In this episode, we break down discipline vs motivation for entrepreneurs and why consistency, habits, and delayed gratification are what truly build long-term success.
If you’re building a business, podcast, brand, or personal legacy, this episode will help you master the mindset needed to keep going when motivation fades.
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more entrepreneurs. Now let's get into today's
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episode. Today's episode is about
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discipline over motivation. And what do I mean by that?
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Most people think motivation is the key to success, but
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motivation is temporary. It comes and goes depending on
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how you feel. Discipline is different.
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Discipline shows up whether you feel it or not.
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Today we are talking about why discipline will always out porn
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outperform motivation. Key thing differences, when you
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think of motivation is emotional, you think of
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discipline, structural as it pertains to entrepreneurship.
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People I had came in contact with always want to start a
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business, but when they start the business is based on
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motivation. You know, I'm really motivated.
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You know, the job that I've been having, you know, I haven't seen
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myself grow and do what I'm supposed to do and, you know,
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grow with a company and you know I'm going to do it all on
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myself. That right there is based off of
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motivation. So you're motivated to get
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something going and starting. Nothing wrong with that.
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In the beginning stages is always motivation.
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But once you make it past the first six months to a year, it
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starts to become very discipline.
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It's all about discipline. What I mean by discipline, you
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got to be structured and you're not going to be respected by
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other entrepreneurs or your peer group or strangers if you don't
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have any type of structure or discipline.
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And then when you think about also a motivation you think of,
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you know this to start. The motivation depends on
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feelings as with discipline depends on decisions.
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You could say something like when you are motivated, you'll
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work hard, but when you're disciplined, you'll work
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regardless of how you feel. And a couple things, what I mean
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by that is when you're motivated, you could be
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motivated to get up in the morning, get your kids together,
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get yourself together, help your spouse get his or her stuff
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together. You know, you're doing the daily
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routines because it motivates you.
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For some people, a parent really motivates them to, you know,
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keep going. Nothing wrong with that, but
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motivation gets you throughout the day.
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But then you have days where you don't want to do nothing.
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You're not motivated to do anything.
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That's when the discipline kicks in.
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As in like every New year, people say, well, I'm going to
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the gym. You'd be motivated on that New
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Year's Eve for a little. After New Year's, when most
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people go to go for the first week or two or a month, stop,
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motivation ends, the goal ends. Another example, like previously
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when I said earlier, starting a business, people start a
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business, get idea, They get discouraged early in the game
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because they didn't receive that respect or what's the word
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respect or commodity they was going to get from people.
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So they felt like pretty much how I started.
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I thought it was going to be a whole lot of going on.
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It's going to be a lot of flowing going on and none of
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that happened. So that would discourage a lot
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of people just starting off. And then you're not even going
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to expect like if you was even thinking about starting a
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business or going for a certain job or trying to do something to
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better yourself and life in general.
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By you expressing it to someone that you feel like you love and
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trust, they can discourage you all because I want to see you
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elevate more than them, which is sad.
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So then we got recording podcast episodes.
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You got people that feel like, you know, going on a podcast and
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talking about various subjects. And you know, a lot of that is
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hard work. You know, you got to come up
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with topics, you got to come up with a time frame, you got to be
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on schedule, you got to keep everything in line structure.
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You got to have a full-fledged payment plan.
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When it comes to starting a podcast, it's not easy.
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It might look easy, but it's not easy.
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And then this is the most key thing that people forget is
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posting content. Consistently posting content get
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you pass get you in a lot of doors.
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You know, social media is a it's a new wave and it's very
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lucrative if you know how to use it.
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Most people use it to find food spots, new styles, see what's
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going on in other cities and States and basically act like a
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consumer. You have some people like
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myself, that's entrepreneurs that look at it as a a business
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model of being seen putting your brand out there, putting your
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name out there representing what it is that you doing service
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wise and what what your company is about.
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So there's many different ways on views of content Me, you have
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me as content I post on TikTok, no custom orders.
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I do for customers podcast clips like this going to be 1 and I go
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live. So that's considered content
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creation. And it's it's a good thing.
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Keep me busy, give me a lot of stuff to do.
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So I can't really complain. It's just, you know, got to make
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time for things that you want to do.
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But for other people on YouTube and everybody, content is
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different. You have people that do reaction
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videos, you know, content reacting to a video that they
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feel worthy of them want to put on their channel and them
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reacting to it to give their honest opinion to their audience
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on how they feel about this content that they're reacting
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to. Then you have people that make
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dishes or food, things of that nature, like a girl I went to
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school with. I'm a caller, Miss C, but she I
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will put her, her social media in the description saying she's
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one of my big supporters also. And you know, she does cooking
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videos, Epicurious I believe the name is.
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I can't can't remember off the top of my head, but she makes
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videos and she kind of motivated me before I even thought about
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doing any of this because she just popped up on my social
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media and I was like, oh wow, I remember I went to school with
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her. So there's one Ave.
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Another Ave. is that you have to do music.
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There's people that do music like New jumper, No Jumper.
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They do content, interviews, live stream, clip, everything.
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Then you got Clubhouse. They do the same thing, also
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talk over various topics, whether it's popular or not or
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personal, it's content. So for you, for people that's
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looking at this or listening to this, it doesn't matter what you
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do, it's content. It's good to content and there's
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bad content. But whatever lane you choose to
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go into, you got to make sure you're being consistent on
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everything that you're doing. Because always remember, there
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are days I don't feel like recording, there are days that I
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don't feel like building. But my discipline saves.
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The mission still continues. As in nipping Nipsey Hussle was
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saying the Marathon continues. And then I'ma get into why most
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people fail. Pretty simple.
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Most people rely on motivation. They wait until they feel
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inspired. But successful people build
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systems that force discipline. When you starting something
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without a plan or a goal, you can pretty much say that you
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want all feelings and motivation.
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And when people go and do things in that route that don't last
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too long because for you to do dive into something that you
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have no experience in or is going up a leap of faith.
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Leap of faith. Sometimes it works, sometimes it
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doesn't, but you got to realize that if you're going to do it
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that way, you got to go all the way through.
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So it's like you can be motivated all you want, but if
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you're not going to stay the course and stay consistent and
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keep that marathon going, then you're going to have a short run
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in whatever it is that you're doing.
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But as time goes on, and I learned that this year, 'cause
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this year marks my third year selling, but I've been in
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business since August of 2021. And beginning wise, as I said
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last season, you know, it was something for me to do.
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It will have like a couple people wearing a merch, you
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know, and it's just getting motivated at first.
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But I seen as I was growing, people were liking it, people
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was noticing it, people was checking it out.
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And mind you, I did everything freelance, no structure of
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anything in the beginning. But when 2024 came around, I had
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to really put forth a plan and a goal.
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Still in that year, I didn't know what I was doing.
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I was just posting and just networking and talking.
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I even got to where everywhere I went, I had my merch on.
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I wasn't even on going live on TikTok.
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I was just commenting on certain people's, you know, posts.
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You know something that I like, you know, I gave a comment on
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it, They turned around and looked at my content, my page,
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the profile and it was really impressed.
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I was oh wow, OK, people are really digging this.
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So it's per usual, I do research and educate myself on every
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little thing that I do. That's how I stay afloat.
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So when I did that, I stayed the course and stayed motivated with
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Reels off Instagram. Then before I got into getting
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my LOC and everything, they said you had to sacrifice three to
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five years before you could see a big break.
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Me wise by me being the person that I am, it kinda, I won't say
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it jump started a little fast, but I reached over, reached my
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goals easily per year. The first year I took a loss.
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The second year I made more than I made and each year from 23 to
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now I gross more than I made previous year.
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This last year I started podcasting, started in the
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summertime, but I didn't really take it serious.
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I recorded about like 3 or 4 episodes and I ran out of topics
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so I just sat on it, didn't market or anything like that.
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Time went on, got to talking to people, one in particular person
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caller LMJ, and she was saying things, motivating, impressed
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and a whole lot of stuff. And I'm like, OK, so this is
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this, this is doing something. So situation happened to where I
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was out work wise for a long time.
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Then I was figuring out what to do business wise.
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So I had a whole lot more time to work on it.
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I didn't necessarily rebrand it, but I put more focus and effort
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into it in mind you, when you have a lot of time on your
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hands, you learn how to really manage your time wisely.
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When you on grime mode, you to yourself not much going on.
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You know your social circle doesn't dropped being it's only
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a select few that was even give you a conversation.
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You know, I'm saying you look at things a whole lot different
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when you're in a situation like that.
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So I had went through that before the year was up last
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year. So this year I was already
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prepared for this, but it became more clear this year.
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And not to get off topic, but you know, when businesses, when
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you're running a company or being a content creator or food
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reviewer or working, you got to have a routine.
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Like I said early in the in this episode, you know, a spouse
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getting up, getting the kids together, spouse breakfast, the
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whole 9 yards. That's a routine habits making
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sure the dishes are clean after they done eating or the tables
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wiped down, it was swept around the table.
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Make sure nothing was spilt in the midst of all that while
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getting ready for your daily routine in the morning.
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So that right there is something to really look at.
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It's like even though I speak entrepreneurship, but
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entrepreneurship goes along with everyday life.
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So if you're an individual to where you need other people to
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motivate you to do something, then that's how your business
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going to be ran. That's how your content creation
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platform is going to be looked at is the way you carried it as
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yourself is how you're going to carry something that you want to
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do. So if your routine is not
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structured, if your routine is all over the place, if your
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habits not structured and all over the place, then you can
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kind of get a picture of how whatever it is that you're going
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to get into and give out to the whole world, you're going to see
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how it's going to pretty much come about.
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And if you're one of them people that are inconsistent and don't
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accept accountability, then the whole world's going to see that.
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So depending on the audience that you attract, they might
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like the fact that you're not routine, you don't have a
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structure habit, you don't take accountability and you're
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inconsistent. So you got to look at things as
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as if a person is attracted to that.
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They are exactly like that. So a lot of people can attract
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an audience, but the audience might like the content because
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they can relate to it, because they might be the same exact
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person. Or if the content creator, the
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business or the employees, a really good person, they like
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the accountability of how that person sets accountability
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except for who he is and know his truth on who he or she is or
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not. Or and the consistency part,
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they all like that. But you have people that's very
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hateful and want to see a person fail.
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So that vindictive mentality will try to poke the bear at a
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person to get them off their game because they don't want to
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see them shine, because they feel like the person that they
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relate to business content creation wise or employee wise
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or as a person wise should deserve better than a person
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that's putting in the work. How that understood how that
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goes about, I couldn't even tell you.
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But this whole episode is to give you a light of motivation
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can always be the focal point and what it is that you want to
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do. It's going to get you to where
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you go. It gets your foot in the door.
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But as I said, the first six months to a year is the toughest
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business wise. Also you can go into it work
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wise because you're on a probationary period anywhere
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from six months to a year. So and then adult life, like
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graduating high school, not having a structure, values
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growing up and then you get out in the real world and then
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you're around other people and you're learning how maybe you
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grew up is different from these other people upbringing, but you
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don't know whether you was raised right or they was raised
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right. So there's a whole lot of
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confusion. So as an individual, you should
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accept the fact that, OK, I don't know what I'm doing is
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good or bad, but I am human and I'm known to make mistakes.
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And there's nothing wrong with making mistakes as long as you
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learn from the mistakes. But not to get up too much off
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subject, but motivation will be like, Oh well, I'm around these
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people, these new group of friends and they're different
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from me, so maybe their way is right and my way is wrong.
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Never think like that because a lot of people can fake the funk
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and make things look real good. But in the backside, in the dark
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side ain't always cracked up to be so I would say that
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motivation is not just work wise, spouse wise, it's everyday
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life wise. Some people get motivated to go
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grocery shopping and feel good cooking meals for their kids,
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cooking food for their spouse and family and it brings them
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joy. You know that they love the
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cooking and the food, but they don't look at the preparation,
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the discipline just to get up because maybe that person wasn't
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really motivated to do that. But when you're in a certain, I
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call it funk, but it's not funk. When people know you, they tend
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to play on your personality. Oh, well, you know, I know this
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person is going to do it because, you know, blah, blah,
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blah, blah. I just know.
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So when you're around the same group of people, it's hard to
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grow because they already know who you are.
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They know how it hit certain points in your character that
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get you to feel guilty, to boost their morale or ego.
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And me, I said last season that, you know, if you really wanna
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grow, all you gotta do is just leave your area.
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You ain't necessarily gotta move the city.
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Leave the city, the county, the state, or whatever.
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Just the area or anywhere near or go somewhere, no little
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distance so you can get the slow little jitters out of you.
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Before you make that big step, but some people just go
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full-fledged on and just do the big stepping and those are the
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good, the people that survive. So it's like motivation is
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always in the mix when you first start getting into anything that
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you want to do. But after the motivation fades,
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that discipline is going to keep you paid and stay in discipline
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and everything that you do, it's going to take you a whole lot of
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places, man. Being disciplined, people
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respect you a whole lot more. Employees will expect you,
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respect you a whole lot more. Strangers that don't even know
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you, once they see that you have the structure, they know not to
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play with you. They know not to even try
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certain things with you as if they do would do with somebody
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else. But it saw us a journey and it's
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life. Everybody got there time stamp
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on certain things they got to go through whatever age bracket
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they're in or however their life is struck set up.
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Because as I always say, if you live in your truth, life is
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easy. When you're not living your
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truth, life is hard 'cause when you're not living your truth,
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you're trying to impress other people instead of being who you
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are. People like that, only a small
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group of people know who they are.
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But the outside of that circle look at them as a statistic
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because they know their personality.
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They know how to move, maneuver, get over and all kind of stuff.
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So now slowly people starting to wake up and realize that some
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people really need discipline and structure in their life, But
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it's up to that person to really sit down in that mirror and take
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a look at themselves and be like, you know what, I need to
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make a change. But it's always, well, you know,
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I can't do this because I got this going on.
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So in their own head, they're making excuses.
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Someone's not even motivating you, but in their own head,
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they're making excuses. It's because they don't want to
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feel left out. So, you know, you have a lot of
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people, they have abandonment issues.
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Abandonment issues don't have to necessarily be from a parent,
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not being around people, your parents, your whole family can
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be around. But some people feel like they
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should have, you know, attention 24/7 and the world just don't
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work like that, you know what I'm saying?
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It's just like they just don't work that way.
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So a lot of people got to work on the sales truly and
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thoroughly before I would even say getting into a relationship,
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recognizing their flaws and who they are and what they accept
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and what they accepted in the past.
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Because I was on alive earlier and lady who was mentioning how
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she was, you know, the typical the guys this, the guys that,
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but she don't want to bash or whatever.
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But it's just crazy to wear how people can be around someone
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just to say they got someone but they're not satisfied.
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And I believe that's the issue that a lot of people are having
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right now. Not necessarily saying
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everybody, but that majority factor.
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So it's like you have a person that's around you.
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You're you're appreciative that you have someone, but you're
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just not satisfied. That's why people step out.
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But but all that goes into motivation.
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If like I always say, you're motivated in the beginning, but
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after a while that motivation fades and people get bored
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easily. Short attention span.
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But if you're structure, you if you structure yourself when
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you're 18 cause childhood don't matter.
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Soon as you turn grown, all that childhood stuff is there, but it
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doesn't affect you as much as you're growing older.
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So I'll leave it to say this, when you getting into something,
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motivation is the beginning, but staying disciplined is going to
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keep the long term and everything going.
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Once you lose the motivation, things fall all the way off and
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karma don't even have to be a part of it.
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But for the people who win in life aren't the most motivated,
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they are the most disciplined. Once again, if you look at
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anybody in the industry, music wise, creation wise, comedian,
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whatever it is that they're doing, you can even go with a
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school teacher, police officers, you know, they was motivated to
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get into whatever they want to get into.
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But after a while, you develop routine, habits and discipline.
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And that's what people fail to realize is they look at it like,
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oh, this person motivating me, they can motivate you all day
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long. But you got to understand that
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these people are very disciplined on what they do.
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And also so motivation might start the journey, but
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discipline finishes it. And I'd like to close this
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episode out, and I understand that a lot of people go through
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life differently. And it doesn't matter how you
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live your life, this is what you do in that span while you're on
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this earth with your life. Because what really got me
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looking at life differently, a cousin of mine got herself in a
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situation is no longer here. I went to his funeral and all
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they had to say was nothing. They didn't really say too much
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of anything, any accomplishments or anything.
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It was just a typical funeral. That right there from that day
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on, I said to myself, if anything will ever happen to me
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in life, I would at least want somebody to say, hey, he did
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this, he did that, he did this, he did that.
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A good memory, then nothing. But remember, inspiration means
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nothing without action. Apply what you heard.
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Move with discipline, build with intentions.
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Always remember that. Always remember this subscribe,
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stay focused, stay hungry. This is we legit 16 and we don't
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just talk hustle, we execute and I see you on the next episode.