Author and Ministers.
His sermons were widely displayed
It is popular on YouTube.
LeBron credited James as part of his inspiration
To win the MBA Championship 2012.
It’s Eric Thomas here and his top ten rules for success.
– You can not dangle two Sethin ‘in front of my face.
I do not want that.
Many you take anything
‘Cause you do not know what you want.
If you can do one thing for you when you leave this room,
I do not want anything ‘from you but for you to leave this room
Know what you want.
What do you want in your married life?
What do you want with your son and daughter you have?
What do you want in your health?
What do you want financially?
How much money do you want to make from the year?
What do you want to pay?
How do you want to live?
Just stop ‘I’m even like an accident.
what do you want?
Then when you find what you want
Spend the rest of your life ‘s normal life
And then go.
The reason I speak with a lot of passion …
ET, why not speak with power too much?
Because I’m talking about my life.
Nothing I read.
I ate out of trash cans.
You’ve no work to eatin ‘out of trash cans.
I lived in abandoned buildings.
I did not have any Levine business “in abandoned buildings.
But, ET, your father is not in your life,
Your mother was a teenage mother.
I grew up,
Come on E.,
Look at the regulation of your insurance, this is not an excuse.
There is no justification for not failing ‘even
To your maximum.
No excuse.
I worked on my gift.
I realize that all of us are born with a gift,
But you’ve got to fine-tune it.
You know, you will not become big
We are talking about grandeur school.
We are talking about greatness on you and realized
That gift to me was not going to create the same.
My gift was not going to take care of himself.
My gift was not going to perfection itself.
It was two “I had to do, and so on …
The guy before you know him made the video that went viral.
I think she got over 50 million visits now
And we shift our enthusiasm in our profits.
– I love this man, love.
– Yes, we move our enthusiasm to profit.
You know what is so funny?
We want people to make our guarantees
But we willin not to make guarantees for themselves.
Now (winking) like you, someone gave you a guarantee,
30 day warranty.
Within 30 days, if you do not make
What I told you, I was going to make,
In 30 days you got the attitude, you want your money back.
But you never demanded your money from yourself.
You’ve never looked at yourself in the mirror
And I said, I will let you down.
So you get that stage, let you down.
You never, you are not brave enough.
You want to put it on someone else.
The reason I am not a success is because of my boss.
Have you ever considered yourself in the mirror
He said, “I do not misfortune” in time.
“I’m not going to work on time.
“I do not put” at 120% when I’m at work.
“I let go.”
And when you get the point you can say
I let you down, listen to me, no disdain,
I do not care about Glen, that’s not why I’m doing what I do.
I love Glen.
I do not come here and do what I do
So Glen can confirm me, so he can give me a pat on my back.
I care more about me than I care what Glenn thinks about me.
I have standards.
I have values.
I do not care how much you pay me,
If you are a modern at elementary school for $ 300 dollars,
I chose to do that $ 300 dollars.
If you choose to speak in prison for free,
I chose to do this.
I will not go there and give these prisoners less
Which drives me a $ 100,000 person.
why?
Because I appreciate myself enough to give 120% or do not do it.
This is a problem with some of you.
I always wanted to blame others.
You want to hold others on fire
But do not carry yourself on fire.
I said just before I was Geoffin “50%.
You owe it an explanation.
You owe it an explanation.
You need to look at yourself in the mirror
Say why you give only 50%,
whats your problem?
You need to put yourself on punishment.
You need to tell you, no more TV, no more snacks,
No more desserts, no more, no, we’re ruckin ‘from now.
No more alcohol, not at the moment.
No, I can not handle it right now.
You need to tell you that you owe you nothing.
You keep going to the mall with receipt,
That’s not what I said.
Glenn, you did not do what I said was about to do.
Well, you did not do what you were supposed to do
So how am I going to do what I’m supposed to do for you?
You can get out of this room, you owe yourself.
I did not get here McCain “excuses.
That’s what my father was not in my life,
The fact of the matter is that it does not ever come into my life.
And what’s in it, I’m waiting for the rest of my life
For my man to come?
He does not comin ‘.
I live in America.
I am a male of African descent.
They do not treat us.
There is a somethin ‘called racism.
I will not cry about this.
Probably there is going to be racist sesame on the day I die
But I will not cry about it.
I’m still going to be a millionaire.
I’m still going to be one of the top speakers
In the world.
No I did not grow up on this side of town,
No Mama does not have any network,
No I do not know a large group of people,
No I am not in the Qatari club,
No I do not play golf and I do not plan to play
Not soon.
But I’m still going to be successful.
I’m still going to get to where they are.
why?
Because I owe myself and no one can stop me but me.
And you need to get rid of them excuses
You have to stop pointing fingers at the people.
You have to start pointing fingers at yourself.
What did you do?
The man asked me about two months ago,
He said: “ET, if there is one mistake you made,
“What is this one mistake you made?”
I said to him, “I am going to be honest with you.
“My values are not in alignment with my dreams.”
I told him, “I want to tell you a story.”
I got a good friend to mine, and a dear friend.
He came to me and said, “Eric, my marriage is not where
“My marriage must be.
“I need to make some adjustments.
“I see you and your wife, I see how long
“You spend with your wife,
“How much time you spend with your children,
“and I want that.
“You buy your wife roses regularly,
“You always take her to eat.
“I watchin ‘you, and spoil them.
“ET, what can I do?”
So I told him what to do
And guess what he started by, God?
And started doing exactly the same thing I started to do.
He said, “Eric, it’s not Rakeen.”
“I’m doing exactly what you’re doing but it’s not raken.”
He said, “Why is not it Rakeen?”
I said to him, “You know why it’s not raken?”
“Because your values and dreams,
“You say you want to get married better,
“But I told you, you need to settle your wife’s clothes.”
You know what he said to me?
After a while he said, “I’m going to be honest with you Eric.
“I know, and I told me to iron, you told me to wash,
“I told me to cook.
“But from where I come,” he said, “I’m going to be honest Eric.
“When I do that, I feel like a punk.”
I said to him: “That’s why I was talking, ‘It’s hard for you to do that.
“Because your value system says a man is not supposed to
“Iron, a man is not supposed to cook,
“A man is not supposed to wash dishes.
“That’s what you say the system says, so you do
“One thing but you are going against your system of values.
“The reason why I’m talking ‘like this time is easy
“Washing” clothes, cooking “and ironing,
“do you know why?
“Because nothing is as important to me as my marriage
“I prefer to be happy, I would not be happy
“Who says I am not any punk”.
Make me a punk, and I want to be a punk.
A happy punk.
(Applause)
For real, no, mine friend, he came to my house
I do not have a mop, so it was on the floor,
And you moppin “floor with a towel.
He said, “ET, hip-hop preacher, you’re on earth
“And you moppin?”
I said, “Yes.”
He says: “Your wife got you skin.”
I say: “You do not know?
“You just found out?”
(Audience laughs)
A terrible job has been done.
I’m sorry, I’m skinned.
After 23 years you should have, if you do not,
its a problem.
So listen to me, so you have to say
I want to be a millionaire, I want to be the best
In this company, right?
But your value system says you believe in sleep
More than I think in grinding.
Your value system says you are a consumer
Not produced.
And you spend more money than you’re making.
why?
Because you are a consumer but you read all the books
Everything says it the books say,
But those books are not in alignment with your values.
If you’re going to go to the next level,
Your values will be our change.
I think what people get confused is, you know,
They grind with the target.
I’m not telling you should not be a target.
But must be grinding in order to grind and.
You have to grind for what you do.
I was excited about what you were doing,
So I was’ up all day with a concept
I have 24 hours and they mine.
This 24 hours belongs to me, and all I do
In this 24 hours you will determine where I will be tomorrow
The next day, I guess that
This is what people need to focus on.
Like get off of this, I want to make six figures,
I want to drive this car,
I want to live in this house.
I think what people should focus on is,
I have 24 hours.
Like Oprah has only 24, Bill Gates has only 24,
Like Warren Buffett has only 24 hours
In that 24-hour period, I can either break my life
Or make my life.
I’m not saying, ‘You should not be a target.
I just think that the goals for people are very high
On the list of priorities.
I think what should be on the list of priorities
And go to bed, so you can wake up the next day
And you can grind it out.
I’m just an dude who thinks you harvest what you sow.
So if you are grinding on Monday, grinding on Tuesday,
Grind on Wednesday, if you grind
Six, seven days a week for five or six years,
Smethin it got out of it.
But if you just grind, you know,
On Monday you launched, Wednesday I was back,
I was sleepin ‘on, the Thursday I got, Snam
The world is up, like I have heard people say,
– Hump today.
– Every day is a day of sleep.
Wednesday is a day of sleep.
Now Monday is the day of Snam, Tuesday is the day of Snam,
Every day is a day of sleep.
I think if we spend more time on what my goal is,
I mean what I need to accomplish on this day
To live this life and go after that,
Then I think more people will be successful.
I just ran across a quote on that day that says:
Education is a big draw.
You’re like, oh, so it does not matter where you are,
If you feel like you are at the bottom,
If you feel like you are at the top,
But want to keep up
Because just because you are at the top
Does not mean you’re going to be on top forever.
I mean, you look great football players,
Wonderful football teams.
You will not automatically win for
Your Name.
You have to keep performing year after year.
So if you’re down and you’re like,
Man, I’m in Lower Eric, I want to live life
Like anyone else.
I want to fly first class.
I want to see the world.
I do not want any restrictions.
Well, so I’m using the word reading but what I’m saying
He is educated, being enlightened, informed.
I had to realize for myself, being a dropout from high school.
You can not use that excuse forever.
Where I was born and where I grew up,
You can not use it forever.
For me, you liberate yourself Malcolm,
You talked about Malcolm.
Malcolm liberated himself, most people do not know,
Malcolm was not born wearing glasses.
Malcolm had 20/20 vision but was in prison
Malcolm learned to take a serious reading
Read with dim light at night.
This is how he eventually lost his sight.
But he lost his sight but gained his vision.
He lost his sight but gained his vision at that stage.
So I would like to tell young people who are watching us,
It’s not optional.
The more you read, the more liberated you are
The more educated you are.
For me, the more you can experience life
Like the people you’re probably looking at and saying: ‘,
I wish I could live like this person.
– Yes.
– What is why?
Hey, if I do not give you everything ‘last,
The best start is that what is your reason.
Do you know why I’m doing what I do
And do so enthusiastically?
‘Cause my grandfather was dropping out of high school,
My parents had a dropout from high school,
I was dropping out of high school and we are about to break the loop.
I do what I do so my son will not have to go through
What I went through.
When you are in a football game,
My little dude went with me.
I saw other children with they …
I said you will not happen to me.
I do what I do because my daughter says
She’s going to Harvard.
It is not even about you all.
I’m about to come here and fire you all.
why?
‘Cause I tried “to get everything in American Football.
I’m not about to miss this opportunity.
This is the first NFL team I’ve ever done
In my life, I am about to bite on it.
I’m about to give everything I’ve got and I’ll know
If you do not get another gig,
It would have nothing to do with the fact
I did not put everything on the pitch.
What is your reason?
Why wake up in the morning?
Why put on that shirt?
Why go out and practice?
why?
I have a ritual where even my closest friend,
I have limits.
Because that’s just my company, that does not mean
I can receive calls all day long.
I have limits so that can not contact me at a certain time.
why?
Make.
So I’m on the phone just today and I say this
For entrepreneurs because one of the loopholes,
We will talk about this later in the show,
But you have to find one gap of loopholes
For entrepreneurs it feels like you
Because they have their day,
They can spend as if they want to.
You can not spend like you want.
So if you are working for IBM or you are working for Ford,
Whoever you are and who you are, you can not
Be on the phone all day at a major company
You speak on the phone.
So why allow yourself to talk on the phone
When do you business?
Now if this is for you, you should probably,
You should make sure there are no phone calls to Gwyn ‘.
This is your business.
One of my rites is when I start,
There is no break.
When I start, I do not care if it is my wife,
My children, they know that for a certain time,
I’m going all in and I can not go all in and answer the phone.
I can not go all at watchin ‘TV.
– And distraction.
– I can not go in with distraction.
Some businessmen like, why do not I ‘bleen’ up?
Because you are not an abstract idea.
You do not have that moment of your day.
I do not care if it is two hours and four hours,
Where you stop the whole world out.
Not a joke.
Facebook is not available.
No nothing.
– No Instagram and what we like most.
– no instagram, no instagram.
– We love to instagram.
– Oh, just for two hours, I’m going to
Once it comes out, then we can do the Instagram.
But I will be honest,
Your content will probably be stronger
If you have this time of solitude, isolation,
Where you give yourself a chance to think,
Give yourself a chance to go.
When you go, you go 120%.
So yes, this is my ritual.
– I love that.
– I think what is unique about my offer
Is that it comes from the heart.
You know, I speak from the heart
I am not afraid to be transparent.
I’m not afraid to talk about my failure.
I’m not afraid to talk about my fears.
I’m not afraid to open my life and give my story
To the world.
So if you want to make six numbers, you can not just
To talk about you you want to make it six digits.
You hear what I’m saying here tonight.
If you do the three things I am telling you to do tonight,
I guarantee you everything you want to do in life,
You’ll be able to do this.
You will be able to accomplish whatever you want
Academically and financially, relational, whatever.
So three things.
All right, I’m going to tell you this story,
I’ve got to get out of here.
The story revolves around, you guys probably are
I heard about this before.
He was young, you know, he wants to make
So much money and he went to this teacher, right?
“I want to be
“At the same level as you.”
The teacher said: “If you want to be
“At the same level I am on,
“I meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4:00 am”
It’s like, “The beach?
“I said I want to money, I do not want to swim.”
The teacher said: “If you want to make money,
“I will meet you tomorrow,
“04:00”
So I got a young man there at 4:00 am,
He was all ready to rock and roll, got a suit,
He had to wear shorts.
The old man grabs his hand and said, “How bad
“Do you want to be successful?”
He said: “Bad Real Madrid.”
He said, “Walk on out in the water.”
So he goes out into the water, watching this.
When it comes out in the water, it goes deep waist.
So he like, “This crazy guy.
“I want to make money, he got me swimming here.
“I did not ask to be a guard.
“I want to make money.”
He said: “Come on from a little farther.”
I went a little further, then it was
Around this area, the area of his shoulder.
“This old man is crazy, McCain is money, but he is crazy,” he said.
He said: “Come out a little further than that.”
I went a little farther than that, it was right in his mouth.
“Hey man, like I’m about to go back in this guy outside
Of his mind. “
So the old man said: “I thought I said you wanted
To be successful. “
He said, “I do.”
He said, “Walk a little further.”
His head came down in his hands and feet,
Holding his hands and feet, oh man did not scratch him, holding his hands and feet,
Got you, I know you busted out but got you.
His retention was constantly down.
I need to clarify.
His retention was constantly, before my feet
He was about to pass by, and lift him to heaven.
“I’ve got a question for you,” he said.
Someone answers the question for me.
He said: “When I was under water,
What do you want to do? “
– [Female] Live, I believe.
– Live, I look ‘for a different word though live.
what is this word?
– [Female] Breathable?
– He said: “I wanted to breathe.”
A man said, “When you want to succeed
As bad as you want to breathe, then you have to be successful. “
I do not know how many of you got all asthma a day,
But if you ever had an asthma attack before,
You shortness of breath, SOB, shortness of breath,
You wheezin “and only the thing you tren” to do
Is getting some air.
You do not care about any basketball game.
You do not care what is on TV,
You do not care no one callin ‘you,
You do not care about a party.
The only thing I care about when you’re TRIN “is to breathe
Is getting some fresh air.
This is.
And when you get a point where everything you want to do
And be as successful as bad as you want to breathe,
Then you’ll be successful.
I am here to tell you, number one,
Most say that you want to be successful
But you do not want it bad.
You just want a kind of it.
You do not want to badder than you want to party.
You do not want to arrive as you want to be cool.
Most of you do not want to succeed as much as you want to sleep.
Some of you like to sleep more than you love success.
I am here to tell you today,
If you’re going to be successful,
You’ve got to be willin ‘to give up sleep.
You’ve got to be willin “to work out three hours of sleep,
Two hours.
If you really want to be successful, some days
You’re going to have to stay three days in a row.
Because if you go to sleep, you may miss
Opportunity to be successful.
This is the bad way you’ve got to like it.
You’ve got to go days don …
Listen to me, you’ve got to want to be a very bad successful
That you forgot to eat.
Beyonce once said the group had done something to her,
The last three days, she forgot she did not eat.
‘Cause they were engaged.
I will never forget when 50 Cent was doing his film,
I did a little research on 50.
50 said that when the film does not do,
I was doing the sound track.
They said: When you sleep, 50?
He says: “Sleep?
“Sleep is for those people who are broken.”
I do not sleep.
So I got a chance to achieve a dream
Become a reality.
Football players, how many football players.
Anyone like football got here, lift your hand.
Anyone like football?
Amit Smith, I used to be a cowboy fan
Before my son, Tom Landry, made a mistake.
I used to be a cowboy fan.
Watching this, there was a business,
Emmett Smith may have won the first Super Bowl
This announcement was to lift cargo weights.
I do not know if you see business.
He was lifting the goods, “said: Emmett said:” You know why?
“I won the Super Bowl so I can rest now.”
He was doing his press on the bench.
So he said: “I won a super bowl so I can rest now.”
So he casts over 325, and prosperity, and he falls
For two seconds.
Then it boom,
bubble,
bubble.
You see that?
I’ve already won the Super Bowl,
He said, “I think I’m going to take a break”
And rest for how long?
One second.
And most of you will not be successful because when you studyin ‘
And tired, you can quit smoking.
I’m here to tell you today, someone came in my office
And weep the other day. “
I said, “Look, do not cry to give up, crying to keep going.”
Do not cry to quit smoking, you are already in pain, you are already hurt.
Get rewarded from it.
Do not go to sleep until it succeeds.
listen to me.
I’m here to tell you today you can come here,
You can jump over, you can do flips, you can be
Excited when we give away money but listen to me.
You’ll never be so successful I do not have to
To give you a dime to do what you do.
You will not be successful
So you say I do not need this money.
‘Cause I got it here.
“Smith is listening to me
At the end of the business.
“All men are created equal.
“Some work harder at the start of the season.”
I’m going to say again because you’ve missed it.
“All human beings were created equal.
“Some work harder at the start of the season.”
This means that there are some people
Who go to see a professor,
Go to see TA.
Even when a professor says I do not meet you,
My TA meets with you,
She says, “I do not want to talk to your TA.
“I do not pay TA.
“I pay you to teach me.
“If you’re going to have to find some time to meet me.
“If I got to meet you at the mall,
“If you get to meet you at home,
“You’re going to see me.”
listen to me.
All men have created equal, some more difficult business
At the beginning of the season.
When I went to college, men were way smarter than me.
4.0 out of 3.0, they went to high school in Ivy League,
Came to Oakwood from these great high schools,
Most of them do not do what I’m doing.
why?
“The reason it’s not about where you come from.
But for the heart.
I came to the place of welfare ‘smart is not enough.
You got the heart, that’s number one.
What is the number two?
Number two, two fishing number, I wrote it.
I wanted to make sure you got it.
Watch this, watch this.
We are talking about sacrifice now.
The important thing is this.
I was writin ‘while I was saying:’ It’s an issue I only have
About three minutes more.
listen to me.
The most important thing is this: to be able,
At any moment, to sacrifice what you
Why will it become.
This is the second thing.
You got to catch that one.
To be able to, listen to me, at any moment,
Some of you, you can make sacrifices
When Monday night football is not on.
You can make sacrifices.
But when the game comes on, for some reason
You’re just attached to it.
For some of you, when your favorite show Come on,
You can make sacrifices on Sunday
When there ‘s nothing’ goin ‘thing.
But when your favorite show comes on Monday, Pam.
Some of you, you have to focus until the phone rings.
You want, “I got to answer him.
“If you do not answer the phone, I’m going to die.”
I say: ‘To you today there are some of you,
If you give up cellular phone, it will be successful.
But your cell phone is more important to you
Of your success.
I’m going to say again, I’m going to hurt someone.
I’m going to hurt someone.
Some you need to give up your cell phone
Because the time you spend on your cell phone
Can be used for your success.
While it can be used to be successful,
Are you using the cell.
Cell phone will not bring you something ‘
But the bill.
And someone told you, you can not live without it.
I’m talking about going deep now, Geoffin ‘up stuff.
Watch what he says: to be able at any moment
To sacrifice what we are for what it can be.
I do not do well in math, you’re right.
You have not taught.
I do not write well.
‘Cause you’ve never written before.
But I challenge you to fail in writin “for a full year
To see if you can get to the finish.
I challenge you to fail.
I challenge you to take this same class over and over again.
I challenge you to stop “layers droppin.
Like you are soft.
I always wanted to give up, I droppin ‘.
Why droppin?
I am very grateful that the slaves did not fall off and quit smoking.
I say I’m just going to stop, I’m a slave,
I’m just going to be a slave, I’m going to quit smoking.
Listen to me, the slaves said: “We will live
For one day we will be (wiggling).
– Thank you very much for watching.
I made this video Sam asked me to Mendemasa,
So if there is a famous entrepreneur you are
You want me to personal the next, leave it in the comments below
I will see what I can do.
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Top 10 rules hit you the most.
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Thank you so much for watching.
We still believe and I will see you soon.
(fireworks)
– I’m going to beat you to the scene.
I’m going to beat you to the scene,
That’s all about it, is not it?
For us, we who play basketball,
Those of us who play football.
Sometimes it’s not about the well-being of “the greatest talent,
Come beatin ‘someone to the scene.
Even if you hit you for a spot and got an open shot,
This does not mean I’m the greatest,
But I hit you right away, do not I?
I created my fire.
I created my own space.
That’s what the intersection is about.
About the transition to create your own shot,
Create your own space.
The way I’ve become a millionaire
And the way it became
One of the top motivational speakers in the world,
No one knows who I am six, seven years ago,
It is I created space.
I have created space.
I have given myself an advantage that others can not
And be hard?
No, not really, I just woke up earlier.
You can take (wiggles), right?
This does not mean that you have to stay up a full day
But it means you have to get to the spot
Before anyone else.
Let me tell you all, I’m not New Zealand men.
Come on, listen to me very closely.
I’m not from New Zealand.
Let me say it is this way so I can help you.
I know what the team is?
I have never seen all blacks play a day in my life.
I was not on the pitch.
Where is the stadium?
Help me, where’s the pitch?
Well, I’m going, see what I did?
I was not on the pitch.
You like, Eric, pitch,
This (wiggles) this way, Eric, this is not the pitch.
The pitch is this way.
I have never been there in my life.
And if you watch some videos on my own,
I have all the blacks in my videos.
why?
‘Cause they’re what?
They’re the winners.
When you are a winner, you do not even stay
In your little town.
When you are the winner, win spreads it all,
I’ve got videos where I like, “You all, I do not really know
“How to show my passion”.
Someone said get all blacks.
Ahhhhh, ahhaaaa.
I like yes, that’s what I need, all blacks.
(Exciting music)
Yes, yes, I need all blacks.
I need to, why, ’cause they say what I’m saying:’.
She just said in rugby.
I like WHOO, this is a violent sport.
Their passion is all there, why?
‘Winners win reason.
I can not explain to you but you better stop
McCain “excuses and find a way to win.
Because once you start winning, you go from
1500 to 3000 or 5,000 to 7000,
Remember Steve?
From seven to ten.
Something changes, we are still in the basement.
We do not have a building.
We still use it for all of our products.
We do not have business cards.
We do not have a five-year plan.
We do not have a three-year plan.
How can you do then?
We wake up and grind.
Win Winners.
I focus more on Winnin “than I focus on the structure.
Focus on the winner ‘When you become a winner,
They start with you winners. Translation (رفاء الطائي rafaa tai)
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