Put God first

Put God first in everything

you do

Everything that you think you see in me everything that I've accomplished everything that you think I have and I have a few things

Everything that I have is by the grace of God

Understand that it's a gift

40 years ago March 27 1975 was 40 years ago

Just this past March. I was flunking out of college

I had a 1.7 grade point average. I hope none of you can relate

I had 1.7. Grade point average. I was sitting in my mother's beauty shop

They still call it beauty shops now what they call it. Yeah, I'll sit in the beauty parlor

I was sitting in my mother's beauty parlor and

I'm looking in the mirror, and I see behind me this woman under the dryer

And every time she looked up. Every time I looked up. She was looking at me

Just looking at me in the eye

I don't know who she was and I said

You know she said somebody give me a pen give me a pencil I have a prophecy

March 27 1975 she said boy you are gonna travel the world

And speak to millions of people

Now mind you I flunked out of college

I'm thinking about joining the army I didn't know what I was gonna do. She's telling me I'm gonna travel the world and

Speak to millions of people

Well, I have traveled the world

And I have spoke to millions of people

But that's not the most important thing the success that I had the most important thing is that what she taught me

And what she told me that day has stayed with me since

I've been protected. I've been directed. I've been corrected

I kept God in my life and has kept me humble

I didn't always stick with him, but he always stuck with me

So stick with him in everything you do

if you think you want to do what you think I've done, then do what I've done and

stick with God number two

fail big

That's right fail big

Today is the beginning of the rest of your life, and it can be be very frightening

It's a new world out there. It's a mean world out there and

You only live once

So do what you feel passionate about take chances

professionally

Don't be afraid to fail there's an old IQ test was nine dots

And you had to draw five lines with a pencil within these nine dots

Without lifting the pencil the only way to do it was to go outside the box

So don't be afraid to go outside the box

don't be afraid to

Think outside the box don't be afraid to fail big to dream

big but remember

dreams without goals

Are just dreams, and they ultimately fuel disappointment

So have dreams

But have goals

life goals yearly goals

Monthly goals daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day

Sometimes

Just did not curse somebody out

simple goals, but have goals

and

understand

That to achieve these goals

You must apply discipline

and consistency

In order to achieve your goals you must apply discipline, which you've already done and

Consistency every day not just on Tuesday and miss a few days you have to work at it

Every day you have to plan

Every day you've heard the saying we don't plan to fail we fail to plan

hard work

works

Working really hard is what successful people do and in this

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Remember just because you're doing a lot more

Doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done

Remember that just because you're doing a lot more

Doesn't mean you're getting a lot more

Done don't confuse

Movement

with progress

My mother told me you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere

So continue to strive, continue to have goals, continue to progress

Number three you'll never see a u-haul behind a hearse

I'll say it again

You'll never see a u-haul

Behind a hearse. I don't care how much money you make you can't take it with you

And it's not how much you have

It's what you do

With what you have we all have different talents some of you will be doctors some lawyers some

Scientists some educators some nurses some teachers. Yeah, okay

Some preachers

The most selfish thing you can do in this world

Is help someone else

Why is it selfish because the gratification the goodness that comes to you the good feeling the good feeling that I get

From helping others nothing's better than that not jewelry not big house

I have not the cars, but it's the joy. That's where the joy is in helping others. That's where the success is

Finally I pray that

You put your slippers, way under the bed tonight

So that when you wake up in the morning

You have to get on your knees

To reach them

And

While you're down there

Say, thank you

for grace

Thank you for mercy. Thank you for understanding

Thank you for wisdom. Thank you for parents. Thank you for love. Thank you for kindness. Thank you for

Humility thank you for peace. Thank you for Prosperity say. Thank you in advance for what's already

yours

That's how I live my life, that's where I am one of the reasons why I am today

Say, thank you in advance for what is already yours true desire in the heart for

Anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours

already

I'll say it again

True desire in the heart that itch that you have

Whatever it is you want to do that thing that you want to do to help others and to grow and to make money

That desire that itch that's God's proof to you sent before hand already to indicate that it's yours

and anything you want good you can have

So claim it

Work hard to get it

When you get it reach back pull someone else up

each one teach one

Don't just aspire to make a living

Aspire to make a difference