I MUST KEEP PUSHING FORWARD - Powerful Motivational Speech on PERSPECTIVE (FT Marcus A. Taylor) 08:41

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Go to ml.com slash bullish to learn more. Merrill, a Bank of America company. What would you like the power to do? Investing involves risk. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Spenner & Smith Incorporated, registered broker dealer, registered investment advisor, member SIPC. What would it cost you if you quit now? What would it cost you if you stopped fighting? We all have those moments when we want to quit, when we want to throw in a towel, where we don't see the end game.

And the target is not clear. I know you think it's over, but you gotta go again. Leave every excuse behind. You can't quit. You got more left in you. You are not a quitter. You are not a one-hit wonder. You are called to do something great. Try harder. Reach higher. Run faster. Stand taller.

It is the man that refuses to quit. It is the man that refuses to put down his gloves that separates winners from wannabes. It doesn't matter how broken, how weary and devastated you are right now. That pain will not last forever.

I don't want to win one time. I don't want to be noticed one time. I don't want to make history one time. I want to do it over and over and over again. Do it again, no matter how hard it was. No matter how much you cried and you sweat and you bled. Do it again. Because in the end, it will be worth it. Someday, at some point in your life, you're going to be able to look back and say, man, I'm so glad I didn't quit.

I need you to wake up in this new day, in this moment, and seize the opportunity. You are alive for a reason. Don't let anybody tell you you don't have what it takes. There is more left in your tank.

It's your time. It's your term. You've doubted yourself long enough. People have left you, overlooked you, undervalued you, underpaid you. It's your time to connect. It's your time to get paid. It's your time to sign the deal. It's your time. If you're going to be fully persuaded about anything, persuade yourself to keep going. And the more that you influence you, you will influence the world. So keep going because it's all worth it in the end.

Do it again. It is the man that comes back round after round that may have taken a beating physically, but he is not broken mentally. That comes back round after round after round after round. And he goes back into the dark room and he puts the work and he comes back out into the light and he puts on a show. Put on a show. Will you put in the work? Will you stay the course? Will you try it again? You're either going back or

but you were going forward. The reason why you didn't win is because you gave up too soon. Everybody wants a comeback, but nobody wants a setback. You can't have a comeback without a setback. There is a warrior inside of you that will emerge. There is a person that refuses to lose that will be birthed out of a setback.

You are going to experience loss. You are going to have seasons in your life where you're not going to understand why and how you got where you are. So you got this. There's more left in that tank. Keep striving. There's always another way, another approach, a different perspective, another angle that you can try not just harder, but you can try differently.

Whatever the goal is, it's time to shatter the ceiling above your head, to break records, to shatter the status quo, to punch through targets. It's your time. I don't know what your dream is, but if you write it down and you put the work in and you beat on your craft and you give it everything you have and you give yourself to your work, at some point,

Everything's going to begin to shift and change because you refuse to quit. No matter how many times I face this giant, I am surrounded by walls a hundred times taller than me. They got a tall... Because I have made winning a habit. Continue on marching forward. Do not give up.

I don't care how many times you have lost. I don't care how many people have counted you out. I don't care how many times you talked yourself out of it. You are breathing to win. You are breathing to live a life of abundance. Run on the field again. Step into the arena again. Try it one more time. And after you do that, you're going to come back for more. Go back and win.

Let me tell you something you already know. There are enough people who have not believed in you. There are enough people who have walked away from you. There are enough people who told you, you don't have what it takes. You don't measure up. You will not finish. There are enough people that are counting you out. There are enough people that are saying you can't finish. Do not join them. A warrior only needs one more opportunity to reveal to the world that he is more than

than just a dreamer. I don't care what the scoreboard says. You have an opportunity to shock the world. It is in our nature to be very disempowering, pessimistic, negative people. Sometimes we just don't feel like moving forward.

But I need you to know that there are people who are depending on you. There are people that believe in you. There are people that are rooting for you. And they are expecting you to win. With each day that is presented to you, you have an opportunity to change everything. That all you have is all you need. Win again. Punch through again. You got to get out of this trying mentality. I'm going to try. I'm going to give it a try. I will.

I will break out of the "I'ma try, I'll try to smile, I'll try to be happy, I'll try to make it a good day." I will smile. I will make it a good day. I will win again. I will bring my A-game again. I will give it everything I have again. This mentality, this approach to living is what builds the bridges to the future.

This is how we cement our legacy by being the person that gives again, believes again, does it again, picks up the pieces and tries to put the puzzle together again, try it again and eventually winning will become a habit. So keep going until you have won some small victory for humanity. We all have dreams. Dream home renovations.

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