Don't Let Other People LIMIT YOU! - T.D. Jakes Motivational Speech

i found out it is not what they say about you that limits you the most it's that you might believe them and start saying that to yourself there were many many many people who said that i would never be anything i just chose not to be one of them and as long as it's not your mouth that says it you can overcome theirs all day long the the thing that's interesting about me was even as a a man of the cloth and and as a pastor and as a mega church leader most people described me that way because that's how they met me as we speak i've got two films coming out on lifetime uh i've done five movies with sony uh grossing 500 million dollars at the box office through a for for-profit company i've written 40 books 10 of them have been on the new york times bestsellers list don't what i'm getting at i'm not bragging i'm gonna make a point don't let people describe you because if they do they will incarcerate you and it's all right to say he's a preacher but if you put a period where i believe god put a comma you limit me down to how you understand i'm a person and a person has more than one gift more than one talent more than one pursuit and and and if you've got a great job that's good but there's more in you than what you do and to explore all of the possibilities and all the potential do everything do everything and do it scared because you're gonna be scared every time you get out of your comfort zone it is horrifying but it is also titillating and it is also inspiring and it is also nerve-wracking but you are never more alive than when you're outside of your normal your your your glands secrete different types of hormones when you're outside of your normal your brain starts spinning your blood starts rushing your adrenaline increases most of us are dying of boredom there are people listening at me right now who who drive home and circle the block two or three times before going in the house we're dying of routine and we were made to be adventurous we don't roar like the lion we don't move like the jackal we don't slither like the snake uh we don't bite like a viper our only weapon that's been given to us is our brain our brain is our weapon and when your brain gets locked down to living within the confinements of other people's expectations it starts to wither it ceases to be uh i i had a therapist tell me one time your body will do everything that it did when it was a baby the reason you can't do it as you get older is that you stop doing it and so when i say don't drop the mic i guess i'm kind of saying don't stop doing it keep keep moving into awkward positions because if you don't do that your body will freeze to the level of its usage that's two of the brain too that's true of your innovation that's true of your creativity so when i'm talking about don't drop the mic get scared sometimes get where you're not the boss get where you're walk into a room where you're not the teacher walk into a place where you don't know the rules because then you become broader and you become more interesting and you become uh more global and more usable in diverse circumstances and situations don't let people limit you to what they think is appropriate for you do everything that you are gifted enough to do now there are some things i will never do i i will probably never conduct a symphony you know i won't i made straight a's in music theory and i love music but i probably would never conduct a symphony but whatever is in your inventory is all you can produce first of all you have to recognize you have a tree and stare at the tree till you look at what it could be it's much like raising a child you look at a child you look what he could be what she could be what your responsibility is to take what you have been given and turn it into something that it was not when it was originally handed it to you you know and to shape that and mold it and sand it and and nail it and glue it and put it together and work with it that's the work of men it's it does require an investment and it doesn't require commitment especially when you come up in an age that everything is controlled by a button process sounds hard but the best things in life require process and if you run from the process you alleviate the promise in order to get to the promise you have to go through the process in the process of going through all of that guess who gets the most it's not the table or the tree it's the person who shaped it because you say oh i could i didn't know i could do that maybe i could make a chair maybe i could make it automobile without what i'm talking about we wouldn't have airplanes we wouldn't have spaceships we wouldn't have television we wouldn't have we wouldn't be zooming we wouldn't be communicating like we're doing right now if somebody hadn't taken what they were given and making something more out of it everybody listening at us right now has been given things that if you can either leave them as trees and sit up under them and drink lemonade or you can say i could make a house out of this our forefathers took trees and built houses and chairs and tables we cannot be the generation that suddenly says this house hard and we stop being innovative and we stop being creative because if we do that we will lose respect for ourselves because we did make a difference and we left it as a tree and this is important i think this is really important especially uh for men but maybe for women too we keep trying to hold on to our last season without discovering the beauty of the season we're in now we're in the gym we're running we're doing everything we can to hold on to 20 as if something were wrong with 40 instead of exploring 40 and re pivoting is the word pivoting into the beauty of there's a beauty of at haiti if you sit down and talk to a 80 year old man who is happy there are things that he's happy about that a 20 year old man hadn't even touched yet he doesn't even have a clue he doesn't even know that exists yet and so seasons stages and ages have repercussions on how we get along and so we are constantly in motion we are constantly evolving we are constantly becoming and we must not despise that transition because number one it's inevitable it's gonna happen anyway and number two you will miss the beauty of of of wrinkles [Music] of of gray hair of of love to through wrinkled eyes will botox your way into missing what the beauty that comes to be a grandmother there's a beauty and a charm and a finesse and a wisdom but we are so obsessed with what was and i think that it's something to be said if you are leading and if you're living uh we have to deal with cross-generational realities even though we might all be people of faith or we might all be atheists or agnostics or whatever we are we're at different stages of life putting yourself in fouls where you describe yourself this way or that way is a limiting idea because i'm a person of faith does not mean that i don't have moments of doubt uh because you're a person of doubt does not mean you don't have moments of faith it took faith to sit out in that chair you didn't look up under it to be sure it would hold you up you just plopped yourself down in it believing it would hold you up you cannot exist without faith it's impossible not to have faith you know you don't send somebody out to see if your car will start before you jump in it and so we're not that far removed from from one thing or the other but once we learn a label and we teach what that label means now we're trying to live up to being in that label and you might be at a different stage where your soul opens up to an idea that you never thought you never thought you could listen and a black guy from dallas uh who's twice your size ball-headed red preaching and get something out of it keep talking till somebody listens keep singing until somebody claps keep painting until somebody stares you have a gift and don't lock it up inside the convenience of a small group of 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Length: 10min 35sec (635 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 23 2021