassuring because they haven't happened yet.

They're not visible or tangible.

But that's okay.

Just know that no matter where you are or what you want, more exists.

If you're willing to go to another level, there is something bigger.

Period.

So, take a look at the targets that you've set.

Don't waste time asking yourself whether there's something greater.

There is.

Ask yourself if you're willing to step up to move outside your comfort zone

and get it.

There are a few things you just can't learn from a textbook

that you have to live through to see to be fully entrenched in.

Because here is a simple truth.

This world is a tough place.

Getting what you want,

making the most of the time you have requires

that you put yourself in the position to succeed.

It means you see a finish line before one exists.

Look, no one's ever going to call you

and tell you how incredible your idea is.

You can't build a business on potential or win a championship on promise.

Results are binary.

You either accomplish something or you simply did not.

Right?

That's it.

That's what people see the result.

So that means every second,

every step of the way from where you are right now until you cross

the finish line depends on you

and your thoughts.

How you internalize failure, how you look at setbacks.

When no one is around to pat you on the back

or tell you how great you are,

will you have enough self-belief to move forward?

Because my friends, that's the hardest part.

That's what no one talks about.

Having the courage to wake up every single day of your life

and know that you are building towards something incredible.

You are creating a masterpiece from the ground up.

And that means that when you're looking in the mirror,

you believe in what's staring back at you.

You see the unseen and you are willing to bring it to life.

That is the foundation that you build greatness on.

And it's a daily pursuit creating milestones,

designing the small winds that keep you going, that keep you moving,

that get you past all those times you so desperately want to turn around,

but know that for you it simply isn't an option.

That is not your reality.

You have more waiting for you.

And so you press on, cloaked in confidence, you move into the unknown,

seeking the day the rest of the world looks up and calls you lucky.

They'll look at what you built and say how fortunate you are,

but they won't comprehend the 20our days, the focus,

the ridicule for being different or obsessive or nonconformist.

They won't know that self-belief trumped all of that. that it was everything.

The word great is separate for a reason.

It implies a specific set of beliefs and values.

It means you saw light when most people saw darkness.

It means you said yes when most people said no.

You move forward when the rest of the world turned around.

Believe in your greatness.

See it.

Live it.

It is there.

And you need to know

that it's there because it will make all the difference.

Your selfbelief will define you.

Come on, kid.

This is your dream.

You said the next level awaits.

So you have absolutely no time for pity parties.

Access for you has already been granted.

You were put on this earth to win.

You were put on this earth to reign supreme.

Come on, kid.

This is your dream.

See, no matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

So don't dream your life.

Live your dream.

It's time for you to shine bright like a diamond.

Make all that pressure, make all that pain, make all the hardships,

make all that stress, make all that strain count for something.

Embrace the best you.

You said when you grow up, you wanted to leave a legacy.

You said when you grow up,

you wanted the world to not only remember your first name, but more importantly,

remember your last name.

Kid, you got to take some L's to get to the elevation.

So, never let the past pain block you or stop you.

I need you to claim your future success.

Because remember, my friend, those failures are not you.

Those setbacks are not you.

Those let downs are not you.

The sad days are not you.

The bad days are not you.

They're just a stepping stone to get you across the bridge of where you're

trying to go.

So, I need you to run away from

that drama and low self-esteem

and run towards serenity

and pursuit of your dream.

Come on, kid.

I know you feel like you're at your breaking point,

but I want you to do yourself a huge favor

and take a second

and think about this.

No matter what you're going through, there's somebody that's dealing with something much,

much worse.

So, what I need you to do, pick your head up.

I need you to believe in yourself.

I need you to dig deep

and find the confidence for you to keep pushing,

for you to keep going, for you to keep growing,

for you to keep glowing because success is yours.

You said you wanted this.

You wrote it down on your goals list.

You wrote it down on your to-do list.

It's not going to be easy.

There will be roadblocks.

There will be setbacks.

There will be pitfalls.

And there will be haters.

Haters will try and deceive.

But you will shake them off because you've got greatness to achieve.

They don't like you.

But I promise you, they're watching your every move.

Come on, kid.

When they play checkers,

you play chess because it's your time to live life at your best.

See, no hater can stop your favor.

So, I need you to power through the sour taste of foul to get

to the sweet taste of later.

When that negativity pops into your brain,

I need you to immediately shut it down.

See, sometimes it seems like life doesn't want you to win.

And you allow those negative voices to win over

and over again and again

and again.

But now is your moment.

And I need you to own it.

Come on, kid.

I need you to flip

that negative batter and turn it into a positive pancake.

See, a positive perspective can change a negative facial expression.

Don't forget to count your blessings.

Come on, kid.

This is your dream.

Come on, kid.

This is your life.

Come on, kid.

This is your mountain to climb.

Next level success awaits.

You have everything already inside of you to achieve the goals

and the outcomes that are already yours.

Kid, I just need you to have a little gratitude.

Kid, I just need you to switch it to a positive attitude.

Kid, I just need you to know your longitude and your latitude.

And what I mean by

that is know where you're at

and also know where you're trying to go.

because it's impossible to hit a target

that you can't see.

I know the world is pulling at your kid.

I know your mama wants you to do this.

I know your daddy wants you to do that.

But my question for you is, what do you want to do?

This is your life.

This is your dream.

Don't do what they want you to do just

because they want you to do it.

I need you to take some time

and figure out what it is

that you like.

Figure out what it is that comes easy to you that's hard to most.

And that's the direction you need to go in.

They may not like it.

But if you get excited when you think about it,

if you get excited when you do it, it really doesn't matter.

They may not understand right now,

but I promise you when you walk in your light,

when you walk in your gift,

the day will come when everybody will get it.

Go run toward your dreams.

Go run towards your gift.

Go run toward what makes you happy.

Go run toward what sets you on fire.

And live life with passion and desire.

Come on, kid.

It's time for you to do you.

It's time for you to love you.

It's time for you to ride off in the sunset

and set yourself up to live life on your terms

and set yourself up to live the life you were born to live.

Come on, kid. keep believing in you

because on the other side of your stressing is an unbelievable blessing

that has your name on it.

You just got to own it.

You just got to go get it.

You just got to go take it.

You just got to make it a reality. kid.

It would be a tragedy

if you tried to live out somebody else's wishes of you

and you didn't pursue the greatness

that you have within.

If you didn't pursue the greatness that you were destined to achieve,

I'm just dropping by to remind you,

your best days are ahead and your worst days are behind you.

So, never let anyone define you.

Let your mistakes and experiences refine and redesign you.

Come on, kid.

This is your life.

And you said you wanted it bad.

So if they get mad

because you didn't do what they wanted you to do,

tough because you're built tough.

And you understand that tough times don't last, but tough people do.

Champions like us never give up.

We always go harder

and work smarter and focus on the success

that lies ahead and not the misery

and not the drama

and not the ignorance

that we left for dead.

Come on kid.

Believe in the power of you.

Come on kid.

This is your dream and you have to be all in for it.

It's team you and you got to battle the outside voices.

You got to battle the outside forces.

But your number one competition is yourself.

It's you versus you.

So when that negative voice starts trying to dominate,

you take that positive voice and shut it down and tell that negative voice,

"Stop.

I'm trying to elevate.

Come on, kid.

It's your time to win.

And remember, it all starts within you.

Radiate greatness.

Never ever ever forget that.

So take that plan and keep executing and revolve.

That's your evolution.

Success is yours for the taking.

And I just need you to set your internal GPS to the destination of

next level.

And if you keep going, you will arrive in style.

This is a great day to win.

What you want exists.

Don't settle until you get it.

You need to use guilt as your fuel.

You need to start feeling guilty

when you're not achieving

or striving towards your dream.

You can use the people that doubted your dream as motivation.

When your dreams are dying

and when you don't have enough strength to go on,

I need you to stop the procrastination.

I need you to let go of all limitations.

So, I'm here to tell you today that you can have anything you want,

be anyone you want, but you're going to have to work.

>> See, dreams, aspirations, they're not easily obtained,

but one of the hardest things to do is to keep going,

is to keep chasing.

People will give up their dreams for certainty.

But I'm telling you

that your life will start to change

when you become more committed to your dreams than your comfort zone.

Stop being pushed around by the fears in your mind

and start being led by the dreams in your heart.

This is your moment.

And you got to look in the mirror

and believe that >> ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.

So take advantage of today, take advantage of tomorrow,

take advantage of every opportunity

that you have to do what you want in life.

Life's too short to be working on someone else's dream.

And I know it's difficult to follow your dreams.

But it's even worse if you don't.

You have to find a way to build your own dream

or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

If you give up on your dream, what's left?

Because the people who accomplished their dreams in this world stopped telling people about

them and started showing them.

They never once gave up on a dream just

because of the amount of time it took to accomplish it.

No, they knew that the time was going to pass anyway.

Every single successful person

that accomplished a dream will tell you

that as soon as you truly start pursuing your dream,

your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

You need to know without a shadow of a doubt

that it's going to happen.

And when you believe wholeheartedly, then there's no need to call it a dream.

The people that are running after their dream know they're going to have hard

times.

They keep on running because they're saying within themselves, "I'm the one.

I'm the one."

No matter how bad it is or how bad it gets,

I'm going to make it.

It's simple.

You either change your dreams or enhance your skills.

The amount of work is the same.

Every person that did incredible things in this world had to dream crazy.

Dream big.

Don't wait for the perfect opportunity.

Create it.

You are your only limit.

Your potential is endless.

Go do what you dreamed you could do.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Don't worry about failure.

You only have to be right once.

Because when something is important enough, you do it.

Even if the odds are not in your favor,

you got to stop believing in the doubters and start believing in your abilities.

You've got hate.

Use it.

Put in the extra hour fueled by the anger you have for not achieving

your dream.

Keep striving.

Never give up.

Fall down seven times.

Get up eight.

Are you tired?

Think of all the people that are counting on you when you succeed.

I believe that every person has the ability to flip a switch inside their

mind and say,

"It's go time.

I'm not holding back.

No matter what it takes, I will do what I say.

This time it's different.

I've caught the fire.

I'm ready to go.

This year is my year.

There's always another skill.

There's always another challenge.

And your dream needs to be stronger than your excuses.

If you do not do what you're doing right now, well,

your goal is just going to be a fancy desire, isn't it?

Because you will feel defeated at times.

You're going to want to give up,

but you have to start doing things that you didn't know you could do.

Staying in your comfort zone never does anything for you.

Because even if you think you're out of your comfort zone,

there's always another level.

Show the world how bad you'll fight to be in the winner circle.

If you can't find the key to your dream, then pick the lock.

Either you find a way to accomplish your goal or you make one.

If you fight your limitations, you get to keep them.

If you're not getting the results you want from your dream,

then examine your motivation.

Give yourself something to work towards constantly.

Take charge of your emotions.

Don't let someone else choose them for you.

It's time to ignite the dream.

It's time for you to stop settling for just money

and really open your game up.

All you have to do is know where you're going

and the answers will come to you.

Forget the past mistakes.

Forget the failures.

Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.

It's taken me my entire life to understand it's not necessary to know every

single detail and to stop testing the waters

and just dive in.

You're going to get judged regardless of what you do.

Expect the best.

Plan for the worst and prepare to be surprised.

Big results require big ambitions.

It's tapping into your own emotions and letting them drive your dream.

What is important to you?

When I genuinely look at my life,

I see there are a few things that really matter.

Freedom really matters to me.

Unfortunately, even when people know what matters to them,

they usually spend more time on minor things.

Things like gossip, a celebrity love affair,

or how their neighbor Tina doesn't care for her kid enough.

Most people imagine things they want.

They dream about it, but they never really do anything about it.

It's not because they don't want their dreams to come true.

Of course, they want the house.

Of course, they want the car.

Of course, they want the loving partner.

Here is what happens when they start to work towards their dreams.

They are constantly challenged by invisible walls.

These invisible walls are limiting them every day.

To understand this better and break those walls,

I started to distinguish freedom into levels.

The first level of freedom is freedom from the past from the conditioning,

the dogma, the beliefs

that are subconsciously present

because of past events in our lives.

Sometimes even when you want something intensely,

you find yourself in a state of inaction.

Imagine you were trapped in a box, a prison.

The walls around you are keeping you trapped.

You may want to break free.

You may want freedom from it.

But these walls will keep you trapped.

You may try to push these walls to get your freedom.

But you are trapped.

You have no impact,

no action on the outside world because you constantly bump against these walls.

This is how you may be trapped in your past.

The prison walls of limiting beliefs are keeping you stuck.

It keeps you trapped.

So first you need freedom from your past.

So when you are free from your past, you'll find yourself taking more risks.

You will find events happen for you instead of to you.

You'll find a spiritual connection to the greater universe.

You will be able to create the reality you choose for things

that need to happen to you

that are important to you.

You will live your truth daily.

You'll feel empowered and any self-judgment will start to fade away.

Once you're free from your past,

you will start seeing the infinite possibilities that life will present to you.

Then you'll likely hit the second wall

that is your future

and the fear around it.

The second level of freedom is from your future.

Imagine a life where you are free of worry.

You are free of beliefs that haunt you.

You are confident.

Imagine owning the stage, impacting those lives, traveling first class.

Imagine living in abundance.

Imagine a life where you get to do what you want to do.

Do you notice the doubt that creeps in as I mention these things?

That's exactly what you need to be free of.

Fear, doubt, worry about the future.

Imagine a life where you don't need to be someone else.

A life where you are free of expectations from others.

A life where universe is like a genie asking you my love what do

you desire?

This is the freedom to be to be who you want to be to

do what you want to do.

Let me ask you what is important to you.

Is it health?

Do you wish you could run a marathon, hike a mountain,

or run the Spartan race?

Is it intimate love?

Do you want to be with a partner who would make you feel alive?

Someone who would travel the world with you?

Is it money and abundance?

Do you wish you never had to wonder

if you could afford something to live in a particular house

or drive a particular car?

Is it significance and fame?

Do you wish you could be on a global stage

and be recognized as an authority?

Is it impact?

Do you wish your work would inspire others?

Do you wish your books would reach around the globe

and become a reference guide for people to lead a better life?

The answer will be different for you, for me, for all of us.

But whatever your answer is,

you'll be free to choose and free to make it happen.

It is freedom because it is the choice you've made.

Think about the opportunity you got 5 10 years ago that got you here.

It may have shown up in the form of an event in your life.

Something that may be really good for you or something that may be bad.

When that opportunity was presented, you made a decision.

That decision was influenced by your beliefs, your selfimage.

That image, good or bad,

was created because of the past events of your life.

You see, you need to free yourself from the past.

Free your future.

It's a dance between your past and your future that makes your present.

Which brings us to the last level.

Freedom in the present moment.

Freedom in the present moment is huge.

It directly translates into free flow of your creativity.

The freedom to show up for your clients and be truly present.

Freedom of deciding what we want right now,

what we need right now. freedom to have it.

When you push the walls of your past, you're free.

When you create your desired future, you're free.

You are free in this moment if you choose to be.

So, what does freedom mean?

Freedom means you're free from the trauma of your past.

You're free from the fear of your future.

And you're free to make your choice in the present.

It was impossible for me at one time to believe

that I could be free.

Free from that little house in India.

Free from the thought that I would never make it beyond these walls.

I was scared of my future every day.

I didn't see one for me.

The baggage of my past and the fear of my future.

I could barely move in my present.

And here I am living freely, creating every day.

You may doubt yourself in this moment.

You may think it was possible for Ajett

and it might not be possible for you.

I want to remind you there is nothing special about me.

Nothing at all.

If I'm able to create the life I always wanted, then you are too.

We're all capable of living our dreams.

You have made all of your life.

You have compassed challenges, hurdles, and impossible situations in your life.

Somewhere along the journey, you may have doubted yourself and made stories around it.

Not anymore.

Let's push those walls and remind you of your greatness.

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, but 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?

Things that we can't control, we can't plan for, but they come anyway.

This can be in relationships, the workplace, the family.

It tears us down

when things start to go to chaos

and all you want to do is win.

See, I witnessed so many times in my life,

and it may be someone out there that understands life,

understands that pain is necessary, understand that unexpected obstacles, stop them.

You got to dig down deep today.

Even when you're crying,

even when that girlfriend or boyfriend is walking out of your life,

I need you to be prepared because sometimes when terrible things happen to us,

we go into this dark shell

and we stay there

and we believe that this darkness will be our home forever.

But you got to understand that every pain is a lesson.

Every lesson that you learn in the process of life is turning you into

something.

It's turning you into something phenomenal.

See, dreams, aspirations, they're not easily obtained.

You're going to have to walk through those storms with no umbrella,

but know and trust in God that you will not get wet.

Yes, life is painful.

In it, we lose some of the greatest things we ever had.

But one of the hardest things to do is to keep going,

is to keep chasing.

See, sometimes when people leave, we believe that that's our entire life.

We believe that that is our existence

but we are more

because like my grandfather used to tell me well your dreams they never live

down there.

One hour is dedication relentless effort to achieve your dream.

Putting a plan together not just jumping into the water with your life. put

the strategic plan together to be greater than you were yesterday,

to be greater than anything anybody could ever imagine.

See this thing about dreams,

we believe that it's up to other people to believe in.

And the truth is the only person

that needs to believe in you is you.

When you are doing everything in your power to be the best makeup of

yourself,

it's always going to be an adversary that's going to try to take

that away from you.

We call it a rough patch, a speed bump, a dark place.

There are so many words we can use to describe difficult times in life.

Those times when circumstances or situations come in and knock us off our course.

Now, the best way you can overcome this is having the faith.

Now, it doesn't matter what you believe in,

as long as it's something that's positive that's going to get you through it.

A lot of people don't have that ability to be strong.

And I'm not talking about the physical aspect of strength.

I'm literally talking about the mental and of course spiritual aspect of strength.

It could be an injury, a passing of a loved one, a financial setback,

or maybe a failed attempt at something new.

Sometimes it feels like we'll be stuck in that rough patch forever.

I've been there.

>> Everybody gets knocked down.

No matter how tough you think you are, you're going to fall.

And when you fall, sometimes you fall real hard.

But that ground is a hard surface.

And I'm going to tell you something.

It ain't going to move because you land on it.

So you need to rise up.

and you need to rise above it

and you need to start moving.

When you get knocked down, how long are you going to stay down?

When you lose your job, when you lose that loved one,

regardless if it's your husband, your wife, your child, whatever it is,

do you have the ability to go through the hurt

and the pain of

that loss,

regardless of what you're going through,

the best time you know

that you are strong is

when you're at the weakest point of your life.

When you are so far down

that hole and you looking up

and you don't see no light,

but yet you know there's an end to this darkness,

that's when you'll find out just how strong you really are.

This is a process

and you have to hurt just a little bit

so you can understand what it means to be strong.

So don't give up on your hopes.

Don't give up on your dreams.

Don't give up on yourself.

Just keep moving forward.

If you think that you're going through something so bad right now,

wait until tomorrow if tomorrow comes for you.

Look at the person next to you.

Look at people all over the world

if you ever come in contact with certain individuals

and ask yourself,

are they going through a lot more than what I'm going through?

Because honestly, there are always going to be people

that are going through a lot more than you're going through right now.

My name is Sarah Wells and I'm an Olympic athlete.

I competed in the 400 meter hurdles at the London Olympics

and yes that was a highlight

but my dark patch came four years later

when the Olympics came back around

and everyone expected me to qualify again

and I didn't.

I felt like such a failure.

I thought my friends wouldn't like me anymore.

I thought the entire world was about to be flipped upside down.

>> When you're down, find a way to get up.

I've been there.

I go through it like anybody else.

But I have a job to do in this world.

And so do you.

>> You too may have had a goal in mind,

an idea of what success looked like.

And for whatever reason, that goal might have evaporated in front of your eyes.

That's what I felt.

Sometimes it can be easier to just live in

that dark place because the strength required to climb back out is a lot,

a lot of effort, a lot of time.

And honestly, it feels completely out of reach.

But you know what?

It's not.

It is possible to get back up again.

Minute by minute, choice by choice,

we can move farther away from the thing that set us back,

we can dust ourselves off and rise back up.

By crawling out of the darkness of difficulty,

we learn a lot about our own strength.

We're able to do what we thought was impossible.

And we use what's inside of us to grow stronger, braver.

We're wise from those experiences, too.

We now know what it takes to overcome.

Every time life knocks us down, we can choose to get back up.

We become a better version of ourselves.

A version that knows pain.

A version that knows struggle,

but a version that has lived through

and knows the beauty of coming out on the other side.

It gets better.

You get better.

The struggle is worth it.

So pick yourself back up and keep going.

Life is difficult and messy.

But through the struggle comes beautiful, powerful things.

>> To each one of you that is listening to this message, understand the pain,

the struggles, and all of the things

that you felt that are holding you back.

It's not going to hold you back for very long

because as long as you are alive,

you have to continue to move on.

You have to continue to live.

You can't allow the misery

and the hurt and the pain hold you back to a position where you

can't move forward because

as long as there's life in

that body,

you got things that you need to get done.

The reality is we cannot go on forever, but we must go on.

We can't live forever, but we must continue to live.

We must fight for something.

Don't fight for nothing.

Live and breathe and fight

and believe and understand

that it's not over for you.

It's not over for you because you are still here.

So, make the most of your life.

Honor those that are no longer here with us.

Make sure you're leaving the mark.

Make sure you're leaving the legacy so when your time comes,

your legacy can be left to the next generation.

So, keep up the good fight.

It's not over for me and it shouldn't be over for you.

Carry on.

Live strong.

Keep it moving.

No matter how strong, no matter how tough you think you are,

you're going to hurt.

You're going to feel that sense of emptiness.

You're going to feel that sense of loss.

But the best thing about losing is to grow, is to feel it,

is to understand it, is to fight through it.

It's nothing nothing on earth can stop your purpose

if you just hold on to it.

So I live not just for me, not just for my family,

not just for the people that look to me,

but I do it to honor my parents.

It feels not the best of me right now

because I don't have

that mother to talk to.

I don't have that father to talk to or to give advice.

It's just me now.

The people that mattered in my life,

the people that gave me life are no longer in this world,

but they exist in my heart.

They give me a reason

that they left a legacy for me to carry on.

This doesn't mean that it's the end of me.

It means that I have work to do.

It means that I have to continue to push

and go harder and go stronger. means

that I have to stay focused.

It means that I have to stay faithful.

Truth of the matter is,

how are you so physically fatigued that you have allowed your dream,

your destiny to take a backseat to this excuse

that you don't have what it takes?

That you're not smart enough.

That you're not tall enough.

That you're not wide enough.

That you're not deep enough. that you're not connected enough,

that you don't know enough people.

You keep comparing yourself to that person and this person.

When will the excuses stop?

When will you see your purpose bigger than your excuse?

Understand that it takes pure grit, tenacity, passion, and pure focus.

This is what you train for.

Hours and hours and hours and hours of pain.

Hours and hours and hours and hours of sweat.

Hours and hours and hours of working hard.

Do you give up now?

I don't know your name, but I know you have a dream.

I don't I don't know where you're from or where you're listening to me.

You may be listening to me in your closet, your bedroom, the gym,

the car, the bus, the train, the plane.

I don't know where you're going, but I know you are going somewhere.

You've got a destination.

People that make excuses are not connected to their destination.

They don't have an endgame.

They don't have a goal.

You have allowed yourself to become a weak link,

covered under the blanket of excuses.

But I'm just wondering if there's anybody here that has a dream.

And if you've made your excuses bigger than your dream,

the time is now to apply pressure.

But do not depend on your flesh.

Depend on the soul.

The soul of a true champion.

For the soul is eternal and the soul never dies.

Yes, you're going to feel like you want to give in.

Yes, you're going to feel like

that body just ain't got it no more

because you work so hard.

Now, >> this is not a I feel like it today.

This is not a I'm motivated for a week.

This is an every single day mentality.

Everybody's got purpose, right?

Everybody's got a dream.

Everybody's got something they have to pass or achieve or become.

But we are generationally programmed to love convenience.

And the truth of the matter is it is

so convenient to make an excuse.

I want to give you just a few things

that you can do to help you to stop making excuses.

To help you to stop habitually gravitating to the place called convenience.

Number one, you got to stop comparing yourself to everybody else.

Rule number one, kill the comparison game.

Well, I don't I don't do it like them

and I I don't say it like them

and I don't I'm not

as tall as them

and I'm not as strong

as them and I I don't have the money

that they have.

I don't have the resources that they have.

I don't Well, the the the reason why I I I couldn't do it

is because my parents weren't there for me.

And the the reason why I didn't get to go to college on a

full ride because my coach,

he didn't create the highlight reel from for the sports scholarship.

The the reason why.

And so we we're just programmed to blame everybody else.

When will you look in the mirror and stop comparing yourself to everybody else?

We compare ourselves to the way people look.

We compare our stories to their stories and our relationship to their relationship.

Every single day, the excuses

that we make are like a warm blanket pulled over us,

covering up the underlining issue of fear, the spirit, the personality of fear.

The truth is that the reason why you haven't done it is

because you're afraid.

Maybe if you could just listen to this a couple times,

maybe you'll stop making

so many excuses because the excuse is nothing

but a cosmetic.

It's makeup.

It's a blanket.

It's a convenience that we habitually gravitate to

because it just makes us feel better.

But the underlining issue, the underlining cancer, the inflammation is fear.

We're afraid.

Be committed to being a champion.

Be committed to being a warrior.

Be committed to keeping your eyes focused on the prize.

This is what you work for.

You got to stay hungry.

You got to trust yourself.

You got to believe in yourself.

You got to keep running that mile.

When you run that mile, run another mile.

When you start to feel tired,

get into it to that second and third gear.

When you feel that your grip is getting weak,

find something else to get that grip strong again.

Don't quit on you.

Don't quit on this opportunity.

Don't quit on your success.

Don't quit on being the best of yourself.

Why are you here?

Take a good look at what you see in front of you.

Look around you.

Realize that at the end of it all,

you must understand if it goes down,

you must make sure

that you are the last man

or woman that is standing,

standing strong, standing hard, and ready for whatever may come.

When somebody is in love with who they've been called to become,

what they've been called to fulfill, what they've been destined to do,

there is no day off.

There are no light.

Listen, I'm not a light switch.

You can't turn me off.

I can never get turned off.

Every single day I'm giving everything I have.

That's how big my dream is.

And so there's no excuse.

There's no pain.

There's no dilemma.

There are no speed bumps.

There's no distraction that can turn me off.

I'm not a light switch.

You can't turn me off.

I want this thing every single day.

Let the world see something they have never seen before in you.

Let them witness something special, something unique.

You're not done yet.

Keep going.

Keep fighting.

Keep pushing.

Keep breathing.

Understand this is the time and this time is yours.

Earn your keep.

Earn your victory.

And when you cross that finish line,

look up to the heavens with your hands up high

and take a deep breath

because you made it.

If it's important to you, you're going to find a way.

You won't have to look for a resource.

You will become resourceful.

It's not always about the accomplishment.

It's about the effort.

Your life won't turn out how you plan it.

It turns out how you work for it. how you wake up

and you chase that dream every single morning.

It's what you give your time

and your energy to

that takes you to the next level.

Wake up every single day thinking about how can I change my life?

How can I stand on the stage with the giants?

It's like a man going 100,000 miles per hour

and you haven't even started the engine.

But first, you must ask yourself, are you willing to fail a few times?

Are you willing to lay down and bleed?

So you can see the dream that you dreamed about.

Are you going to beat the obstacles

that freshman is getting ready to go to college?

Are you going to take the obstacles that come with it?

Are you going to study when they party?

Are you going to dream when they sleep?

This is the question you must ask yourself.

Greatness will only come to you in what is with you.

Greatness will only arise

when you step in the fire

and you're not afraid to get burnt.

This means you got to work.

This mean you have to grind when they sleep.

You got to grind when they walk.

You got to grind when you do not feel like it.

And this in all areas in life, school, sports, your religion.

Consistency is the tunnel to greatness.

Consistency will turn an ordinary man into something he never thought he could be.

See the difference between a good player and a great player.

See that good player does just the minimum to get by.

That great player pushes his body past the limit.

He leaves every single drop of blood on the field.

And whatever he does in life, he wants to be remembered as the greatest.

He does that extra 10 when a coach only asks for 20.

He runs that extra mile when a coach only asks for five.

You see, they won't understand this dream.

They won't understand this grind, this blood, sweat,

and tears of waking up every day, doing something over and over again,

knowing that you may not even get paid for it,

knowing that you don't even have a meal to eat at night.

You see, that is the true sign of a champion.

Mistakes happen.

Trials and tribulations happen.

Deaths happen.

But you got to keep going.

You got to keep believing.

I'm reminding you of how great you are.

Many of individuals on this earth have slipped into a coma

and they begin to sleepw walk through life.

They begin to do the bare minimum.

They begin their deaths.

See this type of greatness I'm talking about.

I'm talking about when I die,

they can't even fit another body in the church

because what I gave the world.

You see, you see all these men standing on top of the world.

You think they're special.

You think they're everything, but you don't know what they did to get there.

It's one of my favorite saying.

You must learn how to live full so you can die in.

This is a saying by Le Brown.

Listen to you must be willing to live full.

What we holding back for?

But I want to tell you this that you are phenomenal.

You are a king.

You come from royal blood.

You stand on the tippy top of the pyramids.

You are royalty, king.

You are a light.

You are a star.

The question is, do you believe you are 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.

No, 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 in 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 ditches you failed down.

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

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?

Deep breath in and ask yourself, "What's my dream?"

What's my dream?

>> I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up,

live out the true meaning of its creed.

I play that song to you

because that speech would play

and I would get out of

that room,

get up out of

that room and I'd run out the door every single time.

Something about Dr.

King's voice would absolutely make me

so uncomfortable and I didn't it didn't make sense.

I kept getting up and running out every single time.

Nine times when this instructor played this message,

I would run and finally another instructor found out saw me running out.

He saw this consistency.

He ran out behind me and he said, "What are you running out for?"

And I kept searching and searching and searching.

I couldn't figure out why.

And then it came to me.

I said, "I don't know

if I'm willing to pay the full price for my dream the way Dr.

King was willing."

And I can't shake the dream, though.

Anybody know about that?

I can't shake the dream, but I'm scared of the dream.

Anybody with me?

One.

One hand up, two hands up.

Yes.

Yes.

I can't shake the dream, but I don't have the details for the dream.

I don't quite know how to make the dream happen,

and it's quite lonely on the journey to get to the dream.

So, the cost of the dream seems really high,

but the dream won't go away.

And every time he plays that dag on message,

I'm shaking again about the dream because Dr.

King showed me to have a dream as powerful and do anything for it.

And it's going to cost you something.

It's going to cost you more time than you thought you'd have.

It's going to cost you way more money than you thought you would invest.

It's going to cost you some friends who couldn't make the entire journey with

you.

It's going to cost you that that sense of, "Oh my god,

I got to leave.

I got to die to the old me to allow the new me to

be born to my future."

It's going to cost you something.

This is the year for reset.

This is the year for restart.

This is the year for reignite.

This is the year for repeat the things that you love.

This is the year for recommmit.

This is the year for redesign.

This is the year for re-engage.

This is the year for restart.

This is that year.

This is that year.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

>> Perfect.

No one has your unique unre repeatable fingerprint.

No one can do it like you.

And if you sit down and you set down on all of us,

I am not here to let you off the hook

because we need a lot more people like us doing this work.

And I don't look at the world and get frustrated.

I look at the world and get busy.

And I don't get frustrated with what's going on.

I just tone up.

We got everything we need.

And you and I.

I stop by to to touch your heart, crack your heart, challenge your heart,

open up your heart.

I stop by.

I stop by to ask you,

are you willing to walk by yourself

if no one walk no one else will walk with you?

Are you willing to do that?

Are you willing?