Success Is The Result Of 1000 "Right" Decisions

too many young men in our community continue to make bad choices and I have
to say growing up I made quite a few myself sometimes I wrote off my own
failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down I
had a tendency sometimes to make excuses for me not doing the right thing but one
of the things that all of you have learned over the last four years is
there's no longer any room for excuses
I understand there's a common fraternity creed here at Morehouse excuses are
tools of being competent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of
nothingness but we've got no time for excuses not
because the bitter legacy of slavery and segregation have vanished entirely they
have that not because racism the discrimination no longer exists we know
those are still out there. It's just that in today's hyper-connected hyper
competitive world with millions of young people from China and India and Brazil
many of whom started with a whole lot less than all of you did all of them
entering the global workforce alongside you nobody is going to give you anything
that you have not earned. Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares
if you suffered some discrimination and moreover you have to remember that
whatever you've gone through it pales in comparison to the hardships previous
generations endured and they overcame them and if they overcame them you can
overcome them too
I'm going to tell you something else. And I want to make this clear don't just listen don't just listen do
I'm not just talking so you know I'm not just talking I'm doing and I don't
want you to just listen put this information to work
make today count every day go forward get aggressive and attack whether it's on
the battlefield or on the beat in the factory or on the farm or on the
construction site or on the website in the garage or in the firehouse
don't hesitate step step forward and get after it
people don't like to look themselves in the mirror that's the hardest thing to do it's to
critique yourself rather than pointing a finger and everybody hates
change so to actually do that and say I'm wrong in a lot of areas I look at
myself in the mirror and I'm sounding wrong in a lot of areas it takes a lot
of willpower so start with self first you have a career idea in
your head or do you have a mindset about your no I mean yeah I do
my mindset is so simple I just want to get better I want to get better and I
want to work with great people it's really simple do you want to be pushed
in the directions all the time are you I don't want to be pushed I think I push
myself so that I never I have a pretty strong engine of wanting to grow so
there's no nothing although David is a good example I didn't think I could do
that role and he there was another director saying just walk with me you
know you know we're going to do another movie together in the spring where he's
it's the same thing it's it's a difficult character give yourself a
reward of some kind for practicing the new behavior each time you reward
yourself you reform and we enforce that behavior
soon you begin to associate at an unconscious level a pleasure of the
reward with the behavior you set up your own force field of positive consequences
that you unconsciously look forward to as a result of engaging in that behavior
or habit that you've decided upon a lot of it is mental you know do you want to
do something and you want it that bad you'll make sacrifices and growing up
for me as a kid I made a lot of sacrifices that I didn't seem that they
were a big deal and I don't seem there I think I don't think of them being as
being a big deal right now you know there were Saturday's or
Fridays where I'd give up going to a dance or hanging out with my friends because I'd have
workout the next day but those things that I gave up you know were things that
I wanted to to help me get to my goal and and there were times where but you
know I've been put in uncomfortable situations but I've used my mental power
and my mental strength to push through it I think that's how you you
know you can look at any of the athletes in the world
I mean Tiger the guy's a busted knee and still comes and destroys the rest of the
field you know that's the thing it's like people don't make excuses now some
of the best athletes or the greatest athletes in the world do things when
they're uncomfortable you know everybody can compete when they're feeling good
happy excited rested but it's the best people who can overcome when they're
tired sore not in the great mind or not and the best mindset I think mental
power that the greatest athletes have can push all the pain aside that's what
humans are good at we all fail we've all failed like
my parents haven't been killed my child I mean there's people who've had their children die
could you imagine, the s*** I deal
listen unfortunately or fortunately depends on how one wants to
look at it I'm a pretty optimistic guy I lost three of my four grandparents
before I was really before I knew them too before I was born in one very early
on like so it's easy for me to be happy I have my s*** in the right
order the health and well-being of my family and there's nothing even remotely
close to that not even remotely people have gotten through much
worse this is why I'm trying to recall our grandparents
and our great-grandparents people were persecuted and killed like I just
we do not have real headaches. You know what I mean? We're strong as s***. We're really f****** strong
we're just being sold that we're not because there's a lot of money a lot of
money in telling us that we're not pretty enough thin enough smart enough
good enough. F*** that, I wanna tell you you're the f****** best go do s***
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