Almost like we are in a trance,
like we're sleepwalking through life,
that we find ways to cancel out our dreams
That I think,
that but is a dream killer.
That a lot of things that we want to do,
a lot of places we would like to go,
a lot of things we would like to experience
and we just stop at.
But.
Well, when I was 17
I read a quote that went something like,
If you live each day as if it was your last,
someday, you'll most certainly be right.
It made an impression on me.
And since then, for the past 33 years,
I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself,
if today were the last day of my life,
what I want to do, what I am about to do today?
And whenever the answer is benn know for too many days in a row,
I know i need to change something.
Betray your destiny
and see how long it takes you to be
drowning in a storm.
It'll happen immediately.
And of course it will because
what's calling you to be your best is exactly
the thing that's pushing you forward
to manifest yourself most fully in the world.
It's what you need.
You run away from that,
the boat's gonna start to rock very, very quickly.
Well, how, what does that mean?
Well, what else would come out of chaos?
You know, if you, if you fall apart
and then you put yourself back together,
what is it that comes back out?
At least you're in better shape than you were before.
You know, and then maybe you do that 20 times in your life
or 50 times, and you do it voluntarily.
Your purpose is easy to you.
Your purpose come natural for you.
Your purpose brings you energy.
Your purpose brings you life.
It's okay not to have a grand dream.
It's okay not to be able to do that yet.
It is very okay not to be extraordinary.
You don't need that to love yourself.
But what you do need is purpose.
What you do need is to take that time to define
what is it that you're trying to do with your life?
Why do you matter?
What is it that you are going to be able
to bring to yourself and to the world?
And it doesn't have to be big.
It just has to be real.
What would you like to do?
What do you believe you've been destined to do?
What talents, skills, giftings and abilities
do you possess to support your desire to do it?
What are your motives for wanting to do it?
Why do you want to become
what you are looking to become?
What steps are you taking
to become and to live the life?
To make the dream a reality?
Because this world needs your purpose,
and so every day you gotta give it up.
Every day,
you gotta give this world what you got.
Every day, you gotta give everything you got to this world
because that defines your legacy.
Let today be the start.
The start of your journey, your journey to success
in a life built on your power, not anybody else's.
Let yourself be your future
and let this start to define
the legacy that you'll be proud to leave behind.
I don't think you determine what your purpose is.
I think you discover what your purpose is.
There's a difference determining, indicates deciding.
And I don't think you decide.
I think if you go about it the right way,
you discover it.
Like there's some people that should be painting
all day.
They're great artists.
Think Michelangelo was obviously a great artist,
great sculptor.
I mean, that was his purpose in his life.
Well, I believe my purpose is doing what I'm doing.
Your purpose is why you get outta bed in the morning.
Do you know why you get up?
Well, most people say, well, it's to go to work.
Well, that'd be a good reason to stay in bed.
You know, you say, well, everybody's doing it.
That'd be another reason to stay in bed.
If you're ever doing what everybody's doing,
you're probably going in the wrong direction.
Your purpose is your reason for living.
It's easy to look at those people who have succeeded
and assume that they just got lucky.
But invariably behind the facade of overnight success
is an unwavering commitment and definiteness of purpose
that makes successful people able to do whatever needs to be done
in order to achieve their goal of financial prosperity.
Whether your dream is to become a famous dancer
or to become free of financial worries,
you must set that goal as your definite major purpose
and refuse to allow anything to pull you from that course.
To reinforce the point, consider this.
They who have no central purpose in their life,
fallen easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying,
all of which lead just as surely as deliberately planned sins to failure,
unhappiness and loss.
A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart
and set out to accomplish it.
He should make this purpose his supreme duty
and should devote himself to its attainment,
not allowing his thoughts to its attainment,
not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fences, longings, and imagining.
Erratic action toward your goal will produce an erratic result.
Our card reminds us that willpower
is about the unflinching purpose
to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment.
If I set for myself a task,
be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through.
How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
What is it that you most want to achieve?
Whatever it is,
decide your goal and remind yourself of it every day as soon as you wake up.
Make everything you do lead to that outcome.
Winners are people with definite purpose in that.
Take action,
lack of decision making skills is near the head of the major causes of failure.
So if not knowing what your definite major purpose causes obvious challenges
toward its attainment, then changing your mind every five minutes
about the target comes, a pretty close second,
after all, how can the invisible forces of the infinite intelligence mobilized to convert
emotionalized thought into reality, If you keep changing your mind.
Procrastination - the opposite of decision.
The opposite of decision is a common enemy,
which practically every man must conquer.
Procrastination is motivated by shame.
People put off tasks
either consciously or unconsciously because they
believe they will experience shame.
If they complete the task,
perhaps they feel their efforts won't be good enough,
or that their position of authority could be
questioned if their attempt is unsuccessful.
It is therefore safer to procrastinate and blame
external sources for lack of results
than to try and have to admit failure.
Procrastinators very often see themselves at the top of the mountain,
but they don't want to learn how to climb.
But what if it's not fence
sitting that's slowing you up, but inability
to make decisions in the first place?
It has been thought that those that make decisions quickly
are working on some sort of sixth sense and certainly.
However, cognitive psychologist Gary Clean,
with his studies into decision making processes in life and death situations shows
there is something less esoteric at play too.
He concluded that far from being weighed
down by knowledge, information, and memories,
those with experience in a certain area,
were able to assess situations and mentally simulate their outcome
faster than a numbers could get a notebook out.
Experience and understanding allow decision makers to recognize
situations and quickly commit to a course of action
based on that extensive knowledge bank.
So building information, knowledge, and experience often through failure
is an essential piece of the success puzzle.
There is no more miserable human being than one
in whom nothing is habitual, but indecision.
Take full responsibility for your life
except where you are
and the responsibility that you're going to take yourself, where you want to go.
Someone said, we have two primary choices in life.
We can either accept conditions as they exist,
or we can take the responsibility to change them.
See, a lot of people want to exempt themselves
from taking responsibility.
All they wanna do is talk about the problem.
Every time you see them, they'll tell you their story
over and over and over and over again.
No, no.
You wanna take responsibility for your life.
I got me here.
I can get me out of this.
And I'm getting out.
I'm not going to be a volunteer victim.
George Bernard Shaw said there are two kinds of people in life.
You know, he said those that make things happen, those that watch things happen,
and those that don't know what happened.
And he said, the people that get along in this life
look around for the circumstances that they want,
and if they can't find 'em, they make 'em.
They create 'em, support 'em beginning to get unstuck,
you've got to decade,
that the behavior pattern that you have adopted doesn't work for you.
You gotta change your strategies and changing
your strategy means reinventing your life,
recreating you, and you have the power to do that.
You can decide that you're going to change that.
You're not gonna be a wimp.
You can decide that I'm gonna live
each day as if it were my last.
You can you have the power to make that decision.
You can decide I'm gonna work
on myself and develop myself.
I'm going to empower me,
and all of these things that are happening to me right now,
they're just temporary inconveniences.
They're not stronger than I am.
I'm in charge here.