Discipline, Sacrifice, & Character

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It's a new day.

We're going over discipline, sacrifices, and character.

Your ability, your talent level might get you there.

Might get you to the dance.

But character is what's going to keep you there.

Right?

What does that even mean?

Right?

You could rise to your enthusiasm and fall to your level of discipline.

The more I look at the people that I study that get real next level greatness, it seems

like it always boils down to just discipline.

And discipline, the best explanation of discipline that I think is easier for people to understand,

that I've heard was the one that Nick Saban used, which was, there's something that I want

to do that I know I shouldn't do.

Can I get myself to not do it?

And then there's something that I don't want to do that I know I should do.

Can I get myself to do it?

And that really summarizes it right there, ladies and gentlemen, of like, your enthusiasm

can get you up and get you to do some things for a while.

But over the long haul, we're going to need discipline, which means there's going to be

stuff you want to do that you know is not going to help you get to where you want to be.

You got to cut those things out and you want to do them.

I want to do them.

It's fun.

Whatever you got to be able to have the discipline to not do them.

And then there's things that you ain't going to feel like doing that's going to take you

to the next level.

And the more those things that you could get yourself to do, the higher you get to climb because

everybody don't want to do them typically.

So Tukki get themselves to do the most stuff that they don't feel like doing.

The most amount of times for the longest period of time is the ones that they're going to

win.

In consistency comes from a lack of discipline.

I didn't feel like it this week.

I didn't feel like it this month.

That's a lack of discipline.

You got to get yourself to do it anyway.

Or, you know, I missed the meeting or I didn't do what I was supposed to do because I was

up late last night.

I was hanging out party and have a good time.

That's a lack of discipline.

That's something you want to do.

You know you shouldn't do that you need to get yourself to not do to go to where you

wanted to go.

When the going gets tough, when things get difficult, talking about character, most leave.

You know you ever hear the saying, when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

That's the truth.

But most people ain't tough.

When the going gets tough, most people quit.

They tap out.

That's where you separate yourself.

Because I don't know what you do.

I don't know where you're at on your journey.

But if you look at the next 10 years, if you got a big vision and a big goal, you're going

to have to go through some tough times, some big tough times.

And that's where you got to say when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

The opposite of, you know, the other thing I think that stops people when their tracks

are stressed.

They get all stressed out because on the journey, the higher you climb, the bigger you get,

the more you want to do.

You're going to have levels of stress.

The opposite of stress isn't peace.

The opposite of stress is handling stress better.

Because you're going to have stress.

You know, it's like gravity.

You know what I mean?

You're going to, we got gravity.

It's just, how do you get through gravity?

How are you going to jump higher?

It's the opposite of stress is just learning how to handle stress better.

What ways can you learn how to handle stress better?

A couple of things that I've learned to do through trial and error.

You know what that means?

Error making mistakes.

Getting sleep?

Well, it's hard for me to sleep because I'm stressed out.

I'm going to wake up in a way.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

But when you're, you got to find a way to get sleep.

Breathwork helps with stress and cortisol levels.

Intentionally pouring into your mind the spirit of God with music or the word.

Pouring into your mind.

Motivation, encouragement from other people on YouTube podcasts, books.

The perspective changing of this isn't happening to me.

This is happening for me.

What other people have it worse?

And then what am I grateful for?

Like even in the midst of all this, what do I have to be grateful for?

Those are just some tips.

Eating clean.

Help with some of the stress level.

But as you grow, just learn to get better at handling the stress because there's really

not going to get to a place where you don't have stress that's called retirement.

Remember to go up, right?

We want to go up to the next level.

You got to give up to go up.

What am I willing to sacrifice?

You got to give up like, hey, your new life, the yachts, the nice condos, the vacations,

you got to give up your old life.

You got to give up.

What are the things you got to give up?

Maybe it's sweets, maybe it's alcohol, maybe it's this, maybe it's that.

What is it?

You got to give up something to go up.

You got to grow up to go up.

I see some people they don't want to let go of their old life.

Too much party and hanging, dating too many people, staying up too late, getting in arguments

and fights, whatever, you can't grow up.

They got to talent, but they want to go up, but they can't grow up.

You got to grow up to go up.

You got to give up to go up.

You got to grow up to go up.

You got to get up to go up.

This was first taught by John Maxwell.

It's the first place I learned it.

You got to get up to go up.

What does that mean?

First of all, you got to wake up.

Get up.

How many people?

The longer you're around, a lot of people, especially for me building sales teams and young

people, you know how many people just, they don't get up, they just can't wake up.

Because at eight o'clock they forgot, can't show up.

Nine o'clock, late, whatever it is, just get up.

You got to get up to go up.

Then the other part of get up to go up is you're going to get knocked down.

You got to get up.

In order to go up, you got to be able to get up.

It's not how many times you get knocked down, it's how many times can you get back up.

Sooner or later you wear the process out.

Whatever forces out there that keeps greatness from people, it's like another thing like

gravity is certain type of energy.

You got to fight through and go through so much stuff.

Sooner or later you wear old man problem out, whatever it is, like you wear the process

out to where they're like, man, I'm done fighting this dude.

Just let him go.

Done fighting this lady, like just she won't stop relentless.

Let him go to the next level.

What are the things we got to sacrifice?

What are the things that we got to give up?

Who are the people that we got to become to go to the next level?

Maybe it's relationships.

Maybe it's your ego.

I've watched ego kill so many people.

There's a difference between having some confidence and having ego that you can't be

coached.

You think you're better than everybody else.

Can't fail at nothing.

Don't want to go through the process at all.

Think I'm owed an entitled to something just ego.

What are the things you could put in the unnecessary pleasure category?

Maybe these are some things that are holding you back.

To climb a mountain, you ever see the, here are the example, like to climb a mountain,

you see the people that climb mountains, they only take like a little, they take a water

bottle and they got a backpack.

They ain't taking their, you know, Xbox, all their favorite pictures of their ex-girlfriends

and, you know, their refrigerator, their weight set.

They only take the necessities.

And so the same thing for you, to go to the next level, to climb a mountain, especially

from the bottom, you got to only take the necessities.

What are the necessities that you got to go to the top with?

I got to take my wife.

I got to take my children.

But what else?

Because you can't take everything with you.

You might need to leave the nightclubs.

You might need to leave too much bottle of booze.

And I was telling somebody recently, man, you know, our young people in the business now,

90 some percent of them, you know, I would say, 9 out of 10, they don't even drink.

People want to bash us.

It's like these kids don't do nothing.

Most of them don't drink, they don't smoke, they don't swear.

I mean, a couple of them do.

And I mean, I'm around.

I say shit, drink a glass of wine.

I'm like, I'm being a bad influence on everybody.

So I'm not judging.

I'm just saying, maybe you need to leave the box of wine at home.

You know, you can't take that with you to the top, whatever it is.

And then when you're building teams, you got to understand that more people are going,

they're going to want to eat with you, but not starve with you.

Who's willing to go through the hard times with you?

That's going to go to the top.

What type of person are you?

Could you go through the hard times with somebody else in the process without bailing,

without tapping, without quitting during the hard time, during rough times, whatever it

is because man, it's so much sweeter to eat with the people that will starve with you

versus the people that only wanted to come when the restaurant was five star, you know,

restaurant.

You know, you could win at a certain level with the talent level, but I'm talking about

to continue to win was it was it?

John Wooden said it takes, you know, like to continue to win, you got to have character.

He who would achieve much, much sacrifice much.

He or she who would achieve little, you sacrifice little.

So stop feeling bad for yourself when you got to make sacrifices.

Understand that that's the way you go to the top.

Because everybody had to go through the same stuff they had to give up stuff to go to

the top.

And so, you know, you start, you know, people say, man, time flies, especially when you're

busy.

The more you ever notice, like some people's like, man, I like being busy because my

day goes faster.

When you're busy in the process and you're building time flies.

And so I think, you know, we can learn from, you ever see the race car drivers, you know,

how fast they go around that track a couple hundred miles an hour and a half.

And they were asked, like, how do you drive that fast and stay on the track?

And they say that the trick is when you're going fast, don't look right in front of you.

You got to look ahead way ahead of you.

You keep looking way, way ahead out there.

Don't look down.

Don't look right, right next to you.

And I think that's what stops people so much to want a sacrifice because they're thinking

so short term that they want these short term pleasures that they can't give up things

because they're looking right next to them.

But if you want to move and you want to move fast, I need you to look forward and look

further and have that vision of what it's going to look like when you creep up on that

goal of yours in a year, 12 months from today.

How's that going to look?

You don't look down.

You know, you could tell a lot about a person like the reason why I wanted my kids to play

sports is not because I want them to be professional athletes.

It's because I think it teaches you so much about life.

You know, when you're coaching, sometimes you're a player, sometimes you're a coach.

Usually for the rest of your life, you can look at this and you're always going to be

a player and you're always going to be a coach.

You're going to have coaches at times, most of your life.

Who's coaching you and who are you coaching?

And then think about this.

If I'm the coach and I'm talking to people and you know, there's 50 players, you know,

50 yards from me and I blow the whistle and say, hey, come over here.

Do you want to coach the kid that's walking over?

Do you want to coach the kid that's mosey and over?

Or do you want to coach the kid that's sprinting over to you?

Yes, sir.

What's up, coach?

Because I think, you know, on the business mission that I've been on, when I first walked

in, you can hear from some of my former mentors that'll say, man.

He's been the most coachable person I've ever had.

I tried to be the person that would run

when the coach needed something.

Coach calls, hey, you need, yeah,

I'll drive two hours there right now.

What do you need?

Be the person that when the coach calls you, you run.

So I just wanna wrap a bow on this

and wrap this up and say, man,

let's, it takes character to win long term.

Don't feel bad for giving up some stuff

to go to the next level.

Get yourself to do the things you know

that you need to do that you don't feel like doing.

That's what's gonna separate the winners.

And we, I know I'm already talking to winners

because if you're already investing this type of time

into pouring into yourself

and you could have done something else

that already shows what type of person that you are.

So congratulations.

You're an elite company.

Continue on that track.

Don't grow weary.

Don't get tired for at the right time.

You'll reap a reward.

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and be the best version of yourself

that you could possibly be regardless

of what happened yesterday because guess what?

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