Don't Let Normal Life Stuff Drag You Down

A lion knows one thing when it wakes up in the morning. When a gazelle wakes up in the morning, it knows it has to run faster than the slowest gazelle or it won't eat. And when a gazelle wakes up in the morning, it knows it has to run faster than the slowest gazelle or it's going to get killed.

So whatever you are, one thing's for sure: when the sun comes up, you better start running. Get running, get moving, be positive, and don't let normal life stuff drag you down, because if it does, it will dominate your life in the jungle in the world of animals. Well, guess what?

Self-pity doesn't exist. Wallowing in your own woe doesn't exist. You've got to get on with it. "Learn it, get certified, and then go do it." And guess what? So guess what you're going to do? You're going to have to go out and do it first, and then learn. Moving is better than standing still.

Because the people who get swallowed up by life, the people who get swallowed up by mediocrity, the people who never really achieve anything in their entire life, the reason they don't is because they never decide to. They're too busy thinking, "What if?" I do that and this happens?

Look, it's not how many times you can get hit, it's how many times you can get knocked down and get back up and keep moving forward. That is what life's about. We're progressing, we're changing, we're adapting, and if you don't decide to do the same, guess what? You get left behind by default.

The biggest thing that holds you back is that you think you're not qualified because the world tells you that you aren't your mom, your dad, your aunt, your uncle, your brothers, your sisters, your friends, the people closest to you. You've got to understand that and you don't have to be qualified, but you've got to have the ability to understand that you're going to learn as you go.

You're going to have to ask questions. You're going to have to move forward, and you're going to have to do that before the world thinks you're qualified, and you know what? By the time you are qualified, the world thinks you're qualified, and it's already too late; you're an expert. If anybody else is at the top of the field, it means that you can be at the top of your field too.

Just go to them and find out how they got there, because they started at the bottom. It may take longer for some people and less for others, but everybody who puts one foot in front of the other and keeps moving eventually gets it. To be someone who's successful, you're literally anything in life, you've got to make the decision to move.

The reason most people can't get anywhere is because they spend so much time trying to think of the perfect decision to make that they end up not making a decision and their environment swallows them up.