Eric Thomas Motivation Mentoring TB

Eric Thomas Motivation Mentoring TB

‍

Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. It's Wednesday, middle of the week, and I wanted to be able to give you, again, one of my personal mentors some real good motivation today. And I can't think of anybody better than Eric Thomas. I just bought his book recently. His recent book. You Owe You, and I'll tell you what, I've been listening to Eric Thomas for a long time now.

He is a master at motivation and inspiration, but at the end at the end of the day, he is also the epitome of hard work. I. Of mindset of success and accomplishment, personal accomplishment. He reminds me of many of my mentors like Les Brown and others that set the example and lead the way. And I'm not gonna spend any more time setting this up, but if you haven't heard of Eric Thomas, I can't think of a better example of a topic to, to have you listen to than this one I'm gonna play you for today.

Because when you want success, bad enough. You will do whatever it takes. So I hope you enjoy, have an amazing day and I'll talk with you soon.

‍

Eric Thomas' Story: The Guru and the Young Man

These are principles that have stood the test of time. Principles that have stood the test of time. And if you do what I'm about to tell you right now, you will be able to accomplish whatever you want to academically, financially, relationally, whatever. So three things. Alright? Now I'm gonna tell you this story.

I gotta get outta here. The first one is when I first said I wanted to make six figures, my boy, Marcus Flowers, who's probably making seven figures right now, he came to LA too. He was with us in la. You see all the videos with all the stars. Those are his cars. They're driving around in. You see the houses that the rappers, those are his houses in Atlanta that he owns, and they come in and play on.

So he's making seven. He taught me how to make money. This is the first thing he came, he told me a story, and the story is about, you guys have probably heard about this before. It was a young man who, he wanted to make a lot of money and so he went to this guru, right? And he told the guru, I wanna be on the same level you on.

And so the guru said, if you wanna be on the same level I'm on, I'll meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4:00 AM He liked the beach. I said, I wanna make money. I don't wanna swim. Guru said, if you wanna make money, I'll meet you tomorrow. 4:00 AM So the young man got there at 4:00 AM He already rock and roll, got on a suit.

He should have wore shorts. The old man grabs his hand, said, how bad do you wanna be successful? He said, real bad. He said, walk on out in the water. So he walks out into the water, watch this. When he walks out into the water, it goes waist deep. So he like this guy crazy. I, Adrian, he like, I wanna make money.

He got me out here swimming. I didn't ask to be a lifeguard. I wanna make money. So he said, come out a little further. Walked out a little further. Then he had it right around this area, the shoulder area. So this old man, crazy. He making money, but he crazy. He said, come on out a little further. He came out a little further, was right at his mouth.

My man I'm about to go back in here. This guy is mine. So the old man said, I thought you said you wanted to be successful. He said, I do. He said, walk a little further. He came, dropped his head in, held him down. Hold him down, my man. Get him scratchy. Hold him down. I got you. I know you've brushed it out, but I got you.

He had him held down. I needed you for illustration. He had him held down just before my man was about to pass out. He raised him up. He said, I got a question for you. Somebody answered the question for me. He said, when you were under water, what did you want to do?

Lee? I'm looking for a different word though than lip. What's that word? Said I wanted to breathe.

‍

The Drive for Success: Breathing and Beyond

He told the guy, he said, when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

I dunno how many of y'all got asthma in here today? But if you ever had an asthma attack before you, short of breath, SOB, shortness of breath, you wheezing. The only thing you trying to do is get some air you don't care about no basketball. Ball game, you don't care what's on tv. You don't care about nobody calling you.

You don't care about a party. The only thing you care about when you're trying to breathe is to get some fresh air. That's it. And when you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful, as bad as you wanna breathe, then you'll be successful. And I'm here to tell you, number one, that most of you say you want to be successful.

But you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you want to party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. You, most of you don't want success as much as you wanna sleep.

‍

Sacrifices for Success: Sleep and Hunger

Some of you love sleep more than you love success, and I'm here to tell you today, if you're going to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep.

You gotta be willing to work off for three hours of sleep, two hours. If you really want to be successful. Some days you gonna have to stay up three days in a row because if you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful. That's how bad you gotta want it. You gotta go days without listen to me.

You gotta want to be successful so bad that you forget to eat.

‍

Examples of Relentless Pursuit: Beyonce and 50 Cent

Beyonce said once she was on the set doing her thing, three days had gone by, she forgot she didn't eat. Because she was engaged. I'll never forget when 50 cent was doing this movie, I did a little research on 50 and 50 said that when he wasn't doing the movie, he was doing the soundtrack and they said, when do you sleep?

50 sleep. He says, sleep. Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. He said, I got an opportunity to make a dream. Become a reality.

Football and Persistence: Emmett Smith's Lesson

Football players. How many football players got anybody like football in here? Raise your hand. Anybody like football? Emmett Smith. I used to be a Cowboy fan before they did my boy Tom Landry.

Wrong. I used to be a Cowboy fan and watch this. There was a commercial. Emmett Smith had won his first Super Bowl and he had this commercial when he was lifting weights. I don't know if you saw the commercial and he was lifting and he said, Emmett said, you know what, ah, I won the Super Bowl so I can rest now.

He was doing his bench press, so he said, I won a Super Bowl so I can rest now. So he throws up about 3 25, boom. And he rests for about two seconds, then he boom.

Boom. Did you see that? He'd already won a Super Bowl? He said, I think I'm gonna take a rest, and he rest for how long? One second.

‍

Final Words: Pain and Reward

Most of you won't be successful because when you studying and you get tired, you quit. And I am here to tell you today, if you got a, somebody came to my office the other day crying.

I said, look, don't cry to give up. Cry to keep going. Don't cry to quit. You already in pain. You already hurt. Get a reward from it. Don't go to sleep until you succeed. Listen to me. I'm here to tell you today that you can come here, you can jump up, you can do flips. You can be excited when we give away money, but listen to me, you'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.

You won't be successful until you say, I don't need that money because I got it in here.

‍