most people don't live their dream because they give up

you see it's not the failure that stops us

but that most stopped at their first failure.

Those who succeed don't stop at one failure

they don't stop at ten failures

they don't stop at a hundred or a thousand or a million

they say "this is my goal, and I will do whatever it takes to achieve it.

I will learn the lessons from any failures

I will learn faster, I will work harder, I will work smarter

and I will not quit until my dream is a reality"

That's the difference between success and failure.

Failure is a massive part of being able to be successful

You have to get comfortable with failure, you have to actually seek failure

failure is where all of the lessons are

you know, when you go to the gym and you work out

you're actually seeking failure, you want to take your muscles to the point where you get to failure

because that's where the adaptation is, that's where growth is.

Successful people fail a lot, they fail a whole lot more than they succeed.

They extract the lessons from the failure, and they use that- the energy

and they use the wisdom to come around to the next phase of success.

Gotta take a shot, you have to live at the edge of your capabilities

you gotta live where you're almost certain you're gonna fail

the reason for practice, practice is controlled failure

you're getting to your limit, getting to your limit, getting to your limit

you can't lift that, you can't do that

until you get to the point that all of a sudden your body makes the adjustment

and then you can do it.

failure actually helps you to recognize the areas where you need to evolve

so fail early, fail often, fail forward.

Failure makes winners stronger, failure makes winners hungrier

but it makes most give up

it makes most feel worthless.

Winners don't enjoy failure

but they would never let failure stop them.

next time you encounter failure

you got to remember every great thing on this planet is here

because the creator learned what did work but learned more from what did not work.

When we are kids, we don't stop at failure

when we first learned to ride a bike, it's failure after failure

we get knocked down time after time

but we get up and push forward, It's so we'll achieve our goal of riding the bike

but then, we get old and most of us get weak

we are too soft to get back on the bike.

We come up with excuses

it must not be for me!

No, you just soft

no, you just lazy.

Tell yourself the truth

get back on the bike

learn why you failed

and make sure you don't fall again

make sure you are stronger for having the lesson.

You know it's always a little bit frustrating to me

when people have a negative relationship with failure.

Fail early, fail often, fail forward.

You're here right now at this moment

because tomorrow you want to be somebody greater than the person you are today.

You see yourself succeeding

you have a vision

you have a dream

Congratulations, you're already ten steps ahead of 95% of the world.

Imagine if Michael Jordan was scared of missing

he would have never taken a shot.

Imagine if Steve Jobs was afraid of people not liking his product

there would be no iPhone.

So, ask yourself this, do you want to be a person who fears failure?

or do you want to be a person who loves success?

which one?

you gonna have to pick today

and I'll tell you one thing

one is a failure, and one is a success

and If you love success, there is nothing that can stop you

all those negative things people say will mean nothing.

They're gonna talk about how only 1% make it to the top

big deal, wanna know something else?

Only 1% stick with that fitness program long enough to see results

only 1% of nerds stick with that video game long enough to get good at it

only 1% of relationships stick it out to the end.

That doesn't mean you have a 1% chance

it just means you can't behave like the 99%

you'll have to do something better than giving up a month from now

those are just numbers.

You want to talk about numbers

take a look around you and take a good look around you

are you like 99% of the people around you?

If you are, then you're in the wrong video my friend

You have to love success just as much

because that's gonna allow you to get up and go for it.

Being scared to fail won't do anything

in fact, when you love success and you start going for it

guess what happens?

You're gonna fail, you're gonna fail ten times, a hundred times

maybe even a thousand times, but that's okay

failure isn't permanent

falling isn't permanent.

You get right back up and keep going

and this time you're gonna be stronger, wiser and you'll be more driven than ever

and for every ten failures, you'll land one success.

You have to love success so much

that you're willing to fail ten times before you can succeed once

that's how a winner does it

I wanna explain the biggest myth that most people think leads them to success

and here's the myth

You might believe if you're scared to fail you won't fail.

Lies, biggest myth ever

and I believed it.

You see, I always thought that being scared to fail in life

would literally keep me from failing

I would look at the losers around me and I would say

" sheesh, I never want to turn out like him"

I really believed this train of thought would help me succeed

until one day

I was walking down the street and I saw an old man

had a hat, suspenders and a cane

was about 80 years old.

This old man was barely walking, he could walk but the cane helped a lot, he was struggling.

So anyway, he was walking across the street and he ended up falling

so I went over to go help him

and he gets up says “thank you” and we introduce ourselves

had a little conversation, told me his name and I told him mine

his name was Robert by the way

and right as he walked away I told him, this is what I said

“Robert, you should stay inside where it's safe my friend”

and Robert turns around and says to me

“I love walking, and I love walking way more than I'm afraid of falling”

So, I asked him well

"what about your safety? don't you want to live?"

and he told me this, these are the exact words he said, he said this

“Solo, living means doing what you love to do

and if I have to fall here and there to do what I want to do in life, then so be it”

and he just walked away, never saw him again, that was it.

But that statement really had me thinking and it had me thinking hard

because I learned something that day.

That's when I realized the true key to success

you see, I always thought if I could just fear the act of failing and if I fear it like crazy

I will succeed

because I thought the fear would magically motivate me to get out there and start taking action

but after that day uh-uh

I realized something

I realize it's the love for success that will lead me to succeeding.

So, just imagine if Robert feared falling

would he even start walking?

of course not

he wouldn't even do what he loved to do

he would sit at home and take no type of action

but he loved walking

wasn't even scared to fall

it gave him life

that's what allowed him to get up and do it.

He loved walking so much, he was willing to fall 10 times a day just to do it

and you have to be the same

So the next time someone tells you “you're gonna fail”

you know what you tell them

Tell them they're right

but you're not afraid to fail, you're not afraid to take action

you're not afraid to jump

you're gonna fail 10 times but you know what

It's cool because on the 11th time you'll succeed

oh, you'll succeed alright

and it will feel good

and while you're over here living the life of your dreams in complete happiness

guess where they're gonna be?

That's right, they'll be failures, the real failures

over there where it's safe, scared to fail

ironic, isn't it?

You know

a lot of people come up to me and they ask me "Marco

what is it that motivates you most?”

and to answer their question, I reply back with a question

I say “what if I told you that you had one week left to live?”

would you regret not pursuing your dreams, passions and desires?

would you regret not living your life to the fullest?

would you regret not spending as much time with your family, friends, or loved ones?

You know Steve Jobs said in a speech one time that

he used to wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask himself questions like this

and he said that if the answer was yes for too many days in a row

then he knew that he had to change something

and that should go for all of us.

If you're living a life that you would not be okay with losing

because you weren't able to do things you wanted to do

then now you know that you need to change something.

Life is simply too short and unpredictable

to not live exactly the way that you please.

It is ridiculously unpredictable

it is possible that on any given day to die at any point throughout that day

without ever being able to see it coming.

you know when I was 13, I had this teacher who was an absolutely amazing person

I'd known him for several years then

and he had two kids, a loving wife, he was a man of God

contributed to the community, he gave us everything that he had

and he would bike to school every single day

I always remember him coming to school on his bike

and one morning on his way to school, It was early in the morning

he was crossing an intersection, a reckless driver comes out of nowhere

hits him, he dies on the spot on the moment of impact.

His death taught me so many valuable things in life

and one of them being that it went on to show

that no matter how much you don't deserve to die

and no matter how good of a person you are

and no matter what your situation is, no matter anything

it goes to show that death is inevitable and random

and it will eventually consume each and every single one of us

whether it's in 50 years, in 10 years, next year, or even tomorrow.

You cannot control it

the people around you cannot control it.

As long as you're at the wrong place at the wrong time

your whole life could disappear in the blink of an eye

along with everything you wished you could have done

whether you're walking down the street

whether you're stepping into the elevator

whether you're walking down the stairs

whether you're, whether you're just existing.

Listen you'll see people from nowhere die of a heart attack, gone

no family history, no symptoms, no cause, nothing

it happens and that's the cruel life that we live in

and it's something that we cannot control.

So, what I wanna make clear

is that regardless of the path that you take in your life

at one point death will consume you

it doesn't care whether you floss your teeth in the morning

whether you raise a family or not

whether you go on to be rich, poor, a success, a failure

whether whatever, you are still going to die at one point, it is that simple

and knowing that you're going to die soon should be the biggest motivation