as a young boy I was enthralled by
airplanes and the wonder of whether I
would ever embark on a flight that would
carry me to new exciting adventures and
a life of limitless possibilities I came
to know I had the power within me to
soar and that has made all the
difference in my life flying for the
first time is a lot like creating your
own business launching a start-up or
establishing a non-for-profit
organization both require a leap of
faith and a willingness to take a
journey of unexpected variables in other
words both require a little bit of crazy
and a whole lot of courage don’t let
fear hold you back from doing what you
truly love commit to your visa and be
the CEO of your future you wouldn’t be
in this room if you didn’t have a vision
it wouldn’t be in this room if you
didn’t have me worried about the vision
Lord than the provision I find that the
VIS the provision comes to the vision a
lot of people ask for provision who have
no vision and and money runs from
blindness money runs from blindness yes
yeah money runs from blood it’s money
bishop you might need to unpack that one
okay for some if there if there is no
purpose there is no provision and and
and I’m not talking about physical
blindness I’m talking about blindness so
far his career and future until you
figure out the first thing the bank
wants to know is what do you want to do
anybody who’s gonna invest in you wants
to sit here what do you see what do you
see when jesus healed the blind man in
touch with you the first time he asked
him what do you see because his response
is based on his answer so the man said I
see men walking as trees each I’m gonna
touch you again until I clear up your
if you the first time I would like it it
was amazing
they wanted a seven-year projection of
our company and I thought wow I didn’t
know anything about business I thought
what in the world do they want therefore
I could write down anything what they’re
really asking you is have you thought
through the future they’re asking you
can you see because if you can see we
will fund what you see pro vision but if
there is no vision how can there be
provision so we when we want something
ask God for provision but you need to be
asking for vision because if you get a
clear vision and you’re passionate about
it
people support people not ideas so if
you’re not excited about it why should I
give to it when I sat down to write it
was written solely and exclusively to
people who had aspirations for being
entrepreneurial because I grew up in a
home with entrepreneurship and I’m very
passionate about it and I’ve expressed
it to my children as I began to write it
I thought this is also true for people
who are starting churches the same land
set was applicable because a non true a
person who goes to work goes to work to
perform a task and when the task is over
they go home an entrepreneur doesn’t
have hours so an entrepreneur takes full
responsibility for everything you can’t
be one-dimensional and be an
entrepreneur just because you like to
bake cookies doesn’t mean that you can
just think about baking cookies you got
to think about packaging you got to
think about marketing you got to think
about health inspections you got to
think about stamp development you have
to think about everything the buck stops
with you so you have to be a global
thinker to be an entrepreneur
we are taught we are teaching people to
be specialists in one dimension and it
was very much like pastoring a church
starting a church you started a church
you can’t just worry about one of the
priests is something there are preachers
who who
to work for churches who are so
organized that they are hired to preach
but if you started church
you better be hard to clean bathrooms
you better be hard to drive the bus you
better be hard to balance the books you
have to be hard to do a whole lot of
stuff you know I worked my way out of
doing all this stuff
I started out you know I was a choir
director the head of the Deacon board to
clean up community at the janitorial
service and the marketing director I had
to be everything that’s an
entrepreneurial mindset as I continued
to write the book I realized and I
wasn’t talking about a thing I was
talking about a mentality the mentality
says I take responsibility for where my
life is going so I wrote the book sword
to say to you whether you’re working a
job and need when you work a job I tell
you what I’ll pay you but what I’m
willing to pay you may not be how much
you need to make so you might need
multiple streams of income in order to
get what you are really worth even
though I’ve determined what I’m going to
pay you you cannot allow my evaluation
and assessment of what you are worth to
my company streams to be the substratum
of what you hope to get for your dream
and your purpose you understand so
whether it is subsidizing your income
with multiple streams of income as I’ve
mentioned to you while I’m sitting here
talking to you we’re filming in
Pittsburgh you don’t always have to be
present to be productive okay I talk in
the book about building the team around
you in building I call it the machine
building the machine is imperative for
you to be functional the only reason I
can sit here right now is that I have a
team of staff people who are sending me
tanks up to the very last minute before
I walked out here telling me what’s
going on in all the videos all the time
all the while what’s being shot what’s
being handled all that’s going on you
have to build around you and
infrastructure and this is what the
reason one of the reasons I wrote the
book is I watched my father start a
business with the mop of the bucket the
one lap one bucket borrowed a truck went
to clean up a place and turn it into
a business with 52 employees and 10
truck service in the state of West
Virginia doing a janitorial service and
one of the things that stopped it from
going nationwide in my view is that he
wouldn’t stop mopping you understand
what I’m saying
my father was such a hustler and a good
sense he was a good hustler he was it
was hard to describe what he did because
he did everything to survive in 1960 and
then when he started working he was good
at working took pride in what he did but
in order to really get your hand on
things things you have to stop doing and
start being the John Maxwell says if you
know how to do a thing you will always
have a job but if you know why they’re
doing it they will always work for you
comfort in the cage that we used to be
pioneers that’s how this country was
settled and and we start pioneering new
things we we stay where it’s comfortable
we play where it’s safe we don’t really
get out into the world of the
possibilities we stay in the confined
cage of that that is tangible and
touchable 9:00 to 5:00 and that’s it but
we need more creativity in what we need
to follow our instincts now without that
you may make some money but you won’t
find fulfillment the people who will
became the most successful in our
society are people who broke the rules
you know there was no presidents for
24-hour news cycles until Ted Turner
dated there’s so many people who got out
of the box look at Apple and the birth
of the whole notion of Apple or Nike I
talked about in the book of the birthing
of that corporation how they did
something with the tennis shoe that had
never been done before if you only base
your decisions on empirical data you can
only repeat what somebody else already
did if you follow your instincts and
your own god-given creativity if we can
go for we have not been before you only
live by how do you use the same thing
gave everybody 24 hours the differences
in income is based on what you did with
the time he gave you everybody has the
same day but everybody had to have the
same thing sore is about understanding
why is it that somebody wakes up in the
morning and they come home with ten
thousand when I come home with 150 when
we had the same 24 hours and I’m saying
it is as much a mindset as it is
anything else you have to own your own
happiness take it away from other people
demanding that they make you happy your
kids are not gonna make you happy your
spouse is not gonna make you happy a big
house is not gonna make you happy on
your own happiness to be responsible for
doing those things to bring joy into
your own heart independently of life and
people and money and all of that stuff
it doesn’t necessarily give you a
happiness you have to take
responsibility of that peace and that
joy that lives inside of your art and
not inside of your stuff enjoy the
journey not the destination a lot of us
delay our happiness when I get to this
level when I get my degree when I get
the kids when I get married I’m gonna be
happy enjoy the journey enjoy the whole
step the whole process every day that
you get up to strive for whatever it is
you’re after you know I’m a
goal-oriented guy yeah so you don’t
celebrate when you get to the finish
line celebrate all along the way some of
they all along
something you’d suggest to add to our
daily routine to empower ourselves quiet
quiet
we’re too busy we are so busy that we
don’t notice that we’re not productive
busy does not mean that you you are
producing is we are just spinning our
wheels and and the great thinking and
progress that we’ve made in this country
steam engines telephones automobiles all
types of things of spacecrafts we’re
done by people who had moments to think
we’re moving so fast and at breakneck
speed and if we get a free moment we’re
on Twitter and Facebook and everything
it’s the death of creativity and I would
challenge people to go back to
meditation and and if your spiritual go
back to prayer if you’re not just go
back to just laying still for a moment
to clear your head to hit the reset
button because we are starting every day
with the burdens from yesterday
assaulting us in today let’s put a comma
between all of the irony where is an
actor I think said it that once a week
he doesn’t talk mm-hmm yeah doesn’t talk
all day
it’s his piece yeah yeah just shut it
all down and you’d be surprised what you
can hear when you shut up since we’re
talking about business we’re talking
about money you can’t beat tribal and be
a global thinker at the same time the
reason money is called currency is that
it needs to be able to flow and the
issue is do you have a vision that flows
beyond people who look like you dressed
like you and vote like you and if you’re
gonna do business you can’t do
segregated business and do it well if
you’ve got a product that you believe in
or message that you believe in or a
movie that you believe in or whatever it
is you want to reach the broadest amount
of people and most people think probably
all of their relationships their
contacts their associates are tribal and
you block the ability to succeed when
you bought the ability to communicate
beyond your tribe South Africa on a
safari I was blessed to be on a safari
after I had taught for a group of black
billionaires assem
about faith in finances and they
detained the over and gave me the
privilege of staying out at Jay Paul
Gettys place out there in the middle of
the jungle somewhere and and to go on a
safari with my son it was amazing so
there I am in between a zoologist who is
giving me all of this information about
all the animals their habitats their
mating practices how they live how they
operate and sitting on the edge of the
Jeep with a shotgun
to protect us we weren’t hunting we just
watch it was a Zulu Zulu says nothing at
all
the zoologist explains all the animals
and we visited all the different places
and see a lot of the animals but we’d
had not found the elephant he explained
the elephant but he could not find him
finally there’s a Zulu stood up and he
put his finger in there and he pointed
up he said the elephant is over there
but he said it to me my head exploded
Larry it exploded because all of a
sudden I realized I’m sitting between
intellect and instinct intellect can
describe it but only instinct can find
it and from the premise of that ideology
I begin to go back through all of my
life and begin to see not only me but
others how if they position themselves
between intellect and instinct and no
flame to yield to which one that next
big thing for there’s an elephant an
entrepreneurial pursuit or raising a
family
it is simply over there if you follow
your instincts to go with my gut –
listen at my inner yeah interesting my
instinct I mean it’s really true and
that’s why I had the aha moment out
there because when I look back over my
life I wrote a book a man writing the
book called woman Thou Art Loosed two
women at a time no publisher wanted to
publish it
there was no precedence for it but I
went with my gut and that books of seven
million copies blessed people all over
the world been translated into ten
different languages if I would have gone
by the empirical data I would have never
done it everyone moved from Charleston
West Virginia to Dallas Texas didn’t
even know anybody but I felt like I was
finished in West Virginia instinctively
some Dallas is a place that I needed to
be and I went from pastoring a thousand
people to 33
every major move that ever happened in
my life from doing gospel place and
turned into movies that ended up with
contracts with Sony’s and I’ve never
been trained to do it it was all
instinct and when I presented this this
idea and begin to talk about it and I
started talking to other people like
Tyler Perry or Oprah Winfrey or or
anybody else and I got a chance to
corner long enough to ask a question or
two people think I often well that’s for
those people over there
or when I get when I get myself together
when I get myself together I’m gonna
live on purpose but you say it is
possible wherever you are right now
Facebook anywhere in the world watching
us that even if you’re in the middle of
a disaster right you can use that
disaster for direction
absolutely.i because it is through the
disaster it is through the adversity
that our strength is developed if
everything went the way you wanted it to
go you wouldn’t have anything to
exercise by it’s it’s a gymnasium of
life where you get the workout the
resistance you find out things about
yourself that you didn’t know I’m
stronger than I thought I was I’m
tougher than what I thought I was I’m
more resilient than I thought I was and
that self respect stops you from being
at the mercy of other people to validate
you to make you feel good about who you
are so many times you have a modicum of
talent in an area maybe just enough
talent to appreciate people who are
really called to that area it doesn’t
mean that you need to necessarily go out
and do that thing you must understand
that the purpose is it’s an underlying
chemistry that makes you live your life
it may not be you may not have a strong
time let me give an example cuz I’m a
Samana
let me give you an example I have
talented the musician I can play the
piano not well enough to be maestro but
I have a modicum of talent in that area
but that was not my purpose it but many
many times we start working in an area
that we have talent but it’s not our
purpose I tell my kids this you may
start out doing something that is not
the thing you were created to do it may
only be the thing that leads to the
thing you were
created – do you understand what I’m
saying guys so so you can’t don’t stop
at where you are as if it were the
destination when in fact in reality it
may be the transportation that brings
you into that thing you were created
today please go to something bigger than
yourself I’m wondering if you’ve been
defeated because you have been giving
yourself wholly to something that was
too small to hold you have you thrusts
yourself into a glass of water have you
leapt off the diving board into a cereal
bowl person are you not guilty of
immersing yourself into things that were
too small to hold your vision oh my god
this so good I’m gonna get the CD myself
[Applause]
Jesus sent him to throw himself into
something that was bigger than his
condition and he had to go to get to it
he had to get out of his comfort zone
my problem is so many times you’ve
thrown big ideas as small people
you’ve given big commitment to cereal
bowl people and you’re trying to get
your sight back from a source that’s too
small to support what you’re willing to
put in is your investment bigger than
the bank you should see the way you’re
looking at me is you’re it’s the reason
you keep being disappointed by people is
that you have wholly throwing yourself
Jesus sends him to something that is
bigger than himself
so he can wash his eye are you trying to
take a bath in a bowl since we’re
talking about business we’re talking
about money
you can’t be tribal and be a global
thinker at the same time the reason
money is called currencies that it needs
to be able to flow and the issue is do
you have a vision that flows beyond
people who look like you dressed like
you and vote like you and if you’re
gonna do business you can’t do
segregated business and do it well if
you’ve got a product that you believe in
or message that you believe in or a
movie that you believe in or whatever it
is you want to reach the broadest amount
of people and most people think probably
all of their relationships their
contacts their associates are tribal and
you block the ability to succeed when
you bought the ability to communicate
beyond your tribe your economic future
and control it by a page they’d be the
only way so in those terms people’s
brain started and they started thinking
and they approached finance is different
and so I don’t even want to sell a book
I don’t want to sell out a conference I
want to start a conversation doing
conference and through a book then it
brings forth fruit in your pocketbook
because if I can get it in your hand you
can get it in your pocket yes I want to
try to move again that’s exactly what
I’m talking about I want to start a move
I want to lead the world better than I
found it
I want to let America hear the things
that I heard as a child they cost me to
be entrepreneurial all
it’s something I’m very passionate about
I come from generations of entrepreneurs
and even though I want a job I always
have a hustle too because I don’t
believe that anybody has the right to
say what I’ve worked you can say what
you will pay but you cannot say how much
I make because what you paid me may only
be one stream that feeds my Garden of
Eden in head but you are only limited by
your own creativity if you take back
your girlfriend can you gossip and time
you’ll argue with people who are called
change side you can turn all that in the
capital is you choose to invest in bed
places we all have the same 24 hour day
and so the book is called sold some
Eagles fly from the mountain and some
Eagles diet is about and the difference
is what did you do with your wings you
get to choose whether you struggle or
succeed based on your own creativity and
I can’t remember exactly how to set it
but but it really boils down to this
whole notion that if you don’t have a
strategy you’re gonna have a struggle
that’s really what I’m most up to and
you’re a fit – you’re a woman – six year
old woman fifty sixty seven year old
person you can’t count on your kids to
take care of you if you don’t develop an
item’s greatness from the rooftop why
don’t we let a surprise us in one’s ass
every day is coming and if you don’t
have a strategy that accommodates aging
you’re gonna have a struggle you know
you’re gonna may not have a porch like
your grandmother did to keep her mother
so you can’t count on your kids to take
care of you and won’t be on TV if you
waste your strength without a strategy
get shot because in recent years you
have a struggle you will eat the fruit
of neglect because you failed to plan
but this season in entrepreneurship says
I had a strategy so I won’t have a
stroke you are only limited by how did
you use the same thing God gave
everybody 24 hours the differences in
income is based on what you did with the
time he gave you everybody has the same
day but everybody had to have the same
thing sword is about understanding why
is it that somebody wakes up in the
morning and they come home with ten
thousand and I come home with 150 when
we had the same 24 hours and I’m saying
it is as much a mindset as it is anything else
airplanes and the wonder of whether I
would ever embark on a flight that would
carry me to new exciting adventures and
a life of limitless possibilities I came
to know I had the power within me to
soar and that has made all the
difference in my life flying for the
first time is a lot like creating your
own business launching a start-up or
establishing a non-for-profit
organization both require a leap of
faith and a willingness to take a
journey of unexpected variables in other
words both require a little bit of crazy
and a whole lot of courage don’t let
fear hold you back from doing what you
truly love commit to your visa and be
the CEO of your future you wouldn’t be
in this room if you didn’t have a vision
it wouldn’t be in this room if you
didn’t have me worried about the vision
Lord than the provision I find that the
VIS the provision comes to the vision a
lot of people ask for provision who have
no vision and and money runs from
blindness money runs from blindness yes
yeah money runs from blood it’s money
bishop you might need to unpack that one
okay for some if there if there is no
purpose there is no provision and and
and I’m not talking about physical
blindness I’m talking about blindness so
far his career and future until you
figure out the first thing the bank
wants to know is what do you want to do
anybody who’s gonna invest in you wants
to sit here what do you see what do you
see when jesus healed the blind man in
touch with you the first time he asked
him what do you see because his response
is based on his answer so the man said I
see men walking as trees each I’m gonna
touch you again until I clear up your
if you the first time I would like it it
was amazing
they wanted a seven-year projection of
our company and I thought wow I didn’t
know anything about business I thought
what in the world do they want therefore
I could write down anything what they’re
really asking you is have you thought
through the future they’re asking you
can you see because if you can see we
will fund what you see pro vision but if
there is no vision how can there be
provision so we when we want something
ask God for provision but you need to be
asking for vision because if you get a
clear vision and you’re passionate about
it
people support people not ideas so if
you’re not excited about it why should I
give to it when I sat down to write it
was written solely and exclusively to
people who had aspirations for being
entrepreneurial because I grew up in a
home with entrepreneurship and I’m very
passionate about it and I’ve expressed
it to my children as I began to write it
I thought this is also true for people
who are starting churches the same land
set was applicable because a non true a
person who goes to work goes to work to
perform a task and when the task is over
they go home an entrepreneur doesn’t
have hours so an entrepreneur takes full
responsibility for everything you can’t
be one-dimensional and be an
entrepreneur just because you like to
bake cookies doesn’t mean that you can
just think about baking cookies you got
to think about packaging you got to
think about marketing you got to think
about health inspections you got to
think about stamp development you have
to think about everything the buck stops
with you so you have to be a global
thinker to be an entrepreneur
we are taught we are teaching people to
be specialists in one dimension and it
was very much like pastoring a church
starting a church you started a church
you can’t just worry about one of the
priests is something there are preachers
who who
to work for churches who are so
organized that they are hired to preach
but if you started church
you better be hard to clean bathrooms
you better be hard to drive the bus you
better be hard to balance the books you
have to be hard to do a whole lot of
stuff you know I worked my way out of
doing all this stuff
I started out you know I was a choir
director the head of the Deacon board to
clean up community at the janitorial
service and the marketing director I had
to be everything that’s an
entrepreneurial mindset as I continued
to write the book I realized and I
wasn’t talking about a thing I was
talking about a mentality the mentality
says I take responsibility for where my
life is going so I wrote the book sword
to say to you whether you’re working a
job and need when you work a job I tell
you what I’ll pay you but what I’m
willing to pay you may not be how much
you need to make so you might need
multiple streams of income in order to
get what you are really worth even
though I’ve determined what I’m going to
pay you you cannot allow my evaluation
and assessment of what you are worth to
my company streams to be the substratum
of what you hope to get for your dream
and your purpose you understand so
whether it is subsidizing your income
with multiple streams of income as I’ve
mentioned to you while I’m sitting here
talking to you we’re filming in
Pittsburgh you don’t always have to be
present to be productive okay I talk in
the book about building the team around
you in building I call it the machine
building the machine is imperative for
you to be functional the only reason I
can sit here right now is that I have a
team of staff people who are sending me
tanks up to the very last minute before
I walked out here telling me what’s
going on in all the videos all the time
all the while what’s being shot what’s
being handled all that’s going on you
have to build around you and
infrastructure and this is what the
reason one of the reasons I wrote the
book is I watched my father start a
business with the mop of the bucket the
one lap one bucket borrowed a truck went
to clean up a place and turn it into
a business with 52 employees and 10
truck service in the state of West
Virginia doing a janitorial service and
one of the things that stopped it from
going nationwide in my view is that he
wouldn’t stop mopping you understand
what I’m saying
my father was such a hustler and a good
sense he was a good hustler he was it
was hard to describe what he did because
he did everything to survive in 1960 and
then when he started working he was good
at working took pride in what he did but
in order to really get your hand on
things things you have to stop doing and
start being the John Maxwell says if you
know how to do a thing you will always
have a job but if you know why they’re
doing it they will always work for you
comfort in the cage that we used to be
pioneers that’s how this country was
settled and and we start pioneering new
things we we stay where it’s comfortable
we play where it’s safe we don’t really
get out into the world of the
possibilities we stay in the confined
cage of that that is tangible and
touchable 9:00 to 5:00 and that’s it but
we need more creativity in what we need
to follow our instincts now without that
you may make some money but you won’t
find fulfillment the people who will
became the most successful in our
society are people who broke the rules
you know there was no presidents for
24-hour news cycles until Ted Turner
dated there’s so many people who got out
of the box look at Apple and the birth
of the whole notion of Apple or Nike I
talked about in the book of the birthing
of that corporation how they did
something with the tennis shoe that had
never been done before if you only base
your decisions on empirical data you can
only repeat what somebody else already
did if you follow your instincts and
your own god-given creativity if we can
go for we have not been before you only
live by how do you use the same thing
gave everybody 24 hours the differences
in income is based on what you did with
the time he gave you everybody has the
same day but everybody had to have the
same thing sore is about understanding
why is it that somebody wakes up in the
morning and they come home with ten
thousand when I come home with 150 when
we had the same 24 hours and I’m saying
it is as much a mindset as it is
anything else you have to own your own
happiness take it away from other people
demanding that they make you happy your
kids are not gonna make you happy your
spouse is not gonna make you happy a big
house is not gonna make you happy on
your own happiness to be responsible for
doing those things to bring joy into
your own heart independently of life and
people and money and all of that stuff
it doesn’t necessarily give you a
happiness you have to take
responsibility of that peace and that
joy that lives inside of your art and
not inside of your stuff enjoy the
journey not the destination a lot of us
delay our happiness when I get to this
level when I get my degree when I get
the kids when I get married I’m gonna be
happy enjoy the journey enjoy the whole
step the whole process every day that
you get up to strive for whatever it is
you’re after you know I’m a
goal-oriented guy yeah so you don’t
celebrate when you get to the finish
line celebrate all along the way some of
they all along
something you’d suggest to add to our
daily routine to empower ourselves quiet
quiet
we’re too busy we are so busy that we
don’t notice that we’re not productive
busy does not mean that you you are
producing is we are just spinning our
wheels and and the great thinking and
progress that we’ve made in this country
steam engines telephones automobiles all
types of things of spacecrafts we’re
done by people who had moments to think
we’re moving so fast and at breakneck
speed and if we get a free moment we’re
on Twitter and Facebook and everything
it’s the death of creativity and I would
challenge people to go back to
meditation and and if your spiritual go
back to prayer if you’re not just go
back to just laying still for a moment
to clear your head to hit the reset
button because we are starting every day
with the burdens from yesterday
assaulting us in today let’s put a comma
between all of the irony where is an
actor I think said it that once a week
he doesn’t talk mm-hmm yeah doesn’t talk
all day
it’s his piece yeah yeah just shut it
all down and you’d be surprised what you
can hear when you shut up since we’re
talking about business we’re talking
about money you can’t beat tribal and be
a global thinker at the same time the
reason money is called currency is that
it needs to be able to flow and the
issue is do you have a vision that flows
beyond people who look like you dressed
like you and vote like you and if you’re
gonna do business you can’t do
segregated business and do it well if
you’ve got a product that you believe in
or message that you believe in or a
movie that you believe in or whatever it
is you want to reach the broadest amount
of people and most people think probably
all of their relationships their
contacts their associates are tribal and
you block the ability to succeed when
you bought the ability to communicate
beyond your tribe South Africa on a
safari I was blessed to be on a safari
after I had taught for a group of black
billionaires assem
about faith in finances and they
detained the over and gave me the
privilege of staying out at Jay Paul
Gettys place out there in the middle of
the jungle somewhere and and to go on a
safari with my son it was amazing so
there I am in between a zoologist who is
giving me all of this information about
all the animals their habitats their
mating practices how they live how they
operate and sitting on the edge of the
Jeep with a shotgun
to protect us we weren’t hunting we just
watch it was a Zulu Zulu says nothing at
all
the zoologist explains all the animals
and we visited all the different places
and see a lot of the animals but we’d
had not found the elephant he explained
the elephant but he could not find him
finally there’s a Zulu stood up and he
put his finger in there and he pointed
up he said the elephant is over there
but he said it to me my head exploded
Larry it exploded because all of a
sudden I realized I’m sitting between
intellect and instinct intellect can
describe it but only instinct can find
it and from the premise of that ideology
I begin to go back through all of my
life and begin to see not only me but
others how if they position themselves
between intellect and instinct and no
flame to yield to which one that next
big thing for there’s an elephant an
entrepreneurial pursuit or raising a
family
it is simply over there if you follow
your instincts to go with my gut –
listen at my inner yeah interesting my
instinct I mean it’s really true and
that’s why I had the aha moment out
there because when I look back over my
life I wrote a book a man writing the
book called woman Thou Art Loosed two
women at a time no publisher wanted to
publish it
there was no precedence for it but I
went with my gut and that books of seven
million copies blessed people all over
the world been translated into ten
different languages if I would have gone
by the empirical data I would have never
done it everyone moved from Charleston
West Virginia to Dallas Texas didn’t
even know anybody but I felt like I was
finished in West Virginia instinctively
some Dallas is a place that I needed to
be and I went from pastoring a thousand
people to 33
every major move that ever happened in
my life from doing gospel place and
turned into movies that ended up with
contracts with Sony’s and I’ve never
been trained to do it it was all
instinct and when I presented this this
idea and begin to talk about it and I
started talking to other people like
Tyler Perry or Oprah Winfrey or or
anybody else and I got a chance to
corner long enough to ask a question or
two people think I often well that’s for
those people over there
or when I get when I get myself together
when I get myself together I’m gonna
live on purpose but you say it is
possible wherever you are right now
Facebook anywhere in the world watching
us that even if you’re in the middle of
a disaster right you can use that
disaster for direction
absolutely.i because it is through the
disaster it is through the adversity
that our strength is developed if
everything went the way you wanted it to
go you wouldn’t have anything to
exercise by it’s it’s a gymnasium of
life where you get the workout the
resistance you find out things about
yourself that you didn’t know I’m
stronger than I thought I was I’m
tougher than what I thought I was I’m
more resilient than I thought I was and
that self respect stops you from being
at the mercy of other people to validate
you to make you feel good about who you
are so many times you have a modicum of
talent in an area maybe just enough
talent to appreciate people who are
really called to that area it doesn’t
mean that you need to necessarily go out
and do that thing you must understand
that the purpose is it’s an underlying
chemistry that makes you live your life
it may not be you may not have a strong
time let me give an example cuz I’m a
Samana
let me give you an example I have
talented the musician I can play the
piano not well enough to be maestro but
I have a modicum of talent in that area
but that was not my purpose it but many
many times we start working in an area
that we have talent but it’s not our
purpose I tell my kids this you may
start out doing something that is not
the thing you were created to do it may
only be the thing that leads to the
thing you were
created – do you understand what I’m
saying guys so so you can’t don’t stop
at where you are as if it were the
destination when in fact in reality it
may be the transportation that brings
you into that thing you were created
today please go to something bigger than
yourself I’m wondering if you’ve been
defeated because you have been giving
yourself wholly to something that was
too small to hold you have you thrusts
yourself into a glass of water have you
leapt off the diving board into a cereal
bowl person are you not guilty of
immersing yourself into things that were
too small to hold your vision oh my god
this so good I’m gonna get the CD myself
[Applause]
Jesus sent him to throw himself into
something that was bigger than his
condition and he had to go to get to it
he had to get out of his comfort zone
my problem is so many times you’ve
thrown big ideas as small people
you’ve given big commitment to cereal
bowl people and you’re trying to get
your sight back from a source that’s too
small to support what you’re willing to
put in is your investment bigger than
the bank you should see the way you’re
looking at me is you’re it’s the reason
you keep being disappointed by people is
that you have wholly throwing yourself
Jesus sends him to something that is
bigger than himself
so he can wash his eye are you trying to
take a bath in a bowl since we’re
talking about business we’re talking
about money
you can’t be tribal and be a global
thinker at the same time the reason
money is called currencies that it needs
to be able to flow and the issue is do
you have a vision that flows beyond
people who look like you dressed like
you and vote like you and if you’re
gonna do business you can’t do
segregated business and do it well if
you’ve got a product that you believe in
or message that you believe in or a
movie that you believe in or whatever it
is you want to reach the broadest amount
of people and most people think probably
all of their relationships their
contacts their associates are tribal and
you block the ability to succeed when
you bought the ability to communicate
beyond your tribe your economic future
and control it by a page they’d be the
only way so in those terms people’s
brain started and they started thinking
and they approached finance is different
and so I don’t even want to sell a book
I don’t want to sell out a conference I
want to start a conversation doing
conference and through a book then it
brings forth fruit in your pocketbook
because if I can get it in your hand you
can get it in your pocket yes I want to
try to move again that’s exactly what
I’m talking about I want to start a move
I want to lead the world better than I
found it
I want to let America hear the things
that I heard as a child they cost me to
be entrepreneurial all
it’s something I’m very passionate about
I come from generations of entrepreneurs
and even though I want a job I always
have a hustle too because I don’t
believe that anybody has the right to
say what I’ve worked you can say what
you will pay but you cannot say how much
I make because what you paid me may only
be one stream that feeds my Garden of
Eden in head but you are only limited by
your own creativity if you take back
your girlfriend can you gossip and time
you’ll argue with people who are called
change side you can turn all that in the
capital is you choose to invest in bed
places we all have the same 24 hour day
and so the book is called sold some
Eagles fly from the mountain and some
Eagles diet is about and the difference
is what did you do with your wings you
get to choose whether you struggle or
succeed based on your own creativity and
I can’t remember exactly how to set it
but but it really boils down to this
whole notion that if you don’t have a
strategy you’re gonna have a struggle
that’s really what I’m most up to and
you’re a fit – you’re a woman – six year
old woman fifty sixty seven year old
person you can’t count on your kids to
take care of you if you don’t develop an
item’s greatness from the rooftop why
don’t we let a surprise us in one’s ass
every day is coming and if you don’t
have a strategy that accommodates aging
you’re gonna have a struggle you know
you’re gonna may not have a porch like
your grandmother did to keep her mother
so you can’t count on your kids to take
care of you and won’t be on TV if you
waste your strength without a strategy
get shot because in recent years you
have a struggle you will eat the fruit
of neglect because you failed to plan
but this season in entrepreneurship says
I had a strategy so I won’t have a
stroke you are only limited by how did
you use the same thing God gave
everybody 24 hours the differences in
income is based on what you did with the
time he gave you everybody has the same
day but everybody had to have the same
thing sword is about understanding why
is it that somebody wakes up in the
morning and they come home with ten
thousand and I come home with 150 when
we had the same 24 hours and I’m saying
it is as much a mindset as it is anything else
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