and get your GED. Stop being afraid to take a test..

Stop being afraid to go to class because your daddy didn't go and your momma didn't go.

I don't do well in math - You are right. You have never studied.

I am not good at writing - Because you have never written before..

You can't get to a writing class and you got resource after resource

The problem is you have never felt no pain before. You are soft..

It's a soft generation.. you quit on everything.

You have to give everything you got.. No more tv, no more partying, no more playing if you have a 4.0 what you need to be doing is studying.

You are a sophomore.. You are like E. I am just a sophomore. I am just a freshman,like I got time to put it in another year.. But you don't realize this...

That the opportunity that you need is in your sophomore year

it's not in your senior year..

Listen to me..You running out of time!

The next time you give a low effort, right? You give a 70% or a 50 %

or 30 % I want you to think about what you are thinking about when your effort is low.

And you are probably thinking

I got to versus I get to.

Listen to me.. if your effort is low you are probably not thinking about the opportunity

you are probably thinking about the obligation

Because success is alergic to average.. Are you hearing what I am telling you?

Success and average have nothing to do with each other.

So you can't say you wanna be successful..

You can't say there are certain dreams and goals, that things you want to have, and things you want to be

if you are still average! You've got to get to the point where you get allergic to average. You don't think average

You don't perform average.. Success and average has absolutely nothing to do with each other. This is what I am telling you

Your teacher can't stand average. Nobody really likes average.

And a problem with a lot of you is you are not allergic to average, alright?

You gotta do me a huge favour, man you lying to yourself..

At one point you say you wanna be great, you wanna do great things, you want to have greatness, you want to be great!

Listen to me.. But on the other hand for real you comfortable with average..

You can't be average any longer, why? Because average attracts average.

I am telling you to be great, because when you are great you attract great..

When you are average you attract average..

So I need you to do me a favor.. I need you to get of average, right?

I need you to get off average.. You ain't got to rely on nobody to get off average but you.

I don't care what nobody else in your family is doing

I don't care what your teacher is doing. I dont' care what's going on in your school.

What kind of school you have, what kind of job you have..

Just because the people are average around you don't mean that you've got be average.

You either here or you there.. There is no middleground. So what I am telling you is that you can't count the cost

when you want something bad you can't count the cost.

Because if you count the cost and you see how much it cost you might quit, you might give up.

So you've got to go in knowing that I don't count the cost.

I do as many push ups as it takes, as many sit ups as it takes, as many reps as it takes, I study as long as it takes.

I pay whatever the price is, why? Because if I start counting the cost I might quit, I might give up.

I might surrender. Don't count the cost. You don't count the cost on this one.

You don't count on this one...... you don't count the cost on this one..

You just do what you've got to do on this one.

And then you look back when it's all over and you see the reward..

You look back and you see the accomplishment. You don't count it.

You just look back and you see that you succeeded.

Everybody got a dream. Everybody got a goal. What's the gap?

If everybody got one. If everybody wake up in the beggining of the year, saying: - This is their year

Then why is some people's year and not other people's year.

You know why? I've said it before it has nothing to do with your dreams and goals.

Everybody got a dream. Everybody got a goal.

The question is: when you wake up in the morning what effort are you putting forth?

Everybody with a dream and goal ain't giving 120%.

And some people might be giving on Monday, but they're not giving it on Tuesday.

And some people giving it a... Listen to me...

a 120 %, seven days a wekk, 365 days.

I want you to work on your mind.

For real .. Education is the most important thing in your life.. I didn't say degrees.

I am not just talking about going to school and getting a degree..

I am talking about getting knowledge.. Knowledge is power!

Information changes situation.

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