the law of awareness says you must know yourself to grow yourself James Russell Lowell in your notes no one can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself what a powerful statement that is you and I need to become aware of who we are and we need to know what our passion is we need to know what our purpose is when people talk about themselves and trying to find themselves I mean they talk to them about what is your passion what is your purpose let me kind of walk you through this kind of quickly of how to how to figure this out because this is so important in your awareness the first question I would ask you about your passion is do you like what you're doing now surprisingly the majority of the people when I asked him that question say no this amazes me I'll be just having a conversation do you do you like your job you know what most people say they don't and sometimes don't even like I would say you know I don't really care for my job what would you advise me to do and then they don't like my advice because when somebody tells me they don't like their job I just immediately say well I quit I have no idea now please maybe some of you can help me in the audience today I have no idea why somebody would do something every day that they didn't like this is beyond me why would a person why would a person go and do a job that they don't like and complain about it all day and call it life and it be honest we don't want to work beside them either because it's bad enough for them to be miserable in their doing but when they're miserable what they're doing guess what they do to you they make you miserable haven't you ever have just been beside miserable before you know I'm saying you kind of felt good but by the end of the day you felt bad and you say well what did I do to feel bad you set for that person you know I'm saying so when people said well I don't like my job what kind of advice do you give me this is an IQ test what why would you just ill it's beyond me why would you every day do something you I mean what is your passion and yet I know people who literally spend their whole life no wonder people look forward to retirement think we can think hardly wait to get out it's almost like prison they they're gonna be free at last the second question is what would you like to do because there is a relationship between finding your passion and reaching your potential that's a fact what would you like to do let me just since we're talking about personal growth say that if you would have known me when I was in school junior high in high school I tell parents all the time when parents are worried about their kids because their kids just seem to be goofing off and they said boy I just got my kids just don't seem to be buckling down I was safe just relax just relax take a pill because if they would have seen me as a kid as a parent they would be greatly encouraged because when I went to school it was nothing but party I mean there was the only thing wonderful thing about school was your friends and I had a whole bunch of friends and I mean I didn't do studies I didn't do I mean my study hall was going around visiting my friends that was kind of like fellowship time for me and I was playing ball and I was enjoying myself and I mean I didn't get good grades and I just basically I mean I was smart enough to wing it and get through high school I mean if you kind of if you just hang in and breathe you get there you know what I'm talking about I mean so it's not like a huge accomplishment it's you know can you just stick around long enough they'll pass you you know they kind of pass you up either what I mean it it and and and and my dad and I we had these long time my dad I have these long times you Johnny just don't seem to be disciplined you don't seem to meet focus you just want to play ball and beat your friends and you're right night wasn't when I went to college it turned around immediately because went to college I was going to get a do now and study surfer something I wanted to go do and immediately I made the Dean's List immediately I did some little selfies immediate I started studying was it really any but can I tell you something the reason I didn't do it in high schools because I wasn't getting what I wanted to get to go where I really wanted to go at the moment me being pragmatic that I found that I got the subjects now and I could study they were gonna prepare me for the ministry I got all excited passionate the whole process so so so you got to ask yourself you got to ask yourself what would you like to do because when you find what you'd like to do that ignite your passion and when your passion is ignited that begins to increase your potential that's when you start moving up the potential ladder question number three can you do what you would like to do that's a great question because some people are very passionate about doing something but they're not any good at it now if you're not any good about the thing you're passionate about you don't want to make it a career you want to make it a hobby a hobby is a wonderful thing you don't have to be good at it you can just be at have it as a hobby but don't make it a career but I remember a guy that I had on staff out in San Diego Dan you'll remember this guy I called him Joe but he wasn't very happy and I wasn't very happy because he wasn't very happy and he was kind of dragging the rest of us down so he and I sat down one day and we had a lunch and I looked at him I said Joe you don't seem to be happy here on staff what would you like to do and he looked at me and he immediately knew I didn't wanted to he said well really he said what I really want to do in life is I want to be an announcer for the Chicago Cubs and I looked at him and I said you're in trouble Harry Caray's been the announcer for 20 years he's gonna be the announcer for the next 20 he's an icon he's going to be the announcer till he dies that is not a job you're going to get do you have a second option what's plan B Plan A ignore to happen if you said John what would you really like to do what I'd really like to do is to be a professional golfer but there's a problem I'm not any good and when you're not any good it is a drawback when I play golf with guys and they make bad shots and they complain I just start laughing at him and I say to excuse me do you do this for a living well no well then rejoice get real happy on those bad shots because tell me if you were doing this for a living you'll be a poor man you wouldn't have any money now what am I talking about talking about when you're ready to find your passion your purpose you gotta ask yourself can I do this there are just some things that you can't do and it's not bad and just you just have to face reality and it's there it's like watching the tryouts of the American Idol when they when they with passion get that microphone and they start belting out songs off tune and everybody in the country's hitting the mute button and the question I always have when I watch them as I I see that I think you're good where are their friends shouldn't somebody come up to them and just say could we talk you can't sing why are you doing this question number four do you know people who do what you would like to do this is very key because when I settled in what I wanted to do I went and looked for the most successful people it's the story be given a hundred dollars to the pastors that had the largest churches in America for 30 minutes at their time and when I was given a hundred dollars for 30 minutes of the time at that time I was in Hill ham Indiana and I was making forty one hundred dollars a year I didn't even make him than Johnson's poverty program but I was so desires to learn I was just so desires to her I know it's way out of bounds 100 bucks was way I did it I had to learn question number five will you pay the price to do what you want to do so many people don't reach their potential because it's a price issue they're unwilling to pay number six when can you start doing what you'd like to do and here's what's wonderful if you have something that you would like to do but you aren't doing it now what's wonderful is you can start you can you can get going you you may not be able to get the job yet but but you can start you can people come to me all the time say John I would like to I would like to write a book what how should I get started I say well this is gonna be a little more simple and you're ready for but if you'd like to write a book the way you get started is start writing I know that seems a little basic but books don't write themselves get a pen get a paper out how about a sentence start there get going that's what that's what this law is all about understanding yourself understanding your passion knowing what your purpose is and say now that I Know Who I am I'm going to now now how to grow myself the law of awareness it's used