YOU NEED TO FOCUS YOUR MIND

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Focus exclusively on what will move you closer to your dreams and goals today, and block out everything else. When you can do that day after day, head down, working at it, you'll look up a year from now and be blown away by how much progress you made.

Spoken by:

Eric Thomas
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Les Brown
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Tyrese Gibson
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Jordan Peterson
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Music:

2WEI - Battlefields

2WEI
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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
You got a forest
and you got a garden.
What’s the difference between the two?
Listen to me.
Stuff grow in both of them.
But the difference is,
and the forest is just wild,
uncontrolled stuff all over the place.
In a garden,
it’s beautiful because, why?
In a garden
it’s somebody who did something very intentional,
very deliberate.

(00:21):
They line this up.
They line that up.
They planted this.
They planted that.
They put a fence around.
Are you hearing what I’m saying?
Many of you, your life is like a forest right now.
You’re all over the place.
And that’s why you’ll never be what you want to be.
That’s why you’ll never have what you want to have.
That’s why you’ll never accomplish...
you all over the place.
And your problem is
you’re not intentional and deliberate.

(00:41):
You wake up on Monday and you might be strong,
but by Wednesday,
You are hoping
that the best is going to happen to you
and the best never happens to you.
Everything that’s good to you
ain’t good for you.
I’ve learned
that you gotta pass up on good to get to great.
You gotta give up good opportunities sometimes.

(01:03):
There’s some good cause with some good money,
but I prefer to stick with my passion.
I would prefer to stay laser focused.
And some of you in your life,
the reason why you’re not blowing up,
the reason why you’re not successful,
you have not learned to pass.
You think just because it’s an opportunity,
it’s for you,
and not every opportunity is for you.
You gotta get to the spot, baby.

(01:23):
You gotta do what you was called to do.
You gotta do what you were born to do.
You gotta do what works for you
because if you do what works for you,
you gonna blow up.
Winners don’t focus on not losing.
Winners focus on winning.
They make winning the goal.
Today, I gotta win.
You gotta decide that you’re gonna do something
and you gotta do it every Monday,
every Tuesday,
every Wednesday,
every Thursday.
I’m asking that the 24 hours in your life,

(01:45):
be very intentional,
very deliberate,
that you be very strategic.
You are very deliberate about what time you wake up.
You’re very deliberate about what time you go to bed.
You’re very deliberate about what you eat,
what you don’t eat.
You’re very deliberate about the people you bring in your life.
You are very deliberate about the books that you read.
You are very deliberate about what you watch on television.
You are very, very focused,
intentional,

(02:05):
and deliberate.
You concentrate
on this opportunity.
You don’t worry about tomorrow.
You concentrate
on this opportunity
with all your might,
with all your soul,
with all your heart.
You focus on this
and tomorrow will take care of itself.
Write.
Write things down.
Monitor what your thoughts are,
what you’re feeling,

(02:26):
what you’re experiencing,
what you’re going through each day,
staying on top of you.
Have pictures to reinforce
this thought,
this vision that you have in your mind
of where you want to go
and what you want to do.
As you talk about it,
don’t just talk about it casually,
but feel it.
Look at your goal.
See yourself there.
Experience the applause.
Experience the feeling

(02:46):
of achieving the goal,
of making the decision
or overcoming the challenge
or having your own business.
Experience the glory.
How you feel inside
when you can say, I did it.
See that happening.
No one else can see that but you.
You have to harness your mind.
You have to train your mind.

(03:06):
Learning the art of becoming
single-minded.
Learning how to concentrate.
Learning how to focus in.
And you’ll be surprised at the things that you’re able to do.
When you learn how to block things out.
When you learn how to keep that eye single.
You’ll be surprised of the ideas that will come to you.
Of the opportunities that you’ll be able to see.
Of the people that you’ll be able to attract.

(03:27):
So you’ve got to work on it.
When other folk are having a good time,
you’ve got to have the strength of character
to concentrate,
to read,
to digest information.
Live your life.
Focus on your intentions and do your thing.
Most of my friends I drive them crazy
because I’m so specific
and so bold with my visions and my intentions

(03:48):
even if they tried,
they couldn’t get me off my path.
And that makes people very uncomfortable.
Because when you see the invisible
you’re able to do the impossible.
Don’t get caught up in the clubs, drinking, smoking,
’cause guess what?
You are not regular.
So stay your ass in the gym,
stay focused on them books,
stay in your college dorms,
stay the course.

(04:08):
Are you hear me?
Stay the course.
Focus on what you do well.
You gotta put in the time and dedication and work ethic
and see it through from the start.
Don’t get hung up on the daily ritual ups and downs
of how you’re feeling and everything else.
Keep your eyes on the horizon.
Stay focused on where you want to go.
And don’t let anyone tell you any different.
It’s all within your two hands.
You grab that wheel of life

(04:28):
and you drive it to where you want to go.
I’m asking that you don’t give up.
I’m asking that you ignore
text messages and phone calls
where they’re trying to pull you away from your focus
and go to clubs and hang out.
Be obedient to the visions,
the ideas.
Move on them.
Concentrate on the moment.
When you specify your aim,
the pathway makes itself manifest.

(04:50):
So if you aim upward
to the best of your ability,
then the pathway upward
is what will make itself manifest in front of you.
Win
the mother
f*cking
day.
Not that month
or that week.
Just the tasks for that day.
That’s it.
These can be things as simple as sending a certain email.
These can be things as simple as
getting in a workout.

(05:11):
These can be things as simple as
reading 10 pages.
Identify the critical task you need to do
and complete them every day to move toward
your ultimate dream life.
And when you start doing this,
you’re going to figure out real quick
that this is how you live a life
of productivity.
This is how you live a life

(05:31):
of excellence.
This is how you live a life
of significance.