people use their work their business
their profession their success a lot of
people use their pursuit of education
their professional students you’ve been
in college for 30 years and you just
keep taking more and more classes and
courses and more and more and more
things or you work overtime under time
side to time around the time a lot of
people are Church addicts every time the
church opens you’re not just a member of
the church you don’t just come to Bible
class you’re in the choir and Usher
board and the praise team and the will
in the fried chicken committee and the
listen to that and the other and let me
tell you something if you succeed in
every area of your life if you succeed
you’ve got the best help you’re in the
best shape you’re the best looking you
have the most formidable personality
you’re successful you’re financially
secure you’re respected every time you
walk them down the street if you succeed
everywhere else and fail to have peace
and joy and love in your home what does
it profit you to have all of this stuff
on the outside and have no place to lay
your head to rest your mind to know that
this is solid and this won’t say and
this won’t break it is very very
important to you
foxes whenever they sense danger or
trouble or become weary they always go
running into their homes that is the
safe place that’s a secure place he’s
grounded there whatever is gonna come
I’m gonna deal with it cuz I’m in a
place of grounded you understand what
I’m saying birds of the air have nests
they say I know there’s a lot of things
that want to devour me to want to get me
but if I can link it to this nest I can
get in this place where it is difficult
to get me if my nest is solid if it’s
secure and I had to build
I had to work on this mess so all of you
who say you don’t understand my
situation you don’t understand my house
you understand what I’ve been through
you’ll understand my circuits head no
you don’t understand that Ness must be
built from broken branches if you can
build a whole nest from broken branches
you can real a whole house with broken
people but it’s got to be built the
problem today is we want prefab houses
it’s easier to go get somebody else’s
husband then it is to develop nobody
wants to do the work of building the kid
they want to scream at the child they
want to beat the child they want to yell
at the child but the child isn’t hasn’t
learned a lot of that behavior from what
was modeled in front of them and you
have to get down on the ground level
wherever they are even if it’s a
juvenile detention center you got to go
where they are and start building that
child block by block by block while
people are talking about you
while they’re criticizing you while
they’re saying where is your gun I
thought you were Christian you don’t
have time to worry about what people
think on the outside because his family
thing is too important to for me to be
yelling back at my neighbors I’m trying
to build something out of these broken
pieces that God has given me Oh Gloria
where my parents said bill that child
what good is it to build a house if you
lose the child build the child the child
will outlast the house bill the child
the child will take care of you when
you’re all bill the child I know that
broken I know the crazy I’ve only got on
givers I know they crush yeah I know you
feel like nothing dick you get there but
when you get the feeling like that get
down on the floor and start building God
child because you can’t have a mess if
you can’t work with broken branches
broken husbands broken wives
everything in your house is cracked
somewhere everything cracked somewhere
look around this room right now look
around this room look at how handsome a
good-looking and attractive these people
are in this room don’t they look good
dressed up got the hair done look at the
nails may have all shined up pointing at
you ain’t that nice smell like a rodent
syndrome just wonderful glory to God in
there wonderful just to end everything
you see is quite somewhere
and the only reason you don’t know it is
because you haven’t got close enough to
see where the cracks are these three
areas bill that which is broken down you
got to have economic support you got a
heavy economic support I know you all
think that once you’re Christian all you
have to do is speak in tongues of wait
on Jesus the Jesus bus is gonna come get
you and take you to be with Jesus but
why are you waiting at the bus you’re
gonna get hungry when I got ready to
talk to my wife about life insurance he
said I don’t talk about that I don’t
even wanna talk about I don’t wanna have
another discussion with you about that
so yeah we’re gonna have to discuss
about it she said I don’t know who you
don’t leave me too because I don’t care
I’m gonna be crazy I said you’re gonna
be crying and you’re gonna be Holland
and you’re gonna be screaming but you’ll
have to go to the bathroom so you either
need toilet paper you will get thirsty
so you even need water sooner or later
you won’t get hungry so you’re gonna
need food and if we don’t have no
Guinness or you’re not gonna be able
I’ve never seen anybody so grieved that
they didn’t go to the bathroom and eat
and live and breathe and it’s gonna
bring you back to reality you need stuff
you need stuff you can’t pray away your
need for stuff you cannot put spiritual
solutions over practical need you cannot
fix a physical problem with a spiritual
solutions sisters
[Music]
I want to go to the techs they’re having
a discussion and the text about if he
first Timothy five seven if any provide
not for his own house
for his own and specially for those of
his own house he hath denied the faith
he has to not faith if you don’t take
care of what’s yours you have denied the
when you look up the word infidel you
will find there it means unbeliever but
if you dig deeper you will find it is
not just an unbeliever who could have
never been exposed to the gospel it’s
somebody who’s been exposed to it and
rejected it but that’s thing here
somebody has been exposed to it and
rejected it is called an infidel you’ll
notice in the conflict with Isis and
terrorists they refer to us as infidels
because it’s a purist form of the word
infidel is that you have rejected the
truth in the Bible when they call
somebody an infidel it is that you had
an opportunity and rejected it in the
text is talking about taking care of
widows and it says if the widow has a
family if they don’t take care of their
old mama
grandmama auntie Big Momma Madea you are
worse than an infidel worse in an
infidel if you don’t take care of your
own you birds take care of their own
monkeys take care of their own frogs
take care of and you don’t want pastor
old like you don’t know and say you love
Jesus I’d rather see some Holy Ghost
fried chicken and making some chicken
noodle soup then I would the I’m a
prophetess you’ve got a proper clean
this house and go home and see about
the Bible said you are worse than an
infidel if you will take care of your
own house if you’re able to some people
aren’t able you know heavy you can’t do
it but to some degree you do something
you’d sweep what’s this an infidel is
somebody who had an opportunity to
receive truth and rejected it an infidel
the Bible says you are worse than an
infidel if you don’t provide for your
house all right God said you had the
opportunity to make that house work but
you starved it you’re worse than an
infidel because you were exposed to
something that you rejected though you
stayed in the house infidel some I say
him to do
[Music]
root word infidel primary meaning we
rejected an opportunity you know why you
rejected an opportunity because you felt
like you were rejected
you know why you felt like you were
rejected because she didn’t get the
signal how do you break the infidel
infidelity when we start having real
conversations about expectations and
responsibilities mutually and you live
up to yours and I live up to mine then
there’s not abandonment and if we’re not
abandoned then we don’t have to fake
like we love each other which creates
so I will stop paying you money to let
me go live I will start investing
because I will no longer define myself
so this job went to the potter’s house
it was so-so
a lot of times we give you stuff to
replace us
you don’t gotta fill in this room let me
some tell you what I feel in this room I
fill in this room there are a lot of
people in this room who have abandoned
kids cuz they hurt you parents cuz they
disappointed you spouses because they
didn’t get the signal I feel in this
room a lot of people who are still there
but not there and so you’re living your
life like it’s golden it might be golden
but it’s not grounded
and anything that’s not grounded can
blow away it can blow away and it’s
expensive to lose emotionally mentally
it’s expensive generationally I’m not
saying you can’t survive it I’m not
saying you can’t make it on here you
cannot say anything there I’m not saying
you can’t pay your own bill I’m not
saying you can’t take care of yourself
you can do it but there will be a
once I start showing of miracles they’re
gonna be drawn to my season of miracles
people are drawn to your season of
miracles love your season of miracles
you can make it happen
love your season of miracles you did
your thing on the football fuel of your
season of miracles people are drawn to
your season of miracles when you’re in
your heyday when you’re doing your thing
people of any kind always comes by
hearing you didn’t believe you were dumb
till you heard you were dumb you didn’t
believe you couldn’t learn to you heard
some I say you could learn you didn’t
believe you aren’t attractive – you
heard somebody say your unbelief is a
result of something you heard about
yourself that you believed about
yourself and your life has fulfilled the
prophecy you heard about yourself you’re
crazy like your daddy you’re just like
your mammy
all of these are curses they may not be
cussing but they’re curses that were
pronounced over you that said you
couldn’t do this or that or the other
and the more you heard it and rehearsed
it and even argued about it and said you
didn’t believe it every time you face a
challenge tell me the truth
don’t those voices come back up every
time you hit a low place don’t boast
voices come back up again every time
things go wrong don’t boast voices come
back you have never changed your belief
and you will never completely be healed
or whole until you change the voice
inside of your own hand and nobody no
body can do this but you
new friends can’t do it new clothes
can’t do it more money can’t do it more
women can’t do it more sex can’t do it
they can camouflage it but they can’t
kill it
because you are slurred by the words of
your own mouth you can’t get enough
people to tell you you were pretty when
you think you’re ugly that’s why you
keep leaving some more until you change
the words that are in your head your
opportunities will continue to him reach
like the woman with the issue of blood
her issues were killing her 12 years her
issues were killing her 12 years the
life’s blood was hemorrhaging out of her
it was coming out of her lord
extremities but it was coming from her
mouth or knowledge it’s there
it is coming out of her lower
extremities but it is coming from her
mouth can you prove it yes I can
what heal her did not come from her
lower extremities
what healed her came out of her mouth
see until she met Jesus all she believed
about herself was an undying I’m dying
and dying and died and so her money died
cuz she was dying for relationships died
because she was died her heart was
broken cuz she was dying she couldn’t
have relationships she was dying she had
spent all of her money because she was
dying until she met Jesus where she met
Jesus he says the story she told herself
and she said
[Applause]
if I’m able touch the hem of His garment
see them him say it to anybody it will
what she said to herself not if you read
it in the original language when it says
she said to herself
it says she said repeatedly to herself
over and over and over again because
when you’re trying to drive out stake in
vision you have to say it over
[Applause]
am i helping anybody
so she says it’s not maybe a touch the
hem of His garment I’ll be made whole it
is proven that the kids don’t do as well
in school
that’s subcultures of crime break out in
the community because if you don’t see
better you don’t do better what they
have learned over time is that mixed
income housing does the best so that the
kid who’s on welfare lives across the
street from the kid whose dad is a
doctor because if you can see up oh come
on it you might not have it but if you
can see it in your neighborhood you
learn to put a demand on life and expect
more for yourself because you say is he
can do it but if you don’t see anybody
doing it you stop reaching for it and
you cannot receive anything you’re not
reaching for if all you’ve ever seen is
poverty if all you’ve ever seen this
domestic violence let me tell you you
want the idea of happily married but you
will pick somebody who’s mean cuz the
nice guy is boring and the nice guy who
fell in love I don’t know he’s nice but
I’m just not attracted to him you’re
and even though you say you don’t want
it you end up Wharton what your normal
is how do I keep getting tied up with
the wrong man that’s the only one who
let talk to you anybody who treated you
too nice you didn’t like them customers
you didn’t agree with them because
anytime somebody likes you more than you
he was lame from his mother’s womb
anytime you have been lame all of your
life broke all of your life quiet all in
your life intimidated all of your life
insecure all of your life angry all of
your life surrounded by angry vicious
people all of your life you develop a
norm around a nasty situation as your
nasty become normal when you do
something every day you forget what day
it is
have you ever said it’s this Tuesday
because it looked just like Friday and
it feels like Thursday and you can’t
tell Thursday from Wesley have you had a
life work every day you ended up at the
same spot you might have worn green
house code instead of a gold house code
you might have a white shoes instead of
red shoes you might a warhead that day
but every day when it was all over you
ended up at the same spot you took
different jobs but you ended up at the
same spot you met different women but
you ended up at the same spot
you dated different guys but you ended
up and the same day when it was all said
and done
is this thirsty
what day is it every day
looks to say when everyday looks the
same the light goes out in your eyes
when everyday looks are saved
you cease to appreciate morning what
difference does morning make when it’s
going to look just like yesterday look
like question I being said what should I
prepare for routine I already know how
to do this carrying me out lately at the
same spot I don’t have to think anymore
I don’t have to read anymore I don’t
have to dress anymore I don’t have to
prepare anymore I am not challenged by
life because daily I end up at the same
spot he was in a routine he comes and is
laid daily at the gate called beautiful
this gate is beautiful 60 feet wide
some say made of gold others of brass it
was an opulent gate it was designed to
stand out it was absolutely amazing
an ugly problem at a beautiful place at
a beautiful place I wish I had time to
talk about the Aqsa more arms of life
how can I be at a beautiful place and
still have an ugly problem how can
everything look so beautiful on the
outside and I got an ugly little secret
on the inside how can it be the best of
times and the worst time will get the
contrast in his life he has laid daily
and a gate called beautiful but he has
an earthly problem that stops him from
getting beyond the gate what does the
gate a gate is access him close to
something he couldn’t get into I want to
talk to people who are tired of being
close I almost got delivered I almost
got the job I almost fell in love
I almost got out I almost got free every
day he almost got he is late dear daily
and a beautiful gate with an ugly
problem he is late daily at a place of
everybody else was going in everybody
else was going in but he was going near
it is a frustrating thing to see other
people going in and you’re just going
near if I’m not going to go in I want to
see you go in but I don’t see nobody
good just everybody just sit out here
with me just sit out here with let’s go
somehow don’t sit out here with me
I don’t want to sit by the highway side
watching you step into what I only get
near to come on somebody I’m not a hater
nothing but after a while I get tired or
watching y’all go in every day
it’s a routine of routine where you see
other people going into things that you
and if you’re not careful you start to
believe maybe it’s not funny maybe I’m
not supposed to maybe I’m not meant to
be happy maybe I’m not meant to be loved
maybe I’m not supposed to be married
maybe I’m not supposed to have a good
ministry maybe they’re not supposed to
be calling me to preach maybe I’m not
supposed to be evangelizing maybe God
didn’t call the area Todd you don’t go
in you start making excuses because it
hurts to see other people going into
what you only get near and so excuses
comfort in capacity I would have been
further my mama hadn’t done I would have
been further if I don’t know my father I
would have been excuses comfort excuses
comfort income it’s not my fault
they didn’t help me they didn’t support
me they didn’t lovely excuses comfort in
capacity because it hurts to see
somebody come from your neighborhood and
go in come from your house and go in
they went through what you went through
and they made it now you have to comfort
your incapacity with excuses my teachers
didn’t like me my sister’s have never
there will always be change and if you
don’t plan on the change as a leader
that will determine how successful you
are whether it is good change or a bad
change there will always be changed and
generally there will be both throughout
longevity most people never have a
straight route up a hill even though
their bowel says it does how many of you
know that the bio is alive it didn’t
have everything in it the resume only
has the good things in it it is about
the peaks it doesn’t tell you about the
volleying accomplishments gonna tell you
about the failures but you learn as much
from your failures as you do from your
successes I think one of the most
difficult things that can happen to
people in leadership is to step into
leadership that you didn’t grow and that
you didn’t grow because you don’t know
where the issues are there’s something
about being on the trajectory yourself
and taking the roller coaster ride and
riding the wave that makes a big
difference as it relates to leadership
when you think about it think about it
this way we often when we select leaders
or we want to evaluate people or we want
to to staff we quickly want to know
about their IQ where they went to school
what their background is because we’re
trying to find out it in a nice way are
you smart okay and we don’t want to just
walk in the door and sit down say are
you smart so we start asking you all of
these trick questions you know how many
people did you supervise how long have
you done it done it the bottom line
we’re trying to find out you know am i
hiring a mini we just don’t want to be
that crass but that’s actually what we
want to know we want to know about your
IQ your intellectual ability the
quotient of intellectualism that you
have through which to handle and manage
situations based on your IQ the second
thing that we really need to be asking
and we really don’t know this until we
get into it is your EQ
and I’m not talking about something you
do on your music I’m talking about your
emotional quotient your a range of
emotion and how you handle stress and
pressure because many many times you can
have people on your team and on your
side who have the intellectual ability
to do what you’re trying to get them to
do but they do not have the emotional
wherewithal and you don’t know it till
you get on the ride it’s like me I mean
I look like a man’s man
you know I think I look like a fairly
strong macho guy and I am until you put
me on a ride on six flags I mean I
turned into a little five-year-old girl
in the right eye I do not go on those
rides for anything at any time because I
don’t want anybody to see me act like
and I start clinging or to whoever I’m
with it’s a bad thing when you go on a
ride with a girl and you’re clinging
onto her table ah I’m not good on the
ride
I’m good going up it’s going down that
drives me crazy what you want to know is
can you handle the down ride do you turn
into somebody else when when things
start getting crazy do you have the
emotional maturity the EQ emotional
quotient to go through the highs and the
lows of what it takes to be successful
because if you’re going to be successful
you learn from the lows how to ride on
the highest so if you can’t take the dip
you can’t take the climb you have to
have the emotional wherewithal to go on
the journey and to be comfortable and to
remain cool in a crisis not lose your
head not freak out even though you want
to you can do it on the inside you could
be like a screaming year-old
six-year-old girl on the inside but on
the outside you have to maintain your
cool because there is nothing as
frightening as a frightened leader it’s
scary I don’t know anything about flying
the planes but this is how I evaluate
the trouble on the plane I’ve gotten
used to the turbulence I’ve flown all
over the world I’ve been in everything
that would go up in the air I rode on it
and I don’t get nervous until the people
up front get nervous when they come out
of the conference booth like immediately
I don’t even have to get a report I
don’t have to know what’s wrong I just
Patti if they’re kind of cool you know
and say there’s going to be a little bit
of turbulence fasten your seat but I
said I was cool if you have somebody
convey a message with panic and fear and
terror you don’t even have to know the
details you just are freaky that’s what
happens with you to hire somebody who
has the IQ but doesn’t have the EQ to
handle the ride who freaks under
pressure who starts screaming at the
staff who starts yelling at the
employees and they just fall apart under
pressure so you want to make sure they
have good IQ you want to make sure they
have good eat you but here’s the thing
that is most important and there is no
test for you there ain’t you and we
never talked about ank you you’ve heard
people talk about I kid you hear people
talk about EQ you don’t hear people talk
about a q8u is your adaptability
quotient are you adaptable how do you
respond to change my class is supposed
to deal with the ability to lead people
whether to change unprecedented growth
or unexpected setbacks it is a single
most important thing that you have to
have in order to be an effective leader
today when you hire somebody or you move
into a position or you open up a company
or you start a business it’s a lot like
getting married
comforts this big warning and I think my
other job that’s what I do dearly
we are gathered here today to join
together into the holiest state of
matrimony this man and this woman and we
started asking them the questions to
real person the questions should warn
you I know she looks beautiful today and
everything is wonderful he’s smiling
good he just came from the barbershop
and he smells like liniment or something
they need everything’s just great today
but do you take this woman to be your
lawfully wedded wife to have and to hold
and then we started to have in the hole
is good dinner start give them to the
crane stir for richer or for poorer for
better or for worse in sickness and in
health and you know what we do we tell
you that we say do you and you say I do
but you said I do to something that
you’ve never seen because if you haven’t
spend time with them you don’t know how
they act sick I can deal with you sick
but I didn’t know you got hateful when
you got sick you know I didn’t know that
when we get broke you’re gonna freak and
panic and move out and go back to your
mother for better for worse richer for
poor and so I’m saying I do to some
blame circumstances that I’ll spend the
next 20 years trying to figure out do I
[Laughter]
and that’s a lot like going into
business and that’s a lot like being
successful and that’s a lot like hiring
people you kind of get some kind of flow
and we say do you and they say I do it
did you hire them and then you think do
you do you really can you really handle
where we are right now is exploding into
growth I don’t know which is which is
the most challenging I’ve been both I’ve
been a base and a bound I’ve almost been
homeless I know what it needs to stay in
penthouse suites and eat caviar which is
nasty and I guess because I was raised
on poor folks food I never developed
appetite for rich people sure but it was
nasty to me so I’ve been a base kind of
bound I’ve lived on both sides of the
track and let me tell I’m not sure which
is the most challenging the rhein up or
the ride down because success can be
just as daunting as failure is it can
throw you off kilter
if you can’t adapt quickly enough to it
you will lose it you can have more
opportunities than you have
infrastructure a blessing isn’t a
blessing if you can’t handle it
so do you have the adaptability in your
plan for what you’re getting ready to do
next do you have the ability to adapt to
better worse richer Poor’s sitting
herself I’m getting ready to come over
here and get dressed I’m upstairs in my
closet get dressed enough and they had
this on one of those infomercials came
on this morning and they were talking
about these new belts and they said the
belts are designed that you had 36
options and stood on a whole every inch
and they said so if you eat too much
again weight you lose weight the belt
just adapts and I start laughing cuz
that if I could have got it right then I
want to brought it with me because you
have you ever ate one of those bills
that made you wish you had another hole
right here so you could breathe you know
that that’s the way going up is going up
if you don’t have the expansion joint in
your strategy then accommodates winning
you could be praying to win something
that you can’t handle
if you get it if you hire people for
where you are you wasted money if they
can’t go where you going
are you following what I’m saying so you
have to have that adaptability to be
able to transition from one state into
the to the next and when women when the
thing gets rougher and it gets tough
what you need as a leader and as a
thinker is not just a success to get
there but the success to stay there
sustainability most people in a session
like this like sustainability then like
dogs chasing cars how many of you have
ever seen the dog chase a car dog takes
it the car goes by jumps over the fence
and goes after the car sweets flying
down the road the car is going to talk
with the one the dog is just wow like
this and maybe the dog gets lucky and
catches a car and I ran like or
something like that but there’s one
thing that the dog never considered I
can’t breath you might be chasing after
something that you can’t run it’s not
just about getting there its
sustainability after you get there to
get here and get him for you invite it
and get invigorate it and get motivated
I’m gonna go out there and I’m gonna get
it I don’t care what comes my way you
see you do make faces in the mirror get
yourself ready to go get it get it get
it get it but can you run it after you
get it
what gives people comfort in leadership
is when there is a commitment to
stability in the midst of fluctuations
so the whole this is the only thing that
should be stable in your ride to success
is you and if you’re not a person who
can be stable in the ride you shouldn’t
get in the car
[Music]
stability in the midst of fluctuations
is quite important in essence that’s
what I’m trying to convey to you so what
do you do when it’s bad news the best
thing to do with bad news is to deliver
a clear accurate concise message a clear
accurate concise message allow ATT I
cannot pay you I will pay you next month
next year six months clear messaging
creates clear expectation which avoids
disappointment people can handle bad
news if they can trust your message this
is what happened this is how we’re going
to handle it and we are sorry bada boom
bada bang but if you don’t give clear
messages United who said that if you
don’t give clear messaging you got to do
damage control over and over and over
again as people lose their heads and
freak out it is not what happens to you
that matters it is how you handle it are
you getting what I’m saying so I want to
get I want to go to the positive in and
I’m trying to hear because I got a lot
to tell you about how much time I want
to tell you about success strain success
strain success creates strain it
challenges your ability to grow it to
evolve the very thing that you’re here
to get is the very thing that’s gonna
grab your nuts and strain the strain of
winning the strain of getting more
response than you expected the strain
and getting the deal I got them di da di
captain
can you handle it you can handle the
deal excuse me just five people stand up
here success strike when you win it
strains you stress is an indicator it’s
a benefit it’s a favor unless you know
you’re at your limits it does not mean
that you cannot do it but it doesn’t
mean you have to change something
anytime there is stress you have to
change structure or strategy whenever I
am stressed out it is an indication that
I don’t have the strategy or the
structure for where I’m at and that
stress is a warning bell that you need
to reboot recalibrate and need to change
their structure or your strategy for
what’s about to happen in your life I’m
a swimmer last few minutes helping you
to look at that strategy that structure
I’m from West Virginia we had a silver
breeds in West Virginia the bridge
collapsed people died it was a horrible
experience and when they did research in
it they said the bridge collapsed
because of stress that means whoever
designed the bridge did not plan for the
weight of winning and I want you to take
into serious consideration the weight of
winning because if you don’t once you
get up there just do the pressure of
winning unit you didn’t build in the
structure and the strategy to handle it
and stress is gonna be your warning bell
going off in two o’clock in the morning
as you’re looking out the window in the
middle of the night that you need to
change you can’t have seven kids in one
car
even though you can have the baby you
don’t have the structure to handle the
trip so now you have to add that kind of
infrastructure and I want you to think
since you’re probably going to be
working with limited people you got big
drains with a limited budget and you’ve
got a lot of people a small amount of
people to handle but are they tough
enough do they have the structure to
handle the stress of winning is your
strategy like my belt I solved before I
left to come over here doesn’t have
enough notches to handle the strain of
winning adding and changing and
adaptability of that structure and
strategy is it’s very important built-in
flexibility for best and worst-case
scenarios is very very important so I’m
looking at my life and I’m looking at my
life I’m gonna deal with my life your
life in two categories one of them I’m
gonna call the whirlwind the whirlwind
it’s all the craziness you’ve got going
in your life that demands your attention
and it is consistent your whirlwind is
all of that stuff that because you’re
good at doing it you create a whirlwind
in your life and then sit on the side of
the bed talking about I’m tired you did
it to yourself because you’re a winner
you have a world with every winner has a
world with managing that whirlwind is
important but if you spend a hundred
percent of your time managing your
whirlwind you don’t have time for growth
the whirlwind is an issue for one reason
it is like a football game you know what
the most important feature of a football
game is it’s not the linebackers not the
coach it’s it’s not who owns it is it’s
not the colors of uniform it’s it’s not
the clock is the most important feature
of the football game because what makes
the football game exciting is the clock
the clock says you’re only got a certain
amount of time to do this
you know what the whirlwind does not
have it does not have a clock these are
the endless tasks in your life that spin
all the time all the time you know when
you get there you’ve got this to do you
know when you get up on Friday you got
that to do the whirlwind of issues and
problems it takes to make you you if
you’re given a hundred percent of your
time to the whirlwind you’ll never get
where you’re trying to go at the most
eighty percent no more than that eighty
percent goes to the whirlwind twenty
percent goes to the week’s I’m not
talking about what you’re wearing ahead
I call them leaves they are your wildly
inspiring goals your wildly inspiring
goes if you don’t carve out time to
think toward and plan towards and
strategize your wildly inspiring girls
don’t get ten of them that’s too many
don’t get five there’s too many at the
most two and make sure that your goal is
worldly where it’s worthy of your twenty
percent a wildly inspiring goal is
something that if you got it it will
change how you deal with the whirlwind a
wildly inspiring goal is worthy of you
committee sense setting aside your time
and energy to focus on it and it’s not a
goal if it doesn’t have a clock for
instance if you if you say our goal is
to provide better service to our
customers that’s going to be a wildly is
wearing though it’s also gonna be an
unattainable goal because it is so
abstract that you’d never know when
you’ve done it but if you take the same
goal and say we are getting report cards
back from our customers and our goal is
by the end of the year to get 70%
positive report cards back now we have
and we have an indicator and it is
measurable and it is quantifiable and
it’s gonna give you the thing that you
need to continue to be creative the
satiety of winning if you build a life
that never says you want all you’re
gonna end up with is tired for these
wildly inspiring goals we don’t walk any
more than two of them we want them to
have a date on them and we want them to
be indicators to us that we have
completed this so that we can have the
celebration feeling of having won the
game when you begin to develop these
things so people up under you need to
have them too here’s the challenge make
sure their wigs tie into yours because
if they have a wildly inspiring gold
that doesn’t tie into your wildly
inspiring goals then you have division
and division leads to destruction I’m
gonna close with this little story I was
in South Africa and I took my son on a
safari is well no I did not really went
over to speak for an event like this and
one of the fringe benefits of be
speaking over there for a bunch of
billionaires was they like they let me
stay in Jay Paul Gettys house out in the
middle of South Africa and I took my son
on a safari though than neither one of
us really knew what a safari was we had
seen it on TV so we’re good I bought me
this outfit you know that I thought you
would wear I’m a safari and a certain
thing then I took the pictures of squid
it’s really nice to my son my wife
wouldn’t go she stayed in the house and
prayed for us
we get out there and I’m out there with
the zoologist and the zoologist is
sitting right beside me you know and
he’s telling me all of the deep things
about the Lions and the Eagles and we’re
seeing the gazelles running we’re seeing
the Zebras going we’re seeing everything
moving it’s amazing and they see he just
taught me all kind of information I
notice on the front of the Jeep sitting
in a chair that had been bolted down to
the team was a Zulu and the Zulu had a
rifle and he was quiet he didn’t say
anything the whole time they kept
telling me that the elephants were
somewhere around we couldn’t find them
there were footprints of him and the
zoologist was telling about a footprint
it’s a female it’s a female I say it’s
about five years old so it’s about five
years old or so and it looks like it’s a
female maybe mating season that’s how
can you tell about something tell it’s
amazing stuff all kinds of information
but he couldn’t find the elephant this
getting dark and Dexter’s making me look
bad because I told that was Dexter my
son we’re going to see the elephants and
he said then we still don’t see the
elephants I looked at I said we still
don’t see the elephant and he’s
explained and then he’s describing it
but he can’t find it he is intelligent
but he can’t find it finally the zoo who
said nothing the whole time stood up and
over there I will set my heading slowly
because I had I had everything that you
need to win I was inspired to take the
trip and then I had the intelligence of
the zoologist
to explain the trip I was on and then
the zoo gave me the instinct to know
what intelligence could explain but
couldn’t find inspiration could inspire
it but it couldn’t find it intelligence
can describe it but it cannot find it
ultimately it is always instinct that
tests to win and says the elephant is
over there if you take intelligence
inspiration and instinct into every
strategy you will ever go after no
matter the obstacle the tests are strong
the trial the tribulation no matter how
many people are getting you on there
haters who said you can’t do it you
can’t be covered you can’t have it no
matter what your ex-husband said about
you if you take these three soldiers
with you intellect instinct and
inspiration
you will always achieve your dream touch
your neighbor say you are close you are
close as I close today
I want to say this one thing to you and
I want you to remember it and I want you
to hold on to it no matter whether
things are better or worse richer or
poor going up or going down always
remember that you would not be stressed
or frustrated if you were not close to
what you were trying to achieve if you
were not close to it you wouldn’t have
that feeling down in your gut and in
your spirit that something is about to
happen in your life and if you forget
everything else that I said to you today
always always remember the elephant is over there