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          If you want to be successful Here's the thing you have to do You have to jump. There is no way around you have to jump Every successful person has jumped you got to jump You got to take a leap of faith You got to dash off that cliff, and you got to jump out there as far as you can You can not just exist in this life you have got to try to live If you are waking up thinking that there's got to be more to your life than it is man believe that it is Believe in your heart of hearts that it is But to get to that life You gonna have to jump I'll tell you why I call it jumping See God when he created all of us.            He gave every last one of us a gift at birth. He never created a soul without endowing them with a gift You just got to quit looking at gifts as running, jumping, singing, dance It's more than that It's if you know how to network you can connect dots if you draw if you teach Some of you all fried chick...

    How many God-given dreams Have you and I left unrealized because fear placed us in a prison that we could not escape from Let me ask another question How many God accomplishments with your name written on them with my name written on them have gone unaccomplished because fear paralyzes. Think about that question So here's the deal if you and I continue, if you continue to live in fear your family your friends your church and the world will miss your unique contribution Now let me stay a little bit more theologically and a little bit more strongly. You and I will rob God of his glory if we remain in fear and I don't want to be a glory thief.       But imagine if you will being on your deathbed and standing Around your bed the ghost of the dreams the ideas The abilities the talents given to you by life at you for whatever reason you never pursued those dreams you never acted on those ideas you never use those gifts and there they are standing around ...

        Would you do the world a favor and be you because everybody else is already taken do the world a favor and be you the world needs you are God wouldn't have made you. If God wanted me to be somebody else I wouldn't be here I would be them Stop trying to be somebody else, stop letting the culture define what's beautiful God says you're beautiful. Have you listened to God's voice and Psalms 139 13 and 14 that when you were in your mother's womb you were wonderfully and fearfully made. Have you looked in a mirror and said I'm wonderfully and fearfully made because God says or have you looked at TV images. Have you looked at magazine covers and said, oh I'm ugly because I don't look like them, and God is going precious child you are beautiful to me.       Too many people go around feeling wrong on the inside. They don't really like who they are they focus on their faults weaknesses, they're constantly critical toward themselves. That recor...

          You're never going to be great if you don't look for the 5% You know, I think that you can pick up  from talking to me that I'm not on a different level. Okay, these are pretty simple basic tools and so nobody out there is listening to him and saying, God darn, he's just he's just using words and he's just so much smarter than me so I'm not going to become worth 5 billion dollars that book is crap. Okay, he's just naturally smarter than me. I think you can see that I'm no smarter than anybody else in this room I just use certain little basic tools to be successful every day.       Take the word no out of your vocabulary, worry about your customer, no spare customers, use the 95/5 rule, Separate yourself from everybody else, be the bull at whatever you do. And on and on and on. Well, you just got to keep punching and just take care of your business and you just realize until they come and shut you down or lock the doors or ...

        I never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to eat because you can go 21 days, maybe 30, without eating. I never said when you want to succeed as bad as you want water because you can go about 3 days or so without it. I said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you'll be successful. And so one of the things I want to do for you as an educator today you don't necessarily need better skills per se. That's not what you need but what some of you need is to go from 70% to 120% Some of you need to go from 80% to 120%.       The reason why I'm giving a 120 is because your dad is not in your life. The reason why I'm giving 120is because your father's in prison. The reason why I'm giving 120 is because your mom is working two jobs. The reason why I'm giving 120 is because your grandma's raising you. The reason why I'm giving 120 is because you live in a community where education is not valued. So I don't car...

        Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Ted Turner Success leaves clues, kids. I just named five of the greatest names in business in the last 150 years and they all have one thing in common. They're ball busters, they're hard as nails. Where does that leave you? I still work 50, 60 hours a week, and I haven't had to work in 35 years. He's not willing to do anything You're not willing to sacrifice anything to be a high-performance person. I don't want to be like that. - No, no. most people don't- I want to be liked.       Yeah, what? Say you want to fit in, I don't... I'm the only speaker that you're ever going to hear that really with all his heart doesn't give a - If I leave here you like me, I did something wrong If we would like to improve the quality of our lives personally and professionally What would be your advice? What can we do? What is the most important? Well, the most important thing is self-esteem. The people...

    I graduated high school with the number 4grade point average in my class. However, I went to one of the lowest performing schools in my state. I never had any homework, never had to study, never had to apply myself, I never was pushed. People always looked at me like, "How do you make it look so easy?" What I mean it was easy, but unfortunately, that's the exact opposite of how the real world works. See in the real world nothing comes easy. You have to put in effort, you have to put in the blood, sweat, tears If it doesn't hurt a little bit, if it doesn't sting a little bit, if it doesn't make you a little uncomfortable you probably won't get very much out of it.       When I arrived to college I quickly realized that I needed to study and really put a lot of time into it, but mentally I just wasn't there. I was living way too reckless, I was nowhere close to being focused. Those poor choices led me to drop out and instantly I found myself in survi...

       How to use self-care? Write it down, let people see it. Don't be ashamed because everybody does it differently. I wanna hear from you. And I enjoy talking to students and young adults because the amount of pressure that young people deal with is enough to make anyone want to give up and quit. I had a teacher growing up that told me the future was in my hands and not to mess it up. Wow, thanks, teach. As if I didn't have enough problems in my life already. If you want to live a happy and healthy life, you have to put yourself first when you need it the most.       Regardless of the consequences that may occur, it's better to lose your job, lose your partner, fail your test or walk away than it is to forget who you are. The reality is that even though we paint a perfect picture of what our life should look like it's never turns out the way we want it. And that's OK. Because it's not trying to avoid the storms that happen in life, but learning...

        Everybody wants to be successful. But no one wants to stuck that comes before it. If you never found yourself saying, my life sucks you not ready. If you never found yourself saying, my life's hard you're not ready. If you never found yourself saying, my life's tough you're not ready. If you never found yourself saying, my life is a mess You're not ready. Life is hard. Life is tough. But it's those that can preserve it's those that can overcome. It's those that push through. It's those that power through all the setbacks, all the failures, all the stuck of their life that go to another level.       See, we all have story, but the only way your story is ever told, the only way your story is ever heard is if you overcome Whatever is it that you're going through. And I speak from experience. See, I grew up in the grimes, I grew up in the hood. I grew up in the place of undesirables, a place that no one wanted to live. A place that no one...

          Habits are absolutely critical because we have habits that we have planned out that we want to do things that we purposeful Unfortunately most of our habits are done automatically. They're on a pilot and the habits that we have are not serving us very well but they become so ingrained in what we do every single day that we tend to find it's very hard to break free And when we do want to break free of them even though we know it's not serving us we don't want to do it Why? Because of habits, It's an atomic habit Atomic habits is all about recognizing the bad habits your life and help you set up the right habits, habits that serve you, habits that will help you be more resilient Habits that will help you get more done, be more productive That what I'm interested in. And so any book that will help me understand habits a little bit more I'm totally interested in it. So, why don't we crack into this one? Atomic habits an easy and proven way to build...

   You know lots people have lost their jobs their economic prospects have dropped out So what come next? Is this going cause us to innovate Is this going cause us to think this can cause us to be at our best what can we changed what can we make better There's literally scientists around the world working on finding a cure for Covid-19 right now During this crisis, people have addressed the fact that this is lonely and this is stressful.  It has come to light that a lot people are now waking up to some emotions that they have ever experienced before or perhaps dealing with other individuals emotions through this difficult time. Fear is an integral part of life. It's a natural reaction to be afraid of that something that we believes to be dangerous I've now come to realize that I'm so scared of the the things that causes me stop in life and as soon as asked me to stop as soon as it's forced me to stop. I then become so grateful. and I never know what is it I never kn...

   A wise person once told me, "Dreams don't work unless you do." Today I need you to embrace what comes hard today I need you to accept the challenge, today I need you to fall in love with the process. And I mean all of the peaks and valleys. I mean all of the highs and lows. I mean all of the ebbs and flows. I need you to set your internal GPS to the destination of next level and begin your trek to greatness. Your journey to the destination of graduation will be a bumpy one but you must keep going, stay focused and keep your eyes on the prize. As your GPS guides you Don't be alarmed when it says, "Keep straight. Turn right on Failure Boulevard Keep driving." In a half a mile make a left on Setback Lane. Keep driving. In a quarter of a mile turn right on Adversity Avenue.  Keep driving. In two miles, turn left on Bad Day Drive Keep driving. In 10 miles, turn right on Heartbreak Street. Keep driving. And the directions will continue but the recurring theme i...