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You've invested a lot in your

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Education and people have invested in you and let me tell you the world needs your talents and does it ever?

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The world needs a lot and we need it from you

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We really do we need it from you young people

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I mean, I'm not speaking for the rest of us up here, but I know I'm getting a little grayer

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We needed from you the young people because remember this so you got to get out there

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You got to give it everything you got whether it's your time

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Your your your talent your prayers

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Or your treasures because remember this

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You will never see a u-haul

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behind a hearse

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I'll say it again

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You will never see a u-haul behind a hearse

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You can't take it with you. The Egyptians tried it and all they got was robbed

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So the question is

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What are you going to do with what you have? I'm not talking about how much you have

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Some of you are business majors. Some of you are theologians nurses sociologists

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Some of you have money some of you have patients some of you have kindness some of you have loved

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Some of you have the gift of long-suffering whatever it is, whatever your gift is

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What are you going to do with what you have?

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Fail big

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That's right fail big

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Today is the beginning of the rest of your life and it can be couldn't be very frightening. It's a new world out there

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It's a mean world out there and you only live once so

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Do what you feel passionate about passionate about?

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Take chances

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professionally

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Don't be afraid to fail

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There's an old IQ test was nine dots and you had to draw five lines with a pencil within these nine dots

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Without lifting the pencil the only way to do it was to go outside the box

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So don't be afraid to go outside the box

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Don't be afraid to

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Think outside the box. Don't be afraid to fail big to dream

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big but remember

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dreams without goals

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Are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment

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So have dreams but

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Have goals

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life goals yearly goals

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Monthly goals daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day

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Sometimes just to not curse somebody out simple goals, but have goals and

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understand

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That to achieve these goals

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You must apply discipline

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and

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consistency

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in order to achieve your goals, you must apply discipline, which you were already done and

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Consistency every day not just want to Z and miss a few days. You have to work at it

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Every day you have to plan

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Every day you've heard the saying we don't plan to fail we fail to plan

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hard work

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works

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Working really hard is what successful people do and in this

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text tweet

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twirl that you've grown up in

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Remember just because you're doing a lot more

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Doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done

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Remember that just because you're doing a lot more

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Doesn't mean you're getting a lot more

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Done don't confuse

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Movement

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with progress

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My mother told me yeah. Yeah cuz you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere. So

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Continue to strive continue to have goals continue to progress

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I

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Found that nothing in life is worthwhile

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Unless you take risks

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nothing

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Nelson Mandela said there is no passion to be found playing small and

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Settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living

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You know

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I'm sure in your experiences in school and applying to college and picking your major and deciding what you want to do with life

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I'm sure people that told you to make sure you have something to fall back on

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Make sure you got something to fall back on, honey

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But I never understood that concept

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Having something to fall back on

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If I'm going to fall, I don't want to fall back on anything

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Except my faith. I want to fall forward. I figure at least this way. I'll see what I'm going to hit

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Fall forward this is what I mean

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Reggie Jackson struck out 26 hundred times in his career the most in the history of baseball

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But you don't hear about the strikeouts people remember the homeruns?

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Fall forward

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Thomas edison kentuc did one thousand failed experiments as you know that I didn't know that

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Because the one thousand and first was the light bulb

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Forward

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Every failed experiment is one step closer to success

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you've got to take risks and I'm sure you've probably heard that before, but I want to talk to you about why that's

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important I

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Got three reasons and then you can pick up your iPhone's

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First

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You will fail at some point in your life accept it you will lose you will embarrass yourself

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You will suck at something. There's no doubt about it and

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I know that's probably not a traditional message for a graduation ceremony. But a I'm telling you embrace it because it's inevitable

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And I should know in the acting business you fail all the time early on in my career. I

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auditioned for a part in a Broadway musical

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Perfect role for me. I thought except for the fact that I can't sing. I

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Didn't get the job

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But here's the thing I

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didn't Quint

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I didn't fall back. I

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Walked out of there to prepare for the next audition and the next audition and the next audition. I prayed I

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Prayed and I prayed

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But I continue to fail and fail and fail but it didn't matter because you know what,

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There's an old saying you hang around the barbershop long enough sooner or later. You're going to get a haircut

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So you will catch a break and I did catch a break

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Last year. I did a play called fences on Broadway

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if someone talked about it won the Tony Award and

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I didn't have to sing by the way, but here's the kicker. He was at the Court Theatre

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It was at the same theatre that I failed that first audition 30 years prior

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The point is and I'll pick up the pace

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The point is every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed

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But do you have the guts to fail? Here's my second point about failure if you don't fail

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You're not even trying

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I'll say it again

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if you don't fail

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You're not even trying my wife told me this great expression to get something you never had

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You have to do something you never did

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Les Brown's a motivational speaker. He made an analogy about this

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He says imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled

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potential the ghosts of the ideas you never acted on the ghosts of the talents you didn't use and they're standing around your

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bed angry

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disappointed and upset

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they say we came to you because you could have brought us to life they say and

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Now we have to go to the grave together. So I ask you today

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How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes

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Not only take risks

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But to be open to life to accept new views and to be open to new opinions

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To be willing to speak at a commencement at one of the best country vesica the universities in the country

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Even though you're scared stiff. Well, it may be frightening. It will also be rewarding

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Because the chances you take the people, you meet the people you love the faith that you have

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That's what's going to define. You never be discouraged

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Never hold back

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Give everything you got and when you fall throughout life and remember this

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Fall forward

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Say thank you

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but grace

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Thank you for mercy. Thank you for understanding

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Thank you for wisdom. Thank you for parents. Thank you for love. Thank you for kindness

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Thank you for humility. Thank you for peace

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Thank you for Prosperity. Say thank you in advance for what's already yours

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How I live my life. That's why I am one of the reasons why I am today

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Say thank you in advance for what is already yours true desire in the heart

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for anything

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Good is God's proof to you sit before hand to indicate that it's yours

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already

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I'll say it again

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True desire in the heart that itch that you have

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Whatever it is you want to do that thing that you want to do to help others in to grow and to make money

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that desire that itch that's God's proof to you sit beforehand already to indicate that it's your

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and

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Anything you want good?

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you can have

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So claim it

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Work hard to get it

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When you get it reach back pull someone else up

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each one teach one

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Don't just aspire to make a living

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Aspire to make a difference