Your gift is very simple to know. You don’t have to go anywhere to discover it. It’s
not in the water, it’s not on the mountain top, it ain’t hidden under a rock. Now this
is how you know you're not living in your gift. If when the alarm clock goes off in
the morning and you ain't happy about it you ain't doing what you want to do. If your job
makes you sick to go to if you’re unhappy with waking up to go to where you got to go
it's because you ain't living in your gift. What burns in your heart is important for
you to pay attention to because it never goes away. That’s why people wake up in a rut.
See you hate waking up cause you’re waking up and you don’t know the reason. You’re
waking up and you don’t have no design in mind. Once you live in your purpose, when
you discover your gift, you can’t wait to wake up. Please understand, pay very close
attention to the thing that makes you happy. All of you are gifted at something. The problem
is, you keep wanting your gift to be what somebody else’s gift is. Identify your own
gift, 'cause you already have it. Here's the way you identify your gift. Your gift is the
thing that you do the absolute best, with the least amount of effort. If you fry
chicken better than everybody you know you ought to be somewhere frying chicken. People
make millions of dollars frying chicken. Popeyes, Kentucky Fried Chicken, El Pollo Loco. All
they doing is making chicken. They just found a way to do it. Somebody just started making
chicken. You know the story of Marie Callender’s? Do you know what this woman did man? She worked
for a diner, a greasy spoon diner, that was going out of business. It was her only job.
She was a single mother. It was her only job. She needed that job but the diner was going
to close. So she went to the owner of the diner and said let me bake one of my pies
people like my pies and see if I can help you make a little money. He said whatever
bring it in. She bought one pie in, they sold every slice. The next day, the people came
in and asked for the pie. She had to go home and make another pie. The next day so many
people asked for the pie, she had to make four pies. Then people start saying can I
buy my own pie. She made so many pies at this store that she eventually saved her money
and put a commercial oven in her house. Now all, she done made so many pies, the dude’s
shop, he ain’t selling hamburgers no more. All he's selling is this damn pies. That's
how Marie Callender got started. Marie Callender now has over 120 restaurants. You can't go
to no frozen food section without seeing Marie Callender in there. You know what she started
with? A pie. One pie. Your gift will make room for you. Now what is your gift? It's
the thing that you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort. That's your gift.
Quit running away from the gift. Your gift will make room for you. Stop trying to be
something you ain't gifted at. Maybe you here 'cause you need to hear this here. Maybe you
here because you need to dust off your dreams. Maybe you need to explore your imagination.
Maybe you just need to identify your gift so you can quit trippin' in your own life
trying to figure out what you can do. Some people are born to be teachers, caregivers,
nurses, babysitters. Those are gifts you know what I mean. If you're living in your gift
you’re cool. It's just if you ain’t. You do anything else, when that alarm clock go
off in the morning, you ain't gonna like it. I would hate to die, and never do the thing
I was born to do. You should look into that before you mess around and check out of here.