WEBVTT - Just Hold On 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:04.440 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned in 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.720 to the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.280 am your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.039 about your life so that you can live life on 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:13.399 purpose and for a purpose. And this is your first 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.960 time tuning in. Welcome Vitamin D. It's upon of my name. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.120 My name is Dawn and you get vitamin D from 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.360 the sun. So I'm here a shed light into your life. 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.840 And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.920 celebrities and everyday people like you and me, Because if 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:29.880 you want to be better and you want to do better, 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:32.640 then you're going to have to be able to see better. 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.640 So join me on this journey of living our best 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.560 lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:41.159 ass at. Get your vit. 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:48.480 Indy right with me. I get excited about your life. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:53.159 I say to you, hold on. We're my water walkers 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:58.560 and where are my water rollers at? I need you 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:02.720 to hold on. I mean just thinking of what it 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.800 means to be a water walker or a water roller. 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.040 Your feet aren't touching the ground, yet you got to 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.520 keep pressing forward. You got to keep putting one foot 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.560 in front of the other and keep going. I will 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.720 never forget when I would do my five mile walks 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.760 each day. There was a gentleman that I would constantly 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:29.720 see in the neighborhood and we would see each other 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.200 at the grocery store and the conversation started because we 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.240 were both wearing the same kind of shoe. Now this 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:37.720 had to be a year and a half, maybe even 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:42.640 two years ago at the time. Hokus hoka. That was 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.120 a free plug for advertisement. Huh, well, anyho, you don't 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.320 see many people were at that time with that shoe. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.360 And we were talking about the shoe, and he was 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:52.920 telling me. He was like, you know, I really see 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.760 you a lot around the neighborhood working out doing your thing. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.480 And I'm like, oh, thank you. We'll whoop. And as 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.680 we begin to talk, he became interested in what I 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.680 was about and what I came to do. And you know, 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.360 as I tell you all the time, I'm going to 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.200 be bigger than opera. And he says, oh wow, he 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.640 says that's a big thing. And I said, yeah, the 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.840 greater the vision, the greater the reward. And he said, well, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.960 I believe you can do it. He's like, not everybody 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.920 can't do that, but as long as you continue to 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.680 go through life as if you have ear plugs in 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.960 and blinders on, you'll be able to do it. And 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.280 I sat there and I thought about it, and I 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:31.800 was like, okay. You know, like if you go to 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.520 a horse track, or if you've seen horses race, they 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.560 may not have ear plugs in, but they have blinders 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.320 on so they can focus on their lane. And I 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.360 feel half the time, when we are in pursuit of 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.920 our dreams or a better life, or for something that 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.800 we've never experienced, we're always trying to rely on some 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:53.480 type of pamphlet, instruction, a booklet, or even perhaps the 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.239 opinions and the views of someone else. But here's the thing, 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.560 the destination and where you're going. We're going nobody has 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:03.720 ever been before, So what type of references are we seeking? 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.080 What type of advice are we seeking? And because no 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.919 one has been where it is that we are seeking 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.240 to go, how much should we be paying contention to 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.600 what they have to say, because of course it's not 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.280 going to make sense. That's why it's called your dream 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.440 your vision for a reason, because it was given to 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.120 you and just like every snowflake that falls from the sky, 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.960 no one is the same, So why would you think 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.200 that your story is going to reflect someone else's. Again, 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.800 I am talking to the water walkers and the water rollers. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.760 I am telling you that you need to hold on, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:49.720 hold on and focus, focus on the vision. Don't let 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:54.440 what you see make you forget what God said. That's 0:03:54.480 --> 0:04:01.880 why it's so important to speak life, to speak it 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.680 because when you cannot see it, how can you seek it. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:11.000 You have to speak it. And there's life in it 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:15.040 because there's a vibration and we know what. There's a vibration. 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.360 There is an energy, and we know what. There is energy, 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:22.880 there is life, and therefore there is you. But you 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.960 have to move as though you have blinders and air 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.600 plugs on, because there's things in place that are meant 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.120 for you to get distracted, that are meant for you 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.320 to get discouraged, that are meant for you to try 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.160 to get you to give up. But you can't give 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:42.480 up because you can't fail if you don't quit. And 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.320 the only reason why you would stop, what you would 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.560 give up is if you lost sight of the vision, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.120 if you allow the words of other people, the views, opinions, 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:59.400 and thoughts to get into your head. That's the only way, 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:03.000 right because even if you hit a roadblock, you fall 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.040 down seven times, you get up eight If you can 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.120 look up, you can get up. And your location is 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.800 not your destination. We get distracted on what we see, 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.479 what we feel that we are and not realizing that 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.280 we lost our focus as to where we're going. And 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:21.359 that's why you must hold on. You must take a 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.360 snapshot of the vision in the direction so that when 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:28.560 those hard times come, you realize that you can get 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.720 through with it, because all you have to do is 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.560 keep one foot in front of the other, keep the 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:40.760 vision in front of your eyes, because you are going 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.520 to have to decide if you are going to happen 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.240 to life or are you going to allow life to 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.200 happen to you. But it's your choice, and you got 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.000 to speak over yourself, and it's gonna take a lot. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.599 I don't feel as though I even realize how much 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.920 it takes. And again that goes for all of us 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:03.200 because we even ever been there before. We rely on 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.279 the words of someone else, We rely on the views 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.600 and things that we've seen from someone else. Realizing this 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.920 is the first time we have to experience it, and 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:19.760 it's our experience. And I think what is so important 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.919 is that we realize that how big a hunger is 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.400 for our dreams. You know, ET says you have to 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.360 want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.760 I say, you have to want your dreams as bad 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.960 as you want to breathe. And I always say that 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.680 because they will come to a point where, even if 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.159 you did not want to fight, even if you've made 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.279 in your mind to give up, if you try to 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:52.320 restrict the oxygen from your body, your body will literally react. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.840 One would even go as far as to say unknowingly, 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:59.040 because you aren't forcing your body to fight for this oxygen. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:04.400 But your body is reacting. So let's take it now. 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.200 Think of it as this way. If you want whatever 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:11.720 it is out of life, as bad as you want 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:17.480 to breathe, how is your body reacting? Is your body reacting? 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.960 You said you wanted it. That's probably why you may 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.480 be feeling a bit of discontent because you realize that 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:30.000 this is something that you set your mind to and 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.960 seeing life be lifing. My mama used to always say dying, 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:38.880 just live a little longer, you'll see. And I'm seeing. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.240 But I remind myself, Dawn, don't let what you see 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:47.840 make you forget what God said. No, do not do 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.520 away with the desires of your heart. No. Look, we're 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.280 here for a good time, not a long time, and 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.760 that's why we have to make it count. People are dying. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.800 You may even feel as though you are dying inside. 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:04.720 But I'm imploring you to keep pressing forward because there 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.280 was a dream and a vision came to you. And 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.440 in pursuit of your dream, in pursuit of this vision, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.320 you are inspiring someone else. And here's the thing. Stop 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.480 feeling as though you have to have everything together. Sometimes 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:20.200 we put the pieces together as we flow. I don't dance, 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.760 I just float. That made me think of the track 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.360 by janellmo Name And I feel as though if we 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:30.280 all go into a floating stage or flowing stage, where 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.160 things will carry us. And I say that because it 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.360 doesn't mean that we aren't actively moving in that direction. 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.200 What it means is though we move with grace. And 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.439 what do I always say? Grace is nothing but space? 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.320 What is the space? What amount of space are you 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:59.920 allowing yourself? Hm? How are you allowing yourself to move? 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.240 If are you allowing yourself to glide. It doesn't mean 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.080 that you may not shift and blow slightly in another direction. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.720 But how are you moving with grace? Are you moving 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:13.480 with peace? Are you moving with ease? Are you moving 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:18.000 in a state where you say, Hey, I'm not going 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.280 to allow what I see to make me forget what 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.600 God said? And what God said is simply the desires 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.480 that you feel inside your heart? What is the God 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:31.200 in you saying? Would you actually be okay if you 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:38.960 exited this earth without doing your deepest desires? You know 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.199 it's going to be hard to pursue it, or hard 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.480 to sit by the wayside and let it pass you by. 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.000 So how are you going to choose your heart? See? 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.839 Perhaps you're getting frustrated because it doesn't look like or 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.760 isn't panning out as you planned. But I'm saying you 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.360 got a hold on because you are set to do 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.040 some things that have never been done before. So whatever 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.800 blueprint or whatever imagination as you thought the process was 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.960 going to be, you're going to have to do away 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:11.000 with that. One foot in front of the other, one 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.840 foot in front of the other. You know, they say 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.360 inch by inch, life's a sinch. Yard by yard. Life 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.720 is hard and half the time when we made this 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.120 projection on how we feel like life is supposed to be, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.000 we're looking at it by a yard by yard basis, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.160 in fact, perhaps by Acre's basis. But see, when we 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.000 move with that inch by inch, it reminds us to 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:35.199 stay ingratitude, because therefore we realize that we're one step 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:43.560 closer to where we want to be, not looking oh, 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.319 oh wow, how far it is we have to go. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.040 And I feel as though half the time that puts 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:55.640 the frustration in place. They say success isn't linear. I'm 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.800 realizing that now because I've heard it, and I'm sure 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:03.120 we've all heard it, but it's nothing like experiencing it done. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:09.360 Just live a little longer, you'll see. I would think 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:15.320 oftentimes how some people choose not to be successful, and 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:21.040 what I mean by success not doing the heart's desires, 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:26.920 or perhaps giving up too quick, it's because they've decided 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.199 to look at their life on a yard by yard basis, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.800 looking at how far it is they have to go, regretting, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.760 replaying the steps that they should have taken, not realizing 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:41.120 that they're farther from whether it started. Whether it is 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:48.240 a physical step, a thwarted motion, forward, or simply another 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:53.320 way of looking at something. Hold on, don't let what 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.800 you see make you forget what God said. You have 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.160 to want your dreams as bad as you want to breathe. 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.079 I've said that just before. There's a track by Kevin 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:06.679 Gates entitled I Don't get tired. He said, keeping the 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:11.920 faith even when it gets dark? How are you keeping 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.959 your faith even when it gets dark? Although I walk 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.960 through the valley of the Shadow of Death, I fear 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.079 no evil. For your ride and your staff they comfort 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:26.559 me even thinking about that valley. Can you imagine the sounds, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.240 the noise, how dark it is, just on a metaphorical level, 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:41.920 just metaphorically speaking, how lonely, how scary it is. But 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.840 you gotta hold on. You gotta listen to the God 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.200 inside of you, and you have to remind yourself. I'm 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.400 a water walker. I'm a water roller, So I walk 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.640 by faith, not by sight. And no matter if that 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.640 mountain seems dinormous, remember, all you need is faith the 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:59.640 size of a mustard seed. Just a little little keep going. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:09.120 Show me, somebody tell me about somebody that you can 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:16.160 recall that didn't quit and they failed. You can't because 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.760 you can't fail if you don't quit. And what it 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.680 is is that we need to make room for research 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.520 and development because when we talk about this journey and 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:29.240 this path towards success, what we project as that yarder 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.120 that achored forward, not realizing that half the time we 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.640 need to reflect, reassess, and do some research and development 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.320 because there's another area that we're growing. But if we 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:44.360 don't make room for that, we get distracted because then 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.520 we're referencing the steps someone else took. We're referencing the 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:52.280 thoughts and opinions of other people, not doing a self 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:56.600 check of the desires of our heart. Again, you have 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.040 to want your dreams as bad as you want to breed. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.479 You have to realize that your location is not your destination. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.840 You have to stand firm if that. But if you 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.640 fall down seven times, get up eight Why because if 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.560 you can look up, you can get up. Are you 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:16.760 ready to get up? Are you ready to see yourself 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.320 for who you are? Well? If so, you just better 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:26.400 hold on. That's what love will make you do, That's 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.800 what love will require you to do. So then it 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:34.560 becomes how much do you love yourself? Do you love 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.920 and believe in yourself enough to give yourself the best 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.480 life that you truly desire, because guess what, you are 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:46.640 in charge of it. It's up to you. Do you 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.760 want your dreams? Do you want your best life? As 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.600 bad as you want to breathe? And I'm here to 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.480 tell you that you have a moment forty eighty six 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.360 hundred moments every day to make that decision. So what 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.320 are you choosing? Because you have twenty eight six hundred 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:05.840 seconds in every day and you can't get caught up 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.040 on what did happen or what did not happen. You 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.360 gotta caught up on what is because that's what's important 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.600 right now, where you are, right now. And that's why 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.800 they say gratitude is everything because the more grateful we are, 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.960 the more things we have to be grateful for. So 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.080 what are you grateful for? Are you grateful that you 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.080 woke up? Are you grateful for this oxygen? Are you 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.120 grateful for this roof over your head? Are you grateful 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:27.600 for the water? Are you grateful for the breath and 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.480 your lungs? Are you grateful for hearing my voice? Because again, 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.480 you could have gave up. Again, you could not have 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.040 a train again, you could not have a voice, But 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.640 you do that is not your narrative. What are you 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.320 doing with your story? Are you going to choose to 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.800 live it out? Because we're here for a good time, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.600 not a long time. Do you see why we have 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.240 to make it count? Do you see that somebody didn't 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.920 wake up today? Do you see that you still have 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.320 a vision? Do you see that you still have a purpose? 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.240 Do you still feel the desires of your heart? And 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.600 if soul? I just want to implore you to hold 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.440 on because you're worth it and because you deserve it, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:11.720 and you know, realizing and understanding how all you have 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.320 to do is have faith. The sides of a mustard seed, Well, 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.800 think about what happens when you have to plant it 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:19.840 and you got to go into that ground and it 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:24.240 gets dark, and realizing that in order for you to 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.280 sprout out is that you got to get some mess 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.480 on you. You got to get some fertilizer. And the 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:35.080 fertilizer may stink, It may stink real bad, but sometimes 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.200 you need a little stink on you. You got to 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.280 go through some things so that you can get your 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.120 wheel power so that when the next wind comes, when 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.840 the next rain comes, it's just the blow. It's not 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:47.760 here to deter you. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:56.960 I'm going through some things, but nothing can turn it 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:02.280 around a little wind and some it can't touch the 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:07.320 joy y'all found. I'm gonna poosh my trusting you for 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:11.640 whatever problem, man, I'm gone to. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:16.960 See it through. I need a breakthrough. I need a word. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.119 That's Greg o' quinn with the track breakthrough and even 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.879 understanding that sometimes you gotta break in order to get through, 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.920 and that break isn't to break you down, but perhaps 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.760 just to put you together again. I mean you, let's 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.720 think about it. Think about coming up in elementary school, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:39.000 middle school, some part in your learning years when you 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:43.120 learned about mosaics and how there were these little pieces, 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.320 whether there were stones, whether they were some type of 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:51.560 colorful plastics or metals or ceramics, these beautiful pieces that 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:56.119 you put together to make a picture. It reminds me 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.119 of Andre three thousand. He says, you gotta turn a 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.080 negative into a positive picture because on one end, one 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.120 can look at all these little pieces and said, oh, 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.600 they've been broken off from somewhere, But how about we 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.840 gather them together to put something new and place that 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.560 is the same as you. What are you calling to 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.919 put together a new because we are breaking out of 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.080 the old thing and stepping into something new. Should we 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:22.320 go to that of the life of a butterfly? This caterpillar, 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:26.280 that only new life on the ground was crawling, oftentimes 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:32.280 dodging footsteps, dodging birds, dodging so much bigger and looking 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.760 up at a view that was so much bigger than 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.040 what it was. But had the caterpillar got caught up 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:42.560 and just being what it is, perhaps there will never 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:46.960 be opportunity to develop to what it is to become. 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.600 Because just like going into that ground and putting that fertilizer, 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:55.080 that's no different from the caterpillar jumping into its cocoon. 0:18:56.040 --> 0:19:02.040 It gets tight, uncomfortable work for a period of time. 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.879 But see that light, that longing, that desire of your heart. 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.960 Things are taking place, things are forming, and even in 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:15.520 this tight cocon their wings being developed to take it 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.640 to the next height. Oh the sights for this young 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.960 butterfly to soar. But seeing this cocon things look a 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.960 little different, right, And had this caterpillar been so caught 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.760 up on what it has known and being on the ground, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.879 there's no way that it could have broken out of 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.200 the cocoon to fly to soar. To spread its wings, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.320 spread its beauty, to be everything that it's supposed to be. 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:51.200 So what say you, are you ready to step into 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.480 that life that you deserve? Because I'm going to need 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:57.399 you to hold on to the vision because just like 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:02.879 that butterfly so uncomfortable breaking through, I mean, that is 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.479 a perfect example of how sometimes you have to break 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:09.040 in order to get through. That butterfly had to break 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:14.879 out of that cocoon to soar to the heights that 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:19.280 it's meant the sore. Why do you feel that there 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.159 should be any difference from you or even with you, 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.480 Because that's the reason why you have this frustration, right, 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.479 that's the reason why you can't understand what it is 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:32.200 that you're going through. And that's the reason why perhaps 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.560 you're in discontent. Have you lost focus of your vision? 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:39.640 Did you flap one of them blinders off? Or now 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.679 you're getting focused on somebody else that is not in 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.720 your lane? Did you take out those earplugs and you're 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:50.000 listening to the views and opinions of someone else. And 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:55.199 guess what, Because we're allowing grace, we're allowing space, we 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.000 can pick ourselves up, we can dust ourselves off, and yes, 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.880 we can try again, then try again, and then try 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.720 again after that. Why, because you can't fail if you 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:10.200 don't quit. But I'm gonna need you to have a vision. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:12.600 I'm gonna need you to have that love on yourself 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:18.159 to say I'm here to hold on. Hold on. I 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:24.840 want you to hold on. You are worth it, you 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:31.680 deserve it. Okay, Now I say these words to you 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:38.600 as I speak them over my self, because we're here 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:41.960 for a good time, not a long time. So we 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.720 have to make it count. So let's make it count. 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:52.960 Let's choose to live. Let's not give up, because we're 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:57.720 worth it. You're worth it? Did I say that you're 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:02.560 worth it? But you gotta know and we know that 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.439 there's confidence and knowing, and that's what we call faith. 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:14.440 Believe it or not, it's something about the whole on. 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:19.280 It's something about the whole notion of even if you 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:23.520 can't see it, you gotta believe it. So whatever language 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:25.520 that it can make sense for you. I'm just saying 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:30.600 that there's something inside of you that you want. Continue 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:35.480 to go after it because I guarantee you it's going 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.280 to be hard to go through it and to go 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:43.400 without it. 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