No excuses

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbih salam. Tasliman kathirun kathirun. My brothers and sisters, we all have aspirations and goals and we want this and we want that. We want success in life. You want to have a great career and you want to have a happy marriage. You start a business and you want that business to grow. But you don't always succeed. Now, I'm going to teach you how to succeed. So listen carefully. Number one, swear to yourself. And by swear to yourself, I mean absolutely 100% stand in front of a mirror, hold the Quran al-Karim in your hand if you want, and swear to yourself that you will never make an excuse ever. You will never make an excuse ever. No excuses. No excuses. What does no excuse mean? It means no excuses. Now, think about this. Six months from now, you will either have six months of excuses or six months of progress. Six months from now, you will either have six months of excuses or six months of progress. Only you, nobody but you can decide which it will be. You can decide which it will be. You can decide which it will be. My submission to you is that work means work. Not talking about work or posting on social media about work or planning your work or writing about your work or dreaming about your work. None of this is work. Only work is work. So get this clear in your head. Work means to work. To make the effort consistently day after day after day. No excuses. I'm going to give you on a side note, but very important. The most powerful health hack in the world is to walk 10,000 steps every day. That is five miles. 10,000 steps is five miles to 2,000 steps to a mile. Think about this. If you do that every day for six months, you will be 900 miles from here. Wherever that here is for you. Take a map. Map it. And say, what is 900 miles from me? North, south, east, west. You in six months will be there if you only walk five miles per day. But only if you do it. But instead of that, if you do all the rest, you talk about this intention of walking 900 miles. You think about it. You make movies about it. You sing songs about it. You do what you want. Except walking. If you do all the rest, but you don't walk, you will still be here after six months. So understand this very clearly. You want progress. You have to work. Now, to make progress, you need three things. Three things. One, a clear goal. Number two, a clear strategy to achieve that goal. And number three, consistent hard work for an insane duration of time. For an insane period of time. So let's see each of these. What's a clear goal? A clear goal is something that inspires you. That inspires you enough for you to taste it in your mouth. Inspires you enough for you to taste it in your mouth. A clear goal is something that will keep you awake in the night. Thinking about it. Dreaming about it. It brings tears to your eyes. And most importantly, it makes you show up every day as long as you are alive. It doesn't matter if you are well or unwell or sick. It doesn't matter if you are sad. Glad, glad, bad, mad, rich or poor. It doesn't matter if it's raining or snowing. If it's day or night, nothing matters. Nothing can stop you from showing up. No excuses. No excuses. Make this into something which is running in the back of your head. No excuses. That is number one, a clear goal. Number two, a clear strategy. A clear strategy is something... Something that you have thought about, taken advice and planned and then and above all, you take ownership for execution of the strategy. That means that you have decided. The decision is yours. You will do whatever it takes to apply that strategy. And you and only you are responsible for the result. Yes, you took advice. Yes, you asked people. Yes, some people tried to pressurize you. Other people left you to your own devices and they said, okay, that's fine. Do whatever you think is good. Whatever the case was, some fought against you, some supported you. At the end, the decision is yours and you must take ownership for that. Only you are responsible for the result. It means that you will give it your best shot. You will not give in. You will not give up. You will give it. Your best shot. You will give it all you have. You will act thoughtfully, consciously with full commitment and presence of mind. Not mindlessly, not half asleep, not in some kind of dizz. You will learn on the job. You will measure results. You will benchmark against best in class and make changes to improve. It means that you will not make excuses. No excuses. Third point. Consistent hard work. Consistent hard work means consistent hard work. It doesn't mean working when you feel like it, when you are not tired, when you are free from other engagements. It means that you are going to give your goal first preference in your life until you achieve it. Everything else will take second place. You will do everything else when you are free from your goal related work. Consistent. It means that you don't get frustrated or discouraged or angry. You do what you need to do without looking for affirmation from outside. You work because you believe in what you do. You don't care if anyone else believes in it or not. You don't need anyone else to tell you well done. You know that you can fool people and that people will praise you many times for very little. But you also know that if you truly did well or not, only you know. And no amount of well done from the outside will help. If inside you, you know that you could have done better. So hold on to that. Hold on to that. And finally, how long do you need to work for until you succeed? It is as simple as that. There is no final date of completion. You work until you succeed. No excuses. I want to conclude by saying to you, success is easy. Success is inevitable. Success is certain. But only for those who are prepared to do what it takes to succeed. In the words of Paul Coelho, amazing man, has some fantastic quotes. He said, you can make progress or you can make excuses. But you can't do both. Let me repeat that. He said, you can make progress or you can make excuses. But you can't do both. In the words of, I'm paraphrasing, the meaning of the Hadith of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, who said that a Muslim is somebody for whom no two days are equal. See the, see the, see the, the focus on progress that David Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has. He says a Muslim is somebody for whom no two days are the same. Which means that every day must be an improvement on the previous day. That's the meaning of progress. Right? Every day is an improvement on the previous day. That is the meaning of progress. I ask Allah to help you and me to stick to this standard and to do what it takes to be people who, InshaAllah, will be, will be not just successful, but role models for this. Wa Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Nabi Karim wa Alaihi Wasallam. I am Ibrahim Birahmati Kiar. Allah.