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00:00:14.320 | - So if you wanna make six figures,
00:00:16.720 | you can't just be talking about you wanna make six figures.
00:00:19.760 | You hear what I'm saying to you tonight?
00:00:21.340 | If you do the three things I tell you to do tonight,
00:00:23.880 | I guarantee you whatever it is you wanna do in life,
00:00:26.200 | you'll be able to do.
00:00:27.320 | You will be able to accomplish
00:00:28.640 | whatever you want to academically,
00:00:30.600 | financially, relationally, whatever.
00:00:32.880 | So three things.
00:00:34.000 | All right, now I'm gonna tell you this story.
00:00:35.120 | I gotta get out of here.
00:00:36.000 | And the story is about,
00:00:36.920 | you guys have probably heard about this before.
00:00:38.800 | It was a young man who, you know,
00:00:41.200 | he wanted to make a lot of money
00:00:42.320 | and so he went to this guru, right?
00:00:45.040 | And he told the guru, you know,
00:00:46.000 | I wanna be on the same level you are.
00:00:47.600 | And so the guru said,
00:00:48.480 | if you wanna be on the same level I'm on,
00:00:50.480 | I'll meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4 a.m.
00:00:53.840 | He like, the beach?
00:00:57.120 | I said, I wanna make money.
00:00:58.320 | I don't wanna swim.
00:01:00.000 | Guru said, if you wanna make money,
00:01:01.440 | I'll meet you tomorrow, 4 a.m.
00:01:04.520 | So the young man got there at 4 a.m.,
00:01:06.480 | he all ready to rock and roll,
00:01:07.920 | got on the suit, he should've wore shorts.
00:01:11.080 | The old man grabs his hand and said,
00:01:12.720 | how bad do you wanna be successful?
00:01:14.120 | He said, real bad.
00:01:14.960 | He said, walk on out in the water.
00:01:16.920 | So he walks out into the water, watch this.
00:01:18.920 | When he walks out into the water, it goes waist deep.
00:01:21.520 | So he like, this guy crazy.
00:01:23.640 | Adrian, he like, I wanna make money.
00:01:24.800 | He got me out here swimming.
00:01:26.400 | I didn't ask to be a lifeguard.
00:01:28.400 | I wanna make money.
00:01:29.440 | He got me, so he said, come on a little further.
00:01:31.880 | Walked out a little further.
00:01:32.840 | Then he had it right around this area, the shoulder area.
00:01:37.280 | So this old man crazy.
00:01:38.720 | He making money, but he crazy.
00:01:40.960 | Said, come on out a little further.
00:01:42.120 | Came out a little further, it was right at his mouth.
00:01:44.200 | My man like, I'm about to go back in here.
00:01:45.920 | This guy, this is mine.
00:01:47.680 | So the old man said, I thought you said
00:01:48.880 | you wanted to be successful.
00:01:50.160 | He said, I do.
00:01:51.000 | He said, walk a little further.
00:01:52.160 | He came, dropped his head in, held him down,
00:01:54.800 | holding him down, my man getting scratchy,
00:01:57.080 | holding him down.
00:01:57.920 | I got you, I know you brushed it out, but I got you.
00:02:00.080 | He had him held down.
00:02:01.440 | I need you for illustration.
00:02:03.120 | He had him held down just before my man
00:02:05.560 | was about to pass out, he raised him up.
00:02:08.560 | He said, I got a question for you.
00:02:10.040 | Somebody answer the question for me.
00:02:11.720 | He said, when you were underwater, what did you wanna do?
00:02:14.640 | Lee, I'm looking for a different word though than lip.
00:02:19.760 | What's that word?
00:02:20.600 | He said, I wanted to breathe.
00:02:24.320 | He told the guy, he said, when you want to succeed
00:02:28.240 | as bad as you wanna breathe, then you'll be successful.
00:02:31.460 | I don't know how many of y'all got asthma in here today,
00:02:36.320 | but if you ever had an asthma attack before,
00:02:38.480 | you short of breath, SOB, shortness of breath,
00:02:41.700 | you wheezing, the only thing you trying to do
00:02:45.280 | is get some air.
00:02:46.920 | You don't care about no basketball game.
00:02:49.520 | You don't care what's on TV.
00:02:51.000 | You don't care about nobody calling you.
00:02:52.560 | You don't care about a party.
00:02:54.080 | The only thing you care about when you're trying to breathe
00:02:56.920 | is to get some fresh air.
00:02:58.160 | That's it.
00:02:59.400 | And when you get to the point where all you wanna do
00:03:02.480 | is be successful as bad as you wanna breathe,
00:03:05.280 | then you'll be successful.
00:03:06.960 | And I'm here to tell you, number one,
00:03:08.540 | that most of you say you wanna be successful,
00:03:10.840 | but you don't want it bad.
00:03:12.160 | You just kinda want it.
00:03:14.080 | You don't want it badder than you wanna party.
00:03:16.240 | You don't want it as much as you wanna be cool.
00:03:18.560 | Most of you don't want success as much as you wanna sleep.
00:03:22.720 | Some of you love sleep more than you love success.
00:03:25.440 | And I'm here to tell you today,
00:03:26.840 | if you're going to be successful,
00:03:28.800 | you've gotta be willing to give up sleep.
00:03:31.160 | You gotta be willing to work off
00:03:34.840 | for three hours of sleep, two hours.
00:03:36.440 | If you really wanna be successful,
00:03:38.160 | some days you're gonna have to stay up three days in a row.
00:03:41.480 | Because if you go to sleep,
00:03:42.820 | you might miss the opportunity to be successful.
00:03:45.700 | That's how bad you gotta want it.
00:03:47.420 | You gotta go days without, listen to me,
00:03:49.240 | you gotta wanna be successful so bad
00:03:51.080 | that you forget to eat.
00:03:52.540 | Beyonce said once she was on the set doing her thing,
00:03:56.920 | three days had gone by, she forgot she didn't eat.
00:03:59.860 | 'Cause she was engaged.
00:04:01.940 | I'll never forget when 50 Cent was doing his movie,
00:04:04.880 | I did a little research on 50,
00:04:06.760 | and 50 said that when he wasn't doing the movie,
00:04:09.640 | he was doing the soundtrack.
00:04:11.240 | And they said, "When do you sleep, 50?"
00:04:13.560 | Sleep, he said, "Sleep is for those people who are broke."
00:04:18.560 | I don't sleep.
00:04:20.920 | He said, "I got an opportunity
00:04:22.080 | "to make a dream become a reality."
00:04:23.720 | Football players, how many football players,
00:04:25.760 | got anybody like football in here, raise your hand.
00:04:27.520 | Anybody like football?
00:04:29.240 | Emmitt Smith, I used to be a Cowboy fan
00:04:31.900 | before they did my boy Tom Landry wrong.
00:04:34.240 | I used to be a Cowboy fan.
00:04:36.200 | And watch this, there was a commercial.
00:04:37.480 | Emmitt Smith had won his first Super Bowl,
00:04:39.800 | and he had this commercial when he was lifting weights.
00:04:42.640 | I don't know if you saw the commercial,
00:04:43.760 | and he was lifting, and he said,
00:04:45.800 | "Emmitt said, you know what, I won the Super Bowl,
00:04:48.800 | "so I can rest now."
00:04:50.080 | He was doing this bench press.
00:04:51.960 | So he said, "I won the Super Bowl, so I can rest now."
00:04:54.120 | So he throws up about 325, boom,
00:04:57.000 | and he rests for about two seconds.
00:05:00.080 | Then he, boom, boom, boom.
00:05:05.080 | Did you see that?
00:05:06.920 | He'd already won a Super Bowl.
00:05:08.040 | He said, "I think I'm gonna take a rest."
00:05:09.480 | And he rests for how long?
00:05:10.720 | One second.
00:05:11.560 | Most of you won't be successful,
00:05:13.140 | because when you're studying, and you get tired, you quit.
00:05:16.080 | And I'm here to tell you today,
00:05:19.080 | if you gotta, somebody came to my office the other day crying.
00:05:21.800 | I said, "Look, don't cry to give up.
00:05:23.600 | "Cry to keep going.
00:05:24.940 | "Don't cry to quit.
00:05:27.940 | "You already in pain, you already hurt.
00:05:30.180 | "Get a reward from it.
00:05:32.140 | "Don't go to sleep until you succeed."
00:05:35.040 | Listen to me, I'm here to tell you today
00:05:36.840 | that you can come here, you can jump up,
00:05:38.640 | you can do flips, you can be excited when we give away money,
00:05:41.400 | but listen to me, you'll never be successful
00:05:43.240 | until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.
00:05:46.040 | (audience murmuring)
00:05:48.760 | You won't be successful until you say,
00:05:50.440 | "I don't need that money, 'cause I got it in here."
00:05:54.160 | So listen to me, Emmitt Smith said this
00:05:56.120 | at the end of the commercial.
00:05:57.440 | Emmitt Smith said, "All men are created equal.
00:06:00.240 | "Some work harder in pre-season."
00:06:02.420 | I'm gonna say it again, because you might've missed it.
00:06:05.280 | All men are created equal, some work harder in pre-season.
00:06:10.280 | So that means that there are some people
00:06:12.600 | who are going to see the professor, going to see the TA,
00:06:15.840 | and even when the professor says,
00:06:17.520 | "I don't meet with you, my TA meets with you,"
00:06:19.680 | you say, "I don't wanna talk to your TA."
00:06:21.480 | - That's what it is.
00:06:23.160 | - I don't pay the TA. - That's right.
00:06:25.080 | - I pay you to teach me.
00:06:27.040 | So you're gonna have to find some time to meet me.
00:06:28.980 | If I gotta meet you at the mall,
00:06:31.040 | if I gotta meet you at your house, you are going to see me.
00:06:34.600 | Listen to me, all men are created equal,
00:06:36.480 | some work harder in pre-season.
00:06:38.160 | When I went to college, guys were way smarter than me.
00:06:40.640 | 4.0s, 3.0s, they went to the Ivy League high schools,
00:06:44.280 | came to Oakwood from these great high schools.
00:06:46.440 | Most of them are not doing what I'm doing, why?
00:06:48.320 | 'Cause it's not about where you come from, it's about heart.
00:06:51.800 | You come to a place where being smart ain't enough,
00:06:54.520 | you gotta have heart, that's number one.
00:06:56.460 | Watch number two, number two, catch number two,
00:06:58.640 | I wrote it down, I wanted to make sure you got it.
00:07:00.920 | It says, watch this, watch this,
00:07:03.480 | we're talking about sacrifice now.
00:07:05.160 | The important thing is this, you're writing
00:07:07.120 | why I'm saying it, 'cause I only have
00:07:08.480 | about three more minutes, listen to me.
00:07:10.160 | The most important thing is this,
00:07:12.480 | to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are
00:07:17.480 | for what you will become.
00:07:20.000 | That's the number two thing, you gotta catch that one.
00:07:25.420 | To be able to, listen to me, at any moment,
00:07:28.880 | some of you, you can make sacrifices
00:07:31.040 | when Monday night football is not on,
00:07:32.620 | you can make a sacrifice, but when the game come on,
00:07:35.120 | for some reason, you just attached to it.
00:07:37.680 | For some of you, when your favorite show come on,
00:07:40.880 | you can make sacrifices on Sunday when ain't nothing going on
00:07:44.360 | but when your favorite show comes on Monday, bam,
00:07:47.720 | some of you, you focus into the phone ring
00:07:49.640 | and then you like, I gotta answer it.
00:07:51.040 | If I don't answer the phone, I'm gonna die.
00:07:53.240 | I'm saying to you today that there are some of you,
00:07:56.520 | if you give up your cell phone, you would be successful
00:07:59.720 | but your cell phone is more important to you
00:08:03.000 | than your success.
00:08:04.260 | I'm gonna say it again, I'm gonna hurt somebody,
00:08:08.920 | I'm gonna hurt somebody.
00:08:10.360 | Some of you need to give up your cell phone
00:08:13.080 | because the time you spend on your cell phone
00:08:15.680 | could be used for your success.
00:08:17.460 | The time you could be using to be successful,
00:08:20.640 | you're using it on the cell
00:08:22.040 | and the cell phone is not bringing you nothing but a bill
00:08:25.480 | and somebody has told you, you couldn't live without it.
00:08:28.000 | I'm talking about going deep now, giving up stuff.
00:08:30.160 | Watch what it says.
00:08:31.480 | To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are
00:08:35.720 | for what we could be.
00:08:36.720 | I don't do well in math, you're right.
00:08:39.200 | You ain't never studied.
00:08:40.580 | I'm not good in writing 'cause you have never written before
00:08:46.680 | but I dare you to fail in writing for a whole year
00:08:50.280 | to see if you can get to the end.
00:08:52.360 | I dare you to fail.
00:08:53.600 | I dare you to take that same class over and over again.
00:08:55.920 | I dare you to stop dropping classes like you soft.
00:08:59.120 | Always wanna give up, I'm dropping.
00:09:02.600 | Why you dropping?
00:09:04.440 | I'm so grateful that the slaves didn't drop and quit.
00:09:07.200 | I'm saying I'm just gonna stop.
00:09:08.360 | I'm a slave, I'm just gonna be a slave, I'm gonna quit.
00:09:11.360 | Listen to me, the slaves said,
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