Be the Hero

You have to be the hero of your own story And you can do that You have to be the hero of your own story And you can do that 90% of it is just showing up Get there and start working, like You're not gonna feel perfect every day Gotta be those days you push through This is what I want you to do Write down what you would like to fix about your life If you're 30 pounds overweight, you wanna lose 30 pounds Do it the right way Write down what you eat Exercise every day Force yourself to do it The brain is the general, the troops are the body And you get up, and you do it And then you get to write it down You know you're doing what you gotta do to get by But ultimately you're not respecting yourself I think we all have a certain amount of appreciation And respect for hero figures We all look at the guy who never lies, always does the right thing And fucking helps everybody out and that's the John Wayne character That's the ultimate hero The ultimate hero You have to be the hero of your own story And you can do that You have to be the hero of your own story And you can do that And when you look at your own life and you don't stack up You're a thief, you stole money from your wife's purse And you don't wanna smoke cigarettes, but you fucking have to You can't deal with the stress, so you smoke You devalue yourself, you slowly start devaluing yourself You look at yourself and you realize that if you were judging yourself You would judge yourself on faith You can't pretend you're the hero of your story Hero of your story Most people get stuck in these patterns Find themselves in the person who doesn't follow Through on their ideas Well, I start things and I quit No, you don't No, you have started things and you quit And it gives you a horrible sense of regret It's made you define yourself by that You're not who you were a year ago You're not who you were five minutes ago You're not who you were last week So you gotta regulate how much you dwell on regrets of the past You really gotta be careful You have to be the hero of your own story And you can do that You have to be the hero of your own story You can be the hero of your own story that woke up today You can be the hero of your own story that at 40 years of age stopped Got out of bed and said, "I'm not doing this anymore I'm not doing this anymore And I'm gonna get myself in shape and I'm gonna eat healthy And I'm gonna do this, 'cause this is me now This is me now I decided this is me And people have to realize that you are not your past You are not all the times you fucked up You're not all the times you were drunk That's not you That's not you You are the person who's learned from a great deal of experience This is a battle that you will fight for the rest of your life But the key is to fight it, not to give in Don't give in to that resistance Fight that resistance And in doing so, every day you do so You have won the battle for that day And you will continue to fight that battle You have to be the hero of your own story And you can do that You have to be the hero of your own story And you can do that You have to be the hero of your own story And you can do that You have to be the hero of your own story And you can do that A system will set out the honeypots for people to get trapped in The ideas of retirement, the ideas of the golden years Providing you benefits, providing you a healthy work environment Why? Well, because they want people to work for them They don't want people to realize their own dreams and escape They want to set it up so that you stick around Stick around some sort of an unsatisfying world It's up to you to see that video game problem To see that issue as it comes up on the map and calculate your future