1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, I'm so excited to have an opportunity to 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: spend a little time with you today as we talk 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 1: about life, as we talk about going forward, as we 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: talk about the future, as we talk about the next chapter, 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,279 Speaker 1: and what does the next chapter look like for you? 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: What does it look like for the people in your 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: house or in your life, know, in your workplace, And 8 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: how do we navigate the seasons of life? That's what 9 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: we're going to head it as navigating the seasons of life. 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: From the earliest of time, before there was electricity or 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: before there were automobiles, there were hour glasses that gave 12 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 1: us some sense of time, so that we would be 13 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: aware of time. Time is the one thing that we 14 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: cannot change. It comes and it goes, and it doesn't 15 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: ask questions. It doesn't ask us is it all right 16 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: that we go forward? Or that we like one season 17 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: of life better than the other, And we want to 18 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: say there. There are some people I've seen who tried 19 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,679 Speaker 1: to stay at one season of life, but ultimately they 20 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: time took its told and they had to come up 21 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: and admit, you know, I am not who I used 22 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: to be or how I used to be. And then 23 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: at a certain point you get to the point that 24 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: you don't even want to be who you used to be. 25 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: I find then a certain law that really what makes 26 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: it special for us is if we enjoy every season 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,919 Speaker 1: of life, and if we enjoy every season of life, 28 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: we have to be prepared to navigate every season of life. 29 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: Let me back up just a minute and talk to 30 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: you from this perspective, which will help you understand the 31 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: why I think the way I think. I was raised 32 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: by a dying father. My father got kidney failure when 33 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: I was just a little boy in the single digits, 34 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: maybe ten at the most, and died when I was 35 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: sixteen years old. And when you are raised by dying father, 36 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: you become very cognizant of time, the value of it, 37 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: how it's going to be spent, how precious it is, 38 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: and how limited it is. A lot of people don't 39 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 1: have a sense of the limitation of time, so they 40 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 1: waste their time, They let other people waste their time. 41 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: They have a kind of casual, suave affair about time. 42 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: Just whatever, whenever. However, I'm just enjoying myself. Is one 43 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: time as one big party, or for some people it's 44 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: one big depression, or they spend all their time in 45 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: one spot, not navigating out of the other spot. Bad 46 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: thing about it. Bad thing about it is you begin 47 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: to think your good old days are behind you, which 48 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: creates a certain grief. And grief doesn't have to be 49 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,639 Speaker 1: over when a person dies. Grief can be when an 50 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 1: idea dies, when an illusion dies, when an expectation dies, 51 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: the death of how I thought it was going to be, 52 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: and they can enter into a grieving process that goes 53 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 1: on for a long time. It has no caskets, has 54 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: no coffins, has no sad music. It's just the grieving 55 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,959 Speaker 1: part of my soul that life didn't turn out for 56 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: me the way it was supposed to be. Maybe you're 57 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: listening to me today and you feel like that, and 58 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: you've been through them. You lost the best job you 59 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: ever had, lost the best companion you ever had, lost 60 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: the best friend you ever had, and you begin to 61 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: rethink life and go into a state of depression, as 62 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: if you already have foreknown that the future would not 63 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: get any better than the past. And you don't know that, 64 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: you don't know that, you don't know that you cannot 65 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: afford to cast away tomorrow because of yesterday, because tomorrow 66 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: may make everything that you experienced yesterday look irrelevant. It 67 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: may do something to you that opens up a window 68 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: and opens up a door, and your whole life changes. 69 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: I could sit here and name countless people, famous people 70 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: that you would know whose whole life changed from season 71 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: to season. Now, as it makes its changes, you have 72 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: to navigate those changes. One writer said, for everything, there 73 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: is a time, there is a season, and there is 74 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: a purpose. For everything under heaven, there's a time, there's 75 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 1: a season, there's a purpose. You want to be on time. 76 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: You want to be in season, and you want to 77 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 1: be on purpose. Okay, And if you look at everything 78 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: you do and make decisions in the light of time, 79 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: season and purpose, it begins to change the decisions that 80 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: you make, and you become more interested in outcomes than 81 00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: immediate gratification. Immediate gratification is very frustrat ready because you 82 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: want it and you want it now. But some of 83 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: the best things in life take time. They take experience, 84 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: they take seasoning, they take savoring. If you're going to 85 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: cook a great dish, sometimes you have to season it. 86 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: You have to savor it. You may have to let 87 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: it sit in the seasonings overnight. You may have to 88 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 1: brind it. You may have to go through different things. 89 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: Time is something that is very important with purpose and 90 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: with outcomes and with developments, and with you becoming everything 91 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: that you really want to be, that you feel called 92 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: to be, that gives you purpose and meaning and puts 93 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: a smile on your face. It makes you feel good 94 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:48,119 Speaker 1: about yourself. Time does all of that if you navigated well. 95 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: Most people don't think about navigating the seasons of their 96 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 1: life because they're just holding on by their bootstraps surviving 97 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 1: the seasons of their life, never knowing that you have 98 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: the power, the potential and the right to be able 99 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: to navigate the purpose of your life. That you can 100 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: change it. You can move it. You can change it 101 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: by decisions, by choices, by crowds, by who you assemble with, 102 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: who you choose to hang with, who you choose to 103 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: believe in, learning from your mistakes, making adjustments to your navigation, 104 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,279 Speaker 1: and move away from the thing that keeps giving you 105 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: pain and find a place in life and the purpose 106 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: in life and a person in life that brings more gratification. 107 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: But the deepest part of navigating the seasons of your 108 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: life doesn't come just from those crowds. Those people with 109 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: which you are gathered around. A lot of it comes 110 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 1: from inside of you. Your internal view of your external 111 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: situations makes all the difference in the world with how 112 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: you feel about any given time. One woman gets pregnant 113 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: to have a baby, she goes to the first trimester, 114 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: the second trimester, the third trimester, and she may not 115 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 1: be happy about it. She may be miserable about it. 116 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: The other woman may have a baby at the same time, 117 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: go through the same seasons, but have a completely different 118 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: perspective because she's happy about it. She enjoys it. She 119 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: enjoys the ideology that she is copilate with God and 120 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: bringing life into the world. She's excited about the future. 121 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: She wanted the baby, she prayed for, the baby she's 122 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: having the baby. Both of them are in the same season, 123 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: but they are navigating it completely differently based on their 124 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: attitude that they bring into the situation. I want to 125 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: dig into this with you. We're going to have some 126 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: interesting thought today as we begin to see ways in 127 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: which we can navigate our life a little better and 128 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: with more purpose. From the moment we are born in 129 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: the world, we are faced with this element called time, 130 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: and the first thing we do when we get in 131 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: the world is crap. The first sound the baby makes 132 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: is not laughter, it's not joy, it's tears. A man 133 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: that is going off a woman has but a few days, 134 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: and you already seem to sense that there's going to 135 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: be some trouble, and there's going to be some strife, 136 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: and every day is not going to be a happy day. 137 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: And it may be up to you to navigate your 138 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: life in such a way that it becomes more fruitful 139 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: because you are more intentional about your life, rather than 140 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: just living your life without intention. You have made up 141 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: in your mind I am going to be intentional. I 142 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: should warn you if you decide to be intentional, you're 143 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: already going to separate yourself from some people who don't 144 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: believe in being intentional about life. They just take each 145 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: day as it comes. Whatever will be, will be, and 146 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: they just go out there and they survive lives. And 147 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: then there are people who go through life as a victim. 148 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: They feel time is something that was done to them. 149 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: They by time, they were abused by time, they were 150 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: limited by time, they were cursed by time. They feel 151 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: like everything went wrong for them in time, and they're 152 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: just hanging on by their bootstraps, trying to make the 153 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: best of a bad situation. Other people, whether they are paraplegic, 154 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 1: whether they are born with one leg, whether they have 155 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: less time than somebody else, decide that I'm going to 156 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: navigate the time I have with more intentionality, expecting my 157 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: outcomes to be a reflection of my intention. As we 158 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: talk about navigating the seasons of life, our program is 159 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: called next Chapter because you can turn the page on 160 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: the season that you are in, and you can turn 161 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: the page and go into the next chapter, the next 162 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: season of your life, and do it with a new attitude. 163 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: But I have to say this, if you're going to 164 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,719 Speaker 1: go into a new sea of life, you got to 165 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: be careful what you take with you. You've got to 166 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: be careful who you take with you. You've got to 167 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: be careful about where you go into the next season. 168 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: Am I going to be in Chicago? Am I going 169 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: to be in East ambul Am I going to be 170 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: in China? And am I going to be in Hong Kong. 171 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: That might sound ridiculous to you, but those are all 172 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: choices that determine what that next season of life is 173 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: going to look like. Who you share it with, who 174 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: you trust, in who you communicate with has a lot 175 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: to do with how that seven season is navigated in 176 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: your life and helps you to be more productive because 177 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: you've got your hand on the stirring wheel and you're 178 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: navigating the seasons of your life. Ultimately, I believe God 179 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: is in control, and he controls the season of our lives, 180 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: but we still have to navigate what he controls. He 181 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: puts us in an environment that we can make different choices. 182 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 1: We've got more reach, we've got more proximity, we've got 183 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: more opportunity, we've got more education, we've got more affluence. 184 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,839 Speaker 1: We grew up in a certain neighborhood that caused us 185 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: to think a certain way. We had a certain set 186 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: of friends that had some scholastical dexterity that enabled them 187 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: to be able to approach to life with a different 188 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: perspective because they were associated with people who thought differently. 189 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: And hope is contagious, intentionality is contagious. Making property decisions 190 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: are contagious. The truth of the matter is we are 191 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: born looking like our parents. We don't get to pick 192 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: them in some way. We're going to look like our parents, 193 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: but we die looking like our decisions. I want that 194 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: to think in for a moment, we are born looking 195 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: like our parents, but we die looking like our decisions. 196 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: So in between looking like your parents and looking like 197 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: your decisions, you have the opportunity to course correct, to 198 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: navigate your life into another season. And I don't know 199 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: why some of you find it easier to terminate your 200 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: life than it is to navigate your life. When you 201 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: when you terminate your life, you're terminating something that you 202 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: don't even have any idea fully what it is you're terminating. 203 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: You have you haven't really grasped what tomorrow is going 204 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: to look like. You may you may be a person 205 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: that if you would have kept on running, you would 206 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: have run into the best days of your life. Who 207 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: says that the best days of your life were in 208 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: your ten eight years? Who says that? Who says that 209 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: the best days in my life were when I was 210 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: in college. You haven't seen the next day in your life. 211 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: The next day in your life may trump everything that 212 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: you experienced in the past, may cost you to have 213 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: a different outcome. You can be one person that changes 214 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 1: your life and gives you a different outlook on life. 215 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 1: They give you a different outlook on life. They give 216 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: you a different attitude, They give you a different perspective. 217 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: They add to your life. You can take a course 218 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,680 Speaker 1: that adds to your life. You can listen at a 219 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: podcast that adds to your life. Don't be so stoic 220 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: in your ideas that you are determined to just let 221 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,319 Speaker 1: whatever happens happens and you're not going to let anything 222 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:37,400 Speaker 1: influence your life. Because people were put in this world 223 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: to have some level of influence in your life. That's 224 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: why you have to choose carefully. Who are the people 225 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: that you put around you, and what are the things 226 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 1: that navigate the seasons of your life. One I'd like 227 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: to say, and you might want to drop these down 228 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: if you can, you're near a place where you can 229 00:13:55,040 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: drop them down. Your character navigates the season of your life. 230 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: You have to understand that you can't get to good 231 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: places with bad character, and so there has to be 232 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 1: some internal work. We have to get out the toolbox 233 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: and start working on our character so that we can 234 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: have the proper character in order to navigate being put 235 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: in a great place. Warren Buffett often says this, and 236 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: I quoted all the time. You cannot do good business 237 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: with bad people. You can't do a good marriage with 238 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: bad people. The choices of what you put yourself in 239 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: in terms of your character begin to shape out something 240 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:43,239 Speaker 1: that you become victimized by or you become an overcomer 241 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: because of It. Doesn't mean that people who do well 242 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: in life always have better character. That's not always true, 243 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,960 Speaker 1: but they learned how to navigate with what they had 244 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: to have a more expected end. You and I are 245 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: going to go deeper with this as we and to 246 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: evaluate are we at the point in life that we 247 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: need to make character changes. When I was a child, 248 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: I thought as a child, I speak as a child. 249 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 1: But when I became a man, whenever that when is 250 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: when I became a man, I put away childish saying. 251 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: That means that at some point in my life I 252 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: begin to realize that this is taking me nowhere, and 253 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: I've got to make some changes. I can't just sit 254 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: up there and cry because I'm in this situation. I 255 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: have to navigate my life in such a way that 256 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: I can enter into the next chapter of my life 257 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: with the affluence, with the attitude, with the disposition of change. 258 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: Our country needs change, our citizens need change. We need 259 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: to be the people that we've been waiting on. We 260 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: need to have the fortitude and the dexterity and the 261 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: commitment to say, I am going to change these things. 262 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: Open up this window and put a door here, Open 263 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: up this door and put a patio door here. It's 264 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: up to you. It's up to you. It's up to you. 265 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: And once you set in your mind certain goals that 266 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: you're going to have, you can change how your life's 267 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: outcomes become. Let's go deeper with this. You need a 268 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: flexible mentality. People who are setting their ways and brag 269 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: about how stubborn they are are saying that they lack 270 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: the dexterity, the nimbleness of thought, the tranquility of mind 271 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: to be able to make the adjustments to improve the outcome. 272 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: And they keep wondering why they keep having the same outcome. 273 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: It's because you're putting in the same input. If I 274 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: programmed this computer to perform in certain ways, I can't 275 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,280 Speaker 1: be shocked when it comes the outcome is in certain 276 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: ways I programmed it in, and my decisions and how 277 00:16:54,440 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: I legislated the opportunities that were given to me. Focus 278 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: on what's wrong in your life, all of us can. 279 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: We've all got a sad story that we keep somewhere 280 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: in the corner on the shelf if nothing else but 281 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 1: to excuse ourselves from getting back up again. Or you 282 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: can choose to look at what you have left, what 283 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,440 Speaker 1: you can do with the time you have left, How 284 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: you can live your life robustly with energy and purpose 285 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: and goals and be able to do some things that 286 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 1: you've never done before. You can start with little bitty things. 287 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: You can change the way you drive home. You can 288 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 1: change the kind of music you listen to. You can 289 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: change the kind of food that you eat. You can 290 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: make little small changes have big effects on how your 291 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 1: day turns out, how your week turns out, how your 292 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: savings turns out, how your investments turn out. Little bit 293 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: of money put away for a long period of time 294 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: can have a massive change on you, but it will 295 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: not change if you are so stuck and set in 296 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: a certain mentality that you lack the ability to be 297 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: able to change now. I think a big factor in 298 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,639 Speaker 1: that flexibility comes from the people who raised you and 299 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: trained you and contributed to your life, because they begin 300 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: to teach you how to be flexible. We watch them 301 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: without a chalkboard, without knowing we're in class, without taking notes, 302 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 1: observing other people and how they respond to the vicissitudes 303 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: of life has a lot to do with how we 304 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: respond to the challenges that we face from time to time, 305 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,640 Speaker 1: and it's a learned behavior. Some people laugh their way 306 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,920 Speaker 1: through pain. Some people cry their way through pain. Some 307 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: people commit suicide in pain. Some people get high in pain. 308 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: The pain is the pain. How you respond to it 309 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: is completely up to you. You have power here. You 310 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 1: can navigate your mentality in such a way that you 311 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 1: have the freedom, the flexibility, the dexterity to be able 312 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: to change your life. We go through different stages and 313 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: we put different titles on them. We have the new 314 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: birth stage, we have the toddler stage, we have the 315 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 1: children stage when you're starting to go to school. Each 316 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:21,640 Speaker 1: stage is going to require some modification. There's a great 317 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 1: deal of modification. From learning how to walk to learning 318 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: how to ride a tricycle, to learning how to ride 319 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: a motorcycle, to learning how to drive a car, to 320 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: learning how to fly a plane, to learning how to 321 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,240 Speaker 1: be an astronaut. All of them are vehicles of movement, 322 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: but you need different skill sets to be able to 323 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: navigate in those different environments that somebody give you a plane, 324 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: give you a boat or something and put you out 325 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,479 Speaker 1: there on the ocean. The boat, I don't care how 326 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 1: much they paid for it. It doesn't do you any 327 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: good if you can't navigate the nautical miles that go 328 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: along with having the boat. Navigation becomes critical, and in 329 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 1: order to navigate, you may have to read certain books 330 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: you didn't read, take certain classes you haven't taken. But 331 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: you can definitely change your life, and you can do 332 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:17,640 Speaker 1: it while others watch and are inspired and are challenged 333 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,160 Speaker 1: by what you did to change your life. Not every 334 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: person who starts in the hog pen ends up in 335 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,719 Speaker 1: the hog pin. Not every person who stands and starts 336 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: out broke ends up broke. Not every person who starts 337 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 1: out a liar ends up a liar. They did the 338 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: hard work, the diligent work of making the changes in 339 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 1: their character that was necessary for them to be able 340 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: to live their life more abundantly. Second, see going from 341 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: character to community. Your community has an impact on it. 342 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 1: It's not just your parents. Your children are not just 343 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: the outcome of what you put in them. They're being 344 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: fed by their teachers, the school they went to, the 345 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 1: friends who they play with, who they interact with, all 346 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: of them when they say it takes a community to 347 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: raise the child. Let's look at the community. Let's look 348 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 1: at the environment you came up in. Whether you came 349 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: up in an intensely poor background or a drug infested background, 350 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: or a background where people were fighting and shooting all 351 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:24,160 Speaker 1: the time, changes how you respond to anger. We all 352 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: feel anger, but we don't always respond to it the 353 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,160 Speaker 1: same way. So we've got our character to deal with, 354 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: We've got our community to deal with. That's a very 355 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: important part of it. I don't know which one is 356 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: greater than the other. They both need to have a 357 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,440 Speaker 1: residence in your life for you to have the kind 358 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: of outcome that you want to have in your life, 359 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: and you can change that outcome by associating with a 360 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: different group of people moving to the other side of town. 361 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,360 Speaker 1: Moving you don't have to have more money. You can 362 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: be broke anywhere, but you don't have to be broke 363 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: in the face of drug dealers and murderers and killers 364 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: and rapists. You can be broke on a farm. You 365 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: can put yourself in a more peaceful environment. You can 366 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: have less money and still be somewhere else. Whatever it 367 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 1: is that needs to be changed, you can have more 368 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: love and a trailer than the people who have that 369 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: live in a mansion. Start making excuses for making the 370 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: changes that navigate the seasons in your life. A flexible 371 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,239 Speaker 1: mentality then puts you in a place as opposed to 372 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: historical normatives. You're not bound to where you came from. 373 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: Your history doesn't always control your destiny. When I associate 374 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: with people, I start to evaluate what sometimes are in 375 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: front of them all the time when I leave them. 376 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: Are you adding to my life or are you taking away? 377 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: Not just do you make me feel good? Am I 378 00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: growing from my association with you? Or do you diminish me? 379 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: Do I find myself having to shrink who I am 380 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 1: to make you feel comfortable? There are some people that 381 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,399 Speaker 1: literally have to shrink who they are in order to 382 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: make their friends feel comfortable. That's too i of a 383 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: price to pay in order for you to have the 384 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: outcome that you need to have in your life. There's 385 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: a time, there is a season, there is a purpose. 386 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: What is your purpose? Doesn't have to be a great, 387 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: big purpose where you change the world or you create 388 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: some massive machine, or you come up with some type 389 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: of computer or something that you create that gives the 390 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,360 Speaker 1: gift to the world. You can do small things that 391 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 1: have great effects on your life. Once you decide to 392 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: look up from where you are, to change directions from 393 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: where you've been, to change the associations and the proximities 394 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: that have led you into the ditch, you can get 395 00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 1: out of the ditch. I grew up in West Virginia, 396 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: and during the snow season, people would get stuck in 397 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: the ditch. If you don't drive the car into the ditch, 398 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: if you navigate around the ditch, you can continue on 399 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: course by correcting. What's done in the car affects what 400 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: happens outside of the car. Now you and I are 401 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: talking about navigation, That means we got some work to do. 402 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: We got to navigate. We may have to take some training. 403 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: We may have to listen at this tape over and 404 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 1: over again. We may have to take a seat of 405 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: paper and start writing down things that we can do 406 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: to enhance ourselves and develop ourselves. We've got a course 407 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: that we have that we provide to entrepreneurs that helps 408 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: them to develop. It's called good Soil. We've got a 409 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: good Soil app where they can go in there and 410 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: cross pollinate with other people who want what you want. 411 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: It is hard to build a business when you're surrounded 412 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: by somebody who's stealing food stamps. You have to have 413 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,719 Speaker 1: somebody who has similar goals and going in your direction, 414 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 1: whether it's real estate, whether it's accounting, whether it's a business. 415 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: So we set up this thing for entrepreneurs and we 416 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: have a good saw a form that happens once a 417 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 1: year where we all complicate in one place and strengthen 418 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,679 Speaker 1: one another, and we bring in speakers to teach you. 419 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: Because you are what you eat. What you hear with 420 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: your ear comes out in your life, manifesting how you 421 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: respond to children, manifesting how you define marriage. You married somebody, 422 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: if you're married, you married somebody who had a perhaps 423 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: a completely different idea of a happy marriage from what 424 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 1: you call a happy marriage, based on what they saw 425 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,440 Speaker 1: in their past. And ultimately they reduplicate what they saw 426 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,199 Speaker 1: in their past, or they'd go the other way and 427 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: run from what they saw in their past. And just 428 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: because somebody doesn't have the character that your parents had 429 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: and they have a better character about this doesn't mean 430 00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: that they handle money. Well. You've got to see, we 431 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: all have defects. We have areas in our life that 432 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: need work, that need to be improved upon, and don't 433 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: feel like a person hates you when they point out 434 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: some of those defects that are causing you to end 435 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 1: up in the ditch over and over again. And then 436 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: there's a such thing as a casual time. A casual time, 437 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 1: a moment of reflection, a moment of recluse, a moment 438 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,719 Speaker 1: of self evaluation, a moment of see law, breathing, taking 439 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: it easy, refreshing yourself and your mind so that all 440 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: of life is not work. Some of life is rest. 441 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: Rest has purpose to It rejuvenates the body, It heals 442 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: the mind, It puts save on the soul. It refreshes 443 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 1: us with optimism. We have to have these moments that 444 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: we back away from all of these many tasks that 445 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: we are faced with and the friends around us are 446 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 1: faced with, to become the person that we really want 447 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: to be. I hope you're enjoying this. I hope you're 448 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: enjoying what I'm talking to you about, because I believe 449 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: that it has the power to bring about a great 450 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 1: change in your life if you apply what you hear. 451 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 1: I don't care what you hear, what you read, where 452 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 1: you go, what conferences you go to. Whether it's a 453 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 1: good soul or any other soil you go to, you 454 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: cannot get any more out of it than what you 455 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 1: put into it. I hope you're putting the emphasis into 456 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: this so that you can have a better year next 457 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 1: year than this year. This year will be better than 458 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: the year before, not because the time changed, but because 459 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: the person in the time changed in time to enjoy 460 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,359 Speaker 1: a better outcome. In the end, you can write your 461 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 1: own script. You can write your own script. You literally 462 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: have the power to change your outcome by change your decisions. Now, 463 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 1: we've been talking to you about navigating the seasons of 464 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: your life. I don't know what season you're in right now. 465 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on in your life right now, 466 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 1: but I know you can navigate it and come through 467 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: the rain. I have driven through the storm. I have 468 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: driven through hell storms. I have driven through depression, I 469 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: have driven through fatigue through using the devices and the 470 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 1: tools that I just made available to you. And I 471 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,920 Speaker 1: want to challenge you to get busy about having those 472 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: moments of tranquility, of calmness where you refresh yourself, where 473 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: you encourage yourself, where you build yourself up. So that 474 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: when you get up in the morning, you are fresh, 475 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: and you are prepared, and you're ready to do that 476 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 1: thing again. And do it with power, and do it 477 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: with gusto, and do it with all of your mighty, 478 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 1: and do it with all of your strength, and make 479 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: the adjustments that are necessary. And then take the time 480 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: to celebrate small successes instead of looking for somebody to 481 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 1: celebrate you and be frustrated because they, rather than celebrate you, 482 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 1: they compete with you. Celebrate yourself, celebrate your own victories. 483 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: Some of you. I've met so many gifted people who 484 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: do not know how to clap for themselves. I'm TDJS. 485 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: I'm talking to you about how to clap for yourself, 486 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: how to navigate for yourself, how to get the right 487 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,280 Speaker 1: character in the right crowd around you, for all for 488 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: the benefit of the outcome of yourself. And I'm telling 489 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 1: you you only have a certain amount of time. You 490 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 1: can't pontificate about this the rest of your life. Because 491 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: you are running out of time. Shoot or dribble, touch 492 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: down or go to the bench. You got to make 493 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: a move one way or the other to get the 494 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: outcome that you really want to get in your life. 495 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: I want I believe. I dream that you're going to 496 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 1: have a better outcome with better purpose. I believe that 497 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 1: the best is yet to come. The reason I got 498 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: out of the bed this morning is because I had 499 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: a better expectation for today than I had yesterday. Instead 500 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: of dragging out of the bed and say, here goes 501 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: another day, don't you know somebody in the hospital is 502 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: gasping for breath, trying to get a day that you 503 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: are complaining about and wasting, And they wish they could walk. 504 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,200 Speaker 1: Never mind about the Bentley and the portion all of that. 505 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: They wish they could walk. They wish they had two feet, 506 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: They wish they could breathe. Growing up around hospitals and 507 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: around sick people made me appreciate Lafe and have a 508 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: different urgency about solving problems in my life because I 509 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 1: began to understand that life is but a vapor. It's 510 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: here today, it's gone tomorrow. The toddler that you're holding 511 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 1: will end up holding you in a nursing home. You've 512 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: got a short amount of time to turn the page 513 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: to go to your next chapter. But you are the 514 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 1: only one who can do it. Not who you marry, 515 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: not just who you hang around, not just the books 516 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: you read, you literally have the power to navigate the 517 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 1: seasons of your life. I say to you today, as 518 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: I prepare to clothes, it's time for a new season. 519 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: It's time for a new season. It's time for walking 520 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: into rooms you never walked into before and feeling uncomfortable 521 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: and feeling a little out of place. You're going to 522 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 1: feel that way at first, But if you got in 523 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: the room, you belong in the room. And if you 524 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: belong in the room, you've got to find out where 525 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: your gifts talents fit in the next room, the next dimension, 526 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: the next place, the next party, the next season in 527 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 1: your life. And so I'm saying to you today, next chapter, 528 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: turn the page, next best friend, next course, I'm going 529 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 1: to take, next book, I'm going to read, the next life. 530 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to live with the strength that I have 531 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 1: in this season. I may not have the dexterity that 532 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: I had when I was a teenager and the freedom 533 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: to move as robustly as I once did, but I've 534 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: got other things. I've got wisdom, I've got experience. I've 535 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: made some relationships. Relationships are better than finances. I've made 536 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: some relationships that enriched me in other ways. Than what 537 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 1: you can count. I've got the maturity that I didn't 538 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: have at a younger age. Though I had more dexterity, 539 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: I had less maturity. Let's start adding up what you did, get, 540 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: what you did learn, what you did master, And with 541 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: all of your might, and with all of your strength, 542 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 1: and with all of your tenacity, and with all of 543 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 1: your stick to it inness, gather your muscle and your might, 544 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 1: and with all the force that is within you. Turn 545 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 1: the page and walk if you please, run, if you 546 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: can fly, if it's possible, as long as you end 547 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: up in your next chapter and you can write it, 548 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 1: if you can walk it out. I hope you got 549 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 1: something out of the podcast again on TD Jake's and 550 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 1: you are listening at next chapter, and I hope it 551 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: has inspired you to make some changes that needed to 552 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: be changed, eradicate some procrastination that has limited you from change, 553 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 1: and prepared you to move into the next chapter of 554 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:24,719 Speaker 1: your life with enthusiasm and excitement and tenacity. Together we 555 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: are the people that we have been waiting for. No 556 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: more throwing your handkerchief out of the castle and waiting 557 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: for some night to come along and pick it up. 558 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 1: You better run down the steps and pick up your 559 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: own handkerchief and make the next move on your own. 560 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,839 Speaker 1: You have been listening to the words, the wisdoms and 561 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: the insights of just one of the travelers on the planet, 562 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:59,319 Speaker 1: going through time, going through life, trying to build the 563 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: next chapter. What are you going to do with your 564 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: next breath, your next friend, your next acquaintance, your next book, 565 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:20,360 Speaker 1: your next chapter. We can change the whole country with 566 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 1: your next chapter, in little ways, with neighbors and friends. 567 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: With your next chapter, you can be the people that 568 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,960 Speaker 1: you've been waiting on to come into your life. Signing 569 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 1: off now, but it's been a joy to be with you, 570 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 1: to be in your life and in your head and 571 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: in your mind. And I hope you give some serious 572 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:48,560 Speaker 1: thought to the things that we have shared today, because 573 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: in giving thought to them, you are giving purpose and 574 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: meaning to them and to me. Let us hear from you. 575 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 1: Download the entire parts. Stop living off the commercials and 576 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 1: the snippets, and download it. And I heard and Spotify 577 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: wherever you get podcasts. If you want to see it, 578 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: you can go to YouTube. There are all kinds of 579 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,800 Speaker 1: places where you can hear the whole thing. It's the 580 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 1: snippet helped you wonder what the whole role will do. 581 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be looking for you, waiting on you, expecting you. 582 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,880 Speaker 1: You know where i'm gonna be. I'm gonna be in 583 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: your next chapter. Have a great day and navigate the 584 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 1: seasons of your life.