And this is the beauty of delayed gratification. Tee yourself up. Do yourself a favor, make the choices, the purchases today that pay you back tomorrow. In my business, we call it mailbox money. Get some ROI. You know what that is? Return on Investment. Your investment. You, customize your future. Matthew McConaughey: Number seven. Dissect your successes and the reciprocity of gratitude. We study failure. We dissect them so much we end up intoxicated with them to the point of disillusion. When do we write in our diary?
What do we gossip about? I find that most of the times our obsession with what is wrong, just ends up breeding more wrong, more failure. And the easiest way to dissect success is through gratitude. Giving thanks for that which we do have, for what is working, appreciating the simple things we sometimes take for granted. We give thanks for these things and that gratitude, reciprocates, creating more to be thankful for. We can learn from them too, but only if we look at them constructively, as a means to reveal what we are good at, what we can get better at, what we do succeed at.
They are the ones who give constructive bad reviews. Because their displeasure actually uncovers and makes more apparent what I do, do well, what I am successful at, and then I dissect that.
Our architecture is a verb as well. Yes, it is. And when we do that, guess what happens? We get better at them. And we have more to dissect. Matthew McConaughey: Number eight. Make voluntary obligations. Mom and dad, since we were young, they teach us things as children. Teachers, mentors, the government and laws, they all give us guidelines for which to navigate this life. Rules to abide by in the name of accountability. We have to have them. Again, these are not societal laws and expectations that we acknowledge and endow for anyone other than ourselves.
These are faith-based obligations that we make on our own. These are not the lowered insurance rates for a good driving record. Matthew McConaughey: You will not be fined or put in jail if you do not gratify these obligations I speak of.
No one else governs these, but you. They are your secrets with yourself, your own private counsel, personal protocols.
Except yourself. Or some cops who got a disturbing the peace call at in the morning because you were playing bongos in your birthday suit. That was me. These are your personal Jiminy Cricket, and there are not enough cops in the entire world to police them. Matthew McConaughey: Number nine. From can to want. All right, check this out.
In , I got my first big paycheck as an actor. I think it was grand. I had this sweet little adobe guest house on the edge of the Saguaro National Park.
The house came with a maid, my first maid. It was awesome. The house, the maid, especially the maid. She washes my clothes, the dishes puts fresh water by my bed, leaves me cooked meal sometimes. She even presses my jeans. If you like your jeans pressed. I stuttered a moment. It hit me. I hate that line going down the front of my jeans.
I hate that line. And it was then for the first time that I noticed it. Matthew McConaughey: And since she did now for the first time of my life, I just liked it because I could get it. I never thought about if I really wanted it. That line. And that night I learned something, just because you can, nah. Come on. Even when it means having more, be discerning. Choose it because you want it. Do it because you want to. Matthew McConaughey: Number A roof is a man-made thing.
This may cut a little close to the bone since the geography, but I think we all were there and we will all remember where we were. The Oilers were up at half time, early in the third. Frank Reich and the Bills come back to win in overtime for one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history.
The Oilers lost that game, they beat themselves. You all remember that? Why they beat themselves? Or how? Matthew McConaughey: Was it because at halftime, they put a ceiling, roof, a limit on their belief in themselves, aka, prevent defense?
Or maybe they started thinking about the next opponent in the playoffs at halftime. I mean, they were up, then they came out, played on their heels. Lost the mental edge the entire second half and voila, they lost. In a mere two quarters, defensive coordinator, Jim Eddy went from being called the defensive coordinator of the year and the man first in line to be a head coach next year, to a man without a job in the NFL. Matthew McConaughey: You ever choked?
Nobody has ever choked? I have. Forgot the punch line to a joke in front of 4, graduating students at the University of Houston commencement. And ask yourself, do I deserve this? Now, what happens when we get that feeling? We tense up, we have this sort of outer body experience where we are literally seeing ourselves in the third person.
And we realize that the moment just got bigger than us. Ever felt that way. A blue ribbon, a statue, a score, a great idea, the love of our life, a euphoric bliss.
But if we stay in process within ourselves in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line. Matthew McConaughey: Bo Jackson, what he do? He used to run over the goal line, through the end zone and up the tunnel. They aim on the other side of the target.
We do our best when our destinations are beyond the measurement, when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, and when we have immortal finish lines. And when we do this, the race is never over, the journey has no port.
The adventure never ends, because we are always on the way. So do this. Take the lid off the man made roofs that we put above ourselves and always play like an underdog.
Turn the page. The the late great University of Texas football coach Darrell Royal. Remember Darrell Royal? He was a friend of mine and a good friend of many people.
Now, a lot of people looked up to this man. One of the people that looked up to him was a musician named Larry. Now, at this time in his life, Larry was in the prime of this country music career. He had number one hits and his life was rolling. And he had picked up a bad habit of snorting the white stuff somewhere along the line.
And at one particular party after a bathroom break, Larry went confidently up to his mentor Darrell, and he started telling him a story. Matthew McConaughey: Coach Royal listened, as he always had. He was ashamed. Matthew McConaughey: Larry confessed. He purged his sins to coach.
He told him how embarrassed he was and how he had lost his way in the midst of all this fame and fortune. You ever get in a rut? Getting the funk. Stuck on the merry-go-round of a bad habit? You got to own them. Then you got to make amends. And then you got to 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 of your life. Turn that page. Give your obstacles credit. You know those No Fear T-shirts that were out.
Maybe you used to wear them 10 years ago, No Fear. You may remember those or is it just me? I saw them everywhere. I mean, I try to scare myself at least once a day. I mean, I get butterflies every morning before I go to work. I was nervous before I got here to speak tonight.
I think fear is a good thing. Now, why? Because it increases our need to overcome that fear. Say your obstacle is fear of rejection.
You want to ask her out or you want to ask him out, but you fear that he or she may say no. Matthew McConaughey: Well, instead of denying those fears, declare them. Say the fear out loud, admit it, give them the credit they deserve. So give your obstacles credit and you will, one, find the courage to overcome them. So be brave, have courage. And when you do, you get stronger, you get more aware, you get more respectful of yourself, and that which you fear.
So how do we know when we cross the truth? In fact, 13 has been a pretty lucky number for me and I want to tell you how.
Be forced to be my own and my only company, to have a look in my mirror. And we all know what can happen when we do that. Sometimes we do not like what we see. Matthew McConaughey: Well in , right after I got famous from the film I did call the time to kill, I headed out on one of these day walkabout, and this time to the jungles in the mountains of Peru.
The sudden fame that I just gotten was somewhat unbalancing. My face was everywhere. Everyone wanted a piece of me. Everywhere I went, there I was on a billboard, a magazine cover. It was just weird, overall. Did I deserve all this? These were all questions I was asking myself. Who was I was another. An amount of time that it takes for the place to initiate the traveler.
The time it takes to disconnect from the world that we just left and become completely present in the one we are traveling in. And after that, the whole trip is really fun and smooth sailing. Well, it was the night of the 12th day in my 21 day trip. And I was full on sick of myself. Wrestling with the loss of anonymity, I was guilt ridden for sins of my past, I had a lot of regret. I was lonely, disgusted with my company, mine.
And I was doing a pretty good job of mentally beating the shit out of myself. All of these badges and banners and expectations and anxieties that I was carrying with me, I needed to free myself from them.
Who was I? I asked myself. I mean, not only on this trip, but in this life. Matthew McConaughey: So I stripped down to nothing. I took every moniker that gave me pride and confidence, all the window dressings, the packaging around the product, I discard them all. I got rid of my lucky and faithful American cat. I stripped off all my talismans from adventures past.
I even got rid of that. I was naked, literally and figuratively. And I got sick. Soaked in sweat, I [inaudible ]. Now, a few hours later, I woke on this 13th morning to a rising sun, surprisingly, fresh and energized.
I dressed, made some tea and I went for [inaudible ] destination Machu Picchu but rather to nowhere in particular. I felt alive. Felt clean. I felt free and light. Along a muddy path on this walk, I turned a corner. It was electric, glowing and vibrant, just hovering just off the surface of the jungle floor as if it was plugged into some neon power plant. I stopped. I stared. The jungle floor in front of me was actually thousands of butterflies there in my path.
It was spectacular. So I stayed awhile. Matthew McConaughey: Now, at that moment for the first time in this trip, I had stopped anticipating what was around the corner.
For the first time I stopped thinking about what was coming up next. What was up ahead. Time slowed down. I was no longer in a rush to get anywhere. And my anxieties were greatly eased. Few hours later, I returned to camp. Packing for my continued journey [inaudible ].
Even the local Sherpas I was traveling with, they noticed calling out to me. See, I forgave myself that morning. I let go of the guilt. The weight that was on my shoulders was lifted, my penance was paid. And I got back in good graces with my God and I shook hands with myself. And from that morning on, the adventure was awesome. Matthew McConaughey: I was present, I was out of my own way. I was anticipating next. I was embracing only what was in front of my eyes and giving everything that justice that it deserved.
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