Eric Thomas
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I'm squeezing.
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I got money. I'm squeezing that toothpaste. Why? Because I'm trying to get everything out the tube before I go to another one. And with my life, before I get out of here, which is why I could murder myself. that I didn't realize at 12 that I was great. And that's why I say you got to check in 2025, you 2025, right? Because I didn't know I was great.
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And once I checked in and realized how great I was, I was like, bro, we're going to keep doing this. And to the day we die. And so I would just say to you, you're watching, you're in this space, you're reading his books, you're going to his conferences because you know it's in you and it's time to stop being lazy. And it's time to activate.
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And that's why people don't want to drive in their lives. They don't want to be responsible. It's so much easier to say, my life is messed up because you did this and you did that. Once you take the keys down, you got to go anything. But I'm going to tell you this. This is why I like it. While it's more responsibility, it's more freedom. It's more independence. It's more control. Opportunities.
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People don't take it serious. This is the time to get control of your mind. And for most of us, our mind is in control of us. So when you talk about meditating, it's like this is a habit of the greats. And one of the habits of those individuals who are not where they want to be is, I'm not trying to be funny, but it's like lazy. To absolutely meditate regularly is a discipline. It is, man.
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It's not easy. It's not easy to get control of your... I'm like, where did that thought come from? Right? So guys, let's go back to the 12-year-old that found the birth certificate. Right? We found the birth certificate. We found the birth certificate in the emotional state. We found it in the emotional state. Listen to me. I'm not the first kid who has ever gone through this experience.
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And you know what? I had to ask myself in that mirror at 16, 17, 18. I had to keep asking myself, when you saw it, why did you see it that way? Why did you not call your mom and say, mom, you wouldn't talk about this? Why didn't you go, hey mom, the counselor, can we go sit down and talk to the counselor? Hey mom, call dad, can we just sit down?
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And listen to me, I went from, I can't believe that you would do me like this. I went from a ball of emotions to living in abandoned buildings. It was the most, it was the stupidest decision I had probably ever made. I put myself in so much danger as a 12 year old, 13 years old, homeless. Based on emotions. On emotions. So the same document, nothing changed about it.
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But if I could go back as this adult and look at that, I would look at his facts and go, wow, your mother protected you. Wow, your mom loved you so much that she didn't want you with your biological father because she thought he could be a threat. Right, wrong, or indifferent. Your mom didn't do this because she was trying to hurt you. Your mom did this because she was trying to protect you.
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Your mom brought you into a family. Your mom didn't try to hide the identity. She wanted this man.
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to be your father he didn't he changed your name and gave you his last name wow he treated me as if i was his own wow he didn't lie he made his family treat me as if i was and don't ever say anything about my past because my past has nothing to do with him making a decision at the courthouse to be my dad it's the same document What? Emotional? The other one is factual. Your mother loves you.
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Your mother cares for you. Your mother's trying to put you in a healthy environment. Your mother has a job. Your mother married somebody who was a foreman at GM. He has a job. He has a college degree. He played basketball. He's a responsible man. He protects us from taking emotion. Wouldn't let me be rational. Emotional wouldn't let me think rationally. It had me irrational.
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So I would say when you make emotional decisions, you get emotional consequences. But it takes meditation. It takes controlling of the mind to say, how should I behave? How should I think in this situation? And what's going to give me the best outcome? And I'm going to be honest. I've learned we can save the emotions for when I'm looking at the Nomad badge and going, man, that's my boy. Thank you.
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They limit it. But the limitless win. You take the keys. And so I took the keys in my life and said, my, thanks. Dad, thanks for not being there for me. You gave me a dog. You gave me a passion. You gave me resilience. You taught me how to make it when the very thing that's supposed to be there for you isn't there for you. And I tell people,
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Why would you even buy me? Like what would make you think of, and this is a perfect gift. You know what I'm saying? Like I didn't think to buy suitcases for myself. That's where the emotion should be. Me coming in and seeing you, hugging you. What's up fam? But when it comes to business, when it comes to being a leader and a decision maker, we not doing emotions. We're doing empirical evidence.
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We're doing facts. What does the fact say? What does the research say? What does the evidence say? Okay. And based on the research and the evidence, this is the game plan. Let's go. It doesn't matter how you feel. Yeah. Yeah. Don't matter how you feel. Man, I love this. Yeah.
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Listen to me. I never even thought about being a multimillionaire or a billionaire until I was in a room with Warren Buffett. I didn't even know how much it was worth when I was in the ruins afterwards. And then this all started making sense. Okay, now that I know who I am, you, 2025, like, check, I know who I am. Now it's, oh, oh, real estate is a way?
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Oh, so you mean to tell me that being a blue collar, okay, that's what my parents knew, but you don't make a whole bunch of money working. You make more money when you put your money to work. Oh, that's real estate? Oh, helping kids who are talented figure out their talent and taking a percentage?
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oh okay i didn't even know this stuff exists got it and so it is it is important bob proctor pulling me to the side how much do you charge you should be charging les brown calling me and said i'll meet you in orlando les brown sitting me down talking to listen to me coaching is everything why because i just said think of michael jordan without phil jackson right think of venus and cerulean uh venus and serena without richard williams
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Like, yo, I just want you to picture Kobe without Phil Jackson. Think about Tim Grook without, Mike without.
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Come on, not Tim. So coaching is critical, and here's what's going to blow your mind. When you get to our level, you really need more coaching. We didn't exhausted all the stuff. You really need coaching.
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They said, they said, I read it, but it's research. I'm almost sure it's true that LeBron, look at LeBron, what he's doing right now.
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Whoever had the arguments, you know what I'm saying? Because there were those of us who was alive. Yeah. We watched Jordan do his thing. But, bro, what LeBron is doing right now, but when I do my research and not emotional about, oh, how is he doing this? No, when I do my research, he's spending $1.5 million.
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Some kid asked me the other day, he's like, man, wouldn't you say your son is lucky because you're in his life and his mom is in his life? I said yes and no. I said yes, he's blessed to have his mom and dad. Well, he ain't got that dog. He doesn't have the hunger? He ain't got that dog. Oh, man. My son is a great kid. But he doesn't have the drive. He ain't got the same drive I got.
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on his body, meaning recovery coaches, meaning dietary coaches, meaning mental and emotional coaches, acting coaches, like he got on. And so you see the decision he made and you see, okay, yeah, he was great. But that investment that he made in himself, And now look, his son is in. And then he got another son. These are decisions that he's making. He's not emotional.
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These decisions are based on facts of experts. And then we're seeing the outcomes of it. We're seeing the numbers that he's putting up at this age versus the... And nobody's ever put these kind of numbers up at this particular age. So we all need coaches. And so that's why I've made the decision that E...
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The one area that you need to step up in, speaking is good, traveling the world, but you gotta, the same way people open up doors for you and walk you through, You have got to do the same thing. And I've literally the last two years have had a small group of people that every morning I wake up with and I train them for an hour every single morning.
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And what's amazing about that is to see the difference between people I coach and people who watch me online. It's a difference. You watching me online, you getting the motivation, but you're not getting the daily schedule. You're not getting the things to do list. You're not getting the mindset. You're not getting the analytics. You're not getting the blueprint.
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So it's like you're watching and then you are interpreting. And this is why I think audio books are good, but I think training with our books are good because people will read our books and interpret them in a way that we didn't intend for them to be interpreted.
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So when we do the training or they get to come to a conference where they get to watch the podcast, they're really investing more to what was, What was he really saying? And if they can do what you're saying, that habit, they can get the outcomes that me and you get.
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Coaching, teaching, mentoring. Schedule. What I actually do, not just the passion and stuff you hear it online, but the actual, and for free. I'm going to walk you through how many steps I take a day. What I'm drinking. Why did I decide to wake up at this time? Why am I doing this? So that you can start the year off.
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There should be like in class, especially if you go to college, it should be like UOU 101, UOU 215, UOU 312. Literally, you get to sit down and go, who am I? What are my skills? What are the things that I'm challenged with? What industries would I be best in? We spend so much time trying to get that. I don't think we spend a significant enough time who we are, like who should we become?
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And that drive came without some stuff that I had. That stuff came from lack. And so I say to anybody, you got to understand, it could go either way. But when you take the, it's like I walk into a school and I ask, how many of y'all, 50 kids? How many of you kids in here? 1,000 kids. How many of your dads, one in your life, was not living in the house? 90% raised their hand. And guess what?
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I'd say either dead. I'd say dead. Really? Yeah, because I was an extremist. You know, everything I did, I did it to the fullest. You know, so I think I would be dead, honestly. I would say this to simplify for people, because sometimes when you talk spirituality, for some people it's just too deep. I would say to you, what happened when I made a commitment to God
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is that I connected with the person that made me, that knew me like nobody else knew me. And he coached me from the 12 year old to now. He coached me. He's like, bro, I know you, I made you. I know what's the best environments for you. I know who's good for you, who's not good for you. I know your temptations. I know your vices. I know your good habits, your bad habits, and just let me teach you.
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And so it was maybe five, six years of fighting Resisting. Resisting, you know, because he introduced himself to me at eight. And I guess maybe it was too young, but homeless. I was like at 16, like, OK, I'm ready to get coached. Where's that coaching program? I'm ready for that coach.
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And so from 16 to maybe 25, you know, it was like, OK, I'm going to come to coaching some days, some days I'm not, some days I'm going in, some days I'm not. And then my son was born. I was almost 25 years old. Jalen was born. And Jalen was born in 1995. I turned 25 in September. He was born July 20.
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And when Jalen was born, it was the day coach said to me, this is why I've been trying to train you. Because I wanted you to be the best father you could be. And so you miss some classes. You miss some lessons. Your son is here now. He needs the best version of you. We can't repeat the mistakes of the past. I need you to hurry up.
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And so when Jalen was born, from that day forward, I remember when he was born, I held him. It was kind of like he looked at me like, you're the person that's going to take care of me? Wow. And that was the day. And this is what a lot of you are running from. It's the R word. And I get it because it's tough. Responsibility.
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That was the day where it's like, oh, you got to be responsible for somebody else. Yeah. You cannot... You got, I've never played a video game since Jalen was born. Wow. I've read more books since Jalen was born. That first year or two that I ever read in my life. I took my career seriously speaking. I start, you know, Zig Ziglar, you know, Nightingale, you know, Og Mendino. Yeah. Bob Proctor.
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Oh, bro. You name him. Dennis Kimbrough. Like I went, I went. I went heavy, you know, Arthur Ashe, you know, days are great. And I read everything. I was in the library like an addict, just studying and studying and studying. And it was because I didn't want the I didn't want some of the consequences of the past to come in this generation, you know?
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And so for me, it was like, yo, your son's here. You gotta handle your business. And I just heard, I was more attentive. I started getting up at six and then I'd play this game. Daylight saving times would come. I would, okay, say, don't follow it. Stay up at five is the new. And then the next year, the four. And then I got started getting up at three.
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and i started getting up at three o'clock in the morning because it was still there was no dogs outside nobody was driving around the family was sleep and i was like okay coach i'm sorry let's go back over the lessons i didn't get and let's go over the new lessons like coach me show me show me nobody knows me and i tell people i had a brand new cadillac man it had 10 000 miles and the engine blew
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I automatically can relate to them. That's the je ne sais quoi that my daddy wasn't there. That's the it factor. If my father hadn't been there, I might not be able to go in here and relate on my videos and go viral. People are like, okay, maybe if I just had Eric's voice or if I just screamed and I just looked passionate.
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And I immediately took it back to Cadillac. I didn't take it to BMW. I didn't take it to Honda. I took it straight to Cadillac. And I went right back to the creator. I was like, yo, you made me. And I'm tearing this car up. I'm not putting oil in it. I'm not changing the, rotating the tires. I'm not putting fluid in it. Show me how to take care of this. And he began to show me how to do it.
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And it's just like amazing to see when we're on one accord and I'm following the... He told me, he's like, yo, it's time. I think I called you maybe last year. I'm like, yo, I need to... And he was like, no, no, you're just supposed to call and say what's up. You know, and then this time it was like, yep, you need to do it. You know, I was like, all right, I got it, Brandon. I think...
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And I was like, all right. You know what I'm saying? So just listening to him, doing what he's telling me to do, and let him coach me. So I would say, you know, don't spiritualize it and make it too ridiculous. It's the coach. And just get a relationship with the coach. Let the coach get a relationship with you. And just do what he tells you to do, and you're going to love the results.
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And so I don't want to just be happy. I want the creator to go. yeah i'm grateful that i created you and i see you're doing in the world what it was that i wanted you to do and now also for yourself what i wanted you to do because i wanted you to be happy too i didn't want your life to just be about work and being a blessing i wanted you to be blessed as well so that's that's it
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Yeah, yeah.
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Bro, that's not what it is. It's when I speak, you hear it because I've been through what you've been through. And so you recognize that voice. You recognize the pain. You recognize the struggle. But you recognize I overcame it. And that's why you're like, I want to rock with this dude.
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Because this one ain't, some kind of way, Eric ain't the one that's making us feel like, oh, it's okay that you went through this, and it's okay that this, and it's okay if you don't want to grow, and it's okay if you don't want, no. What you're hearing from me is a coach that's saying, Jordan, you got six rings in you, but you got to stop playing this way, and you got to start playing this way.
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Kobe, you got great, but you got to do it this way. Serena, you got Venus, you got that. Richard Williams is saying, he's not out there just, He's teaching, training, but he's also correcting. And so for me, they hear my voice. I'm not letting you get away with murder because greatness is in you. The greatness is in you. And now it's time to go to school.
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It's time to go to work and bring that greatness out of you. So yes, anybody, anybody could be successful. But as long as you're playing the blame game, You have given permission, the license, registration, the keys, you give it all over to somebody else. And the day you take it, is the day that you can start deciding which direction you want to go. Wow.
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So it sounds like step one, take the keys back to your life. Take the keys back.
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With your husband.
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Like, get to know you. We're so busy wanting to be in a community that we don't realize we are a community. Right? And look, I'm not trying to be deep. You know, people could, you know, you believe this, you don't believe this. But what I was taught, you know, in school, especially Catholic school, it seemed like Adam was by himself first. It doesn't seem like it was like somebody else.
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It's like Adam was first and then whatever happened after that. So the first man was by himself. And I think that's important for those of us who study that. Why? Because all of us think we have to have somebody to be somebody. And this guy started his journey on his own before he connected with somebody. Whatever. He knew his purpose. You know, he walked in his confidence.
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And a lot of us are going, I hear people all the time, well, I'm not doing good in life. Why not? I don't have nobody. I'm not in a relationship. I'm saying, you're telling me, no, listen to me very closely. Do you think for one minute... that getting in a relationship with somebody, it can't be the key because so many people have gotten in relationships and got out of it.
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Some new thing, yeah.
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It's okay.
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So that can't be the key. Now, two healthy people, not perfect, but two healthy people coming together, oh, no, that's difficult. It's expansive. But guess what has to happen? You've got to be healthy with you. You can be with this.
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So we even messing each other up when we have two dysfunctional people trying to connect with each other because we think two functional people don't come together and make each other. It's not going to work.
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So I just think the first step after the first step is you got to figure out who you are and love you and feel good about you and show up in the ring you and not care what nobody think about you. And that's why this relationship has worked so well for me over the years because when we were together, it's never been a thing of, E, why you do that? E, why you do that? Or E, why you do that?
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It's always been like, E, you have a unique set of skills that make you great. You have a unique set. And so we've always focused on what's our unique skills and what do you know that I don't know and how can you help me get there? And so a lot of these young kids are
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joining things they shouldn't join and being with people because they think their happiness is going to come from being with somebody else. And I just think if you be, eagles aren't trying to, they just are, lions aren't, what do you think about me? What do you think about my roar? You think I'm too loud when I roar? That's not a concern.
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And so I think step two, figure out who you are, love you, and step three, Figure out your North Star and wake up every single day going after your North Star. Because when you have a North Star, you know, and the people that you love and you spend time with have a North Star, have a purpose, and their purpose might be We both have people whose purpose is to help us with our purpose.
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They don't necessarily have an individual purpose. They were called to help us with our mission. That's it. So we need a North Star so they can know what their North Star is. So that would be my third one. It's like, you've got to figure out what makes you happy. And again, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it.
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First time I did a behind the scenes coming in here, just because I was like, to my Patreon community, like, yo, y'all need to understand where I am and what's going on. But I don't, if you follow me on Instagram or TikTok, wherever I'm on, you don't see behind the scenes. I think that's a phenomenal tool to show other people what, but my wife is private. So for us, that does not work.
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No. No. You know why? Because what I didn't realize as a young adult is that when you say it to somebody else, whether you mean to do it or not, you give them the keys to your life. You give them power over you. They got your whole life in their hand. Because you said it. You said it. They didn't do this because they didn't. They got the keys. Now, I'll be honest.
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She does not want to be seen in the limelight. She doesn't want to be in Dubai and stop and go, let's take a, let's document what we're doing. She doesn't like that. Yeah, yeah. So for some people it works, but I don't have to do that to still find a space, right? There's some people, you know, they do tours, right? I don't do tours. That's not my thing. I used to do them. I don't do them now.
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There's some people that write books. Some people don't write books. Like it doesn't matter. But what matters is,
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you have to find a thing that wakes you up yes at three o'clock or six o'clock or ten o'clock like you got to find the thing that brings the life out of you the joy out of you the happiness out of you and you can't do that following somebody else's north style so my last one will be mad figure out what you was put on this earth to do and i mean every single chance you have to do it do it and when you're not doing it enjoy your life my my son was like damn um i'm tired i say you tired
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You burnt out for what? Look at your mom and dad. You work for the family company. What are you doing? Well, I've been up the last six days working 10, 12 hours. I said, for what? What would you be doing that for? Like, why wouldn't you take advantage of the, he said, what should I be doing? I said, you should figure out what it is you do. He's a designer, right?
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You should be designing clothes Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, whenever, five, six hours a day. And then Saturday, Sunday, or Friday, Saturday, because of your family, you should get a trip somewhere and go spend it with a friend. You should go to Italy. You should go to Rome, son. You should go to South Africa, son. You should go to the Gold Coast in Australia, son. What are you doing?
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You should work. But a part of work also is where is your play? You should play. We worked hard so you could be back. So don't be like us. We grew up in a working class home. We grew up in Detroit. We grew up. You're not blue collar. So go enjoy your life. Be balanced. So I'm not just saying find your no star in terms of what you've been called to do for others. But there should be a.
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healthy amount of time that you spend enjoying your life and enjoying the little time that you have here with us. We both know we won't be doing this podcast 100 years from now. Sure. We don't know how much longer we have, but I won't be 154 sitting down talking to you. So however much time I have left, I need to work hard and I need to enjoy that time. Absolutely. Those are beautiful, man.
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The reason why we don't want to take the keys is because we got to drive. We got to drive. And I told you, today I was like, I got too much to do. I normally drive. I'm like, I got too much to do. And it felt good to be in the car driven. It felt good. Like, I'm on the phone talking to my wife. We having worship, doing our thing, making a couple of business calls.
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I want to use the term that you use and you say create. And I just think so many of us have stepped into careers that group. We have worshiped careers more than we worship create. And so the first thing I would say to that group is, what would life look like if you did it on your terms? Because right now you're really not doing it on your terms. What you've done is say, yo, if I want to survive,
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3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
if I want to strive, this is what I have to do. And you have allowed people to tell you, okay, you need to be an engineer or you need to be a, and you need to move in. So you've done a phenomenal job in being obedient. You've done a phenomenal job in complying. Like you've done a phenomenal job. You follow the rules. Congratulations. You know what I'm saying? Like, you didn't rob a bank.
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
You know what I'm saying? Like, you haven't done anything illegal. You did exactly what a good child should do. And I have a daughter that I have to get on her sometimes because she's that child that's like, yo, dad, what do you guys want me to do? She's obedient. She's obedient. I said, do me a favor. Don't always be obedient.
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
You need to sit down and ask yourself, if you weren't thinking about the family's name, if Eric Thomas, ET, the hip hop preacher, was not your father, what would you be doing? What would you be doing if you didn't have to worry about honoring, you know, the dynasty? And you do a phenomenal job of honoring this dynasty. I'm not saying anything. Went to school, handled your business.
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
You've never been in trouble before. We've never had to spend money doing anything. You've been a phenomenal child. But what would you do if you lived life on your terms and you were able to go where you were able to do? And so that's the first thing I would ask them to do. I want you to think about your life instead of their life. Because that's what you've been thinking about, the life.
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
Now think about your life, and I want you to start putting it everywhere. Now, the next thing I want you to do is I want you to know that if you have the ability, like I'll never forget, CJ was like, okay, E, you know what you're missing? That the big boy, all the big boy speakers, you know what you're missing? I was like, no. He was like, the New York Times bestseller.
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
Now, I'm not telling you gotta do it, but I'm saying, that's one of the, you know, and you got it. And so he was like, first of all, do you want it? Do you want it? Don't do it, because I'm saying you need it. But do you want it? And he could elevate you, but do you want it? And I was like, yeah, I want it. The next question becomes, what does it take to do it?
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
Like, I don't have the responsibility of the traffic. Paying attention. I got paid attention. He moved over and got, I was like, why is he stopping in the middle of, But it was a fire truck was coming. So he had to move up. I didn't know what was going on because it was the first time in my life that I wasn't really responsible because I normally drive.
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
And then am I willing to do what it takes to get it? That's it. Because it's a lot. It's a lot. But here's the thing. I believe if you think about it, it is only because somewhere inside of you, you have what it takes. Now, capacity is there. Willingness is something totally different. Yes. That's different. But I want every human to know.
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
you wouldn't be watching the school you wouldn't be watching or listening to the school of greatness if you didn't believe you were great i'm just i'm just for real you you wouldn't be spending time with this man on the regular i'm telling you i wouldn't be uh going to columbus right i drove to columbus
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
bro it's not a trust me when i tell you it's not a you don't get off the freeway it's not 65 you get up why did i go because this man is great and greats want to hang with greats i need y'all to understand look y'all may not know listen to me i've got no mad suitcases that i still carry this day because he gave them to me like i i i didn't buy a new one i've carried the exact same
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
ones that he gave me. And my son bought a set because I had a set because it reminds me of him when I travel. It's like greatness. So you wouldn't be watching. You wouldn't be locked in. Something in your spirit has you tuned into this band because you know you're great. Now you got to say to yourself, am I willing to cooperate with the greatness that's in me? And then once you do,
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
and you start consistently operating in that you're gonna feel good about it here's what you have to do you have to understand andre de shields i think said the top of one mountain is the bottom of the next wow so so so you get to the top of the mountain but you understand the the g the ged was just one the the foreign degree was just one the master just after the phd was the new york top after that it's the assessments it's the training it's the coaching i i'm i'm in masterminds
The School of Greatness
3 Mindset Shifts To Completely Transform Your Life & Relationships
I get coached, right? And so it's this idea of yesterday's greatness can't be enough because I'm alive today. So if I'm alive today, it must be some more greatness in me. And it's my job, like the toothpaste, It's my job not to just lose. I don't know about you, but I would just use a little bit of it and get another one. He getting the last drop.