There is a light
inside of every one of us.
An ember
that burns
and begs us
to become more
than what we have ever been.
This is the flicker
of creativity,
the spark
of an idea,
the outline
of a design.
You got to make IT happen.
Can't nobody else do it for you.
You're in charge of your IT.
Every day the clock is ticking,
every year the calendar moves.
Your IT cannot be delayed forever,
Your IT has got to start with your first step,
your it has got to start with your first move.
Matter of fact, IT begins in your mind.
It is your dreams.
It is your purpose.
It is your future.
There are 3 types of people in this world
there are people who watch things happen,
there are people who wonder what happened,
and there are people who make things happen.
You got to determine which person you are.
You can make a wish
or you can make it happen.
You must first believe that you can,
that you will, that you must.
When you are no longer willing to tolerate
being in the room of failure.
Then that's when you're going to break free.
Are you going to rise and go higher and go stronger
than you ever did in your life?
Or are you going to look in the mirror
and see that image
and realize that you are more than an image in the mirror?
There's enough fire inside of you.
After everything you have been through
you've got to be able to see your value.
Are you going to realize that it's time for you to step up
and make it happen?
Are you going to put aside all your doubts and fears?
Are you going to be strong enough
to go forward?
Are you going to allow weakness
to tell you that you don't have what it takes
to make it happen?
There is no one like you in all of the earth,
there is no one that can do what you can do.
You are the only option, you are the only play.
Nobody else is going to be able to do this.
When you keep that in your head
that you are the only one that is going to be able to do this,
that nobody is going to give you a handout,
that you have to make this happen,
that every room you walk into you show up and you show out
and you leave it all on the table.
We don't have time to second guess
it's time for you to rise up and it's time for you to make that first step.
It's time for you to start grinding so that you can make it happen.
You've got to make it happen.
At the end of the day, you've got to be strong.
At the end of the day, you've got to push forward.
You've got to fight for it.
You've got to make it happen.
You must accept this truth
that you were born for such a time as this
and that at this very moment
all you have is all you need.
Make it happen.
Persistence
Consistency
Resilience
Courage
Establishing your priorities
Mastering self-awareness
Maintaining focus
Believing
others have failed
others have gone,
others have missed their moment.
This is the hope
that strokes our passions.
It's our aspirations
that must become our allies.
Do you really have what it takes
when someone tells you that you're not good enough
and you're not strong enough
to prove them wrong
and make it happen?
Do you have the faith and the resilience
to go through the storm, to go through the fire,
to go through all of the things that have been trying to put you down?
To make it happen
you got to fight through all of that
all of your challenges, all your limitations, all your haters.
You got to fight through all of that
and that's why victory will taste so sweet.
The moment that you destroy the door,
the way out
in the room of your dream
that's when you make it happen.
What you do while you are in pain
will echo through the ages.
Well, when are you going to realize
that you are your greatest creation
and what you create relies on you.
You may get knocked down,
but so what?
You may feel like you can't carry on,
but so what?
That doesn't mean that it's over for you.
That doesn't mean that you can't go forward.
That means you got to rise up.
The process is muddy.
The process is murky.
The process is dark.
The process is cold.
The process is going to leave you in places
where you're going to feel like you have been abandoned,
like nobody believes in you, nobody supports you.
When you don't see a light at the end of your tunnel
you got to remember the light that is burning inside of you
that nobody is able to put out.
There's no person on this planet that can stop you.
Sometimes you're going to- to just say, you just don't have it anymore.
You must reconnect with your possibilities.
That means you got to be hungry,
that means you got to be strong,
that means you got to have the power,
that means you got to fight and push and dig.
And make it happen.
Nobody cares
until you make it happen.
What if you worked hard for it daily?
What if you stopped listening to the wrong people
and start listening to the right people
and let their voice be louder?
People that love you's voice got to be louder.
People that care about you, their voice got to be louder.
People that want you to succeed
their voice has got to be louder
but can't nobody's voice be louder than yours.
You got to understand what voice to listen to.
You might be hanging on by a thread right now
burned out on the verge of dropout but...
I need you to take a moment
and garner up all the belief that you have left
in yourself
and in the idea of what is possible
to make this thing happen.
It's those who are not dating the idea
but married to the reality
that they are the only option.
But until you understand
that it's up to you,
it is up to you to make it happen
then nothing will move,
nothing can happen.
Don't depend on other people
to give you permission
you have the power to make it happen.
So move,
push,
make moves
and go forward.
Be strong enough, be willing enough
and make it happen
for you.
Opportunity is everywhere,
but I need you to grow up and be ready for this opportunity.
Maturity is knocking, wisdom is knocking.
You are stronger now, you are wiser now.
It's time for you to answer the call with your chest stuck out.
It's time for you to answer the call with your head held high.
Will you keep delaying the better life?
You going to keep letting everybody pass you by?
Why not you?
Come on, why not you?
No sunrise without a sunset.
There are no roses without rain.
If you can remember that
then you will always see adversity as advantage
and obstacle as opportunity.
Know this,
that your process may be messy
but your mess will become your message.
You can't just stay still,
you can't just stay in neutral,
you have to continue to evolve
but you got to rise up right now
and you got to understand that you are powerful
and you got to focus on your IT.
You can. You will. You must
Never give up
The moves that you make
will echo throughout the ages
as there is a generation of people
who are attached to your Why.
And if you don't succeed
they'll never believe.
So make it happen.