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The Power of Knowing Your Why

how do I know a lot of people when they think of the phrase how do I know they always want to put the what behind it. how do I know what I'm supposed to do. the question you really should ask is how do I know why I'm here. Because when you know your why, your what becomes more clear and more impactful. If you know like for instance um people know that I do comedy but that's what I do my why is to inspire people to walk in purpose so I can do comedy I can write books I can be in a movie because all of it is motivated by my why in fact I have a new a new webseries out called Michael jr. break time we probably just did the six episode it's on YouTube so every single Wednesday at 3 o'clock we drop a new episode on YouTube of Michael jr. break time what it is is it's me I travel around the country and I do stand-up comedy in case you aint know and in the middle of my comedy set sometime I'll stop and just talk to my audience and we've been filming this and it's you know it's pretty cool so we're in winston-salem I'm gonna show you a clip from winston-salem and I'm just talking to this guy in the audience and he tells me that he's a UH a musical instructor at a school so I was like all right you a musical instructor you know can you sing let me hear you sing a song so this is what happened at the last episode of Michael jr.'s break time check it so a musical director yes sir all right so um let me get a couple let me get a couple bars of like a Amazing Grace can you do the first part go ahead Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me that Bruh can sing know I'm sayin all right now I want you to give me the version as if your uncle just got out of jail you got shot in the back when you was a kid I'm just saying let me see the hood version real quick if you know which one Im talking about just want to see if that exist let me see what you got Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me whoa Oh nah right now I'm found was blind but now uh I see okay um here's what I want you to catch the first time I asked him to sing he knew what he was doing the second time he knew why he was doing it when you know your why your what becomes more impactful because you're walking towards or in your purpose