"DARE To Imagine The IMPOSSIBLE!" - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam - #Entspresso

Good morning, Believe Nation! It's Evan. My one word is believe, and I believe in you. I believe in your potential, and I want to see that thing that you've got inside you come out so you can have a positive impact on yourself, on your family, your community, and the world. So to help you on your journey, today's message is Break the Limits. Over to you, APJ Abdul Kalam.

History has proven, history has proven that those who dare to imagine the impossible are the ones who break all the human limitations. In every field of human endeavor, whether science, medicine, sports, art, or technology, the names of the people— just now I listed some of the names— the names of the people who imagined the impossible are engraved in our history. By breaking the limits of their imagination, by breaking their limits of their imagination, they change the world. You take C.V. Raman, you take Newton, you take Einstein, you take Chandrasekhar. By breaking the limits of their imagination, they change the world.

The biggest limits that we face in life are not from our friends, are not from our family, are not from the people around us. It's you. It's ourselves. You put the limits on yourself. You are restricting yourself by the story that you continue to tell yourself, by what you think you can and cannot do. And the question I always ask is, when did you decide to accept those limitations? When did you decide that it was okay to live small and to say that, "Yes, I cannot go off and do amazing things"? When did that become part of your story? And when are you going to decide to break free and say, "I want something better"? I want to create more for myself and my family and my community and the world and the people around me. When are you going to break free of the shackles that you put on yourself? Where too often we're complaining about how other people are restricting us, the biggest limit of all is you. I think about my career as an entrepreneur, and when I first started at my first biotech software company, I was 19 years old, and I used to think I was too young to sell. That was my limitation. That was my limiting belief. I was too young. People wouldn't take me seriously. I was 19 years old selling to people 3 times my age. I didn't have a background in science. I didn't think they would take me as a credible source. And so I played small. And so I would send out emails. And so I would never schedule meetings. And so I would never do phone calls. I'd always try to hide behind a persona so they would never know how old I was. And it wasn't really until I started realizing that, listen, they don't care how old I am. All they care is that I can provide value. And that started to shift. The limits started to break free, like, ah, maybe I can do this, maybe I can be more, maybe I can have a bigger impact than this little box that somehow I put myself into. As I started helping out entrepreneurs and I started growing my business, I used to always think too that I had to wear a suit. You know, I always wore a suit. In my day-to-day, I wouldn't wear a suit, but if I ever had a meeting, I would wear a suit. And it was just feeling like they wouldn't take me seriously if I didn't have a suit on. You know, that I looked young and that I couldn't bring enough value. And then slowly over the years, I got a little more and more and more myself. I took off the suit and just had a blazer, a jacket, and then I went to a sweater, and then, you know, slowly I evolved and I came out of my shell. And I again refused to accept that box, refused to accept that for me to be taken seriously, I had to wear a suit. But it took a long time to get there. Like, I wish I had somebody shake me and say, "It doesn't matter!" It doesn't matter if you're wearing a suit. Be yourself. Stop restricting yourself. When I started this business of helping entrepreneurs, it didn't start on YouTube, it started on my website. And the website's off my name, Evan Carmichael. And I would always create profiles of famous entrepreneurs. I was inspired by their stories. And we had, you know, all the people that I profiled here, Oprah and Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and Richard Branson, all these people we would profile on the website. And the number one request that people kept coming in with was, "Who's Evan? What's your story? Why aren't you up here?" And my thoughts were always, "Well, I'm not big enough. I haven't done as much as Oprah and Bill Gates and these huge people. I'm not worthy to be on that site." Even though it was off of my own name. And it really came down to is my story is valuable. My journey is valuable. People can learn from what I've gone through even if I haven't achieved as much as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. And it was just a mind twist to get over that. You know, even on this channel, the most requested top 10 rules is me, is myself. And it took a while to come out of my shell and get in front of the camera and be willing to share my story and share my opinions. And it comes from the belief that my opinions matter, my opinions mean something, because I would always hide behind these celebrities and famous profiles. And so, like, when did I decide to accept that box? It wasn't anybody putting me in that box. I put myself in that box. And just deciding to burst through it, right? Deciding to say, "I don't accept that limitation anymore." To believe more in myself, to have more confidence, to feel like what I do matters. And so I'd encourage you to look at your own life and think, what are the limitations that you're putting on yourself? What are the reasons why you feel you can't go off and do the thing that you want to do? And once you get past blaming and complaining, other people, restrictions that are being put on you, think about What are you telling yourself? And as soon as you can break free of that limitation, break out of that box and say, "I no longer accept this about myself. I am not that person. I don't know when I decided to accept that, but it's not anymore. That person doesn't exist anymore. I can bring a lot more value to the people around me and to the world than what I used to do." And the only difference is getting your mindset aligned on it. So the question I have for you today is What is the biggest limitation that you need to break free of for yourself? Share it down in the comments below. Declare it, unleash it, let it go by leaving it in the comments so that you can live a more impactful life. And for those of you who are watching, encourage others who are leaving comments. Show them a little bit of love and support because this is Believe Nation. We're in this together to try and make the world a better place. I'm really looking forward to hearing what you have to say. I also want to give a quick shout out to Candice Saunders. Candice, thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word. I really, really appreciate that. The support, and I hope you enjoyed the read. So thank you guys so much for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of enespresso.

For me as a driver, I just, I change, I improve all the time through experiences. Not race by race, not just race by race, but in life, you know, I'm always I'm taking all these different experiences, positive or negative, extracting the best bits out of them, learning, becoming older and wiser. I mean, I'm 23 years old and I think I'm quite wise for my age. I think I still got a long way to go, but then when it comes to driving, I just, I excel. I push beyond limits. When I'm training, I go beyond the pain barriers. I just do everything I can to make sure that When I arrive at the racetrack, I've already got 2, 3 tenths on the other guys.

I'm a storyteller, and I'm not someone who restricts myself to one thing, ever. I've never been that person. Maybe I have ADD, but I want to be able to do everything. Why can't we do everything?

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You know, and especially women, we are great at multitasking. So I want to produce, I want to have a business, I'm producing here, I'm going to produce in India, Hindi films, regional films. I want to be able to act in them, maybe not. You know, there's so many things that I can do which I want to be able to explore.

The greatest compliment I think I've ever gotten, better than Oscar, better than Grammy, etc., was towards the end of the last Dark Knight Rises. You know, working with those percussionists that we've just sampled, these guys have played on everything. They're the guys, you know, there's nothing they haven't played. So my great ambition has always been to go and do just one thing where they go, "Wow, never done that before." I actually figured something. I'm not going to go into the details, but number one, I got the compliment of going, "Wow, we've never done this before and it sounds really good." Let me give you the one word secret to happiness. One word. This is all you need to be happy.

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