life change poetry

 

never be discouraged
never hold back

give everything you’ve got fall forward

holding onto your dream and staying focused is really important

if I could come from a council estate in the middle of Stratford upon Avon

and live in seventeen houses before I was sixteen

and win three Michelin stars anybody who wants to come in and copy or use me as inspiration

then, you know, I’m the real deal

you know, in the beginning we went to every single label and every single label shut their door on us

um… the genius thing that we did

was we didn’t give up we didn’t say ‘because these guys’

you know, we used that what do they know approach you know, we didn’t give up at that point

you know, when I went to film school everybody said well you’re nuts, what are you going to film school for?

nobody from film school had ever gotten a job in the film business, it just had never happened

so you were just doomed to be a ticket ticker at Disneyland

so it was like 'why would you do that?'

you know 'why don’t you take a major you can actually get a job at?’

but, once I fell in love with it

there was no going back

even though I had absolutely no chance of making it in the film business

so, whatever you feel in your heart and in your gut you should follow that

follow that

and then if that changes one day, that’s fine too, then you follow that

but you’re the only one who knows, nobody else

you can’t let anyone tell you what your best is

you know what your best is and I work at it, you know

you can have whatever you want it just takes work

I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented

where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic

you now, while the other guy is sleeping I’m working

while the other guy is eating I’m working

nobody works harder than me inside the octagon, outside the octagon

I am a workhorse

work your butt off you never want to fail because you didn’t work hard enough

I never wanted to lose a competition or lose an election because I didn’t work hard enough

I always believed leaving no stone unturned

Mohammed Ali, one of my great heroes, had a great line in the 70s when he was asked

‘how many sit ups do you do?’

he said ‘I don’t count my sit ups, I only start counting when it starts hurting, when I feel pain, that’s when I start counting

because that’s when it really counts, that’s what makes you a champion’

to become an entrepreneur is not easy and a lot of people who try to become entrepreneurs

they fail along the way but good ones pick themselves up

and they try again and try again until they succeed

if they can do it, I can do it and that is the mentality

if somebody else can do it, you can do it

and I said to myself, I will do it and I will do it better that is the mentality

don’t be afraid to fail anything I have ever attempted

I was always willing to fail

just the fact that I’m willing to fail is an inspiration

people are so scared to lose that they don’t even try

like, one thing that people can’t say is, they can’t say I’m not trying

that I’m not trying my hardest and I’m not trying to do it the best way

that I know how with what little information I get

don’t give up you will fail one thousand times

but then you’ll succeed and most people like to give up after they fail

because that’s when it feels like that’s when you’re supposed to give up

‘I tried, I failed. time to quit’

I totally disagree

failure really happens when you’ve decided that you no longer want to pursue that dream

that’s the moment of failure that’s the point when you turn the corner from

on your way to success to failing

I’ve often met people who are terrified, in a strait jacket of their own making

because they would rather do anything than fail they don’t want to try for fear of failing

well that’s the rock bottom thing rock bottom wasn’t fun, at all

I'm not going to romanticise rock bottom but it was liberating

what did I have to lose?

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks
nothing.

Reggie Jackson struck out 2600 times in his career, the most in the history of baseball

but you don’t hear about the strike outs, people remember the home runs

Thomas Edison conducted one thousand failed experiments

did you know that? I didn’t know that

because the one thousand and first was the light bulb

I wanted it as bad as I wanted to breathe and even failure wasn’t enough to make me quit