These Words Have The Power To Change A Million Lives | Steve Harvey Motivational Compilation

when you are trying to get to the next level and you can see where you're trying to get to there is a ceiling that you have to break through but in order to get to the next level is because you can see what you want to become but the only reason you can see the next level is because this ceiling is made of glass in order to get to the next level you must be willing to break through the glass anytime you break through glass you are going to get cut you are going to bleed and in order to get to the next level you are going to have to give up something that you care about you cannot take everything with you everybody come with you can't go with you so when you go through the glass ceiling you have to be willing to get cut the cut is going to put some bruises and bludge but that's the only way to get to the next level i understood that i knew that i could not remain the same and and change you got to grow you can't hang out with everybody you've been hanging out with to go to the next level you can't do everything you used to do if you do that you'll never grow the thing that you want the most of it's the very same thing that you're going to have to give the most of i'll say it again the things that you want the most of that very same thing is the thing that you're going to have to give the most of see there is no theory of newton you know behind every action has an equal and opposite reaction you know behind every action there's an equal and opposite reaction well that happens throughout all the principles of success to i want you to understand something see you can't have peace if you're practicing war tell me tell me how that works you can't have progress in your life if your business is holding someone else back it cannot happen but if you're climbing a ladder and you're stepping on each rung of the letter and that's producing progress for you you're progressing up the ladder that means every step you step on another rung going up you are taking another step higher if you one time stop putting your foot in front of the other to step on the next rung and you look over and you take some time out to push someone off they ladder or you lift your foot to kick them off one of their wrongs of the letter guess what you have done you have immediately stopped your problem you can't progress and be in the business of holding anyone back anybody because to kick somebody off the ladder you got to take your foot off of yours and you got to be careful when you do that cause he ain't the only one who can slip and fall if there is joy you are looking for in your life you cannot be in the business of passing out pain you cannot man look oh god i want i want to have a life a wonderful life with this person over here but you steady creating pain in somebody else's life over there and you ain't going to have no joy something i really wanted to say to you because i i want to give it to you the way i got it you know it kind of kind of just really really hit me within the last six months i kid you not just kind of really hit me of late i guess i'm saying it's something that i learned man i got it a couple of ways i was watching this movie i was reading this book i kind of got it a couple of ways but it came to me just dawned on me how correct it was and how often times i've shot myself in the foot how many times i had blocked so many blessings that could have come my way had i just been a little bit more of this and i learned it and i stopped blocking them you know and it's starting to really really open up the pipeline into my life the pipeline of blessings you know it could be whatever you need it could be money it could be family it could be relationship it could be education it could be peace it could be relevance it could be any number of things whatever you hope for is that you consider success it don't have to be money but if that's on your list you can get some of that too but listen to me gratitude is the best gift that you can give yourself what that don't make no sense dude yes it does gratitude is the best gift you can give yourself it really is man gratitude is the best gift that you can give to yourself see don't you get it if you're grateful for what you have for whatever it is you open up the pipeline for more to come in let me tell you why because you're not complaining about what you have oftentimes we can't show gratitude we don't have time to be thankful or we can't give a full accompanying compliment of appreciation because we complaining man i don't ever get this i only got this my how my car can only go this far i can't all i got is this right here every time i turn around something broke on this car well why are you complaining suppose you reverse that just suppose i thank you for the house that i do have for roof over my head i thank you for shelter i thank you for having a home i thank you for having a mortgage to pay i thank you for being able to come up with this rent to stay here i thank you for all these things i thank you for i have when things go wrong in my life you always there and get it fixed and straightened out from it i thank you i'm grateful for you okay now let me ask you something if you were a person that was providing these things for someone let's say you were the person that was providing shelter heat roof over your head a place to stay let's say you were the person that was providing that and the person that was receiving it who has nothing but that was always complaining about it every time you turn around that you don't gave this to this person you don't let them have it but every time you look up they complain and they point the fang at you look what i ain't got i ain't got this you got and you be sitting on that dog man i gave this to them and they just started complaining about it now let's say you gave the exact same thing to someone else the exact same thing shelter ruth over your head house in the same condition look just like the house you gave this person else complain but every time you turn around it was telling somebody you know what i sure appreciate this i sure appreciate this place to stay man my family man we don't know where we'd be without it i sure am grateful man it was raining another day and then the drop get on us man we was in this house man and oh man oh man you know some things go wrong with it but man i show glad i got this right here cause they always make a win somehow sometimes it always works out now if you were the person that was providing these things and this one person that had this house that ain't as sharp or as good as other houses was complaining all the time about it but the other person over here was grateful for it when it came time to fix up the house improve the house add more on to the house or maybe you had another house to give away who would you give the house to i think logically you would give it to the person who has shown the most appreciation for it i bet you man if i didn't gave somebody to something and all they do is complain about it i can assure you that if they come back to me for some more i'm gonna be real slow to grant that wish cause man the last time i gave you a place to stay i know it wasn't the best house on the block but you didn't have nothing when you came to me and i gave that to you that the more gratitude you show the more grateful you are the more blessings can come your way it only makes sense so that's why i'm telling you gratitude is the best gift that you can give yourself you know in my book act like a lady think like a man i told people that men love three ways they profess they provide they protect and that's the core essence of a man's love well there's some other p's in life too the number one thing you have to understand about trying to be successful and i guess i'll call this the four ps i may come up with five along the way i don't know i'm just talking as it's given to me so i'm gonna summon start by saying that these are the four p's of success that you have to get ready for number one is pressure pure pressure being successful is just pressure a lot of it is applied by the circumstance of what you're trying to go for what you're trying to do but a lot of it also is self-imposed pressure it's it's what you put on yourself to make it it's it's a sense of urgency it's a sense of necessity but pressure is the first thing i want you to be ready for and pressure comes in a lot of different forms but it's going to be pressured as an old saying that pressure buster pipes see that's why most people turn around because of the pressure of trying to be successful i want you to get it in your mind that is going to be a pressurized situation on your eyes to the top pressure wise it's going to be pressure it's going to be difficult to do it's going to be moments when it seems like it's real heavy it's gonna be moments man when it feels like you're gonna burst us all comes from pressure pressure buster pipe pressure but understand that that is what it is is not going to change that's it prepare yourself get ready for there to be pressure the second thing i want you to understand is when you receive this pressure you have to persist you got to stay at it you got to develop a doggedness there's a song out that says why must i feel like that why must i chase the cat nothing but the dog in me that's a funny line in that song because really i was thinking about it one day i was humming it and it occurred to me said why must i feel like that why was i chased the cat nothing but the dog in me and you know now you could take it in the literal sense that cat chases the dog because it's innately it's in his spirit that cats and dogs are a lot of times enemies now people have pets and have proven that if you show love on both sides they can exist and that happens too but naturally innately when your cat goes by a dog and your dog don't recognize them there's some barking going on i'm talking about just walking through the neighborhood or something so but the reason that this dog is so persistent towards this cat is just cause it's inhale it's innately in health and what i'm saying to you just using that as an analogy is that you got to be persistent in that you got to develop some dog in you now because pressure takes some fighting back see if you don't fight back against pressure pressure bust a pipe so what you think it'll do to you pressure crack walls pressure cause explosion so if you don't fight back to hold it in you understand pressure does most people live the simple thing called pressure the the weight of what it feels like to want to be successful every single day over and over and over and over and over it's just too much pressure people crack you got to persist you have to persist the thought of giving up can come but you got to get it out you got to persist i'm a college dropout i was homeless lived in a car for three years i've lost every single thing i had family included i've been written off so many times but today the person that you sitting in front of you is a process i want to talk to you for a moment about the process because see one way to get a person to really follow you is to be the example of what you get of what you're trying to get them to follow you know my daddy used to tell me all the time he said some best thing you can do for pope people and not be one of them because you can't help the cause your brain is divided into two halves positive and negative good and evil each half of your brain has millions of factory workers on each side you got a million factory workers on the positive side you got a million factory workers on the negative side at the forefront of each one of those factories in your brain is a forming you got form and positive and you got form and negative you are in charge you're the boss of the factory so let me show you how this works you got a remote control you go to your house tonight and you press that power button and you press it when you point it at the tv what do you expect to happen you expect tv to come on you press the power button you expect the tv to come on if you want to watch hbo and hbo is channel 300 and you press 300 and then you press select what do you expect to come on that tv and what comes on that tv so now since your brain is in two halves let me show you how this works you wake up in the morning and you say man i don't feel myself today i got up on the wrong side of the bed i'm not a morning person forming negative her hears that he steps to the front he said what did you say you said i said i woke up on the wrong side of the bad day i'm not myself i'm not a morning person he says you got it right away he said hey the boss just woke up and said he's not a morning person he's having a bad day today and he ain't feeling himself let's get to work the million factory workers start producing thoughts to justify what you just said so now guess what man i hate my alarm clock went off this morning i got to get out here in this traffic i'm gonna drive down here today i don't even like these people on my job i can't stand this calm fitting to get in this morning so wish i had a new car but i'm driving this ragged ass car and on and on and on and your day starts tumbling into what you ordered at the top of the day you could wake up in the morning and you say you know what today is going to be a great day today i expect something really good to happen for me today man thank you lord for waking me up this morning he said what did you say you said i said i'm having a great day today i expect something good to happen today thank you lord for waking me up foreign positive turns around and goes all right let me have your attention steve's having a great day today he's expecting some wonderful things to happen and man let's get it going and let's start manufacturing thoughts same brain man i can't wait to go to work today it may not be the job i want but at least i got a job i appreciate the fact that i don't have a car but at least i can walk to the train man this is going to be great today that's how your mind works 24 7. it never turns off you have got to change the way you think it is the whole determining factor of where you go in life we are all where we are today because we thought ourselves to this position if you don't like the position think yourself out of it change your attitude you change your altitude i'm going to tell you something that every successful person has to do including you believe it or not every successful person in this world has jumped i'm going to tell you what i mean by that you eventually you are going to have to jump you cannot 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're gonna have to jump you see people in life when you're standing on the cliff of life and you see people soaring by when you see people soaring going to exotic places you hear about them doing wonderful things maybe you look up the street and your neighbor just gets a car every year and every two years you know how is he doing that have you ever thought maybe this person right here has identified their gift and is living in their gift because your bible says this your bible says your gift will make room for you your gift not your education you go get education that's nice but if you don't use your gift that education aren't gonna take you so far i know a lot of people got degrees man they ain't even using them it's your gift but the only way for you to soar is you got to jump you got to take that gift that's packed away on your back you got to jump off that cliff and pull that cord that gift opens up and provides the soil if you don't ever use it you're going to just go to work and if you're getting up going to work on a job every day that you hate going to that ain't living man you just existed at one point in time you ought to see what living's like but the only way to see what living like you got to jump and hit a problem let me just be real with you when you first jump let me tell you something your parachute will not open right away i'm sorry i wish i could tell you it did but it don't when you jump it's not going to open right away you're going to hit them rocks you're going to get some skin toe off on them cliffs you're going gonna get all your clothes tore off you're gonna get some cuts on you you're gonna be bleeding pretty bad but eventually eventually the parachute has to open that is a promise of god here's another thing you can play it safe and deal without the cuts and the tasks and you can stand on that cliff for life forever safe but if you don't jump i got another promise i can make your parachute will never open you'll never know you never know what god really have i was speaking at a school once i was talking to the students the principal was mortified with my message because i was telling the truth i was telling the kids your education is poor is important but your education is not the most important thing in your life i'm sorry it's not your dream is the most important thing in this world principal came up on the stage while i was speaking don't ever say that to my school again well i'm just telling you dawg you can save your kids a lot of pain if you ever talk to them about their dreams you got to talk to young people about their dreams if you talk to kids about their dreams your dreams can spur you to get the education but if you never find out what a child is dreaming about you can't hold their attention it's the dream man you gotta dream about something so big that it dwarfs all your fears the way you overcome fear is with your dream you gotta make your dreams so big that nothing matters except that dream you're willing to do everything that's necessary i was listening to will smith the other day will smith said the best things in life is on the other side of fear it's on the other side of fear but fear freezes people man the fear of failure freezes people suppose i don't do it well you might you might not make it but i got news for you if you don't do it you damn sure ain't gonna make it faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen i talked to so many people who get older like some of us are and they've lost their faith well faith is really simple it's that faith is the substance of things hoped for all that means is in the beginning you just hope something pop off you know you just kind of hope something happened for you i was hoping i would get on tv i wrote it on a piece of paper when i was 10 i want to be on tv the problem i had when i wrote it at 10 was i suffered from a severe stuttering problem i could not talk outside of my house so can you imagine when i wrote on a piece of paper i want to be on tv and turn daddy in the first thing the little boy next door next to me asked me he tells well how long is your tv show going to be cause you're gonna be on tv all day but when i wrote it on the paper it wasn't factual i was just hoping you just gotta start with the hope faith is the substance of things that you hope for you just hope something jumped then what happened is through grace and favor he give you a couple of them things you hope for and then you're supposed to start believing then because now it turns into faith but if you take this scripture faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen albert einstein said that imagination is everything it's the preview to life's coming attractions that's what your imagination is your imagination is actually very very real everything you imagine could be a preview to life's coming attraction everything we have today came from somebody's imagination somebody was talking on the phone with that cord on the wall and got sick of it and said you know what man if i could just go outside and talk on the phone we got cell phones somebody got tired of driving across the country and said man if i could fly over there boom we got airplanes imagination is everything it's a preview to life's coming attractions everything you've ever imagined is real the problem with most people is you think your imagination is hocus pocus it's really not it's a preview of a coming attraction if you react to your imagination that's where your real life is it's just god showing you what he has for you is the problem people have is they tell their imagination to the wrong people see if you want to kill a big dream tell it to a small-minded person it's dead how many times man have you had a tremendous idea something you thought was the one and you wouldn't told it to your loved ones and your so-called friends and they shot it down i mean you was convinced that it was just oh man i just came to you and you told it to me and they shot it down and you thought since they was your loved ones and their friends and they got your best interests at heart you believed them you was wrong they taught you let them talk you out of what god got for you as a kid you know i didn't know but my gift is that i found out later on i have the ability to think extremely quick and i can take any piece of information and transpose it into comedy immediately now when you're a kid and you don't understand that you get a lot of trouble i didn't know what it was until i got older that this was a gift that that it did make room for me that i became a stand-up comedian which started with a dream of mine and it led to where i am today it's a lot of stuff that happened in between there but your gift is the thing that you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort that's your god-given gift and everybody has one and god gives it to you at birth you don't have to go anywhere to discover it it's not in the water it's not on a mountain top it ain't hit under a rock your god-given gift is instilled in you at birth if you pursue that as opposed to your passion there lies your greatest chance for success the problem with people is we don't we don't we don't pursue our gift oftentimes we try to go get an education and make you think that's going to get us somewhere if you identify that gift man that gift is the thing that that can make you great we're all participating in this thing called life life has evan flows mountain tops it's got valleys it's got it's got thunderstorms in it earthquakes this life it don't you stop expecting it to go smooth because it ain't fun to go smooth the road to success is always under construction ain't no this is this life ain't set up to be smooth you you combat negativity and you come back uh discouraging discouragement with gratitude it's the one way to combat discouragement is with gratitude what messes you up is you focus on the thing that's not happening and that causes you to get discouraged so whenever you get discouraged you have to change your focus from what's not happening to what has happened and it straightens you out immediately because what causes the the downslide is if you get wrapped up into what ain't happening it'd get ugly man and it just snowballed but you have to focus on gratitude people understand how serious gratitude is you know it's a serious principle of success it's hard to be miserable and grateful at the same time you have to take chances in life if you don't take chances in life you'll never have the life god has for you life is about risk if you play it safe in life you ain't gonna have much of a life if you play it safe you won't have much of a life life is risk it takes it takes courage to pursue your dream i just did it it cost me everything but eventually god is very good man when he sees you take a leap of faith he supplies you everything you need now it's going to cost you something but most people most people most people are not willing to pay what it costs to go after your dream because you're gonna have to hurt a little bit and most people don't like being uncomfortable if you don't want to be uncomfortable please do not pursue success because success is a very uncomfortable feeling and i just learned to be i learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable see if you think you're too old to make it let me give you a prime example colonel sanders colonel sanders has been frying chicken his whole life he was telling everybody he had the best chicken in the world ain't nobody believing they turned him down everywhere colonel sanders didn't get a franchise till he was in his 60s kentucky fried chicken sell more chicken than anybody in the world today so if you're sitting here thinking cause you got a little gray on you are you too late as long as god waking you up in the morning that's the sign that he ain't through with you so what you tripping for last year i spoke at the salt convention the salt convention is where billionaires from around the world gather they gather in vegas once a year to talk about how they're going to change the world a couple hundred billionaires in this world they all come to las vegas once a year to salvage i was asked last year to be the keynote speaker and i'm tripping because i'm not a billionaire and i asked a guy who asked me to do it i said i'm i'm not a billionaire you do understand that we said mr we know we know everything about you we know your net worth and everything i said well what can you all learn from me he said everything he said the reason we want to hear your story is because the majority of us that are billionaires we inherited some money and we grew it a couple of us inherited a billion we automatically some of us inherited 300 million and we turn it into a billion you come from nothing what we want to know is how you got to where you are after coming from nothing how did you live in a car for three years and wind up on more tv shows than anybody how did you survive flunking out of school how did you survive all of that we want to know that because in case something happens to us we don't really have the information that you have how to come from the back to the front or how to come from the bottom to the top so i get asked oftentimes to speak and so when i was telling them how i made it i was telling them about the fortitude that i developed and then i told them about the faith that i had and that was really startling to them now a lot of them are people of faith but a lot of people who were born with a lot of money ain't really had to have a lot of faith you understand you have an idea of what it feels like you've seen some kids get put in foster care you've seen child protective services come to somebody's house you've seen kids come to school with less you might have been one of the kids that went to school with less you have struggled to give your kids a better life than the one you had they they don't hear this but i'm gonna tell you something right now you can be successful without an education you can be successful without coming from a rich family you can be successful i don't care what color you are what faith you belong to your sexual preference i don't care what's wrong with you you can be successful everybody in your life will have a turn back moment no matter who you are you're going to have such a period in your life where it seems like it's not working you're going to have doubts you're going to have a lot of trials and tribulations and challenges and everybody has what's called a turn back moment you always have a moment in your life where the direction you're going you will have to make a decision to keep going or you turn back the sad thing is the average person turns back but think about this if you're going somewhere and you turn back you can never get there if you wake up every day and go get in your car and say i'm going to the store and halfway to the store you turn around and then the next day you go to the store and you turn around you do realize that you will never get to the store so whatever you needed from the store now is even a greater need because you turn back and every time you turn back it does not change the need so what kept me from going was what kept me going was i re i created i made turning back giving up never an option [Music] and i had really dark moments man where i thought i was going i just didn't think i was going to make it i mean where i am today i didn't see it clearly at all i had a lot of turn back moments but you know what it was for me man being successful is so hard but i realized that not being successful was hard too the difference between not being successful hard and trying to get successfully hard if you're trying to get successful then it's hard at least there's some payout there's a payoff if you hang in there that's payoff when you're not successful it's hard it's hard not having money it's hard never knowing how to come up with your mortgage and your and your bond and your rent it's it's hard not knowing that how you're going to feed your children how you're going to pay your bills it's hard ain't it so if it's hard that way and it's hard being successful i might as well deal with how hard it is to be successful because at least one day that could be a payout if if you just stay in the hard part of life of not being successful ain't no payoff i have failed far more times than i've succeeded you will never succeed more than you fail that's not how it works you know why because failure is a wonderful teacher it's the only way to learn you have to fail failure is a part of the process to becoming successful i tell people this all the time michael jordan the greatest basketball player in the world he took 946 game-winning shots 946 times since he was in high school the ball has been in his hand to take the game-winning shot with no time on the clock he has only made 146 of those he has missed over 700 times but he has made 146. you know what they write about when you make it they write about when you make it so guess what when you get through failing failing failing failing all you got to do is make one i've had in my career probably a total of i've been to over 200 pitch meetings to pitch ideas in hollywood out of those 200 they have picked five of them 200 meetings 200 show ideas they've picked five of them but you know what them five was hits in 33 years five ideas got picked all i need is five hits y'all don't even know i was in them other meetings they don't write about it they just write about my hits you just need a hit man so when you fail it's a part of the process keep going you're supposed to fail who you know that gets it right all the time that's impossible you have to fail matter of fact when you fail be glad about it every time you fail you one step closer so every time you fail say whoo got that out the way go to the next one fail again okay i got two out the way what's gonna happen is if you just keep keep swinging you're gonna get a hit through all the things i've gone through in my life i had a lot a lot of downs how did i keep the faith it was a couple of reasons number one i know from living that if you quit whatever you're trying to accomplish if you quit whatever you were trying to accomplish can never happen there's not even a remote possibility if you quit there is no chance of it popping back up again coming back later quitting is guaranteed failure now when you're trying you're going to fail but quitting just stopping that was the number one thing i understood and then number two you have to make sure that your dreams your aspirations and goals are so big that not accomplishing them is not an option you have to want something so big that it wakes you up in the middle of the night you have to want something so big that you think about it all the time you have to want something so big that it drives you to wake up when you don't want to it keeps you up at night when you long been sleepy it makes you show up do things you wouldn't normally do it requires extra if you want to be extraordinary and not ordinary if you want to be ordinary live your life but if you want to be extraordinary you have to be extra if you put extra on top of ordinary that word is extraordinary it requires an extra effort now if you don't want to do the extra effort you fit to be regular it's nothing wrong with being regular a lot of people are happy being regular i just wasn't i won't be regular if i didn't want no regular house i didn't want no regular car i didn't want no regular clothes i didn't want no regular checking account i just didn't want it i wanted to have an exceptional home i wanted to have an exceptional bank account i wanted to travel exceptional places now if you don't want that it's perfectly fine you can be really happy being ordinary but if something's burning in you you got to deal with it if you don't deal with it you're going to be disappointed man see being wrecked there's nothing wrong with it discipline determines your destiny not your desire you've heard me say this how many times on the show okay here we go again steve i got it faith without works is dead but let me tell you something to be a hard worker you got to be disciplined that's one of the hardest lessons i'm trying to get through to my sons that an undisciplined man is headed to a life of just i i can't even tell you man you've got to throw yourself down a cliff if you're not a young man or a man that possesses discipline because they got something for undisciplined people they got some street laws for undisciplined people and they got some federal laws and state laws for undisciplined people that's why them signs is outside on the freeway we're going to let you go fast but 70 is the limit if you're disciplined enough of a person to leave your house at the time you're supposed to leave your house 70 miles per hour is absolutely enough but if you're an undisciplined person if you don't have the wherewithal to leave your house on time to go where you want to go see the desires where you want to go the discipline is how you get there you know you understand you can want to go to see your family in california all you want but the flight leaves at 1 18. you leave your house at 12 30. they told you you must check in one hour before your flight now if you ain't got the discipline to get to the airport to check in one hour before your flight leaving your house 45 minutes before the flight departs what you think gonna happen your desire to go see your family in l.a is going to be thwarted because you lack the discipline to prepare yourself and get yourself ready to do the things that you have to do to make your desires come true i'm telling you discipline determines your destiny not your desire you can write down a list of stuff you want to do all day but if you don't produce and show the discipline necessary to get there what you think gonna happen huh okay i wanna be real okay i wanna make four hundred thousand a year okay i wanna be the best player that there is okay but you won't practice see the cat that's disciplined enough to show up at practice the shooting jumpers when everybody going home that's the guy that's gonna be the best the guy that puts us that's never late for practice the guy to study the playbook that's the guy that's gonna make it that's the guy that's gonna make not the guy that's talking crack i stalking that smack i will make the pro bowl i'm gonna make the all-star team i'm gonna be all american that's that's just what you saying but discipline determines your destiny not your desire so now let's talk about this discipline what is that real estate that's your work ethic that's your hunger that's that's your will that that's what you do that's how hard you're willing to demonstrate see it's a live demonstration now discipline is how hard you're willing to demonstrate the attributes and the traits to be what you want to be did you hear me it is your willingness to conduct yourself in a manner that is above and beyond what they what they say is necessary when you have a massive goal something that's big you must first make it something that not reaching it is unacceptable me not living my dream was unacceptable for me now when you get faced with a challenge like living in your car for three years what happened was i had i had a dream that was so big my dreams were bigger than all my problems if your dreams aren't really big enough and your problems are bigger than your dreams then your problems will be bigger than your dreams but if your dreams are so big i had no problem that i was not willing to endure to get to my dream now the key you said it though was step by step remember this saying inch by inch anything's a cinch inch by inch seat so you got to set incremental goals along the way on your way to let's say you want to be a millionaire but let's say you only make 5 000 a year right now but you want to be a millionaire then you have got to take whatever you did to make five thousand dollars and duplicate it so you can make ten but when you make ten that should be as minor celebration then when you make twenty that should be another minor celebration don't stay frustrated because you haven't reached the million because it takes a long time to make a million dollars but let's just say you're making 250 000 there's another celebration you should have so you have to enjoy the journey because the journey is not going to change if you wait until you reach your goal to celebrate you're going to be it's it's mentally debilitating so you have to have monumental steps along the way and just make inch by inch anything's a sense set very doable goals as you're trying to reach the impossible thing stress is necessary so you got to be willing to go get it every day there's a story my father told me all the time now i've heard it several different ways but i'm just telling you the way my daddy gave it to me he said son he said every morning on the plains of the eastern seregeti desert that arises a gazelle that realizes that he was run faster than the fastest lion or he will be eaten and he would die that day on that same desert arises in the morning a lion that realizes that he must run faster than the fastest gazelle or he will starve and he will die that day he said son the moral of the story is no matter who you is when you wake up in the morning you needs to be running what he taught me was a work ethic of how to work in order to get to where you want to go you got to put yourself under some stress though see stress is necessary see i'm a seed i really am i see but a seed has to be planted a seed got to have dirt put on top of it if you take a seed and throw it on the concrete and walk off the sun just burn it up but guess what logically in my mind it doesn't make sense that to grow something you should dig a hole put it down in there and cover it with dirt logically that don't make no sense to me but oh though see dirt is necessary for growth and development if you want to kill a big dream tell it to a small-minded person i told everybody at 10 years old i was gonna be on tv i had a little problem when i said that i had a severe stuttering problem i could not talk outside of my house i went to school church anywhere i locked up i couldn't go to the store i i just studied profusely man it was a horrible experience for me so when i wrote on that paper the assignment was write on a piece of paper what you want to be when you grow up i'm 10. i wrote i want to be on tv that was that faith the belief in things that you cannot see i ain't seen no way i could be on tv but i wrote it down i didn't know no better i just i'm 10 i wrote it down teacher called me to the front of the class i thought i'm gonna get me a gold star cause she had everybody stand and read their paper and they named she called me to the front i'm thinking i'm going up here to get a gold star i ain't never had one before this must be my answer must have been really good i can't tell you how wrong i was that lady didn't call me up there to give me no goals she called me up there to humiliate and when i got up there that lady let into me she said why would you write something like this on your paper first of all why you called me up you know i can't talk you already know i can't talk and she just said why would you write something like this on your paper and i'm standing up i'm trying to get that eye she said who in this school never been on tv who in your family ever been on tv who in this neighborhood ever been on tv she said look at you standing there you can't even talk how they gonna put somebody like you on tv so every christmas i send her a flat screen tv i want her to see what god had done for me i wanted her to see that no matter what she said about attitude determines your altitude if you're a positive person positive things happen to you if you're a negative person negative things are going to continue to happen for you if you can put that in your scope this year just change your attitude wake up and smile how about just wake up and be grateful life is really 10 percent what happens to you and 90 what you do about it look everybody in this room everybody watching everybody got something they got to deal with get to dealing with it stop complaining about it complaining about it only makes it stay present don't give up when reaching your dream is difficult listen if success were easy you've heard it a million times everybody would be successful it requires a grit and a toughness to be successful but i got news for you it's something that all of you have in you now whatever you've been through whatever that is guess what you're still here whatever you think riches is that's your definition there's a survey that says riches and success is being happy well all you have to do then is determine what is it that makes you happy and start down that path now to find true success i believe that you've got to do some work because it's not free everybody would love to wake up and just be happy and bubbly but it requires some work so i want to share with you something from my book uh chapter 11 there is no self-made man now most of us want to believe that we're independent that if we set our minds to do something simply it can get done well i got news for you unless you look to others you can work twice as hard to get half as much sometimes you need a partner in a deal in order to aid you along the way there is nothing wrong with asking for what you want you know for a long time i used to think that the path to success was going at it alone because i was always busy priding myself on not asking for help i was homeless i didn't want to ask for help i lived in a car i didn't want to ask for help and i almost missed out i didn't realize how many people were willing to have discussions with me about success you know most people that are successful if you ask them for help they'll give it to you i'm talking about advice principles solutions not money don't walk up to a wealthy person and just ask for money you know how many times they didn't got that but if you're interested in learning how to fish a lot of people to teach you how to fish as opposed to giving you a fish sandwich because they know if they give you the fish sandwich you're gonna eat it you're gonna have to come back a lot of people have helped me along the way magic johnson oprah winfrey the president i've had some conversations with some people who have it together and they've taught me many things about succeeding now you might think that requesting help is a huge ask but it's not people don't mind sharing knowledge what is knowledge unless it's shared if you have knowledge but you never shared how we know you got it and just remember there is no shame in wanting something this whole world is based on wanting something you know don't sit up and listen to some group you know wanting something is a sin no it's not you got to want something the scripture says a man without a dream or vision shall perish so the day you quit wanting something you might as well push your chips up to the window it's a wrap so lose the shame and you'll have access to more power and so here's the key i want you to tell you about success is all about building relationships it's not what you know it's who you know some people might not step up when you ask them for help they might not but guess what the worst thing can happen to you if if somebody refuses you you didn't have it anyway what are you worrying about that for well they might say no or they might turn me down ask people you never know suppose they say yes that could be the turning factor but you know there are some principles that will increase your chances of getting a success know your worth don't let nobody else determine it and don't assume anything people aren't mind readers they don't know what you're thinking don't assume they know unless you ask with specifics and then recognize that no is not a rejection every time you hear no it moves you one step closer to a yes everybody can't say no now unless you got a hair brain idea and just remember that success is about building a world that looks the way you want it to nobody else never be afraid to reinvent yourself my career my entire career is a study in reinvention you know i started out as a comedian that was it i never planned on hosting a radio show hosting a game show or hosting a daytime talk show i never did writing books none of it making movies none of it reinvention happens when you diversify your gift there lies your greatest secret for success you've got to discover your gift and when you discover it you got to soak it you got to wring it out man you got to diversify it most of us only have one talent but do you know that that's all you need mine happens to be to take information and immediately transfer it into other kinds of platforms now when i was younger i actually thought that i could only do that with comedy but as i've gotten older i discovered through diversification that it was a little bit more than that that i could also take information immediately transfer it into inspiration i could turn it into motivation i can offer it as guidance so now sitting on a talk show i actually have something to talk about all the failed marriages i got something to talk about to be at homeless i got something to talk about being dead broke i got something to talk about having bad credit tax problems i got something to talk about whatever hole you've been in i just about drug myself through it but i came out of all of it because i was not afraid to diversify my gift one of the other tricks for reinventing yourself is not letting your background become a limitation if you take that background that you're from and never let it define you but allow it to redefine you all that stuff works for the good do you understand that you needed everything that's happened to you to happen to you in the exact order that has happened in order for you to be the person that you are today [Music] you

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