you're doing the world a disservice by
leaving your gift wrapped up somebody
needs your story my mom told me this not
never forget it said Trent you're
assigned to reach people I don't know
how many but you're assigned to reach
people that nobody else can reach but
you she said everybody has that and the
more you leave your gift wrapped those
people that need your message that need
your encouragement whatever it is they
need your talent
they're never gonna get it the moment
you tell yourself that you can't do
something that's the moment when you
won't do it that's what drives me it's
the things people told me I couldn't
become it's the the negative
circumstances that I come from I don't
let that limit me limit me at all that's
my catalyst because I look at it like
okay why not me I've already overcome
this why can't I gonna start a company
why can't I build something that's
meaningful why can't I create this new
paradigm shift in the way we look at the
world as big giant superhero training
facility because if I looked at it the
other way I started to take you know the
counter okay well I can't do this
because of where I come from I can't do
this because of how I look I can't do
this I wouldn't start anything
everybody will wake up each day doing
subtraction I look at my life as
addition you know I wake up and say what
can I do today to add to my skill set
what can I do today to add to someone
else's joy what can I do today to serve
someone else so when you keep a mindset
of service your problems and that
darkness become smaller because you're
not going to focus on your own
insecurities your own problems you're
going to figure out a way to amplify
someone else's experience so I go
through life looking you know looking at
people as an opportunity for me to serve
coz when I'm waiting on my bless they're
not gonna be a blessing and that's how I
kind of balance that when you focus
solely on your darkness everything
becomes about you you become selfish and
you could be driven to a point where it
becomes toxic and that's why you see
some people implode once they get to
where they're going because they look up
and no one around them really wants them
there
for me I have this mentality that if
everyone around me is fed then no one is
starving then I don't have to worry
about people being villainous or hungry
and trying to take from me so the way
our feed is through time through
joyfulness through good energy because
sometimes all you need to do is tell the
person that they matter and show up
that's the greatest gift is to
acknowledge people in the world that's
so busy and so hurried to slow down and
be present and to acknowledge a person's
existence is to me how you balance out
the darkness with the light when you're
driven so we read a bunch of books
nowadays as humans we we want to find
out how to be someone else what we don't
do is we don't go inside so literally
turn yourself inside out read the book
that says like we're writing a book
every day for lives but we never read
that book so what I would challenge this
young man or you don't want me to do is
you have to look inside of yourself to
see what you really want where are you
passionate about we use these words and
these little phrases of only the strong
survive and also the crap there's all
just keen words I get so tired of
hearing people just talking like right
now
someone may think God is just talking
uh-huh you don't know me so when I speak
I speak from passion I speak from
experience I speak from suffering I was
to tell this young man a woman that the
only way I believe this is just my
experience in life the only way you're
ever going to get to the other side of
this journey is you have got to suffer
to grow to grow you must suffer
some people will get it and some people
won't but they have to see what their
journey is to start their journey
several people live to be a hundred
years old
they have great lives they have great
kids a kids go to college lost her stuff
but somewhere in their life there was a
point where they had a decision to make
they can go left or right on this path
left was the easy route right was a hard
route a lot of people take the easy
route and they had a good life that way
but the better life was going to the
right side and you may have 20 years of
pain and suffering to get past it but a
lot of us died never truly starting our
journey and I would tell this young
person you got to start your journey it
may suck but it will it will come out
the other side people looked at success
in many different ways you know success
is to be healthy
success is to be a good father have a
good family you know it can be in many
different ways
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life is not about getting to the top
life isn't the start of a new life a new
day new month a new year a new decade
these are all moments when life stops
life happens when you get out of bad
life is brushing your teeth washing your
body walking out of the door each day
life amidst a journey of every day every
day is life where time is present
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life is living each and every day and
embracing the moment life is taking time
having time owning time life is enjoying
time life is all the little moments to
join the dots that make you hope and
when those moments connect life happens
you know if I ever feel like in any
moment life is not going the way that I
think it should be going it's because
I'm resisting what is you know if
someone didn't turn in their work on
time and I'm just like you know getting
that way or something didn't come out
right or the delivery doesn't come or
the technology breaks again we can list
anything in that spot right it's me
arguing with reality I'm making myself
miserable in that moment because I'm
choosing to argue with what is that's
always a losing proposition so the more
awareness I can bring to that and go
like is this really how you want to live
your life in this moment Marie because
every single moment as you know sets you
up for the next moment and you string
these moments together and guess what
you have your life and two
we get to that incredible death that we
never know when that's coming so every
single moment is an opportunity for us
to check ourselves before we wreck or
selves and so I just try and play the
game if I'm miserable if I'm upset if
I'm angry if I'm cranky it is my
responsibility because it's based on
what I'm thinking or believing in that
moment it's not the outside world
causing me to feel this
it's what I'm doing up here that's
making me have that reaction and if I'm
the problem I am also the solution I'm
real with myself I'm honest like we're
humans you're gonna hit me everybody is
it on all the time you know we all have
our struggles our silent battles as I
like to call them and instead of
ignoring those silent battles I let them
out but yes I am a person that will tell
you make the world respect your
greatness
I'm very firm on that I'm a person that
believes in myself I'm a person that
wants you because I believe that's
contagious and be transparent like in a
real way because that creates connection
now it's like I can relate to that
person you know growing up in the church
I'm gonna be real cheats on like I would
watch pastors and preachers and I would
be like I could never be them it was
always perfection I was like I could
never beat them so I just chose a
different lifestyle but now when I see
people like say you know what I struggle
with this I struggle with addiction
doesn't mean you're not awesome because
you have addictions everybody has
addictions everybody has about battles
some people just hide there's better so
I relate more to that because now it
becomes attainable now you become
relatable to me and I can be like wow
like I can still go through this it's
nothing wrong with me I'm a human I'm
gonna have my insecurities my flaws and
I can actually grow from it so I think
we need more examples of the world of
that and that's what I just try to give
people as much as I can
this is gonna be my life this is I'm
could be obsessed completely obsessed
with everything that concerns getting
bad
there's nothing that you know if like if
someone invites me to a party or a drink
out late in the next 16 weeks do you
think gonna go out oh hell no I'm the
one that has to do the work I'm the one
that has to eat the food I'm the one
that has to like do all these things
like yeah you can have the best coats in
the world but that matters mate
does it make you a champion you have to
work for yourself
this is your opportunity to be better to
constantly look for something more
always looking to be dynamic in your
decision constantly looking up looking
beyond what's right in front of you at
this very minute
tomorrow is your opportunity to change
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people out there that are going through
fear for moments it's kind of like this
you will never step into the ring if
you're already telling yourself that
you're gonna do this before the fight
you'll never do that
like why would you all right so tell
your self you're gonna win even if you
get knocked down guess what you're never
knocked out in life until you actually
tap out to your last day so figure out
that leverage point what's your fear
what's gonna help you walk through the
door and then you have to just give it
to the world I never knew speaking was
my gift until I actually went out there
and failed actually went out there in
embarrass myself and I realized like wow
this is what I was created to do and I
knew that because I like to put it like
this I hope they get it that's watching
this but I've never had so much like
peace in the midst of life fear never
had so much confidence in the midst of
like my weakness in that moment
you have direction you write the rules
step up to your authority and take it
take the opportunity
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