I think the number one thing that keeps
people from being successful is their
fear a whole bunch of different forms
you know um sometimes it's about the
people around you and how they'll
perceive you you know because you know
maybe you grew up in a household where
you know things weren't accepted or you
know maybe your parents sitting
accomplish things and then they put that
kind of insecurity on you these are the
things that I feel like sometimes it
prevents people from being who they want
to be because all it takes is somebody
wanting to take a step you know and
there are certain things that a lot of
people in this world I sitting there
thinking in their minds and they're just
not gonna do like I used to always try
to pull a lot of people and be like you
want you can do this you can do this but
the people that hear that motivation
over and over again sometimes they take
that step some people just have it in
them early it just starts and they just
get in the muscle memory of just doing
things there's so many things not life
that we were scared about what we're
still here we made it past all these
things and if you fail so what you know
you start over you do it again but most
people that that fear of failure is the
thing that I think prevents them from
like really really being successful then
also it's like a lot of other things
that are just difficult to do you know
when you tell people the answer to
success it's a lot of hard stuff
let your success fill itself around you
let it construct around you
you got to work hard right nobody wants
to hear that everybody wants a shortcut
you know some people understand that
they like they appreciate the progress
you know if you tell people right now
hey if you want to lose this many pounds
this is what you got to do there's no
short solution but every time there's
still people out there selling whatever
Herbalife treatment or whatever to try
to get you the quick short route because
people believe that you know what I'm
gonna do it the easy way and there is no
easy way so when I tell people that is
very blunt it's very straight to it you
have to want to do it but the best way I
try to explain it is like you know when
you're chiseling on a rock you know you
can chisel for a long time
you can chisel 100 tons 200 times 300
times and it won't break and then when
you get the five thousand times it
finally breaks but all the work that you
did is what made a break
it's not like you just the last one just
broke it you know I mean it takes that
but sometimes people don't want to start
that journey you know they don't want to
get on the mission of like you know
becoming the best that they can be
move away from your past and move toward
a new purpose a purpose that gives you
the success you've always wanted the
success that leads you to a future you
deserve bring your life into the
direction you want the direction to
change your perception your perspective
this is the power you've earned don't
let yourself be taken by one more
mistake don't let yourself slip from one
more wasted opportunity have the
confidence to take action have the
confidence to appreciate the decisions
you make to make every choice with the
purpose with the purpose to change to
improve as a collective a society we all
want similar things we all want to
succeed to improve to be better people
we all slip but that's how life
functions that's the only way for us to
learn you can be more you can have more
I felt like we spend way more time in
our own minds than we do talking other
people like you really spend a lot of
time trying to figure it out there's all
these thoughts that come to you whether
it's like you know things around you
people talking to you people close to
you things you see TV whatever and
you're you bring it in all these
different things trying to figure out
your path in life you know so I think it
starts with having some like real
understanding of what your strengths are
it's about being honest you know a lot
of people just aren't honest with
themselves you're telling yourself this
thing but you like there's so many
people that say oh I'm gonna be
entrepreneur I'm gonna do this and it
can really dive down into deep they
don't really believe it you know and
that's okay you can unlock that but you
have to figure out how to unlock it
there's a conscience that's sitting
right here telling you this thing and
you try to brush it off you have to be
very honest with yourself and then if
you're not that doesn't mean you can't
succeed it means that now you're very
honest and knowing you're not as
good then you can work on getting good
but if you think you're already good at
it you don't work on it so I spent a lot
of time just reflecting on late man what
am I good at like I used to think like I
want to the NBA you know I was
unrealistic about it you know you start
to see people that are way bigger way
faster and you're not telling yourself
the truth he's just like no I'm going to
the NBA you start with doing what you're
passionate about right because there are
a lot of people that are going through
life right now trying to figure it out
like me I don't know what I want to be I
don't know like I was at that moment
it's not about money
I want to make it very clear the money
will come if you focus on passion and
focus on information and relationship
and I must stand on the top of the
mountain and seeing that all day and
hopefully it helps a real impact on
people's lives and imma feel good about
that I'm not gonna feel good if I go to
the grave as being the only person with
the information and the money getting to
tell us money I'm feel good if I'm able
to impact a lot of people and that don't
have access to this information and a
good life or quality of life and they
have one that's awesome that makes me
feel real good
I think the to measure wealth is our is
happiness right like I really do and
it's not saying that I'm against money
I'm not against that at all because you
gotta gotta work hard make your money to
take care of your family and be able to
bless people but I think it's a lot of
people with so-called wealth and they
don't have joy and they don't have
happiness right and I feel like joy
happiness is P and peace it's the most
important things we can possess right
then for most people the material
possessions they feel like the most
important for me when you got joy when
you got peace when you got happiness I
think that's true wealth because you
can't put a price on that you having a
purpose it's that thing that that makes
us tick that gets us up every day and
gets us over the hump of opposition and
adversity and a reason that I champion
that verse in opposition is because I
think for the most part in life people
pretty much know what to do when things
go right right like when things go right
they know how to feel they know how to
act how to react but it's when that
opposition and that adversity comes and
it creates a level of misunderstanding
right now the vision is blurred now you
don't have clarity about what you're
supposed to do now you question if your
existence matters and I think when you
have a purpose it's powerful because in
the midst of the opposition it makes you
realize that you've been put here for a
certain reason
and you can be great but you live in on
reserve right you didn't you didn't
empty the bucket right you didn't give
everything you had to every aspect of
your life like for most people they're
great professionally but they end up
becoming a public success and behind
closed doors they're private failure not
because they don't have the talent or
the skill set they don't have the
character right that they can apply it
and be consistent in every aspect of
their life and empty out everything they
got to everything alright now one was
saying okay well when do you turn it
back right you find pockets to turn it
back right of course you don't just give
everything you've got all the time right
you get to a point to where you learn to
be efficient and effective in every
aspect of your life and for most people
is not a problem the skill center it's a
problem with character and empty the
bucket is having the right character to
be consistent and empty out everything
you've got in every aspect of your life
either somebody is in the midst of
adversity or just came out of adversity
or won't be known before they head into
adversity so you need to be prepared
and so we all go through adversity
opposition I think that's the thing that
that makes us all in common as people by
no matter if you're from London
Atlanta Florida California New York like
we're all going to go do something at
some point or phase in our life right
and as cliche as it sounds when a quote
says it's never about what happens to us
about how you respond to it
that's very true right but in the same
sense I think what's most important is
when we go through something what's the
perspective that we have right because
for most people when you go through
something the person's natural
perspective is okay what did I lose
right what happened to me like I took a
loss right people never look at it and
say okay man tell me what did you gain
by even though I know it hurt you didn't
want to go through it but look at it in
a way to where you could say what's the
lesson in this right what would you say
life is trying to teach you from dealing
with this and so when I went through it
my perspective was okay what can I
extract from you to apply to other areas
and aspects of my life that I feel can
help other people and I found you
believe the quicker you can shift your
perspective from yourself to others when
you're in the midst of adversity the
quicker you'll get through it right
Martin Luther King has a quote that says
life's most persistent and urgent
question is what are you doing to help
other people now I'm not telling you to
not acknowledge your pain I'm not saying
I'm not telling you not to say man I'm
going through this in his heart I'm not
saying that I'm saying when you go
through it look at it step back from the
picture and say okay I'm dealing with
this 9 out of 10 times there's somebody
else that's either dealt with it are
they gonna deal with something similar
to this and if I deal with it in the
right way I can use it to add value to
lives of other people
like when we go through a situation in
circumstance it's easy to step back and
think now I just went through this and
it's just my experience I firmly believe
when we go through things it's for us to
deal with it get over it and reach back
over the hill to help another person and
a lot of times like you said when you're
trying to work through it you think man
how can I help somebody and I'm trying
to get through it myself
right and that's a great perspective
right but when you get through it right
maybe you can't help them when you're in
the midst of it because you're
processing it but when you get over the
hill I think is it important and I think
it's vital that you reach back over the
hill and help somebody that may be going
through a similar situation and you can
share your values and principles with
them because that experience that we go
through and we do it it's not just for
us