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Published: 2014-06-13
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaRO5-V1uK0
so I'm trying to compose my my blog post for tonight and I'm thinkin it sounds really believable that I went to prison and how did much of really nice prisoners while a DJ busy threw on some records and Richard Branson told me where I can score some pretty harrowing true story lesson number one never leave a prediction it doesn't empower you when I was born the
doctors told my parents and I would be dead within the first twenty four hours of my life thirty five years later all those doctors are dead in now me in the only doctor they remain never believe the prediction that doesn't empower you how many predictions have been thrown at you your whole life if you believe predictions that do not empower you you will wither away and
die either physically dying or your spirit will die as you just walk around the world like a carcass that is just following the masses you will be given a lot of titles in your life you will be told so many different things you must only listened to that which empowers you I have a belief that is served me in my way and that is that everyone
is rooting for me to win even those that do not know what's and I am not here today tell you that I have had adversity in my life and so therefore I know what you're going through I don't have a clue let any of you are going to in your lives I did not grow up in your neighborhoods more than likely I did not have your
set of parents nor do I live in your body I have not had the events that you had happened to you I can tell you I am only an expert on one thing and that's how to be me and I do it well but it's not whom easily I've done three things that I don't wish upon anyone in this room I've had metal rods pulled out
a bone marrow while I was awake I've had drawn sections were T. thread he extracted and I can no longer to my own food I have to get up every day indeed soured and cared for physically by another human being what choices and gorgeous woman I marry I get stared at everywhere I go in the moment people meet me if they don't know a thing about
my resume they automatically just by the human nature think to themselves wrong it must be so difficult to be that man if somebody pities me they're wasting their time because I have chosen ally of strength and I am here to help you choose a life of strength but I'm gonna tell you we talked about drugs here you know what the worst drug ever hit the human
race is pity the moment you feel sorry for another person or the moment you feel sorry for yourself your host you are totally completely frozen in potential I can not pity ourselves we can not pity you yes I get to go home today yes I get to have what many would call freedom but I'm gonna talk to you about freedom about what I really choose to
see free demands because like I said you cannot believe predictions that do not empower you the second lesson today is you are not your condition you are not I am not disabled sure I'll take a handicapped parking privileges but that does not define me as a man not able I been looked at and treated my whole life as if I am not able I have had
to rise above and so people that the only disability is one's refusal to adapt you have to adapt to whatever environment you're eating even if its prison and what is adaption look like I think it looks like celebration because when you meet people that are celebrating their life you want to be around them you wanna learn from you what to do business with them you want
to hire them look if you do not wanna be seen as a prisoner work convict when you get out of this or even while you're in this there is an attitude is a belief in yourself that you bring value to the human race no matter what your current condition title stature is I believe that I'm disabled I would wither up I would be shy I would
be insecure I would be afraid I would act like I need your help in the rest of humanity would be okay with facts I choose something else I choose to be strong I choose to be a leader I choose to have words to move this planet I'll tell you why I was born and I hope it inspires you to find out why you were bored I
was born to read this world of insecurity because when a human being isn't secure they do stupid stuff when we feel like we're not enough leak chase external validation and external objects to try to tell us we're not thank you you honor enough I'll tell you I need a pledge of the therapist to love our own human beings no matter what they've done because deep down
inside I found that every human being just wants to be laughed even if they're tough even if they're scary even if they're vicious you get them in the right position at the right time they'll tell you the truth just wanna be loved you know they want to live from the most not their moms not their dad's not there wardens none of these people they want to
be able to look in the mirror and love themselves and if you can figure that out then you're going somewhere can I feel sorry for you when you feel sorry for so you will wither but there is a contradiction to viewing started so it the opposite extreme it's it's I what I call bullying yourself beating yourself up being your own and they need tearing your so
that all those predictions those negative opinions their true they're right here watch them failure you're not the amount to anything bullying yourself is the most dangerous thing that you could do you cannot afford to pity yourself you cannot afford it bully yourself you have to love yourself it is the last lesson that I'm gonna share with you today that is I'm gonna teach you what the
real prison is it's not surround by barbed wire electrical fences the real prisons do not have guards the real prisons up here and we all got it we all have a mind shatters so often will stop chattering you know where you salvation is it's not outside these walls I have met so many people that are so extremely successful repayments that are in prison they're stuck in
their minds blowing themselves pitying them so true freedom is dropping down out of that mine what my wife has taught me track in your heart in the mastering is beating thing that it's more than just sending blue lied to the extremities what is it doing it sending emotional possibilities infinite possibilities of shoe lace in our behavior in our life and our attitude when you love yourself
whether you're sleeping on a prison acts we're in a mansion whether you have food in your belly here you don't know when you're not Smeal is coming when you love yourself when you learn to master your emotions then and only then free I love you each and everyone of you and I wish you freedom within these walls that's what I
