NEVER BACK DOWN #2

It said I've got a dream I want to achieve I want my children to have a choice of the kind of education they want that said I am the captain of my ship that said I'm going to control my destiny and whatever it takes I'm willing to do the work. There is something in you that said I've got to make this happen there's something in you that said there's a bigger life waiting for me calling my name. There's something in you that says i'm on my way to a greater life. I want you to remember three things number one I want you to never be afraid to make a decision. Be decisive. Don't be afraid to fail. Be fearless. Number two I want you to remember the power of you.

You gotta feel that power you got to believe in that power you have that power. Trust me. Last but not least number three can't stop, won't stop. The most important element for you to be able to do this, to be able, to establish the most important one, where you really are in your life today. Where are you and where do you really want to go? What's going to create this extraordinary life and to look at it brand new because some of you right now, if you continue the direction you're going are going to be successful and unfulfilled, unhappy and stressed. If I can change and you can change, everybody can change. There are two reasons of why people are not successful. There are two reasons of why people do not go after their dreams. There are two deadly killers of what causes people to give up. There are two deadly killers of dreams, there are two deadly killers of goals. There are two deadly killers of focus and purpose and those one one of those things is procrastination. To continue to put stuff off, to continue to put stuff on the back burner, to continue to say oh I'll get to that later, why do we do that we do that? We do that because we're afraid of something. What are we afraid of? Are we afraid of failing? A lot of us are not really afraid of failing but we're afraid of the unknown we're afraid of that success. We're afraid of the thing that is going to possibly come to pass we all say we want the big things but we're not afraid of how it might change us so what I want to tell you today is in the midst of being afraid of being successful you cannot be afraid of successful. Successful, success will only make you better. Success will only make you a better who you are. A better version of you. Yeh it's going to change your life thats exactly what its supposed to do. 

Yes its gonna change your mind that's exactly what it's supposed to do but that is what we call success you cannot be afraid. There's two elements of fear fear one is you can forget everything and run,  you can forget everything and leave all your dreams behind, you can forget everything, you leave your family behind, you can forget everything you can leave your goals behind, you can forget everything and leave your purpose behind or you can face everything and rise. If you face everything and rise, you're gonna face those insecurities, you're going to face those self-doubts, you're gonna face the, the scrutiny of others, you're going to face the, the lies that people speak you gonna face everything and you're going to rise above that. Why? Because you're now focusing your purpose, you're now focused on your goals, you're now focus on who you are and you're now focused on where you want to be. The other thing that is a deadly killer of dreams is giving up. You cannot give up on yourself you cannot ever give up on yourself. Why? Because when you give up on yourself you give up on your family, you give up on your goals, you give up on your purpose, you give up on your future, you give up on your all your future success and you just live a basic life. 

You live a basic life of doing nothing. You live a basic life of just saying, oh okay this is just what i'm supposed to do. You know you have something deeper inside of you. You know you have greater inside of you you know theres purpose down inside of you and you have to give up, you have to give up on giving up. You have to let go of giving up and you have to fight sometimes it's hard but you still have to fight. The hardest fight is the fight within it's not really so much the money issue, it's not so much really the, the naysayers. It's not so much of what people are going to say but it's the who, how you perceive yourself it's the fight of what you think about yourself so now start thinking positive about who you are. God has made you better than who you are God has made you stronger than who you are. You can never give up on God, never give up on yourself and never give up on your dreams. So you begin to look at this decade and affirming that this is your decade as you set goals that will make you stretch that will bring out the best in you as you begin to remove the negative toxic people from your life as you decide to take some chances in life and that's one of the things that's very important this starts it if you're not willing to risk you cannot grow and if you cannot grow you cannot become your best and if you cannot become your best you cannot be happy and if you can't be happy then what else is there? Every single thing you said you wanted you wanted to accomplish, you wanted to do, guess what we still got time baby it is not lost. You still have time, that's right. You still got time baby. Who are you right now and who must you become in order to create what you want? What has to change about you? What is it that you're doing right now that would be a liability for you? As you begin to look towards the future and take inventory of yourself what is it about you right now that you've got to leave this behind because this no longer fits.

 Looking at where you want to go and the kind of person that you must become, the kind of standards that you have for you what is it that you must do differently? The one commodity that is most valuable on this earth is time. Time to love, time to live from the moment the human body is born it begins dying. I don't think you quite caught that, let me say it again. From the moment the human body is born it begins dying. Some happen faster, some happen slower, some of us help them happen faster, and some of them prevent it from happening sooner than later. How many seconds how many minutes do we waste every day doing things that are nowhere near the goals and aspirations and passions that we have inside? How many times are you going through the course of a day and realize did I do anything I set out to do today? Write down those goals each and every day no matter if there's two goals a day if you can accomplish those then you're doing more than just making it through the day. You are living and achieving your dreams. Find time to better yourself, read explore, research, live life do things you've never thought of doing before that's what it's all about when you're born that's that date that they put on the left side of the tombstone when you die they put another date on the right side of the tombstone but that - in the middle is the most important thing on that tombstone that is a line that throughout that entire time frame you were able to impact and touch others lives you were able to leave your mark on this earth you were able to build a legacy that nobody could change you were able to have it to where people remember who you are no matter what when you're living for that - in the middle you're going to remember your why your why, why are you here not, not the why, why did you do something your why your, your reason for getting up in the morning, your reason for pushing yourself past the brink of exertion and giving up your reason for moving on and getting things done in life that - in the middle that's the thing that pushes you. How do you rate yourself on a scale of one to ten in terms of your physical appearance, in terms of your health, do you take care of yourself? Are you allowing yourself to get overweight and out of shape?

 Are you conscious of your health, are you watching the food that you take into your body? Do you make a deliberate effort to exercise, you know it was George Burns who said we cannot help getting older but we don't have to get old and many of us get old before our time because we don't take time to take care of ourselves. Your environment is a very good indicator on a scale of one to ten is it what you want it to be do you find it desirable are you satisfied, the job or career that you are involved in someone said that 85% of the American public are unhappy with their jobs are you spending eight hours a day just doing time? Doing something that you don't find challenging, that does not make you stretch mentally that does not stimulate you, that does not inspire you something that you don't find a sense of fulfillment in it.