Change is inevitable Listen to me As much as you like to be in your comfort zone As much as you like to be stable As much as you like to control your environment The reality is everthing changes If you are doing real good at some point somthing bad is going to happen in your life, alright So the first thing E.T. does to keep myself on fire and to try and stay in the zone Is I am AWARE.
Listen to me I think a lot of times hurts people is not is not the situation itself but they get caught off guard, they get knocked off guard So number 1 you gotta be aware.
It don't take me off guard Whem my aunt died, I'm trying to tell you all Just before my aunt died I knew in my mind The book was coming out, right everything was going well in my personal life Right, everything School, academically, the marriage, just did the marriage board, right I knew something was about I could feel it, I could sense it Something was about to happen So when my aunt died, listen to me, yes it hurt but it didn't take me off guard, alright So one of the things I need you all to do for me is You gotta know that it's coming and once you know it's coming, once you know it's coming You can do the Muhammad Ali baby You say what's the Muhammad Ali It's the rope-a-dope baby Listen to me. Muhammad Ali in one of his greatest fights After being out of boxing for a long time Going through some of the most challening times of his life Making the decision not to go to the war (vietnam) Let me tell you something It was difficult for Muhammad Ali But the reason he was able to stay on fire Stay at the top of his game Stay in the zone One simple reason Muhammad Ali was aware He was aware of the potential dangers of fighting Foreman He knew He knew that this guy was one of the best of the best and so he had a strategy and he called it the rope-a-dope and so he let him hit 'em. He took the blows. Are you hearing me.
He took the obstacles, right He took the best punches my man could give 'em.
Look, life is going to throw some serious blows Some body blows and they goin hurt But when you are aware you can strategies and because he strategised he did that rope-a-dope and let him hit 'em hit 'em hit 'em Then he came out with his stuff Bam after he was tired and he knocked him out.
Life is going throw you some serious obstacles You have to learn and turn every obstacle as an opportunity You gotta learn to do the rop-a-dope baby What's your strategy? You know life is going to happen.
It's not that life happens that bothers, it's that they don't have the strategy What's your strategy baby? I got a strategy When I start school I know the first week I'm pumped up The second week, maybe the third week Maybe I can get all the way to the sixth week and I'm still pumped up
but the reality is at some point I'm gonna hit a doldrum At some point I'm not wanna go to class At some point it's going to be boring, at some point . .
So I gotta a strategy, right, I got a strategy I already know what I am going to do to keep school fun I already know Alright here is my last one, my last one uh, uh, Carl you gotta give me that term again It's spontaneous combustion is what I think is what they call it Right, right And what happens is, when a fire starts to burn, right and it starts to spread at some point it BOOM!!!! hahah BOOM!!! And it blows everything up in its surrondings You gotta learn to get in environments that's on fire If you wanna stay on fire If you wanna stay in the zone, right If you wanna reach your maximum level You've gotta place yourself, and we've talked about this before You gotta place yourself, you gotta place yourself where it's alread on fire You gotta so