everybody has a different talent and the reason we're all so messed up is because you're looking
at everybody else's talent and wishing you had some of their talent all the energy that you spend
thinking about wishing about being jealous of envious of anybody else is energy that you're
not only putting out is going to come back to you negatively but you're taking that away from you
all your energy should be forced on what do i have to offer what do i have to give how can i be used
in service because dr king's message of not everybody can be famous but everybody can be
great because greatness is determined by service and there is not a job in here that you can do
that you don't switch the paradigm to service and not make that job more fulfilling i don't
care what the job is if you say i'm a singer i'm a dancer i'm an artist i'm a teacher i'm a nurse
i'm a doctor i'm a janitor i'm a i'm a clerk if you say if i look at this from how do i use this
in service to something bigger than myself it no longer becomes a job it becomes an offering
to the world the first law is the third law of motion in physics which says
for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction and we showed that very beautifully
in the color purple when messily says to mister everything you even try to do to me is already
done to you that is not just a rhetorical saying that is law that is newton's third law of motion
in physics which says everything that goes out is coming back it's just like everything that goes up
is coming down may take a long time to come down is coming down everything that goes out is coming
back it's coming back so to answer the power of manifestation and meditation what meditation does
is sync you up with the source what meditation does is allows you to literally tap into the power
that created you so that you are in alignment with that and so when you carry that out into the world
everything that you do comes from the center of that alignment that's coming from the source
that we call god we call divine energy divine intelligence whatever name you want to give it
we call life when you are synced up with life life just gives to you i always understood that
there really was no difference between me and the audience at times i might have had better
shoes but at the core the core of of what really matters that we are the same you know how i know
that because all of us are seeking the same thing you're here at this fabulous school
and will go out into the world and each pursue based upon what you believe your talents are
what your skills are maybe your gifts are but you're seeking the same thing everybody
wants to fulfill the highest truest expression of yourself as a human being
that's what you're looking for the highest truest expression of yourself as a human being and
because i understand that i understand that if you're working in a bakery and that's where you
want to be and that may be that that may be what you've always wanted to do is to bake pies for
people or bake cakes for people or to offer your gift then then that's that's for you and there's
no difference between you and me except that's how that's your platform that's your show every
day so my understanding of that has allowed me to you know everyone to reach everyone and there's
no way that you wouldn't because that's that's what i truly feel the way through the challenge
is to get still and ask yourself what is the next right move not think about oh i got all
of this what is the next right move and then from that space make the next right move and the next
right move and not to be overwhelmed by it because you know your life is bigger than that one moment
you know you're not defined by what somebody says is a failure for you because failure is just there
to point you in a different direction if i leave you with nothing else it's just know this for sure
there is not one thing that has ever happened to you not one experience not one encounter
not one crisis not one joyful thing that hasn't happened just to make you better and help you rise
every single thing you're calling in whether you know it or not when you figure out that you are
calling it in you actually start meditating or praying or doing or having a spiritual practice
which is the number one thing you need if you want to be successful in the world you need something
that gives back and nourishes you regardless of what you call that you need to you need to fill
your cup so that you can be so full your cup run is over and you have enough to give
to other people if you don't fill your cup you end up dried up you end up tired exhausted and
don't have enough to give to other people you end up resentful every time somebody asks you
because your cup is empty and now they want some of yours so your number one job your number one
job is to fill your cup and make yourself whole so for me the foundational base of
empowerment of entrepreneurship of any kind of engagement the foundational base of my success
of my well-being my wholeness my everything is knowing who i am and where i come from
in my living room right now is a painting that i've owned now for 30 years
you can google it it's called to the highest bidder and it's at the center of my house
and it's at the center of my house because it actually is symbolic of the foundation of not the
house but the foundation for my life the painting is by harry rosalind who was a genre painter
painter in the early 20th late 19th century and the painting is over six feet tall and it shows
a slave woman on the auction block holding her daughter's hand and i cannot come in the door
my front door or i cannot leave without passing that painting i am reminded of where i come from
every day of my life and i am reminded because i never want to forget it
and in my library i have a framed list of enslaved african-american people remember i showed you
who were held in bondage on various plantations listed in the ledgers alongside the cows
and the horses and the buggies and the other property and i pass this list every day and often
i stop in front of it and just speak their names out loud and their ages jonas 11 years old 500
sarah 41 years old 900 elizabeth 57 800 and i force myself to consider the absurdity and
the obscenity of prices being affixed to each one should they be placed up for sale and i sometimes
just pause before them with a prayer particularly before i have to make a big decision about
one of my companies or whether i move forward or whether i stay still
it reminds me speaking those names out loud not only of where i've come from but how far
i have to go because of them and it reminds me that i am never alone it reminds me
of what i've come through to get through i say to the my girls all of the time
that your real work is to figure out where your power base is and to work on the alignment of your
personality your gifts that you have to give with the real reason why you're here that's
that's the number one thing you have to do is to work on yourself and to fill your self up and keep
your cup full keep yourself full i used to be afraid of that i used to be afraid particularly
from people who say oh she did she still fell she's so close herself and now i embrace it
i i consider it a compliment that i am full of myself because you only when you're full i'm
full i'm overflowing my cup run is over i have so much i have so much to offer and so much to give
and i am not afraid of honoring myself you know it's miraculous when you think about it