You can write everything down if you want to. Be brave enough to write every one of your goals down. But I'm going to tell you something, life's going to hit you in your mouth and you got to do me a huge favor, your why has to be greater than that knock down.
Are you willing to get your teeth kicked out for your dream? That's why many are called, but fewer chosen. 'Cause everybody won't get the beat down.
Everybody's not willing to face rejection. Everybody will not talk to four people and visualize 5,000. Everybody won't take the controversy.
Everybody won't take the heat. Everybody won't hold themselves to a higher standard. As soon as you write your dream down, somebody about to bust you in your mouth.
Whatever is that thing you say you want to do, they coming at you. The reason why you do what you do is more critical than what you do. Because if your reasoning is weak, you're not gonna get it done.
Why? Because life is going to beat you upside your head. Life will strip you to the core.
Once your boss start tripping, you about to start crying. Once life hits you with a punch or two, you ready to quit. Phenomenally skilled is cute.
But it is a phenomenal will that says every time I get knocked down, I will get back up and I will succeed. I will not surrender. But if you're weak, you will be broke.
And I'm not here because I'm the best. I'm here because they tried to break me and they couldn't. Think about your community.
Think about your kids. Think about the obstacles and the problems, the so called problems in your community. Think about them.
Osborne said, In life, you will always be faced with a series of God ordained opportunities, brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges. We can't judge according to appearances. We must look at the poverty, and the despair, and the pain, and the stress, and in the midst of that, we see See prosperity.
We see health. We see peace. We see possibility.
I'm telling you to dream your dream because I want you to feel it. I want you to taste it. I want you to just like when the weather is changing, you can feel it.
I want you to be able to feel when you're getting closer to it and closer to it. If you are still alive, there's still room for growth. There's still room for improvement.
You can still get bigger. You can still get better. You can still be bolder.
There's still room to grow and be better. Get out of your head and into your greatness. You can't stroll to your goals.
You keep being casual, you will end up a casualty. Death is not the greatest tragedy of our time. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside of us while we're still alive.
Not trusting your gift is sinful. Because by God it was put in you. I don't know what you've been through, but trust your heart, it will defend you.
You need to use your tongue to validate your gift. And look yourself in the mirror and encourage yourself and say, I'm still gifted. I've been through some pain, but I'm still gifted.
I've buried some loved ones, but I'm still gifted. I've added some setbacks, but I'm still gifted. Despite the circumstance, you can win.
Despite the giants, you can win. Despite the adversity, you can win. Despite the obstacles, you can win.
Despite the situation, you can win. Despite how much money you got in your bank, you can win. You can pull it off.
Why do you do what you do? "Why is that important Les? " Because when the storms of life come, and they're going to come, when life pounce on you, and that's going to happen, when it catches you on the blind side and drop you to your knees, and that's going to happen, when people don't come through for you and don't keep their words and don't support you or actively work against you, and that's going to happen, when you want to give up, and that's going to happen, your reasons will be your bridge over troubled waters.
You gotta know why you're out here. Because you're going to get your butt kicked. But you got to know why you're there because your reasons, when life drops you to your knees, your reasons will help you get back up.
What are the reasons? Write down why you're here. Write down five compelling reasons of why you're going to keep your commitment.
To change your life. Keep your commitment never to go back to the life that you once lived. Keep your commitment to creating wealth for yourself, to taking care of your children, to be more responsible.
Keep your commitment to live a life of contribution, to keep your commitment to be a conqueror and to act like it. And to have authority and dominion over everything in your life. What are those reasons?
If life knocks you down, try and land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Your reasons will help you to get back up again.
What's that thing that's going to pump you up and get you over that hill? What's going to pump you up and get you over that mountain? What's going to pump you up and get you past that disease?
What's going to pump you up and get you past bankruptcy? What's going to pump you up and get you past that crazy credit score you got? What's going to pump you up and get you to the other dog on side?
I'm talking about hope. You got to be able to see it when it cannot be seen. You got to see it in your mind's eye.
You have to see it happening. You have to see yourself writing the book before the book is finished. You got to see it.
You have to see yourself graduating, even though the teachers are telling you that it's not going to happen. Even though you got the letter saying you getting kicked out of school, that you're on academic probation, that you're dismissed. Hope.
You have to believe in the unseen. Because if you can't believe in it, you will never manifest it. But when you believe in it, you demand the universe to assist you in what you're doing.
And if you can see it before everybody else can see it, then it's going to eventually come to you.
