results you know that's a thing you know
that's the key people get discouraged
when they don't see the result you're
working hard and then you see the
results in the morning instead of
feeling discouraged do you feel like or
twice finally the next day because I'm
getting the result I'm a street kid from
Dorchester mass grew up my father was a
teamster
truck driver my mom worked odd jobs I'm
the youngest of nine kids
you know why because my parents worked
so hard just to provide I had a lot of
time to myself and most of that time I
spent running around the streets getting
a street education I left school at an
early age I quit school at 13 ended up
getting into a lot of trouble
incarcerated tried as adults 16 17 and
that was a big wake-up call for I
decided you know what I needed to turn
my life around and I made a commitment
that at that day but it was still it you
know it's still every night it's a
process
I am very driven work hard like I said I
always felt like I had to work twice as
hard as everybody else and I was willing
to work twice as hard as everybody else
to find myself in the position that I'm
in now and I really feel like I'm just
getting started with what I wanted
wonder why I want to accomplish it in my
career in business and in my life and
what I want to do philanthropically so I
just go to bed at 7:30
but I always feel like if I put my mind
to something I really be the world I can
accomplish something and then if things
don't turn out because I I live in it
and really my primary business is based
on a lot of failures
but it's never for lack of effort as
long as I do everything I can to do my
best and I feel pretty pretty darn good
about the effort sometimes I I win
I don't but I always I always felt like
if I didn't do everything I could to
prepare and that's what I had regret and
that's when I felt disappointed in
myself
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we are blessed to be able to have a
fresh start every day you know you just
got to be able to kind of have
confidence in yourself and belief in
yourself surrounding yourself with good
people so I think not being afraid to
ask for help them you know in searching
and seeking out people that can help you
but also you know believing in yourself
I've seen so many wonderful stories of
people who are you know kids up for
adoption and they're deciding that
they're gonna go and get an education on
their own and go and take you their
family and you know there's so many good
wonderful success stories out there just
you have to believe and have faith and
know that you can accomplish it and turn
your life you know nothing comes easy
especially when you've got you know your
back against the wall and you've got a
lot going against you but I wanted to
prove to people through my actions my
words that I was going to change was one
of those things where I didn't think
there was anybody there to help me
because I was always looking to the
wrong people I was looking up to the
wrong people and then once the dust
settled and I was able to look clearly
and I was sober for the first time in a
while I realized there were so many
people around it was also difficult for
me because I still lived in the same
neighborhood I still had to go from my
house to the train station to go to work
and you know I had to pass all my boys
on the street you know I couldn't I
couldn't run with them anymore and then
you know if I wasn't with them I was
against them so I had that to overcome
but I was committed to turning my life
around
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build something that's gonna last and do
it the right way
material I'm seeing results you know
that's a thing
you know that's the key to people get
discouraged and they don't see the
result
and then you see the results in the
morning instead of feeling discouraged
twice's for the next day
a very clear focus on what's important
expressing my gratitude with all the
blessings that they're just out upon me
and a reminder every day of what I need
to do what I need to focus on and what I
need to stay away from try to work as
hard as you possibly can you do the best
that you can to succeed
I put harder now than I've ever get out
when you put it
and you have to be disciplined
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you see the results make perfect sense
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you