Why does motivation fade but discipline builds success?
In this episode of the We Legit 16: Stories & Hustle Podcast, we break down the real difference between motivation and discipline and why discipline is what keeps you going when motivation disappears.
Motivation can get you started but discipline creates consistency, growth, and long-term results. We talk about why relying on motivation alone leads to burnout, and how building discipline helps you stay locked in even when you don’t feel like showing up.
This episode is for entrepreneurs, creators, and anyone trying to stay consistent, build habits, and level up their mindset.
Topics Covered:
- Motivation vs discipline
- Building consistency
- Entrepreneur mindset
- Staying focused when motivation is low
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Welcome back. Welcome back.
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Welcome back. Welcome back to another episode
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Let's get into it. Today's episode is going to be
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about discipline versus motivation, How we keep going
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when we are tired. How it works is after a burnout,
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people want solutions. This episode teaches how to stay
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consistent without relying on height.
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One thing that I always make sure that I do is I take time
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out for myself. When I take time out for myself,
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I put the phone, do not disturb, I communicate with some people
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and sometimes I just need about like 30 minutes to an hour to
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myself without interacting. What I mean by interacting some
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people depending if it's a phone conversation, FaceTime or
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through social media, but sometimes you really do need
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that time to like really sit, reflect and think like, you
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know, is this business really going or what I'm doing?
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Is it really going the way I want or not really?
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You really need to have a, a moment to sit there and think
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about, you know, is this is going, is it going?
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That's one thing #2 it's always good to take a walk.
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When you take walks, doesn't matter where you go, doesn't
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matter how many steps you get, doesn't matter how much time you
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got out there on a walk. The purpose of taking a walk is
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it give you time to relieve tension and stress.
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It give you time to think what's going on, give you time to
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reflect a lot of different things.
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Because when you walk in and you're not talking about you
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listening to music, your mind is racing, it's calming you down.
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It's letting you know that A, this is much needed and it's
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going to be all right #3 going to the gym.
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If you can't go to the gym, walking is good.
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Doing a little exercises, Stretching.
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Stretching is very important, very important to keep your body
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loose, get the blood flowing. And a lot of good benefits come
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with stretching. If you believe it or not.
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Also, staying hydrated and staying on top of your health
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and making sure you're getting the right nutrients for your
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body. It won't slug you out and tire
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you out. And then it's always good to
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take at least one day out the week to build up your
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motivation. It's still being disciplined.
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However you market your company, however you market yourself,
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however you manage your workload, if you're working for
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a company, it all, all this is in the same dynamic.
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It just helps you keep your motivation going, keeps you
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going on what it is that you're trying to achieve.
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And also it's giving you discipline, A strict discipline.
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In the West Coast, we call it programming and then around
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about different ways got a program.
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But anyways, once you have that day out for yourself, then you
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get back on the grind. What I generally like to do is
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the beginning of the day, I like to look at the analytics and see
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how I'm pretty much maintaining social media status, how many
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views I get. Kind of sort of just look at the
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analytics on social media from Twitter, Tiktok, the Ground and
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Facebook. And then I'll be looking at how
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many people like at the website, any unread messages that I've
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gotten. And then I put together notes
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and make sure I communicate with this person, that person.
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Try to stay on top of the game, 'cause sometimes without
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assisting you, I'm doing everything by myself.
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I do be forgetful, but what keeps me disciplined is that
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when you get off track on the program, that discipline and the
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strictness that you said keeps you in line.
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Well, I mean keep you in line. Say you might say you are a
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bodybuilder and you have like a cheat meal day.
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It might keep you off balance for one day, you know, saying it
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won't hurt, but you're going to feel it the next day.
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So by you having a cheat meal, yeah, you know, you're
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disciplined. You know, you just need a day is
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just. But that one day might throw you
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off and it will remind. It will remind you, hey, we need
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to get back on track. You know what I'm saying?
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So but how I maintain motivation.
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I usually go through a lot of my old clips of where I started,
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what happened midway, and where I'm at today.
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Just recently about two weeks ago I be got two articles from
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Nashville Voyage. Y'all can go check that out.
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Just Google Nashville voyage and type in Marquis Carter.
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Three of my articles will pop up and that will make a total of 6
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all together. So since I transitioned to
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Nashville, TN, I didn't have 6 magazine articles written on me
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and more on the way. And Nashville is home is most
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definitely home now. And that's what keeps me
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motivated. I don't really go back and
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relook at my work as much, but sometimes when I be down and out
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and it's just like, you know, it's like things don't seem like
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it's going away is going. But I have a mentor, have a
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brand ambassador and they be they talk, they tell me stuff
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without them realizing it because I'll ask a question or
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ask opinions and stuff like that.
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You know, it'd be really be motivational.
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A girl that I'm really cool with.
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She really gives me good, good advice and that would really
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motivate me a whole lot more. But with motivation, I still
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keep that same program. I monetize.
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I not monetize. I monitor my analytics.
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I make sure I pull out good content.
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It's all about really showcasing this background right here is
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making sure that my brand is being seen.
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I mean, I try to keep it legit the best way I can.
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Some days it'd be really hard. You know, you'd be seeing other
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people doing stuff that's really, I won't say commercial,
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but it's kind of like following trends and stuff like that.
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And when you're trying to be original and stick out, it's
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really hard in the beginning because it's not popular.
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So it takes work when you're trying to do something organic
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and BOG, as a lot of people would say back in the days.
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But motivation fades, discipline pays.
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So when you are unmotivated, your discipline should keep you
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in line because your discipline is what got you in the position
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where you in, whether if it's on you took a vacation, you have to
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work on some projects for your company or just life in general.
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Because motivation keeps people up and about it like a good
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song, a good instrumental, good motivational quote, even a good
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book for a lot of people that likes to read.
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It's always going to be something in your mind that's
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going to keep you motivated. But that discipline is going to
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get you paid because however you run your program, and when
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people adapt to your program and they like your program, they're
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going to stick around for long haul.
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You're going to be around for long haul because it's, as they
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always say, hard work pays off, and that's a fact.
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Showing up tired but focused is really hard.
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You have a lot of people that go to work that run companies or
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run a small business or trying to build a brand from the ground
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up. They show up tired, you know
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what I'm saying? And you got to think for me, I
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record the podcast, go live on TikTok, post on social media.
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I hop on people's lives, interact, intertwine.
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And then I go outside, interact, twine, whatever errands or
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something I'm doing out there. Then I got to go to work.
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So there's no telling what a person may be going through when
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they go to work because they don't know the work, don't know
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what that individual got going on outside.
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Even if they not even running a company, they could be a single
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parent, it could be the person living with relatives and they
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just going through the ringer of just unnecessary stress.
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And it's just like you go to work and you trying to stay
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focused with certain things, you know, really be pushing that
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button. So one way of showing up tired
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but staying focused is making sure you got a regiment as in
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program stretch. Listen to a good quote, listen
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to a good song, positive song. While Leather is gospel, R&B,
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hip hop, just a nice good motivational song with a little
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quote maybe in a podcast that keep you focused and chill, keep
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your nerves and stuff down. Or going to therapy.
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I haven't a good friend or two that you can talk to and get
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certain things off your chest where you're not being judge and
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you can be yourself and hopefully that person.
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Don't run and tell what you're vent to because everybody need
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to vent. When you don't have nobody to
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vent to, you become not an evil person, but you just become real
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disgruntled and it's like this person really needs somebody to
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talk to. Just let somebody just a, just
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let it all out and that be it. That's all the person need.
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That's all the person need maybe on about that day and when you
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get all that stress, all that built up testosterone or
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whatever it is you're going throughout your system, I'm
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telling you you'll feel 10 lbs lighter, no cap and also as you
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motivating phase but the discipline pays and when you
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showing up tired. Another thing is creating a
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system instead of willpower goes back to discipline.
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When you create a system, the system is how you dictate your
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program. And then like I said earlier, if
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you got a good program and people are functioning with that
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program, you are going to be a good employee, an asset to a
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company or your company or just in general as a person.
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Because people love structure. I don't care what they say, but
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people love structure. And when you got structure, a
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lot of people stick around, believe it or not.
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But when you're unstructured, that's when a lot of people only
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around for the benefits, the drama, the he said, she said.
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All the exciting stuff. But once that fades away, they
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fade away usually how it goes. So when you creating your
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program, the best thing to always realize is you got to
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know what kind of people you got to have on your circle.
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My circle is very small. Very few people know what I got
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going on. But not everybody can't tell
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everybody everything because you know, as you grow in life, you
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know who you can have a conversation with off the RIP.
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You know, you can have a a good it tells your conversation with
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this person. You might know this person
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intellect is not on this level. So you got to, I won't say
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entertain, which is learn how to communicate whatever individual
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that you around. Some people call it being fake,
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but it's not being fake. It's just respecting the person
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you are with. It's like, I can talk about
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business to somebody else, but somebody's not into a business.
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They're not going to be too intertwined in the conversation
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because they don't have no knowledge of it.
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And you can't fault the person for not having knowledge of it
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because it's probably not the expertise.
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It's probably something never thought about.
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So you can't knock a person for not wanting to be a part of what
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it is that you want to do when they're not really interested
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like that. They may like you, they may
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support you from afar or however the case may be in the
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situation, but you got to realize that everybody program
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is different. So when people, when I be
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hearing people, so man, nobody support me, nobody, this nobody
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that was like, hey, the world is dirty.
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Just got to find your way in it and maintain it the best way you
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can because when I run into business, that's just like
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period. I learned that early before I
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graduated high school, really in junior high.
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So people will always be people. And one thing for show that the
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older guy told me when I was 18 years old, he said people will
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never disappoint you. And that fact is true because I
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had left my home state, came to the South, I visited a variety
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of different places, seen so much of United States.
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They really changed my mind frame on how I look at things.
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But even though I've been in all these different environments,
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seen all these different things within the United States, one
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thing remain the same is people never change.
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And it doesn't matter how big the city is, how small the town
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is, or the county, wherever the case may be, people will remain
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the same. Then once you system is created
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that will boost willpower. So say a person will make a
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real, the real might get 212 likes.
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It doesn't matter if the if the views don't matter, the
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willpower and you keeping that same structure and program is
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what matters. It's all about staying
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consistent. What really motivated me to
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continue what I was doing because I was really ready to
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give it all up. And but what happened was I was
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on YouTube, I was watching $1 worth of game
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interview and Larry June was on there.
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Larry June was on there and he said that he thought about the
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same thing. He's about to give it up and he
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just didn't want to do it. No more on the music to then.
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I believe he said he had an agent or something and he seen
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his catalog and he had money built up.
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And once he seen that money was built up and he was moving from
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the Bay to LA or LA to the Bay, he went and got that money.
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Created a system strict on the program.
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Been popping ever since. I was like that right?
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That whole interview was motivating right there and
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winning. After watching that interview I
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started upgrading my reels and how I record and and how I edit.
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I got real creative and real better at it after that.
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I got two more magazine interviews after that and it was
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3 at that time. And then one of my customers who
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was from overseas at the time, I think he's on vacation, and he
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hit me up and said he wanted a hoodie.
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I made that hoodie for him, promoted it still to this day is
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one of my biggest videos on TikTok.
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So to say that, to say is that it doesn't matter who's watching
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it. You never know who's watching
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first and foremost. Second of all, once you put it
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out, it's going recycle. Doesn't matter how recycle is
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going to recycle. Regardless whether someone else
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repost it, like it, share it, or you repost it on your story.
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One way or another it's going to come back around.
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And also just stay consistent. Staying consistent is the best
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thing possible because you never know what's going to happen.
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You just never know, and people will let you know from afar, and
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people let you know that you're doing something because they'll
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talk about it in a beautiful, understanding light.
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Only you can recognize the signs of that.
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Nobody else can. Whatever it is that you doing
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and someone else is telling, hey man, what you're doing is really
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good. You know, I like what I'm
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seeing. Doesn't matter what you're
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doing, podcaster, brand owner, starting a brand, good employee
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starting a company, wherever the case may be, just being a person
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in general, somebody that don't know you or somebody that know
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you and really looking like a hey, I see you.
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That's motivation. That's letting you know that
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your consistency and how you are as a person is working.
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And also no one went to push versus no one went to pause.
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Now for me, I push every day but some days I need a break and
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it's usually a Sunday and Sunday is my rest of day and sometimes
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Thursday, Thursday and Sunday is kind of like the day that I
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don't like doing nothing. Reason being is because Thursday
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is right before the weekend, so that day will give me time to
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chill, relax, watch Thursday Night Football, chill out and
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you know, get my mind right. Sunday is natural rest day, but
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it's a day where I don't really listen to a lot of rap music,
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depending on how I'm feeling. I try not to play a lot of rap
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music on Sunday, strictly always.
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So when I push, I push really hard because I really like what
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I do. I like my model.
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It's not just a brand, it's a lifestyle.
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And like I said this right here, it's internationally known from
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the east side of Long Beach to internationally, worldwide
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known. All you got to do is Google it.
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And then when I be pushing, I push really hard, but I don't
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know how hard. I feel like I'm pushing very
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hard, but I don't know who's all viewing and watching the
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content. So as I say, the content is
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contenting. That's pretty much what's going
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on. And I don't really think about
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the views or however it go. This is all about being seen and
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exposure. But when I pause, I still feel
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like I wanna push, but I don't push as hard on the days I
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pause. So that right there can give you
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a visual on how to maintain your program, maintain stability as a
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person, walking, stretching, relaxing, having you an hour, 30
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minutes to an hour, maybe 2 hours, which is woosah time,
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which is all needed to function in everyday life.
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Always keep your circle small depending on whatever it is that
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you're doing. Also make sure you have one or
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two people where you could just talk to an event to make sure
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they they keep you on balance and on track and also stay
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consistent. Whatever it is that you doing.
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Now what got me to becoming a business owner?
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I always wanted to be in business.
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I went up for a promotion for a job.
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I didn't get it. One bitter, one mad, nothing
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stayed on the job and everything.
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I just started developing this brand right here.
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So when Nipsey Hussle died, he always said, you know, he got in
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the business world selling T-shirts.
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So I just learned a Nipsey Hussle blueprint and I started
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in Dallas, transition to Tennessee.
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I didn't think of all of this going on.
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Never thought about doing this podcast right here.
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I never thought about being seen on magazines or being
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interviewed. None of that came to mind.
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A lot of stuff just come with time and it changed the outlook
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on a lot of different things. And my whole thing is prosperity
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and learning and growing as you go.
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So before I close this out, remember your story matters,
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your grind matters, and where you're heading is bigger than
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where you started. No shortcuts, no excuses, just
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hustle and purpose. If you felt this episode, tap
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