Yo, today's QOTS! Hard work? Works. Here we go!

Welcome back to the QOTS! The day show I'm your host, Sean Crox and it's Sean Crox and

.com. It's throwback Thursday and we are turning back that clock. All the way to episode number

2.94 on our feature speaker, Denzel Washington. Today Denzel shares some wisdom about setting goals

and being willing to take a risk and to fail big and to fail forward and to take action every

single day to get where you want to go and also embrace the fact that hard work works. Denzel's coming up.

Fail big. That's right. Fail big. Today's the beginning of the rest of your life and it can be very frightening. It's a new world out there. It's a mean world out there and you only live once.

So do what you feel passionate about. Passionate about. Take chances professionally. Don't be afraid to fail. This is an old IQ test was nine dots and you had to draw

five lines with a pencil within these nine dots without lifting the pencil. The only way to do it was to go outside the box.

So don't be afraid to go outside the box. Don't be afraid to think outside the box. Don't be afraid to fail big to dream big.

But remember dreams without goals are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

So have dreams but have goals. Life goals yearly goals monthly goals daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day.

Sometimes just to not curse somebody out simple goals but have goals and understand that to achieve these goals you must apply discipline and consistency.

Every day not just on Tuesday and miss a few days. You have to work at it. Every day you have to plan. Every day you heard the saying we don't plan to fail. We fail to plan.

Hard work works. Working really hard is what successful people do. And in this text, tweet, twerk world that you've grown up in.

Remember just because you're doing a lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done. Remember that just because you're doing a lot more doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done.

Don't confuse movement with progress. I'm gonna tell me yeah because you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere. So continue to strive. Continue to have goals. Continue to progress.

Number three. You'll never see a you haul behind a hearse. I'll say it again. You'll never see a you haul behind a hearse. I don't care how much money you make. You can't take it with you. The Egyptians tried it. They got robbed as all they got. You can't take it with you with you. And it's not how much you have.

It's what you do with what you have. We all have different talents. Some of you will be doctors. Some lawyers. Some scientists. Some educators. Some nurses. Some teachers. Yeah. Okay. Some preachers.

The most selfish thing you can do in this world is help someone else. Why is it selfish? Because the gratification, the goodness that comes to you, the good feeling, the good feeling that I get from helping others. Nothing's better than that. Well, one of two things but nothing's better than that. Not not jewelry, not big house. I have not the cars, but it's the joy. That's where the joy is in helping others.

That's where the success is in helping others. Finally, I pray that you put your slippers way under the bed tonight so that when you wake up in the morning, you have to get on your knees to reach them.

And while you're down there, say thank you for grace. Thank you for mercy. Thank you for understanding. Thank you for wisdom. Thank you for parents. Thank you for love. Thank you for kindness. Thank you for humility. Thank you for peace. Thank you for prosperity. Say thank you in advance for what's already yours.

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