Its because we have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves. Define success for yourself. And when we do that, guess what happens? Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey shared his own personal experiences with University of Houston graduates when he delivered the schools Joy is not a choice. Short and sweet or long and salty? I think it was 150 grand. Yeah, the Bills won, but they didnt really beat the Oilers. I asked myself. We so often focus on our FAILURES. But I am here to talk brass tacks. 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. The most accurate AI-powered transcription on the market. So I try to measure these five things each day. We got fatherhood, we got being a good husband, we got my health, mind, body and spirit, we got career and we got friendships. TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. He does not stutter step, flinch, rewind, ask twice or solicit. Matthew McConaughey: (23:16) I mean, put them down. Weve all got two wolves in us, a good one and a bad one, and they both want to eat. Webmatthew mcconaughey motivational speech Matthew McConaughey, producer and Academy Award winning actor, delivers one of th Special offer: $45 off with code We Are Marshall - Funeral Speech Lyrics. Because Id never had a maid to iron my jeans before!! Why? So, whether its prepping the coffee maker the night before so all you gotta do is press the button in the morning, or getting ready for the job interview early so you dont have to cram the night before, or choosing not to hook up with that married woman because you know youll feel horrible about it tomorrow (and her husband carries a gun), or paying your debts on time so when you do see that guy three rows back tonightyou dont have to hunker down in your seat hoping he dont see you. Matthew McConaughey: (29:49) Can you hear me? Your Houston Oilers vs. Buffalo Bills. Happiness is different than Joy. 
As soon as we become LESS IMPRESSEDand MORE INVOLVED with these things, the sooner we get a whole lot better at doing them. It is result reliant. Matthew McConaughey: (27:18) Because it increases our need to overcome that fear. In 1992, I got my first job as an actor. It shouldnt ever come out of our mouths. The easiest way to dissect success is though gratitude. TAKE THE LID OFF THE MAN MADE ROOFS WE PUT ABOVE OURSELVES AND ALWAYS PLAY LIKE AN UNDERDOG. See, I forgave myself that morning. A limit where we think its all too good to be true. [Jack Lengyel] For those of you who may not know, this is the final resting place for six members of the 1970 Thundering Herd. 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. I felt alive. Dont get all macho, and act like theyre no big deal. Ive had my heart broken. I thought about what you would WANT. And while nobody throws you a party when you abide by them, no ones going to arrest you when you break them either. You see, I crossed a truth that morning. Theyre yours to steal, theyre yours to share, liken to your own lives, to personally apply in your own lives in your own way should you choose to. I find that most of the times our obsession with what is wrong, just ends up breeding more wrong, more failure. Checks and balances. PRIORITIZE WHO YOU ARE, WHO YOU WANT TO BE, AND DONT SPEND TIME WITH ANYTHING THAT ANTAGONIZES YOUR CHARACTER. As much because he felt so disrespectful to Coach Royal, and as much because hed obviously gotten too comfortable with the drug to even hide as well as he should. Were obsessed with failure, we dissect failure in our failures. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, What is my hill?. And I say, if happiness is what you're after, then. Its a cause and effect quid-pro-quo standard that we cannot sustain If you all remember him, he won the National Championship in 69, he won a couple of National Championships. To help others? And then you got to move on. January 3, 1993. But I shouldnt have been there. WebMatthew McConaughey Leaves The Audience SPEECHLESS | One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever MotivationHub 2.97M subscribers Join Subscribe 63K Share 5. Frank Reich and the Bills come back to win 4138 in overtime for one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history. Matthew McConaughey: (19:46) They gossip too much or theyre kind of shady. Were not watching ourselves on the jumbotron performing the very act that were in the middle of. Humility is not vogue anymore. So, you give your obstacles credit and you will one. I got my first big paycheck as an actor. Did I find it? I took every moniker that gave me pride and confidence, all the window dressings, the packaging around the product, I discard them all. Because I do know this. I stayed awhile, and somewhere in my captivation, I heard this little voice inside my head say these words, All I want is what I can see, and what I can see, is in front of me.. Did I want to stand up here at a podium and read you your rights? Give your obstacles credit. So the question that we got to ask ourselves is what success is to us? You're gonna be let down Thats an unlucky number. Here we go. 
Give others and yourself more credit. Traveling towards immortal finish lines, we write our own book. And this was a time when a high school GED got you a job, and the college degree was exemplary. Had that dumb ass look that you get when you just been told the truth and you didnt think about it. And you know what can happen when we do THATsometimes we dont like what we see. Take that daily tally. So how do we know when we cross the truth? Ive never have my jeans pressed again. I was no longer in a rush to get anywhere. Please update your browser at http://update.microsoft.com. So we shouldnt be surprised, we are the trickiest mammal walking the planet!! What success is to you? Well, I did NOT want it there. And my anxieties were greatly eased. I mean, Id subscribe to the belief that were all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway. We dont always do our best. Along a muddy path on this walk, I turned a corner and there in the middle of the road was a mirage of the most magnificent pinks and blues and red colors I had ever seen. I had this sweet little adobe guest house on the edge of the Saguaro National Park. Because I put myself in a place to be found. But if we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line. Time slowed down. Thirteen hellish days until Im out of my own way. Money. WHEN YOU DO YOU GET STRONGER, MORE AWARE, AND MORE RESPECTFULOF YOURSELF, AND THAT WHICH YOU FEAR. No ticket, no voucher, no free pass go to anything. Services | Matthew McConaughey Motivational Speech Transcript - Rev I was asking myself, whats the reality in this and whats the bullshit? You, customize your future. Thank you, good luck, and just keep living. So while were here, lets make it a place where we break a sweat, where we believe, where we enjoy the process of succeeding in the places and ways we are fashioned to. Schedule that time to be in a place to receive the truth. Literally and figuratively. And then we have to put in the work to maintain it. Its a get rich quick on the internet, rich as 15 minutes of fame world that we live in, and we see it every day. And dont get paralyzed by denying that they exist and therefore abandoning your need overcome them. Everywhere I went, there I was on a billboard, a magazine cover. Theyre adventures, one, but theyre also a purge. Matthew McConaughey: (20:29) These were all questions I was asking myself. Yeah, it was badass. Teachers, mentors, the government and laws all give us guidelines to navigate life, rules to abide by in the name of accountability. Hopefully, were both going to be happy on both accounts. Now, Im not saying be in denial of your failures. Not towards my destination Machu Pichu but rather to nowhere in particular. Matthew McConaughey: (26:36) Matthew McConaughey Actor & Producer Im going to talk to you about some things that Ive learned in my journey. In fact, 13 has been a pretty lucky number for me and I want to tell you how. Now, if we hear it, if it becomes clear, a truth that is natural and infinite, then the second part comes. Alright. Today? Its a constant. Who was I was another. Other peoples flaws and limitations. Its because we have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limitwhere we think its all too good to be true. So we shouldnt be surprised. The answer, you know, its always right there. He purged his sins to Coach. It was not a voucher. 
We have to be willing to find joy in small things. Me, I graduated HS in 1988, got my college degree in 93. It was awesome. Matthew McConaughey is more than alright, alright, alright at inspiring others -- and thats a fact. No, were in process, the APPROACH IS THE DESTINATION and we are NEVER finished. That college degree? Why? Theyre a cleanse for me, theyre like a 21-day fast from attention, from all the things I have in my well-appointed life. 1992, I got my first job as an actor. You are the author of the book of your life. The director, Richard Linklater, kept inviting me back to set each night, putting me in more scenes which led to more lines all of which I happily said YES to. And if we get that far. Nobody has ever choked? In my business, we call it mailbox money. It was Wooderson since 1970 Chevelle that we went to go get Aerosmith tickets in. Do this and let them, let somebody else come up and tap you on the shoulder and say Hey, you scored. Let them run up and tap you on the shoulder and say, You won. Let them come to you, You go home now. Let them say, I love you too. Let them say thank you. Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome. If I win, I will be happy. If I dont, I wont. Its an if, then cause and effect, quid pro quo standard that we cannot sustain, because we immediately raise it every time we attain it. See, happiness demands a certain outcome. Do yourself a favor. Now, at that moment for the first time in this trip, I had stopped anticipating what was around the corner. We try our best, we dont always do our best. Now, out of respect for you and your efforts in getting your degree, I thought long and hard about what I could share with you tonight. I dont know, I think it found me. You ever choked? Life is a verb. I know thats what I want to live. And thats OK, because hey, thats how it is, this is the reality you facethe world we live inAnd while Im not here to discourage you or in any way belittle your accomplishments of which we celebrate tonightI am here to talk brass tacks, to skip the flattery and the attaboys because I DO know this. McConaughey said: Joy is always in process, its always under construction. He spoke of how he was previously judging his success on metrics that he thought were important to him, like the number of academy awards he won, or the amount of money his films grossed. McConaughey had me completely captivated from his first word to his last. [time-brightcove not-tgx=true], So, before I share with you some what I do knows, lets talk about a what I dont know.. Give others and yourself more credit. We tense up, we have this sort of outer body experience where we are literally seeing ourselves in the third person. My point is, I should NOT have been in THAT scene, I should have exited screen left and never come back. It is just as important where we are not as it is where we are. A sugar donut or some oatmeal? An amount of time that it takes for the place to initiate the traveler. So this director of that film, Richard Linklater, he kept inviting me back to set each night, putting me in more scenes which led to more lines, all of which I happily said yes to. So acknowledge the acts of greatness as real and do not be naive about mankinds capacity for evil nor be in denial of our own shortcomings. So, how do we know when we cross the truth? Do this, and let them tap us on the shoulder and say, hey, you scored. Let them tell you You won. Let them come tell you, you can go home now. Let them say I love you too. Let them say thank you.. Its too passive. Yes, it is. Im not talking about those obligations. Let the air in. Decrease your options. Your answer may change over time and thats fine, but do yourself this favor: WHATEVER your answer is, DONT CHOOSE ANYTHING THAT WILL JEOPARDIZE YOUR SOUL. Theyre adventures and theyre a purge, a cleanse for me. Who are we to think that we dont deserve or havent earned these gifts when we get them? I was naked. So lets flip the script. To leave the world a little bit better place than you found it? Acknowledge acts of greatness as real, and do NOT be naive about mankinds capacity for evil nor be in denial of our own shortcomings. DISSECT YOUR SUCCESSES (and the reciprocity of gratitude). 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. Discover why Rev is the #1 speech-to-text service in the world. He announced in November that he would explore other forms of service instead. Choose it because you want it. Because at halftime they put a ceiling, a roof, a limit on their belief in themselves, a.k.a the prevent defense. Maybe they started thinking about the next opponent at halftime, played on their heels, lost the mental edge the entire 2nd half and voila, they lost. Matthew McConaughey: (32:08) I mean, hell yeah, give me more scenes. [foreign language 00:42:36], which means, you are light, in Spanish. I like to see whether or not Im in the debit section or the credit section with each one. A lot of people looked up to him. These are FAITH based OBLIGATIONS that we make on our own. 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. The Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey: (38:58) But back then, making my first film, getting invited back to set, cashing that check and having a ball, I WANTED more screen time, I WANTED to be in the scene longer and more, and come back into the scene right? So get rid of the excess, the wasted time, decrease your options and you will have accidentally, almost innocently, put in front of you, what is important to you by process of elimination. The point is, I should not have been in that scene. Wooderson shouldnt have been there. If you like your jeans pressed. I kind of looked up at her, my jaw caught hanging open. No, were in process. Felt clean. Continue to ask yourself that question. Take the hill. Now, that may be prayer, that may be meditation, that may be a walk about, that may be being in the right company, a road trip, whatever it is for you, schedule that time. Now, personally as an actor, I started enjoying my work and literally being more happy when I stopped trying to make the daily labor a means to a certain end. Matthew McConaughey: ( 37:35) At least six feet. Joy is the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome. 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As soon as we become LESS IMPRESSEDand MORE INVOLVED with these things, the sooner we get a whole lot better at doing them. It is result reliant. Matthew McConaughey: (27:18) Because it increases our need to overcome that fear. In 1992, I got my first job as an actor. It shouldnt ever come out of our mouths. The easiest way to dissect success is though gratitude. TAKE THE LID OFF THE MAN MADE ROOFS WE PUT ABOVE OURSELVES AND ALWAYS PLAY LIKE AN UNDERDOG. See, I forgave myself that morning. A limit where we think its all too good to be true. [Jack Lengyel] For those of you who may not know, this is the final resting place for six members of the 1970 Thundering Herd. 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. I felt alive. Dont get all macho, and act like theyre no big deal. Ive had my heart broken. I thought about what you would WANT. And while nobody throws you a party when you abide by them, no ones going to arrest you when you break them either. You see, I crossed a truth that morning. Theyre yours to steal, theyre yours to share, liken to your own lives, to personally apply in your own lives in your own way should you choose to. I find that most of the times our obsession with what is wrong, just ends up breeding more wrong, more failure. Checks and balances. PRIORITIZE WHO YOU ARE, WHO YOU WANT TO BE, AND DONT SPEND TIME WITH ANYTHING THAT ANTAGONIZES YOUR CHARACTER. As much because he felt so disrespectful to Coach Royal, and as much because hed obviously gotten too comfortable with the drug to even hide as well as he should. Were obsessed with failure, we dissect failure in our failures. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, What is my hill?. And I say, if happiness is what you're after, then. Its a cause and effect quid-pro-quo standard that we cannot sustain If you all remember him, he won the National Championship in 69, he won a couple of National Championships. To help others? And then you got to move on. January 3, 1993. But I shouldnt have been there. WebMatthew McConaughey Leaves The Audience SPEECHLESS | One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever MotivationHub 2.97M subscribers Join Subscribe 63K Share 5. Frank Reich and the Bills come back to win 4138 in overtime for one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history. Matthew McConaughey: (19:46) They gossip too much or theyre kind of shady. Were not watching ourselves on the jumbotron performing the very act that were in the middle of. Humility is not vogue anymore. So, you give your obstacles credit and you will one. I got my first big paycheck as an actor. Did I find it? I took every moniker that gave me pride and confidence, all the window dressings, the packaging around the product, I discard them all. Because I do know this. I stayed awhile, and somewhere in my captivation, I heard this little voice inside my head say these words, All I want is what I can see, and what I can see, is in front of me.. Did I want to stand up here at a podium and read you your rights? Give your obstacles credit. So the question that we got to ask ourselves is what success is to us? You're gonna be let down Thats an unlucky number. Here we go. Give others and yourself more credit. Traveling towards immortal finish lines, we write our own book. And this was a time when a high school GED got you a job, and the college degree was exemplary. Had that dumb ass look that you get when you just been told the truth and you didnt think about it. And you know what can happen when we do THATsometimes we dont like what we see. Take that daily tally. So how do we know when we cross the truth? Ive never have my jeans pressed again. I was no longer in a rush to get anywhere. Please update your browser at http://update.microsoft.com. So we shouldnt be surprised, we are the trickiest mammal walking the planet!! What success is to you? Well, I did NOT want it there. And my anxieties were greatly eased. I mean, Id subscribe to the belief that were all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway. We dont always do our best. Along a muddy path on this walk, I turned a corner and there in the middle of the road was a mirage of the most magnificent pinks and blues and red colors I had ever seen. I had this sweet little adobe guest house on the edge of the Saguaro National Park. Because I put myself in a place to be found. But if we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line. Time slowed down. Thirteen hellish days until Im out of my own way. Money. WHEN YOU DO YOU GET STRONGER, MORE AWARE, AND MORE RESPECTFULOF YOURSELF, AND THAT WHICH YOU FEAR. No ticket, no voucher, no free pass go to anything. Services | Matthew McConaughey Motivational Speech Transcript - Rev I was asking myself, whats the reality in this and whats the bullshit? You, customize your future. Thank you, good luck, and just keep living. So while were here, lets make it a place where we break a sweat, where we believe, where we enjoy the process of succeeding in the places and ways we are fashioned to. Schedule that time to be in a place to receive the truth. Literally and figuratively. And then we have to put in the work to maintain it. Its a get rich quick on the internet, rich as 15 minutes of fame world that we live in, and we see it every day. And dont get paralyzed by denying that they exist and therefore abandoning your need overcome them. Everywhere I went, there I was on a billboard, a magazine cover. Theyre adventures, one, but theyre also a purge. Matthew McConaughey: (20:29) These were all questions I was asking myself. Yeah, it was badass. Teachers, mentors, the government and laws all give us guidelines to navigate life, rules to abide by in the name of accountability. Hopefully, were both going to be happy on both accounts. Now, Im not saying be in denial of your failures. Not towards my destination Machu Pichu but rather to nowhere in particular. Matthew McConaughey: (26:36) Matthew McConaughey Actor & Producer Im going to talk to you about some things that Ive learned in my journey. In fact, 13 has been a pretty lucky number for me and I want to tell you how. Now, if we hear it, if it becomes clear, a truth that is natural and infinite, then the second part comes. Alright. Today? Its a constant. Who was I was another. Other peoples flaws and limitations. Its because we have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limitwhere we think its all too good to be true. So we shouldnt be surprised. The answer, you know, its always right there. He purged his sins to Coach. It was not a voucher. We have to be willing to find joy in small things. Me, I graduated HS in 1988, got my college degree in 93. It was awesome. Matthew McConaughey is more than alright, alright, alright at inspiring others -- and thats a fact. No, were in process, the APPROACH IS THE DESTINATION and we are NEVER finished. That college degree? Why? Theyre a cleanse for me, theyre like a 21-day fast from attention, from all the things I have in my well-appointed life. 1992, I got my first job as an actor. You are the author of the book of your life. The director, Richard Linklater, kept inviting me back to set each night, putting me in more scenes which led to more lines all of which I happily said YES to. And if we get that far. Nobody has ever choked? In my business, we call it mailbox money. It was Wooderson since 1970 Chevelle that we went to go get Aerosmith tickets in. Do this and let them, let somebody else come up and tap you on the shoulder and say Hey, you scored. Let them run up and tap you on the shoulder and say, You won. Let them come to you, You go home now. Let them say, I love you too. Let them say thank you. Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome. If I win, I will be happy. If I dont, I wont. Its an if, then cause and effect, quid pro quo standard that we cannot sustain, because we immediately raise it every time we attain it. See, happiness demands a certain outcome. Do yourself a favor. Now, at that moment for the first time in this trip, I had stopped anticipating what was around the corner. We try our best, we dont always do our best. Now, out of respect for you and your efforts in getting your degree, I thought long and hard about what I could share with you tonight. I dont know, I think it found me. You ever choked? Life is a verb. I know thats what I want to live. And thats OK, because hey, thats how it is, this is the reality you facethe world we live inAnd while Im not here to discourage you or in any way belittle your accomplishments of which we celebrate tonightI am here to talk brass tacks, to skip the flattery and the attaboys because I DO know this. McConaughey said: Joy is always in process, its always under construction. He spoke of how he was previously judging his success on metrics that he thought were important to him, like the number of academy awards he won, or the amount of money his films grossed. McConaughey had me completely captivated from his first word to his last. [time-brightcove not-tgx=true], So, before I share with you some what I do knows, lets talk about a what I dont know.. Give others and yourself more credit. We tense up, we have this sort of outer body experience where we are literally seeing ourselves in the third person. My point is, I should NOT have been in THAT scene, I should have exited screen left and never come back. It is just as important where we are not as it is where we are. A sugar donut or some oatmeal? An amount of time that it takes for the place to initiate the traveler. So this director of that film, Richard Linklater, he kept inviting me back to set each night, putting me in more scenes which led to more lines, all of which I happily said yes to. So acknowledge the acts of greatness as real and do not be naive about mankinds capacity for evil nor be in denial of our own shortcomings. So, how do we know when we cross the truth? Do this, and let them tap us on the shoulder and say, hey, you scored. Let them tell you You won. Let them come tell you, you can go home now. Let them say I love you too. Let them say thank you.. Its too passive. Yes, it is. Im not talking about those obligations. Let the air in. Decrease your options. Your answer may change over time and thats fine, but do yourself this favor: WHATEVER your answer is, DONT CHOOSE ANYTHING THAT WILL JEOPARDIZE YOUR SOUL. Theyre adventures and theyre a purge, a cleanse for me. Who are we to think that we dont deserve or havent earned these gifts when we get them? I was naked. So lets flip the script. To leave the world a little bit better place than you found it? Acknowledge acts of greatness as real, and do NOT be naive about mankinds capacity for evil nor be in denial of our own shortcomings. DISSECT YOUR SUCCESSES (and the reciprocity of gratitude). 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. Discover why Rev is the #1 speech-to-text service in the world. He announced in November that he would explore other forms of service instead. Choose it because you want it. Because at halftime they put a ceiling, a roof, a limit on their belief in themselves, a.k.a the prevent defense. Maybe they started thinking about the next opponent at halftime, played on their heels, lost the mental edge the entire 2nd half and voila, they lost. Matthew McConaughey: (32:08) I mean, hell yeah, give me more scenes. [foreign language 00:42:36], which means, you are light, in Spanish. I like to see whether or not Im in the debit section or the credit section with each one. A lot of people looked up to him. These are FAITH based OBLIGATIONS that we make on our own. 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. The Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey: (38:58) But back then, making my first film, getting invited back to set, cashing that check and having a ball, I WANTED more screen time, I WANTED to be in the scene longer and more, and come back into the scene right? So get rid of the excess, the wasted time, decrease your options and you will have accidentally, almost innocently, put in front of you, what is important to you by process of elimination. The point is, I should not have been in that scene. Wooderson shouldnt have been there. If you like your jeans pressed. I kind of looked up at her, my jaw caught hanging open. No, were in process. Felt clean. Continue to ask yourself that question. Take the hill. Now, that may be prayer, that may be meditation, that may be a walk about, that may be being in the right company, a road trip, whatever it is for you, schedule that time. Now, personally as an actor, I started enjoying my work and literally being more happy when I stopped trying to make the daily labor a means to a certain end. Matthew McConaughey: ( 37:35) At least six feet. Joy is the feeling we have from doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome. 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