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Win The Morning, WIN THE DAY! Listen Every Day! MORNING MOTIVATION

Araceli Lemus-Carrera | Blog Author

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People that are hungry are willing to do the thing today others won't do

in order to have to think tomorrow others won't have

to have a special life you have to do special things and that usually means putting in the

work and loving it no one is going to create the future

that you want for you we get one opportunity to come this way

we get one shot we got One Life to Live life is too short to make excuses

I want you to close your eyes and visualize your dream

I need you to get out of your comfort zone

if we all woke up ordinary we all off to the same start

you've decided that you're not going to allow the events the things the people

life determine who you become it is a decision that you have to make

within yourself no one is responsible for that stop waiting to feel like it stop

waiting until you see it failure is only permanent if you choose

not to get back up and what you do today will determine

your future and I'm asking you what do you see in the future for you what brought you here today

cause you to get up you're closer than you've ever been before you have to do me a favor those

15 minutes are not worth the rest of your life it's not easy but it's worth it

you woke up this morning to chase your dream until you catch it you're gonna have to sacrifice who you

used to be when you want to sleep you have to wake up so don't run from difficulty run to it

because it's always darkest before the dawn Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Friday give it a hundred and twenty percent

every day every single day is a new beginning so take a deep breath

inhale exhale it's a new day

a new opportunity

so if you get some setbacks embrace them sure every day is not going to be a good

day for you every day is not going to always happen for you

but it's always something happening but you got to make it happen for the right reasons

for every day of your life you must continue to believe in yourself for every day of your life

you must have enough faith in understanding that it's up to you to make that difference count

you got to realize your only competition is really yourself they may be winning on the outside

but if you're losing on the inside you overcome that imma tell you how you

can overcome it shut down each and every negative thought that comes into your brain each and every time it pops into your brain

you tell yourself the night before getting up today and when it's time to get up

and your brain starts saying no I'm not ready yet

just five more minutes no no to just 10 more minutes just 15 more

minutes you have to shut it down and say we're getting up right now five second rule like Mel Robin says

five seconds to act on your impulse or it's gone

so we not waiting five seconds we gonna rise and grind we're gonna rise and shine we gonna rise and climb we're

gonna rise and give everything we got so you always find yourself starting off

on the right path you start off you're feeling good you're running you're doing everything that you need to do but it

starts to get harder things starting to push it back

Life Starts to push you back people start to push it back

everything around you starts to crumble you have nothing else left to give

then you got to find something else you got to turn on that grind switch

you got to get down and dirty and nasty if you got to

you've got to do it necessarily is going to take for you to get what you want

you got to go out there with everything you got it's time for you to set yourself on

fire and live life with passion and put yourself in a position to do the things that you want to do on

a daily basis Rising grind because the mindset of greatness knows

that adversity breeds resilience

leads to us next level success and bona fide brilliance wake up wake up wake up get up get up

get up give every ounce of your heart give every ounce of your soul

see I woke up early went to bed late I'm in Grind Mode

you gotta see the sun in yourself to live in shine mode instead it's not a spread it's a

marathon in due time mode if you not where you want to be in your life it's

time for you to live and read design mode refine mode

don't you understand you were put here to win don't be afraid of the hard work don't

be afraid to grind a little bit harder don't be afraid to sweat a little bit

it's okay man and I guarantee you will change your life change the way you

think and you put yourself in position to expand not shrink rise and grind

see the mindset of greatness is obsessed with winning and it sees the ultimate outcome right

from the beginning if you can't get up and get after it

how do you expect to win if you can't get up and get after it how do you

expect to go to another level if you can't get up and get after it how do you

expect to raise the championship Banner

on your life it's time for you to change your perception

because the reality is you gotta put something in to get

something out you're going to have those bad days but keep on grinding

you're going to want to quit but keep on grinding ladies and gentlemen this is a very

important part of your life it is a decision that you have to make within yourself no one is responsible for that

when pressure begins to build called life because life is going to bring you ups

and downs and mountains and valleys and I'm sure some of you in here your back story is full of ups and downs and good

days and bad days I bet some of you in here your backstory is full of a lot more difficulties and some traumas and

some things it's hard for others to comprehend see pressure they can create diamonds

or it can bust a pipe press is not the problem listen to be honest man your life what

you faced in 2020 and 2021 and what some of you have experienced the last several years in your life it's not going to be

the most difficult thing that you probably have ever had to face maybe for some of you it's been extremely painful maybe you've lost someone Close to You

of a trauma or an abuse or something really painful has happened but for most of us 2020 and 2021 won't be the most

difficult thing that you've ever faced in your life life is about these ups and these downs and it's about pressure and

insecurities and just challenges the challenge for you and me is what will we

do with the pressure that we're in will we allow the pressure to bust the pipe

or will we step into uncomfortable step into our story and to realize the pressure the challenge the difficult

situation if I grab a hold of it and take control of what I can control which is me and my reaction and how I respond

that pressure can become something valuable like a diamond because there's a lot of characteristics

and behaviors and habits that we developed it's not that we set out and we began to have negative thought

patterns and we didn't set out to have negative habits a lot of times we're around certain people and by influence

by the exposure by the ability of us to begin close to people we sometimes just

pick up Tendencies I'm sure some of you got some friends that say certain phrases or they talk a certain type of

way and next thing you know you're kind of saying the same phrase you're kind of saying the kinds of a tendency and maybe

even your mom or your dad like you sound just like so and so right because we catch up and we catch

things from each other and so for me what I caught from my dad when I was a kid it was his coping

mechanisms you know like I always say it was the fake face it was a fake smile it was acting like everything's good on the

surface but when I was alone and I was looking in the mirror man I was struggling but I was silent

I was screaming but I was quiet the truth of the matter is I got to a

place even though I was in prison I wasn't going to wait till tomorrow or next semester or next year or whenever I

got released to begin my change right now in the middle of my external uncomfortability I was gonna make a

stand and I realized hard work Works make good choices good things happen there's never a wrong time to do what's

right hard work and good choices will always create opportunities for your dreams your plans the things you've

thrown against the law to begin to be activated I was in prison my external situation seemed pretty difficult it was

uncomfortable but in the moment I was saying active of talking and communicating and making choices

and hard work and good choices will create opportunities in the middle of your chaos in the middle of your storm

for me I didn't serve 15 years because I would still be incarcerated until 2024.

I've actually been released and been walking and living life and doing this since 2013.

see I got released 11 and a half years early what happened is I Found the courage in the middle of an

uncomfortable situation in a storm that seemed hopeless to be honest to not be

afraid to face the thing that I was the most afraid of which was me because I promise you

transparency and accountability using the people around you but then

also realizing that we've got skin in the game which is called action which is called choices and doing our best

to the next right thing and treat people the way that we want to be treated doors

and opportunities will always open in the middle of your storm

and I care what you have to say and I care what your experiences have been

and I care about your journey don't lose the ability to know that you

you are a critical thinker you have the ability to process to think

to rationalize to hear data and to make conclusions it's inside of you don't

settle for anything less than real and authentic

you want to go somewhere you've never gone you got to do something you've never done

you got to say something you never said you got to go to a place in you that

you've never even been you're not sentenced to this life this way

you chose it I feel like on this side of covert like

I've tried to even hit a different gear because one thing that I've realized over the last several years in my life things that I take for granted can be

taken from me and so now any moment that I get a chance just to kind of lecture or to

communicate or to challenge somebody to maybe do what I long for people to do

for me to do not even you but for me to even be and that's to live a life or I wake up and I look in the mirror and I

am determined to confront myself I'm determined to have conflict resolution

inside of myself when I'm open and I'm honest with my behaviors and how I'm operating and what I'm doing with my

time and my energy and my focus see let me share something with you the

easiest thing I've ever done was to earn a million dollars the most difficult

thing I've ever done was to believe it could happen to me we all want to do something we all want

to be somebody we all want to go somewhere if these things are going to happen we've got to stop habitually

gravitating to excuse you've got a destiny to fulfill you've

got a purpose to walk into you've got to test to pass you've got dots to connect

rooms to walk in stages to stand on and tables to sit down at that you got to

put a new mind in you you got to get out of your mind you got to begin to restructure your thinking I'm ready to

do this for my family I'm ready to do this for my mother I'm ready to win for my father I'm ready to make history and

ready to do something that nobody ever thought I could do and we mistake the fact that we're

supposed to be comfortable 24 7. well let me tell you something comfortable is equivalent to complacent it's not always

accomplish about the essence I choose not to be a common man it's my right to be uncommon if I can I seek

opportunity not security I want to take the calculated risk to dream and to build to fail and to succeed I refuse to

live from hand to mouth I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence but thrill of fulfillment to

the stale Karma Utopia I will never call her before any Master nor been to any threat it's my Heritage to stand direct

traveling I'm afraid to face the world boldly and say this I have done

who doubt you I'm worried when you doubt you because when you doubt you you can't

get nothing done when you doubt you every little thing that gets in your way turns you back

when you doubt you all of a sudden things just seem to be harder but out of

everybody who doubts you you can't doubt you you got to believe in you you got to believe in your ability you got to

believe that you can win we get one opportunity to come this way

we get one shot we got One Life to Live life is too short

to make excuses so I just came to talk to the game

changers into the change agents who are willing to confront any part of you

that's not speaking to your madly wildly amazing future when somebody is in love

with who they've been called to become what they've been called to fulfill what they've been destined to do there is no

day off I'm telling you don't wait another moment don't wait another day Don't Wait

Another Minute it's lonely it's challenging it requires discipline it

requires perseverance it's a mindset it's not over until I win people that

make excuses are not connected to their destination they don't have an end game

they don't have a goal you have allowed yourself to become a weak link cover

under the blanket of excuses but I'm just wondering if there's anybody here

that has a dream I am ready come on come on I am ready

come on let me hear you I am ready one more time I am ready

consider this your wake-up call

what most people fail to realize is that pain is inevitable and it is unavoidable

there is no path in life without pain whatever it is that you're going after

whoever it is that you've been destined to become you cannot have it you will not become

it without pain you will face challenges and

difficulties and Giants regardless if you are single if you are married if you

are a stay-at-home mom a stay-at-home father if you are an entrepreneur if you're working a nine to five if you're

an educator if you are an athlete if you are a musician a singer a producer it

doesn't matter who you are what you are doing pain is inevitable

if I'm gonna hurt like this if I'm gonna bleed like this if I'm gonna cry like

this let me cry because I'm in the best shape of my life let me cry because I'm conditioned to weather the uphill War

let me cry because I'm building my relationship I'm building my business I'm building my legacy let me cry

because it hurt but there is a reward on the other end of my pain Let Me Cry

tears because I passed the test because I gave it everything I had choose your

heart everything in life comes with hardship make a decision

at some juncture you will encounter pain and the moment that you get acquainted

with pain you get acquainted with hardship you realize that no matter what

you do no matter how much you study no matter how much you plan you will not be able to avoid a measure of pain

I don't care what it is losing weight I don't care what it is a new eating paradigm a new relationship Paradigm new

thoughts new behaviors it doesn't matter what you're after what you're looking to become if you don't go to the gym it's

gonna hurt you if you go to the gym it's gonna hurt you your muscles are gonna tear but on the other side of that pain

there is a reward there isn't any regrets you won't regret taking care of

your body on the other side of making those healthy decisions there is a reward

discipline it's the reward of longevity it's the reward of influence it's the

reward of power do you want results do you want a reward or do you want regrets

the decision is yours

so choose your heart pain is inevitable

and it is unavoidable pick your pain

Everybody's Got A Plan until life knocks them out because we weren't ready for the pain

and when the pain came we did not process it processing pain is a skill

set you gotta acquire it's a type of currency if you want the future if you

want Next Level if you want tomorrow if you want to manifest if you want this

thing I don't care what it is then you're gonna have to get acquainted with pain the pain faith of discipline the

pain of growth the pain of learning the pain of giving the pain of forgiving it

all hurts so pick your pain choose your heart because at some jokester in life

some Corner you're going to turn you are going to encounter pain and you've got to process that pain well hear me what I

say it pain is unavoidable it's hard to let go of the past it's hard to give

sometimes of your time your talent and your treasure it's hard to balance work life it's hard to acquire new skills

it's hard to be stagnant it's hard to be a Workhorse it's hard to be lazy it's

hard to learn how to manage and cultivate relationships it's hard to learn from your experiences it's hard to

turn your mess into your message it's all hard it's hard to hold on it's hard

to let go but the reward on the other end of many of these hardships you

better choose reward or regret there is always reward and regret attached to every decision that you make

hold on pain ends

pain does have an expiration date and when that pain ends another one will

surface but you will be strong enough because you endured the current pain well everybody wants Resurrection but

nobody wants the pain of dying to themselves there's a pain that hurts you and

there's a pain that changes you so today all I want you to do is make a

decision to choose your heart

rise and grind you can't lay around the 12 each and every day

and expect greatness to come your way it don't work like that

so you get out of this life exactly what you put into this life

control all delete control yourself alter your thinking and delete

negativity period it's about manifestation what have I been destined to become wake up there's

always another level life is not responsible for how you take

care of your own mindset life is not responsible for you having a

positive attitude you're not dead you still have life your heart is still

beating and the journey must continue

Stop drowning and learn how to swim don't blame life

because you fall down don't blame life because that relationship didn't work out

don't blame life because that job did not turn out it is not life that's holding you back

you just gotta be a little bit tougher than your circumstances

we can't concern yourself about things that you have no control over

what are you made of what is your DNA what is your mentality what are the

skill sets come on start to write down the vision what are your goals what are

your financial goals what are your relational goals what are your spiritual goals come on start thinking about these

things you're still alive for a reason somebody died today but you're still here listening in this very moment you

have an opportunity the opportunity

when you take that kind of action when you have that dedication when you show that kind of passion when you put in

that kind of work you can't help but win

because limits exist only in the mind you will meet many challenges

many things will come at you there are going to be times that you're going to want to give up

but you don't have the permission to do so you must carry on a good fight

what good is your greatness if you don't stand on it

how can you hold on to who you really are inside if you let everything else tell you that

you're not worthy you got two options you can give up or

get up this is your day get up and beat yourself from yesterday

what are you made of what is your DNA what is your mentality what are the

skill sets come on start to write down the vision

I need you to rise and grind oh you're not hearing what I'm saying I

said it all starts with your mindset see the true definition of mindset is

the driving force in the Quest for success and achievement a mindset that combines discipline

strength confidence and ambition is a powerful mindset

be faithful be productive put away the destructive mindset

let the world know that you matter believe in every step that you take

I know you've got some doubt and you've got some uncertainty and you hate the

image that you see in the mirror and you hate the way your money looks and your relationships look and people that

you've given your all to keep walking out on you I know you feel stuck in

Reverse I know you feel like you're underpaid and undervalued and overlooked

but listen this is the day that everything changes get up Roger

get up and get after it that's what's going to separate you from

the pack you're not scared to get uncomfortable rise and grind and wake up with a

renewed Spirit wake up with a renewed passion just need you to be one percent better

than you were yesterday if you can be one percent better than you were yesterday you're making progress

I told you I wake up at three o'clock in the morning three o'clock in the morning every day three o'clock in the morning

and started some days when I wake up I just woke up recently and it was 2 45.

I looked at the clock and I said look between me and you we got an agreement it's three o'clock

it's 2 45 right now like listen to the records technically technically I have 15 minutes

technically I have 15 more minutes I never told the world that I wake up at 2

45 ever I say three o'clock but when I looked at the clock the clock said 2 45

and the average person in me said E.T just pull the covers back over here it's

okay you got 15 minutes

it's a phenomenal on me said ET if you go back to sleep for those 15 minutes there's no guarantee you're going to get

up at three o'clock and if you go back to sleep right now you might wake up and it's four o'clock you might wake up and

it's five o'clock you might wake up and it's six o'clock all you have is right now

are those 15 minutes that sweet that you're gonna push back your dream that

you're gonna push back your goal everything you've ever wanted son you're right there

what is it what is that one thing that you're saying that I am going to get

this thing done and I'm going to make my dreams become a reality so I need you to be a huge favor I need

you to be a huge favor I need you not only to want to be a beast when you

leave this place huge favor ET is asking you of one thing when you

leave this place I need you to get in beast mode and stay and beast mode

You've Got One Life to Live it's time to get it done are you tired of just

thinking about it you're focused on the risk more than you

are the reward your focus on the pain of the process more than you are the glory on the other

side you're listening to the wrong people you're listening to the wrong voices you are subscribed to the wrong

programs of thinking and you stop waiting to feel like it stop waiting for the conditions to be

perfect they're never going to be perfect you're not going to always feel like it you're not going to always see

it you're not going to always have a resource you're not going to always have a handout the question is how bad do you

want this how bad do you want this are you willing to sacrifice are you willing

to let go of some things are you willing to put the work in are you ready to be consistent are you tired of this version

of yourself the prize goes to the hardest worker in

the room as an individual I need you to get your schedule up I need you to get your life

up I need to get your words up I need you to get your heart up I need you to get your action up I need you to get to

a place that every single thing that you do is phenomenal so that the life you

want to live you can actually live that life you're not putting forth 120 you're not

all in let me tell you something if you get to that point if you get to that point

where you do exactly what you say you're gonna do you're gonna get to the next level all right so let's get started

let's get started let's get started

at the end of the day you can listen to a million motivational speeches but you

are going to have to wake up and make a decision to get it done if you can hear

my voice if you are tired of where you are if you are tired of not hitting your

targets if you are tired of not being aimed and intentional and assertive and

consistent you have everything you need to get started stop waiting for the

weather to change in your life stop waiting for the perfect conditions stop waiting for a hand though stop waiting

for everybody to believe in you and cheer for you and affirm you

your dreams are phenomenal in your dreams your bank account is phenomenal

the life that you have for yourself is phenomenal the things that you do the

way that you live what you have is phenomenal but you as an individual Your Average

and what I'm challenging you to do is to go from average to good from good to

great and from great to phenomenal enough is enough I'm getting out of this

place and I got stuff to do I've got assignments to finish I've got

a destiny to fulfill I am sick and tired I'm no longer willing to tolerate this

place of misery and pain everybody's got a dream everybody's got to go everybody

wants something in life but many of you in this room right now your beast mode

is Idle your beast mode is not turned on and when you leave this place I'm

telling you your life is going to go to a whole other level if you can learn to turn that switch off and keep that

switch on everybody's got purpose but everybody's

got a dream everybody's got something they have to pass or achieve or become

but we are generationally programmed to Love convenience

and the truth of the matter is it is so convenient to make an excuse

I want to give you just a few things that you can do to help you to stop making excuses to help you to stop

habitually gravitating to the place called convenience number one you got to

stop comparing yourself to everybody else rule number one kill the comparison game

well I don't I don't do it like them and I I don't say it like them and I don't I'm not as tall as them and I'm not as

strong as them and I I don't have the money that they have I don't have the resources that they have I don't well the the reason why I I couldn't do it is

because my parents weren't there for me and the reason why I didn't get to go to college on a full ride because my coach

he didn't create the Highlight Reel from from the sports scholarship the reason why and so we're we're just programmed

to blame everybody else when will you look in the mirror and stop comparing

yourself to everybody else we compare ourselves to the way people look we compare our stories to their stories and

our relationship to their relationship every single day this is that we make

we make are like a warm blanket pulled over us covering up

underlining issue of fear Spirit the personality of fear the truth

is that the reason why you haven't done it is because you're afraid

maybe if you could just listen to this a couple times give me your stomach stop making so many

excuses because the excuse is nothing but a cosmetic it's makeup it's a

blanket it's a convenience that we habitually gravitate to because it just makes us feel better but the underlining

issue the underlying cancer the inflammation is fear

we're afraid we committed to being a champion

be committed to being a warrior be committed to keeping your eyes focused on the prize

this is what you work for stay hungry

you got to trust yourself you got to believe in yourself

I have to keep running that mile when you run that ball run another mile

when you start to feel tired get it to that second and third gear

when you feel that your grip is getting weak find something else to get that grip

strong again don't quit on you don't quit on this opportunity

don't quit on your success don't quit on being the best

of yourself why are you here take a good look at what you see in

front of you look around you

realize that at the end of it all you must understand if it goes down you

must make sure that you are the last man or woman that is standing standing strong

standing hard and ready for whatever May Come

when somebody is in love with who they've been called to become what they've been called to fulfill what

they've been destined to do there is no day off there are no lightness I'm not a

light switch you can't turn me off I can never get turned off every single day

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