IF NOT NOW, WHEN? - Powerful Motivational Speech Compilation 2026

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A friend of mine years ago taught me when I was coming up and I was deciding if I was going to do this. He said, I think that means, if not now, then when? So, whatever you want to do, I've not hit the car. Do it. Stop talking about it. Stop thinking about it. Stop telling people what you're going to do and just freaking do it. Get up and do it. Take one step. Don't look a thousand cars ahead.

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Look one. Take one step. That's all you need to do. If I have one legacy, if I create more bold people in this world, I will be happy because we've got too many timid hairs out there. We need more bold lions.

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Start your business. Write that book. Do it. Just do it, please. I've tried to eliminate as much time between I think I should do this thing and beginning doing it. And I think you get this positive reinforcement cycle. I call it pulling the thread. It's like I just need to start pulling the thread. And then all of a sudden what feels really unknown becomes very tangible.

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And you're like, oh, I understand the six problems I have to solve to do this big thing. But now I know the problems. And then it feels like you can wrap your arms around it. And then you can start taking it one bite at a time.

71.311 - 81.841 Eric Thomas

Let's say that I want to start a business. In your mind, you're like, well, I don't really have the finances or I don't know if I'm ready.

81.861 - 104.698 Eric Thomas

Let me pick it back up at the top of the year. I'm going to think about it next year, January, see where I'm at, we'll reevaluate. The only thing that changed in that year's time is how you felt about it. You still have no idea the outcome of that decision once it's made. You make a decision, you still have to wait to find out the outcome of that decision.

105.399 - 117.94 Eric Thomas

There's no way to predict that, and the only thing that you're delaying is your progress, your growth, by putting off the decision.

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Do it without commentary. Do it without drama. Simply show up and do the thing. Focus on the practice, not hoping and wishing for the outcome that you need to be reassured by, but the practice, the best you can do it. Because what could be better than the best you could do it? Nothing. So do that, learn from what works, and then do it again. The concept of living life is just so simple.

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expand on that into a million page essay and just do it but just getting out there and living and experiencing life and doing the things that are difficult and challenging and cause you to grow and the person that I envy the most and I enjoy being around the most is just that like old wise man who has all these crazy stories who's lived all this life and it's just like happy to sit on the park bench and talk to random people about what he's done you know it's

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If that's the person I respect, how do I become that person? It's not from doing nothing. It's from doing something. What is it today that you've been wanting, but to be honest with you, you haven't yet gotten? I will almost guarantee you the reason that your want and desire is far from being fulfilled by achieving it is because you haven't taken action necessary.

200.678 - 213.49 Eric Thomas

So today... Don't think about it. Don't talk about it. Don't wish for it. Go for it. Dive, move, start, act.

232.084 - 253.434 David Goggins

A lot of people sit back and they dream about being a sports figure or dream about being a SEAL or dream about being an astronaut. And all it is is a motherfucking dream. They don't put the work behind the dream. That dream has become their fucking master. When you become the master of your fucking dream is when you say, I want to go be a Navy SEAL.

253.454 - 275.064 David Goggins

And you say, okay, I'm going to lose 106 pounds in less than three fucking months. The dream was the one thing I thought about and the dream was now gone. Now when it comes in, the dream goes away and the fucking laundry list of fucking details and tasks come up. Got to do this, got to do this, got to do this, got to do this. That's when you become the master of your dream.

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So a lot of people out there dreaming.

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Make that decision. Because one thing's for sure with my life, you're one decision away from changing. Literally, you are one decision away from changing. It's a decision away. You're one decision away from changing your life. Like, what would I do if I weren't afraid? And what would I do if I knew I couldn't fail? And the idea that I will never wish for fewer epic stories at the end of my life.

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And I've never regretted failures. I've always regretted things that I didn't try. Most skills can be learned decently with about 20 hours of focused effort. 20 hours. Like the first 20 hours of you actually doing something, you learn the most you're going to learn about the thing.

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If you just consider by percentage of learning from like you know nothing to 20 hours in, you already have a really good understanding of the thing. The problem is that most people will take years to start the first hour.

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And so that habit that you're referencing is that my speed, at least now I've gotten better at this stuff, is that I try and detract the time from when I want to learn something or when I want to start doing something to starting it as soon as I can because I just want to start getting through those 20 hours as fast as I can.

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And so that's just been a very tangible, because it seems like this amorphous thing, but there was a study that was done that was like, in the first 20 hours you can learn almost any skill. Playing guitar, running an ad, Like you will learn more in that first 20 hours than any other time. So it's like then just get to that 20 hours and don't delay.

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And that's been one of the deepest lessons I've had because it took me four years to learn how to build a website and it took me one day to actually learn. Four years to delay and procrastinate and say I'm not a tech guy.

445.046 - 463.551 Eric Thomas

That's the nightmare. That's the nightmare that we all must avoid. There are things that you have been called to do that you have never done. And there are things that you have been called to do that no one on earth has ever done.

464.892 - 490.675 Eric Thomas

And so if there's anything that I can give you, if there's any piece of advice, if there's any information I can pass on to you, it would be the question, what do you want? Let that sink in. Because I don't think you're asking yourself this question enough. But I want to ask you, what do you want? What do you believe you were destined to do?

492.018 - 499.753 Eric Thomas

And then you got to spend every single solitary day for the rest of your life going after that dream.