I ended up homeless sighted about on the street with no money and nothing to my name my intention was just to make enough money to be able to take care of my mother that's all I wanted to do that was my goal ahead Rick my first play is called I know I've been changed I put the show up working used car bill collector H&R Block tax return that wasn't quite right but I got my money out of it I thought 1200 people would show up that weekend but only 30 showed up my car payment written
everything was tied up in it but I knew that that is what I was supposed to be doing I knew that I was on a good foundation when I was growing up my father was a carpenter he would take me to work with him and in the summertime you know was really hot and I'd be out there with him and he'd be building these house and the part that I hated most about this was when we had to put in the foundation it was painstaking you know digging these holes then you had to tie the
steel and after all that work was done you just poured concrete over it and here's the thing nobody ever saw all that work was done and nobody ever saw no one ever cared about the foundation the only time you hear someone talk about the foundation is when a house is falling apart but when the foundation is done right nobody pitches it and when it's done right they can carry the weight of anything that it was designed to hold what you were building had to be strong enough to support the weight of whatever you could dream
and if you are like me you are a huge dreamer you had to have a foundation that is big enough and strong enough and bold enough to hold all of your dreams and handle them coming true I need to warn you it takes a while to build a dream when you get out there in the world I want you to remember something what's in the well will come up in the bucket [Music] so today I want to challenge you to know your intention as to why you do what you do and I promise you if
your intention is right you will be successful but let me warn you what will happen when you successful because I don't want you to get out there get caught off guard at first you're gonna be celebrated but when your success surpasses what your peers expect of you then you will become a target so now that you have set your intention now that you have your foundation let's talk about how to stay on course when the attacks come as an artist this is the art that I want to paint just as I will never do it
don't you ever change one brushstroke on your campus because somebody doesn't like what you paint you have the foundation no your intention no that is not going to be easy but just keep yourself on track know the value of what is already down and your will [Music]
