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Train your mind for peace and strength by building discipline, emotional control, and clarity to face life with confidence and purpose.
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00:00How are you guys doing? Welcome back to the Morning Roasted Podcast.
00:03This is your host, Caleb Thompson, man. We're coming live from New York City, as we always do, man.
00:07It's been a great morning out there. Hope you guys are having a great morning.
00:11One second.
00:14And we're going to have a good episode for you today, man. It's going to be quick,
00:17but we're going to give you three talk points, as we usually do,
00:21just for the duration of time to keep you guys,
00:24keep it in a certain, you know,
00:26give you a certain duration of time so that we can stay on track
00:29and, you know, your attention span won't be lost.
00:34So, today's episode is going to be training the mind for peace and power.
00:39Training the mind for peace and power.
00:41I'm going to tell you something, man.
00:43It is hard to stay in a flow state of peace,
00:47and people don't really understand that peace is power.
00:51So, you say, but you have to train your mind to be at a place of peace
00:54and train your mind to be in a place of power.
00:56And the reason why I say you have to train your mind to be at a place of peace
00:59is that there are soldiers that can go to sleep on a battlefield.
01:07I don't care if it's bombs going off.
01:09I don't care if it's gunfire or whatever.
01:12They are at sleep, at peace, you know, during battle.
01:17And I'm not saying that you have to go to the military to train your mind
01:21to be able to have this type of capacity to be able to operate in a place of pressure
01:26but still be at peace.
01:27You don't have to do that.
01:28You can do that right where you are.
01:30You just have to train your mind.
01:32It's hard work.
01:33It's hard work.
01:35It's hard work, man.
01:36It is hard work, but it's definitely worth it.
01:39The reward is worth it.
01:40A lot of times, man, when people don't really see the result immediately,
01:45I'm going to tell you something.
01:46You're not going to get any result immediately anyways.
01:50You know, you're not going to get any.
01:52And why I say this, you're not going to get an immediate result doing anything.
01:58You know what I mean?
01:59You can go to the store, buy a piece of gum, you know, and buy a pack of gum.
02:06You're thinking, okay, this is a quick result.
02:09Even exchange, I give them the money.
02:11I get the gum.
02:12I chew the gum.
02:13But don't you know that that gum had to go through a process?
02:15It had to be made at a certain place.
02:18It had to be packaged.
02:18It had to be shipped to where you are, or shipped to a warehouse or wherever it is,
02:22and then it had to be distributed to where you are.
02:25The order had to be put in for that gum to come to that convenience store.
02:28Then it had to come to the convenience store.
02:30Then you had to make sure that you did something, added some value to the world
02:34in exchange for money.
02:36Whether your value is that a loan, I'll pay you back,
02:41and they can stand on your word and your character and exchange your word for finances
02:46or that you work for it.
02:47So there's always a process to everything in life.
02:50There's nothing that you will ever see or do that doesn't have a process.
02:54Man, I was telling somebody the other day, I said,
02:56if you look around your own home, everything that you see was first in an idea.
03:02Everything that you see was an idea.
03:04You know, the fridge, the person that came up with the fridge, it was an idea.
03:07It did not happen overnight.
03:09You know what I mean?
03:10There's nothing you see.
03:11I have a dish rack that I'm looking at.
03:13This dish rack was an idea.
03:14Somebody was thinking, man, how do I store these dishes when they're wet,
03:18when I just don't feel like drawing them?
03:20They came up with the dish rack.
03:21You know, that was an idea, and then they put it into production.
03:24So everything that you see has a process to it.
03:27There is, I don't care if you have a hot pocket and you put it in the microwave.
03:32You know, someone had to build that microwave.
03:35You said, man, we don't have to go that deep into it, man.
03:37It's not that difficult and not that hard.
03:39I'm going to tell you something.
03:39If you start to look for shortcuts in everything that you do,
03:42you will forever be in survival mode.
03:45You have to get to a point where you have to accept.
03:47You know what I mean?
03:48And I've dealt with people that was completely delusional on the wrong side.
03:53There's a difference between being delusional.
03:55Delusional is basically understanding that, okay, something is not what it is,
04:02but I still walk, act, you know, and operate as if it is.
04:06That type of delusion is called having faith.
04:08That's manifestation, birthing manifestation.
04:12I have a dream.
04:13I have a goal.
04:13I have a product that I want to put out here into the world.
04:16So, even though I'm still working towards it, it doesn't seem like anything is happening.
04:19But I'm completely delusional.
04:21I'm completely in faith.
04:23Delusion, the right way, is called faith.
04:25Delusion, the wrong way, is called being, what do they call it, ignorance or idiocy or being an idiot.
04:34Really, if you are delusional in the wrong way, basically thinking that everything is going to happen overnight,
04:39you can just rob someone to be rich, you can do witchcraft to be rich, and things like that.
04:46Everything has a process.
04:47I don't care if you are in a cult or if you are in a church or you are a
04:51millionaire or you are a person that's working at a gas station.
04:55Everything that you do has a process.
04:57Spiritual things have a process to go through.
04:59Natural things have a process to go through.
05:01Don't think that you see something in someone else, you're just going to come and you're going to take it
05:05away.
05:05There is still a process, just think, you still have to reach a certain level to be able to operate
05:11a certain gift,
05:13even if it was stolen spiritually, even if you, whatever it is.
05:18So if someone is operating in a certain gift to a certain capacity,
05:21you cannot take a three-year-old and put him in a Ferrari and tell him to go and be
05:26a race car driver.
05:27You know what I mean?
05:28Everything that you have spiritually has an energy signature, which is like a car key to help you to be
05:36able to navigate and to operate in that certain thing.
05:39You can see someone, yeah, that has a million dollars, okay?
05:43You can do something towards that person, be able to siphon a couple million dollars,
05:48then there's still a spiritual consequence to it.
05:51But at the same time, that person can go back and make that money again because whatever he did to
05:58make that money,
05:59it has a certain ignition, which is the gift, but it has a certain key that only can fit that
06:06ignition.
06:06And if you have not built the capacity to be able to operate on that level,
06:12you don't have the key to operate in that gift or in that gift that comes with that customized and
06:22modified energy to that specific person.
06:26It doesn't work like that.
06:27It doesn't work how people think it works.
06:29You know what I'm saying?
06:30So the thing is this, man.
06:33You have to train your mind for peace and power.
06:37You really want to be powerful,
06:38you have to learn how to operate in a state of peace when all hell is breaking loose around you.
06:44You cannot be, and one way to do that is to cultivate emotional intelligence.
06:49You know the best way to cultivate emotional intelligence?
06:52I'm going to say the best way to cultivate emotional intelligence is probably marriage or being with someone.
07:00Being in a relationship with someone will probably help you to cultivate emotional intelligence quicker than anything.
07:06Either being a boss, being somebody that created a company, being a boss or a CEO or something like that,
07:12and you have to deal with different types of people.
07:14Being a hiring manager will teach you emotional intelligence if you are looking to learn and to grow into leadership.
07:20But also being married or being with a person will teach you emotional intelligence.
07:25Have you ever seen those people say, man, my wife is always right?
07:28They have cultivated emotional intelligence.
07:30Say, you know what?
07:31I understand that I'm here for a certain reason, a certain purpose, not saying that I won't get my point
07:36across,
07:36but some things are not worth fussing over.
07:39Some things are not worth destroying a relationship over.
07:41Some things are not worth me cussing you out for.
07:45Once I sit back and I start to learn and observe who you are and understand that as a man,
07:51and I have to bear with you through certain things and help to, you know what I mean?
07:55A lot of times, man, men fuss at women for things that they understand and knew that was wrong at
08:01that time.
08:02People say, man, what does this have to do with the episode?
08:03Just bear with me.
08:05You knew once you guys got together that, you know what I mean?
08:11This guy is irritable, you know what I mean?
08:12Or she, you know what I mean?
08:14She's just not learning you.
08:16She's just not going to pick up and do whatever.
08:17Once you get with someone, this person does not know you from front to back as if y'all been
08:22married 20 years.
08:23You have to give it time.
08:25You have to give a person a chance to learn you, and you have to sit there and observe and
08:30study that person and learn that person.
08:31And then you have to sit back and say that with this baggage or with these faults, am I able
08:38to still, now that I know, I have an option.
08:42You don't have an option of whether you want to be with someone or not if you don't understand who
08:46that person is.
08:47Unless it's beneficial.
08:48I'm only with this person because, you know what I mean?
08:51They help me with this.
08:52I'm only with this person because, but when the benefits run out, the relationship runs out.
08:56So you have to really understand and observe a person to see if that's what you want to deal with.
09:01And if there's a possibility or potential to grow past that level where you guys can move forward.
09:06And one way, and why I say all that is because I feel like the number one training exercise, spiritual
09:13training exercise for cultivating emotional intelligence would probably have to be a relationship.
09:18You got a whole entire person with their own mind, with their own goals, with their own dreams, with their
09:26own energy, with their own way of thinking, with their own background, their own culture and traditions that they came
09:32from that you probably didn't come from.
09:34And you guys are entering into a relationship.
09:36Now you have two totally separate people in one household that has to learn how to deal with each other.
09:42You're not marrying her.
09:43You're marrying the way that she was raised.
09:45You're not marrying him.
09:46You're marrying all the trauma and all the abuse that he went through and rejection and neglect from the world
09:52that you have to find some kind of way to help heal that man and operate with that.
09:58But, you know, you have to have emotional intelligence.
10:01So that is the same thing that we're talking about, training the mind for peace and power.
10:05The more peaceful you can become in a dangerous situation.
10:09I'm just not talking about someone didn't pick the kids up from school and now you're all fussy.
10:14I mean, you're supposed to get them.
10:16You're supposed to get them.
10:16Now I'm not talking about being peaceful in that situation, even though that's a crazy, that's natural, you know what
10:22I mean?
10:22But I'm talking about being peaceful in a dangerous situation where you can think strategically.
10:27You can still say, OK, now we know what the problem is.
10:31The problem is not going to change me acting a fool and me going crazy is not going to change
10:37anything.
10:38What what's what what are our options?
10:41Once you fall into a bad situation, once you fall into something not going your way, the first thing that
10:47you need to think of is what are my options from this point on?
10:51Now, don't think, man, that MF should have did this, man.
10:55I told them to do that.
10:56And why didn't they do this?
10:57And who said this and who said that?
11:00When you fall into a situation that that that did not go your way or the way that you expected
11:06it, your first response should be, OK, this happened.
11:11Now, what are my options from this point on?
11:13What are my options?
11:14Well, my next my next option is to just, you know, let it go, try to contact them, try to
11:20reschedule something else.
11:22Or my next option is to not fool with them again and start to look for another buyer, start to,
11:26you know what I'm saying, start to move this around, fire this person.
11:30You know, I've repeatedly, I've repeatedly stated my opinion and my request, you know, for a change in this certain
11:37behavior attitude is not working.
11:40It's time to move around.
11:41What are my options?
11:42You need to find out what your options.
11:45You need to find out what your options are once you fall into a bad situation.
11:51You know what I'm saying?
11:53You know what I mean?
11:53You can't, the rent's due and you can't pay rent.
11:57Sitting there crying and whining and saying, oh, I hate that they fired me from my job.
12:02I hate this happened.
12:03First thing you need to do is say, man, what are my options?
12:05What skill set do I have?
12:07What options do I have?
12:08Is there any way I can get a loan?
12:09What do I need to do to make sure that I can tackle this?
12:12You don't need to sit around and call everybody and talk about the landlord.
12:15You don't need to sit around and call everybody, talk about the boss.
12:17You don't need to call everybody whining and crying.
12:20You need to figure out from this, what are my options?
12:23What options do I have?
12:24Okay, well, I know I got a cousin.
12:26You know what I mean?
12:27That was going to, I know he'll probably let me get 200, but then you still got to come
12:30up with a way to pay him back.
12:31You know what I mean?
12:32So you, but you need to figure out what your options are in order to make sure that you
12:37can tackle that.
12:38You know what I'm saying?
12:39And find somebody and it's always good to have somebody to help you tackle a problem with
12:44you, but do not come to the point.
12:47And you, that is a way, if you want to be peaceful in a, in a, in a crazy situation,
12:53that's, that's your response.
12:54What are my options?
12:56That is going to, that's going to take you out of a place of being frantic and this mother,
13:00why did they do this?
13:02If you stop and say, what are my options?
13:04What are my options?
13:05That's going to kill the chaos in your mind.
13:09So now you're not looking, you're not thinking about, you're not problem-based, you're solution-based.
13:14That one phrase, what are my options, take you from being a victim to a strategist or someone
13:20who's trying to figure out how to, to, uh, how to tackle this problem.
13:24So that's something that you need to do.
13:25So in this episode, man, we explore how intentional, uh, training your mind can help you to cultivate
13:32inner peace while developing the mental strength to navigate, navigate life's challenges.
13:37So that's what we're talking about here.
13:38So I'm going to give you three talk points.
13:40We're going to run through these, uh, extremely quick.
13:42So just, uh, go ahead and, uh, and, and tune in because it's going to be quick.
13:46So talk point number one, I train my mind before the world trains, tries to train it.
13:51Uh, one thing I've learned is that I don't, if I don't intentionally direct my thoughts,
13:56my environment will do it for me.
13:59And the same is true for you.
14:00I'm going to tell you something.
14:02People say, man, I'm a product of my environment.
14:04I'm a product of my environment.
14:05Yeah, you can be a product of your environment.
14:07If you do not get control of your own mind, quit trying to control other people, quit trying
14:13to be the ruler over other, other things and stuff like that.
14:17And get control of yourself.
14:19You don't need to control somebody else.
14:20If you can control yourself, if you can under, and you know how you, you know how you control
14:24your own mind.
14:25When you start believing in yourself, get out of the mindset of thinking that if someone
14:31loves themselves, if someone is confident in who God made them to be, it's okay.
14:35If, if, if she, if she, if she's fine and she believes she's fine, don't try to kill her
14:40confidence and say, Oh yeah, yeah, you, you fine.
14:43But you know what I mean?
14:44But your, but your bathroom is dirty.
14:46You know, quit trying to find things to cut people down.
14:48Okay.
14:48Not everybody, not everybody cleans the house the same way.
14:51There is going to be some type of fault in everybody, but what people have confidence
14:56in don't try to use something else to kill that confidence.
14:59The thing is this, let people, let people, uh, love themselves.
15:05Let people believe in themselves.
15:07If you don't believe in yourself, if you don't believe in yourself, don't try to stop somebody
15:10else.
15:11Oh, that he's proud.
15:12They're prideful.
15:13We need to break that person down.
15:14You know, you don't need to break anybody down.
15:16You know what you need to do?
15:17You need to get the courage and get the strength to, to know that you, you're him, you're her.
15:23You know what I'm saying?
15:23You, you, you got the sauce.
15:25You know why people do, you know why you don't, you, why you don't think you got the sauce?
15:28Cause you looking at everybody else sauce.
15:31God did not make you to, to, to, uh, to cook up the same way.
15:34Yeah.
15:35Cook.
15:35Of course I'm cooking.
15:36I'm cooking spaghetti, but you, you, you, you, you the best, you the best barbecue chicken
15:40cook in this side of the Hudson.
15:42You need to be, don't focus on spaghetti.
15:44What I'm cooking.
15:45You need to be focused on slapping the ribs, ribs on the grill.
15:48That's what God made, created you to do.
15:50You need to cook.
15:51You need to cook that good jerk chicken.
15:52And I say that in a sense, and as an analogy to whatever gifts that God put in you, some
15:57people right now, they want to start a trucking business.
16:00You know why they haven't started the trucking business?
16:01Cause they, cause they're worried about what their homegirl going to say.
16:03They worry about what the homeboy going to say.
16:05They worried about, they worried about this or worried about that.
16:07Quit worrying about what everybody else is going to say.
16:11Do it.
16:11And once you do it, try to do it in silence as best as you can.
16:14You may want to tell your girl, you may want to, you know what I mean?
16:17You might do not tell anybody that does not have the capacity to help you.
16:21You don't need, I don't need to tell somebody that I want to open up.
16:24I don't need to open up a store.
16:26You know why?
16:27Cause they, they don't have the money.
16:29They don't have, they don't, they can't co-sign for me to get a loan.
16:32They can't, they don't want to go into business partnership with me.
16:34Why would I tell all my dreams and hopes to somebody who do not have, they don't even
16:38have the capacity to help me.
16:39He just asked me for $5.
16:41Why I'm be telling my homeboys about stuff, my dreams and me starting a company and this and
16:45that.
16:46Why I'm going to tell them about that.
16:47And he just asked me for, he can't help me.
16:49The only thing he can do is try to ride my coattail and see if I'll make it or not.
16:52And then once I do make it, he ain't going to do no, probably try to sabotage me or be
16:56jealous of me.
16:57Do not tell anybody, take care of your business, find, get the information that you need to
17:02make sure that, uh, you know, we're going to do the business podcast next.
17:06I'm kind of going into business right now, but I want to, I want to put that out.
17:10I'm saying that to say this, that if you do not start to control your, uh, the trajectory
17:15of your life, not everything is going to go the way you want, but you need to have a goal.
17:20You want to start a truck?
17:20You want to start a trucking company?
17:22I don't know why this is coming to me, but if you want to start a trucking company, you
17:26know what you need to do.
17:27The first thing you need to do is you need to, you need to make the logo.
17:30You need to, uh, make the, the, well, you need to come up with the name of the company.
17:34And when you come up with the name of a company, you got to come up with the name of
17:38a company
17:38that you can pass the company down to your children, whether it's your last name.
17:42So it could be something of legacy that bears your family name, or rather it be rather something
17:47that you can pass down to your children.
17:50And then number two is you need to come up with the slogan.
17:53They got McDonald's.
17:54I'm loving it.
17:55Burger King, whatever.
17:56You know what I mean?
17:57You know, the Burger King, have it your way.
17:59You need to come up with the name that you can pass down for generations.
18:03Do you need to come up with the slogan?
18:04Do you need to come up with a logo?
18:06And do you need to come up with a business plan?
18:08Those four things.
18:09Once you have all those things in line and you have your business plan, your business
18:12plan is your goals for that business.
18:16So, you know, once you come up with all that, you know what I mean?
18:18Then start to look into finance options.
18:20Uh, you can leverage your own personal credit.
18:22You can use OPM, other people's money.
18:26You know what I mean?
18:26People that believe in you.
18:27You know what I mean?
18:28Get money from them.
18:29You can find a older truck or find good deals on Marketplace.
18:33Someone has a box truck for $1,500.
18:35It might, it may be a 2008, but they'll get you, get you your first, you can, uh, hot
18:41shot, uh, hot shot, uh, uh, 2008 truck, uh, fix, take a little bit of money, fix the motor,
18:47make sure there's oils changed, tires good.
18:49Take a couple of hot shot contracts with, uh, a hot shot, and then you can upgrade your
18:54truck, get a better truck, sell that one.
18:56You got it for $1,500, sell it for a thousand bucks, and then use some of the money from
19:00your hot shot that you can, uh, start another one.
19:03But I don't know why I got on that, but back to this.
19:05But every morning is an opportunity to choose the mindset before outside influences take
19:11over.
19:12I'm going to tell you something.
19:13Man, you can get up in the morning.
19:14If you do not have a plan of what you're going to do, you can wake up in the morning
19:18and one piece of bad news on the news would change the trajectory of your day.
19:24If you do not know how to control your mind, man, it's one day I woke up, man.
19:28I'm just like, okay, man, I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that.
19:32And then I heard something about, uh, the war in Iran or something else.
19:35And I'm just like, man, my whole day changed.
19:38I'm like, man, you know, I had all these opinions and all these, uh, uh, judgments about
19:43the war that does not apply to my life.
19:46It's not going to change my life or help my life get any better.
19:49I'm like, man, I sit there and I rave and ran it for 30 minutes.
19:52Wait, I said 30 minutes of my life talking about something I can't change.
19:56You don't even worry about that.
19:58There's a lot of people that the illusion to keep people, uh, uh, to keep people distracted.
20:04It's a news places, all these things on the news.
20:06Oh, did you hear about what happened in Belgium?
20:09Did you hear about, yeah, we heard about what happened.
20:11But if I am not currently placed in a position in politics or in authority where I can, uh,
20:17uh, have a judgment that can, uh, judgment or have an opinion that can be able to reshape
20:22the rules and regulations on a global scale.
20:25I don't need to worry about it.
20:26If you're, if you're not the governor or you're not, if you're not in a position where you
20:31can, uh, really, uh, make changes or your opinions, you can put your, your opinions can
20:37be put into policies or, or, or laws or exchange certain, uh, uh, uh, ideologies about how you
20:44will reshape, you know what I mean?
20:46Uh, certain, uh, bills and all, you don't need to worry.
20:49That's, that's pass your pay grade.
20:51Don't sit here and talk about that.
20:53Sit here and waste 30 minutes with a buddy talking about the war in Iraq or the war, the
20:58war in Iran.
20:59And you know what I'm saying?
21:01And your credit's messed up.
21:02We need to be talking about, man, how you found any way that we can fix our credit so
21:06we can get a loan and start a business.
21:07You don't need to be, your credit's messed up or you behind Iran.
21:10You don't need to be talking about the war in Iran.
21:12You let the Iranians and you let the military worry about that.
21:15And you need to worry about the bond, the kids, some, some shoes for school.
21:19You know what I'm saying?
21:20That's our number one thing.
21:21We ain't worried about what they have going on over there.
21:23We can't do nothing about that.
21:25Talk point.
21:26Number two, build peace through daily mental habits.
21:29So one thing I realized is that peace isn't something I stumble upon.
21:32It's something that you practice every day.
21:34So the thoughts I repeat, the content I consume, the habits I develop shape my emotional being.
21:40What you put in is what you're going to get out.
21:43You ever heard someone say you are what you eat?
21:45That's true.
21:46That you can, you can eat things spiritually.
21:50Like whatever your eyes see, you eat.
21:53You, you, you, you, you, your whole spirit is a, a sponge.
21:58You know what I mean?
21:59Every, you consume everything that you consume.
22:01You know what I'm saying?
22:02Everything that you consume, uh, you are what you eat.
22:05Yeah.
22:06You know what I mean?
22:07And you can be different things.
22:08Don't get me wrong.
22:08You don't have to stop.
22:09You don't have to, uh, uh, stop being a gangster to be a businessman.
22:13You ain't got to stop being a businessman to be a military soldier.
22:16The thing is this, you have to learn how to balance.
22:18You are not just, let me put it like this.
22:21You are not just one person.
22:23You know, you, you are, uh, a spirit that's multifaceted.
22:27Yeah.
22:28Okay.
22:28Yeah.
22:29You, you, you might like, uh, Latin music, jazz, and all this.
22:33You don't have to be limited to, to one, uh, genre of music.
22:37You don't have to be limited to one type of business.
22:39I remember, man, when I started, I had a clothing business and then we have a restaurant company,
22:43but then I said, man, let's step outside the box.
22:46So we started a dance studio.
22:47There was more like a ballet dance studio.
22:49So I had a cousin, uh, when I started this, uh, I believe when I started it, I was in
22:54probably Tulsa, Oklahoma.
22:56At the time I know my cousin got a whiff of it.
22:58And then here you go, man, oh man, this dude, man, he doing ballet and he doing, he doing a,
23:03like he worried, he worried about the wrong thing.
23:05The thing is this, when you market a company or once you do something, it's not for you.
23:10I didn't start the company for me.
23:12I started the company for the consumers or the people who will be interested in the company.
23:16Sometimes when people see me market a certain thing, yeah, I can market, uh, I have a beauty supply store.
23:22Yeah.
23:22I can market a beauty supply store with some corny, corny woman's, uh, song.
23:27Um, that's, that's to draw the attention of the customers.
23:30That's not my personal preference of something that I like.
23:33That's something you, you, if I make a sandwich, if I make a certain type of sandwich, the certain type
23:38of sandwich is to draw in the customer who loves, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, bar, whatever, uh, uh,
23:46barbecue chicken, uh, barbecue, uh, chicken sub or whatever, whatever it is.
23:52It's not because I personally like it.
23:54It's because I feel like this is something that I can put out into the world that people will love
23:57to consume it.
23:58You, you make content, you make products, you create stores for consumers.
24:03You don't create them for yourself.
24:05You know what I'm saying?
24:06So if I started a, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, dance, dance studio with the dance shop, if
24:11I started a barbershop, if I started a, if I started a construction company, we sell a construction equipment.
24:17It's not because, oh, I'm just, uh, uh, I just know about construction.
24:21No, it's about that.
24:22There are people out there in construction that I want to target and sell these, sell these products to or
24:28rent these products out to.
24:29It's not about me.
24:30You know what I'm saying?
24:31At first it will become about you.
24:32You do have to find something that you're passionate about that will help build your wealth.
24:36And then you can, you know, start to expand towards other areas that, you know what I mean?
24:40That you can hire people who are experts in those areas to help you to learn how to sell more
24:45and help you to learn how to scale those companies.
24:47But the thing is this, you, um, simply simply simple, small daily habits like gratitude, reflection, mindfulness, and intentional thinking.
24:58They all strengthen your inner peace.
25:00So, man, um, and number three is developmental strengths, uh, to handle life's challenges.
25:07Uh, like we just talked about, man, learning how to be emotional, intelligent, man.
25:11Even with everything that's falling apart, you can still be emotional, intelligent.
25:14You still, uh, stay strong in those areas.
25:16Uh, mental strength grows every time you choose discipline over distraction and courage over fear.
25:22One thing, one way how to grow, one way how to grow your confidence is do something every day that
25:28scares you.
25:29Every day, now I'm not saying go rob a bank.
25:31You just like, ah, ah, do something that scares me.
25:34All right, yeah, you jumping off the top of a building with a trash bag, you know, thinking you go,
25:38I'm not saying do nothing like that.
25:41No, I'm just saying, but do something that scares you.
25:43If you never, if you never, if you always cooking tacos and you never cook, cook some homemade, uh, lasagna,
25:52you know what I'm saying?
25:53Do something to scare you.
25:54Oh, I might mess this up.
25:56Do it anyway.
25:56You know what I'm saying?
25:57If you always cooking, you know, if you always, the only thing you make is cheeseburgers, but now you want
26:03to learn, get it, get a recipe book and start to cook up something different.
26:07You know what I'm saying?
26:08Start to expand, uh, expand yourself.
26:10Do not stay stuck in your environment, oh, everybody listen to rap and listen to gangster rap.
26:15And then you feel like you got to listen to it because you don't want to be weird.
26:18Do something different.
26:20You are not going to learn how to be creative.
26:21You're not going to learn how to step into a room and be able to deal with different types of
26:25people.
26:26You cannot be the same version of yourself everywhere that you go.
26:30People think that's keeping it real.
26:32You know, I can keep it real.
26:33You keep it real.
26:33You're going to lose your job.
26:34You can tell that.
26:35Yeah.
26:36Okay.
26:36Yeah.
26:37You keep it.
26:37You keep it too real.
26:38You're going to lose this job.
26:39I'm not saying being authentic does not mean authenticity is realness.
26:45What people call real is staying in a one track mind, being one person, doing one thing and giving that
26:51one version to everybody.
26:53You know, that's not what it is.
26:54You need to learn how to be multifaceted.
26:55You need to learn, you need to learn how to, how to, uh, how to, uh, I had to say
27:01this.
27:01You need to learn how to break down, uh, you know what I mean?
27:03Uh, break down the M16 rifle.
27:05And you also need to learn how to, uh, you also need to learn how to, uh, throw a kid's
27:10birthday party.
27:11You know what I'm saying?
27:12You need to be multifaceted.
27:14You need to, you need to learn how to, uh, how to, uh, decorate, uh, decorate, decorate a, uh, four,
27:20four year, four year old, uh, birthday party thing.
27:23And you also need to, need to learn how to, uh, and say it like that, but yeah, you need
27:29to learn, you need to learn how to protect your family as well.
27:31So, so do, do not stay stuck in this one track mind of, yeah, because the homies and, and because,
27:38you know what I mean?
27:39My mama said and all this, I do not care.
27:41Whatever you feel like you need to do, do it.
27:43You know what I'm saying?
27:44Especially if you got a girl with you too, man.
27:45Tell your girl your dream and you can say, okay, uh, uh, people, people think it's going to happen overnight.
27:51No, you need to have a five year plan.
27:53You need to say within the next five years, these are some things that we want to accomplish.
27:56All right.
27:57We have a, we have a place.
27:58We want to get it.
27:59We want to get a car.
28:00I want to start off with one car.
28:01Then we need to work towards me having a car and you having a car.
28:03We need to fix our credit.
28:05We need to, you know what I mean?
28:06First thing, you know, you start right where you are.
28:10You know, I was moving so fast and then I just stopped and said, you know what, the, what, what
28:14do I need to do right now?
28:15And the first thing I said I need to do is I need to fix where I live.
28:18If you do not fix and furnish where you live at, it is going to be uncomfortable for you to
28:23come.
28:24You can work all day and come home and I would, I would work all day and come home and
28:28sleep on a,
28:28not even an air mattress.
28:30My air mattress messed up.
28:31So I was sleeping on the plastic or other air mattress after working all day.
28:35It wasn't comfortable.
28:37So I, even after working all day, man, it made me feel like you, you been sleeping on rocks, you
28:44know?
28:44So the thing is I said, okay, no, what do I need to do from this point on?
28:48So first I need to, the place where I lay my head and where I come after a long day
28:52of work, I want to be able to sit down.
28:54I want to be able to be comfortable after working, after doing this.
28:58So I said, okay, I'm just set aside a budget.
29:00I'm not going to spend no more money on, you know what I mean?
29:03Drinking.
29:04I'm not going to spend any more money on, you know, this or that.
29:06I'm not going to spend any, I'm going to cut all that out and I'm going to move that budget.
29:10So it's making sure that my living quarters is comfortable.
29:13And then after that's taken care of, then I will be able to move forward to the next level.
29:17But I have to cut out some things.
29:18I have to sacrifice some things that I like to do.
29:20I have to sacrifice some things that I, to make sure that I could, you know, to make sure that
29:26where I stay would be comfortable enough after working all day.
29:29You're out there in the sun.
29:30You're out there going door to door.
29:32You're out there meeting clients.
29:34You're out there, you know what I mean?
29:35Doing all kind of, you know what I mean?
29:37Doing all kind of stuff.
29:37And then you come home and then when you come home, you got, you got a bottle, but your house
29:43is bare, bare naked.
29:44You can't even, you can't even, you can't even be comfortable after working like a dog all day.
29:49Take that time apart, break away from some stuff and get yourself together.
29:53So at least when you come home, if things don't go the way you want them to go, at least
29:57you have a, at least you have a TV, at least you have a couch, at least you have a
30:00nice bed that you can sit and you can lay and you can enjoy where you spend most of your
30:04time or some of your time.
30:06So at the end of the day.
30:07But, uh, uh, when I cultivate, uh, peace and strength, I become better equipped to lead, serve and grow through
30:14every season.
30:15So this is the morning roasted podcast.
30:16This is the place we make your mornings matter the most.
30:18We'll come alive from New York city as we usually do.
30:21I'll see you.
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