BE THE AUTHOR OF YOUR LIFE - Matthew McConaughey Motivational Speech
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How can I stop over‑promising and start doing what I say?
If you're gonna do it. Do it. Say what you Can do? Do what you say. You can't do it, don't say you can do it. Don't over leverage yourself. Don't over leverage the decision and then jump in and kinda dip a toe. I think I'll try it out. No, think if you're gonna try it out beforehand, but when it's time to go, dive. Finish it. Find out. Come out the other side. Don't leave it and go. Mm, if I just thought it uh uh uh that keeps me up at night. I think it keeps a lot of us up at night. When you half ask something you just don't know, whether you failed or succeeded, got what you want or didn't get what you want. Finding out. And looking in the mirror and going. I didn't half ass it, I went all the way, I found out, and that ain't for me.
Or I found out, and you damn right that is for me. That's a great place to get. Knowing who we are is hard. It's hard. Give yourself a break. Eliminate who you are not first. And you're gonna find yourself where you need to be. The sooner that we become less impressed. with our life, with our accomplishments, with our career, with whatever that prospect is in front of us, the sooner we become less impressed and more involved with that and these things. The sooner we get a whole lot better at doing it. I wish we were more full of ourselves. I wish more people in the world were more full of themselves.
Why should I focus on eliminating who I’m not before finding who I am?
I think part of the challenges in life is Lot of us are running around. Half assin ourselves. half fooling ourselves, not full of ourselves, not studying ourselves enough, not holding ourselves to task enough, not patting our own self on the back when we do get what we want enough. Not cracking our own whip on our backside when we do get out of line even though we knew better. I wish we were more full of ourselves that way. I think we should take some time to be able to look in the mirror and own that. And go, good job. That's what you wanted. It's what you got. At the same time be able to, as we do more often, look in the mirror when we fail and go Uh-uh. Bogey. We're gonna make mistakes. You gotta own them.
Then you gotta make amends. Then you gotta move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. So turn the page, get off the ride. You are the author of the book in your life. Turn that page. Happiness you can't guarantee it, but there is a science to satisfaction. There you can look at habits that engineered Less pain in your life. Maybe more pleasure, but at least less pain. And that's that's a win. You were really happy in this segment of your life. Let's go back and look at what you were doing. Oh, okay, I had some discipline where I was checking in with myself. Oh, you were going to church on Sundays. You were you were saying thank you, God, before you went to bed each night. You were appreciating more.
What does it mean to be “full of yourself” and why does it matter?
You were pointing out beautiful beautiful things and not taking them for granted. And so I found a list of things. I'm like, and when I get off track, I try to remind myself, ah, you've been slacking on some of those. And I could pull it off. I've evolved. I got different ways. I can get away with some now. But I've definitely found consistencies. And I think we all have 'em if we just notate 'em along the way that they're not by accident. Cause we sure as hell deconstruct the reasons when we're in the funk. And we don't believe they're by accident. We can take ourselves to behind a woodshed and show ourselves exactly why we're guilty for every reason, condemn ourselves for every damn reason we got to that spot.
And even looking at the things that are Biden going, Well, thank you. Let's cheers. Let's have a cheers on the way for all the things that'll work for when we have shit going right. Also knowing that it's not forever, that it will we will have a mountain to climb here shortly. We have to be more than just Happy to be here. We can't just all run around going, It's just so great and what a just so happy to be alive. We got We want to be more than that. I mean, again, have some discernment. Make a choice. Have some identity. Define what you want more of and you want more value of in your life and set goals and go after things.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How can I stop over‑promising and start doing what I say?
0:00–1:23
2
Why should I focus on eliminating who I’m not before finding who I am?
1:23–3:01
3
What does it mean to be “full of yourself” and why does it matter?
3:01–4:30
4
How can I turn fear into a tool for growth instead of a barrier?
4:30–5:38
5
Why is it important to own my mistakes and make amends quickly?
5:38–7:24
6
What practical habits create less pain and more satisfaction in life?
7:24–8:52
7
How does embracing responsibility lead to true freedom?
8:52–10:51
8
Why is there no “ta‑da” moment and how can I stay motivated without it?
10:51–13:04
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