The speaker argues that success requires three things: overcoming fear, believing in yourself, and cutting out negative people. He describes rejecting family members still involved in drug dealing and telling them to leave his home, marking his decisive break from a criminal past.
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Yes, sir. Because life is going to test you. Life is going to come and test you. There is this law called Murphy's Law, which means whatever can go wrong will go wrong. And sometimes things will go wrong. Sometimes things will fall apart on you. Sometimes situations will catch you from the blind side. Life is not a fair fight. Life will come and it will prove what you're made of. And it's gonna be in your best interest to determine that I believe in me and I'm willing to fight and give life all I have to give. And so in my travel and speaking in different places, I come across people all the time that doesn't take their life serious. And then they end up in jail, in prison. They end up on the streets. They end up homeless. Why? Because they gave up believing in themselves. They gave up overcoming fear. They gave up treating themselves and giving themselves a fair shake at life. So you got to overcome fear, number one. You got to believe in yourself. Number 2. And then number 3, which is very important, you have to eliminate negative influence from out of your life. Negative voices, people that's going to tell you you can't do it, people that's going to laugh at you when you're trying to take life serious, people who will say to you you don't have what it takes. You got to separate yourself from the negativity of other people. Some people are so negative, ladies and gentlemen, that if you never saw them again, that would be too soon. Some people are so negative that they never have anything positive to say to you about what you're able to do in life. Some people are so negative that they will tell you no 7 times before they tell you yes 1 time. Some people are so negative that not only do they not believe in themselves or believe in their dream, they don't want you to believe in you, and they don't I want you to believe in your dream. And when you're trying to make your dream a reality, when you're trying to do something big and special with your life, you have to separate yourself from negativity because negativity depletes you of your strength, your courage, and your virtue, your energy, and your self-belief. You have to determine that I will not invite negativity into my space because I have one chance to get my life where it needs to be. That's right. before life is over. So you gotta eliminate negativity as much as you possibly can out of your life. When I made up my mind that I was going to turn my life around, I had a bunch of family members who were living that life that I used to live that sent me to prison. And when I came home, because many of them owed me, they came to me trying to pay me but in street value Drugs. And I said to them, listen, I'm not about that life anymore, so take your drugs and get away from my house before I call the police on you and have you arrested. See, I made a decision. Number one, I'm not going back down that dark, lonely road. Number two, I made a decision that I'm going to give myself—
