WORK HARD PAYS OFF #1

There are those of you who will never get to thenext level in success or in your life because when you get to this point, you-you- you bend. It's simple. My man said,  you can do whatever you want to do. You'renot gonna flip the switch at 30 years old and have the big house, nice cars anda fat bank account just because you wished it. You got to put in the work nowand that work compounds and accumulates and puts you in a position to have thatopportunity when you are of that age. So what did I do?I worked. I worked to such an extreme level that when I push you onwork I don't even ask you to do 50% of what Idid. Your mama didn't like the fact that you was doing it, your mama didn'tunderstand and you let your mom in your ear like it was your mama's dream. You letyour daddy talk you out of it. That was yours! That was something the creator gave to you.

 That belonged to you. My mother never understood but sheworking for me now. I didn't quit because people didn't understand, Iworked harder. You've never done something before, you expect yourself tobe awesome at it, you haven't done the work, you haven't put in the time, youhaven't put in the study hours and what I'm doing now I was doing 20 years agoand I have not bent, I didn't break. So what you don't understand how I do whatI do, this is what I've been called to and under no circumstances will Isurrender. 

Under no circumstance will I quit. If you want to be somebody who succeeds, you want tobe somebody who builds something, you want to be somebody who people write booksabout one day? Hear what I'm saying. Don't feed into it, don't believe thehype. Somebody told you that hard work don't pay off and you let a little pain stop you from your dream, girl you was there you was running your business, you werethere. Listen to me if you work for it if you willing to put in that sweat, thatblood and those tears, baby I'm telling you, you can have what you want, be whatyou want, do what you want, are you hearing me? During that point what did i do? Is Idid what I preach to all of you, which is I put in the work. I gave up all myweekends and holidays in high school because I knew I had to pay that pricebecause I wasn't gonna do the I'm gonna go to school, meet some good kids atStanford and Brown, an Ivy League school make some relationships and that's gonnabe my springboard.

 I was gonna start with no relationships and in the gutter and Iwas gonna have to prove it and I would have to show up and meet everybody likeI did in my 30s, but in my teens and 20s I was gonna have to work and so what Idid was, to the extreme of anybody I've met that had options, I punted everyleisure activity in my life. Nothing. No weekends, no vacations, zero, nothing.Nothing. It's my truth. I didn't take a singlevacation day. Never. Zero. Zero. All my high school friends gone, because I wasn'taround, all my college friends, post college, gone.Girlfriends, nothing.

 All in. Kobe Bryant doesn't sit there and talk about howmany MVPs he's won or how many championships he's won, no. He is up at3 o'clock in the morning, practicing every day.He's not great because he's great, he's great because he puts the work in on adaily basis and he wins every day and if you want it, you gotta go get it, you got toplay hard for it. Are you hearing what I'm telling you? It'snot for the weak and the uncommitted.

 The reason why you saying no to stuff, thereason why you pushing the snooze button  the reason why you're still going to worktrippin, the reason why you ain't blowing up is because you still on 70%, you stillon 60%, you wonder why the world's passing you up because whatever you dofor a living, you barely doing it. You coming and you don't want to be there.You're not bringing the fire. You gotta do it quick, you got to do it fast, yougotta do it in a hurry, why? Because there's somebody else who's on the sametrack you are, somebody else who listen to me, they're on the same path that you are,listen to me there's somebody else just like you trying to do it and sometimes they'reworking just as hard as you're working. Quit usin

g the word luck, quit believing inluck and start believing in work. Start believing in fortunate, start believingin results that come from your actions and when you do that and youwholeheartedly believe it, guess what? That's what starts to happen. The hardest worker in the room is alwaysgonna beat the talented guy who doesn't work hard. In the end, maybe not everytime but in the end, hard work always wins.Talent doesn’t guarantee you anything in this world. A good education doesn’t guarantee you anything in this world The world is riddled with smart people who have never achieved anything of significance. 

This world is full of talented individuals that never made it. The world is full of expensively educated kids that are out performed by high school drop outs. Talent won’t get you anywhere if you don’t WORK for it. Talent won’t get you anywhere if you have no HEARTTalent is NOTHING if you have no GUTS! The one who is hungrier to reach the top, will always get there before the talented guy. Maybe not immediately, but in the end HUNGRY always wins. In the end HARD WORK always wins! In the end HEART wins! COURAGE wins! In the end the one who is more DEDICATED to reach the top will win. How can you beat the guy who will do whatever it takes?You can’t! HARD WORK always beats talent, when talent thinks he’s too good to work hard. 

TALENT can be a blessing, but it can also be a curse. It can make you think you don’t need to work as hard as the other guy… And that is a mistake my friend, because the other guy is HUNGRY.He is hunting your ass down! Ready TO FIGHT FIGHT for everything, FIGHT for his familyFIGHT for his LEGACY, FIGHT for everything! Most people give up in life because they come up with all sorts of EXCUSES why they can’t make it: They didn’t get the right education, they aren’t as talented as the other guy..…the don’t have the money Listen: EXCUSES ARE FOR THE WEAK!It wouldn’t take you long to find a massive success story, who came from little education, no talent but a RELENTLESS DESIRE to succeed.

 This world is full of stories of GREATNESS from NOTHING. It is never too late for YOU to start your own story. Every set back, every failure has formed part of your story. DON’T LET ANYTHING STOP YOU FROM WRITING THE REST OF IT! YOU ARE HUNGRY! YOU WILL MAKE IT! DON’T BACK DOWN!WIN AT ALL COSTS! As Derek Jeter said, there may be peoplewho have more talent than you but there's no excuse for anyone to workharder than you do. At the end of the day whether you believe in talent or not iscompletely irrelevant. Everyone should believe in hard work.Everything in your life is literally a result of that.