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🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | You have something special. You have greatness in you. I want you to think about something that you want to do with your life. |
0:20.0 | Something that would give |
0:22.1 | your life a sense of purpose and meaning, something that when you hear about it or you look at it |
0:29.6 | and see it or something that you see someone already living that kind of life, it gives you |
0:37.2 | cheer bumps. |
0:38.1 | And there's a voice in your heart that says, I can do that. |
0:45.1 | I can do that. |
0:46.5 | What is that for you? |
0:48.4 | You know, I remember the first time I saw Malcolm X, El Hodge, Malik Shabazz, speaking, and I loved his communication skills. |
1:01.1 | He was being interviewed by 60 Minutes by Mike Wallace, and I admired how he commanded him. |
1:09.0 | I admired the oratorical skills of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
1:14.7 | And as I think about my life, I realized at that particular time, I was looking at my destiny. |
1:25.0 | I didn't know it at the time. I was very young. But something I'd like to share with you, |
1:30.8 | and that is the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And what I did was, |
1:40.7 | as I read their speeches and listened to them over and over and over again, and I want you to think about something that you want to do, I'm encouraging you to do research on the people who master that. |
1:54.0 | Find all the books that you can find, all the recordings that you can find and study them. |
2:02.8 | And then finally, I started speaking to just five people, five people in Columbus, Ohio |
2:12.1 | on Main Street. |
2:13.9 | I had a building there that I own, and I was speaking from a book called Discover the Power Within by Eric Butterworth. |
2:24.6 | And I was sharing with these friends of mine my thoughts on this book. |
2:31.4 | And then I left Columbus and went to Miami. |
2:35.7 | He did the same thing in my mother's living room to take care of her and keep my spirits high while I was taking care of her. |
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