STAY DEDICATED

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Your level of dedication determines how far you will go.

Spoken by:

Elliott Hulse
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Andy Elliot
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Eric Thomas
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Andy Frisella
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Music:

Hans Zimmer - Arcade

Hans Zimmer
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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Every
successful
person
has the habit
of doing the things failures don’t like to do.
Successful people
do what they have to do,
whether they feel like it
or not.
It doesn’t matter how you feel.
It doesn’t matter if you’re tired.

(00:21):
It doesn’t matter if you’re overwhelmed.
You find out a f*cking way to
overcome that challenge
and you make that sh*t happen.
Productivity is never
an accident.
If you do it on Monday,
Tuesday,
Wednesday,
Thursday,
Friday,
Saturday,
Sunday,
every single day,
if you keep grinding,
you’re gonna make your dreams a reality.

(00:43):
But you gotta be obsessed with it.
I need you to know
that the stuff that you want,
millions of people
want the same thing you want
and will never
get it.
So why you and how?
Only one way.
Total immersion.
Become a freak.

(01:04):
Guys, I want to crack you open
and I want to see that you’re crazy.
’Cause only crazy people make it.
"Why are you staying on the basketball court"
"so much?"
Because I’m trying to get it.
"Why are you out there practicing in the hot sun"
"when ain’t nobody else out there?"
Because I’m trying to get it.
The more weird you are
is a reflection of how committed you are

(01:26):
to focusing on your sh*t.
Molding and shaping and developing
your ideas and your craft
so that when it’s time for you to make your rounds,
you gonna fly.
I used to be upset
because I wasn’t getting where I wanted to get to,
and then I realized
you’re not devoted to it.
You’re not giving 120%.
You need to devote.

(01:46):
Which means you give all your energy,
all your time,
all your resources to a specific thing.
You cut everything off,
focus.
Dive into something
with more passion,
with more dedication
than you have ever done in your entire life.
You need to work the hours
no one else is willing to.
You need to study harder
than anyone else is willing to.

(02:07):
You need to put more effort in on that project
than anyone else would even think to.
Because you’re not aiming
to meet people’s expectations.
You’re aiming to
amaze them.
You can only become the best
by outworking everybody else.
Your level of dedication
determines how far you will go.

(02:27):
You have to develop yourself
and keep improving your game
when everybody else
is taking time off,
relaxing.
It is the days you don’t feel like doing it,
but you look at your wife,
you look at your kids,
you look at the country
and you realize
that I am where I am
because of other people’s sacrifices,
I gotta get up and make it happen
even though I don’t wanna get up and make it happen.

(02:48):
To live the life only 1% of people do,
you have to do
what 99% of people
won’t.
If you don’t like where you are right now,
turn around and look at what you’ve done.
You’ve built every single step to create this.
No accidents.
Just taking the easy road too many times.
Not getting up.
Not going for that extra rep.

(03:10):
Putting that extra mile in.
The little inches of life
that add up
to be first place or forgotten.
The only thing you do for success
it’s sweat,
it’s blood,
it’s tears.
There are no shortcuts to success.
Stop thinking there are.
And stop wanting people to put you somewhere
you didn’t earn.
You want the lifestyle

(03:30):
but you don’t want to earn it.
You got to earn this.
There is a price tag to greatness.
You will have to work
for every single thing you get.
And you got to work every single day.
I need specifics.
What are you doing on Monday?
What are you doing on Tuesday?
What are you doing on Wednesday?
If you’re going to get your personal freedom,

(03:52):
you gotta go get it.
You gotta go earn it.
They ain’t giving it away.
The dream is real,
but the lifestyle is realer.
You want your dream to go on sale.
It’s never gonna go on sale.
But if you wanna be average,
they giving an average out.
They got discounts on good.
But if you wanna be great,
you gotta pay blood.
You gotta pay sweat.

(04:12):
You gotta pay tears.
And you gotta pay every single day.
Every single time.
There are no shortcuts to greatness.
To be great,
there are no days off.
You cannot cheat success.
You gotta work for it.
You gotta breathe it.
You gotta sleep it.
You gotta eat it.
You gotta put forth 120%.
It takes dedication.

(04:32):
It takes time.
It takes effort.
It takes obsessive,
compulsive,
ridiculous amounts of effort.
I realized I was on the right path
because it stopped
being
easy.
I’m tired as hell,
but I’m not gonna complain
because this is what I signed up for.
So I’m gonna smile
with goddamn tired eyes

(04:53):
and realize
everything I’m doing on a daily basis
is for a reason.
You have to want it enough
to give your all for it.
There are no
free lunches in life.
You eat what you kill.
Don’t expect
anyone to give you anything.
I’m not the best
and I’m not the brightest,

(05:14):
but I have the heart
and the drive
of a champion.
The question is,
do you?