Big Sean
Appearances
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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I would say that I understand some people's lives are not ideal. I'm someone who has seen that experience that can relate to that firsthand. And what I can say is that when you accept it, that doesn't mean that you are giving up. Those are two different things. Accepting it just means, okay, I'm ready to go somewhere else.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And I'm thankful for all that this has taught me, all that this has brought me. I accept where I'm at, but I know I'm made for something else. I know I'm made to go to go higher, right? But no, but really I'm made to be somewhere else in the world. And I think that until you accept that, you can't move forward because you're just in the middle of it.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And I think when you accept something, that's how you get ahead of it.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Exactly. It's like when we're fighting. Well said.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
There's always a thread of where you are to where you desire to be at, no matter in what situation. There's never not a way. Or else you wouldn't feel it. Or else you wouldn't have a desire for it. It wouldn't even be in your consciousness. You know what I mean? I don't have a desire to go to Saturn because that's just not in my thing, right? But...
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
i have a desire to the things that i've had a desire to i always knew that there was a way so always know that no matter what opportunity you're in against the impossible odds or against odds you know whatever it is you always have your way to get to where you are there's always a thread leading you and there are maybe multiple threads so never be down and out and think that it's impossible it's really not i mean
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Mission Impossible is a movie where he defines impossible missions. But my point is, there is nothing that's impossible for you. It's all meant for you. And it's up to you. One of my favorite quotes is, every day I wake up, I'm one day closer to death. So what you going to do with the time you got left? It's like, understand that this is... our time right now. The moment is now.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
These moments, we only have the moment. So a lot of us live in the future and a lot of us live in the past. And that's something that we have to get out of the habit of. And I think when you accept where you are, you're kind of letting go of that.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
and making an action plan to putting your attention on your intention and you of course you have an idea of where you would like to be but god doesn't always give us what we want god gives us what we need and sometimes those are the same thing and sometimes they're not yeah and uh it all works out you know yeah for sure what what's the uh you know when you're manifesting as we're talking about this like finding your path what's the difference between attracting energy and chasing energy
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Oh, boy. Attracting energy and chasing energy. Well, like I said... When you're chasing something, you're already implementing the energy of it running away from you. You know what I mean? And not to say you can't get it, but it's a lot of effort to chase something. It's like even police on a high speed chase. It's like they might have to crash into other cars and they're chasing you.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And when you attract something, you are using the powers that have been granted to you from God, universe, whatever you call it or believe in.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
of it magnetizing to you and you have that power it's been the power that's been you know we use it on a level on small levels every day even if you just said it and say hey i'm today i need to take a shower that's literally you set a goal you did it it's done you can do that on a scale of anything that that happens and some things may take a lot more time than others
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
You know, we have these ideas and expectations we set for ourselves, but that's on us. You know, that's our ego sometimes. That's our, you know, wants and desires and our minds sometimes getting the best of us. And I think that things do take time, but there is always a way. And, you know, you can never count yourself out.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The most difficult thing that I've ever had to accept is the things that I can't control. I used to let the things that I can't control, control me.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
how someone perceives your art. As an artist, like Erykah Badu says, we're emotional about our shit. I think she said something like that. That never changes, but you can't control how someone perceives you. All you can do is put, first of all, to make something, to write something, to... have an idea and actualize it is like, that is really the win for real.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
I'm not just saying that like, that is like, come on. You know what I mean? You literally manifested something. How people consume it, if you impact anyone, that's literally a bonus to it. You know, that's why we do it. But that's, you're literally changing the world. So one thing I've had to accept is like, yeah, how people... Like I can't control what people think of me, their perceptions of me.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And when I try and control that, it takes me off of my path that I'm on of where I need to go. So that is something hard and you have to separate. Like I said, that power of separation of doing what you love to do and not tying it into how people perceive it. Those are two separate things.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
It is.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And that's where you don't want to be at.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And then you're kind of like back to a square one position of like, okay, having to reestablish yourself and you got to be right with yourself first. So you nailed it right on the head, man. It's like, you can't really do, live your life for other people I always say that's a business you'll never be successful at is the business of trying to please everyone.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And then when you do please everyone, it's like, are you pleasing yourself?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
and you know what's you know what's special about that man is that um i think that we choose our parents before you know i think as spirits we choose our parents it's just what i believe right it's just a concept that i believe and some people be like well that's i was in a family where it wasn't easy this and i would have never chosen that but you don't understand that you know
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
To be one of the billion of sperm that make it into the egg and conceptualize, you really fought to be in this world, right? And I truly believe that God doesn't give you what you want. God gives you what you need, first and foremost. And you don't know how the development, there are some people who need a nurturing family that's perfect, right?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And then there are some people who actually learn maybe even more and become more of a positive force for the world to change it by learning, of what not to do from their parents directly all the time, or not all the time, but like in certain situations, you know?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
So I just think that, you know, you being the mediator, you were on a course, you were learning at such a young age of things to apply or what not to apply to your marriage. And the fact that you were that, because we talked about it off camera, the fact that you were a mediator, the fact that you were that for your family at such a young age, it's just incredible.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Because look at the path that it's led you to. Man, you're impacting everybody, man. You're impacting like the world, you know, and me and everybody.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Well, when you have a kid and you see them and they look like you and they look like their mom, you see that they smile like you or smile like her. You know, you see all these things and you realize, OK, and then they kind of look like my brother and they kind of look like her granddad and her, you know, all these different family members. Right. And you're like, this is really crazy.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And he'll do something that is like reminiscent of what you used to do. Right. So then I realized that, OK. The DNA is like a computer. It's information that gets passed on, on and on and on, right? So you're really the culmination of a whole lineage, right? And in you.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
So one of the things that I learned from him, because there are times in my life where I'm like, man, I wish I could talk to my grandma. You know, my grandma was a female black captain in World War II, man. She was crazy. She was incredible. And like, or my granddad, they met in World War II, right?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Or like, I wish I could like, I'd be like, man, I wish I could like speak to them or like get advice from them now, you know? I only known them as a little kid. And then I realized that the information is already in me. All I have to do is just go deeper within and really connect with that. And that's something that I learned from my son being born. Somehow that clicked is like,
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
He is the culmination of our lineage. All the DNA from my side, from his mom's side, and so on and so forth. And he's got something special going on. So that's one thing I learned. And another thing I learned is to go back to the simplistic beauties of life. When we're on walks out in nature, he's so fascinated with the flowers and the birds and just like, oh, this or that or bug, bee. He's like,
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And it just, it gave me a whole new excitement for that. And I really appreciate him for teaching me. I feel like he's teaching me as much as we teach him. I feel like he's teaching all of us a lot as well. And he's also teaching all of us that like, hey, we can be happy right now. He's like, even if he's like distraught or something, he'll go do something and be happy right there. He chooses it.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And I love that.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Yeah.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
It is.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Yeah.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
It is in all of us. It's like time traveling. People always try and figure out how to preserve themselves. You know, there's the expression, oh, I'm living through my kids or I'm living. That's real. I realize how much power these simple expressions have. Tell me more. I like this. Like communication can save a nation or like, you know, but like, yeah, I really feel like
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
We always try and think like, oh, there's not enough time. There's not enough time. There's a real, real, real truth to I'm living through my kids or whoever, whoever you choose to. I don't even think it has to be your kids. I think that your blood, your lineage, it's like you really are, you really do time travel.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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You know, a thousand years from now, there may be some descendants that look like us, you know, or like, you know, you'll be like, oh, you know, I look like my dad's dad. You do? Yeah.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Man, brother, thank you for having me. First of all, I just got to say, J, though, I'm so proud of you, man. Even since our first interview, of course you sparked the idea of me writing a book, but I'm not making it about me, bro. You've interviewed the president, man. You have gone to the moon and back. There was a part of the book where I said, like,
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
I've never met him. He unfortunately passed when I was super little and I never even met him. But he's a part of me too. And I think that's also why it's important to work on yourself and to heal certain traumatic experiences because with all this information we pass on, you also pass on The good and the bad, you know what I mean? Well said.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
So, you know, you heal things health-wise and you heal things traumatic-wise, you know, or trauma-wise. And, you know, it's really important to work on yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually because you pass on all of that as well.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Oh, so many things. So many. Like, worry, one thing. I used to worry so much, create all of these scenarios in my head. And I think that's like a double-edged sword. When you have an imagination and you're creative, you create, right? So you can create good, you can create bad. But one of the experiences that life has taught me is to never worry. No matter what, you're going to be fine.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
I think one of my biggest fears used to be like, what if I lose everything, right? And what if I have to go back to... Growing up in Detroit in the hood, blah, blah, blah. And then it's just like, well, I was happy there too. I shouldn't be scared to lose any of this stuff because this stuff is conditional. And it's like, I'm going to be good wherever I'm at.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
I remember when I talked to Sad Guru, I was like, where's your favorite place in the world? He's like, wherever I'm at. And I was like, damn, you know? So it kind of goes back to that, that like, that's one of the things I don't want to pass on to them. It's like, you never have to worry, you know? You know, you could be fueled. You could let something inspire you to be greater.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
You could let something light a fire under you, but like, don't ever worry because you have what it takes to get to wherever you got to get to, you know?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
You imprint that in a young child by building up his confidence. And that's one of the things I love about my boy. It's like he's so confident. That's something that I want to keep feeding him. Even on the song I wrote about him on my album, I said, I see my inner child in him is still the remnants. Will he lose it to the world as an imminent?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Or is it something that me and his mom have instilled in him? And the confidence you lose, you could build again. It's like, yeah. And like, I just want to water that. I think that when I was a kid, my mom and my dad came up in like a civil rights moment in the country. Like my mom had to drink from like a different water fountain. You know, my family has been through a lot.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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My mom's great aunt, who was like an old woman, my mom would go visit her in North Carolina, was born a slave. So that just goes to show you how close that lineage is too, right? It's like, it kind of feels like it's so far away, but it's not. She was an old woman and my mom was a baby, but my mom is alive now. So the connection of that is like few and far between.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
My point being is that my mom and my dad did the best that they could, but they came from an era where they had to really be Don't be too loud. Be controlled. Don't get out of line. My mom would be like, when you get pulled over, make sure your hat is off and they see your face and you be respectful.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And I think there was a lot to that, but it was coming from a little bit of a fear-based place sometimes. And that's something that I've recognized. And that's something that my mom has helped me recognize, too, through all of the knowledge she's given me and my dad. But, like, one of the things I want to pass on to him is that, like, be confident in who you are because you have what it takes.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
the mental health space, and that space is dominated by a certain crowd. Bro, you are dominating this space. And I just got to say, it's deeper than that. It's wellness. It's all of it. And I just got to say, I'm super proud of you, man. Very, very proud of you. I know where you come from. I know your journey. I know how you grew up.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
You could already tell he has a great heart. He has a great spirit. He loves trying to make people laugh, you know. Not even at two years old, he was like... Before, like one year old, like telling, you know, trying to like make you smile. And it's just like, just want to keep watering that confidence in him, you know?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Yeah, strategizing.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Right.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Absolutely.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Right.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Strategy is intentionality in action. Right. Yeah.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Well, I think you recognize, like you said, is this strategy to me is the key to getting... It's one of the keys to move from where you are to where you have to be because you identify where you desire to be because you identify so much. And you get to research. You get to plot and plan. Nothing... that is really amazing in life doesn't come without a plan. You know what I mean?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
There are a lot of spontaneous things. And I do believe in the energy of spontaneity. But strategizing to me is so important. And there's so many ways to do it. You could study someone. From afar, that's kind of one of the beauties of the Internet is like you can kind of study and know someone you really respect.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Or you may have someone in your family or you may have someone in your neighborhood or you may have someone. But even say it's someone from across the world that you really respect, you can study a lot of their background. what they have put out in the world. And sometimes that's all you need. There have been times where when you get to know someone fully, you might get let down a little bit.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
It's like, because you have all these expectations and you meet them and it's like, wait, what? You know, but I think... There comes again the power of separation. You got to separate that. I know I'm talking a lot, but I do think that strategizing is a real key to happiness. It doesn't have to be a deep thing. Strategizing could just be as simple as writing your intentions down.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
strategizing your day. How are you going to approach this? I always like, before I get into a studio session or anything, I always like meditate and I write down what I would like to experience in the session. You know, what am I, what would I like to get done? How would that feel? And I kind of lock onto that feeling before I go and do, do what I got to do.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
I know the household you came from and I just got to say, man, I'm very proud of you. And I see so much for you and you're still so young and you still have so much to offer. So thank you so much, man.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
That's a strategy.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Exactly.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Right?
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And sometimes that's exactly what your life needs, is structure. Right.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
You know, when you feel like you're all over the place and things aren't happening, sometimes you just need a little bit of structure and strategy to jumpstart it and build the foundation to build on, you know? So that's a perfect analogy.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
There have been times where I was very strategic in times where I wasn't. And one of the times in my life where strategy really helped out was just like, I would say securing my first record deal. I always knew I would get a record deal. I would talk about it frequently with my friends in eighth grade.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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I would talk about when I sell out the Palace, Auburn Hill, all these things that I ended up doing later. I just knew it was going to happen. I just didn't know how.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
and we all know that like you can make plans and God laughs at it, but I really feel like when your heart's in the right place and you have the intentions and you put a little bit of strategy to it, okay, like one of the things that I always wanted to do is like, okay, how can I get on the radio? You know, how can I be, how can I, how can I be on the radio? Then I,
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
you know, did some homework and my friend, oh, there's a radio show where you can battle rap and end up rapping on the radio, you know, and people, okay, that's a way to get on the radio. So how do I get down there? Okay. Oh, so I need a ride down there. I would like plan out every aspect. I need to make sure I have a ride to get to the radio station to be able to battle rap.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Okay, I need to write a rap for when I get on the radio so I have something to rap over. And so it's like you strategize every aspect of it and it can be fun. It doesn't have to feel like homework. It don't got to feel like schoolwork. None of us want to do more work. In fact, when you strategize, you probably are eliminating a lot of work, a lot more work.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Don't get fooled thinking that you're getting ahead by not doing the work. I'm telling you, when you strategize and plan things out, you're eliminating hours of work. So that is the reason, you know, a lot of us may not have time to read this book. You think like, I don't have time to read a book. I'm telling you, like reading a book, not just my book, but a book that impacts you saves time.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
It doesn't take time.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And we get mad that we're not on level 21. And I'm a victim of that. And I think that, you know, I've gone through experience. I'm not a victim. I have done that before. I've experienced that. So I know how frustrating it could be. But Don't let it stress you unless it's you stress. There's distress and then there's you stress. And that you stress can motivate you. It really can.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
It could light a fire under you, go through it. Distress can kind of weigh you down. So you have the power to take any aspect, even depression, and let it either weigh you down or let it fuel you. You know what I mean? So yeah, I think that I know it's a lot of people frustrated. I get frustrated still. I'm nowhere near perfect. I'm not talking to you as an expert in any way, shape or form.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
I'm literally talking to you as a reflection of you and someone who has gone through these experiences and have just like, and given the game that I've learned, you know, in straight black and white and examples of how I've done it, you know? So, yeah.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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All right. So there are times where, yeah, I've let things go. I didn't strategize. There's always things you haven't thought about that you got to come back to later. Like when I had a fell out with some family members, like even my mom, our relationship got tainted for a long time. And it was like, I was not calling her. I was not checking in.
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I wasn't doing anything that a son... And now having a son, I really feel the depth of that. You know what I'm saying? And I could have strategized that better. You know what I mean? I could have strategized a lot of things better. And you always have 20-20 in hindsight.
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Yeah, and that's what we're here to do, is to serve, really, in every aspect. This always comes down to being of service. And anything we put out there, in any interview, in any book, in any song, is really of service to whatever the moment it relates to. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, you're right, saying the right thing to the wrong. And the thing is, you're kind of the only one who can dictate
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You know, right and wrong is so opinionated depending on who you talk to.
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You know, there are a lot of people who think that, you know, anything that we could think is wrong, somebody could argue how it's right. You know, even down to black and white, somebody can argue that this text that says the exact same thing means this thing or this means that thing. You know, so I think it's important to come from a place of understanding.
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And this leads to something else I want to talk about, because just because you understand something doesn't mean you have to accept it. Just because you understand it. And that's something that I had to learn the hard way. I thought that I was being this spiritual guy by if I get into a disagreement with someone, understanding where they come from.
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And then ultimately turns to me not respecting myself because I'll understand where they're coming from and be like, okay, I get it. But the fact that I still get it, it doesn't mean that I can't express myself and I'm not valid. So I want to make sure that everyone knows that because I think that that was something that I learned is to set boundaries. And that's like that big B word.
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That's like the biggest B word there is as boundaries that I've learned this year. And like that has really, really, really changed a lot of dynamics with people. And it changed a lot of, it's really created a lot of happiness in my life.
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I think I was trying to be a hero in every situation I was in. I'm such an empathetic person, so I love to... I really can feel when people are going through something. Even when the world is going through something, it's like I kind of really have to really protect myself energetically because I take on a lot of people's problems. You know what I'm saying? I can't help it.
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And it's not a good... I don't look at it as a bad thing. I just look at it as how I am. Do I wish sometimes that I could just cut things off? Yeah, but it taught me that I can. I just have to set boundaries on what I can and can't accept. And this year... Yeah, there are a lot of things that I was tired of feeling uncomfortable in certain situations.
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I was tired of letting people walk all over me. And just because I understood or I get it, I'm not respecting myself. And I didn't realize that I wasn't respecting myself in that. You know, there are times where, yeah, I need to... I can't go to this thing. I can't do this. Or, you know what? I can't go here. I can't go... To Dubai and do this show because I have to be here for my son.
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I got to take my son trick or treating. You know, I had to set some of those boundaries that may have cost me one thing, but I gained another. And one of the most important things I gained back from setting boundaries is the trust in myself. You know, the confidence that I feel like I have been building up for so long.
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The fear of losing a person.
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I mean, there was no energy income coming in. And you were just a piece of you. You were just a part of you at that point.
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And how to enjoy it. And you got to enjoy your life too. Totally.
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No, I was just saying like, yeah, you really gave me the confidence. You know, as soon as the cameras cut off, you were like, yo, you got to write a book, you know. And I was like, wow, yeah. I didn't write it for any vanity purpose. I didn't write it for that time for me to write a book. I literally wrote it because it was pouring out of me, really, essentially. You know what I mean?
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Yeah, that's right.
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We do it for ourselves.
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And I'm like, well, no, you keep breaking your boundaries. Exactly. Right? No, yes. It's, you know, it's like... The boundaries, forgiveness, they're not just there for you. Forgiveness is for you as well. And boundaries are for you as well. Yeah, it's been tough. I think that I grew up letting people walk all over me.
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I think I grew up by letting people take advantage of me straight up, just to be real. And I saw that in my parents, especially my dad, he would let people take advantage of him. He was a very nice guy. And there's nothing, like I said, right or wrong. It's an opinion. It's just a perspective. So I'm not criticizing him or saying he was wrong in any way.
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It's just the kind-spirited, hearted person he is. But along with that, you do have to set your boundaries and respect who you are because you will lose a sense of yourself by trying to take care of everyone else. You will lose a sense of yourself if you don't set these boundaries.
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You will lose a sense of yourself if you don't take the time out to keep connecting with yourself, even if it's something you love. I lost the passion of watching anime. I remember while I was working so hard, It's like I hadn't sat and watched anime. I love watching anime. I love Dragon Ball Z. I love, like, My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer and Evangelions and all these things.
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And that's just one thing that I love, right? So it's like I have to take time out to do that because it is really important to me.
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So... I know all of us have demands. Some of us have family. Some of us work two jobs, three jobs. Some of us... And you say it's impossible, but I'm telling you, if you make that time, you will create more time to be the better version of yourself in any of those situations. I promise you. Yeah.
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Because that's how you were as a 10-year-old. Because that's how I was as a 10-year-old. Yeah. And so on and so forth. Yeah. Go ahead though.
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There are so many people who are trying to figure out how to just maneuver through life. I've dealt with my ups and downs. Maneuver through things. So it's just like sharing always can help somebody. You never know how you're impacting somebody, how you can change somebody's whole trajectory.
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Wow, man. It's a big one.
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Yeah, because it goes back to like we were talking about. A lot of the answers are in you. You know, a lot of the things you're looking for, the resolutions, they are in you. And sometimes it may take a little while to rise to the surface and sometimes they'll figure out. But
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One of the worst things you could do is impact somebody in the moment of them being emotional or in the moment of rage or in the, you know, influence in them. You could really ruin something, you know, because you're feeding off of their emotions. It's like...
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Yeah, you should just leave. Instead of just being like, hey, take some time to talk through it. That's a real important, great lesson, man. Yeah, it's helped me a lot. That's a great way of exercising boundaries.
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Doesn't make it easier, I would say.
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Oh, completely different. So music, I don't even like, I kind of just, when I get in the studio, I kind of just let it flow through me. And I learned that from like Kanye and Jay-Z and Common. Now there are a lot of people who do write on pads, like Eminem, you know, who's amazing to me.
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And a lot of people I know, but how I do it personally is I just kind of like feel through it and let it stream to me. And I like go on a mic and like, not necessarily freestyle it, but yeah, just piece it together.
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You got to come for a session one day, but then when it comes to journaling, that's my time where I put like my sword, you know, your pen is like your sword to paper and you are setting, you're strategizing and you're setting your intentions of, you know, things you may like to experience. But I also like to do like gratitude.
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For some reason, gratitude just seems to magnetize more of the things that I'm thankful for in my life. I've seen it work in a lot of ways, and that's my belief. So the things that you are grateful for, you have to let the world know that you're grateful for it because how else is it going to know to give it back to you or to bring it to you or to the people around you? Yeah.
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It also is a great way for me to, you know, and I practice I am. It's so much power. So I am grateful. I am this. I am happy. I am confident. I am happy that I get to sit down and talk to my friend Jay today. You know, I'm happy I get to whatever the case is. Right. So that's what I do. And then at the end of it, of the journal article, of when I do the gratitude stuff.
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You know, I was lucky enough to have these like guardian angels in a form of like my mom or the form of my family members or in a form of friends or whatever. You know, the book The Alchemist really taught me to pay attention to the omens, you know what I'm saying?
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And there are times where I write how I feel, not as much. I also speak out loud by myself. You know, there are a lot of processes I do, but when I do that journal, I sign it at the bottom of it. Like a contract. And sometimes I put, it is done. Or I put, so be it. Because it's a declaration when I do that. And I sign it because it's that important to me. I have to sign my contracts.
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I have to sign things that will be upheld as an important thing. And that's how the level of importance even more that I hold that to. So I sign it every time. That is so good, man.
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It's powerful.
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It's powerful. And Jay, does everything I write down come to fruition? No. Sometimes it does. A lot of them do. And then I realized that I'm also on God's time. So the things that I've always wanted... and things that I've desired, it may not just be the right moment in my journey for that. But that's the beauty of it, man. I'm like, I'm still here. I'm still able. I'm still inspired.
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I'm still passionate, you know?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's how I do my journaling. I also have, like, there's a book I have of, like, poetry, too, that I, like, write poems and stuff. I only write a few a year, honestly. But, like, I'll, like...
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fully write and draw around the poem and like it's really like a beautiful art it's just something I do for fun I haven't actually I've only written one this year and last year I wrote a few so maybe it inspired me to write one today but that's kind of all it is but I don't spend too much time on it it takes me about five to 12 minutes max. And then I meditate after that.
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Cause it kind of like, it's kind of like a good transition to like, the energy is set for me to like, to meditate. Cause when I meditate, I feel like I'm attracting these things more and giving myself the best shot of being the most productive person the most impactful that I can be, you know? So that's kind of the first thing I do when I wake up, if I can.
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Being a dad, though, there are times where I get woken up and I have to go immediately, you know? And so I come back to it later on. It's not preferred that way, but it's a good trade-off.
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So through a song coming on, through any aspect of my life, and it was just like, you know, it was a true pleasure to be able to just put like what has worked for me in a way that people could come back to it, that people can apply to their lives. And, you know, I've gotten a chance to not only sit and talk to you, but sit and talk to so many of other people that I respect.
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Yeah, because it's that important.
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Exactly, right? And they're supposed to be- And they're very important things. Yeah, they're important documents and that is an important document too. I love that.
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It depends. I love doing guided meditation sometimes. I love doing, I kind of have my own process where I like visualize the light of creation, like the light of the sun and it like really filling my whole body up and literally- Everything that doesn't align with that, anything that isn't that light and bright, you know what I'm saying? Immediately leaves my body and goes back into the earth.
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And like, so, you know, there are times where I, if I'm not in nature, I imagine myself in nature and like things going back into the earth. And I like surround myself, you know, from my, I forgot the word, the esoteric body. I think it's like one inch off you, then your emotional body, then your mental body. And like, I just do the same thing. Like, it's like a shower of light.
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It's like hopping in the shower after you work out, like a bit of light. And whatever it is, I kind of like cater to how I'm feeling. So from there, I'll like, if I have like something wrong with my stomach, I'll like, for some reason I associate green with healing energy, right? And this comes from years of like practice or I associate royal blue with power, you know, the power of the universe.
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I associate like,
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read with the love of the universe the love and support of the universe and like I represent like the violet flame of Saint Germain like to cleanse things that are holding me back right so I do I have like quite a process and I break it down in a book and afterwards I feel just it really makes a big difference and you know I read this book The Hidden Messages in Water I believe it's called and it talked about
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You know, there's like itty bitty microscopic crystals in water. And they, one of the part of the book, they experiment of like how positively when you speak to water, like, hey, you're amazing. I love you. Keep going. Like, you're beautiful. And then they had another water glass or container of water where they said like, you suck, it's never real negative.
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And you look at the crystals and one is like a beautiful snowflake looking crystal and then the other one is like, distorted and all damaged. And we are 70, 80% water. So these things, when you write these affirmations down or when you say them out loud or when you journal, these things have a real effect on you tremendously. Scientifically, it's not even like a woo-woo type of thing.
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It's not even up for debate. You know what I'm saying? It's literally scientific for the people who are more... need the proof as opposed to more analytical than opinion-based. So I just want to stress the importance of it. It really is.
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And by the way, the most honorable people that I've met and what I consider to be successful, and I don't mean richest, I just mean successful in the impact, what they're doing, how they are. Yeah. they meditate they all you know from my favorite rappers down to my favorite down to you you know down to anyone who i just really admire yeah yeah and and and and you can meditate in your own ways
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They're like, I know like Janae does different meditations, you know, through sound healing or mirror meditations. I know people who do shower meditations, walking. There's no wrong way to meditate either. That's another misconception. There's no wrong way to do it.
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in the wellness space and just an inspiring space, you know, from Deepak to Sadguru to, and just my idols, you know, growing up in music. So I apply a lot of things that I've learned into this book and hopefully it helps people.
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The fact that you take the intention out or if you focus on your breathing, the fact that you take the time out to be that conscious of yourself over time, you will get more and more into it. It's like anything you do and you will see the effects of it.
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You know what? I have never meditated with Eminem, but he is a very... Eminem is a very like...
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amazing person so i wouldn't be surprised i know jay-z does wow i haven't meditated with him but i know he does yeah and you know there are all different ways and forms of course you know sometimes just sitting and visualizing and like seeing these things is a form of meditation it could be your way so you have to find out these ways that work for you just like therapy it's like i can't
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i can tell you how therapy worked for me but you may go to a therapist that isn't right for you and be like oh therapy is whack but that's not that's just you know my specific situation a lot of times therapy for me has pushed me to the edge of realization and has been the extra push that i needed to sometimes i already knew the answer but sometimes i needed to talk it through and sometimes i needed to really
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And sometimes I did learn something new that awakened the truth in me through therapy and having someone that I could confide in that wasn't a family member, that wasn't a best friend, that I wasn't in a relationship with and was able to apply it to all of those other relationships in a very successful way.
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Man, so first of all, Adderall is like synthetic, you know, I don't know. They say like heroin, all these things, right? Like there's just a lot to it. And I'm really into Eastern medicine personally, you know. I used to have a real bad heart problem that I fixed through literally taking magnesium and some other supplements that a doctor told me that I had to get surgery for.
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They told me they had to cut my heart open and put a pacemaker in it, you know. So when I started taking Adderall, it's because I was putting myself on a clock that didn't exist. I was putting myself under pressure and I was living in a fear-based way. And I started taking Adderall because I wanted to accomplish more. And it was very- Did it work? It worked, but at the expense of So many things.
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Honestly, the expense of affecting my soul and changing the person that I was and depleting my body, it shut it off. It creates synthetic dopamine in your brain. So it creates all this dopamine, but your natural dopamine that is responsible for your happiness, for your inspiration or your creativity, who makes you who you are, it shuts off. It shuts it off.
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And after a while you're kind of relying on this synthetic dopamine only. And I remember as time went on, I would go in the studio and I feel like I couldn't do anything without it. And that's when I knew I had a real problem with it. So I went cold turkey and that is like, that was probably the second bout of depression in my life that I went through.
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That was like, that's when I was like wanting to kill myself. Like, I was just like, my mom was playing all these tricks on me. Right. It didn't matter that I had a big ass house in Beverly Hills. It didn't matter that I had millions of dollars in the account. And it didn't matter because as great as a lot of those things are, they're still separate. I'm wearing a Linkin Park shirt.
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Chester, I can't speak for him, God rest his soul, but who would think that like, oh, that... someone who's one of the biggest rock stars in the world in a band, regardless of what they talk about in their music, would do that. Or Kurt Cobain, all these things, right? It's because it's all separate. And I'm not saying that money can't make you happy, by the way.
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I don't like when rich people get on camera and be like, money isn't everything. It isn't everything, but it's a lot. It's a resource that is very needed in anything you need to do in this world.
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You need it. So it is important. It's very important. I'm not going to sit in here and say it isn't. But it was separate from what I had to deal with at the time. So, yeah, I went cold turkey. And that's when I stopped everything I was doing. And I called my mom, who we weren't on great terms. And she came out and was in my house with me. My mom has always... Shout out my dad, too.
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One of the things about success is you have to define what your idea of success is. I don't think if like, say somebody had a billion dollars, I wouldn't say that he's more successful than me. I would just say he has more money than me. And I think that's the power of separation. We tie so many things into definition, right? Success to me is a feeling of, it's an emotion.
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My dad is with me today, too. I love my dad. He's like, man, make sure you shout me out, too. I'm going to shout you out, too. My dad is great. But my mom at that point, in those certain points in my life, just a few key points, she knew what she had a solution to offer me always. And I really appreciate that. It's something I hope to do for my kid and kids today.
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And she was like, introduced me to, you know, she was who put me on meditation. She just would always introduce me to certain things. Try this, try this method. And then I started realizing how connected physical, mental, emotional, spiritual are. And I started working out. I started prioritizing myself and started putting me first. Started reconnecting with things I wanted to do.
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Started trying new things. Jumping out of planes. I was doing, going to the gun range. Just trying things out that... I was like, hey, that's interesting. Let me try it. And it really helped me reconnect with myself. I started watching anime again. And then I had to take a break from the studio because I couldn't think of anything. And then I finally got back in and was inspired again.
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And life is the greatest inspiration. But what I can say is to people who are addicted to Adderall and other drugs that... That synthetic high is very temporary and it's at an expense. And it's different when people who have ADHD who necessarily need it, but there are even other ways to deal with that. And I guarantee you, they will take less of your body.
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These things, like when these prescriptions, they mess up your kidneys, your liver. And as simple as that sounds, your liver, your gut, Messing up your gut, your gut is your second brain. It dictates so much more than we've been let on to know. I think that's why Roddy is so into the food because it's not just food. It's so much more than that.
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So I know I'm running on and on, but my point is, is that it was very tough, but you can get through it. And there on the other side of it, you come out as like a true champion and you're the source of it. And there's no better drug or high than being high off life. There is no better thing because you're the actual drug. You're the actual source of it.
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It's not something you have to take to get to there. It's like, you are it and you'll be, you can soar. You can go higher than ever. Yeah, go higher. Yeah, for real.
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My grandma was one of the first people to give me a book of... It was a book about King Solomon. And that book changed my life. And it talks about the strategies of King Solomon, how he ran his business, how he strategized, how King Solomon, he wanted... wisdom. That's what he wanted, and that's why he was granted everything else.
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That's why he was the richest man who ever lived, is because that's not what he sought. He didn't seek the power. He sought the wisdom to help people, and God gave him the resources by making him the richest man, right? So anyway... So my grandma, she was one of the first female black captains in World War II. She was one of the first female police officers, a teacher, a counselor.
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She was incredible, right? Her and my granddad met in World War II. She was the example of hard work, the example of nothing is something. She lived on the street called Outer Drive, which was a, that's where Marvin Gaye used to live when he lived in Detroit. It's like a real prestigious street. And I can imagine that that was like one of her proudest accomplishments. So I really got love for her.
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I think she would read this book and be proud. You know, I think so. And I think that, you know, as a scholar, she would probably be, like, correcting some of my grammar and work and, you know, things like that. But she would be very proud. She was very strict in a lot of ways. And she believed that education, going to college, was the way to a better life. And... I went a different way.
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It's something that when your purpose is activated and you are impacting people in any way, shape, or form, there's so many ways to impact people, right? Now, there are byproducts of success. Like, money can be a byproduct of success. You know, when you do something and you create a supply and demand, you get paid for it. But I don't think because you make money that you're successful.
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I didn't go to college. Instead, I went to the music. And she knew I had respect for her because I always had good grades. But even when I chose the exact opposite of what she wanted me to do, she supported me wholeheartedly. And I spent all the bonds. She saved up all the money she saved up for college. I spent it all on studio sessions. Yeah.
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And I can't imagine how mad or how pissed off that might have made her. But through it all, she supported me and I just appreciate it. She just shows me how much she valued family. And I was able to buy a house for her and my mom before they passed. She actually saw the music pay off. And we used to watch all these Westerns and Jeopardy and all these things. And
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I remember she was watching Jeopardy and I was actually a question on Jeopardy. And I talked to her on the phone and she was so like, wow. And it used to tear me apart when things weren't working out and I was spending her money on the studio sessions. And we would have Sunday dinner every Sunday. And I would have to go and sit there and she'd be like, well, what's going on with the music?
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You know, you need to, why don't you just apply to community college? Like you could have been halfway with a degree by now. It's been two years. It's been, you know, all this time. And it broke my heart every Sunday. And I did give up, you know, at one point I did give up. So at one point I was over it. I was over music. It wasn't going anywhere.
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That was after I met Kanye. Okay.
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Yeah, and it was like a blank, you know, and I turned down my scholarships I had to college. I graduated school with like a 3.7 GPA. I was like, you know, I had like a lot of academic scholarships, all these things, and I turned it down. And then I was, it was non-responsive, but in hindsight, I look back, he was blowing up in his own right.
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He was busy, you know, it's not the same, you know, you only see things from your perspective, especially when you're younger. And yeah, I just was like, I felt like I tried and gave it all I had. And I gave up and my mom, who is a teacher as well, she was the only one who was like, yo, what are you doing, man? Come on. You're registering for, come on, you got it. Just keep going. You got it.
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This is what you're meant to do. This is what you believe in. Do it. Literally, months after that, that's when things started picking up. You can keep digging and digging and digging. Before I struck the gold, I gave up. That's what I mean. I had those guardian angels around me to keep it going.
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Yeah, it's super common. Yeah. Super common.
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Right, right. No, it doesn't.
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Wow.
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Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
Well, every situation is different, right? So to someone who is experiencing miscarriages, and I can only speak from a man's perspective. I can't speak for a woman who really, their perspective is the most traumatic. But I can say that, first of all, you're worthy. I don't want you to think you're not worthy.
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I don't want people to think that because they have a miscarriage that they're inadequate or that they're broken. I think that this life is complex and there are things we do and don't understand. And I think there's beauty in everything that's meant for you. And instead of trying to control exactly how you want your life to be, accept that it's going to be the life that is meant for you.
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You know what I'm saying? And I don't think You know, there's a lot of things that you could tie to that. Just like, I don't think just because if your life isn't going the way you are, that doesn't mean that you let that make you unhappy. Those are two separate things. It's really the power of separation. So for me, success is a feeling and it's when my purpose is activated.
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And you may get blessed with a child later on. You may get blessed with a child that comes into your life a different way. You may get blessed with, you have to keep your, sometimes we get so set on a goal, we don't keep the rest of our doors open of how the universe could bless us in that way. to not only fill that void, but even make it even greater. So I just want to keep an open mind.
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But to anyone who does experience such an insufferable loss, go through it. Express yourself. Deal with that grief, but don't let it consume you. Sometimes you got to go through it just to get to it.
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Well, to find the light in really dark times, sometimes... You have to realize that you are the light, but sometimes you got to embrace the darkness. You ever notice how when you're in the dark for a long time, you start to see better and things actually get lighter? For sure. I think that it's a natural human instinct to like... go into a mode of like fear based. And it's like, I need the light.
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I need the light. Where's the light. And instead of just accepting that you are, you are for certain you are, you not only are you the light that there are as a darkness to you too, that's beautiful. And that you have to accept all aspects of yourself. You know, once you do accept it, I think it's easier to find the light or be the light.
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I think, you know, once you really are comfortable in your environment, you will find and see the way to wherever it is you're trying to go.
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I mean, what I did came from like when you highlight, when you really recognize the miracles and you're kind of supercharging them and you always see more miracles. There are so many miracles every single day. The fact that the sun is at the exact right place. And the moon is at the exact right place. And the oxygen is at the exact right. The fact that we are orbiting is a miracle, bro.
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So I remember I did an interview and they asked, you know, successful, talking about success. And I said, well, I'm not the most successful person in the world. And I was like, well, maybe I am actually because...
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For real, if you think about it. Because one slight thing, everything is gone. You know what I'm saying? Everything is gone as shit fast. So that's one thing. But for me, when you list the miracles that you experienced personally that impact you personally, I feel like it breathes more. So for me...
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Man, being on a pursuit of happiness and being able to actually see my dreams come true to a level is a miracle for me. This is in order, by the way. Having a son, that's for real a miracle because that's like creating something out of nothing. Man, waking up is a miracle. Everyone don't get to wake up, man.
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being able to set goals and pursue them, you know, not even necessarily check them all off, but pursue them, being able to eat food and let it, Give me nutrition is a miracle, bro. So I'm not trying to just sit up here and be preaching positivity in that sense, but there are so many miracles that happen.
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I remember one time I was down at a fireworks in Detroit and somebody was firing a gun and I saw it and it looked like I saw it and it went past me and it was a miracle I didn't get hit by any bullets. It was a miracle that when I got into a car accident and totaled my car when I was 16, I was able to climb out of the window. I couldn't even open the doors and nothing was wrong with me.
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i love so many aspects of my life and i'm living in the life that i've always dreamed of you know times 10. i only wanted to have a song on the radio and like a platinum song and bro i've sold 185 million records or something crazy i've like taken care of my mom my dad a lot of people and lived 10 lifetimes already so everything has just been sprinkles on top so to me success
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I had a little bruise on the side of my pinky. That was it. It's a little like somebody died in there. There are miracles that happen every day that you may not consider miracles that you have to recognize. And you don't even have to question it. That just shows you, bro, that you're here. We are in it.
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Yeah, for real.
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Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And thank you for riding the Ford. Of course, man. It was beautiful. Nah, just congrats to you, man. I'm really proud of you. Come on, man. I know I was just at your house like a few days ago. Three days ago, four days ago. We loved it. Eating some amazing food. You really are... an amazing person, not just on camera, like some people. You really are amazing on and off camera, man.
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Your heart is big. It's very inspiring. We have these in our fridge. You're the best. I have all your books on my shelf. I've read them. And just thank you, man. Thank you for being an outlet. Thank you for being such a connection, especially between all of these amazing people and being able to open up and be vulnerable.
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What I can say is that to everyone watching, you're a product of your environment and you are the chemist of your environment. You have the power to change it in any given time or moment. You know, if you're unhappy with where you are, realize that you have the instant power to change it. It all starts with the mentality first and foremost.
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And that is like the key ingredient to making anything amazing, you know? So I hope you guys realize that we only have this moment. Anything you've done in the past, you have to let go of. Anything in the future can change, you know, that you have an idea of how it should be. And that, what else? You know, what are you going to do with the time you got left? It's up to you.
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Thank you.
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Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
thank you man that means everything and yeah thanks for allowing me to communicate always you know communication I always say the communication is the bridge to salvation that God is holding our hand to walk across and just like any other bridge you can't skip a step to get to the other side so thanks for allowing me to communicate and thank you for communicating so well in your life it's very inspiring and yeah I'll see you soon man I'll come back over for dinner I can't wait I can't wait I appreciate it yeah that is part three
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is really activating your purpose. And happiness is something that you can choose instantly. Your happiness is something that you could choose instantly. And it's something that I learned the hard way. Because when I have falling into a dark time. We all go through these ups and downs.
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When I've been down bad and the depression comes in, the anxiety comes in, the self-sabotage comes in, and you can hold onto these things and they will stick with you your whole life. You have to decide to let them go. And that's one of the things I talk about in the book. A lot of people may not know how to do that, and there are a lot of ways. But one of the first ways is to choose how you feel.
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You're in control of that. And it's easier said than done because when things aren't going your way, you're pissed off at everybody. You're like blaming everything. Well, first of all, you have to quit blaming everything else and realize that you're a magnet. You're magnetizing your whole world to you.
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You know, so if that's the case, obviously you switch it to an emotion that resonates with you more of how at least how you desire to feel. Right. And you can choose that. And I'm telling you, your whole experience will change. So happiness is something you can choose immediately.
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Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
And separate what you control and what you can't control.
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Big Sean: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck From Where You Are Now (Simple Strategies to Eliminate Endless Hours of Work)
It's just the recognition to me. One of the biggest blessings in your life is growing pains. One of the biggest blessings is going through a time where you are feeling at your lowest or depressed or whatever the feeling is, because that is just confirmation that you're not in alignment and that you're meant for something different or you're meant for something more, something greater.
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You know, if you were satisfied with where you're at, then that just is what it is. And, you know, you probably wouldn't even be depressed. But because you are, because you feel a certain way or like you're not all the way there, that is just confirmation that you are truly, truly meant for more or something different.
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So to me, I think that when you recognize, okay, once you start recognizing things of that nature, you can say, okay, what's the first step of getting out of this? And so that's part of the book. I say, accepting where you are. That doesn't mean you have to like... You have to like stay there.
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That just means accepting the blessings and all the things that come along with where you are to open up space for more. And you're letting go of all the baggage that is holding and weighing you down. I used to be like that. I used to be like, when things don't go my way, I'm terrible. oh, this doesn't happen the way I wanted it to or the way I saw it, my whole mood is shot.
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I'm not to say that things don't affect me when they don't go my way, but I have the armor on now. I know how to deal with it. I know how to get over it and get back to it. That's how a lot of my heroes deal with things too. When you think of Denzel Washington, say he has a new movie out, Say the movie does amazing and it's incredible and he wins an Oscar.
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Say the movie comes out and it bombs or doesn't do as well. He's not going to give up and quit. It's not going to ruin his life. He's going to move on to the next thing and use that to the power of separation. I mean, you know, that's a real thing.
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You reminded me of- I can't speak for Denzel. That's just like an example.
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Someone was asking me- It's like a Kobe mindset almost, right?
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Go on. I know you got a chance to talk to Kobe before and I've actually got a chance to talk to him as well. And he's incredible and his mindset was something that I admired so much. And I got a chance to talk to him literally a few months before he passed and And he was just telling me about how he meditates and what it does for him, right? And I just resonated with that so much.
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It's really cool because we all are reflections of each other, not just me and you or whoever. It's like everyone that's in your vicinity, in your environment is a reflection of you or a part of you, even if you like them or don't like them. You know, and it's something to recognize that we are all interconnected after you go down to the layers of it, right?
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You get past the singularity of like career, the, you know, family, house, this and that. We're all, you go really deep inside and we're all very similar. We're all the same. We have the same system of order of operations, you know? And it's really a true testament of we all are, everything physical is made of that same, I don't know what you want to call it, prana or love, energy.
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And as I've gotten older in my life, I see the similarities. I have friends that are In their 60s, 70s, you know, I have friends that are all races and things and I see myself in all of them. And I think that's something to recognize in such a world of separation.
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Every day I wake up, I'm one day closer to death. So what you gonna do with the time you got left? Big Sean. Hey! One of the biggest blessings is going through a time where you are feeling at your lowest or depressed or whatever the feeling is, because that is just confirmation that you're not in alignment and that you're meant for something different, something greater.
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I know that kind of is like a far reach from talking about the interaction with Kobe, but it's just crazy how in everyone that I've been meeting lately and even just from growing up that I've seen, it's like a mirror almost in a lot of ways.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
the hardest boundary I've had to set for myself is the boundary of, of not being overwhelmed, having to say like, yo, I can't do that. Or like, I'll take on as much as I can and then be like, I need, I like, hold up. I need to, I need time for this. Or if I get back from a trip, I know I'm supposed to do this or I have to get some rest, you know? Um,
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And I had to set a boundary because my son is two years, was, was one years old turning two at the time. And, and I had to take him trick or treating, man.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Yeah, and that's an important lesson right there. It'll happen when it's supposed to happen.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
We get caught up in a lot of things not happening on our time. And I know a lot of people say God's time and Cairo versus Kronos, I believe. But it's like, I think that there are a lot of things that I want to accomplish in my life that I haven't gotten to yet, you know, that like... But it's not like nothing to be mad about or depressed about or thinking that my life has no value.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Even if I hadn't sold one record or anything, even if I was still just, I would still be doing music even if it was just one of my passions. you know what I mean just like how I watch anime I don't get paid to do that but I take real time and I be watching anime because it's a passion of mine you know so I don't think that you know when things don't happen on your time that it's necessarily like
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the end of the world because it always happens at the time when you need it as opposed to when you want it and sometimes what we want and what we need isn't always at the same time sometimes it is and sometimes it's not and it's kind of hard to see you always see things in 2020 hindsight but you know it's hard as you're going through it and that is one of the biggest lessons I learned this year I'm still learning still applying along with setting boundaries along with
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
the balancing you know life and just like realizing that I am in control of how I feel you know for sure no matter what you're creating or what's happening you're in control of how you feel speaking of our guy Posner I'm sure he's going to get a few shout outs here
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
It was probably like 11.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Yeah, it was me, Mike Posner, Jay John, Say It Ain't Tone, Brandon. Earl Mack. Earl Mack, A-Dub. Key Wang. Key Wang, Pat Piff. And I'm sure, like, I'm probably, you know. It's kind of like naming every member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Absolutely.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Yeah, I had to. It was a representation of a lot more than just like my first album. It was like my life up until that point. And yeah, I empowered a lot of my people around me, like, My friend Lawrence, who just directed his first movie, and he did a lot of my videos, you know, like I Don't F*** With Your Video and me and Janae's I Know in 2088 and all these great videos.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
And he's also my son's godfather. He did a video from a song about my son as well. He's into movies now, or like Key Wayne, who was in the group, is like a... like an all-star mega producer, you know, produced for not just me, but Beyonce and Drake and Jasmine Sullivan, all these amazing artists. And then, yeah, so, you know, the list goes on. But it was, it meant a lot.
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And, you know, Mike Posner being one of those guys, we used to make music in his basement with his parents, you know, there. And his dad ended up getting brain cancer.
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and died pretty like it was a very like quick thing um relatively and i remember when i had coachella and i brought him out at my coachella performance and we felt the energy of his dad i felt his the spirit of his dad because it was such a uh his dad has such a warm, welcoming spirit, almost like angelic already while he was alive. And just him and his mom, you know, his dad and his mom both.
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So it was really, it was a full circle moment to be on that stage together like that. And it was like one of the biggest shows of my career. Yeah, it was like a huge crowd. It was like me and Harry Styles had like this split Coachella literally evenly at that moment while we were performing. It was amazing. It was amazing.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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Well, you got to remember that, like I said earlier in this interview, everything is separate and you don't realize that. So you think that things come with other things. So you're thinking that because you have money or because, you know, you live in Beverly Hills and, you know, you've got all these things, that the happiness equates to that.
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Now, I'm not saying I'm not about to be one of these people that has, you know, that has made money and be like, well, money doesn't buy you happiness. Money... Money is an amazing resource and it can make you happy temporarily. What I mean by that is it's a dopamine hit. So it's like, yeah, getting money is awesome and it can make you happy.
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But you realize that there's a lot of other things like that has to deal with, you know, to deal with. That's why you see, you know, you look at...
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people who committed suicide who were on top of the world you know um from chester to you know people who od to you know it's like you can't be the you think you're like the lead singer of nirvana or something and then you commit suicide or you know lincoln park or all the anybody or let me just not even use them as an example i'm sure there are tons of people right
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who are in that type of, have reached a wild level of success and choose to end their life, right? So you realize that those things are not the same thing. Now, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't, like, if you want money, you shouldn't go after getting money. I think that's important if that's, like, something that your heart desires.
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I know I wanted to, and I probably didn't understand if somebody who has made millions of dollars, say, oh money isn't everything it's like well it is everything like it'll change my whole situation but my what what i realized in that situation for me personally is that that had nothing to do with how i felt and it's because one i was abusing i feel like i was abusing adderall at the time and
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Adderall, you know, they don't tell you that, but it's really synthetic heroin and all sorts of craziness. There's just a lot to that, a lot of layers to that, right? So I was taking that type of stuff. I was not taking care of myself physically. You know, I was super skinny at the time, too. I was, like, malnourished. I was high a lot, you know. I was drunk sometimes, a lot of times.
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Not all the time, but like a very occasional drinker. Not just like I wasn't drinking every night, but like every time there was a function, you know, I would abuse it. Not abuse it, but I would indulge in it. Sure. So all of those things add up and they have a long term effect on your brain.
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They have a long-term effect on the dopamine your brain creates that leads to your creativity, leads to your happiness, leads to your living a, you know, your mind. My dad said on my album Dark Sky Paradise, your mind can be a trickster. And it'll make you really believe that you aren't meant to live. It'll make you really feel like you're not who you are. Really? You know what I mean? Sure.
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And so at that point in my life, I was confused. I had my head down and was working, working, working so much that I had to be on Adderall, working so much that I had to go from one thing to the next thing to the next thing to the next thing without satisfying myself first by doing what makes me happy. I let go of all of my passions that I love. I let go of no free time.
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It's like, this is the time to get money. You know, we come from a place like Ohio, right. Or Detroit or like, you know, the Midwest in general, where when you get an opportunity, it's like, you got to take advantage of it. You got to keep your foot on a neck. You got to like, keep your foot on the gas. Like you don't let up, like don't let the opportunity pass.
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And you kind of take that idea and it's implanted in you. And it's one of those things that you just like move forward with. Right. And you take it with you and you're like, I got to do this. I got to do that. I got to do that. I got to do that. Or else I'm going to,
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fall off and and go back to be irrelevant or something or yeah whatever we're just go back to living with you know it's like you create these stories like i'm gonna go back to living where i grew up at right like for me i grew up in i grew up in the hood and like i remember when i was analyzed it i'm gonna go back to the point where i analyzed like yeah what if everything didn't work out and i moved back to the hood
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I was happy there, too. Like, I'll figure it out still. Like, you know what I mean? So I'm not scared of that. Like, you can't let anything... You can't live a fear-based life for sure, you know? So point being is that, you know, when I... When I realized that all of those things weren't separate, I knew I had to make a change and I just quit doing everything. You know, I quit.
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I like canceled everything I had to do, canceled everything that I had coming up. And I was like, I got to figure out why I feel like this.
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interesting and it took a long time and somehow the universe was blessing me still like i never like was really low on money or low like the universe was providing its means for me to figure it out and that's how i knew it was in alignment with what i needed to do wow you know it's hard to say no to money sometimes and big opportunities though right it is got this artist or this person or this tv show that wants to do something with you and you say
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It is a lot of power. And yeah, because you're not coming from a place of scarcity. You know, your your character, your person comes first. You got to know the order of operations. You know what I'm saying? And you're at the top of that. So, yeah, it's great. You know, there are times where my team looked at me like, yo, you passed up on this amount of money.
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because you were, I was like, yeah, I was exhausted and I was this and I had to be here for my son and I had to do that and more will come. I believe in that. I really truly do. And it does. Yes. So you have to have that faith in yourself. You have to have that invisible bridge below you and know that you're going to walk across it and get to the other side.
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You're not going to fall flat on your face.
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Yes, I really feel like that. I talk about that on a song I have called Break the Cycle with Charlie Wilson, produced by my boy Leon Thomas. And I say, like, one of the cycles I broke in my family is the illusion of scarcity. Because it really is an illusion. And you could be like, no one can, you know, I didn't have any type of advantage coming into the world, you know, necessarily.
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Like, I didn't have, like, any padding financially. I didn't have anything. Like I did have a grandma who worked real hard, who was a female black captain in World War II. And then she was a, One of the first female cops in Detroit and then a teacher and a counselor was a historical woman. And she did all these amazing things.
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And she worked her ass off to give us a great, you know, the best life that she could provide her and my granddad. But we still financially had a lot of troubles, you know, so I think it was something that. A lot of us get taught early, like, oh, money's hard to come by. That's the concept that's not really true. Even the concept of, man, playing video games is a waste of your time.
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It's more than playing video games right now. Making millions right now. Bank. Yeah, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars. It's like that really, in hindsight, teaches you that just do what you love. There's a there's a audience pool and a necessity for anything, especially if your heart is attached to it. So my thing is, I had to over time just make an agreement with God that.
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i'll never have to worry about that that meaning like like i'll always get provided was what I need. As long as I'm operating from my heart and am of service, then I always have all that I need, period.
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Man, I have to give it up to Deepak Chopra because The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success.
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That actually was the first book that broke down money as an energy. And when I first, when I read it, I was like, what? Man. He was just saying just like anything like you can attract it is magnetic. So you could really be a magnet for whatever it is your afterlife. And that includes money isn't off the table.
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And, you know, so one of the things that I had to adopt is that there's enough money for everyone to go around. You don't have to look at it as like you're in a desert and there's like a glass of water and you have to, you know, it's not like that. money is getting printed every single day.
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Like, when I first read that book, I was 17, I believe. So that's when I was like, okay, I tried to like, obviously, I didn't have a dollar to my name. So I mean, besides the $20 I would get for allowance every week for doing chores and stuff, but like,
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I had to learn the concept from experience.
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at first it was like, hold on to your money, hold on to it, right? It's like, that's like the thing. You can get your money, hold on to it. And it's like, I remember when I got my first advance check for $15,000 and I took my girlfriend to get ice cream and it went down to $14,970. And I was like, ooh, it's going away. Yeah, it's like you felt it.
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And like that, the reason that it felt like that is because that's not in alignment with how it should be. You know, I really feel like that. Like,
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it feels good when you can like provide and like you know because you you are you are you're like a vessel man and it's like whatever you choose to activate and by the way my life now doesn't go exactly how I always wanted to go I don't like there are times where like things happen and I'll be like why did this is not how I wanted this to go this is not how I wanted it to happen but
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And you just got to move on, man, and just go to the next thing. But my point is, is when I started when I started to implement that, was around the time, like I said, around 19 when I got my first advance check. And then, like, every time that I was like, oh, wait, it's getting low, there's always an opportunity for something else to figure your way.
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And that's when you do right by yourself and when you do right by, you know, everyone around you and when you are empowering people and when you're trying to, like, just be who you are meant to be, the best you. It's like things, I promise you, is going to happen for you.
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Lately, I need to, I've told myself, like, I need to be a little more grateful for the money that does come in. I've kind of have gotten like, oh, okay, cool. Used to, oh, okay, this. Oh, we got that check. Okay, cool. Oh, that came in, that deposit hit. And I don't, I told myself, like, by the way, I do affirmations every day, so it's like I'm grateful is one of them.
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I'm thankful for my life and every aspect of it. But I do want to just put – I do want God to know because – I always like to think that God gives us everything we need, right? And a lot of times what we want as well, especially when it aligns with what we need. And one of the things that I want is money, right?
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And then when it comes in, I shouldn't just pretend like it's supposed to be like that. I should really acknowledge it and be grateful for it more. So I've actually and that kind of comes with just having a busy schedule. I'm still a new dad in a sense. I'm still, you know, a lot. I have a lot of hats as a person and you kind of like lose the importance of a lot of things.
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So I've been I've been meaning to like really moment by moment be grateful. You know what I mean?
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It does.
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Oh, I'm going to use that. Where do you want to go? It flows. Everything. Man, that gave me goosebumps, man. Because everything has...
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a life to it even like making music it's like i i sometimes like when i'm on a beat i ask myself like okay what does this song want to be where does you know what does it want to go what do you want me to say on it and sometimes i'll get it then and that that should go for everything and i i do have a very like diverse portfolio when it comes to like finances and stuff like i do have like stuff in the stock market stuff in crypto real estate
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um i invested in businesses that worked and didn't work you know i made money off some um what's the best investment you've ever made in your life best investment i've ever made in my life currently probably the return was probably bitcoin i ain't gonna lie i also invested in uber which has kind of been a long play i kind of got in a little bit late with uber but
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I think one day it's gonna pay off, but really the whole point of my portfolio is to pass on to my kid, or I only have one now, or my kids, you know?
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probably spending all my money on studio sessions growing up. That was probably the best investment yet. Cause it was, it trained me to like be in a studio, be on a mic to write music, you know, and I've written music for like, not just myself, but I've also written some stuff for other people. Like I've written stuff for Janae.
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I've written stuff for, I got to write with Anderson Pack and Bruno Mars and like some other people, obviously for Ye as well. Like, I've gotten a chance to like be a writer in that sense, not just for myself and not like I'm not saying I wrote like people's albums.
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I'm talking about just slightly contribute as a writer, investing in that just early on, you know, being 11 years old, 12 years old in the studio.
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Time is the most valuable currency that you can spend and you can't get back, you know? That's the biggest investment is to put time into something, you know?
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That is, you know, what you put time into is worth more than anything because it can bring you, you know, all of these things can be a byproduct of it, like money or happiness or, you know, impacting someone's life, which is the main goal is to really impact someone else, you know, to be of service. And you let the laws of the universe apply to you, you know, and it comes back to you.
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in a way you may not expect. But I think that when we realize how interconnected we all are, when we realize how you take away the singularity of a job, the singularity of a house you live in, the singularity, and then you go within and you realize that not only are we all
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operating on the same system we all are very much so alike and everything that's alive everything that's flowing in nature every animal everything it's like we all come from this certain energy that we all are empowered from and we all are made from it's like the some people call it prana some people call it love some people call it whatever it is you want to call it
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we all when you boil it down through all the layers we all are interconnected and you see it you see it as examples like for instance when we're in traffic and everyone's moving at the same pace and like stops at the same time and this and you see it's like you see us
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even during the pandemic everyone shut down it's like you see how we all operate when it's when when you take away all the layers we all have to operate on the same wavelength and um it goes deeper than that but you know invest invest in time to me is something that we all have right now um some people have more time than others yeah and that that is probably the greatest investment
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I think I labeled it as everything, but I didn't have everything. It wasn't like Thanos with the rings on.
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Yeah, that's right.
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1,000%, yeah.
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how that was. My frequency, I was happy at the time. I was definitely happy, but I don't know. It's like, like I said, it's not the same as like a high off of life feeling. You know, it's not the same. It's like synthetic versus the real thing. You know what I mean?
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Wow.
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It's kind of embarrassing, I'm not gonna lie.
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And some people may think that sounds cliche or corny or whatever.
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Well, let me tell you something. So I stopped drinking for like years and stuff. And like, so when I'm at an event and I see everyone drunk around me, it's so funny to see people high and drunk and you're like straight sober. Yeah. And the frequency, obviously, yes, obviously it's tremendously different, but
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It just also is like you don't need to be having it's like the frequency matches the environment, too. So it's like you may not have to be like at a high frequency when you're in the middle of a club and you just want to get drunk. And, you know, it's I do think that like the long term effects of like, you know, I've had friends that was alcoholics. I've seen it ruin people's lives.
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I've seen it like ruin life. I've seen people not be able to, you know, it affects a lot of things. It doesn't just affect your body physically. Alcohol affects your brain for like weeks after, months after, years after. And same with like, especially these pills and things like that.
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I think it affects your soul, too. So, yeah, I do think that 100 percent. I do think that the frequency is not the same as when you're like, for instance, sober and you're high experience and high of life, which I've experienced. And that's can't beat that. You know why you can't beat it? Because you are the drug. It's not like you're taking something to feel the effects of it.
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It's like you are the source of it. So it's like you are creating the high. Yes. You know, and like you're in alignment with what is going on in the world. So it's like you can't beat that. Let's go. You can't even buy that. You know what I'm saying? You can't buy that. You can't buy that.
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Yeah. And, you know, when you say like you have to tap into it, I think people get a sense like it's a lot of work or it's like very hard. And I'm not saying it is or it isn't. It can be more work for you. Everyone is different. Everyone's on their own path. But it doesn't take much.
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It really just takes being real with yourself and finding out what works for you to be able to tap into the life that you deserve, that you can experience and really enjoy. But it starts with an N. That's the point.
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No, not at all.
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Not at all.
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Well, I'm still making money, so that's another thing. Like, those have nothing to do with each other. You know what I'm saying? There are people who are on all those type of things that are way richer than me, but that don't mean they're more successful than me. People tie all these things together. They be like, oh, because you got... $150 million, do you think you're more successful than me?
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It's like that has nothing to do with it. That's just a concept that we tie to that. That just means you have more money than me. That's all that means is that you have more money. That don't mean that you get to me holding my baby. Me going trick-or-treating with my son, that's success. That's successful. That didn't cost me hardly anything.
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What's up, bro?
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So it's like you what is people tying everything together and you're going to be a victim of these conditional things like thinking that money is success. Now, success brings does bring money. Success also brings a lot of other things. Success can can bring. But it's not that. And that's what I mean by like separating it all. You know what I mean? So I don't I didn't I didn't tie like.
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Couple Midwest kids.
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You know, I used to. I used to be like, oh, this is the reason why I'm successful is because I'm taking this Adderall. You know, yeah. And then that's when I realized I had a problem when I would go to the studio and I couldn't do the studio without taking it. So that's when I had to check myself and be like, no, you know, like that. This don't this isn't right. Like this is I'm here for.
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Yes. I talk about that in the book as well. I made agreements with God about one of the agreements I made is that like we talked about financial. I don't want this to be like a big financial episode, but one of the agreements I made is that, yeah, I always – When my son was born, I made an agreement to be the best dad I could be.
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Well, trust me, bro. Go blue, okay?
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Another agreement was that when I'm pursuing my passion or my purpose or having my heart in the right place, that I'll never have to worry. I always have the means needed, no matter what. That's an agreement I made. I never have to worry about
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about money or whatever it is you know that has to do deal with that and there are some other ones that are like kind of a little more personal sure yeah no worries but i mean those are very personal too especially my son is as personal as it gets but yeah what was this moment like or moments like where you said god i'm gonna make an agreement with you and did you hear anything in return
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I feel like God talks to you in a lot of ways. It's not always where you hear it in that sense. Sometimes you feel it. And feeling it is like hearing it, you know? Like goosebumps, when you get goosebumps. Whatever it is, or something happens in synchronicity with that. There was one time in my life where I heard the voice of God, though. One time. And it wasn't when I was meditating.
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It wasn't when I was like... You know, I've done, like, intense meditations, like, on top of mountains and, you know. Or, like, it wasn't when I was, like, peaceful on a walk. It was when I was, like, it was between, it was, like, late at night or early in the morning, rather. And I heard, it's really so personal. I don't even know if I want to share it all the way.
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I know. You know, I have had one of my best shows of my life was at Ohio State. Let's go. It was. It was. Even though I am... Die Hard, Go Blue. I did perform at Ohio State and it was turnt.
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I definitely heard the voice of God. And it said something that resonated. It was a voice I'd never heard before that sounded so familiar. And... It's giving me goosebumps, man. It was, like, very real, and I knew exactly what it was. It wasn't like... Like, I wasn't dreaming. I was very conscious, and I heard it twice. And I got a message, and then I was like, what? And then I got it again.
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And it was very loving, but it was very...
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heavy and it was very like present it was very clear wow i know was it giving you wisdom or guidance or just kind of like an affirmation from for you to to remember something about yourself or yeah it was like definitely um it was like just part it just was personal that related to me you know and it's something that i'll always remember and always apply and is that when you said i'm gonna make an agreement with you
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No, that was another time. So, no, when I set an agreement, you know, God is something you feel more so than something that is like you see. Even though this is all a testament to God, me, us being able to talk, communicate.
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You know, you realize that because, yeah, like we get so desensitized. So we're used to life. Until we aren't here no more. You know, you got to remember. So one of the things having a kid taught me is like. The sperm and the egg, you're you're fighting impossible odds. It's like the odds are like a million times crazier than winning the mega millions that are billions.
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You know, it's like crazy astronomical odds that you beat to get here, that you fight through, that you get to. And then you're the one that makes it into this into this egg. Right. The one out of all these. hundreds of billions of other options. So you got to realize that on a level, we probably, we fought to be here.
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you this is something this is a privilege to be here for real not just saying that trying to sound like positive it's really a privilege to be in this it's like for real and you have to understand that you know we uh we we circum ourselves and get used to this life but it's miraculous every day you see it's like We see the sun give life to all of these things.
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Well, it was spiritual, I guess, in that sense. But it was just turnt up. It was like wild, like chaotic. Chaotic. They know how to really party.
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We see how everything works in such a system that if one thing was off, if the sun was a little bit closer, if the moon was a little bit closer, we wouldn't be able to survive. If the temperature was a little different, if, you know, Earth could survive, but we couldn't survive. So you got to understand that we're here for a reason. If you're on Earth, you're here for a reason.
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It ain't doesn't mean you're meant to be the president of the United States or whatever, because we think, oh, that's a reason worth living. No, your reason could be to impact somebody. Your reason to be could be to enjoy the beauty of life. That's a reason. And that's fine. You know what I'm saying?
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So I know we got a little bit off topic, but, you know, I think one of the things that people should keep in perspective of like, yo. We're here and we're in it right now. We're lit right now. We're in it. Right, for sure.
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They do.
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Well, I really appreciate you bringing that up because you reminded me. It's like I love getting reinforcement.
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It is. I was meant to hear that, you know, today because it's like, yeah, I got to remember that. that what I was told that day, you know?
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Some stuff is personal and it's like, you know, you got to like hold on to some stuff, share some stuff.
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What I'm doing, not be quiet, not try to be too cool, you know, share, share what I have to offer and be, and be of service and, you know, have fun.
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Also, you know, that's, those are the things that I got from what I heard. That's cool. Yeah.
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This is years ago. No, this was like a year ago, probably. Yeah. As of recent.
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After my son was born. Yeah. After he was born. which that's a real miracle right there no wow having a kid or like by the way it's very very um it's a lot more than you could do you have kids or not not yet but we're oh yeah okay hopefully starting it's a lot more than you could imagine um my hats go off especially to moms and mothers um what's the best thing about being a dad for yourself
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Yeah, I know. But, man, I'm happy to be here, man. I've seen a lot of great people. and congratulations on, I know it's been like 13 years you guys have been doing this.
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I love being a dad. I'm not just a father. I'm a dad, too. So I'd be like baths, diapers, this, that, spending time playing. Like I don't play about like when it comes to that with my son because, you know, one of the coolest things like having my dad around is I could talk to him in a different manner now. I kind of understand him differently.
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And there are times where I have other things to do, and I'll put things off that are important sometimes for my son, you know? And I remember I said, man, it's crazy. He's one year old. He's not even going to remember this. And my dad was like, yeah, his DNA is going to remember it, though. That hit me like a lightning bolt. You know what I'm saying?
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It was like, yeah, he might not have a memory of it, but his DNA is so knowledgeable that he'll remember it. And your guys' bond is going to... Your bond is going to...
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outlive his memory you know what i'm saying like for as long as he remember he's gonna have a bond with his days it's not like you meet somebody and go on a date and it's like oh you're you're great like let's be friends or you know whatever it's like no he's gonna that's that is like you're setting up the building blocks and that's when i was like this is always productive always productive
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Oh, what'd he say?
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Oh, man, his heart. You know, I talked about it. He has such a giving heart. Such a... He's a... He has a pure, like, soul to me. And he was just a caring... He was caring, and, like, one of the things I vividly remember growing up was, like, our rise to school. I like how real he kept it with me. I like, like, just how, like...
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Like, that's how I learned about, like, the birds and the bees with my dad. Like, I just appreciated him, like, really just keeping it real with me. And also, like, you know, we would do, like, a word of the day sometimes on the way to school, you know. So he was a special guy. And I feel like he, like, approached everything with love, you know. And I appreciated that.
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I know.
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That's success, right? That was success for him. Yeah, not the B he had in his account.
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It is. And you know, life is short, man.
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And to that, to that point, I do feel like we get, I believe this, you know, you can argue with me all day. I do feel like we get to, we choose our parents coming into this world. So what that means is some people might be like, Oh, I hate my mom. Like I did not choose her for my mom. Right. Or like, I hate my dad. Right.
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But my thing is, is like, it goes back to the concept, but God don't give you what you want. God gives you what you need. Like say, if we're here to progress our souls, if we're here to, to learn, you know, we don't know what it's like to learn on a soul level. That's something that the experiences can only teach you. And the person you're,
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you're sculpted to be, that comes from experiences, right? So sometimes people learn from having great parents or whatever, or great role models in their life to be like them. And some people even learn better from not what to be.
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And some people realize later on the lessons that they're taught from dealing with things that they did not want to go through, you know, because it may switch a whole something around or it may inspire something or.
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we never know what we never know really we can make these assumptions and plans and god gonna laugh at us because it's like it's never it's never as linear as we think it is all the time you know yeah uh on page 93 of your book you say make three agree make three agreements with the universe write them down and sign your name underneath with the words so be it yeah
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Well, I just chose the number three because that's a good number to me. Like you could do 10 if you want or you could do one if you want. Or, you know, I just chose like three just to get your mind going. But I signed it at the bottom because to me it's like a contract. You know, it's like that's how I sign my business deals. I sign it at the bottom.
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I put the so be it there because that's like a declaration. That's like you like. That's like you activating it to me, you know? It's like you sign it and then you hit it with a so be it, like, or it is done, you know? To me, it's like, I don't want people to think that's like witchy or anything like that. It's not to me. To me, it's more like, it's more so like business.
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That's how businessmen be operating. They signing that signature right there. They are. You know, so.
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Yeah, and that's how serious you're taking it. You're taking it serious enough to write it down, sign your name, letting them know who it's from, and solidifying it. So that's how I look at it.
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I don't know about the greatest one ever, but it was a good one. It was a good one, yeah.
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Has there ever been a time? You had low self-worth. That I had low self-worth. Yeah. Yeah, of course. I'm human, man. Like, I think we all go through those times where we kind of, like, doubt ourselves, question ourselves. Like, yeah, like, especially when you're after something or when you know you can do better. Which is a lot of us. We know we feel like we can do better.
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We feel like we're made for more. We get that confused. Well, well, maybe we don't know that, but we get confused of like feeling bad and wondering why you feel bad. It's like if you realize that like you're an antenna and like you're like a like it's like tuning a radio station. If it's off, you're going to you're not going to get the message. So like.
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Those times are meant for you to just like fine tune yourself and get on the right frequency so you can really get to where you need to be. Right. The ego part that you were talking about, your ego is bigger than your self-worth. To me, a lot of people say you need to kill your ego, blah, blah, blah. Right. To me, I feel like your ego is a part of you. You can't really kill a part of you.
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You got to work with your ego and you got to understand.
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be like ego yourself is all of these different things you know you're like a mental person spiritual emotional physical then there's like the ego that's a part of it right and then there's like your heart that's a part of it your gut all these things I feel like are like the makings of like it's like a team of you that lives in this one being your soul right I feel like you can't just let your ego be in the driver's seat all the time
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There are times where it needs to be in the driver's seat where it's like, oh, the cameras are on you. What you going to do? That's times where it's like ego, like we about to, you know, but, you know, but to me, as far as that goes, those are just the learning experiences that only life would teach you, man. You know, like you go through those moments and they make you who you are.
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It's like you wouldn't be who you are if you didn't have that time where you slept on your sister's couch in Columbus. That's true, man. You know what I mean? And the willingness to want to do better, that's like, it's different if you were satisfied with that. If you were like, this is it. This is good. This is what life is. But you weren't. And I think that's something to really embrace is that
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willingness to want to do better and i know it hurts to people out there i know it hurts it could be you would want to take your life over it you know um you could want to like just give up and be a terrible person to people but i'm telling you man that's like it's just all part of it and nothing lasts forever even if things do last a long time nothing lasts forever so that's true
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embrace it let that be your fuel let it be your fire you know i can't give you the directions on how to be successful i can only show you what has worked for me in some situations or you know you can only tell us what has worked for you in some situations and you apply it to yourself but you do i can 100 know that you got what it takes i'm gonna look at every camera you got what it takes you got what it takes you got what it says i promise you
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There have been times where I've attempted to manifest things and it didn't happen. And there are times where it did happen. And then there are times where it happens at a time where I didn't expect it to happen. And then there are times where it's like, oh, I put that... You know, I let that go and it ended up coming to fruition. So everything is different.
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But for me, what works is like just having clarity on it and being realistic with myself or embracing the unrealistic.
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It's unrealistic, right.
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Well, that's just because you may not be there yet. Yeah, exactly. You know, we kind of sometimes, that's kind of like where anxiety and depression comes from is that we try and like put ourselves forward in our story. And then by the time you get there, you'd be like, oh, this is it. Like, it's like, it's natural, right? So it's like.
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And sometimes that anxiety and all of that, like looking forward to something, it can hold you back from just naturally being like, look, it's going to happen when it happens. I'm going to be ready. And. you know, everyone's situation is different. So that means it could be like, say you fail the bar exam five times.
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Like, it's like, you're going to, you're not going to go your whole life failing the bar exam. You're going to eventually get it because your preparation is going to meet the opportunity. As long as you are being aware, as long as you are being like, okay, this, that's probably where I messed up at. Let me really do my, you know, the time you put in is never wasted. Yeah. I feel what I'm saying.
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So, Um, yeah.
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That's one of the ones by Esther and Jerry Hicks. The Teachers of Abraham. Shout out Esther and Jerry Hicks and Deepak and Paulo Coelho. Yeah, they're all great.
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Ask and it is given taught me to, I guess it taught me to manifest things by putting yourself on the frequency of whatever it is you're desiring. You know, I don't remember what book. Taught me the I try not to say want so much when it relates to the things that I really want in life, because I don't like acknowledging the lack of so much.
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Happens to so many artists like this.
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Yeah. So I'll say I desire it. It's my desire. You know, I want it. It's like. I'll say I want sometimes like, oh, I want some pizza. I want that. Things that I know are obtainable. But for sometimes when it's really one of those main goals, I don't like to say I want to be. I like to say like, I can't wait until or like I desire my, you know, it's one of them. I desire that or I don't know why.
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That's just a personal thing.
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On how you speak the word. Yeah, it's the frequency for me. That's what it is.
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Like an example is like... I want that new Benz. And the example is like, man, it's going to feel good when I get that new Benz, man. Like, it's going to feel, it's like, it's going to be like, man, I can't wait to rock. Like, it's like, you know, I don't even want to use a can either. Like, I'm excited about the new Benz because it's mine.
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So that's what Asking It Is Given taught me by Mr. Jerry Hicks. It taught me to put yourself on a frequency and just see how life changes for you. You know, I can't guarantee everything you ever want will happen, but I can guarantee that life will change if you really practice putting yourself on that frequency and keeping yourself there as much as you can. Because it's hard.
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Right.
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It's a lot of work, man. And I don't do like life isn't meant to just be work every day. You know, these aren't it's not you're not like we're not in school all day long to like manifest our goals. It's like you have to find what works for you. Some people prefer therapy. Some people prefer yoga. Some people prefer meditation. Some people prefer yoga. writing things down.
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Some people prefer saying them out loud. Some people, it's like, you got to find what really works for you and like, see what, how it goes.
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I feel like you do always have to be proactive and you realize that, you know, I feel like you put your attention on your intention. You're proactive, meaning that you take action and, um, Then you also have to be able to let it go. Gosh, it's so hard for people. Holding on to something. Holding on to it. It's like you got to let it go and have that trust, you know?
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And you're in the middle of trust. You are in the middle of trust. So you have to trust yourself that that's whatever your process is, you know?
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Yeah.
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Heck yeah.
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I know. I know it can be hard. I don't want to agree with you because that's a concept that I don't want to like take on. I don't think that it's hard to trust.
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Yeah, it is. It is. Yeah, for sure. It is. And it has been hard for me a lot of times in my life.
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definitely being i've started rapping when i was 11 years old so i didn't get a record deal till i was 19 ish 20 19 or 20 so that's probably the longest one but when it comes to like numbers and sales and stuff those that's all beautiful you know what i'm saying but
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that is just like it's so momentary moment it's so moment it's just that is what it is so it's like you that's something you can't control meaning it's all the way yeah and you can put your energy on it you could put your intention and your attention and it may go the way you want it may do better it may do worse but That's something that's out of your control is how people consume your art.
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Well, you can't trust everything you see, but you can trust everything you feel. You feel me? So it's one of those things where I didn't know how it was going to happen. And I think that's one of the things we don't have to worry about all the time is the how. I think we get racked up on those details of like, how is it going to happen? How? But.
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The real win is that you got to make it. The real win is that you got to create it, and that's the win already.
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Yeah. So it's like all the other stuff is like sprinkles on top is awesome. It's great. Success can be like I feel like that can be a part of someone's success is like achieving the goals that they wanted to achieve on a project. And but like I said, when that doesn't happen, which that's happened to me, there have been times where I've sold.
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records on the album not sold as many as i would like to and so on and so forth and it's just you got to just go keep going and and have fun with it you know yeah yeah sometimes like sometimes you get to take things too serious and it's like you know you realize that you already won by getting it to do what you love to do 100 like i said if like
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You look at anyone else, like, you think Will Smith going to be down and out that his movie didn't do as well as he wanted? Then the next one does amazing, and then the next one doesn't, and then the next one does. Like, these people, it's like we get to, you know, or they get to be artists. Yeah. You know, like... Every Van Gogh wasn't the Van Gogh. You know what I mean?
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It's like every piece is like, that's one thing. And that's the beauty of it. That's really the beauty of it, man.
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Therapy was just a way of being able to communicate things. You know, therapy has a way of being able to communicate things that you wouldn't normally talk about, things that you wouldn't normally touch on with a friend or family member necessarily, or may not be as deep in that sense, you know? So to me, therapy was just a great way to unpack certain things.
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And, you know, communication, I've said this before, like communication is the bridge to salvation that God is holding our hand to walk across. And just like any bridge, you can't skip a step to get to the other side. So it's like, When you are in therapy, you is really uncovering so many amazing and hurtful and emotional things about yourself.
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But it really helps so many aspects of your life, man. It really can help you unpack things. It can help you. It can help you let go of things. It can help you forgive someone that you've been holding on to. And that stuff is like it takes a real estate in your mind.
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mind body and soul you know and it may could be holding you back from something really truthfully um there are a lot of things that i've had to clear in my life you know i feel like really yeah there are a lot of like mindsets a lot of concepts that i used to believe that i had to communicate and realize that that is not the truth and I learned from one of my mentors a while ago, Christy Sheldon.
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if you feel it if you trust it then you also have to let it let it out in the world and um know that it's gonna happen at the right time you just gotta prepare for it so that's kind of like was always my mentality and even like in my early music like i do make like a lot of fun music party music but i always have a sense of like my essence of my spirit in some of those songs too like
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I haven't talked to her in years, but one of the things she used to do is when you have a concept of something that you've been applying in your life, she would say, whatever, whatever, whatever it is, delete, destroy, uncreate, and transmute across all time, space, dimension, and realities. It is done. Wow. Done. It's over with. It's behind you now.
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And sometimes you have to say it, like, more than once. But, yeah, like, I definitely, there was so many. I don't even, I can't even remember because I'm over it.
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Yeah, I removed it. But there have been times where I've had to say that multiple times in my life. And I still do to this day as well. Like if there's something that is like striking me and like I have to delete, destroy, uncreate and transmute that across all time, space, dimension and realities.
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I deserve it. That's one of the things is, like, thinking you're not worthy, like you said. To create more abundance and to create more whatever it is you're after in life, I guess abundance is a good word to label whatever it is you're after, is to empower yourself and know you do deserve it, you know? And that's one of the things that, like, therapy, that's one of the things that,
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
for me meditating or just like, or just reminding myself who I am, you know, I'm not better than anyone, but I deserve whatever it is I desire. That's just, that's a fact. That's really a fact. You know what I mean? So once you get rid of those concepts and of thinking you, you know, how can you being happy you don't have something when you don't think you deserve it?
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Yeah, that's kind of what this whole book is like. Not the whole book, but that's kind of like what I try. First of all, I got to acknowledge that you're not alone. we've all have been there. We've all have been there where we, the world was against us. And one bad thing happens after another. And you're like, well, I guess I'm not meant to be doing this.
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Or I guess this is like, you know, where you, it's brought you to tears or brought you, you know, um, and the best part about those moments is it teaches you something new about yourself, but it also is, is temporary. And you can use that for fuel to your fire. And also, um, You have to make a switch in your mind. You have to realize what you're creating. Everything is a reflection of you.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
So what are you, you know, instead of blaming everyone else, how are you manifesting it? Yeah. Instead of pointing that finger, when you realize there's three fingers pointing back at you, you got to realize that, okay, I, let me, let me change. If I'm not happy with how things are going. Let me change.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
you know even songs like bounce back or even one of my first songs was i'm gonna make a million and one dollars and it was like still like manifestation but really like yeah it was like i was applying it to like my stuff you know but i also was just like having fun with it but i think that's important too to have fun with it um
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Let me, let me realize that I'm the source and let me change what I'm doing and see if that effect and see how that changes it. You know, you're not going to get, you're not going to get, uh, what you desire by like being like,
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
up yeah or like being negative and angry at the world or all these things like i'm not saying you can't take that angry there's infinite possibilities you can't take that and let that fuel you but if it hasn't been working for you then yeah you got to change up you gotta change up your mentality because your mentality is everything it really is it's the beginning of everything faith and then the mentality you know
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Have you ever read that book, The Secrets of
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
the hidden secrets of I've read it and I can't remember the name of it it's like talking about speaking to water positively and speaking to water differently and you know you look at the water down to the crystal levels cause they're like and you see that like it'll be like a beautiful snowflake when you're speaking to water positively and then it'll be like a like deformed looking crazy thing when you're like saying like you suck
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
You don't deserve this, like this and that, as opposed to like you're worthy. I love you. It's, you know, instead of and you see the difference of how in water. Right. And you realize that we're like 70, 80 percent water and you realize how important it is to speak these things onto yourself and to say them out loud. It has an effect.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Yeah, it is because that's your subconscious. And to me, your subconscious mind is like the secret to, that's like one of the secrets to manifesting is really, because your subconscious mind can't tell what is like real and what isn't. So meaning like, you might be like, oh, I don't know if this is going to work, but let me just do it. And then you'll be like, I am this, I am that, I am that.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
I was blessed to have like all of these guardian angels, like my mom and, you know, a lot of my friends and just like, I feel like, I feel like God and the universe and all of these things that you, if you believe in it, they talk through other people or through instances or a song you're hearing or, you know, I'm really, one of the first books that really taught me to pay attention to the omens was The Alchemist.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
So you feed it. You give it all of the nutrition so it could be the healthiest possible. You know what I'm saying?
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
You know what? That's something I'm going to have to take with me and think about. That's a great question. I think that I kind of need to
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
take time out a little more to uh live my life all the way what i mean by that is like go like whatever it is whatever i feel i feel like i have to really accept that i deserve that and that i have the means to do it and like you know i can't say like oh i should i'm held back by this or that so That's one thing. There are a few things on my list that I know that are kind of personal. Sure, sure.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
I appreciate you because that is something that I'm going to actually... I hope somebody wrote that down out there because...
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Yeah, I should have brought my journal to take notes, really. I love that you do that.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Oh, that was a question in my book. It's your book. Yeah. Um, which by the way, the answer I gave is just that some of this stuff is personal. So I just don't want to say it on camera. It's not like I didn't have it. Like I know what the thing is. So what was the next one you said? What do I need to make peace with?
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
I'll give an example of something that I need to make peace with. There is a friend at home that was one of my best friends growing up that hurt me in a sense of overstepping boundaries, trying to do business with him, trying to put him in things.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
You know, I don't want to get too many details because I don't like embarrassing people, but that's one of the things that I need to make peace with in a sense of knowing how to move forward with that, but also letting go of that, letting go of that hurt.
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Yeah, not letting me apply what our situation was to other situations, you know, of like maybe being a little bit having a reservation of doing certain business with people because of that situation. And that has nothing to do with that. You know, I have to practice that rule of separation that I've been talking about of like that has nothing to do with that.
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Well, one of the next three steps is, one, I have to take time out to actually address these things and respect that You know, a lot of times if we're not making money or doing things, we think that it doesn't deserve.
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Yeah, it doesn't think that it deserves that much time. So I have to realize that I need to take time. I need to take responsibility. I need to be confident in my decision. That's one of the things that I lacked my whole life was confidence in my decisions. I had confidence as a person, but being confident in my decision, that doesn't matter what the outcome is.
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And it's like, you got to pay attention to the signs and the omens. And when you are grateful for that, when you entertain it, when you get more energy to it, you act like a magnet. You know, you magnetize it to yourself. So it's like, That is, you know, just how I think. And I think that however we think is the truth. You know, there is no right or wrong way to do things.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
The confidence in the decision is already a win, you know, because that is the quality of man. And that is the quality that I want to pass on to my future generations. That's something I want to see in my son and his son and his daughter, my daughter, whoever, you know.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Well, besides making, like, the best kid ever in the world, that's one thing I'm for sure proud of. Another thing is being able to... achieve something that a lot of people told me was impossible you know a lot of people and achieve it by not believing them that's one of the things I'm most proud of because it's so easy to believe what someone says but to bring it all the way back around
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
You have to believe what you feel always and not always believe what you see, but always believe what you feel. And that is the one thing I'm proud of that I've been able to do. Yeah, when you do think, like, you get to collab with your favorite artists, people you consider the greatest artists,
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you know, from Ye to Jay to Eminem to Nas to Lil Wayne, you know, all of my favorites that are alive still and have, like, plaques with them with their names on it. Like, oh, you know, this me and Kanye song went seven times platinum. Oh, me and Jay, oh, me, Jay, and Kanye song went five times. Oh, your song went this or you did this or you, you know, going diamond and all these things. It's like,
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
something I'm really grateful for and proud of, but the, I'm not as proud of that as just like believing and like, you know, believing in myself that I could do it means more than the actual thing.
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Kanye, for sure. He was the one who let me be a fly on the wall in the studio.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Yeah. Well, actually, there aren't a lot of people who would let a kid come up to them, rap for them. Eventually, you know, sign them, build a bond with them, give them opportunity. It's not a lot of people who would do that. And that's just been, he did. He did. Yeah, for sure. And yeah, that was, yeah, that's been awesome. Eminem too, really.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
There's no right or one of the biggest misconceptions. It's like, I don't know how to meditate. You know, it's like there really is no right or wrong way. It's really just about you believing in it.
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Yeah, crazy.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Well, one of the things I've been talking about this whole interview, the separation of... I learned that just because you're the biggest rapper of all time in the world doesn't mean that, like, you're taking it easy. It's like his passion has nothing to do with his success, in a sense. It's a byproduct of his passion, but at the same time, like, he's in the studio every day. He's hungry.
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He's, like, trying to do his best, and he's, like, has sold a trillion records. And, you know, I said it in another interview, like, he cares about
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rapping like how goku care about fighting you know and i really learned that uh that that that passion is its own beast that has nothing to do with you know a lot of people be like oh you know it's just i guess he taught me to just really go with how you feel you know that's what he feel like doing yeah
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
And he said... He said he has a real huge heart.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
I care about the product of what the book teaches you more than you getting it. You can get it and pass it on to somebody and pass it on to 10 different people. I really love the it's not about like the amount of the books, but man, I just really appreciate those kind words you said.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
It's, uh, sometimes it is, gets a little lonely walking the road I'm on, you know, uh, but I gotta just keep it real with myself. So, What I can say is that I'm very grateful. Of course, anything you hear from me, you can indulge in. Just be the best you, man. That's the way you do it. You go higher with whatever it is you got going on.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
One is, sounds very cliche, but you are the source of your happiness. Be happy. You don't have to chase it. It's already there. You just got to choose it. Another is to have fun. See yourself in everyone else. Because everything that comes into your existence is just a reflection of you. and vice versa. So see yourself in everyone because that will really create a lot for you, I promise.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
To me, it's the act of doing your best, right? So to me, the definition of greatness is like living at the highest frequency in every aspect, getting the most out of life, Whatever that means for you, you know, like getting the most out of it. That's greatness. Yeah. My man, big shot. Hey, appreciate you. It's been a true pleasure, man. Yeah. Powerful, man. Thank you.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Yeah, I'll tell you what it is. It's two things. you got to realize that everything isn't together. So what I mean by that, everything isn't singular. So what I mean is that because things weren't working out for me, that doesn't have anything to do with my happiness. Because my dream was taking longer to happen, because things weren't going my way,
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at first i was letting it dictate my life i was letting it like tear me down and be depressed over it you know and be like and then you realize that yo hold up that's this is my choice to to to be happy and then i realized that okay If I choose that, I'm operating at a different level of just consciousness. So that's how I'm going to get this.
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I'm not going to attract nothing I want by being depressed or down because things aren't going my way. Bro, life moves on.
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It does. So it does affect me emotionally, but I don't let it overtake me. You know, like when Mike Posner was talking about he would see me and it was dark for me, that's because I would let something affect me and I would hold on to it and I would be blaming that for next week. I'm still blaming that. The week after, I'm still blaming it. Three months later, oh, it's because of that, you know.
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And... It's like I still go through all of these, you know, life can be like hurtful. It could be like getting punched in the face. You know what I'm saying? And but the thing is, I don't let it linger. I still might be hurt about something. I still may be disappointed. But it's like that's the point of it. It's like it teaches you something. You always learn something from these situations. And.
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you come out and realize that okay that was just a moment now i'm on to the next moment go ahead it's like when you look at the greatest people uh in a category all right so let's pick like denzel washington right uh so or will smith or whoever it's like Say they have an awesome movie and it does well. Say they have a bad movie and it flops. They're not going to be like, I quit. It's over for me.
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They're going to be like, all right, we're on to the next one. What's the next thing? And I think that we have to remember that life is just full of all these amazing moments. And when you look back on it, you'll see the beauty in everything. Yeah. You know? Absolutely.
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Can you manifest your dreams from a depressed state? It depends on if the depression fuels you or if it cripples you. Just like stress, there's eustress, which is a motivating stress, and then there's distress, which is the stress that makes everything harder. So I feel like you can use your... You can use any aspect of life as an opportunity to get to where you gotta go. You know what I mean?
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So I'm sure there has been times where depression has fueled someone. I'm sure there's been times where depression has led someone to the end of their life, you know, obviously, and like so on and so forth and everything in between. So I do think depression can't fuel you, fuel you. It just depends if you're aware that like, okay.
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My thing about when you're feeling bad or have anxiety or depression, to me, it's an awesome indicator that you're just not aligned with what you're supposed to be doing right now. So it could be an indication that, hey, I'm meant for something greater. I'm meant for something more. I'm meant for something better as opposed to like life sucks.
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You know what I mean?
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That B word.
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That B word.
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
Yes. They make you feel like that. Really? Yeah. Yeah, you know, my dad who's in here, he's like a real nice guy.
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And he's a real nice guy, but he knows that he's let a lot of people walk all over him in a sense. Not in a bad way. That's just his kind, natural spirit. He has a kind heart. And I have a kind heart in a similar way. And one of the biggest lessons that I learned literally this year for me
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Big Sean Reveals The Manifestation Secrets That Made Him A MAGNET For Abundance
And I have a song on my last album called Boundaries was set in boundaries because it's uncomfortable sometimes to speak up and say what it is you need, you know, because it may go against your like. What you've been through already, it may go against like, oh, that's not necessarily right or wrong.
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And you realize that right or wrong is kind of more so opinionated in a lot of cases, especially when it comes to feelings. You know what I mean? So for me, setting boundaries has definitely created a lot of rifts between me and like especially people I grew up with.
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Yeah, because it's harder to live off setting boundaries when you've established a relationship already with someone. So it's like when you come and set boundaries, it's kind of like they looking at you different. It's like, yo, what's up with you?
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Yeah. And so, yeah, it has been quite a thing. But the people who are meant to be there respect you and understand you and know your heart. And they know that you're doing this out of necessity and that that's the way it has to be.