July 16, 2025 • 38 mins
What ultimately defines you – your circumstances or your decisions? This transformative episode of the Moral Compass Chronicles challenges us to examine how we respond to life's difficulties. We must stop being products of our situations and instead become products of our decisions, as the choices we make have far greater impact than our circumstances. Our decisions leave fingerprints in our lives that cannot be erased, and the way we respond to challenges defines who we become.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Grace and peace.
Grace and peace to one and all.
Welcome to another rendition ofthe Moral Compass Chronicles.
I'm your man, I'm your guy, eonJ, I'm a, I am a beneficiary of
this platform, and so I thankyou, you and you, thank you for
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joining.
I'm grateful to be here,grateful to have another
opportunity to sit behind thismicrophone and just spend some
time with you guys, man, becausethere has been a lot going on.
There has been a lot going on.
I'm sure there's been a lotgoing on in your life, and there
has certainly been a lot goingon in my life, especially if you
know me, you know some of thethings that I've been dealing
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with.
If you even have listened tothe last few episodes, you know
what's going on, or last fewchronicles, rather, if I may.
But I'm grateful, man, I'mgrateful to be here, I'm
grateful to have anotheropportunity, as I said, to chop
it up with you guys, and I got avery interesting thought that I
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want to talk about here today,that I really just want to jump
right into.
And at this point in my life Iam, I'm drawing inspiration from
everywhere, at this point in myjourney, 32 years old, going on
, 33 next month Am I about tohit my?
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I'm in my Jesus year man.
I'm about to be in my Jesusyear man.
I'm in my about to be in myJesus year.
So please believe this will bethe best year of my life and I
pray that we all get to witnesswhat God is about to use me to
do, um, because I'm I'm reallyrelying on him and and I know
he's, he's I see the visions hehas shown me, what he wants me
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to do, and I'm in the middle of.
I'm in the middle of it rightnow, as we speak, literally as I
speak, I am in the middle ofdoing what the Lord wants me to
do, and so I'm excited for thatMarried baby on the way.
My daughter is due either earlyOctober or late September.
I'm feeling like it's going tobe late September, but we'll see
what happens.
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You know lots going on, lotsgoing on.
I won't even, you know, mentionall the other things, but you
know what God is good.
God is good and I'm gratefulabout everything that that's
going on right now, and so I'mdrawing inspiration from just
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about everywhere at this pointin my life.
I have learned how to take thegood and leave the bad.
I've learned how to separatethe good and like separate
myself from the rest.
In almost every situation I getinto or I see or I am a part of,
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even when I'm mediating betweenpeople or counseling somebody
or consulting, I am looking tolearn from even someone else's
circumstance and I'm looking forgod to speak to me through my
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situation or somebody else'ssituation.
That's where I'm at in my life.
It's a wonderful place to be.
It's a place of growth.
It's a place of evolution,constant evolution.
That's what I'm, that's whatI'm looking for.
I'm looking as kobe would saygod rest kobe soul.
I'm looking for.
I'm looking as Kobe would sayGod rest Kobe soul.
I'm looking to constantly tryto be the best version of myself
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.
And what does the best versionof myself look like?
That looks like me doing thework every single day to get
there.
It's a never ending process.
It's the Mamba mentality, and Iam aware of that, and so I'm
striving each and every singleday to be my best.
And it's not easy, um,especially when watch this life
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circumstances come into play.
And that's really where I wantto go with this particular
chronicle.
Um, I don't know where, I don'tremember where I got the
inspiration from, but I rememberwriting this down and I it's
something that I'm resonatingwith greatly.
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It's the idea that people are aproduct of their situation.
You hear people saying thatthey're a product of their
environment.
Sometimes, oftentimes, peoplecan be a product of their
situation.
You hear people saying thatthey're a product of their
environment.
Sometimes, oftentimes, peoplecan be a product of their
environment.
Um, but I have come tounderstand that we can no longer
and I want you to hear meclearly we can no longer just be
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a product of our situations.
We can no longer be a productof our circumstance.
We must get to the point wherewe are becoming products of our
decisions.
I hope you're with me.
Our choices oftentimes lastlonger than our situations do.
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Our choices have the ability tolast longer than our situations
or our circumstances do.
And I really want to dive intothis because oftentimes oh man
me lord, help me oftentimes.
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And there are outliers, thereare situations, and I have
people in my family who have,who are dealing with certain
things, things, um, that youcannot change right.
But even in those circumstancesand situations, that thing does
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not define you.
You are not defined by yourcircumstance, you are not
defined by your situation, theysay you based on what a man the
measure of a man is not what hegoes through, but how he handles
it.
I've heard that before.
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Right, and so our choicesoutlive our circumstances, and
it's our choices and ourdecisions that define us and
that make us who we are, right.
So think about it.
Ok, have you?
Have you ever?
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Have you ever looked back atlike a decision or choice that
you made years ago and realizethat it's still haunting you to
this day, or you're still payingthe price or the consequences
for a decision that you made?
Yeah, I, I have.
I have.
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I've been there, bro.
Our circumstances change.
And again, yes, there arecertain situations where a
particular circumstance may notbe able to change right, and so
I'm not really speaking to that.
But our circumstances change,our jobs change, our
relationships may change, andbased on these different things,
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these different factors orvariables that's the word I was
looking for these differentvariables in our life changing
Oftentimes we allow that toshape what our life looks like
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and based on what my situationis, that will determine how I
feel.
I didn't even plan to go there.
That's going to determine how Ifeel.
I didn't even plan to go there.
That's going to determine how Ifeel, based on what I've been
through.
Hold it now, based on what I'vebeen through, that's going to
determine who I am.
That's dangerous, that'sdangerous.
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That's dangerous.
That's dangerous for you,that's dangerous for me to live
that type of life Because now I,now I'm a slave.
Oh Jesus, I'm a slave to fear.
I'm a slave, oh Jesus, I'm aslave to fear.
I'm a slave to sin.
I'm a slave to what I was borninto.
I'm now being held captive andI'm being held hostage by this
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thing.
Whatever that thing is For you,whatever my circumstance is,
whatever my situation is,whatever my sickness is, my
illness, you can't be heldcaptive by that thing.
You can't be a slave To thatthing.
I didn't even plan to go inthis direction.
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This is not where I plan to goright.
So like let's, let's take astep back here.
Let's take a step back.
Understand that your situationand your circumstance, it, for
the most part and I got to keepputting that asterisk because
for the most part it's temporary, it changes, it's able, your
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situation is able to be changed.
How?
With time.
Sometimes all it takes is timefor somebody's circumstance to
change.
Right, effort, let's talk aboutthe effort.
If I am making good decisionsevery single day, if I am making
good decisions every single day, those good decisions have the
power to outweigh and outlivethat current situation.
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The loss of a job.
How will I handle it?
Ooh, this loss of arelationship that I loved so
much, how do I handle it?
Now I have a choice to make,and the choice that I make about
how I go about this next phasein my life.
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I lost my job, my girlfriendbroke up with me, I lost a
family member, as I just didrecently.
What will I do next, bro?
Me losing my job does not definewho I am, but me deciding yo
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man, I just lost this job, Iain't worth a damn, I'm done.
I, I, I'm not looking for nomore jobs.
And you know some people ohLord, I don't even want to go
there.
I don't even want to go there.
That's a decision.
That is a decision that I ammaking now to, and I, now I have
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, I could go one of two ways,and I want to use an example
that I actually I was talkingabout recently.
I can go one of two ways.
Now I get laid off from my job.
I have a choice.
Do I upskill, do I learn a newskill?
Do I, do I take some extracourses now?
Do I, you know, do I go onlinkedin and, and, and you know,
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do some different things and doI retool and and and and reset
and get back out there?
Or am I going to give up, giveup and now I'm without a job and
now I'm going into debt becauseI've chosen to give up, because
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I have assumed I won't be ableto get another job because I got
laid off.
That's a choice, yo, I'm justtrying to illustrate how
important these choices are.
The choices have consequencesand and, mind you, these choices
and these decisions, nowthere's consequences and there's
a ripple effect.
Now your situation and yourcircumstance doesn't have a
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ripple effect throughout therest of your life if you don't
allow it to Right that thingthat happened to you when you
were younger.
How unfortunate.
Yes, not fair, of course not,definitely not your fault,
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wasn't my fault.
But how am I going to moveforward?
Am I going to live a life whereit cripples me forever, or am I
going to turn that pain intopower?
Am I going to do the hard workand work on myself?
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So that number one I can makesure that I can become somebody
who can help someone elsethrough this, or do I wallow in
self-pity and and and and curlup into a shell for the rest of
my life anytime anything remindsme of my, of that thorn that's
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in my flesh?
Come on, somebody, somebody,somebody preach with me now.
Somebody, talk Somebody.
Somebody preach with me now.
Somebody, talk to me.
Somebody, talk to me.
We're talking about choicesversus circumstance, decisions
versus your current situation.
I, I heard this.
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You know, we've all heard this.
Right, yeah, maybe, maybe not,but let's, let's dive into it.
You've got a man and he's adrunk.
The man is a drunk, he's analcoholic and he has two sons.
Right, both sons grow up.
One of the children grow up tobe you guessed it an alcoholic.
He's an alcoholic, he'shomeless.
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One of the other sons grows upto be a millionaire.
And so they asked the homelessson well, hey, man, what
happened to you?
Well, how did you get like this?
How did you get into thissituation?
And his response is well, myfather was a drunk, so I'm a
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drunk as well.
And then they ask themillionaire son Well, man, how
did you, how did you get intothis position where you're so
successful.
And his response starts off bysaying well, my father was a
drunk, but I refuse To walk thatpath like my father did.
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To walk that path like myfather did, I wanted.
I wasn't the greatest father.
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He was abusive and you know hehad his faults and he had his.
You know his issues.
But I'm faced with a choice.
I saw how he raised us, how hetreated my mom.
May God rest his soul.
I'm not speaking ill of him.
This is just the truth.
Right?
I saw these things growing upand I was given a choice.
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Do I grow up to be a womanbeater?
Do I grow up to be a cheater?
Do I grow up to be a bad fatherwho just abuses his children,
isn't there for them?
And since I was younger, I madethat decision for myself of
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what type of man I wanted to be.
I always say my father showedme how not to do it.
And you ask any woman I've everbeen with can none of them say
oh yeah, I.
You know I was a cheater, youknow I was a dog, so on and so
forth.
Talk to my wife and I've neverput a hand on a woman.
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I've had women hit me out ofanger, put hands on me.
Not one time have I put myhands on a woman and it will
never happen and sometimes thechildren going to need a smack
on the butt.
But I will not abuse mychildren out of anger and rage
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the way my father did.
That was his way ofdisciplining me.
That will not be my way ofdisciplining my children.
That is a choice that I ammaking.
I could I have lived with traumafrom those days as a child
being abused in that fashion,but I have decided that I will
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not be defined by that.
Yes, it traumatized me, but Ihad to deal with that trauma and
I've decided to turn that paininto something where now I can
talk about it to some youngerpeople and I can talk about it
to some parents and I caneducate on it and the pain and
the and the, the damage that itcan do.
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Right, I've been through it asa son and now I'm a married man,
I can speak, I'm qualified tospeak on it now and I can see it
from different angles anddifferent vantage points.
It is extremely important thatI make the proper decision to
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not become that person.
That's what we're talking abouthere.
I hope somebody's gettingsomething.
I hope somebody's gettingsomething.
I, um, I counsel a lot of peopleand I talk to a lot of people
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and that's how I know.
I mean, I know firsthand howmuch stuff as I speak.
I just got excuse me, I justgot a text message asking if
somebody could come to my house,come to my house impromptu to
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talk about something that that'sright now as I it's, it's it's
10, it's 10 pm right now on on athursday evening, a thursday
night.
So we're going through.
I know.
I know we're going through,guys, I know we're going through
, but I just want to encouragesomebody.
I want to encourage you thatyour choices outweigh your
circumstance, your decision howyou go about what you're going
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through right now.
The effects of these choicesthat you make will outlive your
circumstance and your situationfor the most part.
And the truth is, even if youwere born with something and
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them doctors told you thatyou're gonna die with that same
thing, you have two choices Ican live a life in fear of never
being released from this thornin my flesh, or I can make the
decision every single day tolive my life to the fullest in
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spite of this thorn that I wasborn with, in spite of this
thorn that they're telling methat I'm going to die with.
Come on, I know somebody's withme.
I know somebody's with me, yourenvironment.
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It's an, it can be an influence,yes, but I heard somebody say
your attitude determines yourlatitude.
I think that was it might havebeen most deaf back in the day
rhyme that I got to change thatup because everybody, anybody
who knows or hopefully I'mcorrect on this, don't kill me
on this one but your latitude.
Latitude is horizontal.
If I'm not, if I'm not, if I'mnot wrong, I like to say
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longitude.
Your attitude determines yourlongitude, how high you can go,
but you know what Latitude works.
Also, how much can I go out?
How much can I spread?
Pause.
You know how far can I go, how,how many, I mean, how many
people can I reach?
My attitude will determine that, not my circumstance, not my
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environment growing up, but whoI've decided to become, the
choices that I have made.
I've decided to go to school inspite of the fact that nobody
in my family is a collegegraduate.
I decided that I'm going to bethe first college graduate, not
literally, but I'm talking tosomebody right now.
You decided that that's a gooddecision.
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Your situation it may initiallyshape you.
It's what's your, your, whatyou were born into, what you're
dealing, what you've beendealing with, what you've dealt
with in the past.
Yes, those things shape you,but it's the decisions that you
make that define you.
Those circumstances may startto shape you, but it's those
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decisions that truly define whoyou are.
I feel like sometimes weoverestimate the circumstance
and we give too much credence,we give too much, too much power
, too much authority to thecircumstance.
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It's easier to blame theenvironment.
It's easier to blame thesituation.
It's easier, it's easier to dothat than to take accountability
.
Oh, this is the moral compasschronicles, don't get it twisted
.
Oftentimes it's easier for meto blame what happened to me and
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the people who did what theydid to me and all the stuff that
I've been through and all thestuff I'm currently going
through.
Sometimes it's easier and it'snot even sometimes.
It's always easier to pointthat finger forward than it is
to point that finger at yourself.
It's easier to do that than itis to look in the mirror and say
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yo, what can I do right now tochange my situation?
What can I do right now to, andyou know what.
How.
What can I do right now?
And you know what.
What can I do every single daythat is going to gradually dig
me out of this hole that I findmyself in?
I may not have been the onethat put myself here, I may not
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be the reason that I'm here inthis hole right now, but what
can I do?
How can I take responsibilityfor my life and not live a woe
is me type of life Every singleday?
Go on, I saw this quote.
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It says ownership is the bridgebetween where you are and where
you want to be.
Your circumstances explain whereyou start, but they don't.
They don't define where youfinish your circumstance.
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That's where you start yoursituation.
These things may not have beencontrollable and sometimes
you're in a oh, watch this now.
Sometimes we're in a particularsituation and circumstance now
it's because choices that wemade, so let's keep it 100.
Now.
It's not just what I was bornwith, it's not just, oh, what
someone did.
Sometimes I did it to myself.
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I heard.
I heard a preacher um bishopdaryl hill shout out to bishop
Darrell Hill.
I heard him say one time it'snot the devil's not attacking
you, he's not attacking yourfinances.
You don't know how to managemoney.
Sometimes it's us, sometimesit's my fault why I'm in this
financial mess.
I'm in.
It's my fault.
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It's not because the devil wasattacking my finances.
Yes, I'm sure the devil now istrying to use it to get in my
head to cause me to lose faithin myself and lose faith in god.
Yes, because that's what theenemy does.
The enemy uses your currentcircumstance and tries to get
into your mind.
But let's keep it 100.
I'm not.
I'm not broke because of thedevil.
I'm broke because of me.
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Somebody needs to look atthemselves in a mirror.
Come on, I'm almost done.
I'm almost done.
Come on, I'm rapping with you.
I'm rapping with.
Somebody needs to look atthemselves in the mirror.
Come on, I'm almost done.
I'm almost done.
Come on, I'm rapping with you.
I'm rapping with you right now,not at you.
Ownership is the bridge betweenwhere you are and where you
want to be.
That's I have taken that formyself.
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I found, you know, a year ago orso, whatever, even going back,
I was working a job.
I had my CDL license.
I'm doing whatever I'm doingand but I didn't like what I was
doing.
So I'm looking for jobs.
I'm looking for jobs, looking,looking, working and looking for
jobs driving a truck, lookingfor jobs Right and couldn't find
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anything, couldn't findanything to save my life.
And I'm like Lord, I'mqualified for so much more
Excuse me so much more than I'mdoing right now On paper, and in
my heart and in my soul I'mmore qualified and I'm qualified
for these jobs I'm applying for.
Why can't I get anything Around?
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That same time, god startsshowing me what he wants me to
do and what he wants me tocreate.
But I'm looking for jobs,looking for jobs, can't find
anything, eventually lose thejob I had, long story short, not
too long after the company shutdown.
So what's up?
Talk to me, I ain't perfect,but god don't play about his.
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They did me dirty.
Look at y'all.
Now whole company shut down.
Sorry, that's a little sidebar.
Anybody who got caught in thecrosshairs and the crossfire,
you know I'm sorry mitch.
You know what the place was amess, but anyway, right, boom.
So now I have a decision to make, though I got, and I'm looking
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for jobs, looking for jobs.
I have a decision to make and Iain't gonna lie, I got a little
discouraged at points, but Idecided to dig and to build and
to start and to make the choiceevery single day, to do the
thing and do it, and start it,and create it and go and work
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and work.
That's why it's 10 o'clockright now and I'm still working.
It's 10, it's it's 10 30 rightnow and I'm still working.
This is a decision.
It's 1030 right now and I'mstill working.
This is a decision.
It's a choice.
Nobody is going to get me towhere I want to go and nobody
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has the ability to push me theway.
I need to be pushed more thanmyself.
Ownership is the bridge betweenwhere you want to be and where
you are right now.
So somebody needs to takeownership.
Take ownership.
You are where you are.
Don't dwell on how you got here.
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Yes, it may have been your baddecision.
Yes, it may have been somethingyou were born with.
Yes, it may have been somethingthat was done to you, but it
does not define you.
You are not what your situationsays.
You are.
You are who you decide to betoday.
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You are who you decide to betomorrow morning, and that
decision that you make to eithercall out of work or get your
ass up excuse my language andget to work.
That is going to be thedifference between where you
will be tomorrow.
Or get your ass up, excuse mylanguage and get to work.
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That is going to be thedifference between where you
will be tomorrow and where youwant to be.
Yo, I'm telling you, thismessage right here is for me
more than it is for anybody else, because God, when God sends a
word, he sends it for themessenger first.
I'm telling you right now, thisone is for anybody else because
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god, when god sends a word, hesends it for the messenger first
.
I'm telling you right now, thisone is for me all right.
So now I like to say that Ilike to be solution-based, right
, so let's get solution-based.
We're just about done here.
Let's get solution-based for asecond, because I want to help.
I want to help, right, this isa part of my business, this is
is something I do.
Um, you know, god has blessedme with the moral compass
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chronicles that's this podcast.
He's also blessed me with themoral compass mediation and
consulting, and and I have beendoing my best to help people,
because that is my true aim,that's my desire, that's my
heart's desires to just helppeople, right.
And so let's be solution basedhere.
How now do I start to live thatlife?
And maybe I need to do a littlepart two of this one.
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But how?
How I want to get through this,how, what do I need to do?
How can I make sure that mychoices and my decisions are
outlasting my circumstances?
Well, slow down, slow down.
What you shouldn't do is actout of anger or too
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spontaneously.
Sometimes you need to slow down.
If you're a God-fearing person,you're religious, like myself,
you know who God is, becausethose of us who know him for
real, you know what time it is.
A lot of people, people don't,but the ones of us that do, you
know what time it is.
Seek the lord.
Seek the lord.
That's not even on my list.
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They should have been, shouldhave been number one.
I apologize, but that's comingnow from my heart.
Seek the lord while he may befound.
You need answers.
Seek the lord, slow down.
So now, pause.
Don't just make decisions.
You know.
That's why I'm married now forthe first time in my life.
I paused and I sought the lordand he answered me.
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He answered me and now I'mmarried to the person.
He told me yo, this is a goodchoice for you.
Yes, son, it's your decision tomake.
Now, though, oh, holy ghost, Ithank you.
Watch this.
Now it's your decision to make.
I can lead you, eon, but Ican't choose for you.
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But just understand, my son,that any decision, whatever
decision you make, there will bea ripple effect for the rest of
your life.
Oh, my god, I could close itright there.
I could end it right here.
The decision that I made back in2021, 2022, it shaped the rest
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of my life and and had I gone inanother direction, my life
would look totally different.
I ain't here to speak on whatit would look like, because I
don't know, and at this point, Idon't care, because I'm where
I'm at and I thank God for whereI'm at and I thank God for who
I'm with.
Shout out to my wife Love you,sweetheart.
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Whenever this gets to you,whenever you listen, I love you,
right, but seek the Lord,somebody.
Come on, seek the Lord, seekthe Lord.
Seek the Lord.
We have made too many decisionson our own and we see where they
have gotten us.
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All right, you see somebody.
I'm talking to somebody.
You see where your decisionshave gotten you when you do it
alone.
Let's, let's try involving thelord, all right, and that goes
for relationships, and that wasjust the example I wanted to use
.
But that's for business,schooling, friendships, choosing
a church, come on, all right.
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And now I have written down here, let's start to shift from
reaction to intention.
I remember I was, I was, I wascounseling somebody one time and
I mentioned that we got to stopbeing so reactionary.
Start to become a little moreintentional about what we, how
we respond to our what we, howwe respond to our situation, how
we respond to our circumstance.
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Don't just respond to thepressure that you feel.
Make a decision with purpose,and a lot of times that'll come
after you seek the lord.
That'll come after you hear godspeak to you and speak to your
situation.
But we got to be listening.
You pray, listen and I can helpyou more with that.
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I can help you more with that.
Surround yourself wisely.
Wise counsel is important.
Who's counseling you?
Who's in your air?
Who are you listening to?
Who are you calling?
Who are you speaking to aboutyour situation?
Who are you?
Oh God, I thank you.
Who are you speaking to aboutyour circumstance?
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Who's in your air?
Surround yourself wisely,because your circle has the
ability the people you surroundyourself with.
They have the ability to shapeyour standards and your
perception of life, yourperception of your circumstance.
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Something happened to me when Iwas younger.
A young lady did a littlesomething to me when I was young
.
Huh, and let's just say, myperception of it meant
everything, and I didn't realizehow much it meant until now.
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Today, as I sit here, I realizehow much damage that thing
could have done to me.
Man, I tell you this is real,bro.
This is real stuff.
This is real stuff, going alittle longer than I wanted, but
this is real stuff.
Surround yourself wisely.
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Your future self, your tomorrowself self, your next week self,
one month from now.
Eon, october eon, who's goingto be the father of a daughter
who will be on this side of thevineyard?
October eon is counting on thedecisions that July Eon makes
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the decision to grind, to get upand get after it, as Coach Skip
used to say.
Am I getting after it or am IBSing myself?
My future self is counting onmy present decisions and my
present choices.
I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.
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I thank you so much forlistening.
If you've made it this far, Ilove you.
I love you.
I want to remind you that yourcircumstances can change and
they change based on yourchoices.
But you need to understand thatyour choices and your decisions,
they leave a fingerprint inthis world.
Your decisions leave afingerprint.
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You ever see a crime scene, howthey catch that sub, that
suspect?
They don't catch you offhearsay.
They can't catch you.
If they don't see you right,they can't confirm that it was
you.
But if you leave a fingerprintbehind, that's your DNA, as DNA
evidence and you are cooked.
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You're cooked, bro.
You're fried, you're done.
If they got your fingerprintsand if they have no other proof
of anything else, one thing theycan prove is that you were
there.
And if they can just prove thatyou were there, you are cooked.
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Your decisions leave afingerprint in your life.
It's not just fleeting.
Your decisions matter.
Your story, your decisions arewritten in ink, cannot be erased
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.
Your choices and your decisions, and you may be able to cross
it out and write something else,but it's still there.
So decide today.
Decide who you want to be,decide, make the decision to
take control of your life andyour circumstance.
Take control of your situation,because you control who you
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want to be and where you want tobe in this life.
I love you until next time.
This is the moral compasschronicles.
Grace and peace.
Grace and peace to one and all.
Welcome to another rendition ofthe Moral Compass Chronicles.
I'm your man, I'm your guy, eonJ, I'm a, I am a beneficiary of
this platform, and so I thankyou, you and you, thank you for
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joining.
I'm grateful to be here,grateful to have another
opportunity to sit behind thismicrophone and just spend some
time with you guys, man, becausethere has been a lot going on.
There has been a lot going on.
I'm sure there's been a lotgoing on in your life, and there
has certainly been a lot goingon in my life, especially if you
know me, you know some of thethings that I've been dealing
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with.
If you even have listened tothe last few episodes, you know
what's going on, or last fewchronicles, rather, if I may.
But I'm grateful, man, I'mgrateful to be here, I'm
grateful to have anotheropportunity, as I said, to chop
it up with you guys, and I got avery interesting thought that I
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want to talk about here today,that I really just want to jump
right into.
And at this point in my life Iam, I'm drawing inspiration from
everywhere, at this point in myjourney, 32 years old, going on
, 33 next month Am I about tohit my?
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I'm in my Jesus year man.
I'm about to be in my Jesusyear man.
I'm in my about to be in myJesus year.
So please believe this will bethe best year of my life and I
pray that we all get to witnesswhat God is about to use me to
do, um, because I'm I'm reallyrelying on him and and I know
he's, he's I see the visions hehas shown me, what he wants me
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to do, and I'm in the middle of.
I'm in the middle of it rightnow, as we speak, literally as I
speak, I am in the middle ofdoing what the Lord wants me to
do, and so I'm excited for thatMarried baby on the way.
My daughter is due either earlyOctober or late September.
I'm feeling like it's going tobe late September, but we'll see
what happens.
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You know lots going on, lotsgoing on.
I won't even, you know, mentionall the other things, but you
know what God is good.
God is good and I'm gratefulabout everything that that's
going on right now, and so I'mdrawing inspiration from just
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about everywhere at this pointin my life.
I have learned how to take thegood and leave the bad.
I've learned how to separatethe good and like separate
myself from the rest.
In almost every situation I getinto or I see or I am a part of,
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even when I'm mediating betweenpeople or counseling somebody
or consulting, I am looking tolearn from even someone else's
circumstance and I'm looking forgod to speak to me through my
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situation or somebody else'ssituation.
That's where I'm at in my life.
It's a wonderful place to be.
It's a place of growth.
It's a place of evolution,constant evolution.
That's what I'm, that's whatI'm looking for.
I'm looking as kobe would saygod rest kobe soul.
I'm looking for.
I'm looking as Kobe would sayGod rest Kobe soul.
I'm looking to constantly tryto be the best version of myself
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.
And what does the best versionof myself look like?
That looks like me doing thework every single day to get
there.
It's a never ending process.
It's the Mamba mentality, and Iam aware of that, and so I'm
striving each and every singleday to be my best.
And it's not easy, um,especially when watch this life
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circumstances come into play.
And that's really where I wantto go with this particular
chronicle.
Um, I don't know where, I don'tremember where I got the
inspiration from, but I rememberwriting this down and I it's
something that I'm resonatingwith greatly.
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It's the idea that people are aproduct of their situation.
You hear people saying thatthey're a product of their
environment.
Sometimes, oftentimes, peoplecan be a product of their
situation.
You hear people saying thatthey're a product of their
environment.
Sometimes, oftentimes, peoplecan be a product of their
environment.
Um, but I have come tounderstand that we can no longer
and I want you to hear meclearly we can no longer just be
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a product of our situations.
We can no longer be a productof our circumstance.
We must get to the point wherewe are becoming products of our
decisions.
I hope you're with me.
Our choices oftentimes lastlonger than our situations do.
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Our choices have the ability tolast longer than our situations
or our circumstances do.
And I really want to dive intothis because oftentimes oh man
me lord, help me oftentimes.
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And there are outliers, thereare situations, and I have
people in my family who have,who are dealing with certain
things, things, um, that youcannot change right.
But even in those circumstancesand situations, that thing does
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not define you.
You are not defined by yourcircumstance, you are not
defined by your situation, theysay you based on what a man the
measure of a man is not what hegoes through, but how he handles
it.
I've heard that before.
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Right, and so our choicesoutlive our circumstances, and
it's our choices and ourdecisions that define us and
that make us who we are, right.
So think about it.
Ok, have you?
Have you ever?
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Have you ever looked back atlike a decision or choice that
you made years ago and realizethat it's still haunting you to
this day, or you're still payingthe price or the consequences
for a decision that you made?
Yeah, I, I have.
I have.
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I've been there, bro.
Our circumstances change.
And again, yes, there arecertain situations where a
particular circumstance may notbe able to change right, and so
I'm not really speaking to that.
But our circumstances change,our jobs change, our
relationships may change, andbased on these different things,
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these different factors orvariables that's the word I was
looking for these differentvariables in our life changing
Oftentimes we allow that toshape what our life looks like
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and based on what my situationis, that will determine how I
feel.
I didn't even plan to go there.
That's going to determine how Ifeel.
I didn't even plan to go there.
That's going to determine how Ifeel, based on what I've been
through.
Hold it now, based on what I'vebeen through, that's going to
determine who I am.
That's dangerous, that'sdangerous.
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That's dangerous.
That's dangerous for you,that's dangerous for me to live
that type of life Because now I,now I'm a slave.
Oh Jesus, I'm a slave to fear.
I'm a slave, oh Jesus, I'm aslave to fear.
I'm a slave to sin.
I'm a slave to what I was borninto.
I'm now being held captive andI'm being held hostage by this
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thing.
Whatever that thing is For you,whatever my circumstance is,
whatever my situation is,whatever my sickness is, my
illness, you can't be heldcaptive by that thing.
You can't be a slave To thatthing.
I didn't even plan to go inthis direction.
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This is not where I plan to goright.
So like let's, let's take astep back here.
Let's take a step back.
Understand that your situationand your circumstance, it, for
the most part and I got to keepputting that asterisk because
for the most part it's temporary, it changes, it's able, your
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situation is able to be changed.
How?
With time.
Sometimes all it takes is timefor somebody's circumstance to
change.
Right, effort, let's talk aboutthe effort.
If I am making good decisionsevery single day, if I am making
good decisions every single day, those good decisions have the
power to outweigh and outlivethat current situation.
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The loss of a job.
How will I handle it?
Ooh, this loss of arelationship that I loved so
much, how do I handle it?
Now I have a choice to make,and the choice that I make about
how I go about this next phasein my life.
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I lost my job, my girlfriendbroke up with me, I lost a
family member, as I just didrecently.
What will I do next, bro?
Me losing my job does not definewho I am, but me deciding yo
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man, I just lost this job, Iain't worth a damn, I'm done.
I, I, I'm not looking for nomore jobs.
And you know some people ohLord, I don't even want to go
there.
I don't even want to go there.
That's a decision.
That is a decision that I ammaking now to, and I, now I have
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, I could go one of two ways,and I want to use an example
that I actually I was talkingabout recently.
I can go one of two ways.
Now I get laid off from my job.
I have a choice.
Do I upskill, do I learn a newskill?
Do I, do I take some extracourses now?
Do I, you know, do I go onlinkedin and, and, and you know,
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do some different things and doI retool and and and and reset
and get back out there?
Or am I going to give up, giveup and now I'm without a job and
now I'm going into debt becauseI've chosen to give up, because
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I have assumed I won't be ableto get another job because I got
laid off.
That's a choice, yo, I'm justtrying to illustrate how
important these choices are.
The choices have consequencesand and, mind you, these choices
and these decisions, nowthere's consequences and there's
a ripple effect.
Now your situation and yourcircumstance doesn't have a
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ripple effect throughout therest of your life if you don't
allow it to Right that thingthat happened to you when you
were younger.
How unfortunate.
Yes, not fair, of course not,definitely not your fault,
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wasn't my fault.
But how am I going to moveforward?
Am I going to live a life whereit cripples me forever, or am I
going to turn that pain intopower?
Am I going to do the hard workand work on myself?
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So that number one I can makesure that I can become somebody
who can help someone elsethrough this, or do I wallow in
self-pity and and and and curlup into a shell for the rest of
my life anytime anything remindsme of my, of that thorn that's
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in my flesh?
Come on, somebody, somebody,somebody preach with me now.
Somebody, talk Somebody.
Somebody preach with me now.
Somebody, talk to me.
Somebody, talk to me.
We're talking about choicesversus circumstance, decisions
versus your current situation.
I, I heard this.
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You know, we've all heard this.
Right, yeah, maybe, maybe not,but let's, let's dive into it.
You've got a man and he's adrunk.
The man is a drunk, he's analcoholic and he has two sons.
Right, both sons grow up.
One of the children grow up tobe you guessed it an alcoholic.
He's an alcoholic, he'shomeless.
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One of the other sons grows upto be a millionaire.
And so they asked the homelessson well, hey, man, what
happened to you?
Well, how did you get like this?
How did you get into thissituation?
And his response is well, myfather was a drunk, so I'm a
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drunk as well.
And then they ask themillionaire son Well, man, how
did you, how did you get intothis position where you're so
successful.
And his response starts off bysaying well, my father was a
drunk, but I refuse To walk thatpath like my father did.
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To walk that path like myfather did, I wanted.
I wasn't the greatest father.
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He was abusive and you know hehad his faults and he had his.
You know his issues.
But I'm faced with a choice.
I saw how he raised us, how hetreated my mom.
May God rest his soul.
I'm not speaking ill of him.
This is just the truth.
Right?
I saw these things growing upand I was given a choice.
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Do I grow up to be a womanbeater?
Do I grow up to be a cheater?
Do I grow up to be a bad fatherwho just abuses his children,
isn't there for them?
And since I was younger, I madethat decision for myself of
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what type of man I wanted to be.
I always say my father showedme how not to do it.
And you ask any woman I've everbeen with can none of them say
oh yeah, I.
You know I was a cheater, youknow I was a dog, so on and so
forth.
Talk to my wife and I've neverput a hand on a woman.
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I've had women hit me out ofanger, put hands on me.
Not one time have I put myhands on a woman and it will
never happen and sometimes thechildren going to need a smack
on the butt.
But I will not abuse mychildren out of anger and rage
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the way my father did.
That was his way ofdisciplining me.
That will not be my way ofdisciplining my children.
That is a choice that I ammaking.
I could I have lived with traumafrom those days as a child
being abused in that fashion,but I have decided that I will
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not be defined by that.
Yes, it traumatized me, but Ihad to deal with that trauma and
I've decided to turn that paininto something where now I can
talk about it to some youngerpeople and I can talk about it
to some parents and I caneducate on it and the pain and
the and the, the damage that itcan do.
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Right, I've been through it asa son and now I'm a married man,
I can speak, I'm qualified tospeak on it now and I can see it
from different angles anddifferent vantage points.
It is extremely important thatI make the proper decision to
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not become that person.
That's what we're talking abouthere.
I hope somebody's gettingsomething.
I hope somebody's gettingsomething.
I, um, I counsel a lot of peopleand I talk to a lot of people
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and that's how I know.
I mean, I know firsthand howmuch stuff as I speak.
I just got excuse me, I justgot a text message asking if
somebody could come to my house,come to my house impromptu to
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talk about something that that'sright now as I it's, it's it's
10, it's 10 pm right now on on athursday evening, a thursday
night.
So we're going through.
I know.
I know we're going through,guys, I know we're going through
, but I just want to encouragesomebody.
I want to encourage you thatyour choices outweigh your
circumstance, your decision howyou go about what you're going
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through right now.
The effects of these choicesthat you make will outlive your
circumstance and your situationfor the most part.
And the truth is, even if youwere born with something and
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them doctors told you thatyou're gonna die with that same
thing, you have two choices Ican live a life in fear of never
being released from this thornin my flesh, or I can make the
decision every single day tolive my life to the fullest in
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spite of this thorn that I wasborn with, in spite of this
thorn that they're telling methat I'm going to die with.
Come on, I know somebody's withme.
I know somebody's with me, yourenvironment.
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It's an, it can be an influence,yes, but I heard somebody say
your attitude determines yourlatitude.
I think that was it might havebeen most deaf back in the day
rhyme that I got to change thatup because everybody, anybody
who knows or hopefully I'mcorrect on this, don't kill me
on this one but your latitude.
Latitude is horizontal.
If I'm not, if I'm not, if I'mnot wrong, I like to say
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longitude.
Your attitude determines yourlongitude, how high you can go,
but you know what Latitude works.
Also, how much can I go out?
How much can I spread?
Pause.
You know how far can I go, how,how many, I mean, how many
people can I reach?
My attitude will determine that, not my circumstance, not my
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environment growing up, but whoI've decided to become, the
choices that I have made.
I've decided to go to school inspite of the fact that nobody
in my family is a collegegraduate.
I decided that I'm going to bethe first college graduate, not
literally, but I'm talking tosomebody right now.
You decided that that's a gooddecision.
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Your situation it may initiallyshape you.
It's what's your, your, whatyou were born into, what you're
dealing, what you've beendealing with, what you've dealt
with in the past.
Yes, those things shape you,but it's the decisions that you
make that define you.
Those circumstances may startto shape you, but it's those
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decisions that truly define whoyou are.
I feel like sometimes weoverestimate the circumstance
and we give too much credence,we give too much, too much power
, too much authority to thecircumstance.
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It's easier to blame theenvironment.
It's easier to blame thesituation.
It's easier, it's easier to dothat than to take accountability
.
Oh, this is the moral compasschronicles, don't get it twisted
.
Oftentimes it's easier for meto blame what happened to me and
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the people who did what theydid to me and all the stuff that
I've been through and all thestuff I'm currently going
through.
Sometimes it's easier and it'snot even sometimes.
It's always easier to pointthat finger forward than it is
to point that finger at yourself.
It's easier to do that than itis to look in the mirror and say
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yo, what can I do right now tochange my situation?
What can I do right now to, andyou know what.
How.
What can I do right now?
And you know what.
What can I do every single daythat is going to gradually dig
me out of this hole that I findmyself in?
I may not have been the onethat put myself here, I may not
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be the reason that I'm here inthis hole right now, but what
can I do?
How can I take responsibilityfor my life and not live a woe
is me type of life Every singleday?
Go on, I saw this quote.
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It says ownership is the bridgebetween where you are and where
you want to be.
Your circumstances explain whereyou start, but they don't.
They don't define where youfinish your circumstance.
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That's where you start yoursituation.
These things may not have beencontrollable and sometimes
you're in a oh, watch this now.
Sometimes we're in a particularsituation and circumstance now
it's because choices that wemade, so let's keep it 100.
Now.
It's not just what I was bornwith, it's not just, oh, what
someone did.
Sometimes I did it to myself.
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I heard.
I heard a preacher um bishopdaryl hill shout out to bishop
Darrell Hill.
I heard him say one time it'snot the devil's not attacking
you, he's not attacking yourfinances.
You don't know how to managemoney.
Sometimes it's us, sometimesit's my fault why I'm in this
financial mess.
I'm in.
It's my fault.
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It's not because the devil wasattacking my finances.
Yes, I'm sure the devil now istrying to use it to get in my
head to cause me to lose faithin myself and lose faith in god.
Yes, because that's what theenemy does.
The enemy uses your currentcircumstance and tries to get
into your mind.
But let's keep it 100.
I'm not.
I'm not broke because of thedevil.
I'm broke because of me.
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Somebody needs to look atthemselves in a mirror.
Come on, I'm almost done.
I'm almost done.
Come on, I'm rapping with you.
I'm rapping with.
Somebody needs to look atthemselves in the mirror.
Come on, I'm almost done.
I'm almost done.
Come on, I'm rapping with you.
I'm rapping with you right now,not at you.
Ownership is the bridge betweenwhere you are and where you
want to be.
That's I have taken that formyself.
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I found, you know, a year ago orso, whatever, even going back,
I was working a job.
I had my CDL license.
I'm doing whatever I'm doingand but I didn't like what I was
doing.
So I'm looking for jobs.
I'm looking for jobs, looking,looking, working and looking for
jobs driving a truck, lookingfor jobs Right and couldn't find
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anything, couldn't findanything to save my life.
And I'm like Lord, I'mqualified for so much more
Excuse me so much more than I'mdoing right now On paper, and in
my heart and in my soul I'mmore qualified and I'm qualified
for these jobs I'm applying for.
Why can't I get anything Around?
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That same time, god startsshowing me what he wants me to
do and what he wants me tocreate.
But I'm looking for jobs,looking for jobs, can't find
anything, eventually lose thejob I had, long story short, not
too long after the company shutdown.
So what's up?
Talk to me, I ain't perfect,but god don't play about his.
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They did me dirty.
Look at y'all.
Now whole company shut down.
Sorry, that's a little sidebar.
Anybody who got caught in thecrosshairs and the crossfire,
you know I'm sorry mitch.
You know what the place was amess, but anyway, right, boom.
So now I have a decision to make, though I got, and I'm looking
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for jobs, looking for jobs.
I have a decision to make and Iain't gonna lie, I got a little
discouraged at points, but Idecided to dig and to build and
to start and to make the choiceevery single day, to do the
thing and do it, and start it,and create it and go and work
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and work.
That's why it's 10 o'clockright now and I'm still working.
It's 10, it's it's 10 30 rightnow and I'm still working.
This is a decision.
It's 1030 right now and I'mstill working.
This is a decision.
It's a choice.
Nobody is going to get me towhere I want to go and nobody
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has the ability to push me theway.
I need to be pushed more thanmyself.
Ownership is the bridge betweenwhere you want to be and where
you are right now.
So somebody needs to takeownership.
Take ownership.
You are where you are.
Don't dwell on how you got here.
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Yes, it may have been your baddecision.
Yes, it may have been somethingyou were born with.
Yes, it may have been somethingthat was done to you, but it
does not define you.
You are not what your situationsays.
You are.
You are who you decide to betoday.
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You are who you decide to betomorrow morning, and that
decision that you make to eithercall out of work or get your
ass up excuse my language andget to work.
That is going to be thedifference between where you
will be tomorrow.
Or get your ass up, excuse mylanguage and get to work.
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That is going to be thedifference between where you
will be tomorrow and where youwant to be.
Yo, I'm telling you, thismessage right here is for me
more than it is for anybody else, because God, when God sends a
word, he sends it for themessenger first.
I'm telling you right now, thisone is for anybody else because
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god, when god sends a word, hesends it for the messenger first
.
I'm telling you right now, thisone is for me all right.
So now I like to say that Ilike to be solution-based, right
, so let's get solution-based.
We're just about done here.
Let's get solution-based for asecond, because I want to help.
I want to help, right, this isa part of my business, this is
is something I do.
Um, you know, god has blessedme with the moral compass
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chronicles that's this podcast.
He's also blessed me with themoral compass mediation and
consulting, and and I have beendoing my best to help people,
because that is my true aim,that's my desire, that's my
heart's desires to just helppeople, right.
And so let's be solution basedhere.
How now do I start to live thatlife?
And maybe I need to do a littlepart two of this one.
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But how?
How I want to get through this,how, what do I need to do?
How can I make sure that mychoices and my decisions are
outlasting my circumstances?
Well, slow down, slow down.
What you shouldn't do is actout of anger or too
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spontaneously.
Sometimes you need to slow down.
If you're a God-fearing person,you're religious, like myself,
you know who God is, becausethose of us who know him for
real, you know what time it is.
A lot of people, people don't,but the ones of us that do, you
know what time it is.
Seek the lord.
Seek the lord.
That's not even on my list.
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They should have been, shouldhave been number one.
I apologize, but that's comingnow from my heart.
Seek the lord while he may befound.
You need answers.
Seek the lord, slow down.
So now, pause.
Don't just make decisions.
You know.
That's why I'm married now forthe first time in my life.
I paused and I sought the lordand he answered me.
(31:10):
He answered me and now I'mmarried to the person.
He told me yo, this is a goodchoice for you.
Yes, son, it's your decision tomake.
Now, though, oh, holy ghost, Ithank you.
Watch this.
Now it's your decision to make.
I can lead you, eon, but Ican't choose for you.
(31:32):
But just understand, my son,that any decision, whatever
decision you make, there will bea ripple effect for the rest of
your life.
Oh, my god, I could close itright there.
I could end it right here.
The decision that I made back in2021, 2022, it shaped the rest
(31:56):
of my life and and had I gone inanother direction, my life
would look totally different.
I ain't here to speak on whatit would look like, because I
don't know, and at this point, Idon't care, because I'm where
I'm at and I thank God for whereI'm at and I thank God for who
I'm with.
Shout out to my wife Love you,sweetheart.
(32:16):
Whenever this gets to you,whenever you listen, I love you,
right, but seek the Lord,somebody.
Come on, seek the Lord, seekthe Lord.
Seek the Lord.
We have made too many decisionson our own and we see where they
have gotten us.
(32:37):
All right, you see somebody.
I'm talking to somebody.
You see where your decisionshave gotten you when you do it
alone.
Let's, let's try involving thelord, all right, and that goes
for relationships, and that wasjust the example I wanted to use
.
But that's for business,schooling, friendships, choosing
a church, come on, all right.
(33:02):
And now I have written down here, let's start to shift from
reaction to intention.
I remember I was, I was, I wascounseling somebody one time and
I mentioned that we got to stopbeing so reactionary.
Start to become a little moreintentional about what we, how
we respond to our what we, howwe respond to our situation, how
we respond to our circumstance.
(33:23):
Don't just respond to thepressure that you feel.
Make a decision with purpose,and a lot of times that'll come
after you seek the lord.
That'll come after you hear godspeak to you and speak to your
situation.
But we got to be listening.
You pray, listen and I can helpyou more with that.
(33:48):
I can help you more with that.
Surround yourself wisely.
Wise counsel is important.
Who's counseling you?
Who's in your air?
Who are you listening to?
Who are you calling?
Who are you speaking to aboutyour situation?
Who are you?
Oh God, I thank you.
Who are you speaking to aboutyour circumstance?
(34:10):
Who's in your air?
Surround yourself wisely,because your circle has the
ability the people you surroundyourself with.
They have the ability to shapeyour standards and your
perception of life, yourperception of your circumstance.
(34:35):
Something happened to me when Iwas younger.
A young lady did a littlesomething to me when I was young
.
Huh, and let's just say, myperception of it meant
everything, and I didn't realizehow much it meant until now.
(34:56):
Today, as I sit here, I realizehow much damage that thing
could have done to me.
Man, I tell you this is real,bro.
This is real stuff.
This is real stuff, going alittle longer than I wanted, but
this is real stuff.
Surround yourself wisely.
(35:18):
Your future self, your tomorrowself self, your next week self,
one month from now.
Eon, october eon, who's goingto be the father of a daughter
who will be on this side of thevineyard?
October eon is counting on thedecisions that July Eon makes
(35:44):
the decision to grind, to get upand get after it, as Coach Skip
used to say.
Am I getting after it or am IBSing myself?
My future self is counting onmy present decisions and my
present choices.
I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.
(36:16):
I thank you so much forlistening.
If you've made it this far, Ilove you.
I love you.
I want to remind you that yourcircumstances can change and
they change based on yourchoices.
But you need to understand thatyour choices and your decisions,
they leave a fingerprint inthis world.
Your decisions leave afingerprint.
(36:40):
You ever see a crime scene, howthey catch that sub, that
suspect?
They don't catch you offhearsay.
They can't catch you.
If they don't see you right,they can't confirm that it was
you.
But if you leave a fingerprintbehind, that's your DNA, as DNA
evidence and you are cooked.
(37:02):
You're cooked, bro.
You're fried, you're done.
If they got your fingerprintsand if they have no other proof
of anything else, one thing theycan prove is that you were
there.
And if they can just prove thatyou were there, you are cooked.
(37:24):
Your decisions leave afingerprint in your life.
It's not just fleeting.
Your decisions matter.
Your story, your decisions arewritten in ink, cannot be erased
(37:45):
.
Your choices and your decisions, and you may be able to cross
it out and write something else,but it's still there.
So decide today.
Decide who you want to be,decide, make the decision to
take control of your life andyour circumstance.
Take control of your situation,because you control who you
(38:12):
want to be and where you want tobe in this life.
I love you until next time.
This is the moral compasschronicles.
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