good morning believe nation it’s Evan my
one word is believe and I believe that
you have something special that when you
unleash it it will be able to change the
world so to help you on your journey
today’s message is run after your
destiny over to you Bishop TD jakes
[Music]
life demands that you pick up the pace
if you don’t pick up the pace
you’re gonna be left behind I’m amazed
that the people that lack the
flexibility to pick up the pace they
just get in a read I scroll down here
and I’m gonna scroll back I’m gonna
stroll over here I’m gonna stroll over
there
one of the most amazing thing about the
disaster and Malaysia is that when it
happened everybody had to pick up the
pace all the news media had to pick up
the pace
they were booking night flights and
flying over here and flying over there
somebody had to work overtime won’t be
home for three days typing in the middle
of night research going or because when
something happens everybody gotta pick
up the pace that’s why I can’t deal with
people who cannot pick up the pace
don’t be strolling when I got a 9-1-1 on
you i need people who can pick up the
pace slap your neighbors said pick up
the bass something’s about to happen
pick up the pace something’s about to
happen pick up the pace something is
about to happen
pick up the pace something is about to
happen pick up the pace something is
about to happen pick up the pace
something’s about to have it I came to
tell the young people pick up the pace
pick up the pace pick up the place
the danger of low expectations
I would rather aim for the stars and not
hit them then to not aim at all I would
rather go after it and not get it did
not go after it at all I’d rather try
and fail did not try at all I don’t want
to live with the idea wonder what would
have happened had I done more with my
life I’m gonna go for it come hell or
high water and going after my destiny
concern able say run
you gotta run after your destiny you
can’t stroll after your destiny you
can’t walk after your destiny you gotta
run somebody ha
you gotta run you gotta run you gotta
run
you can’t just wake up in the morning
let me see what’s gonna happen today I
[Applause]
don’t know where don’t know what am o
cook I don’t know where I’m gonna go I
just woke up oh you should stay in the
bed give the day to somebody who’s gone
wrong after their destiny give the day
to somebody who has a plan who has a
strategy because success is never an
accident and if you don’t want it get
out of my way because there are some
people who want to do something with
their life if you know what you want to
do if you have a clear vision in your
head for the something you want to
launch a person you want to pursue some
opportunity that you want to go after
like if you know you have a crystal
clear picture of what you want to do
then you need to go after it right now
most people sit on it most people have
genius ideas and they sit on it for
their entire life and then they see
somebody else make tons of money off of
your idea right and you get you get old
and grumpy and you start to complain and
that’s not a life that you want that’s
not a life that I want for you either
it’s not that somebody stole your idea
you didn’t put in the work you didn’t do
anything with it
it was their idea and they deserve all
the success you can’t look at them and
be bitter and angry that they stole your
thing when you did nothing about it
this is important whenever you have an
idea whenever you have an opportunity
and if you you want to go off and pursue
something there’s a window of
opportunity for that thing to happen
there’s a window based off of your life
circumstances based off what the market
wants based off you know where you are
right now your mindset your interest
your passions your skills desires
there’s this window for this thing to
happen and that window maybe six months
and maybe a year maybe two years but
it’s like there’s a limited amount of
time and that window is going to closed
and that’s why you need to run
that’s why Bishop Jake’s is so
passionate about running towards it
because that thing is not going to be
there forever and if you wait too long
or your crawl and your walk and you’re
barely getting there that windows gonna
shut in your face you’re gonna miss your
opportunity where you could
something amazing if you just ran at it
and I think what you’ll find is it’s
definitely in my life you’ll have
moments of certainty and uncertainty
uncertainty and uncertainty and you
constantly kind of ride these right
these different waves it’s important
when you get that moment of certainty
that clarity that you go all out and
when you don’t know what to do when you
have the moments of uncertainty then
you’re exploring you’re trying to find
something you’ll want to get stuck on
one path that’s not right for you and so
if I look at my career as an example
when I was with my software company
right 19 years old had my biotech
software company I knew what I wanted to
do I was grinding I was hustling every
single day putting the work in crazy
number of hours and that was three years
of my life and then when I sold the
business I didn’t know what to do you
know I didn’t know what I wanted to do
and I explored and that was the
uncertainty so the software company
certainty working hard every day running
trying to get my dream that happen and
we sold our business at the right time
right we sold our business before the
window closed if we didn’t push as hard
and we didn’t run as fast and we waited
we would have missed our moment and I
wouldn’t have been able to sell my
company so I sold it then I didn’t know
what to do next
wandered explored traveled said yes to a
whole bunch of different things and
that’s where it’s hard to see measurable
progress when you’re uncertain you’re
trying many different things and most of
them are going to work out a lot of the
things that I said yes do was a one-off
thing and I knew I’m not gonna go back
and do that again until I found my next
level of clarity my next moment right
the next wave riding up which was with
the website I had my website I was
creating content it was doing well
people asked if they can contribute
content to my website that started doing
well then I realized you could make
money from the website with advertising
and so I realized okay this is this
could be the next big thing but I can’t
create all the content myself I need
other people I need an army and so we
recruited five thousand plus people to
write for the website and we got bigger
needs we got Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki
and Donald Trump who at the time was
doing Apprentice and you know was the
big name in entrepreneurs
and Zig Ziglar and Jack came feel like
big big name people to contribute
articles to the website and I just was
singularly focused like here’s my window
right the window was there for now I got
a run at it I got to throw everything I
can at it I got to get as many people
get as many articles run and in the
combination of me losing my interest for
doing that side of the business in the
market changing and Google’s algorithm
changing led to that window shrinking
that that was not as big an opportunity
anymore and so I got everything I could
out of it
well that was lasting and then I go back
into this uncertainty like I mean what
should I be doing I need to do something
else with my time I need to focus and I
need to build something else I’m I don’t
know what I want to do I’m exploring
different paths one of those paths
happened to be YouTube I made a couple
YouTube videos this was pretty cool I
like it I like the feedback I like how
it feels to be on camera I want to do
more I want to share my mission I want
to have an impact YouTube seems to be an
interesting way to do it and then as I
started doing more of it I realized this
is a moment this is my next window I got
a I got a go all out for you guys who
have YouTube channels and are
complaining about trying to make one
video a week two videos a week I realize
that this is a window right now that I
figured it out right now how things work
how YouTube works how the other grism
works how reaching entrepreneurs work
how to make good videos like it’s all
coming together in a perfect storm for
me right now and I need to run it’s why
I make it three videos a day it’s why
I’m grinding so hard you creating
content it’s why I’m building up my team
to real answer your comments and take
requests and make new series it just is
all working right now and you’ll have
those moments right I’ve recognized it
it happened with my website it happened
with my first business this is where I’m
at right now this is my moment on
YouTube
to run hard as fast as I can and I’m
sure at some point I might lose my
interest in YouTube the algorithm might
change with the way that I’m doing it
may not work anymore and that window
will close and then will lead back to
that uncertainty testing things out and
it’s just constantly doing this that’s
you know your entire life
and so when that wave comes when you
find that clarity when you find that
focus when you know what you want to do
it’s so important that you run after it
because you will have these few moments
in your life where things just become
that bit so clear that you have to go
and do it and unless you do that window
will shrink will shrink will shrink will
close somebody else will make huge money
huge impact off of your idea and you
have to wait for the next thing to come
and maybe there’s ways to speed that up
but when you get that moment of clarity
I’m urging you to run as fast as you can
as hard as you can for as long as you
can so the question today today is I’m
curious what were those moments of
clarity in your life that weighed that
you needed to ride what are some of
those that have come up those three of
the four moments maybe one or two maybe
you haven’t found it yet but I’m curious
what are those moments of clarity that
you had that this is the wave everything
is matching up for me my interest my
passion my skills combined with the
market and where it’s going that it just
made sense that now I need to go all out
that now I need to run I love for you
the sheer experience leaving the
comments below I also want to give a
quick shout out to Girish thank you so
much for picking up a copy of my book
your one word it really really really
means a lot to me and I hope you enjoyed
the read so thank you guys again for
watching I believe in you I hope we
continue to believe in yourself and
whatever your one word is much love and
I’ll see you guys again tomorrow morning
for another shot of espresso
[Music]
while baseball when I was four or five
six years old it was my first love the
first thing I fell in love with and I
thought most of my life I thought that I
was gonna pursue baseball as a
profession second hardest decision in my
life
and then we’re sitting on the edge of my
bed crying over it deciding what I was
gonna do and I ended up choosing
football and I don’t regret that but I
do believe in pursuing passions and
what’s on your heart and this is
something that I’m passionate about
we’ll just say about you that you’re
even given the opportunity as a 29 year
old man who hadn’t played baseball in a
decade there are certain things in life
that we love and we have chances to
pursue them but a lot of time the fear
of the unknown the fear of failure gets
in the way I don’t want that fear to
creep in I don’t want the unknown to
creep in I want to be someone that I
pursue whatever is on my heart with
everything that I have and if I fall
flat on my face and guess what I’m gonna
get right back up I’ve read that you’re
a farce I’ve read that you’re a joke
I’ve read that you’re an embarrassment
not only to yourself but to the game of
baseball the first thing is I’m so
thankful that I don’t have to read it I
don’t have to listen to it I don’t have
to live the roller coaster that the rest
of the world lives of my life I don’t
care what they write about me they’ve
written a lot of things over the last 15
years about me some good some not good
some just because they want to sell
papers I don’t necessarily care at the
end of the day I want to pursue my
passion because I believe when you’re
pursuing what’s on your heart when
you’re pursuing what you’re convicted by
then I don’t have to live with regret 10
15 20 years from now looking back saying
what if what if I would have tried that
where’s the success is if I give my off
to it if I get to live out that dream
every single day whether that’s in
single a double a triple a or it’s in
the big leagues you know because joy
doesn’t come from success joy comes from
knowing your design and being able to
pursue that every single day and knowing
that
I get to live out a dream so all that
stuff I was just dreaming about like
this is the possibilities that can
happen if I moved to California or you
know because I was working really hard
here and a lot of comedians come down
from LA and say man you need to go to
California cause she’s pretty good I was
getting a lot of good advice and a lot
of people who was really rooting for me
yeah just went and did it but I had a
dream and that dream gave me no
confidence to keep going the power of
believing and dreaming is real because
that’s all I did was dream and believe
and that these things can happen and it
made me feel good and that was my that’s
true wealth if you believe and you’re
doing something you have a goal you have
a dream to get somewhere it makes you
feel good honestly that there’s no
difference the way you win it the way I
win at the game I’m a good business as
hard as I wanted the game you know I
study businesses and I study people as
much as I studied people trying to
figure out plays you know so it’s kind
of something I told the kids yesterday
you know when you see transition really
start to happen when you really want to
transition to something master there’s
no limits you know that don’t let the
word I ever put limits on you you can do
anything you want to do but make sure if
you have a vision make sure the vision
is written you know make sure you have
something to actually chase and not just
hoping and wishing and all these
different things so if I tell guys this
all the time put your plans together and
then work the plan don’t don’t don’t
work somebody else’s plan right there’s
one thing about the leak I love the leak
but the league is someone else’s brand
right you have to create your own brand
yourself and your brain is whatever you
feel like doing whatever your heart is
passionate about chase it
one word is believe and I believe that
you have something special that when you
unleash it it will be able to change the
world so to help you on your journey
today’s message is run after your
destiny over to you Bishop TD jakes
[Music]
life demands that you pick up the pace
if you don’t pick up the pace
you’re gonna be left behind I’m amazed
that the people that lack the
flexibility to pick up the pace they
just get in a read I scroll down here
and I’m gonna scroll back I’m gonna
stroll over here I’m gonna stroll over
there
one of the most amazing thing about the
disaster and Malaysia is that when it
happened everybody had to pick up the
pace all the news media had to pick up
the pace
they were booking night flights and
flying over here and flying over there
somebody had to work overtime won’t be
home for three days typing in the middle
of night research going or because when
something happens everybody gotta pick
up the pace that’s why I can’t deal with
people who cannot pick up the pace
don’t be strolling when I got a 9-1-1 on
you i need people who can pick up the
pace slap your neighbors said pick up
the bass something’s about to happen
pick up the pace something’s about to
happen pick up the pace something is
about to happen
pick up the pace something is about to
happen pick up the pace something is
about to happen pick up the pace
something’s about to have it I came to
tell the young people pick up the pace
pick up the pace pick up the place
the danger of low expectations
I would rather aim for the stars and not
hit them then to not aim at all I would
rather go after it and not get it did
not go after it at all I’d rather try
and fail did not try at all I don’t want
to live with the idea wonder what would
have happened had I done more with my
life I’m gonna go for it come hell or
high water and going after my destiny
concern able say run
you gotta run after your destiny you
can’t stroll after your destiny you
can’t walk after your destiny you gotta
run somebody ha
you gotta run you gotta run you gotta
run
you can’t just wake up in the morning
let me see what’s gonna happen today I
[Applause]
don’t know where don’t know what am o
cook I don’t know where I’m gonna go I
just woke up oh you should stay in the
bed give the day to somebody who’s gone
wrong after their destiny give the day
to somebody who has a plan who has a
strategy because success is never an
accident and if you don’t want it get
out of my way because there are some
people who want to do something with
their life if you know what you want to
do if you have a clear vision in your
head for the something you want to
launch a person you want to pursue some
opportunity that you want to go after
like if you know you have a crystal
clear picture of what you want to do
then you need to go after it right now
most people sit on it most people have
genius ideas and they sit on it for
their entire life and then they see
somebody else make tons of money off of
your idea right and you get you get old
and grumpy and you start to complain and
that’s not a life that you want that’s
not a life that I want for you either
it’s not that somebody stole your idea
you didn’t put in the work you didn’t do
anything with it
it was their idea and they deserve all
the success you can’t look at them and
be bitter and angry that they stole your
thing when you did nothing about it
this is important whenever you have an
idea whenever you have an opportunity
and if you you want to go off and pursue
something there’s a window of
opportunity for that thing to happen
there’s a window based off of your life
circumstances based off what the market
wants based off you know where you are
right now your mindset your interest
your passions your skills desires
there’s this window for this thing to
happen and that window maybe six months
and maybe a year maybe two years but
it’s like there’s a limited amount of
time and that window is going to closed
and that’s why you need to run
that’s why Bishop Jake’s is so
passionate about running towards it
because that thing is not going to be
there forever and if you wait too long
or your crawl and your walk and you’re
barely getting there that windows gonna
shut in your face you’re gonna miss your
opportunity where you could
something amazing if you just ran at it
and I think what you’ll find is it’s
definitely in my life you’ll have
moments of certainty and uncertainty
uncertainty and uncertainty and you
constantly kind of ride these right
these different waves it’s important
when you get that moment of certainty
that clarity that you go all out and
when you don’t know what to do when you
have the moments of uncertainty then
you’re exploring you’re trying to find
something you’ll want to get stuck on
one path that’s not right for you and so
if I look at my career as an example
when I was with my software company
right 19 years old had my biotech
software company I knew what I wanted to
do I was grinding I was hustling every
single day putting the work in crazy
number of hours and that was three years
of my life and then when I sold the
business I didn’t know what to do you
know I didn’t know what I wanted to do
and I explored and that was the
uncertainty so the software company
certainty working hard every day running
trying to get my dream that happen and
we sold our business at the right time
right we sold our business before the
window closed if we didn’t push as hard
and we didn’t run as fast and we waited
we would have missed our moment and I
wouldn’t have been able to sell my
company so I sold it then I didn’t know
what to do next
wandered explored traveled said yes to a
whole bunch of different things and
that’s where it’s hard to see measurable
progress when you’re uncertain you’re
trying many different things and most of
them are going to work out a lot of the
things that I said yes do was a one-off
thing and I knew I’m not gonna go back
and do that again until I found my next
level of clarity my next moment right
the next wave riding up which was with
the website I had my website I was
creating content it was doing well
people asked if they can contribute
content to my website that started doing
well then I realized you could make
money from the website with advertising
and so I realized okay this is this
could be the next big thing but I can’t
create all the content myself I need
other people I need an army and so we
recruited five thousand plus people to
write for the website and we got bigger
needs we got Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki
and Donald Trump who at the time was
doing Apprentice and you know was the
big name in entrepreneurs
and Zig Ziglar and Jack came feel like
big big name people to contribute
articles to the website and I just was
singularly focused like here’s my window
right the window was there for now I got
a run at it I got to throw everything I
can at it I got to get as many people
get as many articles run and in the
combination of me losing my interest for
doing that side of the business in the
market changing and Google’s algorithm
changing led to that window shrinking
that that was not as big an opportunity
anymore and so I got everything I could
out of it
well that was lasting and then I go back
into this uncertainty like I mean what
should I be doing I need to do something
else with my time I need to focus and I
need to build something else I’m I don’t
know what I want to do I’m exploring
different paths one of those paths
happened to be YouTube I made a couple
YouTube videos this was pretty cool I
like it I like the feedback I like how
it feels to be on camera I want to do
more I want to share my mission I want
to have an impact YouTube seems to be an
interesting way to do it and then as I
started doing more of it I realized this
is a moment this is my next window I got
a I got a go all out for you guys who
have YouTube channels and are
complaining about trying to make one
video a week two videos a week I realize
that this is a window right now that I
figured it out right now how things work
how YouTube works how the other grism
works how reaching entrepreneurs work
how to make good videos like it’s all
coming together in a perfect storm for
me right now and I need to run it’s why
I make it three videos a day it’s why
I’m grinding so hard you creating
content it’s why I’m building up my team
to real answer your comments and take
requests and make new series it just is
all working right now and you’ll have
those moments right I’ve recognized it
it happened with my website it happened
with my first business this is where I’m
at right now this is my moment on
YouTube
to run hard as fast as I can and I’m
sure at some point I might lose my
interest in YouTube the algorithm might
change with the way that I’m doing it
may not work anymore and that window
will close and then will lead back to
that uncertainty testing things out and
it’s just constantly doing this that’s
you know your entire life
and so when that wave comes when you
find that clarity when you find that
focus when you know what you want to do
it’s so important that you run after it
because you will have these few moments
in your life where things just become
that bit so clear that you have to go
and do it and unless you do that window
will shrink will shrink will shrink will
close somebody else will make huge money
huge impact off of your idea and you
have to wait for the next thing to come
and maybe there’s ways to speed that up
but when you get that moment of clarity
I’m urging you to run as fast as you can
as hard as you can for as long as you
can so the question today today is I’m
curious what were those moments of
clarity in your life that weighed that
you needed to ride what are some of
those that have come up those three of
the four moments maybe one or two maybe
you haven’t found it yet but I’m curious
what are those moments of clarity that
you had that this is the wave everything
is matching up for me my interest my
passion my skills combined with the
market and where it’s going that it just
made sense that now I need to go all out
that now I need to run I love for you
the sheer experience leaving the
comments below I also want to give a
quick shout out to Girish thank you so
much for picking up a copy of my book
your one word it really really really
means a lot to me and I hope you enjoyed
the read so thank you guys again for
watching I believe in you I hope we
continue to believe in yourself and
whatever your one word is much love and
I’ll see you guys again tomorrow morning
for another shot of espresso
[Music]
while baseball when I was four or five
six years old it was my first love the
first thing I fell in love with and I
thought most of my life I thought that I
was gonna pursue baseball as a
profession second hardest decision in my
life
and then we’re sitting on the edge of my
bed crying over it deciding what I was
gonna do and I ended up choosing
football and I don’t regret that but I
do believe in pursuing passions and
what’s on your heart and this is
something that I’m passionate about
we’ll just say about you that you’re
even given the opportunity as a 29 year
old man who hadn’t played baseball in a
decade there are certain things in life
that we love and we have chances to
pursue them but a lot of time the fear
of the unknown the fear of failure gets
in the way I don’t want that fear to
creep in I don’t want the unknown to
creep in I want to be someone that I
pursue whatever is on my heart with
everything that I have and if I fall
flat on my face and guess what I’m gonna
get right back up I’ve read that you’re
a farce I’ve read that you’re a joke
I’ve read that you’re an embarrassment
not only to yourself but to the game of
baseball the first thing is I’m so
thankful that I don’t have to read it I
don’t have to listen to it I don’t have
to live the roller coaster that the rest
of the world lives of my life I don’t
care what they write about me they’ve
written a lot of things over the last 15
years about me some good some not good
some just because they want to sell
papers I don’t necessarily care at the
end of the day I want to pursue my
passion because I believe when you’re
pursuing what’s on your heart when
you’re pursuing what you’re convicted by
then I don’t have to live with regret 10
15 20 years from now looking back saying
what if what if I would have tried that
where’s the success is if I give my off
to it if I get to live out that dream
every single day whether that’s in
single a double a triple a or it’s in
the big leagues you know because joy
doesn’t come from success joy comes from
knowing your design and being able to
pursue that every single day and knowing
that
I get to live out a dream so all that
stuff I was just dreaming about like
this is the possibilities that can
happen if I moved to California or you
know because I was working really hard
here and a lot of comedians come down
from LA and say man you need to go to
California cause she’s pretty good I was
getting a lot of good advice and a lot
of people who was really rooting for me
yeah just went and did it but I had a
dream and that dream gave me no
confidence to keep going the power of
believing and dreaming is real because
that’s all I did was dream and believe
and that these things can happen and it
made me feel good and that was my that’s
true wealth if you believe and you’re
doing something you have a goal you have
a dream to get somewhere it makes you
feel good honestly that there’s no
difference the way you win it the way I
win at the game I’m a good business as
hard as I wanted the game you know I
study businesses and I study people as
much as I studied people trying to
figure out plays you know so it’s kind
of something I told the kids yesterday
you know when you see transition really
start to happen when you really want to
transition to something master there’s
no limits you know that don’t let the
word I ever put limits on you you can do
anything you want to do but make sure if
you have a vision make sure the vision
is written you know make sure you have
something to actually chase and not just
hoping and wishing and all these
different things so if I tell guys this
all the time put your plans together and
then work the plan don’t don’t don’t
work somebody else’s plan right there’s
one thing about the leak I love the leak
but the league is someone else’s brand
right you have to create your own brand
yourself and your brain is whatever you
feel like doing whatever your heart is
passionate about chase it
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