English motivation
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00:00I'm a college dropout. I was homeless, lived in a car for three years. I've lost
00:07every single thing I had, family included. I've been written off so many times but
00:15today the person that you sitting in front of you is a process. I want to talk
00:21to you for a moment about the process because see one way to get a person to
00:28really follow you is to be the example of what you get of what you're trying to
00:32get them to follow. You know my daddy used to tell me all the time he said son
00:36best thing you can do for poor people is not be one of them because you can't help the
00:39cause. Your brain is divided into two halves positive and negative, good and
00:47evil. Each half of your brain has millions of factory workers on each side.
00:53You got a million factory workers on the positive side, you got a million
00:58factory workers on the negative side. At the forefront of each one of those
01:03factories in your brain is a foreman. You got foreman positive and you got
01:09foreman negative. You are in charge, you're the boss of the factory. So let me
01:15show you how this works. You got a remote control, you go to your house tonight and
01:23you press that power button and you press it. When you point it at the TV what
01:28do you expect to happen? You expect TV to come on. You press the power button you
01:33expect the TV to come on. If you want to watch HBO and HBO is channel 300 and you
01:41press 300 and then you press select. What do you expect to come on that TV and
01:48what comes on that TV? So now since your brain is in two halves, let me show you
01:53how this works. You wake up in the morning and you say man I don't feel myself
01:58today. I got up on the wrong side of the bed. I'm not a morning person. Foreman
02:04negative, her hears that. He steps to the front he said what did you say? You said
02:10I said I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. I'm not myself. I'm not a
02:14morning person. He says you got it right away. He said hey the boss just woke up
02:19and said he's not a morning person. He's having a bad day today and he ain't
02:23feeling himself. Let's get to work. The million factory workers start producing
02:28thoughts to justify what you just said. So now guess what? Man I hate my alarm
02:32clock went off this morning. I got to get out here in this traffic. I'm gonna drive
02:37down here today. I don't even like these people on my job. I can't stand this
02:41car I'm fixing to get in this morning. Sure wish I had a new car but I'm driving
02:45this ragged ass car and on and on and on and your day starts tumbling into what
02:51you ordered at the top of the day. You could wake up in the morning and you say
02:57you know what? Today is gonna be a great day today. I expect something really good
03:02to happen for me today. Man thank you Lord for waking me up this morning. He
03:06said what did you say? You said I said I'm having a great day today. I expect
03:11something good to happen today. Thank you Lord for waking me up. Forming
03:15positive turns around and goes all right let me have your attention. Steve's
03:19having a great day today. He's expecting some wonderful things to happen and man
03:24let's get it going and they start manufacturing thoughts. Same brain. Man I
03:29can't wait to go to work today. It may not be the job I want but at least I got
03:33a job. I appreciate the fact that I don't have a car but at least I can walk to
03:38the train. Man this is gonna be great today. That's how your mind works 24 7. It
03:45never turns off. You have got to change the way you think. It is the whole
03:51determining factor of where you go in life. We are all where we are today
03:56because we thought ourself to this position. If you don't like the position
04:01think yourself out of it. Change your attitude you change your altitude. I'm
04:06gonna tell you something that every successful person has to do including
04:11you. Believe it or not every successful person in this world has jumped. I'm
04:18gonna tell you what I mean by that. You eventually you are going to have to jump.
04:22You cannot just exist in this life. You have got to try to live. If you are
04:30waking up thinking that it's got to be more to your life than it is, man believe
04:34that it is. Believe in your heart of hearts that it is. But to get to that
04:39life you're gonna have to jump. See people in life when you're standing on
04:45the cliff of life and you see people soaring by, when you see people soaring
04:50going to exotic places, you hear about them doing wonderful things. Maybe you
04:53look up the street and your neighbor just gets a car every year and every two
04:56years. How is he doing that? Have you ever thought maybe this person right
05:00here has identified their gift and is living in their gift. Because your Bible
05:06says, this is your Bible, says your gift will make room for you. Your gift, not your
05:12education. You go get an education that's nice. But if you don't use your gift, that
05:16education only gonna take you so far. I know a lot of people got degrees man
05:21they ain't even using them. It's your gift. But the only way for you to soar is you
05:27got to jump. You got to take that gift that's packed away on your back. You got
05:32to jump off that cliff and pull that cord. That gift opens up and provides
05:38the soul. If you don't ever use it, you're gonna just go to work. And if you getting
05:44up going to work on a job every day that you hate going to, that ain't living man.
05:49You just existing. At one point in time you ought to see what living's like. But
05:54the only way to see what living's like, you got to jump. And here's the problem. Let me just be
05:58real with you. When you first jump, let me tell you something, your parachute will
06:03not open right away. I'm sorry. I wish I could tell you it did, but it don't. When
06:10you jump, it's not going to open right away. You're gonna hit them rocks. You're
06:15gonna get some skin tore off on them cliffs. You're gonna get all your clothes
06:19tore off. You're gonna get some cuts on you. You're gonna be bleeding pretty bad.
06:23But eventually, eventually the parachute has to open. That is a promise of God.
06:31Here's another thing. You can play it safe and deal without the cuts and the
06:36tears. And you can stand on that cliff of life forever safe. But if you don't jump,
06:41I got another promise I can make you. Your parachute will never open. You'll
06:44never know. You'll never know what God really have for you. I was speaking at a school
06:48once. I was talking to the students. The principal was mortified with my message
06:53because I was telling the truth. I was telling the kids, your education is
06:58important, but your education is not the most important thing in your life. I'm
07:03sorry it's not. Your dream is the most important thing in this world. Principal
07:09came up on the stage while I was speaking, don't ever say that to my school again.
07:12Well, I'm just telling you, dog. You can save your kids a lot of pain if you ever
07:16talk to them about their dreams. You got to talk to young people about their
07:19dreams. If you talk to kids about their dreams, your dreams can spur you to get
07:25the education. But if you never find out what a child is dreaming about, you can't
07:29hold their attention. It's the dream, man. You got to dream about something so big
07:35that it dwarfs all your fears. The way you overcome fear is with your dream. You
07:40got to make your dream so big that nothing matters except that dream. You're
07:45willing to do everything that's necessary. I was listening to Will Smith
07:48the other day. Will Smith said, the best things in life is on the other side of
07:52fear. It's on the other side of fear. But fear freezes people, man. The fear of
07:56failure freezes people. Suppose I don't do it. Well, you might, you might not make
08:01it. But I got news for you. If you don't do it, you damn sure ain't gonna make it.
08:05Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
08:13I talked to so many people who get older like some of us are and they've lost
08:18their faith. Well, faith is really simple. It's that faith is the substance of
08:22things hoped for. All that mean is in the beginning you just hope something pop
08:26off. You know, you just kind of hope something happen for you. I was hoping I
08:30would get on TV. I wrote it on a piece of paper when I was 10. I want to be on TV.
08:35The problem I had when I wrote it at 10 was I suffered from a severe stuttering
08:40problem. I could not talk outside of my house. So can you imagine when I wrote on
08:44a piece of paper, I want to be on TV and turn that in. The first thing the little
08:47boy next door, next to me asked me, he said, well, how long is your TV show
08:51gonna be? Because you, you're gonna be on TV all day. But when I wrote it on the
08:58paper, it wasn't factual. I was just hoping. You just got to start with the
09:05hope. Faith is the substance of things that you hope for. You just hope
09:09something jump. Then what happened is through grace and favor, he give you a
09:13couple of them things you hope for and then you supposed to start believing
09:16then. Because now it turns into faith. But if you take this scripture, faith is the
09:21substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Albert
09:27Einstein said that imagination is everything. It's the preview to life's
09:32coming attractions. That's what your imagination is. Your imagination is
09:37actually very, very real. Everything you imagine could be a preview to life's
09:43coming attraction. Everything we have today came from somebody's imagination.
09:47Somebody was talking on the phone with their cord on the wall and got sick of
09:50it and said, you know what man, if I could just go outside and talk on the
09:54phone, we got cell phones. Somebody got tired of driving across the
09:58country said, man, if I could fly over there, boom, we got airplanes. Imagination
10:04is everything. It's a preview to life's coming attractions. Everything you've
10:09ever imagined is real. The problem with most people is you think your
10:14imagination is hocus-pocus. It's really not. It's a preview of a coming
10:18attraction. If you react to your imagination, that's where your real life
10:22is. It's just God showing you what he has for you. The problem people have is
10:27they tell their imagination to the wrong people. See, if you want to kill a big
10:32dream, tell it to a small-minded person. It's dead. How many times, man, have you
10:39had a tremendous idea? Something you thought was the one and you went and
10:44told it to your loved ones and your so-called friends and they shot it down.
10:52I mean, you was convinced that it was just, oh man, I just came to you and you
10:58told it to them and they shot it down and you thought since they was your
11:01loved ones and their friends and they got your best interests at heart, you
11:04believed them. You was wrong. You let them talk you out of what God got for
11:10you. As a kid, you know, I didn't know but my gift is that I found out later on. I
11:15have the ability to think extremely quick and I can take any piece of
11:19information and transpose it into comedy immediately. Now when you're a kid and
11:24you don't understand that, you get in a lot of trouble. I didn't know what it was
11:28until I got older, that this was a gift, that it did make room for me, that
11:34I became a stand-up comedian which started with a dream of mine and it led
11:38to where I am today. It's a lot of stuff that happened in between there but your
11:43gift is the thing that you do the absolute best with the least amount of
11:46effort. That's your God-given gift and everybody has one and God gives it to
11:51you at birth. You don't have to go anywhere to discover it. It's not in the
11:56water. It's not on the mountaintop. It ain't hid under a rock. Your God-given
12:01gift is instilled in you at birth. If you pursue that as opposed to your passion,
12:08there lies your greatest chance for success. The problem with people is we
12:13don't, we don't, we don't pursue our gift often times. We try to go get an
12:17education and make it think that's gonna get us somewhere. If you identify that
12:21gift man, that gift is the thing that that can make you great. We're all
12:25participating in this thing called life. Life has ebb and flows, mountaintops, it's
12:31got valleys, it's got, it's got thunderstorms in it, earthquakes. This
12:36life, it don't, you stop expecting it to go smooth because it ain't finna go
12:41smooth. The road to success is always under construction.
12:45Ain't no, this is, this life ain't set up to be smooth. You, you combat negativity
12:50and you combat discouraging, discouragement with gratitude. It's the
12:55one way to combat discouragement is with gratitude. What messes you up is you
13:01focus on the thing that's not happening and that causes you to get discouraged.
13:05So whenever you get discouraged, you have to change your focus from what's not
13:10happening to what has happened and it straightens you out immediately because
13:15what causes the, the, the downslide is if you get wrapped up into what ain't
13:19happening, it get ugly man and it just snowball. But you have to focus on
13:24gratitude. People understand how serious gratitude is. You know, it's, it's a
13:28serious principle of success. It's hard to be miserable and grateful at the same
13:33time. You have to take chances in life. If you don't take chances in life, you'll
13:38never have the life God has for you. Life is about risk. If you play it safe in
13:45life, you ain't gonna have much of a life. If you play it safe, you won't have
13:51much of a life. Life is risk. It take, it take courage to pursue your dream. I just
13:57did it. It cost me everything, but eventually God is very good man when he
14:03sees you take a leap of faith. He supplies you everything you need. Now
14:07it's gonna cost you something, but most people, most people, most people are not
14:12willing to pay what it costs to go after your dream because you're gonna
14:16have to hurt a little bit. And most people don't like being uncomfortable. If
14:20you don't want to be uncomfortable, please do not pursue success because
14:25success is a very uncomfortable feeling. And I just learned to be, I learned to be
14:31comfortable being uncomfortable. See, if you think you're too old to make it, let
14:35me give you a prime example. Colonel Sanders. Colonel Sanders has been frying
14:40chicken his whole life. He was telling everybody he had the best chicken in the
14:45world. Ain't nobody believe him. They turned him down everywhere. Colonel
14:50Sanders didn't get a franchise till he was in his 60s. Kentucky Fried Chicken
14:57sell more chicken than anybody in the world today. So if you're sitting there
15:03thinking cause you got a little gray on you, you're too late, as long as God
15:09waking you up in the morning, that's the sign that he ain't through with you. So
15:12what you tripping for? Last year I spoke at the SALT convention. The SALT
15:16convention is where billionaires from around the world gather. They gather in
15:21Vegas once a year to talk about how they're gonna change the world. Couple
15:26hundred billionaires in this world, they all come to Las Vegas once a year to
15:31SALT convention. I was asked last year to be the keynote speaker and I'm tripping
15:36because I'm not a billionaire. And I asked the guy who asked me to do it, I
15:40said, I'm not a billionaire, you do understand that. We said, Mr. Harv, we know
15:45we know everything about you. We know your net worth and everything. I said,
15:49well, what can you all learn from me? He said, everything. He said, the reason we
15:54want to hear your story is because the majority of us that are billionaires, we
15:58inherited some money and we grew it. A couple of us inherited a billion, we
16:04automatically, some of us inherited three hundred million and we turn it
16:08into a billion. You come from nothing. What we want to know is how you got to
16:16where you are after coming from nothing. How did you live in a car for three
16:22years and wind up on more TV shows than anybody? How did you survive flunking
16:30out of school? How did you survive all of that? We want to know that because in
16:35case something happens to us, we don't really have the information that you
16:40have on how to come from the back to the front or how to come from the bottom to
16:44the top. So I get asked oftentimes to speak and so when I was telling them how
16:49I made it, I was telling them about the fortitude that I developed and then I
16:54told them about the faith that I had and that was really startling to them.
17:00Now a lot of them are people of faith but a lot of people who were born with a
17:05lot of money ain't really had to have a lot of faith. You understand? You have an
17:12idea of what it feels like. You've seen some kids get put in foster care. You've
17:18seen Child Protective Services come to somebody's house. You've seen kids come
17:23to school with less. You might have been one of the kids that went to school with
17:27less. You have struggled to give your kids a better life than the one you had.
17:31They don't hear this but I will tell you something right now. You can be
17:36successful without an education. You can be successful without coming from a rich
17:42family. You can be successful. I don't care what color you are, what faith you
17:47belong to, your sexual preference. I don't care what's wrong with you. You can be
17:52successful. Everybody in your life will have a turn back moment no matter who
17:58you are. You're going to have such a period in your life where it seems like
18:03it's not working. You're going to have doubts. You're going to have a lot of trials and
18:06tribulations and challenges and everybody has what's called a turn back
18:11moment. You always have a moment in your life where the direction you're going
18:16you will have to make a decision to keep going or you turn back. The sad thing is
18:22the average person turns back. But think about this. If you're going somewhere and
18:28you turn back you can never get there. If you wake up every day and go get in your
18:34car and say I'm going to the store and halfway to the store you turn around and
18:39then the next day you go to the store and you turn around. You do realize that
18:45you'll never get to the store. So whatever you needed from the store now
18:50is even a greater need because you turned back and every time you turn
18:55back it does not change the need. So what kept me from going was what kept me
19:00going was I created I made turning back giving up never an option and I had
19:07really dark moments man where I thought I was going. I just didn't think I was
19:11gonna make it. I mean where I am today I didn't see it clearly at all. I had a lot
19:15of turn back moments. But you know what it was for me man. Being successful is so
19:22hard but I realized that not being successful was hard too. The difference
19:28between not being successful hard and trying to get successful hard. If you're
19:33trying to get successful then it's hard. At least there's some payout. There's a
19:37payoff. If you hang in there there's payoff. When you're not successful it's hard. It's
19:42hard not having money. It's hard never knowing how to come up with your
19:46mortgage and your bond and your rent. It's hard not knowing that.
19:51How you gonna feed your children? How you gonna pay your bills? It's hard
19:56ain't it? So if it's hard that way and it's hard being successful I might as
20:03well deal with how hard it is to be successful because at least one day that
20:08could be a payout. If you just stay in the hard part of life of not being
20:13successful ain't no payoff.