May 23, 2025 • 32 mins
Ever feel stuck at a crossroads, paralyzed by indecision despite knowing exactly what you want to do? You're not alone. This deeply personal episode dives into the frustrating phenomenon of "analysis paralysis" and offers a refreshingly simple solution: just start.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on everybody?
This is Eon J.
Welcome to another rendition ofthe Moral Compass Chronicles.
Another day, another chronicle,another week, another month.
It's been about a month.
It's been about a month, man,and I am here, I am back.
I quite honestly, man, I havehad so much going on, there has
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been so much going on in my lifeand I am grateful to say that I
counted all joy.
I counted all joy, the good,the bad.
I counted all joy, even when Ifall into unfortunate situations
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.
I have gotten to a place in mylife where I have learned how to
count it all joy, as Paul says.
I've learned how to remaincontent in whatever state I find
myself to be in.
All right, and it's so funny.
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I feel like I mentioned thatrecently as well on one of these
chronicles.
I'm not even sure, but I'm justgrateful, man.
I'm grateful to be here,grateful to be able to lock in
here yet again and speak to youall, speak to the world here yet
again and speak to you all.
Speak to the world.
I know we're listening frommany, many different places and
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I'm just super grateful for eachand every one of you that find
me and find this podcast, fromwherever you are, from the East
Coast of the United States tothe West coast, canada, europe,
the Caribbean I think I saw aSouth America in there somewhere
and I'm just super grateful,man.
I'm super grateful.
So many things that I want totalk about and so many things
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that I am doing.
I'm a certified mediator.
At this point in my life,continuing my education.
As far as that's concerned, Ifound myself starting a business
around mediation and consultingas well, and so this is
something that I am doingregularly.
I'm here on the podcast,speaking to you here, um, in my
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free time.
Right, this is this issomething I'm doing because I
felt led to do Um, but God hasgiven me a business as well, and
a long time ago.
It's so funny how you look backand you recognize that you are
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in the middle of a blessing.
If I can be cliche, you're inthe middle of a blessing that
you once prayed for, right, thatever happened to you when, at
one point in your life, you findyourself praying.
You find yourself at acrossroads.
You're not sure what to do.
You know what you want to do,but you're not sure what
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direction to go in.
You feel leading in some way,shape or form, you pull the
trigger on something.
You look up, five years haspassed and you realize that you
are living in a prayer that wasanswered a significant time ago.
That ever happened to you.
Because this right here, this,what you are experiencing right
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now, is an answered prayer.
This is an answered prayer,this is direction from God that
you are a part of right now.
The business that I have started, the podcasting, all the videos
and the content that I've beencreating, and the one-on-one
consultations just about life.
I'm not a business consultant,I'm not a.
I'm a life consultant.
I don't even want to callmyself a life coach, um, but
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that is what I do.
And I remember I didn't knowwhere to start at one point in
my life.
It wow, it's so funny that thisis the road, this is the
direction I'm going in, becausethis is literally the topic for
today's episode, today'sChronicle.
It's so funny.
I just I didn't even mean to gointo that spiel, but I did that
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and unknowingly I just wentinto that and it's literally
going to segue right intoexactly, or exactly what the
topic is for today.
And so I remember I didn't knowwhat direction to go in at one
point.
I wasn't sure what direction togo in.
I had several ideas that I feltlike God had given me, all of
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them based on the gifting that Ihave, all of them based on the
gifting that I have.
Um, I, I felt like I, lord, doI start this podcast thing and
start making, or do I?
Do I start making these videos?
Cause that was a time where I II saw podcasting as audio and
then, you know, I have thevideos that I was creating and
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putting on Instagram.
Lord, do I go in that route?
Do I go on in that direction?
Do I start the podcast?
Do I start the mediation andconsulting business?
And I remember exactly where Iwas.
I was in a Staples parking lot.
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I was at the Staples on UticaAve, utica and Kings Highway,
over there for my people inBrooklyn, and I was waiting for
my then girlfriend.
She was in the Staples, I wasin the parking lot and I had
been praying for a significantamount of time.
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I'd been praying for asignificant amount of time and
in that parking lot, god gave methe revelation of how all three
of these things will becombined into one and how I was
so torn between what do I start.
What do I start?
What do I start?
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And then my um, all the thingsthat I do on the side, right,
trading, and, um, uh, differentlittle businesses, different
ways I earn money.
Right, lord, what do I focus on?
Do I focus on these littlethings?
And I remember one of thosethings was starting a vending
machine company.
That was one of the things Iwas considering.
I haven't started that yet, butI put that in the same bucket
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as one of those things that Iwill be doing to make money at
some point.
Right?
So, lord, do I start with thebucket of things?
Right?
The podcast and the contentcreation, or the mediation and
consulting business?
What direction do I go in?
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And in that very parking lot,god gave me the revelation, no
pun intended, but how the threewould become one, how the three
would work hand in hand as one.
And it was up to me at thatpoint to just start it, just
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start.
It was up to me at that point.
Do I continue to drag my feet?
Do I continue to be tornbetween everything to the point
where I don't make a decision?
Right?
Because, let's be honest, a lotof us have.
Some of us call it analysis,paralysis, and some of us call
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it paralysis by overanalysis.
Right, overanalysis, paralysisor paralysis by overanalysis?
Do I sit here and continue tooveranalyze things?
I know what I wanna do, I knowthe things that I have to do.
Do I continue to drag my feetand waste time valuable time
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let's be honest, time isprobably the most valuable asset
Time, health or do I startsomewhere?
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And at that moment I realizedyo, I just gotta start, bro, I
have to start, I have to start.
So I started with the videos andand making some videos.
Wasn't doing full podcasts yet,just little like you know.
You know five, six, sevenminute long joints.
Chopped them up, startedputting them on Instagram and
TikTok whatever.
I didn't even start with TikTokyet.
Started with that, created thepodcast, eventually, pull the
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trigger on that.
Now I'm doing two of thosethings.
Right, because now actually I'mdoing the same thing, except I
started the podcast, and so nowthe audio is going to the
podcast and I'm still doing thevideos and the content creation.
Started my business eventually,the mediation and consulting
business and when I look up, Ilook now from those two, three
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years ago however long ago thatwas, and I am living in the
middle of that answered prayerwhen God finally gave me that
revelation.
And the truth is, I didn'tstart all at once.
You can't do more than onething at the same time.
For real, for real.
You know.
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You know what I mean, but yougot to start somewhere.
You got to start somewhere.
So that leads me to the topic.
The topic for today, for real,for real, is yo, we just got to
do it.
I don't even know what I'mgoing to name this episode, bro,
that doesn't matter.
If I can borrow the slogan fromNike just do it.
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It just has to be done.
You have to start somewhere.
You know what you got going on.
Some of us are in school.
Some of us are working.
Some of us, you're working ajob.
You know nine to five vibes.
Some of us, you know some of usare working.
Some of us, you're working ajob.
You know the 9 to 5 vibes.
Some of us, you know you own abusiness.
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Some people are doing both thegym, working out, eating healthy
.
Some of us making life changes,changing your circle around,
like I could go.
The list could go on and on.
Sometimes, the answer, bro, isjust starting.
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You just got to start, you justgot to do it.
I always tell people becauseI'm somebody who has to have a
lot of tough conversations,uncomfortable conversations, and
I know people don't, we don't,we don't enjoy, um, tough
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conversations.
Right, typically people don'tusually enjoy having that tough
conversation, having that thatuncomfortable conversation
connecting with someone whomaybe you don't know very well.
A lot of us are morecomfortable talking to someone
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that we already know, right?
So if you're someone who doesnetworking, we all look forward
to networking.
For those of us who are in thatinto that sort of thing, we
look forward to networking.
But we can agree that thenetworking sometimes can be
uncomfortable, right?
Some of us are in church.
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You start a new job.
Some of y'all are in highschool, middle school, first day
of school.
You're going to a new school,graduate high school.
You're going to college.
Shout out to my little sisterthat just graduated college had
one graduate last year.
One graduated this year.
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Another one graduated highschool this year.
Another one's graduatingcollege next year.
We're moving through thesedifferent phases of our life.
It is extremely uncomfortablesometimes to have to start a
conversation with somebody thatyou do not know and, god forbid,
it starts off a little awkward,right, extremely uncomfortable
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for us.
I always tell people thatanytime I have to like call
somebody, I know I have to callthem, right, you're on my
schedule to call you or I have acall list sometimes where I
know I got to reach out tocertain people for specific
things.
Whatever the case may be, if Ihave to reach out to somebody to
check on them right, I'm aminister at my church youth
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president Sometimes I may haveto like reach out to somebody
who I'm not used to talking to,and this is full transparency.
If y'all haven't realized, thisis my podcast, right, and it's
about full transparency.
I tell all myself on here too.
Okay, sometimes it'suncomfortable, but anytime I'm
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like, oh god, I don't want totake this phone call.
I have this meeting on myschedule, bro, with somebody and
I do not want to talk to themfor whatever reason, whether I'm
not having a good day or thisperson and me really just don't
like vibe, like that.
I'm unsure how the conversationis going to go.
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Me and this person are at oddsand there's something we have to
work out.
And you're, like you know,typically when you got to work
something out with somebody,tend to avoid.
Oh lord, I'm sorry, I didn'tmean to go there.
You tend to avoid them.
We've talked about that on herebefore right.
We avoid the tough conversationanytime I am put in that
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position and I realize that I'vebeen dragging my feet for a
little too long.
You know what I do.
I just do it, I know.
I know.
I know, I know we're lookingfor a magic pill.
I know we're looking for, we'relooking for some sort of like
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mystical enlightenment where,you know, I prayed for, for my,
for my believers.
I prayed and I'm seeking theLord and you're looking for the
voice of God to thunder from theheavens to tell you what to do.
And, yes, there are times youneed to wait, but I'm really
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talking to those people whoalready got your answer for real
.
Yo, sometimes the answer isjust doing it, you just got to
do it, bro.
I'm really talking to thosepeople who already got your
answer for real.
Yo, sometimes the answer isjust doing it.
You just got to do it, bro.
Just do it, just do it.
You've gotten confirmationafter confirmation, and let me
backtrack.
Let me talk about me again,real quick.
Let me go back to me.
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So, if I know I have to callsomebody, and I know the
conversation is going to beuncomfortable or I don't really
want to do it any, I willliterally pick my phone up.
No, I'm there like cursing atmyself on the inside, like, oh
my god, right, I will pick myphone up, go to my contact list.
I will go to the person's name.
I will click on their name asI'm like really cursing myself,
as I'm like what's the word?
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Cringing?
As I'm cringing on the inside.
This is my secret.
Anybody want some help withcommunicating?
Yo, like, if yo listen, go lookat the episodes, man, and see
where we started and how we gothere.
Let's talk about communicationand accountability.
This is the moral compasschronicles.
Baby, you want to know mysecret?
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I go to their name, click on itas I'm cringing and
uncomfortable on the inside.
I click on the number and thephone starts ringing on the
inside.
I click on the number and thephone starts ringing, surprise,
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and the phone rings and it ringsand guess what?
I would say like 60% of thetime the person answers the
phone.
And then guess what?
Now I'm having a conversation.
Now we are having a conversation, whether I like it or not,
whether I want to or not,whether I want to or not whether
you want to or not.
You answer the phone when Icall you.
Now we're having a conversationand we are talking now and nine
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times out of ten, all of thembutterflies, the
uncomfortability, theawkwardness, it goes right out
the window.
Next thing you know, we've beenon the phone for a half hour.
Next thing you know, theproblem is worked out and we
good now.
Next thing, you know, wesolving whatever issue needs to
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be solved.
I'm coaching you throughsomething.
You're coaching me throughsomething.
I'm encouraging you.
You're encouraging me throughsomething.
I'm encouraging you, you'reencouraging me.
You know, sometimes there is nomagic pill.
There is no, there is no like Imean yo.
Sometimes you just got to do it, bro, you just got to do it,
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and I've had so many things onmy plate over these last few
weeks.
Let me tell you something thatlast episode, the anxiety
episode, took so much out of me.
I don't know how muchpreparation y'all really think
goes into this stuff, but I'mseeking god for some of this,
for most all of this stuff right, and once I have it all, then I
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sort of like decide what I wantto go with if I'm not feeling
led with.
I got a whole topic list, bro,and I'm like all right, lord,
which direction should I go in?
And sometimes he makes it realclear.
But sometimes I'm like allright, I mean, he's the one that
gave me the idea at some point.
So now I'm gonna just pick one,I'm gonna just pick one, I'm
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gonna just pick, I'm gonna justsee which direction am I leaning
toward.
And I'm gonna just pick one.
That anxiety one, though thatone had been burning a hole in
my stomach for as long as I'vebeen hearing that song to like
even getting on here right nowas you listen to this.
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This was a decision.
It's been.
It's been over a month since thelast chronicle, april 12th, and
I've been so busy, so busySince then, haven't found time
To get on here.
But please believe, the workhasn't stopped.
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The work hasn't stopped.
The praying hasn't stopped.
The studying hasn't stopped.
The mediation hasn't stopped.
The consulting hasn't stopped.
Truth is, the podcasting hasn'tstopped, it just hasn't been
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recorded.
That's the truth.
This, right here, I'm doingthis with someone several times
a day, every single day.
It's just that I got amicrophone in front of me right
now.
This was a choice, I had theopportunity, I carved out the
time, and so we're doing it.
Some of you guys oh, that's aword right there Some of us.
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You have the opportunity.
You have the time Now.
You need to carve out that timefor that specific thing and you
need to do it.
Bro, you need to start.
You know what else works for meA whiteboard.
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Some of us need to.
Some of us are visual.
Right, we need to see certainthings.
Stop keeping your schedule inyour head.
Stop keeping your schedule inyour head.
Write it out, write the visionright, make it plain and then
run, prioritize.
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I hope this is helping somebody.
Write it out, prioritize it.
Yo, what looks like it's mostimportant, what is most pressing
?
If that's where you're at, ifthat's where you're at, what
looks most important, what'smost dire, what's most pressing?
Let me number them one through.
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Okay, put numbers on it onethrough 10.
I gotta start at number one andstart.
Get started and watch howquickly your life changes.
Watch how quickly your lifechanges.
If you just do it, we need tostop dragging our feet on
everything and you know what?
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Being content.
There's nothing wrong withbeing content.
There's nothing wrong withbeing content where you are.
If you are in, you findyourself in a good enough place.
You are content where you arecool.
But if you are somebody and youknow what, truthfully, if you
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are content where you are andwith everything that you're
doing, if there isn't anythingthat you are dragging your feet
on, if there isn't anything thatyou're struggling to do, and
whatever the case, maybe thisconversation isn't for you and
that's okay.
Maybe this one isn't for you,but you know who you are, you
know if this applies to you ornot.
You know if this applies to you, you've got to do it.
You've got to start.
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You got to.
For me, I think that right now,my thing is like is YouTube?
I just need to.
I have all this content already.
And editing, bro, editingreally be eating me alive.
I ain't gonna hold y'all, letme, can I?
Can I continue?
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To be honest, editing isprobably the thing that's my
thing right now, where I justneed to do it, and unfortunately
, that takes time and I'm kindof like a little bit of an
amateur.
I'm not going to lie, I'm a bitof an amateur when it comes to
video editing, so that it takesme a lot of time to edit stuff,
whereas like a professional,it'll be much quicker for them.
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So eventually I'm going to hirean editor, bro, because I ain't
gonna lie, man, editing istough.
It's tough.
It's tough, especially the wayI want stuff to look and be
clean and, honestly, it ain'teven what I want it to be right
now.
What I want it to be, I'm noteven capable of making it that
right now.
I just can't afford an editorlike consistently right now.
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And that's okay, I will getthere.
There will be somebody editingmy content soon, because once
I'm able to hire somebody, bro,I'm not doing it, I'm not doing
it.
Bro, you got to know yourstrengths.
You got to know your strengthsand I believe I edit fairly
decently.
But I have to be honest withmyself.
It takes me too long.
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It takes me too long and inorder for me to do it quicker,
the quality would have to dropsignificantly.
You know what I'm saying.
I would have to drop thequality significantly in order
to get the same product that I'mputting out now, which already
isn't that great.
You know what I'm saying.
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It's already like amateur vibes, and that's okay.
I'm owning it, I'm walking init and I'm doing it.
I'm doing it.
I'm walking in it and I'm doingit.
I'm doing it.
But you know what?
The editing be eating me aliveand I could be doing more.
I could be doing more editing,but because of how difficult it
is and because of how much timeit takes, I kind of put it off.
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I have so much more content Icould be putting out if I
actually put the time intoediting.
So you know what I'm going to.
This is my personal.
This is me personally holdingmyself accountable For doing
more editing.
And this is now.
I'm speaking this before theeyes and the ears of God and the
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ears of you all, whoever willlisten to this.
But sometimes you just got todo it.
I'm kind of I'm getting older.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm getting older.
I'm married now.
I got a baby on the way.
If you didn't know, now youknow.
Okay, a lot of my friends aregetting married and well, not a
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lot, but you know there's a lotmore marriages around this age,
you know what I'm saying andbabies and stuff like that and a
lot of my I don't even want togo there but a lot of my fellas
man.
We struggling, right?
We struggling to figure out.
Okay, you know, who am I goingto marry?
What am I going to do?
I ain't going to lie to you,bro.
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I ain't going to lie to you.
I ain't gonna lie to you, man.
Read your bible, son.
Read your bible.
Lock in, stop doing the thingsyou need to stop doing.
That's for real.
Start doing the things you needto start doing.
Keep yourself single.
Stop mingling so much.
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Read your bible again.
Find out what the lord issaying about choosing a wife,
how it's a wonderful thing, howit's your choice.
You know I'm a really.
I'm a really.
Dive into that another time forreal.
Cause, my fellas, I know y'allwant to hear more about this and
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me and my me and my brothershout out to my dog we going to
lock in on this, 're going tolock in on this.
We're going to lock in on this.
Some married men going to comeon here and do some teaching,
you know, in some differentcapacities.
That's on the way.
But do the work that you needto do and make a choice, bro.
Yo, we keep ladies, you keepwaiting for god's voice to
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thunder from heaven to tell youwho to say yes to.
I'm telling you right now youwill be single for the rest of
your life.
There was a man that wasdrowning in the water and he
prayed and prayed lord, lord,please save me, please save me,
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lord, please save me.
Not too long after a ship comesby, a boat comes by, says hey,
yo, do you need help, are youdrowning, do you need help?
The guy says drowning, do youneed help?
The guy says oh, no, no, no, no, thank you, I'm good, god is
going to save me.
The people on the boat lookedat him like he was crazy, said
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OK, you sure.
Yeah, yeah, I'm good, god isgoing to save me.
Boat takes off.
The guy's drowning, stilldrowning.
Another ship comes by oh, myGod, do you need help?
You need help About to throwhim life rafts and all that.
No, I'm okay, I'm okay, god isgoing to save me, god's going to
save me.
They say yo, are you crazy.
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You look like you're drowning.
Oh, I'm good, god is going tosave me, god is going to save me
, thank you.
Boat takes off, guy drowns,goes to heaven.
Guy says, or the guy says God,I didn't want to die, I thought
you were going to save me.
I thought you were going tosave me, god, I prayed and I
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prayed.
I thought you were going tosave me.
And God says yo, I sent you twobig boats, stupid, I sent you
two big boats, not just one, Isent you two.
I sent people.
Oh Lord, have mercy.
I didn't mean to preach on here.
I sent people to come and helpyou.
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I sent someone to your.
You prayed and I sent somebodyto your rescue.
You prayed and you prayed and Isent somebody to your rescue.
You prayed and you prayed and Isent help, and you weren't
listening, you weren't payingattention, you didn't recognize
my voice, you didn't recognizemy help, and now you're dead.
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I don't know who that's for,but some of us are drowning in
our own waters and God hascontinued to send help and you
just don't recognize it.
You're looking for your help tocome in a specific way.
You're looking for your answer.
Let's go back to that.
You're looking for your answerto come in a specific way.
You're looking for your answer.
Let's go back to that.
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You're looking for your answerto come in a certain way and
it's not coming in the way thatyou think it's going to come.
The answer is not.
It's not.
It's not coming to you theanswer the way you thought it
would, and so you're notreceiving it as an answer, but
I'm here to tell you today thatGod speaks in multiple ways and
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God is always speaking.
The question is one are welistening?
And two, do we know the ways inwhich God is speaking to us?
Do we know what it sounds like?
So some of us have alreadygotten our answer, some of us
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have already been given ourdirection.
Some of us already we'vealready been told and led to go
in a specific direction.
Allow this to be yourconfirmation and I ain't talking
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to the people who just theywant to do what they want to do,
even though they know it's notgood for them, and they still
want to keep doing it.
This is not your confirmationthat you should keep doing that.
I'm talking to the people whoare doing things the right way,
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the moral way, the morally soundway, and you're seeking what
it's time to find.
You're knocking, the door'sbeing answered, it's being
opened unto you and it's timefor you to do your part.
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It's time for you to do yourpart.
You got to do your part.
You got to do your part, allright.
So listen, man, I hope this hasbeen helpful for somebody on
today.
Um, I really just came on hereto just chop it up with you.
Talk a little bit.
I think I did a good amount oftalking and so, um, we're going
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to go from here, but, um, neverfrom God's presence.
Man, I love you guys.
I pray that you guys are doingthe things you're supposed to do
.
You know what I'm saying andlet's keep on getting to it.
Man, this is the Moral CompassChronicles.
I love you dearly, until nexttime.
What's going on everybody?
This is Eon J.
Welcome to another rendition ofthe Moral Compass Chronicles.
Another day, another chronicle,another week, another month.
It's been about a month.
It's been about a month, man,and I am here, I am back.
I quite honestly, man, I havehad so much going on, there has
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been so much going on in my lifeand I am grateful to say that I
counted all joy.
I counted all joy, the good,the bad.
I counted all joy, even when Ifall into unfortunate situations
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.
I have gotten to a place in mylife where I have learned how to
count it all joy, as Paul says.
I've learned how to remaincontent in whatever state I find
myself to be in.
All right, and it's so funny.
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I feel like I mentioned thatrecently as well on one of these
chronicles.
I'm not even sure, but I'm justgrateful, man.
I'm grateful to be here,grateful to be able to lock in
here yet again and speak to youall, speak to the world here yet
again and speak to you all.
Speak to the world.
I know we're listening frommany, many different places and
(01:37):
I'm just super grateful for eachand every one of you that find
me and find this podcast, fromwherever you are, from the East
Coast of the United States tothe West coast, canada, europe,
the Caribbean I think I saw aSouth America in there somewhere
and I'm just super grateful,man.
I'm super grateful.
So many things that I want totalk about and so many things
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that I am doing.
I'm a certified mediator.
At this point in my life,continuing my education.
As far as that's concerned, Ifound myself starting a business
around mediation and consultingas well, and so this is
something that I am doingregularly.
I'm here on the podcast,speaking to you here, um, in my
(02:30):
free time.
Right, this is this issomething I'm doing because I
felt led to do Um, but God hasgiven me a business as well, and
a long time ago.
It's so funny how you look backand you recognize that you are
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in the middle of a blessing.
If I can be cliche, you're inthe middle of a blessing that
you once prayed for, right, thatever happened to you when, at
one point in your life, you findyourself praying.
You find yourself at acrossroads.
You're not sure what to do.
You know what you want to do,but you're not sure what
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direction to go in.
You feel leading in some way,shape or form, you pull the
trigger on something.
You look up, five years haspassed and you realize that you
are living in a prayer that wasanswered a significant time ago.
That ever happened to you.
Because this right here, this,what you are experiencing right
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now, is an answered prayer.
This is an answered prayer,this is direction from God that
you are a part of right now.
The business that I have started, the podcasting, all the videos
and the content that I've beencreating, and the one-on-one
consultations just about life.
I'm not a business consultant,I'm not a.
I'm a life consultant.
I don't even want to callmyself a life coach, um, but
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that is what I do.
And I remember I didn't knowwhere to start at one point in
my life.
It wow, it's so funny that thisis the road, this is the
direction I'm going in, becausethis is literally the topic for
today's episode, today'sChronicle.
It's so funny.
I just I didn't even mean to gointo that spiel, but I did that
(04:38):
and unknowingly I just wentinto that and it's literally
going to segue right intoexactly, or exactly what the
topic is for today.
And so I remember I didn't knowwhat direction to go in at one
point.
I wasn't sure what direction togo in.
I had several ideas that I feltlike God had given me, all of
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them based on the gifting that Ihave, all of them based on the
gifting that I have.
Um, I, I felt like I, lord, doI start this podcast thing and
start making, or do I?
Do I start making these videos?
Cause that was a time where I II saw podcasting as audio and
then, you know, I have thevideos that I was creating and
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putting on Instagram.
Lord, do I go in that route?
Do I go on in that direction?
Do I start the podcast?
Do I start the mediation andconsulting business?
And I remember exactly where Iwas.
I was in a Staples parking lot.
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I was at the Staples on UticaAve, utica and Kings Highway,
over there for my people inBrooklyn, and I was waiting for
my then girlfriend.
She was in the Staples, I wasin the parking lot and I had
been praying for a significantamount of time.
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I'd been praying for asignificant amount of time and
in that parking lot, god gave methe revelation of how all three
of these things will becombined into one and how I was
so torn between what do I start.
What do I start?
What do I start?
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And then my um, all the thingsthat I do on the side, right,
trading, and, um, uh, differentlittle businesses, different
ways I earn money.
Right, lord, what do I focus on?
Do I focus on these littlethings?
And I remember one of thosethings was starting a vending
machine company.
That was one of the things Iwas considering.
I haven't started that yet, butI put that in the same bucket
(06:45):
as one of those things that Iwill be doing to make money at
some point.
Right?
So, lord, do I start with thebucket of things?
Right?
The podcast and the contentcreation, or the mediation and
consulting business?
What direction do I go in?
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And in that very parking lot,god gave me the revelation, no
pun intended, but how the threewould become one, how the three
would work hand in hand as one.
And it was up to me at thatpoint to just start it, just
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start.
It was up to me at that point.
Do I continue to drag my feet?
Do I continue to be tornbetween everything to the point
where I don't make a decision?
Right?
Because, let's be honest, a lotof us have.
Some of us call it analysis,paralysis, and some of us call
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it paralysis by overanalysis.
Right, overanalysis, paralysisor paralysis by overanalysis?
Do I sit here and continue tooveranalyze things?
I know what I wanna do, I knowthe things that I have to do.
Do I continue to drag my feetand waste time valuable time
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let's be honest, time isprobably the most valuable asset
Time, health or do I startsomewhere?
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And at that moment I realizedyo, I just gotta start, bro, I
have to start, I have to start.
So I started with the videos andand making some videos.
Wasn't doing full podcasts yet,just little like you know.
You know five, six, sevenminute long joints.
Chopped them up, startedputting them on Instagram and
TikTok whatever.
I didn't even start with TikTokyet.
Started with that, created thepodcast, eventually, pull the
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trigger on that.
Now I'm doing two of thosethings.
Right, because now actually I'mdoing the same thing, except I
started the podcast, and so nowthe audio is going to the
podcast and I'm still doing thevideos and the content creation.
Started my business eventually,the mediation and consulting
business and when I look up, Ilook now from those two, three
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years ago however long ago thatwas, and I am living in the
middle of that answered prayerwhen God finally gave me that
revelation.
And the truth is, I didn'tstart all at once.
You can't do more than onething at the same time.
For real, for real.
You know.
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You know what I mean, but yougot to start somewhere.
You got to start somewhere.
So that leads me to the topic.
The topic for today, for real,for real, is yo, we just got to
do it.
I don't even know what I'mgoing to name this episode, bro,
that doesn't matter.
If I can borrow the slogan fromNike just do it.
(10:08):
It just has to be done.
You have to start somewhere.
You know what you got going on.
Some of us are in school.
Some of us are working.
Some of us, you're working ajob.
You know nine to five vibes.
Some of us, you know some of usare working.
Some of us, you're working ajob.
You know the 9 to 5 vibes.
Some of us, you know you own abusiness.
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Some people are doing both thegym, working out, eating healthy
.
Some of us making life changes,changing your circle around,
like I could go.
The list could go on and on.
Sometimes, the answer, bro, isjust starting.
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You just got to start, you justgot to do it.
I always tell people becauseI'm somebody who has to have a
lot of tough conversations,uncomfortable conversations, and
I know people don't, we don't,we don't enjoy, um, tough
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conversations.
Right, typically people don'tusually enjoy having that tough
conversation, having that thatuncomfortable conversation
connecting with someone whomaybe you don't know very well.
A lot of us are morecomfortable talking to someone
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that we already know, right?
So if you're someone who doesnetworking, we all look forward
to networking.
For those of us who are in thatinto that sort of thing, we
look forward to networking.
But we can agree that thenetworking sometimes can be
uncomfortable, right?
Some of us are in church.
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You start a new job.
Some of y'all are in highschool, middle school, first day
of school.
You're going to a new school,graduate high school.
You're going to college.
Shout out to my little sisterthat just graduated college had
one graduate last year.
One graduated this year.
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Another one graduated highschool this year.
Another one's graduatingcollege next year.
We're moving through thesedifferent phases of our life.
It is extremely uncomfortablesometimes to have to start a
conversation with somebody thatyou do not know and, god forbid,
it starts off a little awkward,right, extremely uncomfortable
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for us.
I always tell people thatanytime I have to like call
somebody, I know I have to callthem, right, you're on my
schedule to call you or I have acall list sometimes where I
know I got to reach out tocertain people for specific
things.
Whatever the case may be, if Ihave to reach out to somebody to
check on them right, I'm aminister at my church youth
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president Sometimes I may haveto like reach out to somebody
who I'm not used to talking to,and this is full transparency.
If y'all haven't realized, thisis my podcast, right, and it's
about full transparency.
I tell all myself on here too.
Okay, sometimes it'suncomfortable, but anytime I'm
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like, oh god, I don't want totake this phone call.
I have this meeting on myschedule, bro, with somebody and
I do not want to talk to themfor whatever reason, whether I'm
not having a good day or thisperson and me really just don't
like vibe, like that.
I'm unsure how the conversationis going to go.
(13:51):
Me and this person are at oddsand there's something we have to
work out.
And you're, like you know,typically when you got to work
something out with somebody,tend to avoid.
Oh lord, I'm sorry, I didn'tmean to go there.
You tend to avoid them.
We've talked about that on herebefore right.
We avoid the tough conversationanytime I am put in that
(14:15):
position and I realize that I'vebeen dragging my feet for a
little too long.
You know what I do.
I just do it, I know.
I know.
I know, I know we're lookingfor a magic pill.
I know we're looking for, we'relooking for some sort of like
(14:37):
mystical enlightenment where,you know, I prayed for, for my,
for my believers.
I prayed and I'm seeking theLord and you're looking for the
voice of God to thunder from theheavens to tell you what to do.
And, yes, there are times youneed to wait, but I'm really
(14:59):
talking to those people whoalready got your answer for real
.
Yo, sometimes the answer isjust doing it, you just got to
do it, bro.
I'm really talking to thosepeople who already got your
answer for real.
Yo, sometimes the answer isjust doing it.
You just got to do it, bro.
Just do it, just do it.
You've gotten confirmationafter confirmation, and let me
backtrack.
Let me talk about me again,real quick.
Let me go back to me.
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So, if I know I have to callsomebody, and I know the
conversation is going to beuncomfortable or I don't really
want to do it any, I willliterally pick my phone up.
No, I'm there like cursing atmyself on the inside, like, oh
my god, right, I will pick myphone up, go to my contact list.
I will go to the person's name.
I will click on their name asI'm like really cursing myself,
as I'm like what's the word?
(15:45):
Cringing?
As I'm cringing on the inside.
This is my secret.
Anybody want some help withcommunicating?
Yo, like, if yo listen, go lookat the episodes, man, and see
where we started and how we gothere.
Let's talk about communicationand accountability.
This is the moral compasschronicles.
Baby, you want to know mysecret?
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I go to their name, click on itas I'm cringing and
uncomfortable on the inside.
I click on the number and thephone starts ringing on the
inside.
I click on the number and thephone starts ringing, surprise,
(16:27):
and the phone rings and it ringsand guess what?
I would say like 60% of thetime the person answers the
phone.
And then guess what?
Now I'm having a conversation.
Now we are having a conversation, whether I like it or not,
whether I want to or not,whether I want to or not whether
you want to or not.
You answer the phone when Icall you.
Now we're having a conversationand we are talking now and nine
(16:51):
times out of ten, all of thembutterflies, the
uncomfortability, theawkwardness, it goes right out
the window.
Next thing you know, we've beenon the phone for a half hour.
Next thing you know, theproblem is worked out and we
good now.
Next thing, you know, wesolving whatever issue needs to
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be solved.
I'm coaching you throughsomething.
You're coaching me throughsomething.
I'm encouraging you.
You're encouraging me throughsomething.
I'm encouraging you, you'reencouraging me.
You know, sometimes there is nomagic pill.
There is no, there is no like Imean yo.
Sometimes you just got to do it, bro, you just got to do it,
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and I've had so many things onmy plate over these last few
weeks.
Let me tell you something thatlast episode, the anxiety
episode, took so much out of me.
I don't know how muchpreparation y'all really think
goes into this stuff, but I'mseeking god for some of this,
for most all of this stuff right, and once I have it all, then I
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sort of like decide what I wantto go with if I'm not feeling
led with.
I got a whole topic list, bro,and I'm like all right, lord,
which direction should I go in?
And sometimes he makes it realclear.
But sometimes I'm like allright, I mean, he's the one that
gave me the idea at some point.
So now I'm gonna just pick one,I'm gonna just pick one, I'm
(18:26):
gonna just pick, I'm gonna justsee which direction am I leaning
toward.
And I'm gonna just pick one.
That anxiety one, though thatone had been burning a hole in
my stomach for as long as I'vebeen hearing that song to like
even getting on here right nowas you listen to this.
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This was a decision.
It's been.
It's been over a month since thelast chronicle, april 12th, and
I've been so busy, so busySince then, haven't found time
To get on here.
But please believe, the workhasn't stopped.
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The work hasn't stopped.
The praying hasn't stopped.
The studying hasn't stopped.
The mediation hasn't stopped.
The consulting hasn't stopped.
Truth is, the podcasting hasn'tstopped, it just hasn't been
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recorded.
That's the truth.
This, right here, I'm doingthis with someone several times
a day, every single day.
It's just that I got amicrophone in front of me right
now.
This was a choice, I had theopportunity, I carved out the
time, and so we're doing it.
Some of you guys oh, that's aword right there Some of us.
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You have the opportunity.
You have the time Now.
You need to carve out that timefor that specific thing and you
need to do it.
Bro, you need to start.
You know what else works for meA whiteboard.
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Some of us need to.
Some of us are visual.
Right, we need to see certainthings.
Stop keeping your schedule inyour head.
Stop keeping your schedule inyour head.
Write it out, write the visionright, make it plain and then
run, prioritize.
(20:37):
I hope this is helping somebody.
Write it out, prioritize it.
Yo, what looks like it's mostimportant, what is most pressing
?
If that's where you're at, ifthat's where you're at, what
looks most important, what'smost dire, what's most pressing?
Let me number them one through.
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Okay, put numbers on it onethrough 10.
I gotta start at number one andstart.
Get started and watch howquickly your life changes.
Watch how quickly your lifechanges.
If you just do it, we need tostop dragging our feet on
everything and you know what?
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Being content.
There's nothing wrong withbeing content.
There's nothing wrong withbeing content where you are.
If you are in, you findyourself in a good enough place.
You are content where you arecool.
But if you are somebody and youknow what, truthfully, if you
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are content where you are andwith everything that you're
doing, if there isn't anythingthat you are dragging your feet
on, if there isn't anything thatyou're struggling to do, and
whatever the case, maybe thisconversation isn't for you and
that's okay.
Maybe this one isn't for you,but you know who you are, you
know if this applies to you ornot.
You know if this applies to you, you've got to do it.
You've got to start.
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You got to.
For me, I think that right now,my thing is like is YouTube?
I just need to.
I have all this content already.
And editing, bro, editingreally be eating me alive.
I ain't gonna hold y'all, letme, can I?
Can I continue?
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To be honest, editing isprobably the thing that's my
thing right now, where I justneed to do it, and unfortunately
, that takes time and I'm kindof like a little bit of an
amateur.
I'm not going to lie, I'm a bitof an amateur when it comes to
video editing, so that it takesme a lot of time to edit stuff,
whereas like a professional,it'll be much quicker for them.
(22:49):
So eventually I'm going to hirean editor, bro, because I ain't
gonna lie, man, editing istough.
It's tough.
It's tough, especially the wayI want stuff to look and be
clean and, honestly, it ain'teven what I want it to be right
now.
What I want it to be, I'm noteven capable of making it that
right now.
I just can't afford an editorlike consistently right now.
(23:09):
And that's okay, I will getthere.
There will be somebody editingmy content soon, because once
I'm able to hire somebody, bro,I'm not doing it, I'm not doing
it.
Bro, you got to know yourstrengths.
You got to know your strengthsand I believe I edit fairly
decently.
But I have to be honest withmyself.
It takes me too long.
(23:30):
It takes me too long and inorder for me to do it quicker,
the quality would have to dropsignificantly.
You know what I'm saying.
I would have to drop thequality significantly in order
to get the same product that I'mputting out now, which already
isn't that great.
You know what I'm saying.
(23:50):
It's already like amateur vibes, and that's okay.
I'm owning it, I'm walking init and I'm doing it.
I'm doing it.
I'm walking in it and I'm doingit.
I'm doing it.
But you know what?
The editing be eating me aliveand I could be doing more.
I could be doing more editing,but because of how difficult it
is and because of how much timeit takes, I kind of put it off.
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I have so much more content Icould be putting out if I
actually put the time intoediting.
So you know what I'm going to.
This is my personal.
This is me personally holdingmyself accountable For doing
more editing.
And this is now.
I'm speaking this before theeyes and the ears of God and the
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ears of you all, whoever willlisten to this.
But sometimes you just got todo it.
I'm kind of I'm getting older.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm getting older.
I'm married now.
I got a baby on the way.
If you didn't know, now youknow.
Okay, a lot of my friends aregetting married and well, not a
(24:53):
lot, but you know there's a lotmore marriages around this age,
you know what I'm saying andbabies and stuff like that and a
lot of my I don't even want togo there but a lot of my fellas
man.
We struggling, right?
We struggling to figure out.
Okay, you know, who am I goingto marry?
What am I going to do?
I ain't going to lie to you,bro.
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I ain't going to lie to you.
I ain't gonna lie to you, man.
Read your bible, son.
Read your bible.
Lock in, stop doing the thingsyou need to stop doing.
That's for real.
Start doing the things you needto start doing.
Keep yourself single.
Stop mingling so much.
(25:34):
Read your bible again.
Find out what the lord issaying about choosing a wife,
how it's a wonderful thing, howit's your choice.
You know I'm a really.
I'm a really.
Dive into that another time forreal.
Cause, my fellas, I know y'allwant to hear more about this and
(25:55):
me and my me and my brothershout out to my dog we going to
lock in on this, 're going tolock in on this.
We're going to lock in on this.
Some married men going to comeon here and do some teaching,
you know, in some differentcapacities.
That's on the way.
But do the work that you needto do and make a choice, bro.
Yo, we keep ladies, you keepwaiting for god's voice to
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thunder from heaven to tell youwho to say yes to.
I'm telling you right now youwill be single for the rest of
your life.
There was a man that wasdrowning in the water and he
prayed and prayed lord, lord,please save me, please save me,
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lord, please save me.
Not too long after a ship comesby, a boat comes by, says hey,
yo, do you need help, are youdrowning, do you need help?
The guy says drowning, do youneed help?
The guy says oh, no, no, no, no, thank you, I'm good, god is
going to save me.
The people on the boat lookedat him like he was crazy, said
(27:06):
OK, you sure.
Yeah, yeah, I'm good, god isgoing to save me.
Boat takes off.
The guy's drowning, stilldrowning.
Another ship comes by oh, myGod, do you need help?
You need help About to throwhim life rafts and all that.
No, I'm okay, I'm okay, god isgoing to save me, god's going to
save me.
They say yo, are you crazy.
(27:29):
You look like you're drowning.
Oh, I'm good, god is going tosave me, god is going to save me
, thank you.
Boat takes off, guy drowns,goes to heaven.
Guy says, or the guy says God,I didn't want to die, I thought
you were going to save me.
I thought you were going tosave me, god, I prayed and I
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prayed.
I thought you were going tosave me.
And God says yo, I sent you twobig boats, stupid, I sent you
two big boats, not just one, Isent you two.
I sent people.
Oh Lord, have mercy.
I didn't mean to preach on here.
I sent people to come and helpyou.
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I sent someone to your.
You prayed and I sent somebodyto your rescue.
You prayed and you prayed and Isent somebody to your rescue.
You prayed and you prayed and Isent help, and you weren't
listening, you weren't payingattention, you didn't recognize
my voice, you didn't recognizemy help, and now you're dead.
(28:38):
I don't know who that's for,but some of us are drowning in
our own waters and God hascontinued to send help and you
just don't recognize it.
You're looking for your help tocome in a specific way.
You're looking for your answer.
Let's go back to that.
You're looking for your answerto come in a specific way.
You're looking for your answer.
Let's go back to that.
(28:59):
You're looking for your answerto come in a certain way and
it's not coming in the way thatyou think it's going to come.
The answer is not.
It's not.
It's not coming to you theanswer the way you thought it
would, and so you're notreceiving it as an answer, but
I'm here to tell you today thatGod speaks in multiple ways and
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God is always speaking.
The question is one are welistening?
And two, do we know the ways inwhich God is speaking to us?
Do we know what it sounds like?
So some of us have alreadygotten our answer, some of us
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have already been given ourdirection.
Some of us already we'vealready been told and led to go
in a specific direction.
Allow this to be yourconfirmation and I ain't talking
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to the people who just theywant to do what they want to do,
even though they know it's notgood for them, and they still
want to keep doing it.
This is not your confirmationthat you should keep doing that.
I'm talking to the people whoare doing things the right way,
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the moral way, the morally soundway, and you're seeking what
it's time to find.
You're knocking, the door'sbeing answered, it's being
opened unto you and it's timefor you to do your part.
(30:52):
It's time for you to do yourpart.
You got to do your part.
You got to do your part, allright.
So listen, man, I hope this hasbeen helpful for somebody on
today.
Um, I really just came on hereto just chop it up with you.
Talk a little bit.
I think I did a good amount oftalking and so, um, we're going
(31:15):
to go from here, but, um, neverfrom God's presence.
Man, I love you guys.
I pray that you guys are doingthe things you're supposed to do
.
You know what I'm saying andlet's keep on getting to it.
Man, this is the Moral CompassChronicles.
I love you dearly, until nexttime.
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