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this company? Should I start my own business?

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Should I? Bruh. It

2:00

don't matter. It don't matter. I've seen people who

2:02

on the surface made the greatest

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decision ever two three years later It's

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dead they fail And

2:10

I don't I definitely need y'all to hear that bro The

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worst thing in the world is to go 15 20

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years and have a bunch of success and

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your whole thing crash You

2:23

ready You

2:38

What's going on world welcome to another edition of

2:40

the secret to success podcast I'm your host CJ

2:43

joined by the big dog varsity team

2:45

to varsity start lineup We are I

2:47

feel like you could be a varsity

2:49

something Everyone once a

2:52

quarter is varsity only you know what

2:54

I'm saying as y'all know I'm

2:56

joined by the good doctor the

2:59

hip-hop preacher by

3:02

cozy lit fire

3:04

hmm yes at the Warndall

3:07

for stories yeah now This

3:10

is a nice nice place.

3:12

Yeah, nice little Hopefully they

3:14

can get some footage of it. Yeah, no no no

3:16

we'll get some footage footage You know where you know

3:19

where we are right now, but I must admit B

3:21

roll that in you know I got it man I

3:25

just so I'm not fully I'm

3:29

not fully healed okay, okay. I

3:31

gotta be honest and transparent so

3:34

You remember back in the day when you

3:36

first start like coming to fame and we

3:39

were on the escalator and

3:41

the security guard Oh, yes, yeah, yeah, so we're

3:43

on the esk of this back in the day

3:45

Yeah, like after thank God is Monday and stuff

3:47

start popping off, and it was going pretty well

3:51

We're on the escalator, and you know

3:53

at the mall so me and he

3:55

going down yeah, and that my man

3:57

coming up homies coming up and so

4:00

So my man is coming up and I

4:02

see him staring at us. And

4:04

he's staring and he like, staring

4:08

and I seen, he would tap me like, yo, you see my

4:10

man staring at us? And I was

4:12

like, yeah, but I wasn't really tripping. I'm just like, whatever,

4:14

you know what I'm saying? Do whatever you want to do,

4:17

stare. So he like, what's

4:19

up my man? You staring, you, my

4:21

man was like, ET, I'm your biggest

4:23

fan, bruh. It was a white male cop. I

4:27

didn't know, you know what I'm saying? So

4:30

anyway, hilarious. But

4:32

I must admit I had a similar

4:34

moment with your homie downstairs. So

4:37

you called down there, told

4:40

him that I was going to be parking the Tesla. So

4:43

he goes, so I come in. First

4:45

of all, I thought you talked to them and the valet

4:47

didn't know what was going on. Well, he said he was

4:50

going to call valet. So

4:53

I guess his intentions was to walk

4:55

out there when I'm out there. So

4:57

you got some old white

5:00

people, just

5:02

to give you the setup scenario, some

5:04

old white people standing outside

5:07

at the valet. I pull up and

5:10

they looking at me like, what room? I'm like, oh, I

5:12

don't got a room. I'm here to see. They

5:14

look, and they're not tripping, but they kind of like, oh,

5:16

okay. Like what's going on? I'm like,

5:18

all right. So now I'm looking like the cat who

5:21

can't afford the room, they'll pull it up. So

5:23

anyway, I'm like, all right, I'm not tripping.

5:26

So nobody, so dude ended up

5:28

being like, all right, I'll take the car or whatever

5:31

and get that straightened out. Then dude

5:33

walks out in the suit and

5:36

he was like, yeah, can I help you? And I was like,

5:38

yeah, I'm just here to see somebody. He was like, who? And

5:42

I was like, bruh,

5:45

slow. You know what I'm saying? I'm

5:47

like, so I looked at him like, huh? He's

5:50

like, who you here to see? And

5:52

just when I was about to be like my

5:55

man, I slapped you

5:57

up real quick. Just cause I was not getting on

5:59

my. He was like, Thomas Rogers want to make

6:01

sure, because

6:06

he was with the Tesla, he

6:08

called me, told me to come get you. I was like,

6:11

ooh, little man, little man.

6:14

Oh, little man, you almost, you almost got it.

6:16

You don't even know how close you was. To

6:18

get this. You don't even know how close you

6:20

was. So I was like, man, I

6:22

must repent. You know, my man, he was just trying,

6:25

you know, I guess you got it. Yeah, no question.

6:27

At these nicer establishments. Yeah, you got to keep it

6:29

low. You got to keep it low. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

6:31

You got to have it. Well, at least you said,

6:33

repent. That's in the Bible. That's, there's an

6:35

opportunity. I'm going to say this. One

6:37

thing that pissed me off about hotels,

6:39

I get you need a key to get up.

6:41

Yeah. Yeah. What pissed

6:44

me off is when you need the key

6:46

to your floor. Ah, yes. Fam,

6:49

I'm staying in the hotel. Matter

6:51

of fact, the stairs is right here.

6:53

I could just- You just hit the stairs. Yeah, you

6:55

hit the stairs. Most people I maybe don't know that

6:58

though, but yeah. Okay, but I'm saying

7:00

the problem is if me and you at a hotel

7:02

together and I'm on 13, you on

7:04

15. And I'm on 15. I can't get to you. Yeah.

7:07

I got to go all the way downstairs, meet

7:09

you at the elevator. You know what I'm saying? Well,

7:11

that's why the holiday and Express is cool. Yeah, dog.

7:13

They'll be putting you through all that. Oh, that's what,

7:15

bro, we leave the light on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay,

7:17

that's big, bro. You know what I'm saying? There's only

7:19

one floor. You ain't got to worry about going upstairs.

7:21

Everybody is equally can get to each floor. Yeah. All

7:25

right. So that's my, you know, my apologies

7:27

to the gentleman, cause I know I looked

7:29

at him crazy. I just wasn't even prepared

7:31

for like, what he,

7:33

you know, like who you here to see. Yeah,

7:35

the swag. But it wasn't like, he wasn't, he

7:37

was cool. Yeah, yeah. But I

7:39

was, Yeah, okay. You said, you just- You see what

7:41

I'm saying? I was already at a heightened state. Yeah,

7:43

yeah, yeah. I feel like that happens often. Like whatever

7:45

you preparing for, like I was already preparing for, cause

7:48

of how nice it is. Yeah, they was going to be. I

7:50

felt like, you know what I'm saying? They was not going to

7:52

get you a hard time. And then I got my nephew, I'm

7:55

with me. So we looking like, you know what

7:58

I'm saying? Anyway, like don't try to play. in

8:00

front of the base. So

8:02

as you can see, this

8:04

is another monumental moment. For

8:07

those of you who don't know, we wrote the book, UOU,

8:11

which you should know because you listening

8:13

to this, but by God's

8:15

grace and y'all support, we ended up hitting

8:17

the New York Times bestseller list. Praise God.

8:20

And right after we did it, he was

8:22

like, man, that's good. That's

8:26

good. People read the book, they're inspired

8:28

by it, the stories, the testimonials have

8:30

been crazy. But he was like, bro, we

8:32

got to take it to another level. And

8:34

I really want this 365 devotional. So

8:37

I won't step in the way, but as

8:39

you can see, it came out phenomenal. I

8:41

just love it. Even the 365 is

8:44

so symbolic of consistency,

8:46

right? Every single day. And

8:49

I think with a book,

8:51

no disrespect to the book because the

8:53

book is phenomenal, but you can read a book in

8:55

two days. If you

8:57

me, you can read it in six months. I don't

8:59

read that fact. But you know what I'm saying? It's

9:01

something that you pick up, put down, whatever. This

9:04

is something completely different. So

9:06

I'll let you talk about the 365,

9:08

maximize your 24 hour day,

9:11

UOU devotional. Yeah, you

9:13

know what though? I'm fine with you. Yeah, yeah. That's

9:15

right, right there. They should have, they should have added

9:17

some clap in there. Don't worry about it. I got

9:19

my own. Yeah, you know what? I'm not sure. You

9:21

know what? For me, this book though, man, before I

9:23

get into the actual book, this

9:26

book is about 20 years in

9:28

the making. And

9:30

for me, this book shows just

9:33

how long it really takes to grow, man. You

9:35

know, as humans, we'd be

9:37

talking that talk. You know, it's like, oh,

9:39

next year gonna be my year. You know,

9:41

we get baptized. We

9:45

fast, we go through revivals. You

9:48

know what I'm saying? But a lot of times the

9:50

stuff that we say, we want

9:52

or we pray about, we don't actually

9:54

manifest it. You know what

9:56

I'm saying? It's like, it's a wish list. It's

9:58

a, I'm gonna get to it. And

10:00

this book is really 365. It's

10:04

really showing my growth and

10:06

my development and my completion.

10:10

I don't remember the actual day, the actual

10:12

month, but

10:14

my boy Marcus Flowers came to me and

10:17

I was in Huntsville at the time, I was living

10:19

in Huntsville and he brought me this

10:22

book. Bro, it's the craziest

10:24

thing. The book where the guru

10:26

story came from, the

10:28

book where the speech

10:31

that put us on the map, over 100 million

10:34

hits, that story came from

10:36

that book. And he

10:38

came to me and was like, E, you

10:40

gotta read this. You know what

10:42

I'm saying? I had just finished speaking on campus

10:45

and Marcus was like, E, you gotta read this.

10:47

And it was getting dark. So he turned on the

10:49

lights to his car and we read it.

10:51

And bro, what made that book so

10:53

dope was it was the first time

10:56

in my life I had read a 365 day book. Like

11:00

that was the first time in my life I had ever

11:02

read a book. Oh, that's what that book was? Yeah, Dennis

11:04

Kimbrough, Daily Motivation for African American Success. Like, I didn't know

11:06

it was 365. Yeah, well, the

11:09

book was, you're right.

11:11

The book was Think

11:13

and Grow Rich, a Black Choice. But

11:15

then he came back with

11:17

the Daily Motivation for

11:20

African American Success. And that book was

11:22

dope because it was like every

11:25

day, it

11:27

was five minutes, different principle. But

11:29

you know what? That book revealed a

11:32

very dark reality in my

11:34

life. And that was that

11:36

I wasn't consistent. I'm

11:39

being real, bro. You know how

11:41

easy it seems to read

11:43

a book every single day? Like

11:47

one pager, big font,

11:49

bro, I would pick it up. I

11:51

read January 1st, January 2nd, January 3rd.

11:54

I don't pick that joke up again

11:56

to January 10th, January

11:58

11th. Then I go 11th. 12,

12:00

13, then I don't read it again. Then I

12:02

read some of February. Then

12:05

I read most of March. Miss all

12:07

of April. Bruh, I'm just being real.

12:09

It literally probably took me about six

12:12

years to actually

12:14

probably get through the majority of the

12:17

book. You know what I'm saying?

12:19

Meaning by the fifth, sixth year, I

12:21

might've done 300 out of the 365. And

12:25

it revealed to me, yo

12:27

bruh, you lack stamina,

12:30

you lack consistency. You

12:33

feel me? Like you lack all the stuff it takes

12:36

to really be successful. Cause

12:38

like, you know, you can have somebody

12:40

who put up 50

12:42

points in a basketball game. Well, you're not

12:44

doing the coach a favor. If it's 82

12:47

games and three of those games, you could

12:49

put up 50 points. Like you really coach

12:51

it with rather you put up 12 and

12:54

put up 12, 70 games. Cause

12:56

now he can build around your 12. He

12:58

can't build around your sporadic 50. You get

13:01

50, then zero. You know, so for me,

13:03

this book is dope because it

13:05

shows, bruh, after 20 years, I

13:08

finally wrote the 365. So

13:12

yeah, like you said, people have

13:14

been watching videos and people

13:16

get excited about those videos. And some people do

13:18

change because of them, but the majority of people

13:20

don't. So God was like,

13:22

son, you have to write a book

13:25

with the principles that blew you up with

13:27

the questions you had to ask yourself with

13:29

the reflection you had to do. And you

13:32

got to do it 365 days. You

13:35

feel me? So this book means a lot

13:37

to me because it shows my growth and

13:39

my development. And no, you're not going to

13:41

open up this book and read about me

13:43

meeting a basketball player. You're not going

13:46

to read this book and discover how

13:48

I made, you know, millions

13:51

from speaking. Like you're not going to get that. What

13:54

you are going to get is

13:56

stripped from me, the DNA of

13:58

success, like the actual. the actual

14:00

principles I use, the

14:02

actual system that I

14:04

had to use to get to where I

14:06

am. And more importantly, you will not

14:09

be able to put it down. I'm going

14:11

to walk with you for 365 days. Like

14:15

through the book, I'm going to hold you accountable. Through

14:17

the book, I'm going to give you a playbook. Through

14:20

the book, you're going to hear me screaming at you.

14:22

Through the book, you're going to hear me, let's go.

14:24

Through the book, you're going to literally know,

14:27

okay, routine wise, I should be doing this on

14:29

Monday. I should be doing this on Tuesday. And

14:31

let me just be real. When

14:34

you finally get through 80%,

14:36

90% of the book, you

14:38

will be exactly where you

14:40

dreamed of being. There won't

14:42

be a disconnect between your dreams and

14:44

your goals and your reality. Like

14:47

you won't be like, bro, I

14:49

walk into this room. I'm not trying to be funny,

14:52

but when I first started and

14:54

I was going into the Holiday

14:56

Inn Express, you know, the La

14:58

Quinta, like, like, bro, we have

15:00

to understand something. Legit, uh, Embassy Suite. When we

15:02

start really, you know what I'm saying? Doing, I

15:04

think we was geeked about the break. Oh, the

15:07

Embassy Suite. That was the second level. Bro, that

15:09

was, that was tier two. Oh yeah, it was

15:11

La Quinta. We had, when we got, let me

15:13

tell you something, the breakfast tickets. Bro,

15:16

to this day, he was like the godfather. He

15:18

had to knock on his door and say a

15:20

secret password to get his breakfast tickets. To get

15:22

the breakfast tickets, bro. You know what I'm saying?

15:24

Can you look up the word consistent, Brendan? Uh,

15:26

real quick. Uh, just look up consistency. I just

15:29

want to, you know. Yeah, look at that. Because

15:31

you said something and I was like, okay, that's deep. You

15:34

said I was inconsistent. Yeah. Right.

15:37

And you know, it's funny because I'm

15:40

thinking about, you know, words got

15:42

meaning. Yeah. And you think about saying

15:44

I'm inconsistent. Yeah. And I would

15:46

actually argue that that's probably not the truth.

15:48

Yeah, I got you. Yep. I

15:50

see where you're going. No, I'm just saying, I want to go like B. Let

15:53

me know when you got it. Yeah, I see where you're going. Yeah. Because

15:55

we only use the word consistent for positive. Yeah. That's

15:58

what I'm saying. Go ahead, what is it?

16:00

Yeah. Again, where's

16:03

it got meaning? Consistency. Yeah.

16:06

Let's see, they got... Just give me a couple of them. And

16:08

we'll put it on the screen for y'all to see. The

16:10

application of something typical that which is

16:12

necessary for the sake of logic, accuracy,

16:14

or fairness. Okay. The achievement

16:16

of a level of performance that does not

16:19

vary greatly in quality over time. Yeah.

16:22

The way in which it's substance typically a

16:24

liquid holds together business philosophy. Yep.

16:27

So that's what they got. We're good. So

16:29

here's the thing, right? We always... You

16:31

talk about, oh man, I'll be

16:33

this, but I'm inconsistent. And you talked

16:35

about keeping records, right? And

16:38

so it's funny because the Bible app will

16:40

let you know how many days you open

16:42

this app. Yeah. Like, and I

16:44

was so mad though. I had a

16:46

streak going like maybe like a

16:48

year. Yeah. And I don't know

16:50

some kind of way when we went to Dubai,

16:53

you know, the time change. So

16:55

I missed it. Yeah. And I opened that

16:57

jug of and it said one. And

17:00

I was like, oh, cause

17:03

I had been so consistent. And so

17:05

when you say I'm inconsistent,

17:08

I would ask you to look at how

17:10

many times you open Instagram in

17:12

the last three years. Yeah. Like

17:15

how many days did you miss? Yeah. And

17:17

you might say, I'm gonna be real. I missed

17:19

one day on the gram. I

17:21

missed one day on Facebook. Yeah.

17:24

So are you inconsistent? Nope. You're

17:26

not inconsistent. You misprioritized what

17:28

you consistent on. Yes. Yes.

17:32

So bro, you missed the gang. He

17:34

ain't, you see what I'm saying? No question. You

17:37

ain't miss nothing that was important to you. And

17:40

so what you're talking about with

17:42

this book is allowing people to

17:44

reprioritize something that may not

17:46

be a natural thing, right? Like it wasn't

17:48

a natural thing for us to say, all

17:50

right, we consistent every single day. See, I

17:52

don't care what happened. I

17:55

need you to send out this many emails every single day,

17:57

every single day. I'm gonna wake up and write. So

18:00

it's really the things that I

18:02

guess we don't want to do. Yeah. That

18:05

we have to put in safeguards.

18:08

You know what I'm saying? And like have

18:10

these. So I would argue that I don't

18:12

think there's an inconsistent. You're consistent in something.

18:15

Yeah. How now can you

18:17

take that mindset of what you, like I

18:19

said, you ain't had no problem opening the

18:21

grand. Yeah. You might have missed a couple

18:23

of days on the Bible app. You might have missed it. You

18:26

see what I'm saying? So I would say. Yeah, no,

18:28

no, that's deep. And I'm saying

18:30

to everybody that's listening, sometimes we

18:32

get caught up like in material

18:34

things. And it's like, I

18:36

just want people to understand something. I

18:39

was talking to Jalen the other day and I was like,

18:41

yo, bud. I'm

18:44

not, I said, I want you to understand as

18:46

a father, you are a

18:48

grown man. I don't want you to think

18:50

I'm calling you and reprimanding you. Yeah.

18:52

Like, like the conversation we're about to

18:54

have is a pleasant conversation. You may

18:57

not take it as pleasant. You

18:59

feel me? Right. Because of the nature of the

19:01

conversation. But I want to just start off by

19:04

saying, this is a very healthy

19:06

conversation we're about to have. In

19:08

fact, as a father, I don't

19:10

want you to ever, I know you have a

19:13

spirit of independence. And I don't ever want you

19:15

to have to work for somebody because

19:17

that's not your spirit. Like you don't have

19:19

a spirit of working for another adult. You

19:22

work for yourself. I created that situation for

19:24

you. I said, but here goes the challenge.

19:27

I see how you

19:30

are using your day and

19:32

your skill set. And I'm

19:34

afraid that the way you're doing

19:37

it, it may not necessarily take

19:39

you where you want to go. You

19:41

feel me? So I'm saying like, look, I'm

19:44

not telling you what to do here. What

19:46

I'm asking you to do makes it look

19:48

at your look at your one, which is

19:50

day one. Look at your seven, which is

19:52

seven days. Look at your 30, which is

19:54

30 days. Look

19:56

at your 90, which is your milestones.

19:58

Look at your 360. And

20:01

if those things are not congruent,

20:04

then you go, I need you to make

20:06

some, I need you to, because you're your

20:08

own, like you actually have what you've always

20:10

dreamed of. You were your own boss, but

20:14

you still have to boss you. You

20:16

still have to supervise you. Like you don't

20:18

get to not supervise you because you're supervising

20:20

you. Like you still need to be supervised.

20:22

You know what I'm saying? And now it's

20:25

just you supervising you. Like you don't have

20:27

another adult supervising you. So you

20:29

supervise you. You feel me? That's

20:31

the next thing. So when I walk in

20:34

a room like this, what I see is,

20:36

and I told Jaylen, here's

20:38

like I'm really having this

20:40

conversation with you. Because based on

20:42

what you're doing, if you continue

20:44

to do it, and in six months from now

20:47

you don't have what you want, you're about to

20:49

be pissed. And you're about to be

20:51

pissed because you're not lazy,

20:54

because you're actually doing something throughout the course of

20:56

the day, because you actually have

20:58

a focus. And so the person who's not

21:01

doing anything is not upset when they don't

21:03

get anything. The person that's

21:05

most frustrated in life is the person that's

21:07

actually doing something and they're not getting what

21:09

they thought they should get based on what

21:11

they're doing. That's the most frustrating

21:13

person. It's not the person that's on welfare. It's

21:16

not the person that's waiting for a check to

21:18

come. They're not tripping. They really know my life

21:20

is dependent upon this check. We're going to eat

21:22

a certain way on the first. We're going to

21:25

eat a certain way on the 15th. It's the

21:27

entrepreneur who grinding, who at the end of the

21:29

year is like, how do I only make $30,000?

21:32

Like that's the person that's pissed because

21:34

they're putting in work. And so when I

21:36

walk into a room like this, it's

21:40

not, oh, we made it, or I'm

21:42

somebody. No, it is the Bible says

21:45

if a man is diligent at his work,

21:47

he shows stand before, he's not even

21:50

talking about people. He's saying, if you do

21:52

this, you're supposed to get this. So

21:54

when I walk into a room, a presidential

21:56

suite, I don't go. I'm better than

21:59

a bios. I'm the number one

22:01

motivational speaker in the world. This is the best room they

22:03

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22:07

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holiday season. So

27:01

the 365 again some people

27:04

might be all in. Bro,

27:06

I thought you was gonna be motivational. I

27:08

thought you was gonna be inspirational. Actually I'm

27:10

not. I've actually grown up and I'm actually

27:12

free from you. Like I'm free

27:14

from y'all. Meaning I'm not giving y'all what y'all

27:17

want no more from me so you could say

27:19

I'm the best. I'm actually about to give you

27:21

what you need and you might

27:23

go oh eat that book bro.

27:26

I ain't get the inspiration. I'm not

27:28

intending to give you inspiration. I'm intending

27:30

to give you the principles that I

27:32

use to get me here. I'm not

27:35

interested in motivating you because while motivation

27:37

is important that's really not what got

27:39

me here because most of the days

27:41

that I had to do the research

27:44

for the dissertation for the PhD most of

27:46

those days I wasn't getting up in my

27:48

house. I want to renew research. I want

27:50

to write a dissertation. I want to

27:54

categorize kids and interview parents. That's not

27:56

what I wanted to do. But

27:59

those principles Got me number

28:01

one in the world. You feel me? And

28:03

so the book is deep to me because

28:05

it is showing me my growth that no,

28:07

I do not care if you

28:09

read it and go, uh, where's the stories with

28:11

you in the, and how about you and DeeDee?

28:13

And then what about the kit? You're not getting

28:15

none of that. You're not getting none of that.

28:18

And then you're getting it for 365. So

28:20

I'm just geek because this, what am I

28:22

getting? Cause I guess I want to make

28:24

sure they understand now in terms of I

28:27

get what I'm not getting. But are

28:29

you asking them to apply their

28:32

own like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

28:34

Cause I don't want to be, I don't

28:37

want to presume that everybody knows what a

28:40

devotional is. So explain the

28:42

book a little bit more in terms of I got you

28:44

as 365, but what am I doing during

28:46

those 365 days? So

28:48

one of the things you're doing is you're

28:50

doing something every day. That's

28:52

the most important thing. So there's a challenge

28:55

every single day. You not, you,

28:57

we're not taking off no holiday. We're

28:59

not taking off on the weekends. Every

29:02

single day you have to show up

29:04

for you. So number

29:06

two, what you're getting is

29:08

you have to go

29:11

from inconsistent to

29:13

consistent to committed to

29:16

covenant. Right? And when

29:18

you get to covenant, break those down. Oh yeah. So

29:21

inconsistent is you just pick it up when

29:23

you want to pick it up. Incisitant

29:26

is you're picking it up on

29:28

a regular basis. Covenant is you

29:30

pick it up and you're doing exactly what I told

29:32

you to do in it. Like

29:34

you're doing exactly what I told you to do. So it's

29:36

committed. Sit again. You miss committed. Oh,

29:39

I'm sorry. I'm right.

29:41

Oh, so inconsistent. You're not reading it at

29:43

all. Committed. Committed. I'm sorry.

29:46

You read them when you want to read it. Committed is every single

29:48

day you waking up and you getting that. Yeah. And

29:51

covenant. Covenant is you're actually applying the stuff that's

29:53

in it. All right. Cool. Yep.

29:56

It's a difference between 1 million. It's a difference between

29:58

I've read the Bible. is when you

30:00

become absolutely you become

30:02

one with it committed is like I'm gonna

30:05

I'm gonna react every day I'm gonna covenant

30:07

is when you like this is

30:09

who I am yeah you know what I'm saying

30:11

I think that level right there is a level

30:13

that most people struggle to get out no question

30:15

I'm saying because here go the thing when you

30:17

get it's almost like unlocking that glow like on

30:20

last dragon Bruce Lee Roy got like finally figured

30:22

out he had to glow before you got the

30:24

glow anything could knock you off yeah yeah you

30:26

know what I'm saying like I'm not trying to

30:28

be funny I tell you

30:31

all the time we've been doing this podcast for

30:33

seven years straight salute every week yeah I'm

30:35

like y'all think we had no deaths in the family yeah

30:37

you don't think we had no troubles in

30:40

marriage or family or relationships or COVID

30:42

or COVID bro we went we got

30:44

through COVID I'm just saying we did

30:46

it in comes in because we in

30:48

covenant yeah but but guess how many

30:50

people guess how many people got knocked

30:52

off they block

30:55

during COVID and

30:57

it was real it was a reason to get

30:59

knocked off your block bro you know like it

31:01

was it was a legitimate struggle out of my

31:03

homies got divorced there yeah no question yeah yeah

31:05

man I will shoot but I'm saying that's your

31:08

when you're in covenant yeah it

31:10

can't knock you off yeah because it's who you

31:13

are absolutely when you're committed part right there oh

31:15

I'm consistent I'm committed I'm doing it every single

31:17

day yeah yeah until the storm comes yeah then

31:19

because it's not really you you can get pissed

31:22

I'm angry at my wife so I'm not in

31:24

cover I don't have to yeah I have to

31:26

treat her sorry well that's what you know what's

31:28

so funny that's why you tell you about our

31:30

relationship I'm like bro we're in covenant yeah so

31:33

just cuz you pissed don't mean you get to

31:35

take off from the cover absolutely you don't get

31:37

take off no you don't you don't

31:40

get to that's how it works like you could

31:42

be mad but you don't get to not talk

31:44

to me yeah like that's not how this is

31:46

gonna work you know what I'm saying and I

31:48

think too many people when you again this is

31:50

in order to get to covenant and this is

31:52

good you've got to have your principles straight because

31:54

your principles are gonna guide that and that's your

31:56

village and that okay and I want

31:59

you to understand Yeah, yeah, this is

32:01

not information. Yeah, this is insight Like

32:04

and what's the difference? I'm not saying it ain't no information

32:06

in the book it is But what I'm

32:08

looking to do is to change your insight like I want

32:11

to give you insight, right? I'm gonna give you an example

32:13

what I mean by that. I want to shift your paradigm

32:16

Over the course of 365 want to shift your paradigm.

32:18

So he talked about marriage. So let's talk about it

32:20

when I was Committed to Dee

32:22

Dee committed to my wife. I've been

32:25

with Dee Dee. I've been married to almost 34 years

32:28

We've been together 38 listen to

32:30

me. I've been committed to her since day one It's the

32:32

only person I've ever been with in my life like a

32:35

real relationship is the only person I've been I've

32:37

had sexual intercourse With right I've been I've been

32:39

committed to her now. I wasn't always covenant with

32:41

her All right. So let me tell you what

32:43

I mean by covenant. So If

32:47

Dee Dee would work wake up on the wrong side of

32:49

bed And this is what this is gonna show you insight

32:51

because a lot of y'all got information But

32:53

if you don't know what to do with the information

32:55

that you have is useless So you have to know

32:57

how to apply it you have to know how to

33:00

put it into use so that you can get something

33:02

Out of it, right? So I remember when you know,

33:04

we were younger and I don't mean age Okay

33:07

so you might be thinking I'm talking about when I

33:09

was 22 now I'm talking about when I was a

33:12

child and I Spake like a child when I understood

33:14

as a child when I behaved as a child Then

33:16

Paul said when I became a man, I put

33:18

away that's insight Paul is saying that at

33:20

some point you got to grow up Right,

33:23

you got to stop acting childish, right?

33:25

so if Dee Dee would wake

33:28

up on the wrong side of the bed or Like

33:31

she'd be she'd have a different energy Because

33:33

my and again, I'm not dogging nobody out but

33:36

because my father wasn't in my life One

33:38

of the traumas that came from that

33:41

is rejection. Yeah, so that was one of the things

33:43

that overcome So sometimes like so if Dee Dee going

33:45

off I'm not necessarily about to cuss her like I

33:48

don't cuss but I'm not about to cuss her out

33:50

Because she got an attitude, but I did

33:53

I would when I was younger I would

33:55

withdraw Yeah, you feel me? So it's like

33:57

okay now she ain't her energy ain't whatever

33:59

whatever. Okay So I'm gonna withdraw cuz I

34:01

don't want to say none to her and then she

34:03

say something crazy to me Then I feel rejected. Yeah,

34:05

then I feel like okay, like now my fillers is

34:07

hurt cuz she rejected me on whatever As

34:10

I be as I got insight the

34:13

insight told me that yo this situation

34:16

is not This is not ideal like

34:18

this is not where y'all want to be. So

34:20

this is when you actually become a priest This

34:23

is where you become a leader. You don't need to be a leader

34:25

when everything is going, right? The situation dog

34:27

on it is guiding you you need to be

34:30

a leader when stuff ain't going right So right

34:32

now her energy so don't you

34:34

go? I ain't gonna talk to you So

34:36

actually what I started doing see when I

34:38

noticed DDS energy was off now instead of

34:40

me withdrawn. I'm leaning in So

34:43

now what I'm looking for I'm

34:46

not looking for I'm giving So

34:49

now if DD energy is off, I'm not looking

34:51

for her to give me energy I'm stepping up

34:53

my game and getting me more energy You

34:56

feel me now I'm trying to be more loving

34:58

and more caring because that's what's gonna get it

35:00

You can only do that in your principles though.

35:03

You cannot do that in your absolutely Your feelings

35:05

will have you sitting on the side of the

35:07

couch like she's tripping As a matter of fact

35:09

texting your friends like bro, I don't even know

35:11

what you know I'm saying that's why I'm talking

35:13

about covenant and principles is so important and why

35:15

this book is gonna help you change a lot

35:17

of That thing because you really got to

35:19

get to the point where not only do

35:21

you Understand what covenant is where

35:24

you embody it every single day and then

35:26

what happens is Compound

35:29

interest. Yeah, I see it.

35:31

It's so crazy like your compound Like

35:34

wait till y'all hear when we get back on

35:36

the regular pie. I'm looking at more more got

35:39

a phone call the other day I'm gonna be

35:41

able. I mean it's like unbelievable Bro

35:43

y'all hear about it on your regular pie.

35:45

I want to blow more that's more testimony

35:47

But like I just looking I'm

35:50

like wow like how did that happen

35:52

bro? I'm gonna tell you there's people and

35:54

I just mean that that 90%

35:58

of every real estate person

36:00

in the world is trying to get that

36:02

type of opportunity. Everyone. And Ma wasn't even

36:04

trying to get it. Nope. But what it

36:06

goes back to, I told you, he got

36:08

those five pillars. Yep. It's the principle. And

36:10

what I've realized and why I wrote the

36:12

book is because I was talking to my

36:14

mom the other day, and I'm like, yo, Ma, we from Chicago. We

36:17

from Detroit. We literally

36:19

were infused with survival

36:21

mode principle. Oh, absolutely. We were like, without

36:23

you even really, I was just saying, like,

36:26

yo, when I was a kid, we saw

36:28

pimps. We saw dope

36:30

dealers. We saw hustlers. We saw, I

36:33

want to use the right term, substance, people

36:35

who were abused, people who abuse substance.

36:37

I want to use the right term.

36:40

Isn't that pimp's home and the next thing you

36:42

have a nice time out with? Well, I'm just

36:44

saying, a pimp will identify himself as a pimp.

36:47

He would say that. That's what he is. A

36:49

person who is struggling with substance. A cocaine mixed

36:51

with Vegas. Yeah, they wouldn't call themselves that. They're

36:53

still having the smoke. That's a substance abuse. OK.

36:56

And so I told my mom,

36:58

like, yo, we grew up around this

37:01

environment. It wasn't until I joined

37:03

the church that I realized if

37:05

I go to a restaurant and you give me poor

37:07

service, I'm still going to give you a good tip.

37:10

Why? Because the Bible said with the same measure that

37:12

you give, it didn't say

37:14

if the waiter didn't do what they were supposed to

37:16

do. If the cook messed up,

37:19

it said with the same measure you give,

37:22

it shall be given unto you. So when I started

37:24

tipping, I wasn't tipping on how you treated me. I

37:27

was tipping on pressed

37:29

together, shaken down, and running over. So I'm

37:31

about to give you a good tip. Why?

37:33

Because my principal tells me the way I

37:35

treat you is the way God going to

37:37

treat me. I told somebody today, they going

37:39

to tell me, I can't forget that person.

37:41

I was like, oh, that's spooky. I

37:44

said, that's scary. You know what that means, don't you? It means

37:46

God ain't going to forgive you. So

37:48

even if you pissed, I would find a way

37:50

to forgive because God says that the way you

37:53

treat your brother is the way I'm going to

37:55

treat you. If you cannot forgive, I went

37:58

to Catholic school. And you

38:00

know, we did mass. And one of the things that

38:02

we said every day was, forgive us of our debts

38:04

as we forgive our debtors. Like we said that religiously.

38:06

And I don't know if I really knew what it

38:08

meant, but as you

38:11

get older, you hear it, forgive your,

38:13

you saying God, based

38:16

on not forgive me, but

38:19

you said based on how I forgive my brothers

38:21

and sisters, it's going to be the way you

38:23

forgive me, God. So the principleship, so I just

38:25

telling my mom, I was like, mom, most

38:27

of us grew up with the wrong

38:29

code. We got the

38:31

wrong programming. And so as

38:33

I got older, got in the church, started getting

38:36

around different people, I started realizing what the principles

38:38

that take you from survivor mode to striving, to

38:40

thriving work. And so I was like, yo, I

38:42

got to get those. And that's what I wrote

38:44

in this book. I didn't write the principles that

38:46

I got taught in the streets. I

38:49

didn't write the principles I got taught, you

38:51

know what I'm saying, from people who are

38:53

not necessarily godly. I didn't write the principles

38:55

down that were worldly. Like I didn't write

38:57

the principles down that's going to make you

38:59

successful for three or four years. I

39:01

wrote this stuff down that I

39:04

abstracted from this 53 year experience I got. And

39:06

was like, yo, I'm giving you all this. And then

39:08

I'm not just giving it to you. I'm

39:10

making you reflect on it. I'm making you

39:13

ask yourself, do I already know this principle?

39:15

Am I already using this principle? What's the

39:17

other principles that I have that are contradictory

39:19

to this principle? And today, what am I

39:21

going to do to change? Because I think

39:23

a lot of times we go to church,

39:26

we hear information, we get hyped, we listen

39:28

to gospel, we get hyped. But

39:30

then when you got that temptation, because you

39:32

got a vice, when you got that temptation,

39:34

your feelings are guiding you and you find

39:36

yourself falling. What happened to that sermon? There's

39:39

not nothing wrong with the sermon. What's wrong

39:41

is you didn't get another principle to guide

39:44

your vice. You got the same principle guiding

39:46

you that was guiding you before. And so,

39:48

yeah, this thing is just going to break

39:50

down for real, bro, how God took me

39:53

from that angry kid that left

39:55

home at 16 to this

39:57

leader that understands the purpose that God has

39:59

given me. You know in this particular time

40:01

of my life and how I use those principles to get

40:03

you know where I am Yeah,

40:05

I'm pissing on my phone because I really

40:07

wanted to put some notes in there. So

40:09

okay, okay I gotta

40:11

be careful. You know, I will be you got Listen

40:14

to it. I get it later. Give me the audio Yeah,

40:16

I just in my mind I reach for my phone because

40:18

I wanted to put that down because that's something that we

40:20

need to build upon How

40:23

much time we got? Yeah, we got we got about yeah,

40:25

we got about 15 minutes. Oh, yeah He

40:27

said take 30 minutes to go there. So man,

40:32

if y'all could get a hold of this and

40:34

like Really understand

40:37

like, you know I was on the phone

40:39

with Toby yesterday and I was thinking about our journey

40:41

his journey the similarities and everything else and I'm like

40:44

But do you know? What's

40:47

so crazy about this and what we

40:49

did you don't have to worry

40:51

about making the right decision Yeah, let me tell you that

40:55

This is not crazy. This is As

40:58

I get older and we go and

41:00

I don't want to still this Josh was the one

41:02

who said don't worry about making the right Decision make

41:04

a decision and make it right Bro,

41:06

and I promise you he said that years

41:09

ago and I just see

41:11

it manifesting so much now. It's

41:13

like yo us

41:16

quitting our jobs 401k

41:19

health insurance benefits everything else to go

41:21

do YouTube at a time when YouTube

41:23

ain't even paying good or bad decision

41:26

That a good or bad decision. I'm just saying

41:29

yeah, everybody in the world told us this bad

41:31

decision cool Here's the thing

41:34

It could have been We

41:37

could bro. We could have good two years of this

41:39

and be like odd ain't working. We out It's a

41:41

bad because we was doing this before this was this

41:43

Toby never wrapped in his life never

41:45

wrapped in his life Stop

41:48

everything you're doing start rapping good or

41:50

bad decision What a boy at the

41:52

Grammys and movies and directing fashion shows

41:55

in Italy, so looks like a

41:57

great decision the truth

41:59

of the matter is is though it

42:02

doesn't matter what decision we make. This

42:05

is the things that you

42:08

wake up and do every day towards it,

42:10

the energy you put behind it. That's what

42:12

I'm saying. So those of you out there,

42:14

you're stressed and you're struggling like, I don't

42:16

know what to do. Should I keep my

42:18

nine, it don't matter. Keep your

42:20

nine to five, quit your nine to

42:22

five. It don't matter. What

42:24

matters is, do you have the

42:27

type of energy commitment, consistency towards

42:29

doing, and you said something earlier and I

42:31

said, man, this is rich and I know

42:33

we don't have enough time, we gotta get

42:35

on the regular part and flush it all

42:37

the way out. But you have to be

42:39

able to not only be consistent, consistent in

42:41

the right things that lead to that level

42:43

of success, cause you said it. Bulldog, you

42:45

active. Oh, you active,

42:47

bro. That's not the problem. You active. And

42:50

imagine, so again, good

42:53

or bad decision, I don't wanna get off track. Good or

42:55

bad decision. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Should

42:57

I go work for this company? Should

43:00

I start my own business? Should I, bruh.

43:03

It don't matter. It don't matter. I've seen

43:05

people who on the surface made

43:07

the greatest decision ever. Two or three years

43:09

later. Yeah. It's dead.

43:12

They fail. And I definitely need y'all to hear

43:14

that. Bruh. Cause the worst thing in the world

43:16

is to go 15, 20 years and

43:20

have a bunch of success and your whole thing

43:22

crash. And that happens when it's

43:24

not principle driven. Bruh, there was somebody in

43:26

our circle. Yeah. Who

43:29

had the greatest opportunity of all time.

43:31

Yeah. We sat in all the greatest minds

43:33

in your respect, sat in a circle and

43:35

said, yeah, that's crazy. This is gonna work.

43:39

Business didn't ever get off the ground. I'm talking about you

43:41

ever seen the videos of them planes that be like, well,

43:44

they don't even go nowhere. That's what it did. Was

43:47

that a good or bad decision? I

43:50

thought it was a good decision at the time. The

43:52

person did not implement the principle strategies,

43:55

the consistency, the right habits, the right

43:57

things to do in order to make

43:59

it. off. So somebody

44:01

else could have took a worse decision and take it

44:03

to no level. I could

44:05

have took what on the surface looks like a

44:08

terrible decision, but because of the energy and

44:10

commitment I got to it, it's going to

44:13

work. I said, well, thank God it's Monday. Just

44:15

on a micro level,

44:18

I didn't like it. I was like,

44:20

bro, don't nobody want to hear thank God it's Monday.

44:22

That's stupid. Bro, nobody, Monday is

44:24

terrible. He was like, I

44:26

feel it. I feel it. So when he

44:29

got out, when he would do it every

44:31

time, go back when he started doing it, I

44:33

don't think y'all understand something. We never

44:35

said, Hey, when

44:38

we start the camera, you're going to be

44:40

like this. Thank God. I never did it.

44:42

Yeah, it was who he was

44:44

because the consistency. I just, every time I

44:46

would do it, I just felt it. But

44:49

again, good or bad decision. If I

44:52

would have told you to do it and you would have been

44:54

like, I'm not really feeling it. And we was inconsistent on it.

44:57

We might've did it 10 episodes. Who

45:00

knows? But it's the consistency behind

45:02

it. And so I want you all to

45:04

get off the decision. Again, I'm

45:06

not going to go so far as to

45:08

say, obviously it's a bad decision to jump off

45:11

a breeze, right? You got some stuff. Maybe that's

45:13

crazy. Again, in our case, crazy, like explaining

45:15

to yo mama and

45:17

my mama, uh,

45:20

blue collar. So the soul, my mama's

45:22

still working to the day. God

45:24

bless her soul. She ain't got to, but she just

45:26

loved going to work because she

45:29

that's in her covenant. You

45:31

can't tell her you about to leave Michigan state

45:33

universe. What payroll,

45:36

you got benefits. Y'all doing well

45:39

up there. You're leaving horrible decision.

45:42

I'm talking about horrible decisions and it, and I'm telling

45:44

y'all it could have been, but

45:46

it was the energy and the consistency

45:48

behind it. And that's what something like

45:50

this does. It allows you daily to

45:52

do the right thing to ultimately get

45:55

to where your dreams and

45:57

your actions are starting to line up. And

45:59

that's so. because let me tell you

46:01

something, you can wake up and work hard and not

46:03

be where you want to be. I

46:05

hope you understand that. Working hard is

46:07

not the prerequisite for success. It's a

46:10

part of it. It's not the prerequisite.

46:12

Matter of fact, you told

46:14

us before, most of the people who

46:16

worked the hardest. When they were

46:18

slaves. I will argue, well I'm saying, not

46:20

only that, I'm saying, let's look at today.

46:22

No disrespect to- They're still slaves. I promise

46:24

you, Monday morning, because I'll always

46:27

be hollering at my garbage man. I love them.

46:30

Bro, I be on the truck with Dolo, and

46:32

he got thousand houses. I'm

46:35

talking about people putting their

46:37

stuff up. I'm looking at my man, I'm like, you're

46:39

working, bro. You're working 10 times

46:41

harder than me, bro. And you should be making more

46:43

from doing it, but it's just they don't pay you

46:45

like that. But yeah. You see what I'm saying? So

46:47

I'm just saying, just to say, hard

46:49

work is a part of our success, but

46:51

it's also waking up doing the things that lead

46:53

to that. Absolutely. You see what I'm saying? And

46:56

that's what you're talking about with Boob, but anyway,

46:58

I just want to get to that point where

47:00

y'all understand, some of y'all sit there all

47:02

day trying to make a decision. And I'm telling

47:04

you, it ain't even that deep anyway. It's not,

47:06

but what you just said- You spent six months

47:08

making a decision, and then no type, no kind

47:10

of time putting in the work-

47:12

To make that decision happen. Yeah. And

47:15

not even the work, how am I trying to say it? You

47:17

wait a year to make the decision, but

47:19

you put no thought into after you make

47:21

the decision, what it's going to take to

47:23

actually accomplish- It's marriage. It makes a decision.

47:26

It's marriage. It's all over again. I

47:28

put $40,000 into a wedding, but

47:31

I didn't get no counseling. Hmm. You

47:33

know what I'm saying? I didn't do nothing to

47:35

ensure that the actual marriage

47:38

itself- Oh, bro. Was going to be tight work.

47:40

Well, somebody called me the other day. I

47:42

don't know what you think. I'm like,

47:44

first of all, y'all been dating for 10 years.

47:46

Right, right. You shouldn't be thinking- Second

47:49

of all, do I think it's a good

47:51

idea to get married? It

47:53

depends on what you're willing to do. Yeah. Yeah.

47:57

Bro, does it matter? Yeah, it doesn't matter. I'm

47:59

saying it. Don't marry. Yeah, who

48:01

married? Yeah, I don't care

48:03

What are you prepared to do once you make

48:06

the decision? If you're gonna go to work every

48:08

day and be in covenant And every single day

48:10

wake up and look out for and take care

48:12

of these and lover through sickness and health to

48:14

death Yeah, it's a great idea. It's a great

48:17

idea But if you but if

48:19

you're not doing that, you're not gonna get yet.

48:21

You're not gonna get to covenant You

48:23

feel me? That's all we saying I'm saying because of

48:26

the way I grew up like most of you You

48:28

don't have the right principles. I

48:31

didn't grow up with the right principles This

48:33

ain't no staff on nobody in my family.

48:36

This ain't no stab on my parents my

48:39

Uncles aunties cut whatever it's

48:41

not a stab on nobody. I just didn't

48:43

necessarily get Some

48:45

of the principles and maybe it wasn't a responsibility give it

48:48

to me anyway But what I'm telling you

48:50

is in this book that they yeah, they gave

48:52

us the ones that they need Yeah, yep, the ones

48:54

that so what I'm telling you is this book is

48:56

going to give you the principles That

48:58

work like she said that we don't

49:00

want you to spend the next 10 20 years trying to

49:02

figure out We're gonna give them to you After

49:05

you get them. You got to do us a favor You

49:08

have to immerse yourself in them because

49:10

you can work out for six months

49:12

and look good Listen

49:14

to me. I do it every year.

49:16

I Get on a

49:18

scale and I'm not happy with what I wait

49:20

and I lose the weight and then I go

49:22

right back I went

49:25

right back Thanksgiving that macaroni and

49:27

cheese. I went right back Thanksgiving

49:29

the dressing Bro, let me tell

49:31

y'all so this was crazy. I went

49:33

I ate it Thursday then we

49:35

ate it Friday I was done with

49:37

it get to church church had a dinner

49:39

afterwards Then it was a baby shower after

49:41

so, you know, you got a rug It

49:43

was a baby like I'm not hung then it

49:46

was a baby shower the day after yeah So

49:48

we ate again, then the food was so dope

49:50

at the baby shower. They packed us a plate

49:52

I wake up on Monday. I had five days

49:54

eating the way I said, I'd never eat again

49:56

It was supposed to happen on Thanksgiving. So why?

50:00

Where's the third spot? That's why I'm telling

50:02

y'all you need 365, why? Because

50:05

you don't just need to do it. You need to

50:07

keep doing it. Ain't need to do it forever. And

50:09

then here go the last part. C said it. I

50:13

don't know how many people, man, in the world does

50:15

this. I don't know how many

50:17

teams ran the triangle offense after Michael Jordan used

50:19

it and won. I

50:21

don't know how many teams did it. You feel

50:24

me? I don't know. I can't tell you how

50:26

many teams ran a triangle. But guess what? They

50:28

didn't win six championships. They didn't

50:30

do three, two back, three piece. But they

50:32

got the playbook. So you're trying to mimic

50:35

what MJ did, but what you have to

50:37

understand about MJ, Phil Jackson, Scotty and all

50:39

of those boys, they went

50:41

covenant with it, meaning what? They

50:44

weren't going to do anything else

50:46

but the triangle. Now again, Kobe

50:49

got it. Kobe won three. Kobe

50:51

darn near asked Phil Jackson to

50:53

leave. Didn't win. Phil came

50:55

back. He won. What I'm trying

50:57

to tell you. He felt like, yo, I can

50:59

win without doing the principle. I'm so good at

51:01

what I do. I don't even need coach anymore.

51:04

I don't even need the, no, you

51:06

still need to immerse yourself in it. So then

51:08

he brings Phil back and guess what happened? He

51:10

wins. Covenant. So I just want to

51:12

leave you all with this. I

51:14

don't even care if some kind of way you don't get the book.

51:17

I do want to make sure you get the

51:19

principles. You have to go from being inconsistent to

51:21

consistent. You have to go from

51:23

consistent. Committed. To

51:26

committed. Go from committed to

51:28

covenant. And here's the deal. I'm

51:30

just going to drop this on y'all as we conclude.

51:34

God is showing me that the

51:36

only time in my life that I suffer and

51:38

I'm not happy is when I'm connected to people

51:40

who are not in covenant. I

51:42

can't tell you how many relationships I got.

51:44

I'm talking about cats at my church who

51:47

are committed. But you know the problem

51:49

with committed. I just want, like I said, if you don't never get the

51:51

book, I want you to get the principle. Covenant

51:54

is when there's no turning back.

51:58

Covenant is when you say, pray

52:00

this cup pass of me. That's

52:02

covenant. Covenant is like, everybody always wanna

52:04

make Jesus to be this like, don't

52:07

have no struggles, don't have no challenges

52:09

do. Yo, he literally

52:11

three times went back to the father

52:13

and said, look, I know

52:15

I'm supposed to die on the cross, but like, if we got

52:17

another way we can make this happen, let's make it happen that

52:20

way. And God said, there's no

52:22

other way. You

52:24

gotta die on the cross. There's

52:26

no other, Jesus himself asked

52:28

for an alternative. He

52:30

asked for an alternative. He's gonna run around the block a

52:32

couple of times. I don't wanna do it. It's not easy.

52:35

I pray this cup pass of me. I don't wanna do it. Not

52:38

once and go, all right, cool. He

52:40

comes back like, I know I told

52:42

you, you know, and you told me

52:44

no, but I just wanna ask you one more

52:47

time. We good, second time.

52:49

Nope, you gotta go on the cross. He comes back

52:51

for the third time and asked, can

52:54

I not get on it? So much so the

52:56

Bible says that this is one of the first

52:58

times it's recorded that he sweats not only

53:01

preparation, but blood. That's

53:03

how intense it is. And guess what God said?

53:05

You gonna have to die on the cross. There's

53:07

no other option. We don't have another option for

53:09

you. It's the only option we have. Like

53:12

what he's saying is he lived

53:15

a life for 33 years, did everything he

53:17

was supposed to be doing. That was commitment. Now

53:19

God said, now you gotta come the extra way.

53:21

You gotta now do what most humans won't do.

53:23

You gotta separate yourself. A lot of people commit

53:25

it. Now I need you to go covenant. I

53:28

need you to go when it don't benefit you,

53:30

when it hurts you, when you don't feel

53:32

good about it. Now you gotta step into

53:34

that realm. And I'm telling you 365 is

53:36

gonna get you into that covenant realm where

53:39

you don't do it when you feel like doing

53:41

it no more. You

53:43

do it because it's who you are and it's no

53:45

other option. So at the end of the day, Jesus

53:48

was like, all right, got it. I'm

53:50

on the cross. And not only was

53:52

he on the cross, you heard me say this before.

53:54

He got on it and said, why has God forsaken

53:56

me? It was the first time they were separated. But

53:59

now. he was in coveted now because

54:01

it wasn't about how you felt. It

54:03

was about what was necessary. So I'm telling

54:05

y'all, I've gone through the process. This

54:08

book is going to help you get the principles,

54:10

help you stay consistent with the principles. And then you're

54:12

going to wake up one day. It may not be

54:14

2024. It may

54:16

take you four, five years of reading this

54:18

before you get to covenant. But I'm promise

54:20

you when you get to covenant, you're

54:23

going to wake up and you're going to be walking

54:25

through the mall and people are going to be like

54:27

ET, you changed my life. Why?

54:29

Cause I got the covenant. What's covenant? Covenant is when you

54:31

get out of the flesh and you start walking in the

54:33

spirit. And so when people say, bro, I

54:36

felt like he was in my living room when you did that.

54:38

I was, the Holy Spirit was in your room. He

54:40

took my gift, mixed it

54:43

with his spirit, came straight to your living room

54:45

and said what it needs to be said to

54:47

you in the way it needs to be said.

54:49

That's covenant. That's not ET feel like doing this

54:51

all the time. You feel me?

54:54

So yeah, man. Um, yeah, 365 you owe

54:56

you, you don't owe you, you

54:58

don't owe you just in January or February.

55:00

You owe you to eat right every month.

55:02

You owe you the rest, right? You owe

55:04

you to be in the right relationships. You

55:06

owe you to get whatever God has for

55:08

you. You owe you to be where you supposed to

55:10

be. Like you shouldn't look at your

55:13

bank account as a believer

55:15

and be disappointed. You

55:17

should even look at your bank account as a believer

55:19

and go, yeah, I know God is satisfied. Bruh,

55:22

I got to be a billionaire. People say all the

55:25

time. Why you say that? I don't like money. I

55:27

don't deal with money. This gift that God has given

55:29

me is worth billions. This gift

55:31

is a billion dollar gift. How many people have

55:33

been blessed that I don't even know just by,

55:35

so God was like, no, son, I didn't give

55:37

you this gift just to change lives. I gave

55:39

you this gift to make money. You think Bill

55:41

Gates is the only person that can be paying

55:43

for kids, go to school. I never

55:46

heard Bill Gates pray. Now I'm not saying he's not a man

55:48

of God, but I ain't never heard him announce

55:50

Jesus Christ as his Lord and savior.

55:52

We a billionaire. God says, son, I

55:55

gave you a gift. That is going

55:57

to spark other people economically and you

55:59

go, going to create billions before you get

56:01

out of this world. You have to, it's not

56:03

a choice. You're too anointed not to. And

56:06

I didn't give you that anointing just so

56:08

you could be doing podcasts. There's

56:10

a lot of people doing podcasts, not with

56:12

the anointing. And so I just want to

56:14

encourage you all, you owe you 365. You

56:18

owe you don't take no day off. I know you

56:20

love your kids, but God didn't bring

56:22

you in this world with your kids. You get me

56:24

by yourself. You're going to leave by yourself. So you

56:26

feel like, I owe my kids. You do, but you

56:28

owe you. You owe you, you

56:30

don't, you don't, you didn't did everything you can for

56:33

them kids, but you've not done nothing for you. You

56:35

ain't finished school. You hadn't gotten your

56:37

heart, your, your life together. You hadn't written

56:39

that book. You hadn't started that business, but

56:41

you, they had every basketball game, every football

56:44

game, you making sure they got everything they

56:46

need, but you don't have what you need

56:49

and it's a lie. Some lady told me this. She said,

56:51

it's a lie. You can't pour from an empty cup. She

56:54

said, it's a lie. I'm a mother and a wife and

56:56

I didn't pour it from an empty cup. So

56:59

you can't pour from an empty cup. She said,

57:01

now they not getting the best of you when

57:03

you pour from an empty cup, but you can

57:05

pour from one. And so I'm telling you, I'll

57:07

stop pouring from an empty cup. You owe you,

57:09

you get yourself together first. And as you are

57:11

blessed, as you put the

57:13

oxygen mask on yourself first, then

57:16

you're going to be able to bless other people. It's the

57:18

book. You owe you 365, the devotional by the goat himself.

57:23

Listen, man. Y'all, this is a life change and

57:25

stuff here. If you already had you owe you,

57:27

you know, the stories, you know, everything else in

57:30

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I'll read the back. Please. Let

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write something on the back. And

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the colours are perfection

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the colours are perfection in your heart

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a breeze And

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the colours are perfection in your

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