Don't let others control your happiness

   

    I get asked all the time if I could go back and talk to the younger me. What would I say? And if I was going to go back and talk to the younger me really would be like me talking to many of all the younger use to be like me talking to my younger son. And the number one thing that I would say is don't let anybody tell you what you can't you won't or you shouldn't do everybody will try to put a limit on you. But what I have learned is that nobody can stop you but you and that you were going to have to break your own limit.

          I would encourage you not to minimalize the importance of your creativity your ability to imagine to dream big the human mind this thing called your imagination. It's where oh so many dreams and goals that unbelievable things have been achieved. If I could sit down I would I would encourage you over and over again to to find ways to spark your imagination to create to be a Visionary. So you were born to lead your fingerprints on History these fingerprints these ten fingers. They're unique to me. They're unique to you. There's only one of a kind there's only one of you there's only one me and you can do anything that you want and you can actually get to a place if you use your imagination and your creativity and not allow anybody to live at you. 

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Not limit yourself. You can leave these fingerprints on history and just as much as I would talk about the importance of creativity, you best believe that I would emphasize education education to become educated educated to become an expert education man will be one of the most powerful tools that we have our ability to learn our ability to sit down and to grow intellectually. And to learn more about how the world operates because knowledge is power because truthfully the world's lazy. Everybody talks about what they want to do. Everybody talks what they want to achieve everybody posts, but nobody wants to roll up their sleeves and just go You've got lazy and complacent. And so I need you just to understand that you need to apply yourself to take the time to be intentional to grow to learn to be uncomfortable in the areas that you don't necessarily know. Don't be afraid to ask for help. Because at the end of the day, I promise you this son that no matter what everybody else is talking about where no matter what everybody else is thinking that they're want to go to do a lot of people sit on the sidelines and don't apply because they're afraid of failing so I would challenge you to understand the importance of Education. And don't let anybody ever tell you anything different. 

You see because I know too. Well, like for many of us ma'am, its challenges. We have faced adversity and circumstances and storms that we didn't ask for sometimes it's like we're just a freshman and a sophomore and we're trying to grow up in life and figure out her style. Who am I and and what do I want to do with my life? And what's my future hold and we have all this other pressure of just kind of growing up in the culture and trying to fit and 

And our space And then we we have things that happened to us that we didn't ask for it like serious challenging issues of maybe abuse mental physical emotional maybe deaths in our family like we as young people we didn't ask for some adversity. We had asked for some challenges and it's almost like somebody puts his plate of food right in front of you, right and it like this is life. This is your plate of food. This is all its you get in line now deal with it and you're like, I don't like that. But this is all that you have to deal with because it's the real situation that you're having to figure out if anybody understand