The 13 Truths – Matthew McConaughey [MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH]
I want to skip the flattery and the
attaboys because I do know this the
sooner that we become less impressed
with our lives with our accomplishments
with our career with whatever that
prospect is in front of us the sooner we
become less impressed and more involved
with that and these things the sooner we
get a whole lot better at doing them so
I’m going to talk to you about some
things I’ve learned in my journey most
from experience some of them I heard in
passing many of them I’m still
practicing but all of them I do believe
are true now they may be true to me but
don’t think that that makes them mine
because you cannot own a truth so please
think of these as signposts approaches
paradigms that give some science to
satisfaction your steel used to share
like into your own lives to personally
apply in your own lives in your own way
should you choose to so here we go
number one life’s not easy life is not
easy it is not don’t try to make it that
way life’s not fair it never was it
isn’t now and it won’t ever be do not
fall into the trap the entitlement trap
of feeling like you’re a victim you are
not get over it and get on with it and
yes most things are more rewarding when
you break a sweat to get them number two
unbelievable is the stupidest word the
dictionary should never come out of our
mouth think about it
to say oh wow what an unbelievable play
it was an unbelievable book an
unbelievable film an unbelievable act of
courage
really it may be spectacular it may be
phenomenal most excellent or outstanding
but unbelievable give others and
yourself more credit it just happened
you witnessed it you just did it believe
it what about the other side of
unbelievable you know that that side
when we humans underperform or act out
of our best character for instance
man flies a suicide jet into the World
Trade Center millions die from diseases
every day that we have cures for Bob the
Builder swears that he’s going to have
your house built by Thanksgiving and you
can’t move in until Christmas the next
year our best friends lied to us and we
lie to ourselves all the time
unbelievable I don’t think so again it
just happens and it happens every day
nothing that we Homo Sapien Earthlings
do is unbelievable and if there’s one
thing you can depend on people being
it’s people so we shouldn’t be surprised
we us are the trickiest mammals walking
the planet I’m not worried about the
monkeys I’m worried about you and me
yeah so acknowledge the acts of
greatness as real and do not be naive
about mankind’s capacity for evil nor be
in denial of our own shortcomings
happiness is an emotional response to an
outcome if I win I will be happy if I
don’t I won’t
it’s an if-then cause-and-effect quid
pro quo standard that we cannot sustain
because we immediately raise it every
time we attain it see happiness
happiness demands a certain outcome it
is result reliant and I say if happiness
is what you’re after then you’re gonna
be let down frequently and you’re gonna
be unhappy much of your time
joy though Joy’s a different thing it’s
something else
Joey is not a choice it’s not a response
to some result it’s a constant joy is
the feeling that we have from doing what
we are fashioned to do no matter the
outcome now personally as an actor I
started enjoying my work and literally
being more happy when I stopped trying
to make the daily labor a means to a
certain in for example I need this film
to be a box-office success
I need my performance to be acknowledged
I need the respect of my peers are all
those are reasonable aspirations but the
truth is as soon as the work the daily
making of the movie the doing of the
deed became the reward in itself for me
I got more box office more accolades and
respect than I ever had before see joy
is always in process it’s under
construction it is in constant approach
alive and well in the doing of what
we’re fashion to do and enjoying number
four define success for yourself define
success for yourself but check this out
I’m in South of New Orleans a few years
ago I went to a voodoo shop and they had
this this wooden partition against the
wall of these columns and and in these
columns or all these vials of these
magic potions right and the headings
above each potion defining what they
would give you were things like
fertility health family legal health
energy forgiveness money hmm
guess which column was empty Monday
first admit it money is king today is
what make the work makes the world go
round it is success the more we have the
more successful we are right now I would
argue that our cultural values have even
been financialized financialized
humility is not in vogue anymore it’s
too passive
it’s a get-rich-quick on the Internet
riches 15 minutes of fame world that we
live in and we see it every day but we
all want to succeed right so the
question that we’ve got to ask ourselves
is what success is to us what success is
to you is it more money that’s fine I
got nothing against money I don’t maybe
it’s a healthy family maybe it’s a happy
marriage maybe it’s to help others to be
famous to be spiritually sound to leave
the world a little bit better place than
you found it continue to ask yourself
that question
now your answer may change over time and
that’s fine but do yourself this favor
whatever your answer is don’t choose
anything that will jeopardize your soul
prioritize who you are who you want to
be and don’t spend time with anything
that antagonizes your character don’t
drink the kool-aid and it tastes sweet
but you will get cavities tomorrow
all right life is not a popularity
contest be brave take the hill but first
answer that question
what’s my hill so me how do i how do i
define success for me myself well for me
it’s a measurement of five things we got
fatherhood
we got being a good husband we got my
health mind body and spirit we’ve got
career and we got friendships these are
what’s important to me in my life right
now so I try to measure these five
things each day I check in with them I
like to see whether or not I’m in the
the debit section or the credit section
with each one a man and the red or I’m
in the black you follow for instance
sometimes say my career’s rolling
alright it’s way up here in the black
but I see how my relationship with my
wife maybe you could use a little bit
more of my attention I got to pick up
the slack on being a better husband get
that one out of the red or say my
spiritual health could use some
maintenance it’s down here but hey man
my friendships in my social life they’re
in high gear right I got to recalibrate
checks and balances I got to go to
church remember to say thank you more
often something
but I got to take the tally because I
want to keep all five in healthy shape
and I know that if I don’t take care of
them if I don’t keep up maintenance on
them one of them is going to get weak
man it’s gonna dip too deep into the
debit section it’s gonna go bankrupt
it’s gonna get sick dive so first we
have to define success for ourselves and
then we have to put in the work to
maintain it take that daily tally tend
our garden keep the things that are
important to us in good shape I mean
let’s admit it
we’ve all got two wolves in a suit a
good one and a bad and they both want to
eat the best I can tell we just got to
feed that good one a little more than
the other one here we go number five
process of elimination
is the first step to our identity
aka where you are not is as important as
where you are alright 1992 I got my
first job as an actor three lines three
days work in a film called Dazed and
Confused alright alright alright alright
there we go
so this director of that film Richard
Linklater he kept inviting me back to
set each night putting me in more scenes
which led to more lines all of which I
happily said yes to I mean I’m having a
blast people were telling me I’m good at
what I’m doing and they’re writing me a
check for $325 a day I mean hell yeah
give me more scenes I love what I’m
doing well by the end of the shoot I’ve
been to the film those three lines had
turned into over three weeks work and it
was mine it was wooderson’s 1970
Chevelle that we went to go get
Aerosmith Tickets hit man yeah it was
badass
well a few years ago I’m watching this
film again
and I noticed two scenes that I really
shouldn’t have been in and one of these
scenes my character would Orson III exit
screen left to head somewhere and then I
reinter the screen and to double check
if any of the other characters wanted to
go with me now and re watching the film
and you’ll agree if you know Watterson
wooderson’s not a guy who would ever say
later and then come back to see if you
were sure you didn’t want to go
now when Wooderson leaves Watterson is
gone he does not stutter step flinch
rewind ask twice or solicit do you know
what I’m talking about
Watterson has better things to do like
like in those high school girls man cuz
I get older and they stay the same age
the point is I should not have been in
that scene shouldn’t come back should
have exited screen left and never come
back
but back then making my first film
getting invited back to the set cashing
that check and having a ball I wanted
more screen time I wanted to be in the
scene longer and more and come back into
the scene right but I should have been
there Wooderson shouldn’t have been
there it is just as important where we
are not as it is where we are look the
first step that leads to our identity in
life is usually not I Know Who I am I
Know Who I am that’s not the first step
the first steps usually I Know Who I am
not process of elimination defining
ourselves by what we are not is the
first step that leads us to really
knowing who we are you know that group
of friends that you hang out with that
really might not bring out the best in
you you know they gossip too much or
they kind of shady they really aren’t
gonna be there for you in a pinch or how
about that bar that we keep going to
that we always seem to have the worst
hangover from or that computer screen
right the computer screen that keeps
giving us an excuse not to get out of
the house and engage with the world and
get some real human interaction
I bet that food that would keep eating
this stuff to taste still good going
down it makes us feel like crap the next
week we feel lethargic and we keep
putting on weight well those people
those places those things stop giving
them your time and energy just don’t go
there I mean put them down and when you
do this when you do put them down when
you quit go in there and you quit giving
them your time you inadvertently find
yourself spending more time and in more
places that are healthy for you that
bring you more joy why because you just
eliminated the who’s the where’s the
what’s in the winds that were keeping
you from your identity look trust me too
many options I promise you the too many
options will make a tyrant of us all all
right so get rid of the excess the
wasted time decrease your options if you
do this you will have accidentally
almost innocently put in front of you
what is important to you my process of
elimination
no one who we are is hard it’s hard to
give yourself a break
eliminate who you are not first and
you’re gonna find yourself where you
need to be I’m a six
don’t leave crumbs ah and the beauty of
delayed gratification so what are crumbs
or the crumbs I’m talking about are the
choices that we make that make us have
to look over our shoulder in the future
you didn’t pay that guy back the money
that you owed him and tonight you just
saw him three rows behind you
shit you slept around on your spouse and
you just found out that tomorrow she and
the lady you’re having an affair with
are gonna be at the same PTA meeting
shit again you drank too much last night
you’re too hungover to drive your son
does 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning baseball
practice
these are the crumbs they come in the
form of regret guilt and remorse you
leave trumps today they will cause you
more stress tomorrow and they disallow
you from creating a customized future in
which you do not have to look over your
shoulder so let’s flip the script
instead of creating outcomes that take
from us let’s create more outcomes that
pay us back fill us up keep your fire
lit turn you on for the most amount of
time in your future these are the
choices I’m talking about and this is
the beauty of delayed gratification arty
yourself up
do yourself a favor make the choices the
purchases today that pay you back
tomorrow
residuals my business we call it mailbox
money I do my job well today and that
movie keeps rerunning on TV five years
from now I’m getting checks in the
mailbox
it’s a heck of a deal so whether it’s
prepping the coffeemaker the night
before so all you got to do is press the
button in the morning or getting ready
for the job interview early so you don’t
have to cram the night before or choose
not to hook up with that married woman
because you know you’re going to feel
horrible about it tomorrow and her
husband carries a gun or paying your
debts on time so that when you do see
that guy three rows back tonight you
don’t have to hunker down your seat
hoping that he don’t see you get some
ROI you know what that is return on
investment your investment you customize
your future
don’t leave Troms number seven dissect
your successes and the rest of prosity
of gratitude we still often focus on
failure don’t we we study failure if
successful with failure we dissect
failure in our failures dissect them so
much we end up intoxicated with them to
the point of disillusion and when do we
write in our diary usually when we’re
depressed what do we gossip about other
people’s flaws and limitations and we
can dissect ourselves into self-loathing
if we’re not careful I find that most of
the times our obsession with what is
wrong just ends up breeding more wrong
more failure the easiest way to dissect
success is through gratitude giving
thanks for that which we do have for
what is working appreciating the simple
things we sometimes take for granted we
give thanks for these things and that
gratitude reciprocate creating more to
be thankful for it’s really simple and
it worked
and I’m not saying being denial of your
failures no we can learn from them too
but only if we look at them
constructively as a means to reveal what
we are good at but we can get better at
what we do succeed at now personally
I’ve read a whole lot of my bad reviews
all right I’ve had quite a few
written by the more talented critics
they are the ones who give constructive
bad reviews they reveal to me what did
translate in my work what came across
what was seen or what was it now I don’t
obsess on the unfavorable aspect of
their review review but I do see what I
can learn from it because their
displeasure actually uncovers and makes
more apparent what I do do well what I
am successful at and then I detect fact
my life’s a verb we try our best we
don’t always do our best architecture is
a verb as well yes it is and since we
are the architects of our own lives
let’s study the habits the practices the
routines that we have that lead to and
feed our success our joy our honest pain
our laughter our own tears let’s dissect
that and give thanks for those things
and when we do that guess what happens
we get better at them and we have more
to dissect number eight make voluntary
obligations my mom and dad since we were
young they teach us things as children
teachers mentors the government and on
laws they all give us guidelines for
which to navigate his life rules to
abide by in the name of accountability
I’m not talking about those obligations
I’m talking about the ones that we make
with ourselves with our God with our own
consciousness I’m talking about the you
versus you obligations we have to have
it again these are not societal laws and
expectations that we acknowledge and
endow for anyone other than ourselves
these are faith-based obligations that
we make on our own these are not the
lowered insurance rates for a good
driving record you will not be fine to
put in jail if you do not gratify these
obligations I speak of no one else
covers these but you they are your
secrets with yourself your own private
counsel personal protocols and while
nobody throws you a party when you abide
by them no one’s going to arrest you
when you break them either except
yourself or some cops who got to
disturbing the peace call at 2:30 in the
morning because you were playing bongos
your birthday suit yeah that was me
an honest man’s pillow is his peace of
mind and when you lay down on that
pillow at night no matter who’s in your
bed we all sleep alone these are your
personal jiminy crickets and there are
not enough cops in the entire world to
police them it’s on you it’s on you
number nine from can to want alright
check this out in 1995 I got my first
big paycheck as an actor I think was a
150 grand the film ah was almost boys on
the side and we were shooting in Tucson
Arizona and I had to sweet a little
Adobe guest house on the edge of the
swirlin National Park the house came
with a made my first made it was awesome
so I got a friend over one Friday night
and we’re having a good time and I’m
telling her about how happy I am with my
setup the house the maid especially the
maid I’m telling her look they she
cleans the place up after I go to work
she washes my clothes the dishes put
fresh water by my bed leaves me cooked
meals sometimes she even presses my
jeans my friend she smiles at me happy
that I’m excited over this she says well
that’s great Matthew uh if you like your
jeans pressed my god I looked up batter
my jaw caught hanging open I stuttered a
moment had that dumb ass look that you
get when you just been told the truth
and you didn’t think about it and I hit
me I hate that line going down in front
of my jeans I hate that line and it was
then for the first time that I noticed
it I’d never thought about not liking
that starch line down the front of my
jeans because I’ve never had a made
Dharma jeans before and since she did
now for the first time in my life I just
liked it because I could get it I never
thought about if I really wanted it well
I didn’t want it there that line and
that night I learned something just
because you can
it’s not a good enough reason to do
something even when it means having more
be discerning choose it because you want
it do it because you want to never have
my jeans pressed again hey number 10 a
roof is a man-made thing this may cut a
little close to the bone
since the geography but I think we all
were there and we will all remember
where we were but in January the 3rd
1993 he was the NFL playoffs and you’re
Houston Oilers for playing the Buffalo
Bills the Oilers were up 28 to 3 at
halftime 35 to 3 early in the third
Frank Reich and the bills come back to
win 41 to 38 and overtime for one of the
greatest comebacks in NFL history they
had the bills want but they didn’t
really beat the others the others lost
that game they beat themselves y’all
remember that
huh why why’d they beat themselves or
how was it because at halftime they put
a ceiling a roof a limit on their belief
in themselves
aka prevent defense maybe they started
thinking about that the next opponent in
the playoffs at halftime I mean they
were up and they came out plate on their
heels lost the mental edge the entire
second half and voila they lost in a
mere two quarters defensive coordinator
Jim Eddie went from being called the
defensive coordinator of the year and
the man first in line to be a high head
coach next year to a man without a job
in NFL you ever choked
nobody has ever choked I have yeah you
know I’m talking about fumbling at the
goal line second foot in your mouth once
you got to the microphone had a brain
freeze on the exam that you were totally
prepared for forgot the punchline to a
joke in front of 4,000 graduating
students at the University of Houston
commencement or maybe you’ve had that
feeling of oh my god life just cannot
get any better than this moment and ask
yourself do I deserve this now what
happens when we get that feeling we
tense up we have this sort of outer body
experience where we are literally
through seeing ourselves in the third
person and we realized that the moment
just got bigger than us never felt that
way ah
and it’s because we have created a
fictitious ceiling a roof to our
expectations of ourselves a limit where
we think it’s all too good to be true
but it’s not and it’s not our right to
say or believe it is
we shouldn’t create these restrictions
on ourselves a blue ribbon a statue a
score a great idea the love of our life
our euphoric bliss who are we to think
that we don’t deserve or haven’t earned
these gifts when we get them it’s not
alright but if we stay in process
all right within ourselves in the joy of
the doing we will never choke at the
finish line why because we aren’t
thinking of the finish line cause we’re
not looking at the clock we’re not
watching ourselves on the jumbotron
performing the very act that we’re in
the middle of no we’re in process the
approach is the destination and we are
never finished bo Jackson what do you do
used to run over the goal line through
the end zone and up the tunnel the
greatest snipers and marksmen in the
world they don’t aim at the target they
aim on the other side of the target we
do our best when our destinations are
beyond the measurement when our reach
continually exceeds our grasp and when
we have immortal finish lines and when
we do this the race is never over the
journey has no port the adventure never
ends because we are always on the way so
do this do this and let them let
somebody else come up and tap you on the
shoulder and say hey you scored let them
run up and tap you on the show and say
mint you won
let them come tell you you can go home
now let them say I love you too let them
say thank you take the lid off the
man-made roofs that we put above
ourselves and always play like an
underdog
here we go number 11 turn the page
the the late and great University of
Texas football coach Darrell royal if
y’all remember him he won national
champion in 69 he won a couple of
national championships
hello Darrell oh he was a friend of mine
and a good friend of many people now a
lot of people looked up to this man one
of the people looked up to him was a
musician named Larry now at this time in
his life Larry was in the prime of his
country music career he had number one
hits and his life was rolling and he had
it picked up a bad habit of uh snorting
the white stuff somewhere along the line
and at one particular party after a a
bathroom break Larry went confidently up
to his mentor Darrell and he started
telling him the story Oh Troy listen as
he always had and when Larry finished
his story and was about to walk away
coach royal put his gentle hand on his
shoulder and he very discreetly said hey
Larry you uh got something under on your
nose there but Larry immediately hurried
to the bathroom near where he saw some
of the white powder that he hadn’t
cleaned up his nose he was a shame he
was embarrassed as much because he felt
so disrespectful to coach royal and as
much because he’d obviously gotten too
comfortable with the drug to even hide
it as well as he should
well the next day Larry went to coach’s
house he rang the doorbell coach
answered and he said coach I need to
talk to you
Darrell said sure come on in Larry
confessed he purged his sins to coach he
told him how embarrassed he was and how
he had lost his way in the midst of all
this fame and fortune
and towards the end of an hour Larry who
was in tears he asked coach he said
coach what do you what do you think I
should do my coach being a man of few
words just looked at ma call me said
Larry I have never had any trouble
turning the page and the book of my life
Larry got sober that day and he’s been
sober for the last 40 years you ever get
in a rut you know I’m talking about you
get the funk it’s stuck on the
merry-go-round of a bad habit I have but
we’re gonna make mistakes you got to own
them then you got to make amends and
then you got to move on guilt and regret
kills many a man or their time so turn
the page get off the ride you are the
author of the book of your life turn
that page number 12
give your obstacles credit you know
those uh no fear t-shirts that were out
I don’t know if you used to wear them
ten years ago no fear you may remember
those are just me I saw him everywhere
all right I don’t get him and I never
did I mean well I try to scare myself at
least once a day I mean I get
butterflies every morning before I go to
work I was nervous before I got here to
speak tonight I I think fear is a good
thing now why because it increases our
need to overcome that fear all right say
your obstacle is fear rejection all
right you want to ask her out or you
want to ask him out but you fear that he
or she may say no all right you you you
want to ask your boss for that promotion
but you’re scared he’s gonna think
you’re overstepping your bounds well
instead of denying those fears declaring
say the fear out loud admit it give them
the credit they deserve don’t get all
macho and act like they’re no big deal
and don’t get paralyzed by denying that
they exist and therefore abandoning your
need to overcome them
I mean I’d even subscribe to the belief
that we’re all destined to have to do
the thing that we fear the most anyway
at some point so give your obstacles
credit and you will one find the courage
to overcome them or you will to see more
clearly that they’re not really worth
prevailing over so be brave have courage
and when you do you get stronger you get
more aware you get more respectful of
yourself and that which you fear number
thirteen so how do we know when we cross
the truth thirteen was asking why did I
pick thirteen that’s an unlucky number
well I don’t know when thirteen got the
bad rap and became the mongrel of
numerology it’s never done me wrong
thirteen in fact thirteen has been a
pretty lucky number for me and I want to
tell you how I’ve always taken these
21-day trips by myself to far-off places
where I usually don’t know the language
and nobody knows my name their
adventures one but they’re also a purge
all right they’re cleanse for me they’re
like a 21-day fast from attention from
all the things I have and my
well-appointed life they’re a check out
so I can check in with me see how I’m
doing be forced to be my own and my only
company to have a look in my mirror and
we all know what can happen when we do
that sometimes we do not like what we
see well in 1996 right after I got
famous from the film I did call the time
to kill I I headed out on one of these
21-day walkabout and this time to the
jungles in the mountains of Peru the
sudden fame that I just gotten was
somewhat unbalancing my face was
everywhere
everyone wanted a piece of me people I’d
never met were swearing that they loved
me everywhere I went there I was on my
billboard a magazine cover it was it was
just weird
over a hop you know as I was asking
myself what’s the reality in this and
what’s the bullshit
did I deserve all this these were all
questions I was asked myself who was I
was another now there’s always an
initiation period with these trips an
amount of time that it takes for the
place to initiate the traveler the time
it takes to disconnect from the world we
just left and become completely present
and the one we are traveling in now for
me that initiation period usually lasts
about 13 days 13 hellish days until I am
out of my own way well it was the night
of the 12th day in my 21 day trip I’m
settling into camp
I’d already hiked 80 miles to this point
and I had a 3 day trek out of me to
Machu Picchu and I was full-on sick of
myself wrestling with the loss of
anonymity I was guilt ridden for sins of
my past had a lot of curette I was
lonely
disgusted with my company mine grappling
with these demons on this night I
couldn’t sleep
all of these badges and banners and
expectations and anxieties that I was
carrying with me I need to free myself
from him so I stripped down to nothing I
I took every moniker that gave me pride
and confidence all the window dressings
the packaging around the product I
discarded them all I got rid of my lucky
and faithful American cap I stripped off
all my talismans from adventures past
I even discarded my late father’s gold
ring with an M on it that he gave to me
it was a meltdown of he and my mom’s
class rings and gold for my mom’s teeth
even got rid of that I was naked
literally and figuratively and I got
sick got clean I felt free and light
long a muddy path on this walk I turned
a corner and there in the middle of the
road was was this Mirage it’s
magnificent pinks and blues and red
colors that I’d ever seen
it was electric glowing and vibrant just
hovering just off the surface of the
jungle floor as if it was plugged into
some neon power plant I stopped I stared
there’s no way around it the jungle
floor in front of me was actually
thousands of butterflies there in my
path it was spectacular so I stayed a
lot and somewhere in my captivation I
heard this little voice inside my head
say these words all I want is what I can
see and all I can see is what’s in front
of me now at that moment trip I had
stopped anticipating what was around the
corner for the first time I stopped
thinking about what was coming up next
what was up ahead time slowed down I was
no longer in a rush to get anywhere and
my anxieties were greatly eased a few
hours later I returned to camp even the
local Sherpas I was traveling with they
they they noticed calling out to me
sohe’s lose my they oh so he’s lose
which means you are light in Spanish see
I forgave myself that morning I let go
of the guilt the weight it was on my
shoulders was lifted my penance was paid
and I got back in good graces with my
God and I shook hands with myself my
best friend the one that we’re all stuck
with anyway ourselves and from that
morning on the adventure was awesome I
was present I was out of my own way I
was not anticipating next I was
embracing only what was in front of my
eyes and giving everything the justice
that they deserve
you see I crossed the truth that morning
now did I find it I don’t know I think
it found me
why because I put myself in a place to
be found I put myself in a place to
receive the truth so how do we know when
we cross the truth well I think the
truce all around us all the time I mean
I think the answer you know it’s always
right there right there I think it’s all
around us we just don’t always see it
you know always grasp it hear it
accessing usually because we’re not in
the right place to do so so what do we
do first I believe we’ve got to put
ourselves in the place to receive the
truth
that’s the minute we live in an
extremely noisy world with all kinds of
frequencies coming at us
we got commitments we got deadlines fix
this do that plans expectations and they
all make it hard to get clarity and
peace of mind so we have to consciously
put ourselves in places to receive that
clarity and that may be prayer that may
be meditation that may be a walkabout
that may be being in the right company a
road trip whatever it is for you
schedule that time schedule it so if we
do that if we hear it if we put ourself
in a place to hear than we do and it’s
become clear a truth natural and
infinite then the second part comes
which is to personalize ask yourself how
it works for you how it applies to you
personally why you need it in your life
specifically and if you do that then
comes the third part have the patience
to internalize it and get it from our
intellectual head thinking about it and
into our bones and our soul in our
instinct now we cannot rush this part it
does take time so if we get that far
we’ve received it we personalized it and
we’ve internalized it I’ve gotta have
the courage to act on it to actually
take it into our daily lives and
practice it to make it an active part of
who we are and live it do that right if
we do that then we have what I believe
is heaven right here on earth and that’s
the place where what we want is also
just what we need
I mean that’s the ticket isn’t it think
about it I know that’s where I want to
live while we’re here and they’re gonna
run across the Jumbotron let’s make it a
place where we break a sweat where we
believe where we enjoy the process of
succeeding in the places in ways that we
are fashion to where we don’t have to
look over our shoulder because we’re too
busy doing what we’re good at
voluntarily keeping our own Council
because we want to traveling towards
immortal finish lines we write our own
book overcoming our fears we make
friends with ourselves and that is the
place that I’m talking about
