Number one
Put God first
Put God first in everything
you do
Everything that you think you see in me everything that I've accomplished everything that you think I have and I have a few things
Everything that I have is by the grace of God
Understand that it's a gift
40 years ago March 27 1975 was 40 years ago
Just this past March. I was flunking out of college
I had a 1.7 grade point average. I hope none of you can relate
I had 1.7. Grade point average. I was sitting in my mother's beauty shop
They still call it beauty shops now what they call it. Yeah, I'll sit in the beauty parlor
I was sitting in my mother's beauty parlor and
I'm looking in the mirror, and I see behind me this woman under the dryer
And every time she looked up. Every time I looked up. She was looking at me
Just looking at me in the eye
I don't know who she was and I said
You know she said somebody give me a pen give me a pencil I have a prophecy
March 27 1975 she said boy you are gonna travel the world
And speak to millions of people
Now mind you I flunked out of college
I'm thinking about joining the army I didn't know what I was gonna do. She's telling me I'm gonna travel the world and
Speak to millions of people
Well, I have traveled the world
And I have spoke to millions of people
But that's not the most important thing the success that I had the most important thing is that what she taught me
And what she told me that day has stayed with me since
I've been protected. I've been directed. I've been corrected
I kept God in my life and has kept me humble
I didn't always stick with him, but he always stuck with me
So stick with him in everything you do
if you think you want to do what you think I've done, then do what I've done and
stick with God number two
fail big
That's right fail big
Today is the beginning of the rest of your life, and it can be be very frightening
It's a new world out there. It's a mean world out there and
You only live once
So do what you feel passionate about take chances
professionally
Don't be afraid to fail there's an old IQ test was nine dots
And you had to draw five lines with a pencil within these nine dots
Without lifting the pencil the only way to do it was to go outside the box
So don't be afraid to go outside the box
don't be afraid to
Think outside the box don't be afraid to fail big to dream
big but remember
dreams without goals
Are just dreams, and they ultimately fuel disappointment
So have dreams
But have goals
life goals yearly goals
Monthly goals daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day
Sometimes
Just did not curse somebody out
simple goals, but have goals
and
understand
That to achieve these goals
You must apply discipline
and consistency
In order to achieve your goals you must apply discipline, which you've already done and
Consistency every day not just on Tuesday and miss a few days you have to work at it
Every day you have to plan
Every day you've heard the saying we don't plan to fail we fail to plan
hard work
works
Working really hard is what successful people do and in this
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Remember just because you're doing a lot more
Doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done
Remember that just because you're doing a lot more
Doesn't mean you're getting a lot more
Done don't confuse
Movement
with progress
My mother told me you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere
So continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress
Number three you'll never see a u-haul behind a hearse
I'll say it again
You'll never see a u-haul
Behind a hearse. I don't care how much money you make you can't take it with you
And it's not how much you have
It's what you do
With what you have we all have different talents some of you will be doctors some lawyers some
Scientists some educators some nurses some teachers. Yeah, okay
Some preachers
The most selfish thing you can do in this world
Is help someone else
Why is it selfish because the gratification the goodness that comes to you the good feeling the good feeling that I get
From helping others nothing's better than that not jewelry not big house
I have not the cars, but it's the joy. That's where the joy is in helping others. That's where the success is
Finally I pray that
You put your slippers, way under the bed tonight
So that when you wake up in the morning
You have to get on your knees
To reach them
And
While you're down there
Say, thank you
for grace
Thank you for mercy. Thank you for understanding
Thank you for wisdom. Thank you for parents. Thank you for love. Thank you for kindness. Thank you for
Humility thank you for peace. Thank you for Prosperity say. Thank you in advance for what's already
yours
That's how I live my life, that's where I am one of the reasons why I am today
Say, thank you in advance for what is already yours true desire in the heart for
Anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours
already
I'll say it again
True desire in the heart that itch that you have
Whatever it is you want to do that thing that you want to do to help others and to grow and to make money
That desire that itch that's God's proof to you sent before hand already to indicate that it's yours
and anything you want good you can have
So claim it
Work hard to get it
When you get it reach back pull someone else up
each one teach one
Don't just aspire to make a living
Aspire to make a difference