THROUGH HARD TIMES – Powerful Motivational Speech Video (Featuring Marcus Elevation Taylor)
I remember being on my job with no
possibility of a future and I will never
forget the moment that man walked up to
me and looked me in my eyes and told me
that this was the best I would be able
to do and I came to the resolve in that
very moment that greatness will be my
new norm what he said to me hit me hard
it was a metaphoric massive blow to my
face but like a wise man once said you
got to pick your head up like your nose
is bleeding
and right where they left you for dead
elevate where he told me I would retire
from that this was the end of the line I
came to the resolve that I would not
believe the lie I could hear it in the
air that the voice of Destiny would
reside in the place where he wanted me
to die I made the decision to fight for
my future you will not pause you were
progress
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you will not expire you will evolve
you will not crumble in the midst of
crisis you may be neck-deep and what
seems to be a catastrophic storm of
chaos but I pray that in this moment you
will find the calm the peace the hope
the faith the courage the expectancy you
need to live and not die to move up and
not stay where you are you get what you
see and that is the formula for
expectancy your expectation is what you
believe is about to happen and for many
of you you have been so traumatized by
the past that your expectations are so
diminished their expectations have been
dying a slow death because of the trauma
of the past
you expect nothing and so you feel like
if I don’t expect anything that you
can’t hurt me if I have no expectation
on you then you cannot disappoint me if
you are going to win the fight for the
future you are going to have to have a
high expectation it was Kobe Bryant’s
that said everything negative pressure
and challenges is all an opportunity for
me to rise its crises that reveals what
we are comprised of but I actually the
question are you praying the darkness
away or are you becoming the highest
version of yourself in the midst of the
darkness you know when you find yourself
standing in the middle of trial
tribulation scarcity and uncertainty
there is a process from clapping to
flight how you process plane will
determine your few
I need you to fight for the future let
that sink in for a minute
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you are not your crises you are not what
you are going through what are you
expecting the outcome to be because you
can’t change what has happened however
you can change what will happen your
responsibility is once you’ve gone from
flapping to flight is to protect your
progress to protect your territory you
got to get a real boss-like mentality
with your territory all the ground that
you gained protect your territory I
actually the question when are you going
to stop thinking that you are what you
are going through when we step into
elevation and we get that what I like to
call that bird’s-eye view we gain a
greater perspective when we zoom out and
too many of you are guilty of becoming
what you are going through you are not
what you are going through see in the
game of life those who have an elevated
perspective will inherit the future and
it is time for you to fight for your
future how bad
want the future I want you to let that
question sink in because the day you
stop quacking with ducks and start
flying with the Eagles all of a sudden
everything changes but you know for many
of you you are addicted to the company
of the duck I need you to scrupulously
examine the landscape of your
relationships because if nobody told you
let me be the first one to tell you
separation precedes elevation it’s a lot
of people in your life that are holding
you down that are holding you back there
are some people you one have to let go
of and order to elevate above the noise
above the dysfunction to be a light
shining brilliantly to the darkness
above the uncertainty high above all
murky waters beyond the pain of the test
and trial elevated people will always
ask themselves what did I learn in the
midst of it all
King David said in Psalms 1 1971 it was
good for me that I have been afflicted
that I might learn that statues and when
you’re stepping in this space in this
realm in this world of elevation you are
not asking God why am I in pain you are
actually God what am I getting ready to
become with I expectation Ella many
people will ask themselves what am I
getting ready to become and what will I
learn in the midst of this well the
world is in panic while the world is
perturbed while the world is puzzled you
pray and plan your next move don’t fear
the dark
ask yourself what did you learn in it
adversity is our advantage decide to
come out of this better find yourself in
this elevated place everybody wants it
we want promotion we want the upgrade we
one advancement we want to move up we
want to have a competitive advantage in
the marketplace my attention has been
arrested by the conversation of the bird
you know oftentimes learning to fly
means falling from the nest and making
that long trip back to it and some birds
never make it back to the top but for
the ones that do once they learn to
spread their wings the game changes once
they learn to start to spread their
wings and then they begin to flap those
wings then all of a sudden their life
goes to that next level I think a lot of
you are stuck you’ve spread your wings
but you afraid to flap them because
you’re worried about what people are
gonna say about you baby bird don’t care
what anybody says about what it looks
like in its process because process
precedes the breakthrough there is
something that is burning inside of us
to go to the next level to see this one
thing that I’m about to bring to your
attention and if you’re going to see it
if you’re going to see breakthrough then
you’re going to have to be ok with the
process that is required the preceding
action and thoughts that are required to
see this breakthrough the baby bird
spreads its wings then it flaps its
wings and its flaps and flaps and flaps
and to the flapping becomes flight and a
lot of you are in this season call
flapping and you like mantis isn’t
flying and you looking at everybody and
you comparing yourself to everybody
that’s flying and you’re diminishing
your process you’re diminishing you’re
flapping season
get through your flapping season with
grace and faith see faith is an
invitation to the future
faith is the door it is the pathway it
is the corridor to the future and if you
are going to fight for the future you’ve
got to fight with faith get through your
flappin season get through your flapping
season I know you’ve got tears in your
eyes but get through your flapping
season and fight for flight because
eventually the flapping turns in to
flight
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