Imagine if you will.
Being on your death bed
and standing around your bed
The dreams given you you by life
The ideas that you never acted on
The talents, the gifts, the abilities that yo never use,
and there they are standing around your bed
Looking at you with large angry eyes
Saying: We came to you!
And Only YOU could have given us life!
And now we must die with you forever.
and the question is
if you died
This very moment
What will die with you?
What dreams? What Ideas? What Talents?
What greatness that you showed up to bring
Don't allow fear of failure
and the attractiveness of playing it safe in life
To draw you in
You can't get out of life alive
You've got to die to leave here
You have something special
You have greatness within you
You were born phenomenal
Listen To me
You were literally born phenomenal
Like the whole process
Like, there are five million options in the womb; we’re not talking about one sperm cell and one egg.
There are five million options and out of five million options you made it.
They’ve got to make their way through a complex series of environments
in a kind of warfare.
It is warfare.
Innately, innately everything about you is great, everything about you is phenomenal.
But the problem is you have consciously chosen to be average.
You are average in school, you are average at your work place,
everything you do is average and not because its average but because you made a decision.
You made a choice to be average – why?
Because the people around you are average
or maybe you grew up in an average environment, or went to an average school, or you work for an average company. So you decided…
you decided to go against who you are.
You decided to go against who you are.
So that’s why you go to the basketball game,
that’s why you spend hours watching your favorite athlete
like Michael, and you watch them… you watch them… there’s something about this attracted
to that greatness because there is something in you that’s great.
That’s why, that’s why you put those headphones on and you just shut the whole world out
and you listen to your favorite artist – you listen to them sing or you listen to them rap
and deep down inside you hurt when you listen because it should be you!
You are attracted to greatness because greatness is all in you.
But it’s easier to watch greatness, it’s easier to go see greatness then it is to put in the time,
to put in the energy, to discipline yourself,
to sacrifice – it’s easier!
And so that’s why you average, and so you’re frustrated
because you’re not living like you should live.
No – don’t have what you should have,
you’re not being who you should be.
I would hate to live and die,
and never know what would happen
if I ever committed myself to anything.
Bet you’ve never seen what you could be,
if you through your whole self
at your dream.
It’s time for you to look within yourself
and decide that I’m in charge of my destiny,
I’m in charge here.
And when you decide, I’m going to do it,
the universe will yield to you – and life will never be the same again.
Live your dream.
The kingdom of god is within man.
Not one man nor a group of men,
but in all men.
In you, you the people have the power.
The power to create machines, the power to create happiness.
You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
And that if you decide that my life deserves my developing, this is what I do well,
and becoming the best at it and mastering myself, and seeing what I have within me,
I’ll grant you, you will never ever be without.
I’m telling you, greatness is here!
Greatness is upon you and you better act like it!
subtitled by Sasha Zivers