Episode Transcript:
Hello again. My mom and dad love me. No doubt. I was raised in a home where that where they really did pour themselves out for me and they gave me attention. However, we had a lot of problems. We were very short on money. Quite often we didn't have much money and we didn't have much money. At the end of our month.
There was a lot of dysfunction in our home. My mother never finished first grade. My dad never finished fifth. And so education was not a major theme at my house. There was nobody to help me with homework and those kind of things. And because we didn't have a lot of money, I didn't do all the sports and didn't wear the best stuff like some of the kids did.
And so I decided very early on that there is a secret now. I didn't know what the secret was or it wouldn't have been a secret, but I knew that the kids who have money, the kids whose parents took them to church, the kids whose parents coach their ball teams, the kids whose parents went to college, those kids got some sort of secret and that made them successful.
And if you didn't get the secret, you might as well give up. Well, I gave up. That's the route I went. Now, thank goodness I had some folks that love me along the way, some folks that committed to me along the way and would give me hope occasionally to keep on pushing. But, you know, there came a day when I was getting a diploma and it dawned on me like somebody hit me with a hammer.
There's no secrets. There never were any secrets. Are there advantages? Absolutely. There's advantages. Mom and Dad stay together and no divorce in that family. I'm not in foster care. I've got money that I need to have. I'll get educated folks or taking me church, doing all the right things, or those advantages. Yes, they are. But are there secrets?
No. There's only two things. Hard work and determination. Children need to hear that. If they want it, they can have it. So they'll have to work harder than others. There's advantages and disadvantages, but advantages don't guarantee success, just like disadvantages don't guarantee failure. It's up to the individual, hardworking determination You tell blessings.
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