true success is within yourself

Just wanted to make this video. And the past few years of my life have been crazy. I went from someone who had nothing, someone who, you know, made maybe a thousand dollars a month, to someone who's now making much, much more than that. And someone who's achieving their dreams and doing these crazy things that I never would have thought I would have been able to accomplish before. And I have changed so, so much. And I've changed in so many different ways for. And all this change started by fixing what's going on inside of me and fixing, you know, the internal part of myself, my inner self, you know, fixing on what my heart longs for and how my. How I think, what my thoughts are. And I think there's a really cool verse in the Bible that kind of emulates this, and it's Proverbs 23:7. And basically, I think it says, like, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. And the only thing you can control, the only thing that we actually have control over, we don't have control over what happens every day. We don't have control over how our businesses do. We don't have control over whether something works out, whether it doesn't, whether someone likes you back, whether they don't. You only have control over your mind, your heart and your soul and what goes on within you. You only have control over yourself. And so it's so important that you take, like. You realize this and be like, okay, if I want to change my life, I gotta change myself first. And I feel like a lot of. Whether it's, you know, trying to start a business, whether it's trying to even, you know, maybe grow closer to God, maybe if it's even anything in life that you're trying to learn, trying to do, it comes from within. And for example, the God example. I started becoming really close to God. Not because I went to church every day or not because I started going to church or doing these things or trying to be religious. It started with me having an internal belief, internal faith, an internal relationship with God and praying and building that relationship just between me and Him. And since then, it has just flourished into this amazing relationship where I can go through the toughest trials. And I've gone through trials, I've gone into debt. I've gone into tough situations and scary trials and errors. And I've never lost faith and I've never lost hope. And I always. I have this feeling like that God is just. He loves me and that he's going to take care of me no matter what. And that is something that I wish everyone had. But for business, it took me probably a couple years of just working on myself, maybe a year of working on myself, to actually change enough to where I could even become someone who could have a successful business. Because in high school, I was a slacker. I've been a slacker my whole life. You know, I used to play a ton of video games, eat like crap. I used to, you know, just do, you know, have really, really bad habits. I didn't really take care of myself. And that all started to change once I graduated and I made this, the concept, this conscious decision to actually start changing my life. And it first started with the gym. And, you know, by going to the gym, I built this habit of, you know, consistency, effort, and I built my work ethic. And then I transferred over to other stuff, and then it's just kind of like a snowball effect, and you keep getting better and better and better. And even now, it's something that I constantly keep in my mind and constantly am working on, is continuously trying to improve myself. Because the more you improve yourself and the more you improve what goes on in your body, how your body is, your habits, and especially how you think and how you react to situations, the more successful you are. And it's like, you don't become successful at one thing. You become a successful person. And this happens. You know, success bleeds over into relationships, your business, you know, you're like anything like how you are. Even with, like, learning a new, new sport or skill. Success is something that. It's a lifestyle, and it's not something that just pertains to one or two things. If, if that's how it is, that's just luck. But there are people, and you might see this, you might wonder why there are people out there so good at so many things. Like, they just seem like they're talented, and they're not talented. They're just successful people. They have successful habits. They have that drive, they have the competitiveness in them. They have, you know, the desire to become better. And they have the habits and the work ethic to actually make that into fruition. And another thing the Bible says is the kingdom of God is within you. And everything I feel like a lot of people, when I get from this verse, is basically the kingdom of God. The peace and the joy that you can have is literally within you. It doesn't matter where you are in this earth. You can be in the most obnoxious place, you can be in the worst place. And, you know, some Terrible neighborhood or a terrible environment, but you can find peace within yourself. The most peaceful place you can be is within yourself. And once you figure that out, it's honestly a superpower because you can go in any environment, any place, and if you control what goes on in the inside of you, you control your heart, you control your soul, you control your thoughts. You have this, you know, the stoicism, this, this philosophy within yourself where you can do anything and you don't have to be affected by anything. The only thing that affects you is you. You can find peace wherever. And that is probably one of the most important things I've learned on my jo. Excellence is like, it's not an act, it's like a habit. And excellence starts by cleansing yourself, cleansing your inner self. And the way you think internally in the way you speak to yourself internally, the way you believe what you, what your heart longs for is way, way more important than anything external. And once you build up this internal self and you cleanse yourself, it bleeds into everything in your life. And I'm really starting to see that. I have a really amazing life and I feel kind of guilty saying that because I know there's a lot of people out there who are struggling and I know there's a lot of people out there who, they don't see the light and who don't have hope and they don't see themselves as accomplishing what they want or they don't see themselves as capable. But it really, it all starts within. And if you can practice doing, going within and really figuring out and finding peace, healing things that you have maybe haven't dealt with or understanding how to even heal those things in the first place, like it is the most valuable thing you can do. And I just hope you guys going into this new year, take control of your inner self, take control of your thoughts, take control of your actions. You know, the, the powers that be, you know, we do have a spirit battle going on right now and some of you guys might not believe that, but there is. And the powers that be that, that hate you, that are evil, they want you to be distracted, they want you to be angry, they want you to be hateful, they want you to not focus on the things that are actually going to benefit you. And so the best thing you can do is to be self sustaining, to have a relationship with God and take control of your life and take control of your thoughts. That's the best thing can do. And the more people that do this, the better. And the more that I know that there's a lot of people out there, and this is very off topic, but there's a lot of people out there who are. Who are worried and there's a lot of people who see these things that are happening in the world and people are starting to connect these dots and really see who is pulling the strings and that there's not. All these. All these coincidences are not really coincidences. They actually are part of this plot that's been going on for a long time. But evil has to exist in the shadows. These evil people, they have to do it behind the scenes. And the reason why they are hidden, the reason why they have to hide is because good is so much greater than evil. And a lot of people think that this world is going to crap. I'm not one of those. And I know how powerful and how overwhelming means better goodness is than evil. And a lot of people are starting to wake up, and a lot of people are starting to actually see the world for what it is and what these people are actually doing. And there's going to be people who, who are awake. And these people, they go, they come to God. And this goodness starts to rise. And you know, it's the story of time. Evil will exist for a while and evil will play its part in the shadows. But as soon as ev. Evil starts to be noticed and people start to awaken per se and pay attention, goodness comes out. And when goodness collaborates, when good people get together and when people who want the best for each other and who believe in God and who are actually good come together to face this evil, it doesn't stand a chance. And I'm really excited to see that. And I think everyone has to play a part in that. But that's a whole nother video we got to get into. But take control of the inner self, guys. Take control of yourselves. Your thoughts, your actions, and your life will change.