The journey
Where a man or woman is made.
The journey
the places where you bury loved ones
and you gotta keep going on without them.
The journey
the moment when you get that phone call
when you've been going to interviews for months
and months and months
and they give you that call back and they say,
"I'm sorry,
you just...
Didn't have what we were looking for"
There's somebody out there right now
There's somebody out there talking about quitting
right now.
And I want you to look me in my eyes
and listen to me
You are special
No matter if you have a degree,
no matter if you work at McDonalds,
You are special, your gifts
your special gifts
you were born with them
that's where you'll find your greatness.
The journey
I need you to understand this
it's you VS. you
Your dream VS. the world.
Don't let them stop you,
let them see you,
let them see you shine.
Some are going to fail tests,
some are going to lose family members
but what now?
Keep chasing
the dream that hunts you,
the dream that bites and eats at your soul,
because this is the only thing that you want to do.
But just like when coach used to say
Keep running
I can hear him now, he said
Keep running William
Keep running I know you're tired
Keep running
You want that degree?
Keep running
You want that high school diploma?
Keep running
You want to save your momma out of the projects?
Keep running
You want a beautiful life?
Keep running
Let them watch you rise like a phoenix
and become one of the greatest this world has ever seen.
The journey
this journey of life, this journey full of ups and downs
and pain
Are you ready for it?
Are you going to sit down
In the valley of pity for the rest of your life
or are you going to rise
and keep running?
This is you VS. you
Listen to me again, I need you to understand this
this is you VS. you
You see, once you stop paying attention
to everything
that has nothing to do with you.
Your life will change
You wake up every single day
you get on your Instagram, you get on your Facebook.
And what do you do?
You scroll up to see what's going on
in other individuals lives.
I need you to teach you the lesson of
staying in your lane.
Understanding your unique gifts
that you have to give this world.
You see,
where I will relate to you guys with is the fact that
I started off
with a terrible household.
I started off with people telling me,
"you're going to be just like your father."
I started off with the echoes of the doubters screaming
that you will stay in this pit of hell
for the rest of your life.
And as I watched around me
other kids listened.
Other kids made this a part of their DNA.
They decided to make this
their reality
but I ran away.
I ran towards my dreams
because I understood
that if I do not make it
my family dies
in this pit of hell.
But the only way I can start running
is when I realized that
it was me VS. me.
Not him VS. me or her VS. me
or them VS. me
it was me VS. me.
Stop paying attention to the man
that's already a 100 miles ahead of you
and focus on the next step.
Put your crown on
and become a king.
Put your crown on
and stop asking for other people to make you great
and you take it.
And no, this will not be given to you
This will not just be handed to you
you'll have to take it.
No not with force or power,
but I'm talking about
with pure work ethic.
I'm talking about relentless effort.
I'm talking...
about that ordinary man,
outworking the so-called extraordinary man.
Put your crown on.
I'm going to tell you a story about
one day I had to wake up
and I had to go all the way down to another city
to speak and I had no money to get there.
All I had was a dollar and 25 cents
and a burning desire
to make it.
You see on this day, I learned about life and journeys.
I learned that
there's going to be people that you love the most
that you look in their eyes and you ask them,
“Do you believe in me?”
You ask them
“Do you believe in me?”
Their mouth will tell you yes
but their eyes
it will tell you no.
But it's not about what they did to you,
it's about
what you're going to do when it's done.
Yes in life we have plenty of people that say,
“but- but- but”
but I say,
“but what now?”
You see, that's what life is about.
That's what this journey is about.
It's about “what now?”.
Once we take our eyes off our destination
we start to trip.
We start to trip over fake family members,
and fake relationships.
But I promise you if you look in the mirror and you ask yourself
what do you have to do to be successful?
I promise you
your heart will tell you
People always ask me, "Will
what is your morning routine?"
My morning routine
is whatever it takes to be the greatest.
I like to walk in new pastures
and go into new valleys of battles
and see if God gave me what it takes
to continue to fight that.
I will take that phone call.
I will answer that e-mail.
I will go to the slums.
I will go where the killers at
because I have a duty
from the man above
to save the soldiers dying inside.
You see the biggest mistake you motivators make in this world is
you try to change too much.
And what happens when you do things too fast?
You make a mess.
You see me, I learned this very thing
take it, keep it, caress it.
Meet them where they are
So you can take them,
where you want them to go.