Follow Your Gift, Not Your Passion

your gift will make room for you now what is your gift it's the thing that you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort that's your gift quit running away from the gift your gift will make room for you stop trying to be something you ain't gifted at nobody asked you to go down here study to be a dentist and you're a really good at that quit going down to the church trying to sing you can't say look just cause they let you sing at the church you're not feeling the air by Elfa to go with this because you know come-as-you-are the lord loveth a cheerful Giver all that we don't apply scriptures out here you come to the Apollo and you can't say we got something for your ass up there period listen to me all of you have this guilt identified it's the thing that you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort that's what you should be doing you're wasting your time pursuing your passion the bible does not mention passion it mentions your guilt what are you gifted at and do that stop tripping you can do that if you fried chicken better than everybody you know you ought to be somewhere fried chicken people make millions of dollars fried chicken Popeyes Kentucky Fried Chicken help or your local only doing is making chicken they just found a way to do it somebody just started making chicken you know the story of Marie Callender's do you know what this woman did man she worked for a diner a greasy spoon diner that was going out of business it was her only job she was a single mother it was her only job she needed that job but the diner was going to close so she went to the owner of the diner and said let me bake one of my pies people liked my pies and see if I can help you make a little money he said whatever bringing in she bought one pie in they sold every slice the next day the people came in and asked for the pie she had to go home and make another pie the next day so many people asked for the pie she had to make folk pies being people start saying can I buy my own pack she made so many pies at this store that she eventually saved her money and put a commercial oven in her house now all she - made so many pies to do shop he's selling hamburgers no more oh he's selling this Jim damn pies that's how Marie Callender got started Marie Callender now has over 120 restaurants you can't go to no frozen food section without see him a recount in there you know what she started with up I won the dude that when I had had when I had that world-famous lining with that box cut when I was Steve Hightower Kings of Comedy when I had that hair to do to cut my hair I met him in 1986 he cut my hair for $10 I remembered him when I got on TV I had hired him he came out that he started making $300 in haircut I paid him ten he had been with me so many years that he was making fifteen hundred dollars per haircut I was getting my hair cut four times a week for television and touring I paid him 1,500 each time he was making six thousand dollars a week you know what he was doing cutting hair that same haircut I paid $10 for in 87 this dude was cutting it now for me for 1500 I cut my hair off we had to put him on suicide watch for a little while but then let me tell you what he did I paid him a chunk of money for being with me all these years gave him a severance pay told him good luck guess what this dude got now he got four salons and he owned to barber colleges you know what this do make now 3.6 million a year you know what he do he could have he could have he don't do nothing else that's his guilt friend of mine we grew up with all he did was cut grass he had a single blade lawnmower that he pushed he was so good at it he could raise the blades up and lorem he could cut patterns in your grass we little I'm gonna a man we go on swimming now I gotta cut mr. Jackson grass he could cut patterns in your yo he could put your initials in your grass as a little boy $2 for the front $2 for the back $4 we used to laugh at him all the time well let me tell you what we laughing that night he got a landscaping company in Cleveland nobody's born making four million dollars a year you know what he do he cut grass he got 38 trucks he got all the contracts in the city malls corporations and when his snow outside he'd do such a good job cutting the grass he put plows on the front of his trucks and he got all the snow removal contracts this boy making four million dollars a year and you know what he do he cut grass [Applause] you

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Id: 3x3rEg2qvcQ

Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 15 2018