Episode Transcript
[00:00:18] Speaker A: What's happening? What's going on? Good peoples, it's your guy, Cy. Carlton young with my co host.
[00:00:25] Speaker B: What's up? It's Kevon Lee, man. It's a great time to be here. I hope you guys watched the last podcast. If you didn't pause, go back to the next one, because that's the introduction going into this one.
[00:00:36] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:00:36] Speaker A: So if you did not watch the initial podcast, go back, watch it so you can get an idea of who we are, why we're here, what we're talking about, and where we're planning to go. Hey, man, I'm noticing something, man. I said, it's kind of real clean shaving today. What's going on, man?
[00:00:59] Speaker B: See, look, you know, they call me the baby face assassin. Let me just start with that. They call me the baby face assassin. But look, so I was growing my little beard out, right? So I went upstairs, I said, you know what? Get on here. I need to look fresh. I need to look fly. I don't know who going to see this, but I got to good. So I go up there, and I just bought these clippers. They cost like $250. Don't tell my wife. They cost like $250. And so I was shaving, I was like, okay. I had my glasses on. I was like, all right, let's get it. So I went like this, and then I don't know what happened, but I went too far. And then it wasn't lined up. And I said, man, so I had to shave the whole thing off. So now the baby face assassin's back.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: Man, you got me looking like I'm on a podcast with my son.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Hey, I'm your son's age. I have a question, because I just want to know how you feel today.
How does the whole Dallas feel? Because that game on Saturday talk, bro.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: Let'S not go there. If you want to stay co host, let's not go there.
Look, man, I'm going to put it to you this way. I told my partners, honestly, I expected it to be one and done. I mean, that's the par for the course, right?
What you have is a case of imposter syndrome. That's what I believe Dallas has going on, is imposter syndrome. They got all the tools to be great, and they do some of the activities and the work to make it look like they're great. But when it's time to show up, that voice gets in their head and says, you can't make it, you're not.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: Going to be able to do it.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: And guess what happens?
They're not able to do it. They're not able to make it. So, hey, that's a word to our audience. Remember that. Don't let that voice get in your head. That imposter syndrome to make you feel like you can't accomplish it. So, yeah, man, that's just how I feel, man. It's okay, man.
I'm at the mindset now that Jared Jones is probably going to have to hit the upper room before we ever win another championship.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: He's not, though. He's not. We both know he's not. He wanted to be in the public eyes. He ain't doing that well.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: He ain't got too many more years, I don't think. Anyway, he's about 80 now. I mean, like, bro, come on.
[00:03:10] Speaker D: Yeah, he up.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: But anyway, that's enough talking about Dallas. We don't want to talk about that. We want to talk about something positive, right? So today, man, we're going to jump into the topic of accountability.
Growth mindset, spiritual, personal growth, right? So we want to set the basis for the foundation to build this house that doesn't blow down when the wolf comes.
[00:03:38] Speaker C: So, for you, right?
[00:03:42] Speaker A: Talk to me about accountability, what it.
[00:03:44] Speaker C: Looks like and how you manage self accountability.
[00:03:48] Speaker A: How you manage yourself, right?
How you get the spec out, the beam out your eye before you get.
[00:03:54] Speaker C: The spec out of somebody else's eye.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Definitely, man. So what's crazy is I just did a sermon on Sunday to our youth at our church, and it was basically on the biblical foundations, right? And it's so good that we're talking about something like this right here. But my first foundation was discipline. And I think that's to anything. If you want to be successful in life, no matter if it's in relationships, it's career wise, your physical health, whatever it might be, right? You have to be disciplined and understand that it's not going to happen right there. You're not going to do it one time. That's one in a million. You do it one time and boom.
[00:04:27] Speaker D: You fix it, right?
[00:04:28] Speaker B: But it's not going to happen like that. Especially with your spiritual growth, your physical growth, emotional, mental. It just doesn't happen like that. And so when you have that discipline, I think that sets you forth. But when you have that discipline, I think you also need accountability, partner, somebody who could hold you accountable. Like, hey, man, I see you falling off. What's up? What's wrong with you? You said you was going to do this, and now you're not doing this. And especially as a man, you want to keep your word, right? And so they always say this, right? A man's word is everything. If you can't keep your word, then that shows a lot about you, right? And I understand we all go through things, but we always want to try to keep that our word, what we say. And so I have a few accountability partners. We text each other all the time.
[00:05:08] Speaker D: How are you doing?
[00:05:09] Speaker B: Did you get in a word today? Yeah, man, I got in a word today. What did you read? What's your summary? Things like that. Or, hey, did you exercise? Hey, how's the business going? So I have different accountability partners for different parts of my life, but we.
[00:05:22] Speaker D: All in a close knit.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: Okay, that's good, man. Well, let me ask you this.
[00:05:27] Speaker C: This is the real question.
How do you maintain accountability within yourself, right?
[00:05:35] Speaker A: Because let's be 100 and call a spade a spade.
We can have all these things in.
[00:05:42] Speaker C: Place, but we can also fake the funk, right?
So what is it that you do.
[00:05:50] Speaker A: For Kevin when nobody's looking at Kevin? In order for Kevin to become.
[00:05:57] Speaker C: The.
[00:05:57] Speaker A: Divine person that God has intended him.
[00:05:59] Speaker C: To be and has got you to.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: This space in life, right? So somebody says, yeah, I got all those in place. But my problem is, when I don't.
[00:06:07] Speaker C: Have, when I'm by myself and those.
[00:06:10] Speaker A: Voices are talking to me and I'm.
[00:06:11] Speaker C: By myself, what do you do then?
[00:06:14] Speaker A: What's your accountability?
[00:06:15] Speaker C: How does it look when it's just you, God, in these four walls?
[00:06:22] Speaker D: Look, I'm going to be honest with you.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: I'm going to be honest with everybody on here.
[00:06:26] Speaker D: I have a prayer closet, and I.
[00:06:28] Speaker B: Recommend you guys, if you guys do not have a prayer closet, get you a prayer closet. It doesn't have to actually be a closet. It might be your car, it might be the living room, the bathroom, whatever it is, right? To this day, my wife still don't know what my prayer closet is because I get up early in the morning, I go in that thing. Me and God, we do our business and I get out there, right? But having that spiritual discipline to understand, even because I'm young, I still go through things. There's still, like how you said that enemy that creeps in, like, Kevon, you know you want to do this. I mean, you got all that discipline. But come on, man, it feels good when you do this over here or you come over here and have fun with this or whatever it might be, right? But getting in that prayer closet on a daily basis is what keep me grounded.
[00:07:10] Speaker C: Yeah, okay, that's good man.
[00:07:12] Speaker A: That's definitely something that I believe is important.
Okay.
[00:07:17] Speaker C: So for me, let's talk about accountability.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: From my perspective, from my season lens and eyes, right?
Accountability refers to, like, responsibility.
[00:07:32] Speaker C: Assuming responsibility.
[00:07:33] Speaker A: For your action decision and performance.
[00:07:36] Speaker C: But it also involves being transparent, both personally and professionally.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: And you have to acknowledge the consequences.
[00:07:45] Speaker C: Of your actions, whether good or bad.
So for me, it was a point in my life where accountability was pushing it to somebody else.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: Well, I would have, but this or I know I did this, but that, right?
But when, like you said, you've come to a point in your life where.
[00:08:08] Speaker C: You can really just be transparent with yourself.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: And like some people say, and I hear, like a lot of preachers say, and just anybody in life, like, you got to be sick and tired of.
[00:08:18] Speaker C: Being sick and tired.
[00:08:20] Speaker A: When you get to that level of sick and tiredness. That's not a word, but I'm going.
[00:08:25] Speaker C: To use it today.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: You begin to really hold yourself accountable for your actions, and you really want.
[00:08:32] Speaker C: To see yourself mature and grow and.
[00:08:35] Speaker A: Become the man that you were designed to be, right? So for me, it's the same thing.
[00:08:41] Speaker C: It's.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: Reading, right?
[00:08:45] Speaker C: Reading the word, like you said, getting.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: In that prayer closet, right? Doing the things that are required.
[00:08:52] Speaker C: But this right here, man, this is like the biggest accountability piece in the world, right?
[00:09:00] Speaker A: This word, it will find you.
If you get into it and you.
[00:09:05] Speaker C: Seek it out and you feed the spiritual man, that's where you can really.
[00:09:11] Speaker A: Start to begin that accountability journey and.
[00:09:14] Speaker C: That accountability presence in your life where.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: You can say, you know what? I'm going to be the best version of myself. I'm going to take it back to what God intended me to be before I got off track, before I got.
[00:09:29] Speaker C: Off kilter, before I got all out of whack.
So with the accountability comes growth, right?
[00:09:38] Speaker A: Because after you hold yourself accountable and you set a routine in place and discipline, like you said, that is actually, like one of my key words for.
[00:09:48] Speaker C: The year is discipline.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: That's my mantra for the year is self discipline.
Self discipline comes through prayer, through the.
[00:09:57] Speaker C: Holy Spirit, which is going to direct.
[00:10:00] Speaker A: You and guide you on what things you don't need to do and what you do need to do. Right? A lot of times it'll tug on.
[00:10:05] Speaker C: You and say, don't go left, go right.
But you have to be disciplined to follow that voice, listen to that voice, and trust that voice.
[00:10:14] Speaker A: But again, I think that all comes.
[00:10:15] Speaker C: From which man you feed. Do you feed the physical, carnal man or do you feed the spiritual man?
[00:10:25] Speaker A: When you feed the spiritual man, you become more accountable because you have a set of rules and principles that you.
[00:10:31] Speaker C: Should be governing yourself about.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: When you feed the carnal, physical man.
[00:10:37] Speaker C: It'S your partners telling you, man, that's okay. You can do that.
[00:10:43] Speaker A: Well, that's you kind of cutting corners.
[00:10:46] Speaker C: And doing things outside of that realm on that spectrum.
And ultimately, you cannot get upset with yourself for the work that you did not do.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: So if you look at your life today, it's a direct reflection of the.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: Choices that you've made years back, weeks back, months back.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: So if you reverse engineer your decisions, you should be able to understand why.
[00:11:12] Speaker C: You'Re at in your life.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: And it all starts with accountability. So, like I said, we talked about accountability.
[00:11:19] Speaker C: We talked about growth. So let's talk about the growth mindset. Like, once you establish accountability and you draw that line in the sand, and.
[00:11:31] Speaker A: The next step is to grow as.
[00:11:33] Speaker C: A man, as a person, as a.
[00:11:37] Speaker A: Representative of Christ, to get to what.
[00:11:39] Speaker C: You want to become, which is your divine purpose.
[00:11:43] Speaker A: So what are some of the things.
[00:11:44] Speaker C: That you do for growth?
How do you define your growth?
[00:11:50] Speaker A: And what would you give somebody in.
[00:11:52] Speaker C: Your age bracket advice on how they.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: Can grow themselves to become this dynamic.
[00:11:58] Speaker C: Person like you, man?
[00:12:01] Speaker B: And I tell people this all the time, is when I talk to somebody, be like, hey, kevon, I need advice on this. And I always tell them, I said, look, I could give you advice, but I'm going to come from a biblical standpoint because that's what I stand on, right? And that's how my foundation is. And so when it comes to that, I always tell people, you have to.
[00:12:17] Speaker D: Stay grounded in the things that you.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: Value, your morals, and whatever your value morals are, that's going to be your outcome, right? So if you value going out and partying, if that's really important to you.
[00:12:29] Speaker D: If you value having sex with multiple.
[00:12:31] Speaker B: Different people, if that's important for you, then your life is going to reflect that, right? But if you value getting the word, if you value the close knit relationships in you, if you value your wife or your husband or things like that, it will reflect in the world. And the crazy thing about it is.
[00:12:47] Speaker D: You don't have to tell anybody. You don't have to tell anybody.
[00:12:50] Speaker B: People will see that on you. And it's crazy, because I did this speech. I did a speech about a year ago last April. I blew it out the water, right? Did not mention Christ at all.
[00:13:00] Speaker D: Did not mention Christ at all.
[00:13:02] Speaker B: And this woman, she came up to me in tears. I was just looking at her like, what you crying for? You give me. And she said, I literally see this anointing on you.
[00:13:13] Speaker D: I see this glow around you.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: And she literally said, the enemy is going to try to bring you down.
[00:13:19] Speaker D: But don't let them.
[00:13:20] Speaker B: The enemy is going to try to.
[00:13:22] Speaker D: Bring you down, but don't let them.
[00:13:24] Speaker B: So what's the enemy? Right? The enemy for different people could be different things. You might think that something is a.
[00:13:29] Speaker D: Good thing, like partying, right?
[00:13:30] Speaker B: Or having sex with multiple people. Especially. Let me go with my age bracket, 25 years old, I see a lot of guys my age every single weekend.
[00:13:37] Speaker D: Partying every weekend, drinking, smoking every single.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Weekend hanging out with different people. They might say, oh, yeah, man, I got 30 bodies. I got 40 bodies. And they pride their self on that.
[00:13:52] Speaker D: And they don't know why their life.
[00:13:54] Speaker B: Is reflecting the way that it is. It's because you live your life in a certain way, and because you live your life in a certain way, you would never be able to become the person that God has destined for you. But when you start living your purpose that he has for you, then everything else will fall into place.
[00:14:08] Speaker D: And so I realized early that, Kevon.
[00:14:11] Speaker B: Don'T hang around these people. If you want to hang around somebody, hang around somebody who has the same values as you.
[00:14:16] Speaker D: Right?
[00:14:16] Speaker B: And so because I started doing that and because I disciplined myself, and just like you said, your word is discipline. My word is discipline, too, because disciplining yourself, no matter what it is, I had to discipline myself in this speaking game. I had to, literally, when I said, I want to become a motivational speaker, I didn't know nothing about videos. I didn't know nothing about taking good pictures. I didn't know nothing about no website, no book, no nothing. But I read about it, I researched on it. I watched videos on it. I got the mentors, and I did exactly what I needed to do in order to get to the place I am right now.
[00:14:44] Speaker D: And that is what discipline is.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: That's what accountability is. Holding yourself to accountable, like you said, drawing that line and saying, I'm not going to go past that or I'm a step over this. I'm a step over this fear, and.
[00:14:56] Speaker D: I'm going after everything that God has for me.
[00:14:59] Speaker C: Okay.
[00:15:00] Speaker A: Yeah. So good. You definitely gave, like, a blueprint for growth, right?
[00:15:05] Speaker C: Which is what we should be doing every day.
[00:15:10] Speaker A: And I will say this.
[00:15:12] Speaker C: If you're not growing, you're dying.
Come on, now.
[00:15:18] Speaker A: So if, as a man, I am not growing or becoming better every day, I literally am dying. If you look at your plant and your plant is not growing and you're not watering it and you're not giving it sunshine, you're not giving it the necessary nutrients for it to flourish and.
[00:15:34] Speaker C: Grow, it's going to die.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: So look at yourself as a plant, right? If you're not giving yourself the necessary.
[00:15:40] Speaker C: Nutrients to grow, you're dying.
[00:15:43] Speaker A: And so basically, growth is just a.
[00:15:45] Speaker C: Continuous development and advancement of an individual.
[00:15:48] Speaker A: In whatever space they're looking to, whether it be you're in sports, whether it be academia, whether it be spiritually, whether it be financially, like wherever you're at in your life, you should be steady.
[00:16:02] Speaker C: Growing and evolving, right? All of your relationships should become better.
[00:16:08] Speaker A: Everything that you touch should become better. If you're growing, right? Not saying you're going to have hiccups, not saying you're going to have issues, but what you do to feed yourself.
[00:16:17] Speaker C: Determines what type of growth you get. So if you aren't careful with the mouth gate, the ear gate, the mind gate, the eye gate, basically what you're watching, what you're reading, what you're listening to, and what you're allowing to come out your mouth, that literally can determine what type of growth you're going to have.
[00:16:40] Speaker A: So if you are listening to this.
[00:16:42] Speaker C: Podcast and you're listening to us talk.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: Let that resonate with you, that growth.
[00:16:50] Speaker C: Is necessary in order for you to.
[00:16:53] Speaker A: Become who you want to become, in order for you to get where you want to get.
[00:16:57] Speaker C: But it all first starts with the shift in your mindset, right? So the things that you're talking about.
[00:17:07] Speaker A: I don't want to say this in a negative way, right? Because we've all been there, done. Well, I've been there, done that. Maybe you haven't.
[00:17:13] Speaker C: I've been there and done some of those things that you talked about at that age. Very guilty of it.
[00:17:19] Speaker A: Let's clear the air with that first and be transparent.
I'm not Jesus. I'm more like Paul or more like.
[00:17:26] Speaker D: Noah or more like first before I turn into Paul.
[00:17:32] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
[00:17:32] Speaker A: I mean, Saul.
[00:17:33] Speaker C: Yeah, excuse me, Saul. So let me clear the air with that first, right?
[00:17:38] Speaker A: But what you're doing and what you're.
[00:17:40] Speaker C: Growing, what you want to become, is.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: Predicated on what you do, what you read, and what you think about yourself. So you often hear me talk about.
[00:17:51] Speaker C: Master your mindset, change your life.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: So to begin with, you got to.
[00:17:58] Speaker C: Understand the value, how valuable you are, the value that God placed on you, right? Think about this. The value that God placed on you was the death of his one and only son. And he went through hell, crucifixion, in order to redeem you. So if something that's being redeemed mean.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: A price was paid to buy it.
[00:18:25] Speaker C: Back, so he redeemed you, right.
[00:18:27] Speaker A: So that same level of value that.
[00:18:29] Speaker C: God placed on you when he sent.
[00:18:31] Speaker A: His son to die for your sins and to give you an opportunity to.
[00:18:35] Speaker C: The tree of life and to live a life exceedingly, abundantly, more than you can ask, think or imagine, you need.
[00:18:42] Speaker A: To place that same level of value on yourself. So it all starts with how you think about yourself.
[00:18:47] Speaker C: And then once you master that, what.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: Are you doing on a daily basis?
[00:18:51] Speaker C: Dude, I was telling my wife today, you see these books?
[00:18:58] Speaker A: This is like a year of me writing. So I carry these books with me.
[00:19:02] Speaker C: Every day, everywhere I go.
[00:19:04] Speaker A: And I write stuff in them as.
[00:19:06] Speaker C: It comes to me.
[00:19:07] Speaker A: It could be a speech idea, it.
[00:19:09] Speaker C: Could be whatever, right? I literally got probably a year of content in there. Right there, right?
[00:19:16] Speaker A: But that's me feeding my mind, growing my mind, right? So the stuff that's coming to me as the Holy Spirit is giving it.
[00:19:23] Speaker C: To me as I'm hearing something and I'm researching it, so I'm growing.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: And so I'm growing to the pace that I have so much in me.
[00:19:33] Speaker C: It has to come out me.
[00:19:36] Speaker D: Overflow.
[00:19:37] Speaker A: And so when we're overflow, exactly. We're trying to operate from an overflow.
[00:19:42] Speaker C: But you have to invest in you in the right way.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Ask yourself this, if you're listening to this podcast today, I want you to, if you don't remember anything else, see why I said, walk away from this podcast and ask yourself, are you an asset or are you a liability?
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Come on now.
[00:20:02] Speaker C: To yourself, to your family, to your.
[00:20:07] Speaker A: Business or your job and to the.
[00:20:09] Speaker C: World, are you an asset or are you a liability?
[00:20:15] Speaker B: Man, that right there is a huge thing, right? And I tell people all the time, why do you not live with a sense of urgency? You live life as if you're promised tomorrow. And I was at church and I was telling our youth, I said, man, just because you all 13, 1415 years old, you guys aren't promised to see Coach Kevon's age, you guys are not promised to see 25, but yet you guys act as if every day is promised to you. Every day is not promised to you.
[00:20:39] Speaker D: And so you said that you was.
[00:20:42] Speaker B: Doing that at the age of 25, right? There's still a lot of people that doing it, but we hope, and we have that hope that they get it right, that they learn from their mistakes.
[00:20:51] Speaker D: Right.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: And I truly believe that in life, I'm not going to act like I'm perfect. There's some things that I failed miserably at. You think I thought about being a speaker?
[00:20:59] Speaker D: No.
[00:20:59] Speaker B: My first thing was, okay, I'm going to be a psychologist. That didn't work. Then my next thing was I was going to be a physical therapist or a chiropractor. I'm going to work in a college. Speaking was not on my radar at a certain point. So I failed at so many things in order to get to the thing that God has destined for me. So sometimes you have to go down that road of failure. And when people get to that road of failure, they quit. They stop. They don't keep going. But that's when you need to actually keep going. Because what that failure does is build that callous in you. So the next time something hard happens.
[00:21:28] Speaker D: You can break through it. It don't break you. And you become redesigned.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: Come on, David Goggins, you got to what David Goggins say, callous.
[00:21:35] Speaker C: Your something.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: He'd be saying some wild stuff.
[00:21:39] Speaker A: I'd be on point though, right?
[00:21:43] Speaker C: But what you're saying is really true.
That's dope, man. That's true, man.
[00:21:49] Speaker A: If you think about it, really, there is no failure.
[00:21:53] Speaker C: It's just a lesson.
But you won't get those lessons if you don't try.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: Here's what I know a lot of.
[00:22:04] Speaker C: People are struggling with, because at one.
[00:22:06] Speaker A: Point I probably struggle.
[00:22:07] Speaker C: I struggle with it myself.
The reason you don't grow is because.
[00:22:13] Speaker A: You don't believe the possibilities that God.
[00:22:15] Speaker C: Has placed inside you because of what you went through in your formative years. But what we have to understand, God.
[00:22:24] Speaker A: Put something so great in us.
[00:22:26] Speaker C: Those issues were sent by assignment to.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: Stop us from getting to where we need to get. Here's the thing I want to tell.
[00:22:35] Speaker C: Everybody that's listening to this podcast.
You actually have demons assigned to stop.
[00:22:41] Speaker A: You from being who you're supposed to be.
And you don't realize it. And you're giving in to the enemy.
[00:22:49] Speaker C: The enemy life's happenings and it's stopping.
[00:22:53] Speaker A: You from becoming who God intended you to be. Because who he intended you to be.
[00:22:57] Speaker C: Is already in you.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: You literally have a group of spiritual. The Bible said the weapons of our warfare are carnal.
[00:23:11] Speaker C: Think about that scripture.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: Weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through God to.
[00:23:16] Speaker C: The pulling down of strongholds.
So there is warfare going on against.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: You in your life. And you're wondering why all this stuff has been happening to you. But like you said, you stop before you get to the breakthrough.
[00:23:32] Speaker C: You stop right?
[00:23:33] Speaker A: Before you get to the right, before.
[00:23:35] Speaker C: You get to the door, you stop.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Because you're not investing in you. You're not doing the work to invest in self. And so God is not able to release what he has for you because you won't do the work, I won't do the work.
[00:23:51] Speaker C: We won't do the work.
Do the work to grow spiritually and personally.
[00:23:59] Speaker A: So, we've talked about a spiritual growth mindset. What about the personal growth mindset? Like, what are some of the things that you do for a panoramic view.
[00:24:10] Speaker C: Of Kevin to grow?
[00:24:13] Speaker D: Yeah, definitely.
I have a routine, so I start.
[00:24:18] Speaker B: My day by getting up at a certain time, right? And honestly, if I don't get up by this time, I'm like, man.
[00:24:25] Speaker C: That.
[00:24:25] Speaker B: Inner me starts to say, oh, yeah, you didn't get up at this time. You already failed today. But that's okay. So you need to work on having a routine. And my routine is getting up every single morning and going to exercise. That's my routine. I got to do that. No matter how my day looks, if I got to be at the airport by 06:00 a.m. You better best believe I'm waking up at two or three and I'm getting some sort of exercise.
[00:24:46] Speaker D: In, because that is what keeps me.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: Grounded, and that's what keeps me disciplined, right? And I tell people all the time, where did you get this discipline from? How did you become so disciplined? How did you start to reach your goals and stuff like that? My discipline literally came from me losing.
[00:25:02] Speaker D: Weight, which is the physical form, right?
[00:25:05] Speaker B: Thinking my whole entire life, okay? I was 300 pounds in high school. There is no way in heaven or earth I could lose this weight. That's what I used to believe, and.
[00:25:15] Speaker D: That'S what happened, because I believed it.
[00:25:18] Speaker B: But once I switched my mindset and said, you know what?
[00:25:21] Speaker D: Let's just start with ten pounds. Got down to 290.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Let's go for another ten. 280. Oh, now I'm feeling myself. I'm like, okay, I think we could actually do this. And before I even knew it, in a whole year, I lost 141 pounds. So I got down to 159, right? But it was that daily routine of.
[00:25:38] Speaker D: Me getting up, me exercise.
[00:25:40] Speaker B: And this is before I was in my word. This is Kevon, 1920 years old. This is before I had that spiritual growth. This was just me locking into that discipline, me listening to certain things. I stopped listening to rap.
[00:25:51] Speaker D: Why?
[00:25:52] Speaker B: Because rap doesn't feed me anything. All rap is going to feed me is drugs, money, sex.
[00:25:56] Speaker D: That's all it's going to feed me.
[00:25:57] Speaker B: So I listen to podcasts, I listen to books, I listen to sermons, I listen to things like that, because that's going to feed my soul. And once you feed your soul, then.
[00:26:07] Speaker D: You could get to the physical form.
[00:26:09] Speaker B: Because once your soul is good, now.
[00:26:11] Speaker D: Your physical form will be good.
[00:26:13] Speaker C: Yeah, that's dope, man.
[00:26:15] Speaker A: And, you know, it's funny you say that one thing. I want to give you kudos because.
[00:26:19] Speaker C: You lost one pound 149 times.
[00:26:22] Speaker A: That's amazing. So, first of all, kudos to you for that, right?
[00:26:27] Speaker C: Taking control of your health. But the other thing, man, is it's interesting.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: There are so many similarities between us. It's crazy, right?
[00:26:37] Speaker C: So this is like the alignment that God placed.
[00:26:41] Speaker A: And somebody told me before we went to the next level conference that God.
[00:26:46] Speaker C: Was going to align and anoint the people I was going to be aligned with. And right on par, I met you, right?
[00:26:55] Speaker A: And so the funny thing about it is, that's where when I really started to change myself is when I looked at myself in America from a physical.
[00:27:04] Speaker C: Perspective, and I did not like what I saw.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: Borderline cholesterol. I looked at a picture and I'm.
[00:27:12] Speaker C: Like, bro, you like Larry Holmes? Like Tupac, say Larry Holmes, all flabby and sick. I was flabby and sick, bro.
[00:27:20] Speaker A: And so I started that physical fitness journey as well.
[00:27:24] Speaker C: And that journey catapulted everything else in my life.
[00:27:29] Speaker A: And so that's why I'm always talking about, like, the 80 20, 80% nutrition.
[00:27:35] Speaker C: 20 20% fitness, 20% of your inputs.
[00:27:40] Speaker A: Are going to give you 80% of.
[00:27:41] Speaker C: Your outputs in life.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: But just starting with physical fitness.
[00:27:45] Speaker C: So if you can master and discipline yourself to eat right, to get up.
[00:27:51] Speaker A: And exercise when you don't feel like it, like everybody's motivated right now because.
[00:27:55] Speaker C: It'S the beginning of the year. But let's go to the gym in about two weeks, and the gym is.
[00:27:59] Speaker A: Going to be back like it used.
[00:28:00] Speaker C: To be in November, December.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: And I'm not knocking nobody, but that's.
[00:28:05] Speaker C: Just a fact of life, right?
[00:28:07] Speaker A: People are not sick and tired of being sick and tired. So what we have to learn is.
[00:28:11] Speaker C: We have to make our why stronger than our excuses.
[00:28:16] Speaker A: And so at that point, my why was stronger than my excuses.
[00:28:18] Speaker C: I did not want to be on pills the rest of my life because.
[00:28:25] Speaker A: That'S what the doctor said when you come back next time.
[00:28:27] Speaker C: If your cholesterol is high, we're going to prescribe you some cholesterol pills.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: That's the last thing I wanted to.
[00:28:33] Speaker C: Do, and we're not even going to.
[00:28:34] Speaker A: Get on that because if they're supposed.
[00:28:36] Speaker C: To cure you, why are you continually getting prescribed a prescription like it's a money grab?
[00:28:42] Speaker A: But I digress.
[00:28:43] Speaker C: I digress.
[00:28:44] Speaker A: What I just wanted to just talk.
[00:28:46] Speaker C: About is just how a physical, just.
[00:28:50] Speaker A: Looking at yourself in the mirror and being sick and tired of how you.
[00:28:53] Speaker C: Look can catapult a journey. And once you master the art of fitness, how it transcends and bleeds over.
[00:29:03] Speaker A: To every other area of your life. So now you can discipline yourself in your business, now you can discipline yourself with your finances, now you can discipline.
[00:29:12] Speaker C: Yourself more with your spiritual life because.
[00:29:15] Speaker A: You'Ve taken that one step and you've.
[00:29:17] Speaker C: Seen results from being consistent.
[00:29:21] Speaker A: And so now you begin to look.
[00:29:22] Speaker C: At yourself like, what else can I conquer? What else can I do? How else can I become better?
[00:29:29] Speaker A: Because I feel like a million bucks. Like Denzel, King Kong ain't got nothing on me.
[00:29:35] Speaker C: That's how you feel, right?
[00:29:38] Speaker A: That was just amazing, man, to hear that, you know the story because that just reminded me of what got me started too.
[00:29:45] Speaker C: So I was probably about 220 now.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: Between like 191 95. I haven't got my body fat down to where I wanted to. I want to get up under like 15%.
[00:29:55] Speaker C: I'm all right, like 1617, but that's okay.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: I haven't been too disciplined.
[00:30:00] Speaker C: There's this place called crumble cookie. Don't tell nobody. I'll be going there.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: Actually, you can be a sponsor for.
[00:30:09] Speaker C: The podcast if you want to too crumble. But that's, anyway.
[00:30:17] Speaker B: Something that I just want to say this real quick before we go to the next subject, is.
[00:30:21] Speaker D: That a man's greatest task is conquering himself. Once you could conquer yourself, right?
[00:30:30] Speaker B: Once you conquer your physical desires, like your sexual desire, whatever that thing is, once you conquer that, everything else will seem easy, right? And so you conquering the bad Eden and stuff like that, because, look, I went to the doctor at night, I'm still in high school. I was 19. I didn't graduate high school until a few months after I turned 19, but I was 19. I went to the doctors. He said, kevin, you got high cholesterol.
[00:30:53] Speaker D: High blood pressure, and you pre diabetic.
[00:30:56] Speaker B: He said, if you continue doing what you're going to do, you will not live a long, healthy life. And when he said that, even though he didn't put a number to it.
[00:31:03] Speaker D: I did not see past 29. I could not see past when he said that. As soon as he said that, that's when, boom, the 141 pounds journey started right there, man.
[00:31:14] Speaker A: That's amazing, brother.
[00:31:15] Speaker C: And I look at you, riding bikes 100 miles. Come on.
[00:31:20] Speaker B: Running, doing triathlon.
[00:31:21] Speaker C: You're like a triathlete.
[00:31:23] Speaker D: Oh, yeah.
[00:31:25] Speaker A: Man, that's dope.
[00:31:26] Speaker C: But again, this is just a precursor for everybody listening.
[00:31:32] Speaker A: When you set the foundation of accountability.
[00:31:37] Speaker C: Growth and discipline, that's an explosion that you cannot contain. But you have to be consistent in whatever you're doing.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: You have to be consistent.
[00:31:52] Speaker C: I'm going to repeat that again.
[00:31:55] Speaker A: Put a strategy in place to execute the game plan.
[00:31:59] Speaker C: Like they say, run the play. You know, the play that needs to be run.
You just ain't running it right.
No, that's run the play the right way. Start with spiritual, physical, mental.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: If it could be spiritual, mental, physical.
[00:32:21] Speaker C: Whatever things you do, right.
[00:32:24] Speaker A: And here, even in 24, bro, I.
[00:32:26] Speaker C: Said to myself, as good as I'm doing and as much as I have advanced over the past eight months, I.
[00:32:36] Speaker A: Said I'd still need to put my foot on my neck and step it up and probably get a coach for certain things.
[00:32:42] Speaker C: So there's levels to personal growth, to spiritual growth.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: There needs to be some accountability, not.
[00:32:48] Speaker C: Just to yourself, but you got to.
[00:32:50] Speaker A: Have somebody else that can hold you. Accountability, like you say, I call it like.
[00:32:56] Speaker C: A board of directors.
[00:32:58] Speaker A: You got to have a board of.
[00:32:59] Speaker C: Directors that you can run the plays.
[00:33:01] Speaker A: By, and they can you wrong you.
[00:33:03] Speaker C: Right now, you might not want to do that, right?
[00:33:05] Speaker A: You got to have those type of friends that are going to hold you accountable. Tell you what you don't want to.
[00:33:12] Speaker C: Hear when you need to hear it.
[00:33:17] Speaker D: Cowboys.
[00:33:20] Speaker B: I was holding that one in.
[00:33:22] Speaker A: I know you've been waiting to drop it, but it's okay, man. It's okay. It's all good, right?
[00:33:28] Speaker C: What I want to ask you, right, is for that person that's listening to this podcast and said, kevon, that's dope. You've done all those things, but I'm not you.
What would you say to that person to help them take that first step.
[00:33:50] Speaker A: And to change their life and to.
[00:33:52] Speaker C: Walk them off the ledge of giving up?
[00:33:58] Speaker D: I'm glad you're not me.
[00:33:59] Speaker B: God did not design you to be me. He didn't design you to be anybody else. Right? So your challenges, whether it's depression, anxiety, I don't know what your challenges, your trauma might be.
[00:34:08] Speaker D: Whatever that thing is, move forward and.
[00:34:12] Speaker B: Try to conquer that. Try to get over that hump. Like you said, get a board of directors, people in each certain category that could help you in that way, right? And so you don't have to be like anybody else. You wasn't designed to be. You was designed to be yourself, your best self. Not just yourself, your best self. Because there's two different ones. You could be your absolute best, or you could fall to damnation. So that's when you have to make.
[00:34:37] Speaker D: Up this decision to say, look, I don't want this life for me. I'm tired of feeling this way.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: I'm tired of being this way. I'm tired of whatever it is. It might be laziness. I'm tired of being selfish. I'm tired of being big. I'm tired of being unhealthy. I'm tired of being unlovable. Whatever that thing might be in your life.
[00:34:55] Speaker D: Figure out whatever that is and work.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: On yourself to fix it. We talked about things here, right?
[00:35:01] Speaker C: Physical.
[00:35:02] Speaker B: Once you change your physical mindset, oh, my goodness, it goes into everything. Your spiritual discipline, that's another thing. Your mental health is another one super huge, right? And all these things correlate, and they.
[00:35:14] Speaker D: Work beautifully and in harmony when they work together.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: And so again, I don't want you.
[00:35:21] Speaker D: To be me because you got something greater inside.
[00:35:23] Speaker B: There's something that you could do that.
[00:35:24] Speaker D: I can never do.
[00:35:25] Speaker B: There's something that do, that Carlton can't even dream of, right?
[00:35:28] Speaker D: Like, there's some people who I work with.
[00:35:31] Speaker B: I'm like, I don't understand how you could do it this fast, this efficiency. Because, boy, when I try to do that, it takes me all day. I'm just wasting time.
[00:35:40] Speaker D: I'm just going to speak.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: I'm just good at speaking. I'm not going to do nothing else. I'm going to just speak. I'm going to let you handle everything else.
[00:35:46] Speaker D: So you have a gift. God gave you a perfect gift for you that nobody else could do it like you. But it's up to you if you're.
[00:35:56] Speaker B: Going to change your mindset and change.
[00:35:57] Speaker D: Everything about you in order to go get that.
[00:36:01] Speaker C: Yeah, that's good stuff right there, man.
It's making me think.
[00:36:08] Speaker A: Right? And that's hopefully what the listening audience.
[00:36:11] Speaker C: Is doing is they're thinking. And we're giving you some tools and some nuggets.
[00:36:20] Speaker A: For you to run back, like write stuff down. You might want to start carrying a.
[00:36:24] Speaker C: Pen and paper when you listen to the podcast.
[00:36:27] Speaker A: And you're probably going to have to listen to it a couple more times.
[00:36:30] Speaker C: To get everything up out of it that we dropped in there, right?
[00:36:36] Speaker A: Kevin said a mouthful. Wise young man beyond his years.
[00:36:41] Speaker C: But the main thing is you're not him.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: You're not me. You're you.
[00:36:45] Speaker C: And that's your superpower. And here's the thing about it.
You got to understand that the devil is a known liar.
This is a fact.
[00:36:59] Speaker A: So if he's telling you that you.
[00:37:01] Speaker C: Can'T do something, understand that he's lying to you because he knows you can.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: So that thing that he's telling you that you cannot do, that thing that.
[00:37:10] Speaker C: He'S telling you, you cannot become, that.
[00:37:13] Speaker A: Thing that he's telling you that you're.
[00:37:14] Speaker C: Not worthy of, you're more than worthy of.
[00:37:18] Speaker A: He already knows.
[00:37:18] Speaker C: You have to understand that the devil was in heaven before he got kicked out.
[00:37:25] Speaker B: Come on.
[00:37:27] Speaker A: He knows everything about God, right? He knows the word just like he.
[00:37:31] Speaker C: Knows the word better than you.
[00:37:34] Speaker A: And me. So that's why it behooves us to stay on our post, to stay on our pivot, to keep our mind stayed on God, right? So if you looked at when he.
[00:37:43] Speaker C: Went to tempt Jesus, Jesus put the word back on him at every point in the story.
So when you're feeling like you can't.
[00:37:53] Speaker A: Grow, you feeling like you can't do nothing, man, I'm going to tell you this. Go read proverbs.
[00:37:57] Speaker C: The book of proverbs. Proverbs will get you started down the right path.
If you don't do anything but walk for ten minutes, five minutes, next day, ten minutes.
[00:38:13] Speaker A: Or you start with five minutes, the.
[00:38:15] Speaker C: Next day you go six minutes, and.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: The day after that, you go seven minutes.
[00:38:18] Speaker C: Start whatever you can do, start and be intentional about doing it and don't stop.
And before you know it, those small gains turn into massive explosions.
It's like you putting a stick of dynamite by the bridge every day.
And if you come back and you.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: Go back and you do it again, and you go back and do it again, you got a whole enough dynamite.
[00:38:50] Speaker C: To blow up the state of Texas, literally.
[00:38:53] Speaker A: And we're not talking about that, so don't go do that, right?
[00:38:56] Speaker C: But we're just talking metaphorically about putting in the work because consistency compounds.
The interest on consistency is so exponential.
[00:39:09] Speaker A: It's like you showing God that I.
[00:39:12] Speaker C: Am believing who I am, what you.
[00:39:15] Speaker A: Placed in me, and I'm going to.
[00:39:16] Speaker C: Be consistent about doing it. And now God is going to honor what you're doing and he's going to blow that thing up.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: Be consistent with what you're doing.
[00:39:29] Speaker C: Right? What? Say that again, brother.
[00:39:31] Speaker B: No, back on the devil. I just want to piggyback on that.
[00:39:36] Speaker D: Right.
[00:39:36] Speaker B: The Bible says that the devil was beautiful. Right? He was tempting, he was charming, he was all that. And you got to realize that everything in your life that seems good, it.
[00:39:45] Speaker C: Could be the enemy.
[00:39:46] Speaker D: Just because it seems good. Because it feels good.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: Because it looked good, it tastes good, it sounds good. That does not mean it is good.
The people listening on here really have to understand that. Right?
[00:39:56] Speaker D: And so how I said earlier, partying is fun, right?
[00:40:00] Speaker B: Having sex with multiple people, it could be fun eating out all the time.
Just getting your body could be fun at the moment, but you will pay for it and you have to understand that and how we've been talking about the whole thing, right? Be consistent in who you want to be because a lot of people, they live in the now, but they're not living in the future. And so like how you said easy.
[00:40:22] Speaker D: Gains could turn into an explosion, right?
[00:40:25] Speaker B: And that's the same thing for doing something bad. You do something bad one day and then you consistently do it consistently. Like you said, it compounds. You consistently do that.
[00:40:34] Speaker C: Boom.
[00:40:35] Speaker B: And it's going to be an explosion on the other side.
[00:40:36] Speaker D: You don't want to be on that other side.
[00:40:38] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:40:39] Speaker A: And you said something that I want.
[00:40:41] Speaker C: To reiterate.
[00:40:46] Speaker A: If you read the description of the devil, he's arrayed with beauty in stones and everything.
[00:40:53] Speaker C: Like this dude is like a twelve.
[00:40:57] Speaker A: Out of a ten, probably 18 out.
[00:40:59] Speaker C: Of a ten, right?
[00:41:00] Speaker A: I'm just being real. If you read the word and you.
[00:41:03] Speaker C: Get the description, that's what it says.
[00:41:06] Speaker A: And so what you said really resonated with me is like you said, just because it looks good and it's easy.
[00:41:11] Speaker C: To you, that's probably not what you're supposed to do.
[00:41:14] Speaker A: Anything that God gives you is going to come with a little bit of.
[00:41:18] Speaker C: Elbow grease, a little bit of hard.
[00:41:20] Speaker A: Work, and it's going to make you.
[00:41:21] Speaker C: Uncomfortable because you're going to have to appreciate what you get, right.
[00:41:27] Speaker A: And so I think that's how the devil gets us.
[00:41:29] Speaker C: Get the quick results or do I.
[00:41:32] Speaker A: Get the results that go over time?
[00:41:34] Speaker C: It's like taking steroids versus working out and doing it natural.
[00:41:40] Speaker A: I'm not knocking anybody who's doing steroids.
[00:41:42] Speaker C: You do what you do. That's not my place.
[00:41:44] Speaker A: So I'm not taking no shot at nobody. Right.
[00:41:47] Speaker C: I'm just giving the analogy of like, that's a quicker path to get where you want to go, but there's also.
[00:41:54] Speaker A: Consequences and repercussions around that path if.
[00:41:57] Speaker C: You don't do it the right way.
[00:41:59] Speaker A: So sometimes things may take a little bit longer.
[00:42:02] Speaker C: Personal growth, discipline, consistency is going to.
[00:42:08] Speaker A: Take you longer, but it's going to pay off.
[00:42:10] Speaker C: The dividends are going to pay off.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: So much more on the back end and you can walk around without having.
[00:42:15] Speaker C: To keep your head on the swivel.
[00:42:17] Speaker A: You better understand this.
[00:42:19] Speaker C: Like, if you take the devil's prizes, the rent is going to be due pretty quickly.
[00:42:28] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? He's going to call in the note.
[00:42:30] Speaker C: Quicker than God will.
[00:42:32] Speaker A: Like, God's trying to give you eternity.
[00:42:34] Speaker C: The enemy only wants to give you a right now.
[00:42:38] Speaker A: So you got to understand and have the discipline and the mindset do the work right.
[00:42:43] Speaker C: Read something.
[00:42:45] Speaker A: If you don't like to read.
[00:42:46] Speaker C: There's this thing called Audible.
[00:42:49] Speaker D: You can listen to a book, you.
[00:42:52] Speaker C: Don'T have to read it, but 30 minutes a day, listen to a book.
[00:42:57] Speaker A: Listen to YouTube, university, something positive.
[00:43:02] Speaker C: Start your day off with positivity.
Pray, read your word.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: Listen to something.
[00:43:08] Speaker C: Do not get up scrolling.
[00:43:11] Speaker A: All you've done is you've opened up the garbage can of your mind and they're taking the phone and they're just.
[00:43:17] Speaker C: Dumping it in there.
[00:43:19] Speaker A: So now your mind is clouded with stinking thinking.
[00:43:24] Speaker C: And then you're wondering why your day is cloudy.
[00:43:29] Speaker A: It's because you are not feeding yourself the proper nutrients. So, man, I think we've given these people more than enough for tonight.
[00:43:39] Speaker C: I think we've given them some good clips to.
[00:43:46] Speaker A: Sit back on, go back.
[00:43:47] Speaker C: Marinate on, write down the information and do the research and charge yourself to get better.
[00:43:57] Speaker A: Our goal for you in this podcast.
[00:44:00] Speaker C: And for you to hear us talk.
[00:44:02] Speaker A: Is for you to become the best version of yourself, for you to transform.
[00:44:06] Speaker C: Your life and to become a disciple of Christ. That's the ultimate goal.
So with that said, give them the nugget of the day, the word of the day. Give them that fire, Mr. Empower man.
[00:44:26] Speaker D: Look, just as it is when I'm.
[00:44:29] Speaker B: In business, if I work with a district, if I work with a conference, if I work with a school, whatever it is, right?
[00:44:34] Speaker D: We always have a contract and we always have to sign that contract.
[00:44:38] Speaker B: So some of you guys need to.
[00:44:39] Speaker D: Start signing the contract for yourselves, like just you. And you.
[00:44:43] Speaker B: Hold yourself accountable. That's how you can hold yourself accountable.
[00:44:46] Speaker D: So if I was you, if you.
[00:44:47] Speaker B: Don'T know where to start, if you don't know what kind of goals to have.
[00:44:50] Speaker D: Set a three year contract, maybe a.
[00:44:53] Speaker B: Five year contract, a ten year contract, however long you want it to be, and set goals. Put all them goals in that contract. Like if you don't exceed this and if you don't make it to this goal, then this is what's going to happen, right? You're not going to get paid for it. You know how a contract works, but do that for yourself. Hold yourself accountable. Write your goals down. The Bible in Habakkuk, two, two. It says, write the vision down and make it plain on tablets. Write it down. If you write it down, you already.
[00:45:18] Speaker D: 60% time more of accomplishing that because.
[00:45:22] Speaker B: You put it out there and God will bless you for that. So write your goals down. Have a contract with yourself, by yourself.
As a matter of fact, give it to somebody so they could hold you accountable. Give it to somebody who's serious about, who want to see you succeed, not just somebody who's going to keep that contract and never think about it again. And so that's where real growth can happen. But at the end of day, man.
[00:45:41] Speaker D: It starts with you.
[00:45:44] Speaker B: It's a conscious mind shift. Are you going to change? Do you want to be better? Do you want to live a life that's not fruitful, life that you don't want to live? And then you look up, you 60, 70, 80 years old, you ain't got nothing to show for you miserable? Or do you want to look back when you 60, 70, 80 years old and say, man, I did some good in the world.
[00:46:01] Speaker D: I believe that I pursued the passion.
[00:46:04] Speaker B: That God had for me and I lived out my purpose.
[00:46:07] Speaker D: But it all starts with you.
[00:46:09] Speaker C: Amen. Amen.
[00:46:10] Speaker A: As always, a good word.
[00:46:12] Speaker C: So for me, I'm going to leave this with you today.
You must see value in yourself to.
[00:46:22] Speaker A: Add value to yourself.
[00:46:25] Speaker C: I'm going to say that again, you must see value in you to add value in you.
[00:46:32] Speaker A: If you don't view yourself as valuable.
[00:46:34] Speaker C: Or worthy, you're not going to think.
[00:46:36] Speaker A: You'Re worthy enough to add value to yourself. You're not going to think you're valuable enough to invest in yourself.
[00:46:44] Speaker C: But see yourself how God sees you.
[00:46:47] Speaker A: Fearfully and wonderfully made. That is an affirmation within itself.
That's one thing we need to do one day, is go through all like maybe have a show on godly affirmations, right?
That is the main one. God says that you are fearfully and wonderfully made. So when you're looking at what's going on around you, you're looking at how.
[00:47:10] Speaker C: Your life has turned out.
[00:47:12] Speaker A: It's all a smokescreen to keep you.
[00:47:15] Speaker C: From getting where you're supposed to be.
Come on now. Put your gas mask on so you can see clearly and you can become the best version of yourself. Discipline yourself.
[00:47:35] Speaker A: That is a game changer within itself. If you hold yourself accountable, you come up with a growth plan, like a.
[00:47:41] Speaker C: 30, 60, 90 day plan.
[00:47:44] Speaker A: In 30 days, I want to do x. In 60 days, I want to do y.
[00:47:48] Speaker C: 90 days I want to do z.
[00:47:49] Speaker A: And you visit that thing every day.
[00:47:51] Speaker C: Like Kevin said, write it down.
[00:47:53] Speaker A: Discipline is the exception.
[00:47:55] Speaker C: It's not the rule.
You discipline yourself.
[00:47:59] Speaker A: You're putting yourself in the top 3%.
[00:48:01] Speaker C: Of the world because most people fly by the seat of their pants.
[00:48:05] Speaker A: And I did that for so many.
[00:48:07] Speaker C: Years, flying by the seat of my.
[00:48:10] Speaker A: Pants, wondering why I wasn't getting where.
[00:48:12] Speaker C: I wanted to go.
But once I decided to hold myself accountable and I put my foot on my own neck and I disciplined myself, I've made more ground up.
[00:48:28] Speaker A: I've had more results in a year.
[00:48:31] Speaker C: Than I can had in the last ten years. Come on now. So it doesn't take you a long time.
[00:48:39] Speaker A: Once you show God that you are.
[00:48:40] Speaker C: Serious about his business, you are his business. Take care of his business, the things that he wants you to do.
[00:48:49] Speaker A: Don't treat God like you treat everything.
[00:48:51] Speaker C: Else and expect God to show up when you need him.
You make God a priority, he's going.
[00:48:58] Speaker A: To make you a priority. And you'll get everything that he needs.
[00:49:00] Speaker C: To you, he has designed for you.
[00:49:04] Speaker A: So, man, as we say, man, we're talking.
[00:49:07] Speaker C: Go ahead, brother. Watch this.
[00:49:10] Speaker D: I'm going to do this.
[00:49:11] Speaker B: You know how I know that everybody.
[00:49:13] Speaker D: Is important and special?
[00:49:15] Speaker C: How's that?
[00:49:17] Speaker D: God blew his breath into you.
[00:49:19] Speaker B: If you don't believe me, go read Genesis.
[00:49:21] Speaker D: It says it there.
[00:49:22] Speaker B: I didn't make this up. I'm not the translator. That's what the Bible says.
[00:49:25] Speaker D: That's how I know that you are special.
[00:49:27] Speaker B: And he made you in his image.
[00:49:28] Speaker D: Because he blew his into man.
[00:49:32] Speaker C: That's what he said.
[00:49:33] Speaker A: He said, you are made in his.
[00:49:34] Speaker C: Image and likeness, and you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
So, like my brother said, you got God's breath flowing through your body.
You are made in his image and likeness.
[00:49:51] Speaker A: The show that the enemy is trying to show you, the movie he's trying.
[00:49:55] Speaker C: To have you rewatch.
You need to go to another theater, get a new ticket, and watch what God has put on the screen for you. But you can only do that by changing what you put in your projector.
[00:50:12] Speaker A: This is the projector. These are the lens.
[00:50:14] Speaker C: Your mind is the projector. Your eyes are the lens. You're seeing what you've been feeding the projector.
Change the show you're watching.
Change your life. I never even heard that one.
[00:50:31] Speaker A: Hey, man, this is the elevated mindset podcast. We're going to try to come with.
[00:50:36] Speaker C: What we come with, right?
[00:50:38] Speaker A: We have a structure, but we want God to lead and guide this thing. And we want God to get his.
[00:50:44] Speaker C: Glory out of this podcast, and we.
[00:50:46] Speaker A: Want God to change lives. So we're going to do something a little different today, brother. I'm going to ask you to close.
[00:50:51] Speaker C: It out with a prayer today.
[00:50:54] Speaker D: Oh, come on now. All right, let's bow our heads.
[00:50:57] Speaker B: Thank you, heavenly Father, for just allowing people to find this podcast and just knowing that this podcast is of you, Lord. If it's not of you, Lord. And I ask that you take it away from us because we want to do everything that is of you, Lord. And we understand that. And so we just ask that the people who listen on this podcast understands that they are fearfully and wonderfully made, that you made no mistake with them, no matter what other people have told them, Lord, just help them to get in your word and they will understand how wonderful they are, how beautiful they are, how much care you put into them, Lord. And so they can understand that they.
[00:51:33] Speaker D: Have a purpose that you personally designed.
[00:51:36] Speaker B: For them out here. All they have to do is just be on alignment with you, Lord, and then they could do it. So we just thank you for everything. We thank you for being a good father. We thank you for Carlton on this podcast giving his wisdom, Lord, and everything that he been through, Lord, he been through a lot, Lord. And so for him to give back is a huge thing. And I just thank you that you.
[00:51:53] Speaker D: Led me in the right direction.
[00:51:55] Speaker B: And I just ask anybody who else reads this, I mean, who listens to this, Lord understands the direction that they need to go to. And so we thank you in Jesus name I pray.
[00:52:03] Speaker C: Amen. Amen.
[00:52:04] Speaker A: So Kevin, tell them how they can.
[00:52:06] Speaker C: Find you if they want to book.
[00:52:09] Speaker A: You or they want know follow you or want to get more of your amazing content because I've been seeing the YouTube post bra straight fire.
[00:52:18] Speaker B: Hey, come on now. I'll be seeing you post up every day. And I love it, man.
[00:52:23] Speaker D: Consistency.
[00:52:26] Speaker B: Like you said, just a little nuggets going to explode. But definitely so everything, whether it's Instagram.
[00:52:33] Speaker D: It'S YouTube, those are the main two.
[00:52:34] Speaker B: I use in all my other social media. So Facebook, Twitter and all that. Everything is Kevon empowers. So, like empowering somebody, so kevonempowers. And then my website is just Kevon Lee.
[00:52:47] Speaker D: But if you type in Kevon empowers, you'll find it.
[00:52:50] Speaker A: So y'all make sure y'all go follow my guy on Instagram. Go follow his young.
[00:52:57] Speaker C: This is a young Kevin empowers.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: I'm not going to say he the next.
He's the next.
[00:53:02] Speaker C: The first Kevin empowers.
[00:53:04] Speaker A: The young brother is dope.
[00:53:06] Speaker C: He'd be dropping that fire.
[00:53:08] Speaker A: Y'all go follow him. Go watch his videos. Subscribe to his YouTube channel.
[00:53:12] Speaker C: And like his videos, don't just observe and don't say hello. Say hello. Comment.
[00:53:20] Speaker D: Just put hello.
[00:53:21] Speaker B: Put some fire emoji, something.
[00:53:22] Speaker D: So I know you out there.
[00:53:24] Speaker A: Yeah, of course. I'm your boy, Cy.
[00:53:27] Speaker C: Mr. 800:20 Mr. 80 20.
[00:53:31] Speaker A: You can follow me on Instagram at.
[00:53:33] Speaker C: I am 80 20 nation.
Again, that is, I am 80 20 nation. You can follow me on YouTube at.
[00:53:43] Speaker A: I am 80 20 nation as well.
[00:53:46] Speaker C: And then you can go to follow me on carltonyung.com. So go, like, go follow, go share.
[00:53:54] Speaker A: Both of our profiles. We want to continue to give you what God has given us because we believe that this is our k rose.
[00:54:01] Speaker C: Time, our appointed time, to give you guys what God has given us, because.
[00:54:08] Speaker A: Somebody'S breakthrough is tied to what me.
[00:54:10] Speaker C: And this man have to say.
And it's selfish of us not to share it with you.
[00:54:15] Speaker A: So tune in for the next episode where we will continue this discussion on accountability.
You might want to tune in because.
[00:54:23] Speaker C: We got some good stuff for you.
[00:54:25] Speaker A: Right?
[00:54:25] Speaker C: We're going to talk about accountability over.
[00:54:30] Speaker A: The next couple of months. We're going to talk about the journey.
[00:54:32] Speaker C: To freedom, the exodus, and then we're.
[00:54:35] Speaker A: Going to talk about winning the inner war.
[00:54:37] Speaker C: So we're going to walk you through.
[00:54:40] Speaker A: How you get yourself set up for.
[00:54:42] Speaker C: The next season of your life. And then once you get to that season, you'll be able to flourish.
[00:54:49] Speaker A: You'll be able to fly at maximum.
[00:54:51] Speaker C: Altitude because you've released all the weight.
[00:54:55] Speaker A: But if you don't release the weight.
[00:54:56] Speaker C: You can't fly as high as you should.
[00:55:00] Speaker A: That's just bad on your knees. It's bad on the wheels.
[00:55:03] Speaker C: On the plane, it's bad everywhere.
[00:55:05] Speaker A: You can't jump as high as you're.
[00:55:07] Speaker C: Supposed to when you're overweight. We're going to get you to release that weight of trauma, that weight of.
[00:55:15] Speaker A: Pain, that weight of frustration, that weight.
[00:55:19] Speaker C: Of undisciplined, all that weight, we're going to get you to release it. So tune in next time to elevated mindset podcast. I'm your guy, Cy. Mr. 80 20. And that's who Kevon Lee.
[00:55:36] Speaker B: Kevon empowers you.
[00:55:37] Speaker D: You guys know where to find me.
[00:55:38] Speaker A: And we're gone.
[00:55:41] Speaker C: Peace out.
