TAKE THE TIME TO VALUE YOURSELF - Powerful Eric Thomas Motivation

Motivation Daily by Motiversity

Eric Thomas delivers a high-intensity motivational lecture focused on the urgency of seizing opportunities through extreme preparation. He a

Key takeaways

• Preparation must occur in the 'offseason' so that you are ready when opportunity arrives.
• A victim mindset—blaming parents or environment—effectively gives others control over your life.

Main topics

• Urgency of Opportunity
• Preparation vs. Luck

Notable quotes

I don't want to start practicing on the opportunity; I want to practice before.

Conclusion

The episode serves as a powerful call to action for individuals to tra

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:01) You are running out of time. Listen to me, you're running out of time. You never know when your opportunity is that opportunity. It may not be two years from now. It may not be three years from now. It may not be four years from now. Your opportunity might come in the next six weeks. My man told his grandfather, I'm graduating in two weeks later, even before he literally marched. His grandfather passed. Who's going to pass in your life because you average? Who's not going to see you blow up? Who's not going to see you accomplish your goals? Who's not going to be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor with you? And one day you're going to be great, but you think you got time. You think you got time. A.E.T. three years from now. I'm telling you, you deserve to be great now. Some of you will never be, you'll never have, you'll never do because you're sitting around waiting on a phone call because you're Speaker 1 (0:50) sitting around waiting for somebody to give you an opportunity. Speaker 2 (0:53) Your opportunity to get your mama out of that neighborhood and get your mama into a new neighborhood. Listen to me, that opportunity might come in the next six months. You knew it's your job and you like E.T. Look, I just got here. I got forever. Listen to me very closely. You got to hear me. You might be at that job another 10 years. You might be there another 20 years. But that opportunity, somebody's about to leave and get another job. Hear me very closely. Somebody's about to quit. Somebody's about to get fired. And you will not, listen to me, you will not be ready at that particular moment to go to the next level. Question is, will you be ready when that opportunity comes? So you're running out of time. There's a certain determination. There's a certain level of resiliency, a bounce back, a get back up that you have to have to reach certain levels of success. It's about being prepared beforehand so that when the opportunity comes you already ready for the opportunity It's not playing Call of Duty and waiting by and putting the phone by you wait for somebody to pick up the phone and call you That's not what it's about Preparation we're getting prepared just in case the opportunity comes. I don't want to start practicing on the opportunity I want to practice before so when the opportunity comes I can stroke it Are you hearing what I'm saying? You are who you are in practice when you play And if you hadn't practiced, then when it's time to play, your play is going to be practiced. You heard me. Your play is going to be practiced. So it's working in the offseason. It's doing what you got to do in the offseason. So in the regular season, come you ready. You heard me say it before. I am an athlete. I am a professional. So whether there's a game or not, I wake up and shoot. I heard a little kid call me last week. He said, E.T., thanks, bro. I got up today at 5 o'clock in the morning, and I'm practicing my soccer game. He said, but guess what? That's not what's important. He said, I'm not on the team, Eric. He said I didn't make the soccer team, but I'm getting up at 5 o'clock every morning practicing as if I made it There are two types of people there are people who plan for events and when the events don't show up They don't show up and then there's another group that's hungry and they wanted as bad as they want to breathe and whether there's an event or not They get now whether there's an opportunity or not. They getting up and getting dressed. They getting up They getting out and they going to make it happen. Are you hearing what I'm telling you? I don't plan for events anymore. I plan because it's a part of the process. I plan because I'm a professional I plan because I create my own luck. You ain't got to rely on nobody to get off average but you. So if I was to ask most of you, you already know what your challenge is. You ain't dumb. You know what it is. You just don't fight it. And at what point are you going to fight against that? That nature in you that you know and you had a power to be great It's in you you capable of it now you have to understand if you stay average you stay good You'll never get to where you're trying to get to and I'm challenging you to fight it. We all have 24 hours What makes some of us average make someone's good something great. It's not the family you was born into I Have nothing to do with that had nothing to do with your social economic status Speaker 2 (4:03) It has everything to do with how you command your life. People act as if, if Speaker 1 (4:10) you grow up in a house where your parents