You've Got To Be Willing To Hit That Wall Of Give Up

When I was a little kid, I went to my aunt's house. She had this thing about toothpaste, and her thing was, you know, because at my aunt's house, what my aunt would do was put this little plastic piece at the bottom of her toothpaste and she would turn it and that contraption would turn it, what I discovered was that at my aunt's house, she got more out of her toothpaste than we got out of our toothpaste because of the way we used it.

We all live life. We all have the same opportunities, but you've got to take them. You might have to work a little harder; you might have to start at the bottom and roll that up, but I'm telling you. You can have whatever you like, a lot of you.

If you keep going at the rate you're going right now when you die, you will have a whole lot left. You're going to die with a whole lot of ideas left. You're going to die with a whole lot of energy left. You still have time. Some of you are all thinking the year is lost. It's over.

As long as there is breath in your nostrils, as long as you can wake up in the morning, you are still in the gang, which means if you're in the game and there's still time in the game, you can still win the game. You have to get to a place where you become comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Yes, we are tired. Yes, we are hungry. Yes, the mind is saying to give up. Yes, it's saying quit, but we cannot quit because we realise we have not reached our goal yet. This is not the goal. This is not what I dreamed about; this is not what I said. This is not what I talked about. This is not what it looks like.

You have to reach a point in your life. You're no longer operating on strength, but now you're beginning to operate on will. I've got to be willing to hit the wall. I have got to be willing to get past crying. I have got to begin to be willing to get past hunger. I've got to begin to be willing to get past self-defeat saying you can't do it.

I've got to be willing to get past my low self-esteem and say I deserve it. You've got to be willing to hit that wall, and for most of you, when you get to that wall, you give up quickly, but I believe in you. Although you are a high school dropout right now, you are in the worst place in your life that you've ever been.

I believe this is your starting point, but it does not have to be your final destination. This could be a game changer in your life. It might even be a chapter in your life, but it ain't the book. You are not finished with it yet.