There are certain things that we just go through in life just taking and
at some point you just gotta draw the line and just say enough is enough
You gotta do that with yourself You just gotta draw...there are certain things
that you just don't permit it If you've got negative people in your life
just once look here I was talking to someone, loved very much
had a just dynamic relationship with him see look here,
I can't grow from that
if you're persistent in saying those kinds of things to me
I'm saying to you right now I won't tolerate that and
I will terminate this because I'm not going to expose myself
to this type of humiliation I don't like that
I don't like getting called names and putting each other down
I don't like that
come back tell me I'm sorry No, that won't get it
See you put a nail in a hole you make that impression,
you pull that nail out, that mark is still there
let's not forgot, we can't strike that from the record
so don't say that to me so we're talking about something else,
person said it again,
(Boom)
You're a loser
very good and you are too because you just lost a very good friend
I don't choose to be around you anymore and that was it
You say, That's cold maybe it is
But I kept people out of my life that aren't good for me
One negative stroke is 16 times more powerful
than a positive stroke
and if you have people around you who are not sensitive to who you are
and the people that can hurt you the most are the people that you love
that you love
they are the ones that you are vulnerable to
they are the ones that can get to you and if they're just insensitive
I don't care who they are
See if you don't draw the line with people
if you just let them run rampant in your life
and you let things happen to you that
you don't feel good about if you continue to allow it to happen
you won't feel good about yourself
your image of yourself will erode
so you've got to draw the line
Theodore White said something -
"To go against the dominant thinking of your family,
friends and those people you associate with everyday
is perhaps the most difficult act of courage
you will ever perform. "
See when you start growing,
when you start changing the way you walk, the way you talk
the way you act, the way you respond to things the way you use your time
when you start saying
No, I can't do that
Why? you're too busy, you don't have the time ? -- I have my own agenda
I got something that I'm doing. See if people can put you on a guilt trip,
they will
and use you and abuse you over and
over and over again you got to draw the line
You have to draw the line on them.
Don't go through life feeling like you're powerless
victims of people that are powerful.
You're not powerless.
You are powerful
You direct the power in your life
whatever your life is right now, it is a duplication of your consciousness
it's the result of how you've decided to use your power
That's all it is That's not who you are
That's just a perverted use of your power that you aren't satisfied with
and you've got the power to change that wherever you are,
How? I don't know
but I know you've got the power to do that
But you don't know what's happened to me
It really doesn't matter what has happened to you
See the only thing that really matters is What are you going to do about it
That's all that matters... that's all that matters
You can allow it to destroy you or you can allow it to build you up.