Harnessing Hope 🌟: Transform Your Dreams Into Reality [Stories Behind The Success]

A speaker describes leaving Oklahoma's limited hip-hop scene for Atlanta with almost no money, where seeing Ludacris, T.I., OutKast, and Jeezy changed what he thought was possible. He argues hope is a mindset that requires action: focus only on what you control, do one thing a day, relocate if you need to. Challenges now build the foundation for your kids and theirs.
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It's like, man, where, where has the hope gone? You know, like, we're all in control of, of our actions. You know, there's certain things that we cannot control, and with those kinds of things, for me, like, my philosophy is if I can't control it, I can't worry about it. Like, I can only be concerned with things that I can control. So sometimes hope is all a person needs, you know, just to know that it is possible that you can do this, and it's taking action to do something different. Like, you know, I'm from Oklahoma, was doing hip-hop. If I looked around Oklahoma, I'd be like, hey, nobody's here, you know, that's putting albums out, so I guess I'm just not gonna ever do anything with music. It's like, well, nah, let me, let me take an action and let me move to a city where I can see these things happening, you know. Um, and I was able to do that. I didn't, I didn't leave with hardly any money in my pocket. It was like, let's just go and make it happen. And now as I'm, as I'm coming up in Atlanta, like, I'm seeing like Ludacris and TI and OutKast and Jeezy and all these people, like, people that I'm seeing with my eyes. Yeah. And know through other people, I'm like, they're, they're, they're not unreachable. And I'm seeing it happen. It's like you want to do something different, but because of what you're seeing in your immediate environment, you just don't think it's possible. Like, that's not on the environment, that's on you. So it's like, what are you going to do to change that circumstance for yourself? You owe it to yourself. You owe it to your kids if you have kids, and the generations that follow them.
I mean, I, I agree with you 100% on that, man. You owe it to your man. Oh man. So yeah, because see, see, because a lot of times the, the things that's tied into you It's also tied into your church.
Do something, one thing a day, and be productive. That tomorrow will come, and eventually there will be enough tomorrows where you've made it through that, and you look back at what you've been able to endure and persevere and recognize how it has built something within you to prepare you for this next chapter of your life. So that's what I was— just hang in, man, it's going to get better.
You know, I, I totally agree with you on that, man, because as I'm listening to you All I could think about, which is my favorite story that he would not let me get out of the book of Genesis, uh, 30— what, 35, 37?
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