Consciousness is creating our life experiences.
Well, that sounds new agey
I go, no, this is not new agey
This is the primary principle of quantum physics.
We are creators.
This is a fact.
In fact, quantum physics says that,
but now let me add one other fact.
Epigenetics says the same thing
because epigenetics says your consciousness
is controlling your behavior and your genes.
And so it's time to just stop for a second
and recognize where is your consciousness?
What are you thinking about? And
The idea is start thinking all those very positive thoughts,
but don't try and tell the universe how it's gonna manifest.
Okay?
You think of the picture,
let the universe get you there.
Very important part of our understanding about life
is that
It's our perception of life,
which actually means our beliefs about life.
So the significance is
if you're gonna plan your life
and you're gonna make perceptions
the programmer of your life,
well then the best thing you can do is.
Perceive of the life that you would wish and desire
because those thoughts will be translated by biology
into the expression of your cells and your genetics
and you will manifest your wishes and your desires,
and that's what the new biology.
You experience the life you focus on
and what you focus on is based on beliefs and values.
Whenever you believe, you tend to see that
Then people resolve the inner conflicts,
create a compelling future,
and be in control of their own life.
So it's like we can't control the external world,
we can influence it.
It's the way you move,
it's the way you breathe.
So you gotta shift the way the body's been used.
Focus on determines what you feel.
But my point is
Whether you're angry
or whether you're worried,
but they're all based on what you focused on.
You need what's called a compelling future.
You need something
that gets you to move forward.
We can all deal with the difficult today
if we have a compelling tomorrow.
We've always had these challenges
and we've always learned to adapt to these challenges.
Whatever those challenges may be,
and there's the power of identity.
Identity is who are you beyond the problem.
Your feelings don't matter.
That's the deal.
You may feel like doing something,
maybe you don't feel like doing something
Doesn't matter.
Get out there and do what you're supposed to do.
Whether you feel like it or not.
It's discipline.
Like I'm just that guy,
but I never was when I was a kid.
I developed that discipline over time.
My superpower has been developing that discipline,
but actually sticking with it.
Discipline only counts when you need it.
I just knew
if I wanted it, I could make it.
It's hard to have that kind of character
unless you earn that kind of character.
That was hard.
I wouldn't share any of that stuff
for where I am now
cuz it got you here.
Yeah.
The only thing you can actually really truly control
is what you think.
That's the only thing you can change in real time.
You can be thinking of red and change it to blue.
So why are you not controlling your own mind?
It's your asset.
It's your ally,
It's your friend.
Why would you make an enemy
out of the only thing you have control over?
I refuse to do that.
It doesn't make sense to me.
You gotta tell your brain where you want to go
and how you want to go and how you wanna get there
You gotta control it.
If not, it's over
Working on yourself, talking to yourself.
That's so very important.
Overcoming the negative conversation,
that inner dialogue
that's going on all the time, all the time,
even when you don't want it to be there.
You can't stop yourself right now from thinking
You can't do it.
It's going on.
And so learning how to empower yourself.
Part of doing that is
standing up to yourself.
You've got to stand up inside yourself sometimes
and say, shut up.
I was going to give a presentation
and this voice inside of me saying,
You can't do this.
You don't have everything it takes.
Shut up
Man, I'm behind on my bills
and you're telling me what I can't do
I have got to do it.
You'll get scared sometimes.
Your mind will go blank on you.
Some people when you allow to unnerve you
and you wonder what's wrong with me.
I'm not crazy.
That's why you've got to learn
to make a conscious delivered, determined effort
to stand up inside yourself,
working on yourself,
watching that inner dialogue.
It will determine the quality of your life.
Understand what mastering
the monotonous means.
It means doing the sh*t
that most people are too f*cking undisciplined to do
day in and day out
to the best of your ability,
you have to literally visualize
the connection between
what you're doing on a day by day basis,
AKA the monotonous
with what you're wanting.
I think those hard times,
if you can get to them
and if you can stand up and
be strong afterwards,
that definitely is one of the sure ways of being
an actual well-rounded individual.
People are gonna remember what you're doing.
You want to be the best person you can.
Most people, they think
of success like a movie montage,
but it's not reality.
What do you do
when your battle chooses you?
Life is not always easy.
In fact, some of you today,
you're here and you're going through
the toughest season of your life.
There will be seasons where we will suffer.
There will be seasons of real pain,
and the question is,
how will you respond in those moments?
Mark Twain once said,
the two most important days in your life are
number one, the day you're born,
and number two,
The day you figure out WHY
God has never created
anything without a purpose.
Every plant has a purpose.
Every star has a purpose.
Every animal has a purpose.
God does not create things
without a reason, without a purpose.
And if your heart is beating and you're breathing,
there's a purpose for your life,
and the very fact that you're alive
makes your life meaningful,
that God had a reason for creating you.
Stop questioning your purpose.
Just know that
whatever journey you're on,
you can't be envious of somebody else.
You can't look over in their yard and go,
why ain't I rocking like that person?
It's not your time.
God don't want that to happen
for you like that.
You just keep doing what you doing
and it is no bad in your life.
It's all good.
Just be grateful along the way that God,
trust God in this journey.
He got you.
Don't try to thirst to be nobody else
Just don't question
when something bad happens to you.
Just know that God's trying
God's tryingto make you stronger.
And lastly,
just be grateful for who you are on this journey.
Don't try to be anybody except you.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday,
not to who someone else is today.
Cause you need to be.
You need to have, uh, a
hierarchy of improvement.
You need to be aiming for something
and that means you're gonna be lesser than
people who've always already attained along that dimension
can give rise to envy
So the question is, who should
you defeat in the final analysis?
And the answer is, you should
defeat your former self.
You should be constantly trying to do that,
and you're the right control for yourself too,
because you're the one who's
had all your advantages and disadvantages.
And so if you want to compete
fairly with someone, then you
should be competing with you.
If you're improving yourself,
then what you are doing is
competing with your lesser self.
And then you might also ask,
well, what is that lesser self?
And that lesser self would be resentful and bitter
and aggressive
and vengeance seeking,
and all of those things
that go along with having a negative moral character.
And those are things that interfere with your ability
to progress as you move forward through life.
So it's very necessary to understand
that personal responsibility
is to compete with yourself
Your life doesn't end up an accident.
Your life is a series of actions
that you initiate or donation.
Really thinking through and
What do you wanna be like?
What are the skills you wanna deliver?
What's your why?
You need a why.
Why did you need a why?
Because some days you gonna say,
I don't want to get up,
but that why's gonna say
I push yourself.
Get up.
Your WHY gonna push you
when you can't push yourself
When you want to quit and give up
your why's gonna give you that edge you need
that advantage you need
that lift that you need to get to the next level.
Your why.
I don't know what your future is,
but if you are willing to take the harder way
The more complicated one,
the one with more failures at first than successes,
the one that has ultimately proven
to have more meaning, more victory, more glory,
then you will not regret.
Whatever you choose for a career path.
Remember, the struggles along the way
are only meant to shape you for your purpose.
You have to be all in
and it's the hardest thing to do.
I went all in with identity
This is a responsibility
You're called upon to
act ethically in the
Face of this potential that confronts you so that what you produce is good
But there's there's there's there's a part of that. That's worse that it's that's more
Burdensome than that even if that's burdensome enough
Make a mistake bring something into reality. That shouldn't be there then it's there and then
It's there to plague you and it's there to plague the people around you and it's
not gonna go away till someone fixes it so
that's a scary thing, but the other thing is is that
even if you
If you fail to take the responsibility that's laden upon you to use truth to structure
possibility properly then you leave a hole in the structure of being that you
Could have filled with something good and it doesn't just stay there as a hole
it's that you invite something that's terrible in to take its place and
That's what happens when people become bitter and resentful and cynical
because they've been hurt in their lives and they start to use deception and
They start to deviate from the desire to
confront the potential that surrounds them properly and to make things better
They they look for revenge. They look to hurt. They they develop malevolent motives and then not only are you not
bringing into the world what could be good and
Sustaining, but you're inviting into the world what can definitely be
Hellish is the only ...
to properly
conceptualize it and so I think that
There isn't anything more
Meaningful or real than the idea of individual sovereignty and that
It's mostly predicated on not on rights but on responsibility
Which is where our cultural?
Conversation has gone wrong because we've been talking about rights forever. It's like you have a responsibility
you're you're given a modicum of
possibility to play with in your life to do something with to build something with and
What you build is dependent on your ethical choices
and
It's the sum total of those ethical choices that create the world and then I'll close with this
We actually believe this politically
because our Western systems which are quite functional are also
predicated on the idea that
You're sovereign
Well, what does that mean? What means the government has to respect your rights?
But like I said, we've talked too much about rights, there's more to it than that
the proposition is that
The state is blind and old and decayed and dead and that requires the vision and the truth of the living in
order to keep it on track and
so what you do to keep it on track is you consult the living each one of us as
sovereign individuals and the reason you do that is because of the proposition that
You could actually do that. You could open your eyes you could see what was in front of you
You could speak the truth and you could keep the ship of state
properly afloat and oriented in the correct direction and our entire society is
predicated on that idea as well and
So that's the responsibility, right?
And it's it's a burdensome and terrible responsibility, but I also think
given the fundamental
catastrophe of life and the fact that you have to deal with that without becoming embittered
that you need a weight and a load of
responsibility
That's of sufficient magnitude
And worth
so that it balances the
fragility that characterizes you
You could make things better
You could reduce suffering in the world
you could act in a meaningful and truthful way and there would be nothing in that but good if
It was good that you wanted
and that's all at the bottom of what constitutes the self evidence of our
Equality before God our inalienable rights and
The requirement for the consent of the governed