WATCH THIS EVERY DAY - Motivational Speech By T.D. Jakes [YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS]

[Music] being multi-dimensional is a good thing so when you start thinking about streams of income think of multiple streams of income i wanted to preach i'm called to preach i you know me from preaching you know me from ministering the gospel and i love what i do but i had dreams for my children that were bigger than what i do i did not want my children to have to fake being me in order to be successful i wanted to create an entrepreneurial environment for them and so i started investing in real estate and i started

building communities and i'm getting ready to build more communities in america and i'm looking for other places in the world where we can build these communities these smart communities that are conducive to the future you do not build your business on where you are or where you've been you build your business on where you're going so then if you are building for the future then you have to reimagine your strategy i'm going to give you a couple of big words big big words like strategy this is how you're going to do it you're going to

do it through a strategy i got here through that strategy what is a strategy a synchronized step-by-step plan from point a to point b your strategy is important you've got to fix your strategy if you've been doing what you've been doing for five years and it's not working it doesn't mean you need to give up your idea you might need to give up your strategy your strategy of accomplishment has to change with the times you may not have hit your customer yet but that doesn't mean your customer is not out there you've got to find

somebody and let me tell you who wants what you got the person who wants what you have is a person who sees what you have as an answer to their problem people will go get answers they are not looking for problems what do you solve with what you bring and you don't have to have a degree to do this it could be as simple as my father's mop in a bucket my father ended up with 52 employees in the 60s because he built a business that solved the problem not all of us will be doctors

not all of us will be chemists not all of us will be lawyers not all of us will will build uh we'll be astronauts but the astronaut still needs the plumber the doctor still needs an electrician whatever your business is it must be an answer to somebody's problem it must solve that problem and fix that problem and when you do whatever you do and you find yourself maxing out at what you do what you do is not who you are what you do is not who you are what you do is not who you are

people say td jakes is a preacher first of all he wasn't always second of all t.d jakes is a man he is a man called to preach see when people give you titles they imprison you if i bought into that i wouldn't have done almost 500 billion dollars worth of films at the box office because i would have said i'm a preacher i can't do that don't let anybody lock you up with a title in a prison that is beneath your level of gifting you are whatever is in you you are whatever is inside of

you you are whatever you think about at night you are whatever you dream you are whatever is in your head i want to break somebody out of jail right now you are more than what people call you am i in the right place you are more than the job title that you have you are more than the company you work for you are more than anything you have experienced up to this point you are everything that gives you energy when you think about it find out what are the things that make you leap out of

the bed in the morning what are the things that give you energy when you think about them your purpose is in your passion your purpose is in your passion don't sit there and say i don't know why i'm here you do know why you're here find the thing that gives you energy when you do it that ideas start teaming over in your head when you get in it find the thing that when you get into it you're curious about it you're attracted to it you're drawn to it because whatever the anointing you respect is the

anointing you receive oh can i talk to you somebody the anointing you respect is the anointing you receive so the person that you idolize you probably idolize them because they're doing something that is in you other people ignore them and you would walk them out and hear them or see them or hear them sing or watch them bill or hear them orate or whatever it is that they do it's because it's in you when i was eight years old i was sitting in the back of the car with my mother and my mother was a

speaker and she went out and did public speaking and i was sitting in the back of the car at eight years old i said right now i'm going to hear you speak and they call me miss jake's son but the time will come you'll come to hear me speak and they'll call you tom jake's mother instincts are inside of you and they are never one dimensional you are more than your job so if your job goes down it doesn't mean you have to go down while you're working for a company never stop branding yourself one

of the problems that i find prevalent with millennials who by the way i love mentoring you above anybody you are the best investment because you have the longest shelf life you will outlast me and you assure the fact that my work continues i cannot have success without a successor so i'm committed to you winning let me say that first of all i am committed to you winning the problem is your strength is your weakness you were raised with technology in a which is a great strength but it's also a great weakness because when you are

raised with something that responds in predictable ways by touch when you are placed in unpredictable situations you don't do well because you expect people to respond like computers they do not people respond in unpredictable ways and let me tell you something that you're going to have to become more proficient in relationships and relationships are not text they're not tweets they're communication we are designed that we read more than language i don't have to i don't have to like a minute ago you you were doing what you were doing i didn't know what it meant but

i felt what it meant so communication is more than speech it's our language it's body language it's voice inflection all of those are tools because when you get ready to do business people don't just do business with ideas people do business with people they do business with people and you have to understand in building that process it is not like building a face page there's work to it and one of the mistakes we made and when i say we i mean my generation i mean anybody that you admire it may not be me it may

be diddy it may be it may be diddy it may be over it may be tyler perry maybe somebody you saw maybe beyonce you see us after we arrived you didn't see us when we struggled so when you decide i'm gonna be like him you're coming in at the end of the movie you you missed the days i couldn't feed my kids you missed the day that i went out in the field and gathered apples to feed my kids or used paper towels for diapers because i couldn't buy diapers you came in later when you

saw me on tv and you want to leap over all of those no's to get to a yes but it is the 400 knows that lady was talking about before the yes that makes you who you are and when you get a no you give up and say this must not be it that's not true that woman got 399 no's before she got one yes you have to be you have to have the resolve inside of yourself to resist the temptation to believe the detractors and to continue to believe the voice within and why is

that important it is the strength you gain from your failures that make you strong enough to stand up to your success if i wanted to really destroy you right now real fast real quick i would give you my life right now and all that goes with it and all the 300 and so employees of my little company i would give it all to you right now right now to flash and say there it's yours take it you know why that would be criminal i didn't give you the struggle and the strife and the experience and

the pain that created it you wouldn't be able to handle it you wouldn't be able to stand it it would be it would be murderous to win too soon let me go biblical on you the reason the prodigal son ended up in the hog pin is is not that he didn't get what was his it was that he got what was his too soon and there is something to be respected about process the process the little steps that make them out it is not the destination it is the things you learn along the way it

is the people who beguiled you and tricked you that make you wiser wisdom is made out of the stupid things you did before you got it don't miss it that process is invaluable to you getting there does that mean that you have to be my age before you get there absolutely not but it does mean that you don't go from thinking a thought to producing an idea without pain no more than a woman goes from having sex to getting up in the morning with a baby in her arms the gestation period is critical gestation creates

formation they teach ceos to always be interviewing and when i learned that every time i have lunch or eat with somebody or meet somebody at the bus stop or ride in a car with somebody i'm always asking questions they don't know but i'm secretly interviewing them seeing if they have a skill that i can use in our company or on our team or they have some ability that would accentuate me because i always want to surround myself with people who are good at what i am not good at i guarantee you if i look into

your phone your phone is filled with names of people who do what you do you gotta break out of the box of only hanging out with people who do what you do because if you only surround yourself with people who do what you do inevitably they will compete with you but if you surround yourself with people who are good at what you're not good at they will complete you go from surrounding yourself with people who compete with you to surrounding yourself with people who complete you so the lawyer needs to hang out with the doctor

and the doctor needs to hang out with the dentist and the ceo needs to hang out with the preacher because i always get excited when i have a friend that doesn't do what i do when i have a friend who does what i do i have to put up with these little slide remarks you know little funny little halfway compliments where they're a little bit of a hater but they're not really a hater but they're sort of a hater does anybody know what i'm talking about where they give you these little halfway compliments that you

don't know how to take and you sort of give them a half grin and you walk away wondering what did they mean by that put those people at the back of the list and find somebody who does what you don't do because they will complete you they will fulfill you they will strengthen you and they will make you more rounded and they will give you different perspectives if you have the courage to admit what you're not good at you will find out who to pick to surround yourself with i want to hire my weaknesses not

my strengths because when you hire your strengths they're just waiting on you to get sick so they can take your job hire your weaknesses surround yourself with people who complete your vision and then build your team [Music] [Music] [Music] you