Cliff Notes: How to Build a Strong Desire for Success

first in the mind and then the reality. Think about the chair that you're sitting in or the car that you're driving. The architect first she said, let the church say, a man crave, shake, gutsy she saved, and I see you. But things are always created twice. And speaking of church, the Good Book says, as we've heard it before, as a person thinkth in their heart, so are we? So are we? So how is your thinking? We are who we are and where we are because of the thought

that we think. In whatever playing fields you on, in whatever community, in whatever industry, you are who you are and where you are in life because of your thoughts. So how is your thinking? And I didn't learn this until I was a bit older. But really we're not taught how to think. And in talking with the mentor one day, they said, AJ close your eyes, and I closed my eyes and he said, if I was to say pink apple, if you're not driving, Uh, what's her name?

If you're driving, Jurisha, you driving, So don't close your eyes, but everybody close your eyes. And if I was to say a pink apple, what's the image that pops into your mind, A pink apple. If I was to say orange elephant, what's the thing that pops into your mind? An orange elephant? So what am I saying? We think in pictures, so you can open up your eyes. I want to encourage you to begin to see the world that you want to live and exist now with your

mind that business. See that business thriving, whether it's online, whether it's in person. See yourself as a better husband, a better wife, a better individual, a better caregiver. See your look, see yourself physically better because if you don't physically see yourself being the person and looking like the person that you want to be, how will you ever get there? So you first have to see it and have that desire within here, and then you begin to

take steps towards that. The law vibration we already like you will get what you are attracting. What's the vibes? You know? How you walk into a room sometimes people in there and you're like, oh it, don't think, but it do sink because it's like the attitudes or people's culture. And it may stink because they just breadth. They need a breath ment like we sell breath mints. Shout out to the breath mints. Everybody needs one every once in a while. Don't do listenerine. They said it does something

to your cancer your mouth. I don't know. That's conspiracy theory. But I don't do listening no more anyway. Snaps, but regrow what were talking about as a person thinking? So are they? So a little bit fast forwarding ahead again, we opened aasis fresh market, and I'm gonna pull up my slides here, share my scream with y'all because I'm gonna show you into our world. Share screen number two. Okay, you can see you. Good there, Mercedes and mag Okay, perfect,

pull up the faces again so I can see y'all. Okay, So waisis fresh Market? This is this is who we are, this is what we do. That's me man. I'm a husband. I've got three daughters. My wife and I've been married eleven years. Shout out to eleven years. Baby, I have three girls. I didn't cry a lot growing up as a kid. You know, I guess just you know, single pair of you are like you THU you don't cry, but saying with your check, look you know you say

with you. So I didn't cry a lot, and I think as a result of not doing that that God was like, I'm gonna show you something. I'm gonna give you all daughters. I'm the youngest of two older sisters, and so I was the only I was the only dude. And now I have three daughters. And now I just cry all the time, like brother be crying at a commercial. I'm like, what's wrong with me? Bored like that OG? Got to come back. You may be a soft g. You made me a baby g okay, but I love my daughters.

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food desert. Fifty three fifty four million people live in food deserts across the country, and the majority of those people are our communities, Black and brown individuals said differently, one in six individuals live live in a food desert. If you have a grocery store with it, well, let me see if you have a grocery store further than

three miles, put it, put it in the chat. Want I want to I want to see in the chat how many of y'all and a food desert is described as not having fresh and healthy access within in an urban area seven miles in a rule of more than nine, how many of y'all have a food that are living in a food desert? My chat man, So that that's a problem, especially in our communities, because we're facing insecurity, food insecurity at such a such a rapid pace right now.

Also in our communities, it's also a food swamp of food desert. There is a metric to qualify one third of the population lives more than nine miles in an urban area and fourteen miles in a rule, but also in our underserved communities, there's a lot of food swamps. We got the McDonald's, we got the Sonic, we got the Burger Kings, but we don't yet half fresh and healthy access and what we put in our bodies that

it does matter. Yes, I don't like really sweets, but I love me some French fries and some potato chips like that's my that's my crush. Some ruffles, our cream and cheddar. Shout out for that, baby. Put your put your uh, whatever your your your vice is, put it in there. Sugar, alcohol hopefully is nothing beyond that. But but that's my thing. But for us, as as majority of the minorities, we have to begin to do better in our eating habits. And I would even want to

challenge you in this moment. I don't want to encourage you tomorrow try to do without one meal, whether it's breakfast, whether it's lunch or dinner. How can you challenge yourself physically? Because growth does equal pain, and we all want to grow, we all want to get better, but that's going to require a level of sacrifice. The definition of sacrifice giving up something on one level in order to gain something on another. Just think about the sacrifice that Troy and

Rashad and everybody that's on their team. They've had to sacrifice a lot in order to get to where they are. And obviously we're all earners. You guys are earners. What are you willing to sacrifice to get to that next level, whether it's going to be food, or sleep or or something. You've got to make a decision and decide what am I willing to give up in order to get there?

And if you're not willing to do that, is it really Is it really something that you want to achieve, Because a true goal, a true victory, is going to require you to sacrifice. It's going to require you to give up something. I think about the story of an ego. You know, we all want to be egos, and we've all heard the great stories about egos. That the only bird that is seen flying at top levels on that level is an ego. No other can fly as high

as an eagle. But in order for an eagle to soar, what does the mom eagle do at the appropriate time? The mother eagle pushes that baby eglett out of the nest. Why is that important? Like you think about snaps that mom the eagle's nest is up really high, and all of a sudden, when the mom recognizes that it's time for her baby eaglet to go to the next level, she literally pushes them out and they begin to free fall at an accelerated rate, flapping their wings. And really

that's the part of all of us. A part of your journey is there's going to be a season where you may not always know what's next. You may not always know what's gonna happen. You may feel like you're getting a hit from every single side. Take it. Take it from me, and sometimes it does suck.