This Is the Cost of Not Changing Your Life | Shimon Davis

0:00Hey, this is Riley Green and I'm here to warn you about the dangers of Hey Dude shoes. With their easy on all day comfort, you're bound to get addicted so try them at your own risk. But when you can't wear anything else, don't say I didn't warn you. Propel Fitness Water With Gatorade Electrolites, Zero Sugar, and Vitamins, Propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self. What propels you? Propel with Gatorade Electrolites. Push your limits, train with precision, see the results. At Equinox, that's high performance loving. Iconic Spaces That Inspire, Personal Training backed by real data, Unlimited group fitness classes, from yoga and Pilates to Strength and Conditioning. Elevate your post-performance ritual with SONAs, Steam Rooms, Cold Plunges, and more. Everything you need to lock in and unlock your potential at Equinox. Start today at Equinox.com. Could you imagine a feeling of

1:03waking up five years from now only to realize that you are in the exact same place and that you have made no progress? That would be a nasty feeling. A defeating feeling, I've personally felt that sense of defeat many times in my life over the course of many different scenarios. And I'm sure you have too, it's not a rare occurrence, it's something we all deal with. But a lot of that comes from the fact that we don't realize that our mind or our mouth and our energy has a lot to do with where we are. What you think about the things that you say and what you put energy into dictates your reality. Of course there's going to be things that happen to you in life that are outside of your control, but even your reaction to that can attract those same things. Or, prepare those things. You have more control than you think. And another thing is we can all agree that time is our most precious asset, right? It's the most valuable thing we have. You can waste food and get it back. You can waste money and get it back.

2:03You can crash your car rebuild to get another one. But time is one of those things you don't get back. That's why it hurts so much when somebody wasted time and somebody leaves you on only to realize it was using you the whole time or when somebody drags you out of something that you want to do to make you do something that you don't want to do that hurts. Because deeper than your own sense of understanding, you know time is the most valuable. Your soul, your existence knows that time is the most valuable thing that you have. But inside of thinking about that, inside of understanding that we have this illusion as cloudy judgment because time truly doesn't exist. Only our perception of it exists and you could twist it however you want it to, right? But it causes illusion that we have more than we actually do. Only think that we guarantee tomorrow but you're not. You're not guaranteed another year. You're not guaranteed another day, another hour, another minute, another second. So why aren't you living like you aren't having that guarantee? Why are you not living like you're not guaranteed another day, another year?

3:08Why? Are you afraid or are you too comfortable where you are? And that's usually the thing, comfort, what creatures of comfort? Feel out comfort to dictate a reality. Oh, that don't feel good. Oh, I don't feel like, oh, you know, I don't want to do that. That's uncomfortable. But that's holding you back. You become a prisoner to your own comfort. You have created a cage out of comfort and you have the key. You've locked yourself in it, right? But one day you are going to regret that. I have many times in my life. Like I said, the things that I've been through is the reason why I lived the way I lived. I realized from a very young age that I could change my life by simply changing what I did. You know what I'm saying? Got a guitar when I was real, real young. Years later, couldn't play a single note on it because I didn't put any time into it. And then I bought a new one because something new in Shidee is going to make it better. Didn't put enough time into it. Six months later, I suck at it. You're late, I suck at it. Right? I pick up, I go get me a piano. I put six months of dedication into it and I can play better than I could a guitar that

4:10I have been around for over half of my life. You know what I'm saying? But the only difference was what I did with the time and less time I made more progress because I did more with my time. So I translated that same lesson all over my life. Man, I'm going through life and I'm not enjoying where I am. What would you do with your time? Ooh, I realize that I'm so sad when I'm tired of myself, which is something that a lot of us do. You got to be real with yourself. Where do you want to be? How do I get there? And then ask yourself, am I doing enough? Have I done enough today to get me to where I want to be? I didn't say complete. Don't sit there and do that because some people sit there and we'll add it. No. Have I done enough today to get me closer to where I want to be? Have I done enough today to keep me exactly where I am? Or have I done enough today to keep me further away from where I want to be? See where you fall on that spectrum. And if it's not the first option, then you're doing something wrong. Now you're going to have days where you take rest where you dip.

5:11That's also good for you. Because that too much of anything is not good. Too much focus on the grind and having your head down and not having friends and that will kill you too. Remind you of that too much water. You can kill you too much oxygen. You can kill you. You know what I'm saying? But try to fast on it too. You know what I'm saying? Go on a water fat. No water forever. You're not going to make it. Hold your breath. I'm not going to make it. You know what I'm saying? So focus on where you want to be. Understand how it is you get there and every day do more to get you there. Then opposite. And if you don't know what you want to do, just keep trying. Just try. Just like you would in anything else. Just keep trying. Try a different playlist of life. Right? You don't like blues, try opera. You don't like opera, try hip hop. Just keep trying things in your life. And eventually you're going to start to get a sense of who you aren't, which gives you a better idea of who you are. I'm making excuses because eventually you will regret something you don't want to do.

6:13I wish I would have started my YouTube with the same mentality that I have now. I wish I would have created more throughout my years of school. I wish I were to record it. I wish I would have done more with my time. In the back of my mind, I wouldn't even count it as a regret, but I did at one point of time. Now I don't. I'm glad I went through what I went through and that I dealt with what I went through. I dealt with what I dealt with at those times and that I was able to take on this new chapter with a different mindset. I'm glad my life is the way it is. But I really do wish in another lifetime that I would have taken advantage of the opportunities I have. Right? And many people ask me, well, you just blew up overnight. How did you do it? I've been doing this for half of my life. A lot of you just haven't seen. And I mean, it's fair. You... Hey, this is Riley Green. I'm here to warn you about the dangers of Hey Dude shoes. With their easy on, all day comfort, you're bound to get addicted, so try them at your own risk. But when you can't wear anything else, don't say I didn't warn you.

7:16Propel Fitness Water with Gatorade Electrolites, Zero Sugar and Vitamins. Propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self. What propels you? Propel with Gatorade Electrolites. Push your limits, train with precision, see the results. At Equinox, that's high performance loving. Iconic spaces that inspire. Personal training backed by real data, unlimited group fitness classes from yoga and Pilates to strength and conditioning. Elevate your post-performance ritual with sauna's, steam rooms, cold plunges, and more. Everything you need to lock in and unlock your potential at Equinox. Start today at Equinox.com. Don't know that, but people don't see all of that. People don't see that I try a bunch of things and I stop them. Things are working, I stop them. More things are working, I stop them. I have momentum and I stop. But I was sabotaging myself and I learned that. Right?

8:16Then I started to change things and things started to get better and I changed a little more and things started to get even better. I've been working at this for a long time. Many people want to figure out how to do it. Nobody taught me. I watch people, I learn, experience is the best teacher. People will teach you a whole lot. Look at it. You know what I'm saying? Well, I don't know what to create. I don't know where to start. I don't know what I want to do in my life. You got to start somewhere. Just try something. You know what I'm saying? Living the life that I was living. I didn't want to do that. I didn't enjoy going to school every day and working and doing all that stuff. I didn't enjoy it so I tried more and more to find out who I was and eventually I got a good idea of who I was. And many people DM me now like, yo, I like what you do. How can I do that myself? I was like, have you tried? Well, no, I haven't tried. I'm trying to figure out the perfect time or like exactly how you do what you do. But what is it that you want to know? Why want to know how you connect with your audience and like how everything is so heartfelt and like how you form these connections with these people? And I'm like, don't we have a connection?

9:18It's like, yeah, that's why I like your videos. Well, why do you feel connected to me? Because what you say is relatable and it's like you're just talking, then you're not trying to be something that you're not. And like, I like that. I can relate to your stories and you kind of, you tell it how it is and you tell all the sides of it. And you know what I'm saying? You just real like that. Are you not capable of doing that? The music that I love, I love it because it makes me feel something. It makes me risk my life in a car driving down the road. I'm damn near by the crash listening to this guitar solo. If I cannot replicate that, I failed. Will I die without doing that? Absolutely not. Unless I get struck down right now, you know what I'm saying? But that same feeling, what I'm feeling, I've learned to feel that and channel that. So then I can create that so that other people can feel it. Just like in my videos, I've been inspired by people speaking.

10:18I've been inspired by people teaching. So I wanted to do that. I understood what it was. I liked about it. All right. I'm going to talk about it. Why not be that? Because if I like it, somebody else will. You know what I'm saying? It's just that simple. Now if it's creation that you want to do, I have a guide for that. You know what I'm saying? I literally have showed many people I've made, many videos about how to do these things. I have a link in the bio right now. You can check that out completely free. If you want to learn how to do exactly what I do. You know what I'm saying? Step by step is pretty damn simple. But at the end of the day, you have to do it. Because I also realize there's a thing called compound interest. People don't realize that little by little one turns into two, two turns into three, three into four, four into five, so on and so forth. Right? If you invest $5, $5 turns into 10. If you can find more, you know what I'm saying? It just keeps going up and up and up and up. Your life is the same way. If there's something that you want to do putting a pinch of it in here, a pinch of it in

11:19here, a pinch of it in there, it's going to start building up. You're going to start getting better. You start slow. You speed up a little more. You speed up a little more. You speed up a little more. Now you can do whatever you was doing slow. You can do it fast. You get behind the wheel of a car. You can't drive. You go through drivers head. They teach you everything. Yeah, this is what this sign is. You got the right way when you pull up to this and you do this and you do that. It's all different when you get behind that wheel. You got a lot to learn, right? But you realize that your perception of driving changes everything. When you scare it, mindlessly driving is hard. When you're terrified driving is hard when you're not focused driving is hard. But then you get behind the wheel. You start to learn things. You learn to pressure doing things and experiences teaching you that you can't do this. And when something is happening on the road and when things are happening real time, this is how you deal with it because you have to go through things first. You're waiting on the right time. You're going to regret things. You're going to stay in that cage of comfort. You're going to miss out on that compound interest. Because like I mentioned to you earlier in six months, I surpassed myself in skill level

12:22with piano and I had with guitar for years, right? And there's going to be people in your life. If somebody is trying every day, the things that you want to do, there's somebody out there working hard and in you every day. You got to keep going. That don't mean, oh, compare myself and compare myself and now I'm defeated as somebody is working hard. No, that should motivate you to keep going. Don't tell them, you know what I'm saying? But you don't want to miss out on that compound because somebody else is building on that and you could be doing that too. Also, you have to understand the weight of staying the same. When you do something over and over and over, you become so comfortable with it, comfortable with it that it becomes who you are. It's the same. You can't teach your old dog new tricks. Anything that has been around that has been sitting this way is that has been doing the same thing that has survived on the same thing that is now comfortable doing the same thing.

13:24Even if it wasn't something that's comfortable with it from the beginning, but they're comfortable with it now. Do you know how hard it is to break them out of that? From the perspective of that dog, that dog has been doing the same thing for years and has grown and has matured and has been fed. Like, it don't even have to do nothing special and it gets fed at the end of the day. It has had a thousand and one treats. It has had it all in its own element. You teaching that new trick, that dog not motivated to do that. You got the treating in hand, that dog don't want that damn treat. He tired of the treats. He tired. You know what I'm saying? I've survived this long doing the same thing. Why? Hey, this is Riley Green and I'm here to warn you about the dangers of Hey Dude shoes. With their easy on, all day comfort, you're bound to get addicted so try them at your own risk. And you can't worry anything else. Don't say I didn't warn you. Propel Fitness Water With Gatorade Electrolites, Zero Sugar and Vitamins, Propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self.

14:28What propels you? Propel with Gatorade Electrolites. Push your limits, train with precision, see the results. At Equinox, that type of performance loving. Conic Spaces That Inspire. Personal training backed by real data, unlimited group fitness classes from yoga and Pilates to strength and conditioning. Elevate your post-performance ritual with sonas, steam rooms, cold plunges and more. Everything you need to lock in and unlock your potential at Equinox. Start today at equinox.com. What the hell I'm feeling a roll over for? Are we crazy? You know what I'm saying? You have to look at yourself in that same light. I've survived this long doing the same thing. Many people around me have survived this long doing the same thing. Maybe this is not what they wanted to do, but they found a sense of comfort in it. And since we are creatures of comfort and we've allowed comfort to become the motivation

15:31of our life and convenience, to become this motivation of our life, now that I find a way to be comfortable and to live with convenience, I don't want to try. I can't change. But that's not good. Nothing about that is good. There's a reason why a lot of people don't get to the end of where they want to be. There's a reason why a lot of people don't shoot for the stars. They're afraid of falling. They're afraid of breaking out of that comfort. You know what I'm saying? To me personally, to me, when I look at things, I'm like, all right, I want to take this risk. I want to change. I want to create. I want to do this. The worst thing can happen is I just end up where I am now. The worst thing can happen is I go back to living, you know what I'm saying? Somebody else is normal. And that's completely fine. They live in life. They do whatever they want to do. But like, I'm okay with feeling because I know I'm going to get back up and I'm going to learn from it and I'm going to grow. You know what I'm saying? And a lot of people have to get over that fear. A lot of people have to get over that consistent stagnation that excuse making.

16:31Well, I don't know what to do. You just got to try. I can't stress it enough of the feeling of chiseling away at something and you not knowing what tomorrow looks like and you chiseling away at something and you're not looking up to see who cares and you chiseling away at something and little by little. It's little bitty pieces of something breaking off and you just chiseling away and you chiseling away and your mind is telling you tired, but you keep going and you chiseling away and then you step back one day like damn. I have literally created a monument by chipping away at something a centimeter at a time. I did that. I have that proof of concept. I've completed that. Now, if I take that same mentality, I can literally put this all the way across my life and I can really change my, I can't, I can't make you understand it. This sounds so simple. It sounds so mundane and so clear. I can't make you understand it, but I can share with you my experience.

17:32I can't share with you what I've been through and you've seen it. You know what I'm saying? I've built my own platform from nothing. I've done this half of my life. Learned a bunch, started a new path and went in on it and went crazy, but it was all compound. The things that you see now that you think that I do so effortlessly, oh, you talk so well and you don't talk with any edit. You think it was always like this? Hell no. I used to edit my videos in silence because I didn't like my voice, but I kept going and kept going and I learned how to do this and learn how to do that. Now I'm pretty confident that what I do and I'm going to learn more. You know what I'm saying? Diving into new endeavors to expose more parts of myself that need work because I just want to grow. And that's just something I want to share with you. So if you don't know what it is that you want to do, just get out there and I encourage you to try a whole bunch of things to get a better idea of who you aren't so you can get a better idea of who you are. Just give it a shot, just try. But at the end of the day, you don't want to be that person.

18:33That's 40, 50, 60 years old still living in man. Bro, back in the day, I had it all, man. I really could have, if I want, I really could have did it. You don't want to be that person. I promise you don't. Think about it in your own life. You know what I'm saying? Imagine going out, let's just say that I'm going to leave you with this. Imagine all the times that you slipped up in your life. You didn't make progress or you ended up in a place that you didn't want to be in. Imagine if you had to go around the world for the rest of your life and tell that story about how you almost did, about how you couldn't, about how you missed the opportunity. Imagine you going around the world and you having to tell that story and live that for the rest of your life. I don't think you would want to. Now on the other side of that, you could travel around the world and talk about how you messed up in your life, about how you changed, how you recovered, how you fell on the ground, but you dusted yourself up, you got back up and you made something out of yourself. That's the story you would want to tell. The thing is, you don't have to tell nobody, but you'll always tell yourself.

19:35You'll always experience yourself and you want to create a self for you, a version of yourself that you're comfortable with living with for the rest of your life. And that's the mission. But take it a day at a time, a second at a time, a minute at a time. Don't overwhelm yourself. Don't get too caught up on the bigger picture that you get too close to it, that you can't even see what it is. Right here right now, in real time, you can see I'm looking at something, but I can't tell what it is because it's dark. And now take a step back and I see little ridges and I see something, and I'll take a back, oh shit, it's my hand. That's how life is. Sometimes we too close to the picture that you can't even see what it is. So that's what I have to share with you today. You know what I'm saying? Heavily, heavily inspired by a lot of the questions I've been asked about people starting their life and living the life they want to live. A lot of people want to learn how to create. You just got to start. Whatever it is, you got to start experiences of best teacher. That's all I can tell you. I can show you things step by step. Like I said, if you click the link down below, I do have a tutorial of how I kind of structure

20:37of my videos. My videos have sections. They don't have scripts. I'm not reading from anything. I'm just talking. But this is something that I've practiced a long time. But this tutorial is all over the place of you learning how to create. I learned how to create one because I wanted to create, but I also realized that it could change my life and it quite literally did. I'm going to continue to create and be me to continue to change my life and get to where I want to be. You know what I'm saying? In relevance to who I want to be. Not anybody else. Not none of that. For me. Right? So like I said, if you're one of those thousands of people that keep emailing me about starting a YouTube about learning to do videos, the link is down in the description below. If you're interested in that, it's completely free. By the way, but yeah, other than that, I hope all of us will. I'll take care of yourselves. Your boy, she and my Davis is about to pluck on some strings and then eat some seafood. So it's going to be a good day. It's always a good day. A lot of them will. They're about to grow. Take care of yourself.

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