COMMITMENT

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No matter how committed you are, there’s somebody inside of you that’s more committed.

Spoken by:

Inky Johnson
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Andy Elliot
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Eric Thomas
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Andy Frisella
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Music:

Audiomachine - The Unmasked

Audiomachine
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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
The only way
anything great
ever gets done in this world.
Commitment.
Consistency.
Oh, f*cking imagine that,
doing it every day?
You’re saying I can’t do it anymore
for two weeks and then quit?

(00:22):
Most of you in here, you’re quitters.
You don’t have consistency,
you don’t have control,
you don’t have discipline.
You wanna be a champion,
but you don’t wanna work like a champion.
I dare you
to give 120%
and stop choking.
Most of you won’t be successful,
not because you can’t do it,
but you can’t outlast your old you

(00:42):
long enough to get to your new you.
I challenge you
just to give a month where you say,
for 30 straight days,
every practice I’m putting in 120%.
When I’m tired, I’m gonna keep going.
You can’t buy discipline,
you can’t buy drive,
you can’t buy effort either.
No matter how hard you work,
there is somebody inside of you
that works even harder.
No matter how dedicated you are,

(01:03):
there’s somebody inside you
that’s more dedicated.
No matter how committed you are,
there’s somebody inside of you
that’s more committed.
I’m trying to get you to push yourself to a point
that you have never been to before.
Because when you get to that point,
you’re going to propel to another dimension of your life.
Can’t nobody stop you but you.
You’re not average.
Stop acting like it.

(01:24):
You’re not average.
Why are you being average?
You’re not average.
Why are you being good when you’re not good?
You’re great.
When are you going to step up to the plate?
You’re greater than that.
What could you be
if you worked as hard as you could?
What could you be if you imposed
real discipline
in your life?
What could you be?

(01:45):
I wanna see how far I can go.
I wanna see what I can accomplish.
I wanna see what I can do,
what I can be,
what I can have.
I wanna see.
I wanna see what my life would look like
if I didn’t count the cost.
You get to a point where you don’t count the cost.
You just do whatever it takes
to get whatever you want.
Every single day when I wake up,
every minute of the day,

(02:06):
every hour of the day,
I have an opportunity
to give 120%,
to give blood,
sweat,
and tears.
Every opportunity is the last opportunity.
Every opportunity
I have to re-prove myself again.
Because the day you become content
is the day you die.
It’s all
or nothing.
It’s all day,
every day.

(02:27):
What you did last week don’t count.
Today is the only important day.
You got 86,400 seconds in a day.
And what you do today
is going to determine
how far you go.
What do you do
when a thousand other people
want exactly what you want?

(02:47):
Sometimes it ain’t about who the most talented
and gifted.
When talent meets talent,
talent is no longer enough.
Now it’s about who has character.
Now it’s about who has integrity.
Now it’s about who’s dedicated,
who’s committed.
Now it’s about who’s gonna show up on time.
Now it’s about who’s willing to do extra.
It only takes one extra push-up.
It only takes one extra mile.
It only takes one extra grade.

(03:09):
It only takes one extra effort.
It only takes one extra something
to get you to where you’re trying to get to.
And the goal is
you gotta go a little further than the man
who’s trying to get what you’re trying to get.
You have to outwork them.
You gotta outgrind them.
You gotta get up earlier.
You gotta stay up later.
You gotta embody excellence.

(03:30):
So you’ve got to prepare yourself.
You’ve got to develop yourself.
You’ve got to practice.
You’ve got to work.
You’ve got to do your homework.
You’ve got to do your research.
It’s not easy,
but through practice and practice and practice,
practice makes improvement.
And competency builds confidence.
And confidence feeds into competency.
See, the better you become,
the more confident you feel.
And the more confident you feel,

(03:51):
the better you want to become.
You can always better your best.
You can always go beyond anything
that you have ever done.
You’ll never hit a state of perfection.
You’re always bigger than what you do.
You realize that you have no ceiling.
That you can better whatever you’ve done so far.
You can go beyond that.
You don’t become cocky and arrogant,
feeling that you’ve already arrived

(04:12):
as most people have.
No.
As long as you’re breathing,
you’ve got some more work to do.
There’s something else for you to achieve.
And I can tell you right now,
there’s going to be lots and lots and lots
and lots and lots of times,
in fact, the majority of the time
that you are not going to wake up in the morning
and say, f*ck dude,
I can’t wait.
I can’t wait to go get my ass kicked.
That’s not going to happen.

(04:32):
So you have to say,
hey, I’m going to do this regardless of how I feel.
I’m going to execute.
Even if I’m having a bad day,
even if this sh*ts going wrong,
my sh*t is getting done day in and day out.
And that is the f*cking secret sauce about winning.
Shift your mindset from
I got to feel like doing it.
to it doesn’t matter if I feel like doing it,
I’m gonna get it done anyway.
Do you have the capacity

(04:54):
to execute
at a high standard
when you don’t feel like it,
especially when you don’t feel like it?
Because when you don’t feel like it
is when everybody else quits.
And that’s when you widen the gap between
yourself and everybody else.
I’m competing against Joe down the street.
And when he comes in on his four days
that he doesn’t feel like it,
he does half-ass sh*t.

(05:15):
But on my four days,
I’m executing at the highest level
because I’ve developed that
skillset of discipline to do so.
Over time,
I’m going to widen that gap
further and further and further away from that dude.
And this is how the game works.
It is legitimately
a mathematical
equation.
How many days did you win?
How many days did they win?

(05:37):
It’s not luck.
It is that f*cking math.
And if you can push yourself
to perform
on a high level
every single day of your life,
regardless of how you feel,
you’ll look around and realize
you’re the f*cking winner.