Some of you don't even realize
you have unfinished business.
You need to go back where you left off
with a new perspective.
Go back to the gym,
go back to the drawing board,
go back to the business,
go back to the relationship,
go back to the burning building.
You have unfinished business.
All you got to do
is show up
with a new game plan
and a new perspective.
You've got unfinished business.
You have unfinished business.
You got work to do.
Perspective
is everything.
Let's go, I need you to hear me loud and clear
how you see this thing
is everything.
You cannot
change the past
but you can change your perspective about it.
You got to see this thing differently.
Stop complaining about the divorce,
stop complaining about the job loss,
stop complaining about the relocation.
Your viewpoint
is your advantage.
Thank you for breaking up with me.
Here's what you did,
you opened up another opportunity for somebody else to come into my life.
Thank you for firing me,
you gave me an opportunity to explore entrepreneurship.
I'm not bitter, I’m better.
Perspective
is what changes the game.
Everybody wants increase and abundance and lifestyle change
and new zip codes and new area codes
but you only read once a week
and you only work out once or twice a month.
And so the reason why you don't have what it is that you seek,
the reason why what's in your head is not in your hands
it's not your reality
it's because your perspective opposes your potential.
You don't have it
because you don't see the value in it.
If you believe you've been called to be the difference maker,
the game changer,
the disrupter,
the person that comes into a room and commands the atmosphere.
If you believe you've been called to be necessary
and not grossly irrelevant
then everything you do,
everything you see,
everything rises and falls
on your perspective, your perception, your viewpoint.
How do you see this thing?
What happens
when your perspective, your perception
diametrically opposes your reality?
If you are going to give
and grow
and evolve
and attain
and become, everything rises and falls
on your viewpoint.
Show me somebody that hates to work out
and I’ll show you a man that almost lost his life
and the doctor said if you don't work out you'll die.
One sees it as cumbersome.
One sees it as a problem.
Another one sees it as a privilege.
He sees it as his second chance.
His new lease on life
that I have to work out, I get to work out
I get a chance to live a little longer.
So one person sees the gym as a prison
and another person sees the gym as a passport.
One man came within inches of losing his life
and another man has never come within a hundred miles of losing his life
and he only works out twice a month
and somebody else works out four or five times a week
the reason why you only do it once or twice a month
is because you don't see the value.
Your viewpoint is either your advantage or your assassin.
Your viewpoint will either get you going or get you killed.
We see a storm, we see rain
and we think depression
we think I can't do anything
instead of thinking,
grass can't grow without rain
roses don't bloom without rain.
Number one, there's one thing I need you to stop saying and that is
I should do something.
That perspective, that viewpoint,
that ideology, that philosophy,
that mindset
is going to get you bankrupt.
I should
start this.
I should
stop that.
I should
forgive.
I should
you don't get what you should
you get what you must have.
I must work out X amount of times a week.
I must forgive.
I must evolve.
I must become.
I must retain.
I must grow.
I must live.
I must evolve.
I must go to the next level.
I must live in this type of house.
I must drive this type of car.
I don't care how bad you think the shoes are that you are wearing
there is another man in this world
who would kill
to walk a mile in the pair that you wear.
Marcus, what does this mean? This means
that what you are complaining about,
what you hate,
what you can't stand,
what you want to walk out of,
what you want to give up on
there is somebody out there that would die
to be in your position.
And so here's what I need you to ask yourself
is this problem an issue
or is it an opportunity?
Some of you all you've been waiting for your whole life
was an opportunity.
What if losing your job
was the opportunity?
What if the divorce is an opportunity?
what if the bankruptcy is an opportunity?
what if the one you loved was an opportunity
for you to reconnect with somebody
and forgive them?
I need you to see the bigger picture.
I need you to have a little gratitude.
You need to learn how to smile.
You need to work out.
I know you hate the gym,
I know you hate to lift weights, I know you hate cardio,
I know you don't like drinking water,
I know you don't like taking care of your simple
you think it's the hardest thing to do in the world to commit.
But there is somebody who's in the grave today
and if they had another opportunity to live
they would enthusiastically
with great confidence and courage and consistency
do what you hate
just to live a little longer.
Find the positive, see the bigger picture,
guard your gratitude.
The trial, the tribulation,
the adversity, the giant
is not your assassin.
The giant is your opportunity.
Are you going to complain
in the face of conflict?
Or are you going to seize the opportunity?
I don't care what it is that you're trying to achieve,
what you're trying to accomplish,
what you're trying to give,
how you're trying to evolve,
what you are looking to become,
everything rises and falls on your perspective.
Stop complaining about the jealousy and the envy
and the backbiting
and the person that gave up on you
and the person that wasn't present
and the person that lied to you
and the person that attempted to manipulate and control.
I'm not weary, I’m wiser.
I'm not toxic, I’m triumphant.
I see this thing differently.
This season that you've entered into did not come to break you.
It came to build you
into the man or woman God has destined you to be.
Change your perspective.
There's a reason why they say
see the light at the end of the tunnel.
If you don't see that light, you're gonna lose your mind.
You will lose yourself.
You will snap in half
if you don't see past this.
The challenge
for many of us is that we gotta see past
our present pain.
And in to the fruitfulness
of the future.
The right perspective
makes the impossible
possible.
You cannot change the past
but you can always change your perspective.
No problem could be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
The severity
of your problems is a matter of perspective.
Change your perspective
and most of them become insignificant.
Some of them will no longer exist as problems
but opportunities.
The right perspective is the instrument you need, the tool you need.
It's a discipline, it's an advantage.
If you change the way you look at things
then the things that you see will change
knowledge,
a speech,
a motivational moment,
will not sustain you
unless you put it into perspective.
How will you see the rest of your day?
Because how you see the rest of your day
will oftentimes determine the way you see the rest of your life.
Shift your perspective.
You can change your perspective.
You can change the future.
Many of you listening to me right now, you have unfinished business.
And you need to go back to that dream,
back to that idea.
You have a date with destiny.
You have unfinished business.
It's time for you to go back
to the drawing board with a new perspective.
It's your viewpoint and watch this-
your perspective actually shapes your language
and your language shapes your world.
And so if you don't start thinking right
you're not going to talk right
and if you're not talking right
you're not going to experience the world
that you see in your head.
I don't know who God has taught you to become
but what I can tell you
is if you keep seeing it the way you have seen it
you will never become it.
Everybody wants next level,
everybody wants wealth and influence
and everybody wants to be this esoteric novelty
but listen to me, you will never experience any of this
showing up in your next season with the same viewpoint.
The right perspective
makes the impossible
possible.