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  • THIS WEEK'S SUPER SOUL SHORT HAS CIRCLED THE

  • GLOBE, SPREADING THE EXTRAORDINARY VISION OF

  • SPOKEN WORD ARTIST, ACTIVIST (AND SUPER SOUL 100

  • VISIONARY) PRINCE EA.   AN INVITATION TO ASK

  • YOURSELF --SUPERSOULERS-- ARE YOU TRULY LIVING

  • THE LIFE YOU WANT? It is not death most people are afraid of.   It

  • is getting to the end of life only to realize that you never truly lived

  • There was a study done a hospital study on one hundred elderly people,

  • facing death close to their last breath   They were asked to reflect about

  • their lives biggest regret.   Nearly all of them said they regretted not the

  • things they did but the things they didn't do. The risks they never took,

  • the dreams they didn't pursue.   I asked you will your last words be, if I

  • only I had, hey you ,wake up why do you exist?   Life is not simply

  • meant to work wait for the weekend and pay rent.   No   No I don't know

  • much but I know this, every person on this earth has a gift.   I apologize

  • to the black community but I can no longer pretend, Martin Luther

  • King, that man never had a dream   That dream had him   See people

  • don't choose dreams, dreams choose them So the question I'm getting

  • to, is do you have the courage to grab the dream that picked you, that

  • befits you and grips you or will you let it get away and slip through.  

  • You know I learned a fact about airplanes the other day. Now this this

  • was so surprising see. I was talking to a pilot and he told me that many

  • of his passengers think planes are dangerous to fly in.   But he said

  • actually, it is a lot more dangerous for a plane to stay on the ground. I

  • said what..like how does that sound? He said he said because on the

  • ground the plane starts to rust, malfunction, and wear much faster than it

  • ever would if it was in the air.   As I walked away I thought, yeah

  • makes total sense because planes were built to live in the skies and every

  • person was built to live out the dream they have inside so it is perhaps

  • the saddest lost to live a life on the ground without ever taking off.   See

  • most of us are afraid of the thief, that comes in the night to steal all of

  • our things but there is a thief in your mind who is after your dreams. His

  • name is doubt. If you see him call the cops and keep him away from the

  • kids 'cause he is wanted for murder for he has killed more dreams than

  • failure ever did. He wears many disguises and like a virus will leave

  • you blinded, divided, and turn you into a "kinda".   See "kinda" is lethal.

  • You know what "kinda" is. It's a lot of "kinda" people. You kinda want

  • a career change, you kinda want to get straight As, you kinda want to

  • get in shape.   Simple math, no numbers to crunch, if you kinda want

  • something than you will kinda get the results you want.   What is your

  • dream? What ignites that spark? You can't kinda want that. You gotta

  • want it with every part of your whole heart.   Will you struggle? Yeah.

  • Yeah you will struggle, no way around it. You will fall many times but

  • who's counting?   Just remember, there's no such thing as a smooth

  • mountain. If you want to make it to the top, then there are sharp ridges

  • that must be stepped over.   There will be times you get stressed and

  • things you get depressed over but let me tell you something, Steven

  • Spielberg was rejected from film school three times, three times but he

  • kept going.   The television execs fired Oprah, said she wasn't fit for TV

  • but she kept going.   Critics told Beyonce that she couldn't sing, she

  • went through depression but she kept going.   Struggle and criticisms are

  • prerequisites for greatness. That is the law of this universe and no one

  • escapes it because pain is life.   When you can choose what type, either

  • the pain on the road to success or the pain of being haunted with regret.

  • You want my advice, don't think twice.   We have been given a gift that

  • we call life so don't blow it. You are not defined by your past instead

  • you are born anew in each moment so own it now.   Sometimes you

  • gotta leap and grow your wings on the way down. You better get the shot

  • off before the clock runs out 'cause ain't no overtime in life, no do

  • over.   And I know I sound like I'm preaching or speaking with force but

  • if you don't use your gift then you sell not only yourself but the whole

  • world short.   So what invention do you have buried in your mind? What

  • idea? What cure? What skill do you have inside to bring out to this

  • universe?   Uni meaning one, verse meaning song. You have a part to

  • play in this song so grab that microphone and be brave. Sing your heart

  • out on life's stage.   You can not go back and make a brand new

  • beginning but you can start now and make a brand new ending.

THIS WEEK'S SUPER SOUL SHORT HAS CIRCLED THE

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