1
00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,139
You've invested a lot in your

2
00:00:02,139 --> 00:00:07,349
Education and people have invested in you and let me tell you the world needs your talents and does it ever?

3
00:00:07,630 --> 00:00:10,260
The world needs a lot and we need it from you

4
00:00:11,139 --> 00:00:13,259
We really do we need it from you young people

5
00:00:14,500 --> 00:00:17,920
I mean, I'm not speaking for the rest of us up here, but I know I'm getting a little grayer

6
00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:22,469
We needed from you the young people because remember this so you got to get out there

7
00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,890
You got to give it everything you got whether it's your time

8
00:00:26,949 --> 00:00:30,329
Your your your talent your prayers

9
00:00:30,970 --> 00:00:33,630
Or your treasures because remember this

10
00:00:34,870 --> 00:00:36,870
You will never see a u-haul

11
00:00:37,180 --> 00:00:39,180
behind a hearse

12
00:00:40,870 --> 00:00:42,870
I'll say it again

13
00:00:43,930 --> 00:00:48,119
You will never see a u-haul behind a hearse

14
00:00:49,510 --> 00:00:56,460
You can't take it with you. The Egyptians tried it and all they got was robbed

15
00:01:00,460 --> 00:01:02,460
So the question is

16
00:01:02,949 --> 00:01:06,929
What are you going to do with what you have? I'm not talking about how much you have

17
00:01:07,659 --> 00:01:11,938
Some of you are business majors. Some of you are theologians nurses sociologists

18
00:01:11,939 --> 00:01:17,309
Some of you have money some of you have patients some of you have kindness some of you have loved

19
00:01:17,470 --> 00:01:22,109
Some of you have the gift of long-suffering whatever it is, whatever your gift is

20
00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,769
What are you going to do with what you have?

21
00:01:28,530 --> 00:01:30,530
Fail big

22
00:01:31,950 --> 00:01:34,190
That's right fail big

23
00:01:35,460 --> 00:01:40,580
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

24
00:01:40,580 --> 00:01:44,179
It's a mean world out there and you only live once so

25
00:01:44,970 --> 00:01:47,629
Do what you feel passionate about passionate about?

26
00:01:48,450 --> 00:01:50,450
Take chances

27
00:01:51,030 --> 00:01:52,590
professionally

28
00:01:52,590 --> 00:01:54,050
Don't be afraid to fail

29
00:01:54,050 --> 00:02:01,819
There's an old IQ test was nine dots and you had to draw five lines with a pencil within these nine dots

30
00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:07,220
Without lifting the pencil the only way to do it was to go outside the box

31
00:02:08,550 --> 00:02:10,880
So don't be afraid to go outside the box

32
00:02:12,390 --> 00:02:14,340
Don't be afraid to

33
00:02:14,340 --> 00:02:19,640
Think outside the box. Don't be afraid to fail big to dream

34
00:02:20,430 --> 00:02:22,430
big but remember

35
00:02:23,580 --> 00:02:25,789
dreams without goals

36
00:02:27,060 --> 00:02:33,260
Are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment

37
00:02:35,070 --> 00:02:37,070
So have dreams but

38
00:02:37,830 --> 00:02:39,810
Have goals

39
00:02:39,810 --> 00:02:42,080
life goals yearly goals

40
00:02:42,870 --> 00:02:47,390
Monthly goals daily goals. I try to give myself a goal every day

41
00:02:49,290 --> 00:02:56,839
Sometimes just to not curse somebody out simple goals, but have goals and

42
00:02:58,110 --> 00:02:59,760
understand

43
00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,760
That to achieve these goals

44
00:03:01,980 --> 00:03:03,980
You must apply discipline

45
00:03:04,930 --> 00:03:06,170
and

46
00:03:06,170 --> 00:03:08,120
consistency

47
00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:13,269
in order to achieve your goals, you must apply discipline, which you were already done and

48
00:03:14,329 --> 00:03:19,299
Consistency every day not just want to Z and miss a few days. You have to work at it

49
00:03:20,150 --> 00:03:22,150
Every day you have to plan

50
00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:27,849
Every day you've heard the saying we don't plan to fail we fail to plan

51
00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,120
hard work

52
00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,400
works

53
00:03:33,859 --> 00:03:39,909
Working really hard is what successful people do and in this

54
00:03:40,970 --> 00:03:42,970
text tweet

55
00:03:43,579 --> 00:03:45,579
twirl that you've grown up in

56
00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,019
Remember just because you're doing a lot more

57
00:03:52,519 --> 00:03:54,519
Doesn't mean you're getting a lot more done

58
00:03:56,450 --> 00:03:58,450
Remember that just because you're doing a lot more

59
00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:02,439
Doesn't mean you're getting a lot more

60
00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,069
Done don't confuse

61
00:04:08,209 --> 00:04:10,129
Movement

62
00:04:10,129 --> 00:04:12,129
with progress

63
00:04:12,470 --> 00:04:16,690
My mother told me yeah. Yeah cuz you can run in place all the time and never get anywhere. So

64
00:04:17,510 --> 00:04:21,159
Continue to strive continue to have goals continue to progress

65
00:04:23,380 --> 00:04:24,380
I

66
00:04:24,380 --> 00:04:27,459
Found that nothing in life is worthwhile

67
00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:30,700
Unless you take risks

68
00:04:31,130 --> 00:04:33,050
nothing

69
00:04:33,050 --> 00:04:38,259
Nelson Mandela said there is no passion to be found playing small and

70
00:04:38,810 --> 00:04:43,119
Settling for a life that's less than the one you're capable of living

71
00:04:43,610 --> 00:04:44,170
You know

72
00:04:44,170 --> 00:04:50,289
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

73
00:04:50,290 --> 00:04:54,129
I'm sure people that told you to make sure you have something to fall back on

74
00:04:54,530 --> 00:04:56,649
Make sure you got something to fall back on, honey

75
00:04:57,890 --> 00:04:59,890
But I never understood that concept

76
00:05:00,410 --> 00:05:02,410
Having something to fall back on

77
00:05:03,350 --> 00:05:07,779
If I'm going to fall, I don't want to fall back on anything

78
00:05:09,590 --> 00:05:16,330
Except my faith. I want to fall forward. I figure at least this way. I'll see what I'm going to hit

79
00:05:18,890 --> 00:05:22,059
Fall forward this is what I mean

80
00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:29,019
Reggie Jackson struck out 26 hundred times in his career the most in the history of baseball

81
00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,740
But you don't hear about the strikeouts people remember the homeruns?

82
00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:36,700
Fall forward

83
00:05:37,460 --> 00:05:41,829
Thomas edison kentuc did one thousand failed experiments as you know that I didn't know that

84
00:05:42,830 --> 00:05:46,479
Because the one thousand and first was the light bulb

85
00:05:49,010 --> 00:05:51,010
Forward

86
00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,490
Every failed experiment is one step closer to success

87
00:05:54,950 --> 00:06:00,700
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

88
00:06:01,310 --> 00:06:02,780
important I

89
00:06:02,780 --> 00:06:05,949
Got three reasons and then you can pick up your iPhone's

90
00:06:07,820 --> 00:06:09,820
First

91
00:06:10,010 --> 00:06:16,210
You will fail at some point in your life accept it you will lose you will embarrass yourself

92
00:06:16,220 --> 00:06:19,809
You will suck at something. There's no doubt about it and

93
00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:28,300
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

94
00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:34,899
And I should know in the acting business you fail all the time early on in my career. I

95
00:06:36,020 --> 00:06:38,020
auditioned for a part in a Broadway musical

96
00:06:39,230 --> 00:06:43,569
Perfect role for me. I thought except for the fact that I can't sing. I

97
00:06:45,590 --> 00:06:47,590
Didn't get the job

98
00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,320
But here's the thing I

99
00:06:53,110 --> 00:06:55,110
didn't Quint

100
00:06:55,580 --> 00:06:57,580
I didn't fall back. I

101
00:06:59,039 --> 00:07:05,688
Walked out of there to prepare for the next audition and the next audition and the next audition. I prayed I

102
00:07:07,259 --> 00:07:09,829
Prayed and I prayed

103
00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:18,100
But I continue to fail and fail and fail but it didn't matter because you know what,

104
00:07:18,650 --> 00:07:24,010
There's an old saying you hang around the barbershop long enough sooner or later. You're going to get a haircut

105
00:07:26,510 --> 00:07:29,469
So you will catch a break and I did catch a break

106
00:07:31,220 --> 00:07:35,529
Last year. I did a play called fences on Broadway

107
00:07:36,980 --> 00:07:41,020
if someone talked about it won the Tony Award and

108
00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:49,869
I didn't have to sing by the way, but here's the kicker. He was at the Court Theatre

109
00:07:51,140 --> 00:07:56,800
It was at the same theatre that I failed that first audition 30 years prior

110
00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:04,390
The point is and I'll pick up the pace

111
00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:10,570
The point is every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed

112
00:08:11,090 --> 00:08:17,440
But do you have the guts to fail? Here's my second point about failure if you don't fail

113
00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:20,440
You're not even trying

114
00:08:21,710 --> 00:08:22,700
I'll say it again

115
00:08:22,700 --> 00:08:24,140
if you don't fail

116
00:08:24,140 --> 00:08:29,259
You're not even trying my wife told me this great expression to get something you never had

117
00:08:29,450 --> 00:08:32,200
You have to do something you never did

118
00:08:33,050 --> 00:08:36,430
Les Brown's a motivational speaker. He made an analogy about this

119
00:08:36,430 --> 00:08:42,789
He says imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled

120
00:08:43,460 --> 00:08:51,429
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

121
00:08:51,430 --> 00:08:53,360
bed angry

122
00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,220
disappointed and upset

123
00:08:55,220 --> 00:09:00,640
they say we came to you because you could have brought us to life they say and

124
00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,719
Now we have to go to the grave together. So I ask you today

125
00:09:06,650 --> 00:09:09,519
How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes

126
00:09:11,210 --> 00:09:13,210
Not only take risks

127
00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:19,419
But to be open to life to accept new views and to be open to new opinions

128
00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,359
To be willing to speak at a commencement at one of the best country vesica the universities in the country

129
00:09:25,460 --> 00:09:30,369
Even though you're scared stiff. Well, it may be frightening. It will also be rewarding

130
00:09:31,470 --> 00:09:38,479
Because the chances you take the people, you meet the people you love the faith that you have

131
00:09:39,330 --> 00:09:43,160
That's what's going to define. You never be discouraged

132
00:09:44,430 --> 00:09:46,430
Never hold back

133
00:09:46,830 --> 00:09:53,270
Give everything you got and when you fall throughout life and remember this

134
00:09:55,110 --> 00:09:57,110
Fall forward

135
00:09:58,350 --> 00:10:00,240
Say thank you

136
00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:01,770
but grace

137
00:10:01,770 --> 00:10:04,039
Thank you for mercy. Thank you for understanding

138
00:10:04,970 --> 00:10:10,429
Thank you for wisdom. Thank you for parents. Thank you for love. Thank you for kindness

139
00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:13,700
Thank you for humility. Thank you for peace

140
00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:20,780
Thank you for Prosperity. Say thank you in advance for what's already yours

141
00:10:22,050 --> 00:10:26,240
How I live my life. That's why I am one of the reasons why I am today

142
00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:33,739
Say thank you in advance for what is already yours true desire in the heart

143
00:10:34,260 --> 00:10:35,850
for anything

144
00:10:35,850 --> 00:10:42,560
Good is God's proof to you sit before hand to indicate that it's yours

145
00:10:43,230 --> 00:10:45,230
already

146
00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:47,480
I'll say it again

147
00:10:47,730 --> 00:10:50,870
True desire in the heart that itch that you have

148
00:10:50,940 --> 00:10:56,479
Whatever it is you want to do that thing that you want to do to help others in to grow and to make money

149
00:10:56,850 --> 00:11:03,470
that desire that itch that's God's proof to you sit beforehand already to indicate that it's your

150
00:11:04,499 --> 00:11:05,229
and

151
00:11:05,229 --> 00:11:07,559
Anything you want good?

152
00:11:08,649 --> 00:11:10,649
you can have

153
00:11:11,199 --> 00:11:13,059
So claim it

154
00:11:13,059 --> 00:11:15,059
Work hard to get it

155
00:11:15,249 --> 00:11:18,928
When you get it reach back pull someone else up

156
00:11:19,779 --> 00:11:21,868
each one teach one

157
00:11:24,039 --> 00:11:28,619
Don't just aspire to make a living

158
00:11:30,549 --> 00:11:33,389
Aspire to make a difference