MOULDED THINGS ARE FIRST BROKEN

 Life is not easy at all. There's gonna be challenges. You're gonna get beat down. That's the way life is. So, you sort of put a mask on your face and you go home and lay in your bed where no one's looking at you, and you don't have to impress anybody and you're yourself. And fear comes in. Maybe you don't know for sure what's gonna be happening in the future and it scares you. Just that fear paralyses you, and I just wanna ask you today, do you think you have hope? At some point, everything's gonna go south on you, everything's gonna go south and you're gonna say, this is it. This is how I end. Now you can either accept that or you can get to work. That's all it is. You just begin. You do the math, you solve one problem, then you solve the next one. And it doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, 'cause that's gonna happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up. You have to get up. Whatever experience you're having right now, it has not come to stay, it has come to pass. Sometimes you have to just back up and go within yourself, and pray and meditate, and recharge your batteries.

Go away, clear your head. And then come back and look at it from a different vantage point. Don't operate while you're under the spell or the effect of what's going on. 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. You don't have to force yourself or motivate yourself to think negatively. To be depressed. 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 wanna begin to move into your own personal greatness, 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 gonna let this get me down, I'm not gonna let this destroy me. I'm coming back. You ask a person, what do you want? "Man, I wanna be diamond." Tell me something I don't know, everybody wants it. But the raw reality of it is everybody don't get it. And the crazy thing is, if you want it, you can get it. It's not like somebody is stopping you or holding a gun to your head and telling you you can't get it. It's a matter of will, it's a matter of hard work, it's a matter of sacrifice, it's a matter of dedication, it's a matter of commitment. The difference is not the genetic code, the potential. It's the guy that's willing to get knocked down, find the intestinal fortitude, stand back up, the perseverance to see it through, the never say die attitude. We know the battle ahead, we know the journey ahead is gonna get tough. We know we're gonna face obstacles. We know there's gonna be some discomfort. We know they're gonna try to break us. We know they're coming for us, we know that's gonna happen already, so let's make up in our minds before the battle that we're gonna be victorious. Don't cry to give up, cry to keep going. Don't cry to quit. You're already in pain, you're already hurt, get a reward from it. At the end of pain is success. You're not gonna die because you're feeling a little pain. 

You tell yourself, I won't give up. When that depression hits you, comes out of nowhere, you tell yourself, I won't give up. There's no guarantee that because somebody is now down on their luck, they can never come back. Who can guarantee that you can't make it? That you can't have your dream? Who can guarantee that you can't do what you wanna do? No one can do that. No one can predict that. You don't know what the possibilities are for your life. 'Cause if you're willing to go through all the battling you gotta go through to get to where you wanna get, who's got the right to stop you? It's your right to listen to your gut, it ain't nobody's right to say no after you earn the right to be where you wanna be and do what you wanna do. All we need to do as we look at our dreams, as we get ready to hit the floor, I am blessed and highly favored. I don't care if you sick, I don't care what you're going through, if you're not dead, he ain't through with you yet. As long as you're waking up, you still in the game. As long as you're alive, you can still make it happen. As long as there's breath in your nostrils, boo, you're still in the game, you still can win. Now get your butt up.