The Cost Of Greatness

We break down the real cost of greatness and why the universe always requires an energetic exchange before you level up. We use stories from my life and my son Hudson’s training to show how sacrifice builds resilience, self-respect, and a new standard. 

• greatness defined by our own standard, not society, religion, culture, or friends 
• the universe as constant exchange, giving up something to gain something 
• paying with time, choosing focus over distraction and “being busy” excuses 
• paying with certainty, taking risks and letting go of control 
• paying with approval, dropping people-pleasing and accepting pushback 
• paying with comfort, learning to fall in love with being uncomfortable 
• the “greatness contract” mindset, consequences, and daily commitment 
• hard training as a tool for taming the mind and building mental resilience 
• habits creating mindset shifts, then permanent state change 
• outgrowing old relationships as the natural result of a new mindset 
• learning to rest well so we can receive what we worked for 

Go out there and be great. Go out there and be great. You got it in you. Go out there and be great. You got it in you. Allow yourself to be uncomfortable. Allow yourself to move through uncertainty. Allow yourself to take risks.

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Transcript

Intro And The Transaction Of Life

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Once you see what you actually are, that you're an infinite, limitless being, you'll see that nothing exists outside of you. I'm your host, Derek Grant, and this is the Pathway to Results Podcast.

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Bro. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pathway to Results Podcast. It is your boy DG. We are here. Um today's a special episode. Today's a special episode because I've been I've been wanting to talk about this here for a while. I've been talking to everybody else about it except to you all, so uh figure we go ahead and make it into an episode. There's this today we're gonna talk about a cost. A cost of what it takes for us to be everything that we're truly capable of. See, that's what a lot of people don't realize in this universe. This universe is an energetic, it's constantly an uh an exchange of energy. We're constantly giving up something to gain something. You guys remember in uh uh I think it was Interstellar when they were talking about it. I mean, I don't know. You said it was Newton's third law or something, or you gotta give up something to go somewhere, you gotta give up something, you gotta let go of the baggage, right? So I'm seeing not only in my life, but people who I who I deal with, it's we don't realize there's a cost of greatness. There's a cost. Just like there's a cost to learn, there's always gonna be a cost to something. You're gonna have to pay something in order for you to gain something. She thought she was gonna just walk into the store and just steal it. That's not the way this universe works. It doesn't work that way. So you have to be willing to give something. Here's the deal. Usually whatever you give up was something that you were unconsciously holding on to. And the universe doesn't want you to hold on to anything, doesn't want you to live outside of yourself, doesn't want you to feel like you need something outside of yourself. So we're gonna break this down today so you can understand really the the the what the transaction looks like. And you understand what the transaction looks like, it's a lot easier for you to pay the costs. Who used to have a saying? Who used to say, was this, was that uh any of my all my 90s babies you grew up in the South? I think it was No Limit. Mia X. Was it Mia X? Paid the cost to be the boss? Maybe that wasn't her, I don't know. Maybe it was Master P. I don't know. It was one of them. It was one of them. But here's the deal, okay? And I was having this conversation with my son Hudson. Uh he he had he had an AAU tournament and struggled, didn't look like himself, wasn't, wasn't playing hard, wasn't trying. You know, I told him, I said, look, I'm always gonna be your biggest cheerleader, I'm gonna be the first one to hold you accountable too. And after talking, I'm teaching him how to work through the layers, right? I had his journal. I said, You have to write down everything that you feel, everything that you're thinking. And he's he's becoming aware of his mind, his internal state. And basically, through this conversation, he alluded to the fact that the work throughout the week, it's getting to a point where it's uncomfortable. I said, good, this is what it's supposed to be. This is what it's supposed to do, because this was the cost that you had to pay. So, y'all about to get me going right now. I didn't even have to start, but you're gonna have to have go ahead. I gotta come, I gotta come with it now. You have to understand something.

Defining Greatness As Your Standard

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In order for you to be great, and we first have to define what it means to be great. Being great means you being and doing everything that you knew you were capable of. You hear what I'm saying? It's you being and doing everything that you knew you were capable of. So being great is a subjective thing. Being great cannot be defined by society, it cannot be defined by religion, it cannot be defined by your culture, it cannot be defined by your friends, your enemies, your spouses, your kids. Nobody. Only you can define greatness in your life. So when you know you can do or be more, then you need to know and do and be more. So here's here's the example. I told, I told, you know, both my kids, you know, you gotta make up your bed. And I told him, I said, look, how you do one thing will be how you do everything in the sense of the energy behind it. I said, when you make up your bed, how do you make it up? Are you just throwing the covers on there and all right, let me go ahead and leave? He said, Yeah. I said, okay then. So now what's the energy behind it? You're not being great. That's not greatness. If I know I can make my bed up better, then don't go on and it's on me to make my bed up better. And here's the deal: it takes a little bit more effort. It takes a little bit more energy. You see, you're giving up something so you can gain the greatness that was inside of you. And I try to tell him this. I said, look, it seems trivial, it seems stupid. It seems, what's the point? It's making up my bed, but it's what you also do in everything else when you do your homework. You doing just enough to get by. I'm telling you right now, ask Margot Grant, ask her, I was the king of doing just enough to get by. If there's a if there was a crown, I wore that motherfucker, I wore with with with pride. I would do whatever it took just to get by. And my mom used to always tell me, she said, don't do it just because she used to say, if you do it just good enough to get by, you better believe. I'm gonna tell you to go back and do it again. And then guess what you did? You did and spent more energy on than you would have the first time if you would have just done it. So here's my point. There's a couple things I'm gonna give you to help you to understand what you have to give up. And if you are giving it up, you can remind yourself I'm on the road to greatness right now. Number

Cost One Sacrificing Time

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one, in order for you to be great, you're gonna have to probably, most likely, give up some some time. Hold on now. Hold on now. You want your relationship, you want your marriage, you want your child to be the parent, you want that to be great, but you're not willing to give up that time. You're not willing to sacrifice time so you can gain the expertise in the wisdom and the knowledge in this particular field. Someone was talking to me the other day about they having they have they were having a long-distance relationship, and it's like it's really hard, man, because you know, you know, she's busy and I'm busy, and I oh, so that's the excuse you're gonna use. So now you're now your relationship can't reach its full potential because you're not willing to sacrifice the time when you say that I'm quote unquote busy. You have plenty of time, you got 24 hours in a day, just like everybody else. The question is, what are you doing with it? Instead of you sitting there, sitting on your hands or playing, scrolling up and down on chat snaps, ask yourself, what could I be doing? Oh, I could be calling her. Or I could be writing a letter, or I can done this. So here's my point. When you start to realize time is something that you're gonna have to give up. I talk to people all the time. I was talking to a young lady at work, but she works in the NBA. I mean she plays in the WNBA. Shout out to all WNBA players finally getting paid. Not paid, getting paid what you earn yet, or what you were what you're worthy of, but it's a step in the right direction. But she said to me, she goes, I didn't I said, Did you go to any dances or anything growing up? She goes, I went to two. She's like, I always wanted to go to a football game, though. I didn't get to go to a football game. Now we could look at that and say, that's extreme. We could look at that and say, well, dang, she missed out on, you know, doing things that normal people do. But she's also doing things that normal people don't get to do. You hear what I'm saying? You hear what I'm saying. So she's we were having this conversation, the whole point of it was, do you see what you gave up? You gave up these seemingly mundane, uh common things that most kids get to do, so you could get to do things that most kids don't get to do. That was a part of the transaction. That was part of that was one of the things that you were willing to give up. So instead of going to the football game, you'd go in the gym. Instead of going to the dance, you were in the weight room. And now you're getting the return. Now you get to you get to you're getting paid to play a kid's game. Do we see how this works? So when you start understanding that time is something that you are usually going to have to give up in order to be great.

Cost Two Releasing Certainty

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The next thing that you have to give up, I apologize in advance. I apologize in advance if I'm triggering somebody. I'm just go ahead and say it right now. You are going to have to give up number two. You're gonna have to give up certainty. Let me go ahead and stop because you ain't trying to hear nothing I'm saying. You over here still walking around trying to control everything.

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Huh?

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You still trying to control everything. Yeah, you got you want to grow that business and you know you can start this business. I know I I know I can do it, but but guess what? You're not willing to give up certainty. Hmm? You're not willing to get up, give up, not knowing what's next. What do we call that in our in a human language? Taking a risk. You're not willing to take a risk. Do we not realize that part of being great is you're going to give up certainty because certainty creates familiarity, and familiarity creates comfort, and comfort creates stagnation. And stagnation is the complete opposite of what this universe desired from you. Why in the world would the universe break itself off in all these individual perspectives and then stay the same? Why would it do that? What's the point? I don't see you walking around wearing the same clothes every day. I don't, well, some of you I do, but I don't, for the most part, for the most part, you're not doing it. Why? Because you want to see what it's like. So this universe desires the same thing from you because it is you. It is working and emanating through you. So it wants to see what is it like if I grow into this? What would it be like if I challenge myself with this? What would it be like if I push myself? This is why I keep telling you, you gotta fall in love with being uncomfortable. You have to. So I told my son, I said, Look, there's another level. I wrote up a contract for him. I said, Look, this is the contract of greatness right here. This is your greatness agreement. I'm just telling you right now, there better not be a breach of contract. And I wrote it out. It's in concept, there's consequences, all this stuff. And I told him, I said, look, understand why I'm doing this. This don't have nothing to do with basketball, it has nothing to do with sport. This has to do with your mental resilience, your ability to sit in places when it's uncomfortable. I looked at him, I said, You know how much I hate cold water? He goes, Yeah, you're always cold. I said, I know. And what'd I do? I went on Amazon.com and I ordered a daggone cold plunge. Now I can get in that water. I ain't got no problem. Matter of fact, I could probably go to sleep in it. There was an acclamation period. There's a period where I was, it was really hard. It was challenging, but I ain't got no problem with it now. Why? Because I told myself and I made a commitment to myself, oh, we're gonna do this. We're not gonna run away from what's uncomfortable. We're gonna face what we've been running from. The same goes for you. So when you find yourself trying to control everything and know what's going on, and I gotta have certainty, man, circuit certainty. You need to know what's going on. You know what certainty is? Here's your certainty, knowing that nothing's gonna be certain. How about that? There, you got it. You got your certainty. You over here looking for certainty on daggone time. You wanna know something for certain? You ain't gonna know. How about that? You ain't gonna know. So now that I know that I'm not gonna know. Dang. This life becomes an adventure now. You remember when you were a little kid and used to go outside and go by that creek? Or you go go play in the woods. We used to go play in the woods. I don't know how I never got ticks, but we would go out and play in the woods. We would do all types of mischievous stuff in the woods. Everything was an adventure. We'd pretend this and pretend that. I thought I was Huckleberry Finn. I didn't even know who Huckleberry Finn was at the time. But I was Huckleberry Finn. We thought everything was an adventure. We never knew what every each day was gonna be like. Think about how boring it is if you went to play every single day when you were a kid and you did the same thing every single day. That's the illusion. The illusion is that you want control and you want certainty. You don't want control and you don't want certainty. You know why I stopped watching Interstellar? Because I seen Interstellar 17 times and I knew what was coming next. And it just didn't hit like it used to anymore. I knew what it was. The certainty was there. We don't want certainty in our life, but I'm here to tell you this is the energetic exchange that you have to have or you have to make in order for you to be great. You give up knowing what's next. You don't know how you're going to get there. You don't know when it's going to happen. But you know for certain that if you are resilient, committed, and you are uh consistent and you are accountable, you will get there. So now you don't worry about certainty because certainty is not something that can be achieved on the outside. Certainty what comes on the inside. And if I can regulate me, if I know me and I do what I know me can do, I ain't worried about nothing on the outside. So I'll forfeit certainty so I can have greatness. Number

Cost Three Dropping Approval Seeking

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three. I'm gonna trigger somebody on this one. I know for I know and I know I will on this one. You're gonna have to give up approval from others. Do you hear what I'm saying? You're gonna have to give up approval from others. If you really gonna be great, I'm sorry I have to say this like this. If you got kids, you can go ahead and cover their ears or just say, Uncle DG, he's just talking his talk. You're gonna have to not give up what people think about you. You can't. You can't. Because while you're spending that energy worrying about what they think about you, you could spend that energy worrying about what you think about you. And really, that's all that matters is what you thought about you. It don't matter what anybody else thinks about you. So, in order for you to be great, you can't be afraid to step on toes. I know you got a lot of people in your circle, you got a lot of people around you that's used to you playing second fiddle. And you might make some motherfuckers feel insecure if you really start to step into who you are. Huh? If you speak up now, you say something, you start holding other people accountable because you hold yourself to a level of accountability now. If you start doing that, you might start to lose some friends. You might start to make some people feel uncomfortable. That just shows you that the friendship wasn't built on solid foundation anyway. And really, they were just mirroring the old state of you, the old version of you. The you who was seeking approval. Don't think that you're gonna be people pleasing and be great. Don't think that you're gonna be everything that you can truly be capable of and please everybody at the same time. You must be out your cot picking mind. It ain't gonna happen. You could my mom used to say, you better go ahead with all that. It ain't gonna happen. It ain't gonna happen. So getting that. So now here's the question. Do I wanna be great or do I wanna please everybody? Which one? Which one? I use this as an analogy. I use this as a metaphor. We've talked about this on the last episode. We talked about the story in the life of Jesus was really you. How and where are you gonna sit here and talk about something 2,000 years ago if he did everything that everybody wanted him to do? Huh? That's not walking in power. That's not you being what you were created to be. So sometimes, as a transaction, you're gonna have to speak up. You're gonna have to ruffle feathers. You're gonna have to be who you actually are and be authentic and true to yourself. And here's the reality: sometimes people ain't gonna approve of that. And you know what? Two things can be true at the same time. That's okay too. You know, you realize you can walk in your light and be who you truly are, and people won't approve of that? Did you know that? Did you know you can grow that thing from zero to a hundred million? You can go ahead and do that, and your family may not support you? Did you know that that can be true too? Did you know that you can get out of that relationship even though the religion that you uh uh you subscribe by says, well, divorce is wrong, even though you know good and well this relationship is confining you and keeping you shrunk and shrinking, and now this is uh you're so used to being a shell of yourself. Did you know that you can actually do what's best for you and go against what society says? Those two things can be true. So when we start to understand the energetic exchange of what we have to give up, I told my son, I said, Look, man, you ain't gonna you ain't gonna have certainty. He's like, Well, what if it doesn't work? I said, matter of fact, thank you for asking me that. Because I'm gonna go ahead and put this in the contract. You ain't gotta worry about it. Your job is to trust. Your job is to trust. I said, look, up until this point, I ain't led you astray yet, right? Back when you I used to change your your diapers and you crap all over yourself. You I used to I haven't led you astray yet. I'm not gonna start now. And if I do lead you astray, I'd be the first one to say, yo, that's my bad. So your job is to just trust. Trust, and I'm using this as a microcosm, but we are all children of this universe. Our job is to trust. Trust that we're gonna get to where we need to be, when we need to be there, how we need to get there. So now I don't have to worry about when or how or why. I ain't worried about all that. You know what I'm doing? You know what I'm doing? I'm making sure I'm locking in on me. I'm making sure I'm not worried about what people may think. I'm making sure that if I worry about what people think, what part of me is worried about what people think? I'm doing the work. You see what I'm saying? You do the inner work. And I and here's the deal. I don't know when, I don't know how. I sat down the other day and went through some old journals, had some old journals in the in the cabinet, I went through all. And they, I mean, they dated back to 2021, 2020, 2019. I'm like, oh my goodness, look at you. Everything that you wrote down, everything that you have written down, you have done. Everything that you have written down, you have done. And if you haven't done it, you just haven't done it yet. And the reason why I'm saying that, because the same goes for you in your life. You just forgot. You just forgot. You exactly where you wanted to be right now. Huh? You forgot though. You forgot. You talked about it four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten years ago. You talked about it, it was a dream. And now look at you, you're here by how quickly you forget. If it happened in the past, why would it not repeat itself in the future? Do you not even realize this universe is using patterns? It moves in patterns. It moves in patterns. You know, you know spring is coming after winter. You know summer's coming after spring. If I did it in the past, I'm gonna do it in the future. So there's your certainty, there's your proof, there's your permission slip. So you don't have to worry about whether or not how. Well, what if I just take the risk? Step out on that water. This is why you had to have faith. You had to have faith. You had to know I'm gonna get there. When are you gonna get there? I don't know. Stop being nosy, stop asking me all these questions that I don't even have the answers to. But here's the deal: when I do it, I will be the first one to let you know that I did it. And don't you come in my face talking about I'm being arrogant. Don't you come in my face talking about I'm being cocky. I had to do this because you were so worried about when. So I had to go ahead and tell you when. It's now. So here's the other thing, too, right?

Comfort Training And The Greatness Contract

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In order for you to be great, you know you're gonna have to give up. You're gonna have to give up being comfortable. I'm gonna go ahead and stop. I should get off right there. We should probably go ahead and end it right now. We should go and get I should go ahead and get off right now. I should go ahead and drop the mic. You're gonna have to give up being comfortable. Look at all the places in your life that you're comfortable. Look at all the places that you are. And here's what ends up happening. Dang, wow man, that month went by fast. Yeah, that month went by fast because you didn't do nothing to challenge yourself. You didn't do nothing to push yourself. You didn't do nothing. You know how it is. When something is challenging and it's pushing you and it's hard, what do you say? Oh my gosh, it's there's times when we're so slow, that's when you know you're in the you're in the growth zone. That's when you know you're in the womb of creation. The new version of you is being created. So I told my son, I said, We're going to the gym, we're starting over. When you sign this contract, we start the next day. Got his butt at 6 30, got him, got him up at 6 30 in the morning. We got to the gym. I told him, I said, here's the deal. You got 15 minutes. If I don't see a sweat coming off you in 15 minutes, we're packing up and we're going back home. We're going home. I give you the, I give you the work. It's your job now to push yourself. It's your job to say, I'm gonna go harder. So we put in another rule because 15 minutes came and he wasn't, he wasn't quite sweating yet. I said, let's go. He's like, well, I say, okay, how about this? You ain't walking no more. No walking. None. Zero. I better not catch you walking. Let me tell you something. I ain't never seen a human being so tired in my life. And what he didn't know is I turned my timer on for 45 minutes. So it was going, we're gonna be done in 45 minutes. It wasn't gonna be longer than 45 minutes. Man, he was sweating. He was so tired. He got back in the car. He didn't say a word. You know how when you're so tired, you ain't got nah, I don't even have no energy to talk, nobody don't look at me. But when I took him to school later, after you're taking a shower to eating breakfast, he goes, Man, that was the hardest thing I've ever done. And I said, Look at you this morning. Look at how look at how you feel. Look how bubbly you are, look how confident you are. The reason why I'm saying this is because when you do things that are challenging, when you do things that are uncomfortable, you have a new level of self-respect. You look at yourself different. When you don't settle for mediocracy, when you don't settle for just, okay, well, let me just do enough to get by. You feel different about yourself. You know how it is when you do a tough workout, when you went to the gym and you really was throwing weight around, or you was really on that treadmill, you gave everything that you had? When you get your reticence, you get your energy, you get your rest back, you feel different about yourself. And I told him, I said, listen, what if you did this every single day? What if you did this every single day? See, now it wouldn't be, you wouldn't be going off of motivation no more. This would become a habit, good God almighty. And if it becomes a habit, you're gonna create a new mindset. And when it creates some new mindset, if you can do this long enough, you're gonna create a permanent state shift. You're gonna create a new way of being. This is who you are. So I told him, I said, guess what? We're gonna do this again tomorrow. We're gonna do it again tomorrow, and we're gonna do, we're gonna do the exact same thing. See, here's the deal. Sometimes you have to consistently put yourself in a place that you are uncomfortable because that is how you are going to make growth. So I said, we're gonna do the same thing and we're gonna do it just as hard tomorrow. So that way, after five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten days of this, eventually, guess what? There's this thing that we call alchemy. There's this thing that we call transformation, there's this thing that we call evolution, there's this thing that we call integration. You're gonna start to turn into a new version of yourself. You're gonna start to become this version of you who what was hard back then is actually easy. I was talking to somebody the other day and I said, he plays in the NBA. I said, Is a thousand dollars a lot to you if you were to lose a thousand dollars right now? Was that a lie? He goes, I mean, I wouldn't want to lose a thousand, but I would. Be okay if I lost a thousand. I said, okay, when you were 15 years old, was a thousand dollars? He said, a thousand dollars, a hundred dollars was a thousand dollars when I was fifteen. You know how it was back then. I said, okay, then nothing's changed about that monetary value. A thousand dollars has always been a thousand dollars. The issue is, is you've changed. So now you have a different relationship to a thousand dollars. You look at a thousand dollars today a lot differently at 23 than you did when you were 15. When you start looking at the hard things that you do in your life, if you can stay with it, if you can stay uh be comfortable being uncomfortable, eventually your relationship to being uncomfortable changes. And now you don't say like my 13-year-old son said. He said, Sometimes this isn't fun. I said, Boy, get the fun out of your death out of your definition. Get it out, get it out of your vocabulary. It isn't about if it's fun. It'll never be fun on the front end. Your fun comes on the back end. You hear what I'm saying? It wasn't fun when you had to put down that down payment, but it was fun when you was sit back, kicked back like a fat cat living in that house that you got. It wasn't fun when you was throwing that weight around in the weight room. But now when you look at that summer body and you walk by that mirror and you say, dang, look at you. That's where the funness is. Do you see how it is? So the energetic transaction of this universe is the universe says, I'm not gonna give you fun on the front end because I got to make sure that you're gonna go through the whole thing so you can transform. If I give you fun on the front end, knowing you, you're gonna take the easy way out, you're gonna give up, you're gonna quit. And then I didn't get what I was trying to get out of it. I was trying to get you to change. I was trying to get you to evolve, I was trying to help you to break generational patterns that have been going on for decades in your family. But you got fun on the front end, and now you just wanna sit back. No, I'm gonna give you fun on the back end. So here's what I told my son, and this is for you to take with you. I said, listen, when you start changing your relationship to fun, and now you start to look at the uncomfortableness as what's actually fun because you know what the byproduct of it will be. You just became a demon. You became a monster, you became a dog. People say, Dang, what is wrong with him? Why are you playing so hard? Why are you? I'm sorry, my man. This is just my standard for myself, and I refuse to compromise it. You see, when you start doing that for you in your own life, you ain't scared of the cold plunge no more. You ain't scared of them early mornings. You're not scared to get in that new weight room routine. You're not scared to have that conversation with your spouse instead of you walking around not speaking to each other, instead of you giving your child the silent treatment, instead of you doing what you watched and what you grew up and how you've been programmed, you think outside of the program now. That's what I mean by being uncomfortable. Doing what's more challenging. Instead of you walking around uh uh uh not speaking to anybody, why don't you stop be accountable and say, you know what, I apologize for my reaction. I should have been better. I apologize for making you feel less than. I myself was feeling less than, and you triggered me right now. You see what this looks like now. That's really uncomfortable for some of us. But if you can do that, your quote unquote fun will be on the backside. The fruits of your labor, the fruits of your accountability. So that's why I told my son, I'm telling you right now, commit to yourself. Commit to being great. Commit to it. There's a transaction, though. There's something you're gonna have to give up. I gotta give up certainty, I gotta give up comfortability, I gotta give up approval from others. This is a part of it. And when you know that this is a part of it, when you feel any of these things, you'll know that you're in the land of greatness. And all I gotta do is stick with it. I just gotta stick to it. I gotta stick with it. That's it. That's all I gotta do. Just stay with it. Just stay with it. I told him today in this workout. I told him he was hard. It was hard. It was hard. It was hard. I was it was hard. And I purposely made it that way. And I told him I said, just stick with it. Just stay with it. I know you're tired right now. Stay with it. Stay with it. Don't stop. Just stay with it. Push harder. Stay with it. You see this conversation I'm having with myself right now. You gotta have yourself, you gotta talk to yourself. You gotta speak to yourself. You gotta encourage yourself. You gotta tell yourself what you know you need to hear in that moment. And I told him I said, don't feel sorry for yourself. You're tired, and then now the body, the body's gonna start to feel sorry for yourself, gonna make the mind feel sorry for it. Let me tell you something, y'all. Let me tell y'all something. This is the beauty of having a physical experience. When you exhaust and fatigue your body, you're gonna start to tame your mind. When you exhaust and you just keep pushing, you keep going at that moment when you feel like, man, this is really hard. Push a little bit more. Dang, I don't know if I can do one more, do one more rep. Now you start to tame your mind. And what happens when you tame your mind? No matter what life throws at you, it ain't gonna be heavy. It ain't gonna be hard. You know why? Because I have the tools now. I have the mental aptitude, I have the resilience, I have the accountability. You see, I have all of these things so that no matter what life throws at me, oh, you best believe I'm gonna figure it out. That's one thing about DG. He's gonna figure it out. And I'm not built any different than you. That's why I'm not doing this podcast to teach you, to show you. It's in you. You got it. You got it. But no, in order to get it, you're gonna have to give something up. And that's the beauty of this universe. It's a partnership. It's a partnership. It says you can have it all. You can have it, whatever you want. But don't think you're not gonna give up something. And then lastly, here's the last thing you're gonna have to give up if you want to reach your greatness, okay?

Outgrowing Relationships Rest And Trust

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And it's not giving it up, it's just the evolution, it's just the uh the transformation of the way it worked relationship. You're gonna have to give up some old relationships, most likely. Hmm? Because those relationships that you were in, they were matching the frequency that you were. And you're not at that frequency anymore. Because the other thing that you had to give up was the old mindset. When you give up the old mindset, guess what? You're gonna give up the old relationships. Don't be holding on to them. Be grateful for the purpose that they've served to get you to this level. You move from fifth grade to sixth grade. Don't think you're gonna bring the same books from fifth grade into sixth grade. You don't need them anymore. Remember the lessons, though. Remember the information. So I just see this happen so often that we don't we try to hold on to things that's over. You're at the next level. And now when you start to realize that greatness is ever unfolding, there is no destination, there's no endpoint. It's infinite. I'm at the next level of greatness. That's what you tell yourself. Remind yourself, how do you know that I'm there? Because I feel myself having to give up something. I'm giving up comfortability, I'm giving up certainty, I'm giving up, man, I can feel it. A season I'm in. But when people say, I'm going through a tough season, religious folks say the devil's attacking me. Nah, you just all it is is that seed is starting to sprout. That's all it is. And well, guess what? When that seed sprouts, there's another one coming right on the back side of it. So go ahead and start reaping your harvest. Reap it, reap what you've sown. You got all these divine seeds inside of you that's just waiting to grow. Allow yourself to be uncomfortable. Allow yourself to attack the day. Attack the day. Stop letting life yoke you around. I look at life. I look at life, yeah, we're a partner, but don't think we're gonna get in here and start tussling. You're gonna just start throwing me around. You've done that already. I didn't like the way that felt. If you throw me around, guess what? You may throw me around, but you're gonna touch every wall too. I'm gonna make sure that you touch every wall. I'm gonna be in there wrestling with you. This is my mentality, this is the way I look at everything. And then sometimes, sometimes, you gotta know when today's not the day to wrestle. Today's the day I gotta just chill. And for some of us, that's uncomfortable too. Maybe it's uncomfortable for you to rest. So then you gotta get better at resting. Because how you rest will be how you receive. And if I can't rest, I can't receive. So I gotta get better at that. And then you'll start to see that everything was here waiting for you. Everything. Good God Almighty, everything. There's nothing that has to be created. Everything just has to move into formation, but it's already here. All the ingredients are already on the table. We just had to go to bed, throw them in the bowl of the universe, yeah. So

Final Challenge And Send Off

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here's my challenge to you. Go out there and be great. Go out there and be great. You got it in you. Go out there and be great. You got it in you. Allow yourself to be uncomfortable. Allow yourself to move through uncertainty. Allow yourself to take risks. I always tell my kids, you better double down on you. If you involve, bet on you. Universe loves when we double down on us. It loves when we believe in ourselves. It honors that. Be willing to let go of the old way of thinking, the old mindset, the old perspective, the old belief system. They got you to this point, but they ain't gonna get you to the next point. And be willing to forfeit to concede the approval from others. If you know that you're not being great, ask yourself, why am I not? What am I afraid of? Am I afraid of the uncertainty? Am I afraid of being uncomfortable? Am I afraid of what people are gonna think? What is it? What am I not willing to give up? And then let it go. And I'm gonna see you at the top. And as always, I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway to your results.