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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I didn't know how
much time I was going to do in
prison or what the future heldin store for me.
I just knew that, moment tomoment, I didn't want to be in
pain anymore.
Thank you God for another daywhere I could walk around in
these legs.
This is amazing.
I could run, I could jump, Icould go play, because my body
feels good.
Thank you God for giving methese eyes.
Look at the sun's coming upoutside.
I can see these colors, thesetrees.
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This is beautiful.
You can shift your perspectiveand find the gratitude.
And I'm not saying be a yes man.
I'm not saying be a pushover.
I'm not saying be delusional orbe naive, but pick and choose
what gets your focus and whatgets your energy, because nobody
or nothing should be able tosteal your joy.
What's going on?
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People Hope you're having anamazing fucking day, an amazing
day feeling blessed.
I hope that those aren't justwords to you, but you really
feel it in your heart.
You know, one of the things Inoticed, man, is people struggle
to feel true gratitude in theirhearts for the lives that they
have.
A lot of people think about allthe stuff they don't have.
They stress over life, business, money, relationships, things
outside of their control, andthey fail to recognize all the
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good that's taking place intheir life.
I want to give you a piece ofadvice that changed my life,
something that I applied when Iwas stuck in my jail cell,
facing life in prison.
Imagine right now if you'regetting up in a six by eight
jail cell that you never leftand you were potentially going
to be stuck in that cell for therest of your life.
No family, no hugs, no gettingoutside when you wanted to, no
going to the beach, no going tothe movies, you know.
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No more sex with your wife oryour husband right, maybe
fucking Bubba there, yourbunkmate, but not the person you
want to be intimate with right.
All the things that youprobably take for granted and
overlook right now.
Imagine if you just never hadthe opportunity to do this stuff
ever again.
Imagine.
Imagine if you just never hadthe opportunity to do this stuff
ever again.
Imagine waking up in that celleach and every day.
How just demoralizing thatwould feel, how you would just
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want to blow your brains outbecause you thought I'm never
going to leave this cell mylife's over.
So that's the place I foundmyself when I was 23.
And this is the shift in mymindset perspective that I want
you to start applying every daythat radically changed my life.
You know, I was waking up inthat cell every day thinking
about how horrible it was, how Iwas never going to get out and
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have a family of my own, how Iwas never going to get to see my
brother and my sister or my dadagain, how I was never going to
get to get out and go after mygoals and dreams, how I'd wasted
the first 23 years of my lifeand I wasn't going to get a
second chance.
You know, and just all theworst, most negative thoughts.
I just kept dwelling on thoseevery day, every day, every day.
And being stuck in that cellwas torture and I couldn't
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escape my thoughts.
I couldn't obviously escape myconfinement until one day it
just dawned upon me that if Ididn't get control of my own
self-talk and change thenarrative in here, I was never
gonna have a chance at survival,let alone to live a decent life
.
And at that time I didn't knowhow much time I was gonna do in
prison or what the future heldin store for me.
I just knew that moment tomoment I didn't wanna be in pain
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anymore.
I didn't wanna be making mysituation worse.
I wanted to find some solace,some inner peace that would just
allow me to get through the day, man.
That inner peace that wouldjust allow me to get through the
day, man, that's all I waslooking for, and so I started
changing my self-talk.
That was the first thing I hadto do when I woke up in the
morning.
As hard as it was to be positiveor optimistic, I started
centering my thoughts aroundthings that I was truly grateful
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for.
I would sit on my rack andbefore I did anything, I'd close
my eyes and I'd just pray andthank God for another day where
I had air in my lungs and I hadbreath.
I had life for a reason.
Obviously, I was there for areason.
I started believing that thatthe fact that I woke up today
there must be some purpose orreason that I'm alive today.
I could have died in my sleep,like a lot of people you know, I
could have not woken up thatmorning.
So that was the first thought.
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The second thought was I haveeyes where I could see colors
like these beautiful colors Ican see with my eyes, or I can
hear.
You know, maybe every once in awhile I'd get you know the
sound of birds chirping outsidemy cell window.
Whatever it was, I could hear,I could see.
I was blessed.
You know, I started thinkingabout how other people there was
, people in the world thatcouldn't even see, like I
wouldn't trade places with themeven though I was sitting in
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that cell Like these were thingsthat I was truly grateful for.
Or the next thought I wouldhave was that I had legs.
I could use my legs, I couldpace around myself, I could do
burpees, I had an able body, Iwas healthy, I was fit.
Like imagine waking up andbeing paraplegic, being
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paralyzed, being somebody withsome, you know, really immense,
you know a really devastatingautoimmune disorder.
Or, you know, their health wasjust really jeopardized to the
point where they were always inpain.
We know people like this.
You wouldn't trade places withthat person right now, neither
would I have even in that cell,even facing life in prison.
So I started doing this everymorning.
I started thinking about all thegood in my life, and then I
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think about all my familymembers, my brother, my sister,
my aunts and my uncles, mycousins, all the beautiful,
amazing people in my life thathad helped me, that had been
there for me, the people that Igrew up with, the memories that
I made.
I would think of those memories.
I would remember specific timeswhere there was joy in my life
being at the beach, playingbaseball, surfing and I would
create this gratitudeperspective that really helped
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me to see the good in my life,even in a very, very difficult
time.
And I've used that perspectiveever since.
Man, no matter what I'm goingthrough, I can always recognize
the good in my life and I alwayscenter my energy around the
good.
And I do this every day when Iwake up.
And it doesn't mean that I'mnaive to life circumstances or
challenges or things that I needto focus on.
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It doesn't mean that I'mdelusional.
It means that I pick and choosewhere my energy goes and what
gets my attention.
If there's a problem, I'm gonnafix it, but do you think the
guy who's optimistic andpositive and grateful is better
suited to fix a problem or a guywho's negative and pessimistic
and exacerbating thosecircumstances because he's
dwelling on them?
Right?
This has helped me in business.
This has helped me in parenting.
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This has helped me with myrelationship with my wife.
I do this every single day andwith my relationship with my
wife I do this every single day.
And here's what got my attentiontoday is my children woke up
and it's Monday and guess what?
They didn't wanna do.
They didn't wanna go to schooland they started just bitching
and complaining oh, I don'twanna go to school.
My daughter started crying, myson, preston, was fussing and I
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just started looking out thewindow and I see the sun coming
up.
You know I already got thesnacks ready, ate breakfast,
getting them dressed.
You know my wife's obviouslynursing Bella in the other room
and I'm helping out in themornings.
And I just started saying thisout loud.
I started saying thank you Godfor another day where I could
walk around in these legs.
This is amazing.
I could run, I could jump, Icould go play, because my body
feels good.
Thank you God for giving methese eyes.
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Look at the sun's coming upoutside.
I can see these colors, thesetrees.
This is beautiful.
And I started going into thatsame self-talk that I would go
and do in my prison cell, butout loud for them to hear.
And I just told them you guys,imagine if we weren't healthy
right now and we were sick.
Imagine if your leg got hurtyesterday at the park and you
couldn't walk.
Imagine if you were blind andyou couldn't even see these
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colors.
And I started sharing with themthis internal dialogue, this
core belief that I possess, thisperspective, this self-talk
that helped me to change my lifein the most difficult time of
my life.
And see you guys.
Being a parent for me is thegreatest gift, because I get to
share with my kids all thethings that I wish I was taught
when I was younger.
But even beyond that, this is amessage for you.
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This is something you can sharewith your family, your
coworkers, your employees, andsomething that I want you to
practice each and every day.
If you're somebody that's alwaysthinking about the negative and
dwelling on those circumstances, you're never going to truly
feel fulfilled and happy in yourlife.
It's going to be something thatis fleeting.
You're going to get excitedwhen you hit a big job and you
get that paycheck, or when it'ssummertime and the weather's
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nice and when you get to go onvacation, or your happiness and
fulfillment is conditional,meaning you need external
circumstances or these positivethings in your life to recognize
the good in your life versusbeing able to be grateful just
because you're fucking alive andyou have eyes and you can walk
and you live in America and youlive in the most opportunistic
time in the history of thisplanet of humanity that we know
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about.
Right, and you guys, people inother countries would laugh at
you.
You know, I talked to a guy theother day that went to Tijuana,
mexico, to build homes and hesaid the woman they build a home
for was sleeping under trashwith her 18 year old autistic
son.
She was getting up and going towork every day and he's like
man.
They're burning their trashover there just to cook their
dinner.
Sean, they're sleeping undertheir trash because they don't
have anywhere to live.
They're in the dirt Four hourssouth of me in another country
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and a lot of countries.
The people in those countrieslive that way.
And you're in America and youhave so much to be grateful for.
You probably throw away yourleftover food.
You'll eat it after a day.
Those people would be beggingyou for your leftovers.
You know, the other day my wifethrew away these cherry
tomatoes.
My daughter likes and go.
Why'd you throw those away?
And she said, oh, they weregetting soft and they were kind
of like you know nasty and I getit.
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My daughter didn't want to eatthem, but I just thought to
myself that woman in mexicowould have ate them and she
would have been grateful as fuck.
She would have been so grateful.
And that's the thing.
You guys aren't grateful forshit.
I see it all the time and itpisses me off because that's why
you're not happy, that's whyyou're not successful, that's
not why you don't feel the wayyou want to feel in your life.
It's not anything else, it'syou and the way you think and
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the fact that those cherrytomatoes aren't good enough for
you.
Guess what, dude?
When I was eating slop in prison, I was so grateful just to have
food in my belly.
You don't know what it's liketo be hungry.
I drink water in my cell allday long just to forget about
being hungry.
You know not seeing my dad forfive and a half years, not
getting to hug a woman you lovefor five and a half years and I
know guys that did more timethan that.
But what it taught me was somuch about life, man.
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It taught me to appreciate whatI have Every meal, every hug,
every, every day.
I wake up and my eyes are openand I'm alive and I got legs
that I can use.
I got breath in my lungs.
I got another chance to showpeople what I'm made of and my
values and demonstrate themthrough my behavior.
I'm so grateful for this life tothe point where I don't think
about work.
I get to do what I do.
I don't think about being tired.
I get to wake up and liveanother day.
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I don't care about how manypoopy build my business, how
much adversity God puts in mypath.
I'm grateful for it every stepof the way, because the
alternative is what?
Not being alive?
Some easy fucking life that youdon't appreciate because you
didn't earn nothing?
Right?
What is the alternative for you?
You got to ask yourself that,waking up one day and not being
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able to have legs would yourather run those miles to lose
your fat on your body or nothave legs and never have an
opportunity ever again?
Oh, that business that youcomplain about.
Yeah, it's stressful, yeah,there's pressure, but you get to
build an empire.
You get to tell that story oneday.
You get to impart that valueand wisdom upon others, right?
Oh, not to have children,because they stress you out and
life's hard Dude.
You guys, you're missing thepoint.
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The point is that right now youcan change your perspective and
everything that ails you,everything that frustrates you,
everything that you talknegatively about, even sitting
in traffic, even jerks that youcome into contact with at work
or at your kid's school, or evenin your own family.
You can shift your perspectiveand find the gratitude.
And I'm not saying be a yes man,I'm not saying be a pushover,
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I'm not saying be delusional orbe naive, but pick and choose
what gets your focus and whatgets your energy, because nobody
or nothing should be able tosteal your joy.
And I see too many of yougiving away your joy every day
to things that are outside ofyour control, because you're
misplacing your energy and youdon't have the right self-talk
or perspective.
I want the best for you guys.
I want you to feel that in yourheart.
I want you to live the ultimatelife.
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If you could change yourself-talk and change your
perspective, you'll become thehappiest person you've ever been
.
And guess what?
You don't need more money, youdon't need a bigger house, you
don't need a new car, you don'tneed anything external.
It's a shift here and here.
Once you get control of yourself-talk and your internal
dialogue, your whole world willchange.