"In Life"

Sometimes you might feel like giving up. Sometimes you might feel like you will never succeed. Sometimes you may think that you will never reach your goal, but when we feel like giving up, at that last moment we should try one last time. In times of trouble and despair, when we feel like nothing is going our way and we are about to give up, we should dig in, bury our heels, and believe.

We are bigger than our problems, bigger than any negativity that surrounds us. We have to believe in ourselves and know that what we focus on, we will receive. What if Michael Jordan had given up? What if Martin Luther King, Jr., had given up? What if Barack Obama had given in to the negativity and just abandoned his hopes of being our first black president?

You can make it. You can succeed. No matter what your goals are in life, if you can see yourself owning, building, having, achieving, or developing, then it can and will be done, with the right resources. You may not think you have what it takes, but if you can think it, believe that you can do it. We are kings and queens. If you were on a deserted island and you saw a bottle washed up on the shore with a note inside, what would you want your message to be? We all at one time in our life seek answers. What do you want out of life? What do you feel that you deserve? You are the center of your universe, the king or queen of your kingdom, the leader in a room of followers.

When you want something, you first think of what you want before you can express it to the universe. What if you had everything that you wanted in life, and all you had to do was just think it and it would magically appear? We would all be spoiled and would take everything for granted. Many of the things that we want in life we can have. Some take a little longer to attain than others, but if we have a positive mental attitude, we can have our own genie in a bottle if we choose.

—Excerpted from The Minority Multimillionaire, by Wren Chambers.