If You’re Seeing This, It’s Time to Simplify Your Life — Transcript

this next chapter of my life, this new season that I'm going in,

I'm really focused on minimalism, I'm focused on the simple things, I'm focused on simplifying my life, I'm focused on focusing on one thing at a time.

I think in life we get it wrong thinking that we got to do multiple things at once.

We have to show up for these people, show up for these people, show up for the job, show up for the kids, show up for the for the church, show up for everything and then we we forget ourselves in the mix.

in the midst of that, we forget why we doing what we doing anyway, we're giving so much of ourselves to everybody instead of simplifying our life

and understanding that there's gonna be a season of your life that you have to be minimum, there's gonna be a season of your life that you're gonna have to focus on you, there's gonna be a season that you can't do everything.

You can't show up everywhere, you can't be two places at one time, you you gonna have to get a little selfishness about you in this next season of your life.

if you want to grow, it's not to to push people away or to not show up for people or not be there when when people want you to be there, but we miss out on who we're becoming because we feel like we have to do things for the betterment of other people.

just because of their feelings or their wants, sometimes even their needs, we feel like we have to be the crutch, we have to be the one phone call away.

we gotta be the backbone for everything and everybody, you showing up for a job that won't show up for you.

you showing up for a friend, so-called friend that never shows up for you, and I'm not even here to tell you not to be that friend, not to be the person at the job, not to be whatever you doing.

but you have to look yourself in the mirror and say, is this destroying me, do I know who I am in the midst of this chaos, do I know who I am?

And I'm telling you right now, a lot of us, we we've become unrecognizable, we all over the place, we doing 30 things at one time just because this person wanted it, that person needed it.

that person felt like I should have, you have to take a stand for yourself in this next season of your life.

simplify yourself, understand that if you have a goal, I need to be doing things to achieve this goal, and if it doesn't align with that in this season of my life, then I'm gonna have to take a pause.

I'm gonna have to take a step away, not to hurt them, not to show them, not to prove a point or anything, this is strictly for the betterment of you.

we all have to take a season of our life where the focus has to be on you.

You gotta get yourself right, you gotta get your body right, you gotta get your mind right, some of us we gotta get our soul right, our soul is everywhere, we letting everybody take a piece of our heart with everything that they do, we they taking it, he taking it, she taking it, everybody taking a piece and it's leaving you with nothing, you're pouring from an empty cup and you're leaving yourself nothing.

you're leaving yourself empty, and it's time to stop operating off of a empty cup, it's it's time to stop operating off of foundation that was based on other people, based on what everybody else wanted and needed, you gotta go into a season of your life where it become minimum, it becomes simplified, it becomes about you.

you are a very small speck on this earth, and you have a very short lifespan, we all do, we ain't gonna be here forever.

there is not a reason in the world for you not to take a couple months, six months, a year, two years, hell, even five years to better yourself, to get your mind together, to get your finances together, to get your life together, your life has imploded, it's it's broken into many pieces and you're still doing the best you can to show up for everything and everybody else and that's fine, that shows your strength.

but you have to understand that it's okay to take some time for you take some time for your heart.

take some time for your soul, take some time to get your mental right, you've been so doing so much consuming, you consuming everybody's problems, you're consuming everybody's issues, what they going through, what they don't like, what they like, you're consuming.

and it's time for you to go into a season where you're producing, you're producing things that you want to produce, you're you're producing a better version of yourself, you you're producing gym work, workout, you're producing money, finances, you're just producing, you're doing, you're doing for yourself.

it's okay to be a little selfish this season, it's okay to love yourself, it's okay to put yourself first.

Not everybody is going to understand, not everybody is going to get on board, and you have to be okay with that.

but you also got to be okay with knowing that this next chapter of your life is about to be about you, and then it's gonna be some people who are gonna be put on the back burner for now, because it's time to get your health right, it's time to get your body right, your mind right, and it's most definitely time to get your finances right, because we wanna live good, and we wanna live good right now, but it starts with one simple decision, putting yourself first, simple.