One of my favorite stories is about a man now this man is walking down a path
and
finds an egg an
Eagles egg
He takes this egg and puts it into the nest of a backyard hen
Pretty soon the Eagle Hatches with the chicks and grows up with them
Now all his life that eagle. Did what the chick is did.
He would poke around in the dirt looking for worms and insects to eat
He would fly a few feet into the air like chickens do [he'd] cluck around
His time past that eagle. He grew very old
And one day he saw something above him
This thing it it glided gracefully and majestically through the clouds. What's that the eagle says
Oh that that's an eagle one chicken response
he is the king of all birds the master of the skies, but we
belong to the ground because we
Are just chickens?
Don't worry about him you will never be that
And that eagle lived and died a chicken because that is what he thought he was
This New Year, it's time to take flight
You and me both know that you don't belong where you are right now
[you] [don't] belong with some of the people you around right? [now]. You got no business doing what you're doing right now
You're being a chicken
when you were born an eagle
So now the question is
How long is [it] going to take?
To make the decision to [make] the shift and show some courage
Show some character let me tell where [character] is funny
You know character is
the ability to carry out a resolution
long after the excitement of the [moment] has passed
I'm gonna say that again some of y'all might have missed it
Character is the ability to carry out a resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed
Are you gonna say you want to want to do something?
Do it for two weeks, and then quit like you did last year like you did the year before last
You say you want to lose weight get in shape
Get your [business] off the ground get closer to God and then turn around and party get [lit]
drink alcohol eat like Crap and
Continue to live below who you were created to be thereby committing the greatest sin known to man
No, no, no no, I'm not. I'm not religious, but I'm gonna take you to church watch this see the word sin
Once they see the word sin comes from the Greek word
sin
used in archery
It means to Miss your mark
The greatest sin in life is to miss your mark to not be who you were created to be
To be a chicken
instead of an Eagle [I]
Don't know if you guys remember growing up the story of ICArus
You know a lot of people remember [icarus] being this guy who he had [the] wings made out of Wax
His father cautioned him not to fly too high or the sun will melt your wings and what happened
it was Icarus his arrogance that caused him to fly too high Sun melted his wings and
boom fell to the Earth Dead
But that's not the full story
No, no, no you you didn't know there was more to it
See Icarus his father also
cautioned him against flying too low
He said don't fly too close to the sea or your weight will cause you to plummet into the water
See we all know not to be too arrogant
for most of us
But how [many] of us know not to be too humble?
To meet too timid too shy too safe
It is said that the greatest tragedy in life is not [that] people aim too high and Miss
It is that people aim too low and hit I?
See a lot of people on Facebook everywhere instagram talking about the friendzone. [hi] [laughy]. He's in the friend zone let the hover hand
But I don't see too many people making jokes about the other zone
the Comfort Zone
Ain't no means about that. Ain't no jokes. You know why because a lot of y'all in there
Well in this new Year, let's step out of our [comfort] Zone
Fortune favors the Bold and it is the cave that you fear the cave that you fear
That will hold the treasure that you desire
forget a New Year's resolution
Forget it. Let's make a new life resolution to be fully and authentically you I?
Don't know what dream you have but I can guarantee you there's somebody in the hospital right now praying
Begging God to have the opportunity that you have right now
Don't blow it
It is time
it is time to go from Mediocre to
Meteoric it is time to go from being counted out to being counted on it is time to fly
like the Eagle you are
Or do you want to continue to cluck with the chickens?