IT'S YOU AGAINST YOU - Powerful Eric Thomas Motivational Speech

Eric Thomas (0:00)

You've never looked at yourself in the mirror and said, you let you down. Until you get to that point, you let you down.

Tell me what you've complained about.

SPEAKER_2 (0:12)

Winners complain.

SPEAKER_3 (0:14)

Winners want to hit themselves talk.

Eric Thomas (0:17)

Champions do not complain, why?

SPEAKER_3 (0:19)

Because they're focusing on what they said they wanted to do as a goal. So the only thing you're missing now is are you willing to get up and do the work?

Eric Thomas (0:27)

Well, we're going to complain, y'all. We're going to work.

You have a chance to control your destiny. That, my friend, is the American dream, not a Cadillac.

SPEAKER_4 (0:39)

I need you to give you your best.

Eric Thomas (0:42)

Come on, I'm pleading with you.

SPEAKER_4 (0:43)

Look, I'm going to say it one more time. I need you to give you your all. I didn't say your kids. I didn't say your spouse. I didn't say your best friend. I need you for the next 30 days to give you every single thing you got.

SPEAKER_3 (1:00)

So do me a favor. Do you want it or not?

Eric Thomas (1:03)

The truth is, you got to find something within. You got to find something within, and that's got to push you, and that's got to elevate you, and that's got to drive you, and that's got to move you.

Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and said, I'm not getting up on time. I'm not going to work on time. I'm not putting in 120% when I'm at work. I let me down.

SPEAKER_4 (1:26)

You are a champion. Think like one.

Eric Thomas (1:32)

I value myself enough to give 120% or don't do it.

SPEAKER_3 (1:46)

Rich people don't waste time. They realize it's their most important commodity.

SPEAKER_2 (1:52)

They don't watch a lot of TV.

SPEAKER_4 (1:53)

They don't do a lot of entertainment.

SPEAKER_2 (1:55)

If they're not working, they're studying their craft and get better at their craft. I would love to tell you that on the road to success, everything is going to work out. It's not.

SPEAKER_3 (2:04)

It's going to be a dog fight.

Eric Thomas (2:06)

You want what it looks like, but you don't know what it feels like.

SPEAKER_3 (2:10)

It's hard.

Eric Thomas (2:10)

It's tough.

SPEAKER_3 (2:11)

The investment is worth it.

Eric Thomas (2:14)

I'm telling you, set a standard.

I went and got my GD., then I got my four-year degree, then I got my master's degree, then I got my Ph.D. And I ain't smart, but I set a standard, so when my kids came in this world, their mama got a master's, their daddy got a Ph.D., they at least got to finish high school.

SPEAKER_3 (2:32)

I set a standard.

Eric Thomas (2:33)

Multi-millionaire as a speaker from the bottom up. I set a standard.

SPEAKER_4 (2:39)

Right, and so what I had to learn how to do was, I had to say, yo, when the lights go off, who is Eric? What am I working on? What's my North Star? What's important to me? What makes me happy?

Eric Thomas (2:53)

And when you find out what your why is, and your why got to be deeper than you, when you find your why, you don't hit snooze no more. When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen. You have full permission to be your greatness right now. You have full permission to be your greatness. Whoever, whatever your greatness is, you have full permission to be that right this second.

SPEAKER_4 (3:18)

Like get to a point that if nobody else gives you any likes or nobody ever comments on your stuff or nobody ever says you great, you great, you're happy with what you do. Like you love yourself and you happy and you do it for you.

Eric Thomas (3:32)

The dream is yours, but you're saying I'm not worthy of the dream. You're probably not, but it's been given to you anyway. I'm not smart enough. You're probably not, but it doesn't matter. It was it was given to you and is now your responsibility to do something with it. You've been given it. It's the gift that you never open. It's the gift. It's yours.

Do what you say you're going to do and you make no excuses and you don't let nothing get in your way.

SPEAKER_2 (4:09)

I left. I was like, I got to be in control of my life and I wasn't mad at nobody. I'm not mad at nobody now.

SPEAKER_4 (4:13)

It's just I feel like I got to be in control.