Matthew McConaughey

I'ma give life everything I got.

When I got that phone call on Christmas day, 11 days before my son was born, that my father has been murdered and left for dead.

I was lost.

And that's when I truly learned that we don't have forever.

You see, I once cried every single night from losing all the people that I loved.

It's been days that I wanted to take my life, days that I didn't want to be here.

So many individuals, they quit on their dreams.

They put it in a box and they buried it away.

They let it all go just because of one obstacle, one pain threshold, and you couldn't keep on.

But we got to remember why we started.

Remember why we grind.

Remember why we go to work every single day.

We were born to stand on mountains with giants and show the world our gifts when it's time to get back up.

But what if I told you that the biggest mistake that you have made is giving up on yourself?

Today I'm talking about a choice.

a choice to love better, be a better father, be a better mother, be a better grandfather, grandmother, be better.

It's a choice that we all get to have every single day we wake up out the bed.

Let's rise because we all have a choice.

We have a choice to live or we have a choice to walk around as zombies.

And it's a decision that you have to make.