there are um so many people that are not aware of how much better and how much more present and how much more joy they could experience in their life see when you are not filling your life with the things that you are capable of doing see we all have some stuff that we've been given and I don't think that it's optional for us to sit on what we have see if you're sitting on what you have what you've been given and I think everybody's been given something to bring to the planet that only you can
do that only you can perform that only you can initiate that activity and if you don't do that if you're not filling in your life with your life work or your mission then there are gaps in your life and what we do when we're not living out our true identity we begin to fill the gaps we fill the holes with garbage success is getting what you want fulfillment is living What You're Made for This is dreams we're talking about we're talking about dreams can you train your brain to appreciate cuz in the middle of whatever
you're pissed off about or frustrated or fearful about or worried about you're deleting all the things you could be grateful for you could appreciate that are absolutely real be your own motivator and you build yourself up and that's the problem with the mind you know I want your listeners or viewers to really think about this you do not experience life you experience the life you focus on that's it and understand that even your emotions can play tricks on you so take advantage of your life take control of it reason takes time understanding it being able
to deal with the dos and the don'ts the ups and the Downs there's a reason for and sometimes we may not like it but when that purpose starts to knock on your door that's it that means you have made it whatever the situation may be that purpose has been fulfilled it is already here it was already meant to be it's it's it happened it's there so do the best you can leading to your purpose because one thing for sure we are never going to we none of us are going to be here for long sooner
or later you got to leave this planet but make the best of the life that you have on this day and the day after so if tomorrow comes for you tomorrow comes from me let's get out there and make the best of it because tomorrow is another day and if you a part of that day that means you got work to do success doesn't owe you you owe success success doesn't work for you you work for success and that work takes time everything that we do in this life takes time it's a process but are
you prepared for the test are you prepared to fight are you prepared to live are you prepared to push through it even when you feel that you can't we need faith and we need power and we need gratitude and we need to be humble but we must always stay hungry and keep going one of your superpowers is a madeup mind one that is fully persuaded to get it done every single day no matter the task see each day we are presented with a series of conflicts between the right way and the easy way you can't
have the throne until you are willing to remove yourself from the seat of convenience for some of you what I want you to do is throw something on a wall every time I see you I say the same thing because I think we over complicate it it's the power of the choice it's the power of using the people around you and not being afraid of failing but being afraid of not trying and maybe your dream's big good go after it and maybe you don't make it because it was way out there but you pursued it
and maybe there was something that happened that you you didn't quite get there but I promise you this if you shoot for a star and you're all in with your effort and your heart and your attitude and your energy and your commitment you may not land on that star but I can guarantee you you'll land on the moon and the truth is you're still in space don't allow your emotions to control you we are emotional but you want to begin to discipline your emotion if you don't discipline and contain your emotions they will use you
if you going to get to the next level you going to have to give up something right you going to have to give up something and I'm just going to keep it real with y'all when I say give up when I talk about sacrifice I'm saying give up your current blessings like this going to be hard give up the current blessings are you hearing what I'm telling you I had to make a sacrifice can you hear me I said get back up because this life is not done with you your dream is not done with
you doubt is not bigger than your purpose fear is not bigger than your purpose insecurity is not bigger than your purpose your purpose is everything take full responsibility for your life accept where you are and the responsibility that you're going to take yourself where you want to go someone said we have two primary choices in life we can either accept conditions as they exist or we can take the responsibility to change them this world needs you to achieve everything you got on the inside of you this world needs you to be you but in order
for you to be you we got to have you to rise up I'm here to rise I came here to conquer takes guts you got to dig down deep to gut it out keep on going again and again and again until you make it happen because you know that it's possible now what do you do during the hard times Les here's what you must do number one is you must have faith Paul said you must have the faith to call forth those things that be not as though they were judge not according to appearances don't
judge your circumstances and the possibilities for your future based upon what you have now and because of what's going on now no no no no that's not the real reality there what you're going through if you're going through some hard times it has not come to stay it has come to pass it's all right now second thing is repeat this after me something you should affirm to yourself every day repeat this please no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets I'm going to make it say that to yourself every day that's I
used to say to myself I when I would get up in the pavot building and I had to go into the bathroom and and bathe in the bathroom sink I had written on the mirror that I put up there just paste up in I read no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets I'm going to make it so you got to have faith you talk to yourself you say that affirmation the next step is you must have patience and engage in consistent action patience and engage in consistent action see everything does not
always happen ladies and gentlemen when we want it to happen it doesn't happen quickly so in that process they have something in the Far East called the Chinese bamboo tree the Chinese bamboo tree every day it has to be watered and fertilized it's a very hard nut and it takes 5 years of of watering and fertilization every day according to American Geographics before it breaks through the ground at any time if the watering process and the nurturing in the fertilization process is stopped the Chinese bamboo tree will die in the ground now once it breaks
through in that fifth year then in 6 weeks it grows 90 ft tall now the question is does it grow 90 ft in 5 years or 6 weeks the answer is obvious it takes 5 years that's how long it took to gr it to build that Foundation to Nur it to water it to build the reputation to build the credibility to learn the market to learn people to learn yourself to learn how to do it to figure it out that's why you must have patience and engage in consistent action we live in a world ladies
and gentlemen where people want instant gratification they want it right now but they're not willing to pay the price to do what it takes they think it was easy no no it's simple but it's not easy it's a system that if you work the system it works if you work it but make no mistake about it's hard you are the determining Factor here's something else it's possible you can live your dream no matter how bad it is no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets or how bad it I'm going to make
it I'm going to make I'm going to make it it's necessary that you have goals that you write them down that you surround yourself with a support team that you are creative it's you that you must take personal responsibility to make it happen the people that make it in this world look around for the circumstances that they want and if they can't find them they create them it's hard no easy is not an option however ladies and gentlemen what you will discover is that it's worth it it's worth it I suggest to you if you
want to become Diamond write down five reasons of why it is worth it for you to become a diamond to experience that level of achievement what is it that will give you the drive what is it that will ignite the courage in you to get up and come back again and again and again how is it that you would be able what reasons that can tap in to that deep down feeling that goes to you for God that no matter how many times you get knocked down that you're coming back what is it write it
down when I started and left Miami pursuing my dream because I knew that as long as you work for someone else they are controlling your destiny I don't want anybody signing my paycheck but me I knew that it was going to be difficult I knew it was going to be hard but every time I I thought about giving up and there were times I did because where I am ladies and gentlemen it's a long shot you think being a diamond is a long shot this is a miracle this is a long shot and I had
people laughing at me Les you're talking about being a motivational speaker you failed twice in school they put you back from the fifth grade into the fourth grade and you fail in the eighth grade you've never worked for a mjor corporation and you are going to become independently wealthy right they laugh they're going to laugh at you people are going to laugh at you but let me tell you I I believe in Revenge like prin or not he said the best revenge is massive success it's a long shot being here with you today in this
Dome in Atlanta it's a long shot but I kept running toward my dream don't [Music] stop don't [Music] stop don't stop running towards your dream you can live your dream as you hold on to that dream there are moments when you're going to doubt yourself their rough times are going to come but they have not come to stay they have come to pass it's not going to be easy as you go toward the future begin to know that you have greatness within you begin to Envision yourselves to reach your goals if you want a thing
bad enough go out and fight for it work day and night for it give up your time your peace and your sleep for it what if we have that kind of attitude the cars repossessed nobody believes in you you've lost again and again and again the lights are cut off but you're still looking at your dream reviewing it every day and say to yourself it's not over until I win I want you to know that you're beautiful I want you to know that you're beautifully made I want you to know that you're worthy understand that
yeah you're worthy and you're deserving of the good things the final things in life and that's not just on the financial aspect I'm talking about you know great healthy connections and all of that you know what I'm saying I'm talking about peace I'm talking about sanity all that good stuff you know what I mean and I want you to know that if you still right here then baby you still got some purpose hello somebody you still got some purpose a lot of times we walk around and we feel like we're worthless we walk around and
we feel like we don't have anything to offer we walk around and we feel like you know what I'm saying the whole entire world is against us hello yeah let's just be real about it mm some of us we toyed with it all night long some of us we struggle with it and that's one of the things that you know we battle with the most is the fact that we feel like you know we're not this or we're not that I want you to know that you got perfect as long as you got breath in
your body as long as you got clothe with with your right mind you have some purpose stop letting the enemy trick you into thinking that you're not supposed to be here stop allowing the enemy to trick you into thinking that you don't have anything to offer or that the world will be a better place without you stop allowing the enemy to come in and trick you up out of your position up out of your spot I want you to understand that if you're still right here sweetheart whether they like it or not you're supposed to
be here whether they on board with you you or not you're supposed to be here one of the things that I want you to jot down real quick is I want you the one I want you to write down baby I still got some purpose in me hello somebody I want that's a note for you I want you to understand that you still got some purpose in you baby hello somebody I need you to write that in your red pen real quick I got some purpose in me might not look like what you want me
to look like understand that I might not look like greatness right now that's right I might not look like it right now I might look like I'm struggling right now are you in a place in your life where you can honestly say that you're living up to your fullest potential are you waking up every single morning and giving you the best that you got I'm not talking about what you're doing for other folk you got to get to that place in your life where you become selfish with yourself you got to get to that place
in your life where you understand that you deserve more you deserve better you got to get to that place in your life where you're willing to go to war you want all the smoke about you baby I want you to understand that when it comes down to me and the person that I am when it comes down to me being able to live up to my fullest potential when it comes down to me being able to live the life that I deserve to live then baby I want you to understand something about this here baby
I'm willing to give it all that I got I'm willing to do it all by myself I'm willing to do it with one leg and a kickstand I'm willing to do it with what sweat in my eyes I'm willing to do it with tears falling down my face I'm willing to do it if I got a crawl on my belly by any means necessary I am going to do what I got to do in order for me to make sure that I am setting myself up for success don't be so loyal to other folk that
you're disloyal to yourself every morning when I wake I see that sun rise up and I want you to be just like the Sun every morning I want you to rise up follow through and finish if the day is going to be good I got to heal from the mistakes that were made yesterday and I've got to believe that I don't have to make the same mistakes it's time to heal today I heal today I heal from every mistake that is made today I heal from everything that I said that I could have said better
and everything that was said to me that I wish was never said I heal today from the people that that pushed me verbally but did not support me physically that were never present today I heal I heal I heal I healed from what I did not have after we heal we have to acknowledge coupled with that healing is what went wrong you don't have to force yourself or motivate yourself to think negatively to be depressed to hate somebody to want revenge to want to get back at somebody to beat yourself up over the head to
feel loaded with guilt you don't have to make any effort to do that your mind is on automatic it will do that by itself but if you want to begin to move into your own personal greatness if you want to begin to really enjoy a happy successful healthy life you've got to be willing to go against the tide you've got to be willing to harness your will and say in spite of this I'm in control here I'm not going to let this get me down I'm not going to let this destroy me I'm coming back
get back up you got to fight for the baby that lays in your soul that burns your chest because if you don't feel it's fire and it's not a [Music] dream you feel like you'll do 120% you'll give everything you have and it still won't be enough I feel you I was there a part of the Milestone is what if I give everything and it ain't enough what if I put my whole heart my whole mind my whole soul into a DT and it's not enough what if I do it and I fail you got
to face your fear and you got to do it anyway if you don't get up when the count is at nine you don't want it enough we end well so we can begin well every single one of you hear a one of [Music] one some of you you got to begin to throw that thing against the [Music] wall and some of you just got to begin to believe even when it's painful even when we're ostracized even when we're excommunicated and ghosted it may hurt but that pain will subside and I got to believe it so
I got to stay focused focus goes where energy flows every morning when I wake I see that sun rise up and I want you to be just like the Sun every morning I want you to rise up follow through and finish when you want to change it's not easy if it were in fact easy everybody would do it but if you're serious you go all out I will be immune to the pain that is attached to my purpose I will not be stagnant I will not stay stuck in the mud that you left me in
I will evolve I will rise it's going to be days when it seems like it will never happen the Dream Will Never manifest the money will never come the cause will never come but you got to fight for something more the materity look I finished my coursework it took me 2 years why cuz it took me 2 years to get over the fear it took me two years to get over the anxiety it took me two years to finally say Goliath here I come goath you might be taller than me you might be bigger than
me you might be stronger than me but I'm coming and I'd rather die die try I'd rather die going after this dissertation I'd rather give everything I got I'd rather give a year I rather put in work and fail and not try it all I see all things working for good I see you stepping into everything that God has called you to do I see you stepping into purpose and stepping into the plans that God already has laid out for you this is your day get up conquer your [Music] day get up get up get
up you've got a day to conquer I left I was like I got to be in control of my life and I wasn't mad at nobody I'm not mad at nobody now it's just I feel like I got to be in control if I if if something go wrong I want to go wrong on my dime not yours I don't want to play by your rules I want to play by my rules take control go for it please you have to hear this when I say I need you to be intentional and deliberate hear me
I want to paint the picture you have one team that that that has the ability to score they have the ability to do well they have the ability to score on the opponent what their challenge is is that they can't do it they can't and sustain it you have one team that's good in spurts you have another team that's dominant the teams that are dominant dominant because they can do it from beginning to end right listen to me and they can do it team after team after team right they can do it over and over
and over it is is they dominate because what they they put pressure on you from the time you start to the very end like oh even when they're up they continue to dominate and your problem is you're not intentional and deliberate you wake up on Monday and you might be strong but by Wednesday are you hearing what I'm telling you you're not intentional and deliberate you are hoping you are hoping that the best is going to happen to you and the best never happens to you like and this is critical what don't you have because
all these things are going to stop you from getting to that next level what don't you have in terms of getting to that next level what don't you currently have because what you don't have you need to start doing your homework so you can what so you can go get that you owe yourself I didn't get here making excuses it's your life only one person can stop you from making that become a reality and that's [Music] you and a lot of Y'all Scared just walk into it stop running from it because your life ain't sweet
ain't like your life sweet from running what's my North Star what why am I here what's my purpose like leave your mark That's why I'm so happy I ain't happy because of no house I ain't happy because no cars I know my purpose but with this right here and your skill set this thing can take you wherever you want to go and then take your kids wherever you want them to go and you complaining cuz coach want you to work and practice so you can get what you said you want it he you mad at
coach cuz he ain't going to let you take no shortcuts cuz ain't no shortcuts on the next level y'all think y'all think you you think this hard wait till you get to the pros most people were closer they ever thought they were to finishing that big thing but they never finished it because they didn't feel like finishing it or they were doing it and it was pain and most people quit in the pain because the pain hurts so bad that they don't know if they want to keep going to get to go but you got
to take take your focus off of what's not happening and put your focus on what can happen so if you're focusing on the negative that's what you going to get that's what you're going to see no more blaming no more I don't want to hear it no more I don't want to hear this teacher did me wrong this professor did me wrong my mentor didn't my mama didn't my daddy didn't stop to blame me if it's your life I need you to take complete ownership of it it's your life I don't want to hear no
more excuses you blame that's what you do you make excuses for why you broke you make excuses for why you stuck and it is easier to make it somebody else's fault than the man up and look in the mirror and say it was your fault it's easy to put it on somebody else why cuz then you ain't got to do nothing there is no excuse for not living up your fullest potential no excuse [Music]