In your soul there have been times in your life I know when you've had something that you wanted
so much maybe you wanted something for someone you care about maybe you wanted something for yourself
but you became so obsessed with something achieving and experiencing whether it was
a transformation you know in yourself a change in your business you know making a certain amount of
money getting a job you know increase of some physician somewhere in your life you've gotten
obsessed enough to really want to create something then you may not even know how you were going to
do it but you just wanted it desired it that you started all of a sudden taking action and
you got insights and before you knew it what used to be just this impossible dream became a reality
is it fair to say that at some stage in your life that there are some things today in your life
that once just a dream or a goal that once seemed difficult or impossible
whether it be the job you have or the relationship you're in and might be taking for granted
well then you and I are creators and very often when we get overwhelmed by so many things we feel
out of control by we start getting into being managers of our life managing our pain managing
through the situation you've got to allow yourself to be able to take advantage of uncertainty
you have to work on change. Change is automatic, progress is not. Progress comes when you tell
yourself the truth and you're able to feel the uncertainty and take action anyway. The thing
that stops us all is fear it's no surprise fear of failure for your rejection fear the unknown
fear of not looking good and that fear we could translate into the simple thing of uncertainty
someone who's incredibly successful someone is truly a leader in their life or in their field
the one thing they have in common is they exude this sense of certainty
great leaders know how to step in the uncertainty and bring the certainty to the situation.
I think that's why Paul said you've got to learn how to walk by faith and not by sight
that once you begin to trust yourself and your ideas and your instincts life takes on a whole
new meaning because now I want you to do that feeling that you are led just feel I am led
Ladies and gentlemen don't give your power away you don't need anybody to approve your dream it
was given to you if they can't see it it's because it wasn't given to them it was given to you
hold it nourish it cultivate it work on it it's yours it's your baby work on it until
it comes into fruition I gained weight my power and I said I'm not going to do that no more.
No limit people are human beings who take what they are and accept it and don't tell themselves
that somehow they're deficient because of anything about themselves this is a very crucial uh concept
for for me and for virtually all of us it's this idea of taking your life in your own hands and
being the kind of person that you choose to be and understanding that everything that comes your way
is an opportunity a blessing and it wasn't until I learned how to celebrate virtually everything
that came my way that I was able to transcend it everything else that you have
on our planet that we have on our planet comes about as a result of thinking
thinking thought makes it so all right everything that you see that wasn't given to us
was created by man as a result of the way that we think the way that we think
so what gets inside of us as a cell comes about as a result of the way that we choose to think
in our lives very important principle to understand because once you get a hold
of thinking and that it creates everything that you have in your life
you can change and make it as absolutely perfect as you want it to be because thought makes it so.
When you make decisions about what to focus on and what things mean what to do when you're
unconscious you get pretty terrible results usually now we've all done this I do it still
we all do but if you want to change your results you got to become more conscious in your decision
making so think about it what you focus on you will feel whether it's true or not you focus
on how people don't care you're going to feel they don't care second decision you make is what things
mean so you focus on something someone does and you come up with the meaning and the meaning is
no one loves me the meaning is they're tending to take advantage of me
depending on what meaning you come up with and you get to choose the meaning of anything
for some people they say this situation happened with the economy and what that means is i'm going
broke somebody else said the situation happened with the economy guess what that means I'm going
to work harder I'm going to be more creative it changed everything everybody else is going to
quit so we're going to dominate the marketplace for people to do it is this the end right now
or is it the beginning see whether it's the inner beginning is your choice you get to decide
because once you make up a meaning it's true if you think this is the end of a relationship
are you gonna treat people the same way as if you think it's the beginning of relationship no way.
How many of you had some situations that you were in that you're overwhelmed with fear you
didn't know how you're gonna come out how are you gonna survive and you did you survived and you
didn't die raise your hand if you survive all right so what you got to do whatever that was
whatever that state of consciousness whatever that self-confidence that you had however you stood up
within yourself here's what we know you survived here's what we know you're still here you didn't
die hello you did not die you didn't die you hear that you didn't die you're here right now
you got it and you handled that fear you kicked it out of there all right remember that play color
purple I remember when when albert told a girl she couldn't go with suga she said where you going
you know this girl been wanting all her life live her dream she was afraid she felt incompetent and
he had beaten her down and her self-esteem had eroded he said where are you going
you can't talk she can talk you're ugly you're dumb she'll got class you ain't got nothing
where you going you ain't gonna make it you're gonna fail she said look here
I might be ugly I might be dumb I might can't talk she said but I'm still here
I'm still here and so as you begin to look at the fears in back of you you came through those fears
and you're still here see that's a testament about how powerful you are and so whatever the volcano
is you have the capacity to take that volcano the capacity to jump in it and find your true
identity here's another thing to keep a lot of people from taking on the volcanoes and jumping
into the challenges that they're confronted with the fear of making mistakes or not feeling
good enough guess what you're gonna make some mistakes you're gonna make a lot of mistakes
guys said this and it's true he said the person who has never made a mistake hasn't done anything
and you're going to make some mistakes if you want to do something out here
you're going to fall flat on your face you're gonna be criticized when you come out into the
arena called life you're gonna feel awkward and stupid and dumb sometimes it goes with
the territory but it's okay what's important is that you bring your stuff out here are you good
enough prepare yourself see there's no substitute for competency a positive attitude won't get it
being enthusiastic won't get it so you got to prepare yourself you've got to develop
yourself you've got to practice you've got to work you got to do your homework you got
to do your research see a lot of people have a yes I can attitude but I know I can't aptitude
and competency builds confidence and confidence feeds into competency see the better you become
the more confident you feel and the more confident you feel the better you want to become you realize
that you have no ceiling that you can better whatever you've done so far you can go beyond that
you don't become cocky and arrogant feeling that you've already arrived as most people have and
that's why they've settled for less than what they rightly deserve in life because they feel
they have arrived and they say well I can rest now I can rest on my laurels now I've made it.
Stop doing the things that you know are wrong that you could stop doing right so it's a fairly it's
a fairly limited attempt first of all we're not going to say that you know what the good is or
what the truth is in any ultimate sense but we will presume that there are things that you're
doing that for one reason or other you know are not in your best interests there's something about
them that you just know you should stop they're kind of self-evident to you other things you're
going to be doubtful about you're not going to know which way is up and which way is down
but there are things that you're doing that you know you shouldn't do now some of those you won't
stop doing for whatever reason you don't have the discipline or maybe there's a secondary payoff or
you don't believe it's necessary or it's too much of a sacrifice or you're angry or
resentful or or afraid who knows so forget about those for now but there's another subset that you
could stop doing it might be little thing well that's fine stop doing it and see what happens
and what'll happen is your vision will clear a little bit and then something else will pop up
in your field of apprehension that you will also know you should stop doing and that you could stop
doing because you strengthened yourself a bit by stopping doing the particular stupid thing
that you were doing before that just puts you together a little bit more and you could do that
repeatedly for for an indefinite period of time and and you know that doesn't
necessarily mean that you're going to ever be able to formulate a clear
and final picture of what constitutes the truth and the good but it does mean that you'll be able
to continually move away from what's untruth and what's bad and you know that's not a bad start.
Live purposefully in order to achieve your dreams and be the person you want to be you will have
to start paying attention to your actions ask yourself is what I'm doing going to lead me to
where I want to be in life if you find yourself constantly bored daydreaming about the future or
past or counting down the minutes until the day ends it is probably because you feel disconnected
from what you're doing cherish your time try to spend your free time doing things that you enjoy
doing rather than wasting time for example rather than spending your weekends watching television
spend them partaking in your hobbies or spending time with loved ones and new friends
measure your productivity by engagement not achievement
not everything you do has to be productive in the conventional sense but activities should be
engaging and enjoyable keep in mind that it is perfectly fine to spend some time doing nothing
and just being lazy each day this can actually help with your imagination and self-awareness
strive for a balance between doing things you want to do and allowing yourself to just be.