I don't want you to see failure
as a DISEASE
I want you to see it as a CURRENCY
I want you to know that there are lessons that you learn
and you gain wisdom in the lesson
you gain a deeper understanding
of the power of your future
There are things you will be able to buy
in your future
with the currency of failure
with the lesson that you learned
Sometimes your life will be in a slump
just like sports
Some of the best shooters can't hit baskets
Different times in games
they get in a slump
Do they sit on the sideline and say
"You know, I just didn't hit a basket today"?
NO
They continue to execute
I suggest to you that if you were facing a challenge
DON'T STOP
STAY BUSY
WORK YOUR PLAN
Continue to do those things
that you know that work for you
after you have evaluated yourself in the situation
Continue to MOVE
STAY BUSY
And I think this is really important
whether you are writing a book
or you're starting a restaurant
or you're writing a business plan
you have to understand that good ideas take TIME
And if you are working and toiling away
like I was
and something doesn't feel right
pay attention to that
And as Brian Tracy said
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Think about that for a second
Attempt the impossible just to get better
to try the things that you know are going to fail
things that the world is gonna tell you simply cannot be
But even if it violates the laws of physics
if there's something in that attempt
that you're going to learn
you owe it to yourself
you have a f*cking moral obligation
to TRY
Because all of the people that will lie in your wake
are the people that didn't try
simply because they didn't believe that they could do it
Take a look back over the last few months
Did you make some mistakes?
How could you correct those for the future?
Take a look back over the last year
Have you done it right or done it wrong?
Let's correct it for the next year
Learn from your personal experience
Let's make the CHANGE
Every now and then
you gotta look in that mirror and say
"You know what?"
MY BAD
MY FAULT
MY MISTAKE
You gotta have goals that
take you to the brink
You are about to remodel you
You are about to rebuild you
A BETTER VERSION OF YOU
Ain't nothing wrong with you
but we gotta get you better.
There's nothing wrong with you
but you got to IMPROVE
We may not be perfect people
We may not have perfect situations
but we are still significant nonetheless
and we have been blessed with a rich body
of EMOTIONS
We have EMOTIONS
We're not like roses or plants or bushes
that have life without feeling
We have FEELINGS
and when we use them properly
they are very effective
in motivating you toward your destiny
If you are willing to put in that EFFORT
If you're willing to TRANSFORM
If you're willing to
CHANGE
AND FIGHT
AND STRUGGLE
you'll be rewarded with GROWTH
You'll be rewarded with IMPROVEMENT
You'll be rewarded with the ability
to close your eyes
imagine a world
and then open your eyes
and make that world come TRUE
You need a value hierarchy.
It's inevitable that you have a value hierarchy
and that you look at the world through it
and that it should be well structured and that there should
be something of divine importance at the top.
I would say what should occupy the top position is
the realization, for example, that
each person is of divine value and that the most
appropriate way of interacting with potential is by
embodying and speaking the truth,
that's not a bad way of
briefly conceptualizing what might be
at the highest pinnacle of the value structure.
I would say that's what the logos is.
And so
the soul is a,
the soul is what manifests itself in the choice between
different pathways
in the choice between different ways of transforming the
potential of the future into the actuality of the present,
and it does that
by making ethical decisions,
by choosing between good and evil at each choice point,
and to the degree that it chooses good,
then it takes the raw potential of the future
and it transforms it into
the being of the present
that is good and to the degree
does that in a manner that's evil and
contaminated by malevolence and hatred and
vengefulness, then it takes a pathway that
corrupts the world and makes things worse.
And it's the soul that's doing that.
And it's the soul that's responsible for that.
And it's also that active part of the soul that's shaping
the deeper soul in some sense, which would be
something like the cumulative consequence of
all those choices, something akin to what people
more classically have referred to as character.
I wanna check in with you as we're coming
towards the end of 2022 and woo, what a year?
now today is Small Business Saturday,
and to all my fellow business owners,
I see you and I celebrate you.
I know that you may be reevaluating your
priorities right now and taking a fresh look at
all of the different areas of your life and your
business, and now is a good time to do that.
Look at every area of your life.
Look at every area of your bussiness
I'm here today to ask you, are you ready to
build a future that matches the vision of what
your 360 abundant life looks like in your head?
Because you have a vision in your head,
but are you ready to design
the life that matches that vision?
Are you ready to connect the dots
to what you know is possible and
what's available out there for you?
Are you ready to put the things together
I'm gonna give it to you straight No chaser.
Here's the thing,
you can't just dream about your ideal life.
I see that happening so many times.
You can't just wish for your ideal life.
You can't just Google download your ideal life.
You can't ask Siri or Alexa Ford.
You cannot do that.
You can't just talk about your ideal life.
You have to do some things about it.
For five years, all I was doing
was living my dream in my head
but then I finally realized that if I don't take action,
if I don't do something soon,
it's just gonna stay in my head.
You have to take clear,
intentional, consistent action.
It's not thoughts
That will create your dream life
though It starts there.
It's the action that's gonna get you there.
Man, when I figured that out, when I figured
out the more action I'm in, even if I'm in
action doing some of the wrong things,
I at least realize that they're the wrong things
and I can get busy doing the right things.
The more you take action, the more you build momentum,
the more you build evidence
that you can do this thing,
even if you don't get it right
every step of the way
The more you build evidence for yourself,
the more confidence you'll build in yourself.
But all you have to do is get into action and then
stay in action, and it'll get easier and
easier and easier as you continue to take action.
The people that I look at that were moving
with momentum and now they feel stuck,
the common denominator between every single person
is that they got out of action.
I promise you.
I'm your sister in this journey
who is now living proof and I'm not perfect,
but I'm living proof that pretty soon
after enough action you may even surprise yourself
with your own extraordinary results.