July 8, 2024 • 25 mins
What if you were extraordinary, but never realized it? This episode tackles that haunting thought by exploring the transformative power of taking action. Through compelling stories and powerful analogies, like the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly, Coach J invites you to overcome your fears and hesitations. With personal anecdotes, such as the inspiring journey of his oldest daughter, you'll find relatable moments that push you to uncover your hidden potential and move from dreaming to doing.
Coach J dives into the critical importance of translating ideas into real-world steps, emphasizing how even small actions, like visiting a bank or affirming your self-belief, can drive remarkable progress. He opens up about his own struggles with fear and criticism, reminding us that embracing potential means accepting the possibility of failure. This episode is a call to action, urging you to bridge the gap between knowing and doing, and to test your greatness through courageous steps forward. Don’t let life pass you by with unfulfilled dreams; seize your moment to grow and achieve today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When's the last time you had a pep talk?
Pep talk, pep talk.
Yo, when's the last time youhad a pep talk?
Has it been a minute?
That's okay, you're in theright place.
I've got you.
Welcome to pep talk.
And today I have the ultimatewhat if?
Question for you.
Now let's go.
(00:25):
Yo, welcome to episode 71 of PepTalk.
I'm your host, coach J, and weare the podcast that cheers you
on and coaches you up.
That's right.
Everybody needs a cheerleaderto tell you how great you are,
but you also need a coach totell you that you still have
more potential, more development, that there's more of your life
to capture, more of your lifeto live, more growth to obtain.
(00:47):
Yo, there's more, there's more,and I'm so glad that you're
here hanging out with us tostart your week or whenever
you're listening to the podcaston your favorite podcast
provider.
Hey, please be sure that, ifyou are rocking with the content
that we're bringing to you on aweekly basis, drop a review,
five stars, let us know whatyou're thinking, and also also
(01:11):
drop a fan mail.
Let us know what you thinkabout the episodes so we can
continue the conversation.
Also, you can reach us atthepeppodcast, at gmailcom, or
send me a message on Instagram.
At underscore, jv speaks.
Okay, so let's get into it.
I don't want to waste any moretime because I have a what if?
(01:32):
Question for you that I thinkit really should shake you to
your core, and if it doesn't,then I don't know what to tell
you.
Okay, so here's the questionwhat if you were great, but you
never find out how great you are?
Oof and see today's episode.
(01:54):
I'm just, I'm giving you a peptalk.
I'm in full Coach J mode rightnow.
This may not be the typical 20,30 minute episode, I don't know
.
I don't know.
All right, because I just hitrecord, because I had this, this
topic, this question.
Honestly, it came to me and soI want to pose it to you, so I'm
(02:14):
going to ask it again just howgreat you are, man.
What a travesty, what atravesty.
What if you are not the nextElon Musk, but you're better?
(02:35):
What if you're not the nextBill Gates, but you're better?
What if you're not the nextJames Baldwin, but you're better
?
What if you're not the nextKeanu Reeves?
Come on John Wick, but you'rebetter.
I'm not talking about thekilling part, I'm talking about
the acting part.
Okay, but what if you're greatbut you never know how great you
(03:01):
are and you're like, well, whywouldn't I know how great I am?
Because you never move, becauseyou never take the next right
step.
I remember I was going to achurch and one of their tenets
is that we always try to takethe next right step.
(03:22):
In this life of faith, a lot oftimes we may say we don't know
what the next step is, what thenext thing is, and they always
said just take the next rightstep.
That takes it from a macrolevel that can sometimes be
overwhelming, and it zeroes itdown to a micro level where we
can begin to look at things on astep-by-step basis.
(03:43):
Now, I'm not the best microperson.
I'm a macro person.
I like to see things from anoverarching viewpoint, but I
need micro people around me.
But when this question came tome, what if you never know how
great you are because you nevertake the next step?
That really kind of ooh, thathit me differently and so I
(04:06):
wanted to pose it to you thismorning because I think and I
think that I'm pretty right whenI say this that there are other
people who are listening tothis podcast who are in that
same boat.
You're in that same predicament.
Maybe you have been in acoaching program for the past
five, six years, but you'venever taken the step to start
(04:27):
the very thing that you've beengetting coached up on how to do.
I'm convinced, man, I'mconvinced, that there was
another level to you, that therewas another depth to you, and
you're still here on this earthand you're still breathing.
You still wake up every morningwith heartbeats in your chest
and those heartbeats are like adrum cadence telling you, if you
(04:49):
pay attention, that these areheartbeats that you will never
hear again.
That very one.
We're exhausting heartbeatsevery day.
We're exhausting breaths everyday.
We're exhausting movementsevery day, but those movements
are not getting us to the pointthat really tests the greatness
that is within us, that reallytakes the potential energy
(05:11):
within us and transforms it intokinetic energy.
So many of us are so contentliving inside of the cocoon or
many of us we're content to bethe caterpillar and not even go
into the cocoon.
We're afraid to emerge.
We won't take the next rightstep.
(05:32):
And so, because we refuse totake the next right step, what
happens?
What happens?
We go through life with a listof regrets.
We go through life with a listof what ifs.
What if I had done this when Iwas 20?
What if I had done this when Iwas 30?
What if I had done this when Iwas 40 or 50 or 60?
(05:54):
See, this is a timelessquestion.
If you're still alive right now, this question, this question,
it still applies to you.
What if you were great?
But you will never know howgreat you are because you refuse
to take the next right step.
You refuse to move, you refuseto move, and so I want to use
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this kind of as a window.
I want to use my kind of as asa window.
Um, I want to use my, my oldestdaughter.
I'll talk about her a lot on thepodcast, but I want to talk
about her just for a second.
So she's always wanted to be adancer, right, and so she, she,
she goes to school, she goes tocollege and she auditions for
(06:41):
the dance program at her schoolfor three times, three times,
and each time they don't let herin.
They don't give any type ofreason for it.
I think it's dumb.
They don't give any type ofreason or feedback for it.
They just say either you're inor you're not in.
I think it's dumb.
I think you should alwaysprovide feedback so that people
know where they can improve.
(07:02):
On a whim, she applies for aprogram called Steps on Broadway
, which is a prestigious program, a three-week intensive in New
York, and she gets in.
What if you don't know howgreat you are because you won't
take the next right step?
She took a step.
Now she didn't know if it wasthe right step, she didn't know
(07:24):
if she would get in, but she gotin and now she's enjoyed time
in New York absorbing the artsyvibes in a very nurturing dance
environment that has herbelieving in what dance could be
as a part of her life goingforward.
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Now she doesn't know what thatlooks like, and I'm not saying
that you have to know what thenext step looks like, the
outcome.
But here's what I'm sayingy'all you cannot just stay
stagnant.
You can't keep coming up withexcuses why you can't do this
and why you can't do this.
You don't know because you'renot moving.
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You don't know because you'restuck in the paralysis of
analysis.
You're sitting there.
You're like me.
Here's what I do.
It's my blessing and it's mycurse.
I will sit and I can go throughall of the different
permutations of something that Imight say or do, but they're
(08:30):
just assumptions, they're justtheories.
I'm hypothesizing all of thesedifferent avenues, all of these
different multiversal vibrationsand shifts that could happen
from one thing that I may do andthen I convince myself to not
do it.
Yo, yo, if that is you, Icannot tell you.
(08:51):
Oh my gosh, you have to makethe next right step, you have to
move and listen.
I don't have any notes.
I'm just speaking from my heartto you, because I believe in how
great you are.
I believe that God has placedyou here for a purpose and for a
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reason, and so many of us aregoing to live out our lives and
never discover what that purposeis and never discover what that
reason is, because we justwon't take the next step.
Who cares if you take the stepand you fail from it?
Who cares if it doesn't workout?
Who cares if people laugh atyou?
Who cares?
The people who laugh at you arethe people who are not taking
(09:34):
the next step, because Iguarantee you that the people
who have taken that next stepand the next step and the next
step, they know what it's liketo step out and just try
something, just to see if itworks.
They're not going to laugh atyou.
They're going to come besideyou and support you and they're
going to encourage you to takeanother step and another step.
(09:55):
Listen, man, it is imperativethat we do not allow our living
to be in vain, because there arepeople watching you and I know
it's saying that it reallydoesn't matter how people feel,
but listen that from anotherperspective, there are people
(10:18):
who are watching you to see whatyou do in your life.
Some of them may be haters hey,if that's all good, that's fine
.
But I choose not to focus onthe haters.
I focus on the people, like mystudents or my children or
people that I don't even know,who are watching from the
sidelines, waiting to jump intothe game, but they want to see
how I react to the opposingforces that are coming against
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me.
Am I going to allow my negativethoughts or my negative words
to affect me when I get in thegame, or am I going to have the
mindset that all of life, I'mgathering data?
Going to have the mindset thatall of life, I'm gathering data,
I'm gathering quantitative andqualitative data that's going to
help me make the next step, ifit is starting the business.
(11:04):
Yo, you've watched all theYouTubes.
You know all the steps togetting an LLC.
You know.
You know.
You have the idea, you have theframework in your head, but
it's still sitting there in yournotebook.
It's still sitting there inyour chat GPT it's still.
It's still just sitting there.
You have the business idea, youhave the business plan, you
(11:26):
know what the setup looks like,you know what the menu looks
like, you know what all of thesethings look like, but it's
still sitting in your notebook.
It's still sitting in your head.
You haven't even written itdown.
And so what are you going to do?
And when are you going to do it?
Because you're not getting anyyounger.
You were not listen.
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Every day that passes withoutsome kind of motion on your end
is a day that you've wasted.
And listen every day may not bea physical motion.
It may not be you going to talkto the banker.
It may not be you going to lookat locations.
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Or it may not be you making aphysical attempt at motion.
It may just be a movement inyour heart that says I'm going
to try or I'm going to try again.
Or it may be a mental, a mentalstep that says I believe in
myself, I can do this.
(12:34):
Those motions, the emotionalmotions, the mental motions, the
mindset motions, those can havejust as many deep vibrations,
deep results, deep outcomes asthe physical motions that you
might make.
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Some might even say that theyhave more, because before I can
physically do something, I haveto believe that I can do it,
right, right.
So I just I have to ask you asmuch as you say you believe in
yourself, do you really?
Do you really?
Because, just like somebody can, can say, I can look at your
(13:15):
bank account and I can see whatyou really value and where you
really place worth.
Maybe you play, maybe I look atyour bank account, you say.
You may say I put my worth andmy wellness and in my health,
but I can look and see thatyou've been to mcdonald's five
times that week.
Okay, the numbers don't lieright, they can, but you get the
.
You get the gist of what I'msaying.
(13:36):
Okay, the numbers don't lieright, they can, but you get the
gist of what I'm saying.
I can look at your actions oryour inaction, I can see where
you are putting your energy andI can tell whether or not you
believe in your dreams and I cantell whether or not you're ever
going to make the steps thatyou need to make to do what
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you've been placed on this earthto do.
Are you spending your timebinging Netflix or are you
taking time to pray about thenext step?
Are you taking time to talk topeople who've been there?
Are you networking?
Are you learning?
Like, what are you doing?
And it's not just that, becauseI can look at somebody and they
can say you know, I've watcheda thousand hours of YouTube
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videos on how to start abusiness or how to start a
coaching program, and you stillhaven't done it.
Oh, no, no, no, I'm waiting onthe right time.
I'm waiting on my coachingframework to be ready.
You know I'm waiting to findsome people who are willing to
test it out.
Ok, have you have you and I'musing myself here have you put
(14:45):
your coaching plan out there topeople yet?
No, then you're playingyourself.
Yo, I have several permutationsof coaching programs in my
Google Drive and at the timewhen I really wanted to, you
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know, get the clients and startthe coaching programs.
Guess where those coachingprograms stayed In my Google
Drive?
Why?
Because I was afraid thatpeople were going to look at me
and say what are you doing now?
Because they've seen me try alot of different things.
Multi-level marketing, I triedit.
A t-shirt company I tried it.
All these different things I'vetried.
(15:31):
Blogging've tried it.
Youtube channel I've tried it.
Now, podcasting I've tried itand I was afraid that people
were going to look and say, oh,here's just another thing that
he's trying.
Just ignore him, because it'sgoing to flame out sooner or
later.
So I never did anything aboutit.
Yo don't be me.
(15:52):
It is time to pull the thingsfrom your Google Drive and to
put them into motion, becauseyou will never know how great
you are if you never test andsee the level and the depth of
your greatness.
And the level and depth of yourgreatness and your ability to
achieve it and to attain it isgoing to be dependent on your
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willingness and your ability tolook foolish in front of people
and to just do it anyway.
It's going to be dependent onyour, your willingness to fight
and to battle your own feelingsof of being, of not being worth
it, your own feelings of notbeing worth it, your own
(16:36):
feelings of this being ahorrible idea and doing it
anyway.
Because, again, remember ourpremise.
There are so many peoplewalking around who don't know
how great they are because theywon't take the next step that
will get them into thatgreatness.
And I think one of the mosthorrible things in the world is
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to look back over your life andto see these points right, these
integral junctures in lifewhere we could have made a
different decision that reallychanged where we might have been
at this point in life Right,but we didn't do it.
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And then there comes the regret, and then comes the guilt, and
then comes the shame.
But what if?
What if, let's say, just forthe purposes of a thought
experiment, at the end of yourlife you look at all of the
different areas that you triedthat you just didn't succeed in.
At the very least, you wouldstill be better off because you
(17:45):
tried them and you learned fromthem, and you tried it and you
had the experience of it, andyou tried it, and you had the
experience of it Rather than yousat on it and there were only
ever thoughts and scribblesversus blood, sweat and tears.
What if you're great but younever find out how great you are
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because you refuse to take thenext right step?
And I'm going to venture to saythis too what if you don't know
if the next step is the rightstep?
Try it anyway, just try it.
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Okay, just try it, becauseyou'll never know if it's right
if you don't explore it.
I'm not a scientist, but I dobelieve in the validity of the
scientific method.
At some point the hypothesis isgreat, but you have to conduct
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the experiment so that you canget the result of the experiment
to see if your hypothesis isproven right, that you can get
the result of the experiment tosee if your hypothesis is proven
right.
I can say all day long, myrestaurant idea, my recipes are
the bomb, but you don't know ifthey're the bomb if you never
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tried them out in front of otherpeople.
I can say all day that I wantto pastor a church, I want to
pastor a church, I want to planta church, but I never make a
move to even get into that arena.
I'm not talking to people,right?
I'm not trying to learn what Ican, y'all, y'all and I don't
(19:37):
believe that this is just aquestion.
And I don't believe that thisis just a question.
I believe, y'all, that the HolySpirit is prompting somebody,
that you need to make a move,and it's not just any move, it
is the move that he's impressedupon you to make.
You've dreamed about this move.
You keep having thoughts aboutthis next step.
(19:57):
You know what the step is.
You know what the step is.
You know what the step is, butyou won't do it.
And I made a comment on one ofmy social medias that people
took as kind of controversialbut I stand behind it that many
times we pray about things thatGod has already told us to do,
(20:19):
but we are afraid to do it.
So we keep praying, under theguise of needing more signs,
when you're just afraid to dowhat you've been told to do.
Somebody here is just afraid todo what you've been told to do.
You're still praying, but I'mhere to tell you nothing's going
to happen until you make a move.
But I'm here to tell younothing's going to happen until
(20:40):
you make a move.
You will never know the depthand the height that you were
created to reach until you makethat move.
Quit being scared, be of goodcourage.
Overcome the fear by action andeven if you have to take action
(21:04):
before the fear hits, do it.
However, you have to do it toget it done.
I'm here to challenge you onthis episode episode 71, to just
do it Make the next right step.
Accept that you're great, butalso understand that you need to
test and see the level of yourgreatness, because otherwise,
what are you going to do withyour life?
We can't play the what-if gamefor the rest of our lives.
(21:28):
Our breaths are too precious,our heartbeats are too precious,
and every heartbeat that wehave expires another moment of
our life that we will never getback.
So what are you waiting on?
Y'all, I feel this one, I feelit.
What are you waiting on?
(21:48):
You say you're waiting oneverything else, but everything
else is waiting on you to make adecision, to take the next
right step.
So I'm here to challenge you,I'm here to dare you, on episode
71 of Pep Talk, to make thenext step, to get moving right
now.
To get moving right now.
(22:13):
When I say this with all thelove in me, I say it with all of
the love in me, and as I'mtalking to you, best believe,
I'm talking to me even more so,yo, it's time, it's time, it's
time, it's time.
(22:35):
And so here's what I want toknow time.
So here's what I want to know Iwant you to send me a message,
send me a fan mail, send me anemail, send me a message on
Instagram.
What is the next right stepthat you are going to take?
Because I'm not giving you anoption, I'm not giving you the
option.
Quit thinking about it and doit.
(22:56):
So what's the next right stepthat you are going to make?
I want to hear from you.
I want to hear from you what'sthe next right step that you are
going to make.
I'm going to hold you to it.
I'm going to hold youaccountable and I want you to
(23:18):
ask me.
I'm going to hold youaccountable and I want you to
ask me what's my next right step?
Ask me, I'll talk about it, allright, because we have to quit
assuming that we have more time.
(23:38):
We have to quit assuming thatwe're owed another hour.
Y'all.
This spirit, this mentalitythat I have another day, y'all.
It has to stop.
It has to cease becauseprocrastination has dug more
graves.
It's dug more ditches becausewe faultily assumed that we're
owed more time than we have.
Y'all for all we know we onlyhave today than we have.
(24:04):
Y'all for all we know we onlyhave today, and I don't want to
die and have all of my potentialin that casket or in that
cremation urn with me.
I just to think about thathurts my heart, for you and for
me, because what has been placedwithin you is what the world
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needs.
There is somebody in this worldwho needs what has been
implanted within you that you'retoo afraid to lose, that you're
too afraid to move into, thatyou're too afraid to accept, and
it has to stop.
We can't do this anymore.
What if you're great but younever know how great you are
(24:49):
because you refuse to take thenext right step?
Ha, all right, y'all.
This has been episode 71 of thePep Talk podcast.
Pep Talk, I'm your host, coachJ life coaching DFW, and it has
been my pleasure to be here withyou.
To start this week, or wheneveryou listen to this episode
again, I want to hear from youwhat's your next right step?
(25:12):
And y'all send us messages,send us those reviews, put those
reviews in wherever you listen.
I want to know how this messagehas impacted you, how this
podcast is impacting you y'all.
I love you.
You know how we end everyepisode keep it love, keep it
light, keep it peppy.
(25:33):
Pep talk.
We'll see you next week.
Y'all.
Be blessed, peace.
When's the last time you had a pep talk?
Pep talk, pep talk.
Yo, when's the last time youhad a pep talk?
Has it been a minute?
That's okay, you're in theright place.
I've got you.
Welcome to pep talk.
And today I have the ultimatewhat if?
Question for you.
Now let's go.
(00:25):
Yo, welcome to episode 71 of PepTalk.
I'm your host, coach J, and weare the podcast that cheers you
on and coaches you up.
That's right.
Everybody needs a cheerleaderto tell you how great you are,
but you also need a coach totell you that you still have
more potential, more development, that there's more of your life
to capture, more of your lifeto live, more growth to obtain.
(00:47):
Yo, there's more, there's more,and I'm so glad that you're
here hanging out with us tostart your week or whenever
you're listening to the podcaston your favorite podcast
provider.
Hey, please be sure that, ifyou are rocking with the content
that we're bringing to you on aweekly basis, drop a review,
five stars, let us know whatyou're thinking, and also also
(01:11):
drop a fan mail.
Let us know what you thinkabout the episodes so we can
continue the conversation.
Also, you can reach us atthepeppodcast, at gmailcom, or
send me a message on Instagram.
At underscore, jv speaks.
Okay, so let's get into it.
I don't want to waste any moretime because I have a what if?
(01:32):
Question for you that I thinkit really should shake you to
your core, and if it doesn't,then I don't know what to tell
you.
Okay, so here's the questionwhat if you were great, but you
never find out how great you are?
Oof and see today's episode.
(01:54):
I'm just, I'm giving you a peptalk.
I'm in full Coach J mode rightnow.
This may not be the typical 20,30 minute episode, I don't know
.
I don't know.
All right, because I just hitrecord, because I had this, this
topic, this question.
Honestly, it came to me and soI want to pose it to you, so I'm
(02:14):
going to ask it again just howgreat you are, man.
What a travesty, what atravesty.
What if you are not the nextElon Musk, but you're better?
(02:35):
What if you're not the nextBill Gates, but you're better?
What if you're not the nextJames Baldwin, but you're better
?
What if you're not the nextKeanu Reeves?
Come on John Wick, but you'rebetter.
I'm not talking about thekilling part, I'm talking about
the acting part.
Okay, but what if you're greatbut you never know how great you
(03:01):
are and you're like, well, whywouldn't I know how great I am?
Because you never move, becauseyou never take the next right
step.
I remember I was going to achurch and one of their tenets
is that we always try to takethe next right step.
(03:22):
In this life of faith, a lot oftimes we may say we don't know
what the next step is, what thenext thing is, and they always
said just take the next rightstep.
That takes it from a macrolevel that can sometimes be
overwhelming, and it zeroes itdown to a micro level where we
can begin to look at things on astep-by-step basis.
(03:43):
Now, I'm not the best microperson.
I'm a macro person.
I like to see things from anoverarching viewpoint, but I
need micro people around me.
But when this question came tome, what if you never know how
great you are because you nevertake the next step?
That really kind of ooh, thathit me differently and so I
(04:06):
wanted to pose it to you thismorning because I think and I
think that I'm pretty right whenI say this that there are other
people who are listening tothis podcast who are in that
same boat.
You're in that same predicament.
Maybe you have been in acoaching program for the past
five, six years, but you'venever taken the step to start
(04:27):
the very thing that you've beengetting coached up on how to do.
I'm convinced, man, I'mconvinced, that there was
another level to you, that therewas another depth to you, and
you're still here on this earthand you're still breathing.
You still wake up every morningwith heartbeats in your chest
and those heartbeats are like adrum cadence telling you, if you
(04:49):
pay attention, that these areheartbeats that you will never
hear again.
That very one.
We're exhausting heartbeatsevery day.
We're exhausting breaths everyday.
We're exhausting movementsevery day, but those movements
are not getting us to the pointthat really tests the greatness
that is within us, that reallytakes the potential energy
(05:11):
within us and transforms it intokinetic energy.
So many of us are so contentliving inside of the cocoon or
many of us we're content to bethe caterpillar and not even go
into the cocoon.
We're afraid to emerge.
We won't take the next rightstep.
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And so, because we refuse totake the next right step, what
happens?
What happens?
We go through life with a listof regrets.
We go through life with a listof what ifs.
What if I had done this when Iwas 20?
What if I had done this when Iwas 30?
What if I had done this when Iwas 40 or 50 or 60?
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See, this is a timelessquestion.
If you're still alive right now, this question, this question,
it still applies to you.
What if you were great?
But you will never know howgreat you are because you refuse
to take the next right step.
You refuse to move, you refuseto move, and so I want to use
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this kind of as a window.
I want to use my kind of as asa window.
Um, I want to use my, my oldestdaughter.
I'll talk about her a lot on thepodcast, but I want to talk
about her just for a second.
So she's always wanted to be adancer, right, and so she, she,
she goes to school, she goes tocollege and she auditions for
(06:41):
the dance program at her schoolfor three times, three times,
and each time they don't let herin.
They don't give any type ofreason for it.
I think it's dumb.
They don't give any type ofreason or feedback for it.
They just say either you're inor you're not in.
I think it's dumb.
I think you should alwaysprovide feedback so that people
know where they can improve.
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On a whim, she applies for aprogram called Steps on Broadway
, which is a prestigious program, a three-week intensive in New
York, and she gets in.
What if you don't know howgreat you are because you won't
take the next right step?
She took a step.
Now she didn't know if it wasthe right step, she didn't know
(07:24):
if she would get in, but she gotin and now she's enjoyed time
in New York absorbing the artsyvibes in a very nurturing dance
environment that has herbelieving in what dance could be
as a part of her life goingforward.
(07:46):
Now she doesn't know what thatlooks like, and I'm not saying
that you have to know what thenext step looks like, the
outcome.
But here's what I'm sayingy'all you cannot just stay
stagnant.
You can't keep coming up withexcuses why you can't do this
and why you can't do this.
You don't know because you'renot moving.
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You don't know because you'restuck in the paralysis of
analysis.
You're sitting there.
You're like me.
Here's what I do.
It's my blessing and it's mycurse.
I will sit and I can go throughall of the different
permutations of something that Imight say or do, but they're
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just assumptions, they're justtheories.
I'm hypothesizing all of thesedifferent avenues, all of these
different multiversal vibrationsand shifts that could happen
from one thing that I may do andthen I convince myself to not
do it.
Yo, yo, if that is you, Icannot tell you.
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Oh my gosh, you have to makethe next right step, you have to
move and listen.
I don't have any notes.
I'm just speaking from my heartto you, because I believe in how
great you are.
I believe that God has placedyou here for a purpose and for a
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reason, and so many of us aregoing to live out our lives and
never discover what that purposeis and never discover what that
reason is, because we justwon't take the next step.
Who cares if you take the stepand you fail from it?
Who cares if it doesn't workout?
Who cares if people laugh atyou?
Who cares?
The people who laugh at you arethe people who are not taking
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the next step, because Iguarantee you that the people
who have taken that next stepand the next step and the next
step, they know what it's liketo step out and just try
something, just to see if itworks.
They're not going to laugh atyou.
They're going to come besideyou and support you and they're
going to encourage you to takeanother step and another step.
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Listen, man, it is imperativethat we do not allow our living
to be in vain, because there arepeople watching you and I know
it's saying that it reallydoesn't matter how people feel,
but listen that from anotherperspective, there are people
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who are watching you to see whatyou do in your life.
Some of them may be haters hey,if that's all good, that's fine
.
But I choose not to focus onthe haters.
I focus on the people, like mystudents or my children or
people that I don't even know,who are watching from the
sidelines, waiting to jump intothe game, but they want to see
how I react to the opposingforces that are coming against
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me.
Am I going to allow my negativethoughts or my negative words
to affect me when I get in thegame, or am I going to have the
mindset that all of life, I'mgathering data?
Going to have the mindset thatall of life, I'm gathering data,
I'm gathering quantitative andqualitative data that's going to
help me make the next step, ifit is starting the business.
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Yo, you've watched all theYouTubes.
You know all the steps togetting an LLC.
You know.
You know.
You have the idea, you have theframework in your head, but
it's still sitting there in yournotebook.
It's still sitting there inyour chat GPT it's still.
It's still just sitting there.
You have the business idea, youhave the business plan, you
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know what the setup looks like,you know what the menu looks
like, you know what all of thesethings look like, but it's
still sitting in your notebook.
It's still sitting in your head.
You haven't even written itdown.
And so what are you going to do?
And when are you going to do it?
Because you're not getting anyyounger.
You were not listen.
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Every day that passes withoutsome kind of motion on your end
is a day that you've wasted.
And listen every day may not bea physical motion.
It may not be you going to talkto the banker.
It may not be you going to lookat locations.
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Or it may not be you making aphysical attempt at motion.
It may just be a movement inyour heart that says I'm going
to try or I'm going to try again.
Or it may be a mental, a mentalstep that says I believe in
myself, I can do this.
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Those motions, the emotionalmotions, the mental motions, the
mindset motions, those can havejust as many deep vibrations,
deep results, deep outcomes asthe physical motions that you
might make.
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Some might even say that theyhave more, because before I can
physically do something, I haveto believe that I can do it,
right, right.
So I just I have to ask you asmuch as you say you believe in
yourself, do you really?
Do you really?
Because, just like somebody can, can say, I can look at your
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bank account and I can see whatyou really value and where you
really place worth.
Maybe you play, maybe I look atyour bank account, you say.
You may say I put my worth andmy wellness and in my health,
but I can look and see thatyou've been to mcdonald's five
times that week.
Okay, the numbers don't lieright, they can, but you get the
.
You get the gist of what I'msaying.
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Okay, the numbers don't lieright, they can, but you get the
gist of what I'm saying.
I can look at your actions oryour inaction, I can see where
you are putting your energy andI can tell whether or not you
believe in your dreams and I cantell whether or not you're ever
going to make the steps thatyou need to make to do what
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you've been placed on this earthto do.
Are you spending your timebinging Netflix or are you
taking time to pray about thenext step?
Are you taking time to talk topeople who've been there?
Are you networking?
Are you learning?
Like, what are you doing?
And it's not just that, becauseI can look at somebody and they
can say you know, I've watcheda thousand hours of YouTube
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videos on how to start abusiness or how to start a
coaching program, and you stillhaven't done it.
Oh, no, no, no, I'm waiting onthe right time.
I'm waiting on my coachingframework to be ready.
You know I'm waiting to findsome people who are willing to
test it out.
Ok, have you have you and I'musing myself here have you put
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your coaching plan out there topeople yet?
No, then you're playingyourself.
Yo, I have several permutationsof coaching programs in my
Google Drive and at the timewhen I really wanted to, you
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know, get the clients and startthe coaching programs.
Guess where those coachingprograms stayed In my Google
Drive?
Why?
Because I was afraid thatpeople were going to look at me
and say what are you doing now?
Because they've seen me try alot of different things.
Multi-level marketing, I triedit.
A t-shirt company I tried it.
All these different things I'vetried.
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Blogging've tried it.
Youtube channel I've tried it.
Now, podcasting I've tried itand I was afraid that people
were going to look and say, oh,here's just another thing that
he's trying.
Just ignore him, because it'sgoing to flame out sooner or
later.
So I never did anything aboutit.
Yo don't be me.
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It is time to pull the thingsfrom your Google Drive and to
put them into motion, becauseyou will never know how great
you are if you never test andsee the level and the depth of
your greatness.
And the level and depth of yourgreatness and your ability to
achieve it and to attain it isgoing to be dependent on your
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willingness and your ability tolook foolish in front of people
and to just do it anyway.
It's going to be dependent onyour, your willingness to fight
and to battle your own feelingsof of being, of not being worth
it, your own feelings of notbeing worth it, your own
(16:36):
feelings of this being ahorrible idea and doing it
anyway.
Because, again, remember ourpremise.
There are so many peoplewalking around who don't know
how great they are because theywon't take the next step that
will get them into thatgreatness.
And I think one of the mosthorrible things in the world is
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to look back over your life andto see these points right, these
integral junctures in lifewhere we could have made a
different decision that reallychanged where we might have been
at this point in life Right,but we didn't do it.
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And then there comes the regret, and then comes the guilt, and
then comes the shame.
But what if?
What if, let's say, just forthe purposes of a thought
experiment, at the end of yourlife you look at all of the
different areas that you triedthat you just didn't succeed in.
At the very least, you wouldstill be better off because you
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tried them and you learned fromthem, and you tried it and you
had the experience of it, andyou tried it, and you had the
experience of it Rather than yousat on it and there were only
ever thoughts and scribblesversus blood, sweat and tears.
What if you're great but younever find out how great you are
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because you refuse to take thenext right step?
And I'm going to venture to saythis too what if you don't know
if the next step is the rightstep?
Try it anyway, just try it.
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Okay, just try it, becauseyou'll never know if it's right
if you don't explore it.
I'm not a scientist, but I dobelieve in the validity of the
scientific method.
At some point the hypothesis isgreat, but you have to conduct
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the experiment so that you canget the result of the experiment
to see if your hypothesis isproven right, that you can get
the result of the experiment tosee if your hypothesis is proven
right.
I can say all day long, myrestaurant idea, my recipes are
the bomb, but you don't know ifthey're the bomb if you never
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tried them out in front of otherpeople.
I can say all day that I wantto pastor a church, I want to
pastor a church, I want to planta church, but I never make a
move to even get into that arena.
I'm not talking to people,right?
I'm not trying to learn what Ican, y'all, y'all and I don't
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believe that this is just aquestion.
And I don't believe that thisis just a question.
I believe, y'all, that the HolySpirit is prompting somebody,
that you need to make a move,and it's not just any move, it
is the move that he's impressedupon you to make.
You've dreamed about this move.
You keep having thoughts aboutthis next step.
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You know what the step is.
You know what the step is.
You know what the step is, butyou won't do it.
And I made a comment on one ofmy social medias that people
took as kind of controversialbut I stand behind it that many
times we pray about things thatGod has already told us to do,
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but we are afraid to do it.
So we keep praying, under theguise of needing more signs,
when you're just afraid to dowhat you've been told to do.
Somebody here is just afraid todo what you've been told to do.
You're still praying, but I'mhere to tell you nothing's going
to happen until you make a move.
But I'm here to tell younothing's going to happen until
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you make a move.
You will never know the depthand the height that you were
created to reach until you makethat move.
Quit being scared, be of goodcourage.
Overcome the fear by action andeven if you have to take action
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before the fear hits, do it.
However, you have to do it toget it done.
I'm here to challenge you onthis episode episode 71, to just
do it Make the next right step.
Accept that you're great, butalso understand that you need to
test and see the level of yourgreatness, because otherwise,
what are you going to do withyour life?
We can't play the what-if gamefor the rest of our lives.
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Our breaths are too precious,our heartbeats are too precious,
and every heartbeat that wehave expires another moment of
our life that we will never getback.
So what are you waiting on?
Y'all, I feel this one, I feelit.
What are you waiting on?
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You say you're waiting oneverything else, but everything
else is waiting on you to make adecision, to take the next
right step.
So I'm here to challenge you,I'm here to dare you, on episode
71 of Pep Talk, to make thenext step, to get moving right
now.
To get moving right now.
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When I say this with all thelove in me, I say it with all of
the love in me, and as I'mtalking to you, best believe,
I'm talking to me even more so,yo, it's time, it's time, it's
time, it's time.
(22:35):
And so here's what I want toknow time.
So here's what I want to know Iwant you to send me a message,
send me a fan mail, send me anemail, send me a message on
Instagram.
What is the next right stepthat you are going to take?
Because I'm not giving you anoption, I'm not giving you the
option.
Quit thinking about it and doit.
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So what's the next right stepthat you are going to make?
I want to hear from you.
I want to hear from you what'sthe next right step that you are
going to make.
I'm going to hold you to it.
I'm going to hold youaccountable and I want you to
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ask me.
I'm going to hold youaccountable and I want you to
ask me what's my next right step?
Ask me, I'll talk about it, allright, because we have to quit
assuming that we have more time.
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We have to quit assuming thatwe're owed another hour.
Y'all.
This spirit, this mentalitythat I have another day, y'all.
It has to stop.
It has to cease becauseprocrastination has dug more
graves.
It's dug more ditches becausewe faultily assumed that we're
owed more time than we have.
Y'all for all we know we onlyhave today than we have.
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Y'all for all we know we onlyhave today, and I don't want to
die and have all of my potentialin that casket or in that
cremation urn with me.
I just to think about thathurts my heart, for you and for
me, because what has been placedwithin you is what the world
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needs.
There is somebody in this worldwho needs what has been
implanted within you that you'retoo afraid to lose, that you're
too afraid to move into, thatyou're too afraid to accept, and
it has to stop.
We can't do this anymore.
What if you're great but younever know how great you are
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because you refuse to take thenext right step?
Ha, all right, y'all.
This has been episode 71 of thePep Talk podcast.
Pep Talk, I'm your host, coachJ life coaching DFW, and it has
been my pleasure to be here withyou.
To start this week, or wheneveryou listen to this episode
again, I want to hear from youwhat's your next right step?
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And y'all send us messages,send us those reviews, put those
reviews in wherever you listen.
I want to know how this messagehas impacted you, how this
podcast is impacting you y'all.
I love you.
You know how we end everyepisode keep it love, keep it
light, keep it peppy.
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Pep talk.
We'll see you next week.
Y'all.
Be blessed, peace.
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