Sometimes you gotta take a break from just about everything, disappear, come back, and shock the world!

I'm talking to the athlete, I'm talking to that administrator, I'm talking to that nurse, that doctor, I'm talking to that student, I'm talking to that communicator, I'm talking to that pioneer, that inventor, I'm talking to that entrepreneur, I'm talking to that preacher, I'm talking to that person,

who refuses to state what they are, I'm talking to that person, that doesn't have a problem laying in obscurity because you know that when you come out of the dark room, all eyes are on you!

We live in a culture of busyness, distraction and noise, and sometimes the only way something's going to change is if we disappear.

Sometimes you gotta delete the app, sometimes you have to walk away, sometimes you have to fall back into the dark room and focus on you.

Everybody wants destiny, everybody wants manifestation, everybody wants fulfillment, everybody wants the next level and the relationship and a higher quality of living, but nobody wants to eliminate distractions, nobody wants to disappear for three months, four months, six months, and get into a place where you can focus on just you!

What if you could just shut out every distraction, what if you could just shut out the world for just a season and focus on you?

A man is rewarded in public for what he does in private!

Can you unplug just a moment and focus on you, focus on what matters?

Why are you here? What is your destiny?

The reason why you don't see it, the reason why it has not manifested, the reason why you are so frustrated is because you have not been willing to forsake all that you've been called to forsake and to follow through behind closed doors.

Sure you can talk about it, sure you can plan it, sure you can write it down, sure you can go to the conference and hear about it, you can read about it, but at some juncture you have to disappear and put the work in, and come back and shock everybody that doubted you!

I'm talking to that man, that woman, that boy, that girl who feels the fire in their belly is talking to you to shock the world!

You may have to sleep in your car, you may have to go without food, you may have to bounce around from couch to couch, you may have to sacrifice like nobody in your family ever has!

But can you do it behind the scenes when nobody's looking, when nobody's watching, when nobody understands the measure, that you carry, can you keep going?

Don't stop, you're right there!

Go through the process in the dark room that prepares us and equips us for the stages of destiny!

It's time to get real, it's time to get raw, it's time to look ourselves in a mirror and come to the resolve that this version of ourselves is not going to carry us in the stretch, that I've been this version of myself long enough that if I don't change, if I don't do something about this, then I'm going to find myself bankrupt!

Some of the most monumental and transformational portraits and pictures that we've ever seen were developed in the dark room.

We celebrate athletes and we celebrate critical thinkers and innovators and actors and we praise them and claim them our heroes and we follow them by the millions!

We love what they do in public but you don't know the story behind the glory, you don't know the blood, the sweat, you can see the tears that they cry, the prayers that they pray, the countless weeks where they went without sleep to get where they are!

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to live and not know why you're living.

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