The Man Who Disrespects Himself Has Already Lost His Authority

It's a new day. It's a new day. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Man, what's up with it? Family, what's the damn deal? Huh Man, When you hear the anthem, you know it's official, like the ref with the whistles, I said. When you hear the anthem, you know it's official, like the ref with the whistle. Mm hmmmm. Oh Man, get them shining, get the shining. New day. It's sun new get them shining. New day, new day. It's up, new new day, new day. It's up, new. New day, new day. It's a new man, new day, new day. It's up new Amen. Amen, good googlely moogly man, good googly mooguli. So let's try it this way. The man who disrespects himself has already lost his authority. The man who disrespects himself has already lost his authority, not because somebody took it, because he surrendered it. Every promise you break to yourself, every standard you negotiate, every excuse you accept, you chip away at your own authority. Before the world stops believing in you, you absolutely. Stop believing in yourself. Far before the world stops believing in you, you stop believing in yourself. Man, let's get it one. So I was hustled harder than the moment. I'm a feast on these streets. Got a revolver, I told for these niggas trying to take me off the block where I points up daily sit, Bailey's out. The bottles, smoke Yes, Lord Hey, top of the aarm Man, top of the am, top of. The a M. Yeah. Welcome for the first time to Minnie and welcome back to most. To another edition of the Black Coffee Club Man, the most intentional. Morning circle on the planet. It is indeed host about yours truly, Junior the Truth Man. Salute to the family. Man. I can indeed be followed via the handle over all your social media platforms. I can be followed via the handle Junior the Truth is j U N I O R t H T T r U t H and that's everywhere, man. But if you're really looking for me, like if you're really looking for me and you really need something from me, man, you can pull up to the hub www dot Junior Truth dot com. That's all things Junior the Truth. Man. I'm actually there. You can come you can come connect, man, you can come connect you get you can come find me over at the hub. Man, all of the links to the content, man, the the I mean, you got the links to the book if you want to book me, links to the network. Everything is there, man www dot junior truth dot com. Come pull up on me at the hub, man if you're looking for me, yes, yes. All right man. So hey man, grab your coffee or your favorite morning beverage. Get your notebook. Hopefully you got a notebook. Hopefully we were providing enough value that you feel inclined to have a notebook. And let's get to work. Today's conversation. It's not even it's not even directly about leadership. It's about something much deeper. And this whole week we've been talking about leadership, but we've been talking from a deeper perspective, you feel me. We've been talking about self leadership, not just leadership, self leadership because here's the simple truth. The simple truth is, most people don't lose control of their lives because somebody else overpowered them. They lose control because they stop respecting themselves. They stopped respecting themselves, They negotiated with themselves until they no longer trusted themselves. And oh, let me stop that, Let me stop that. Let me stop that. I said I was gonna stop doing it, and I'm doing it, and you'll have to excuse me this morning. I'm a little foggy, you feel me. I'm a little foggy. You see how real I am. I'm a little foggy. So let me say this. Here's the simple truth. You don't lose control of your life because somebody overpowered you. Huh. You lose control of your life because you stop respecting yourself. See, we make it a little bit more personal. We engage with it a little bit more. I need y'all to do a little bit more with it, you feel me. So I gotta put it and I gotta I gotta live it up there so you can go grab it. You understand what I'm saying. I gotta go. I gotta throw it up there so that we can go grab it. Yeah, we stop respecting ourselves. We negotiated with ourselves until we no longer trust ourselves. We got to this space where we have no We no longer are trusting ourselves. And once that trust disappears, then the authority disappears right behind it. Yep, the authority disappears right behind it. And so what you see is when you look around and you wonder why people are so easily manipulated. Think about how people are so easy to gravitate, what to believe, Think of how people are so there's so much, there's such a big lack of independent thought. You feel me. People go to these and if they've started going to these social medium social media, social medium platforms, in order to be told what to think, in order to be told what the feel, in order to be told who the like, who not to like, so on and so forth. You see it all day every day if you pay attention, people gravitate to these spaces in. Order to be told. That comes from a coarse spot of you no longer trusting yourself. Your authority has disappeared with yourself, so you have to go somewhere else in order to be told how to think. Man, I probably I see the numbers jumping out, jumping down. People don'ing ooh, they don't like that. Salute King Vonney, what's up with you, bro? Salute to you. Shout out to jelly Bean forty two eighty, what's up with your Homi black attacking a building? What's happening? Salute to my sister Tiffy two in a building? What's up with you? Love, Big Desmond kunkin doll in a building? My BCU family in here, what's up with you? Salute the thriving glow with Joe in here? What's up with you? Joe? Salute to you, James and George. What's going on with you? What's going on with you? What's going on with you? Yeah? Man, Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Once the trust disappears, authority is man. It disappears right behind it. And I'm talking about your authority with yourself. This is all me talking from an internal point of view. It's all about you. It's all about you. Everybody wants authority, right, Everybody wants authority. It's natural. Everybody wants authority. You want authority in your home, you want authority at work, you want authority in business. You want authority you know, in the community, you want authority in your relationships. But we refuse to ask the real questions. Smack of the South, I see you, hommy, what's up with you? Shout out to everybody catching this stream live man, Salute to you, I really truly, genuinely appreciate you. Salute to the replay gang in the building. Man replay gang don't Bang, and then it's absolutely absolutely salute to. The podcast family. Everybody is catching this via podcast man, the podcast family. Melae for Me, La Me first love Man, hashtag Junior Mafia, Salute to you. Yeah, everybody wants authority, but we very rarely ask the real questions. Do I have authority over myself? Salute for our sniper in the building? Do I have authority over myself? I really should shut it? I really should shut it down right there? Do I have authority over myself? Because if you can't command yourself, why should anybody follow you, including yourself? You feel me. If you can't command yourself, why should anybody else follow you, including yourself? Leadership begins long before somebody gives you a title, you feel me. Leadership begins when you become a person who's own word means something. If you tell yourself, I'm waking up at six? Do you if you tell yourself I'm gonna get in the gym and go work out. Do you. If you tell yourself I'm done making excuses. Man, I'm done. I'm done with that. Are you? And every time you ignore your own standards, you're teaching yourself that your word has no value. That is self disrespect. That's self disrespect. I make this sound so simple, and it's made to sound simple. Once again, I tell you because it is. It's not complicated, man, it's simple, but it's not easy. Simple does not equate to being easy. Yeah. So I think the fundamental piece of that, right is the fact that we've misunderstood integrity. I think we have a very strong. Misunderstanding of integrity, and people think that integrity means that it only means doing the right thing when nobody's watching. And that's true. However, integrity goes deeper, though you feel me. Yeah, it goes deeper. Integrity is becoming the same exact man in private, and you're becoming the same exact man in private that you pretend to be in public. Does that make sense, You're the same man that you pretend to be in public, because eventually your private habits become your public reality. And you can fake confidence, you know what I mean. You can fake it. You can fake confidence, you can fake going through the motions and all of that good stuff, but you cannot fake integrity. You cannot fake I mean, you cannot fake integrity. You can fake discipline, but you cannot fake consistency, and eventually your life is Eventually, man, your life is gonna introduce you to yourself. Now, I don't know if you've had that moment, So let me stop there and let me ask. Because anybody had a moment where your life has introduced you to yourself? You can respond in the lit in the live stream, you can just hell. You can give me the coffee emoji. You can give me the coffee emoji. Somebody give me my theme emoji if you've had a situation where your life has introduced you to yourself, Because eventually, you can fake consistency all you want to, you can fake integrity all you want to. You can be this this person for the eye, for everybody's eyes to see. But if it does not line up with who you are privately, and you have not become that person privately, then your life is going to introduce you to yourself. Have you had it? I'm assuming y'all haven't, because nobody's responding. Nobody's had that situation where your life has introduced you to yourself. I've had that. I've been introduced to myself a wave, yo, Now what's up with you, hommy. Yeah, I've had that situation where my life has introduced me to myself. Myself, that bit said hello, you feel me? Hello? Yeah yeah, life introduces you to yourself even and if you haven't, if you haven't had that moment, man, you just you keep on living. You keep on living. And honestly speaking, that's why so many people fall apart under pressure. The pressure ain't what changed them. You understand what I'm saying. The pressure revealed them. It revealed them. Your integrity is built in silence, man, when nobody's listening, when you all alone and all by yourself, that's where your integrity is built. Yep, yep. So saluted Joe. Joe gave that Joe's hit. She had her, she had her moment, her life didn't show to herself. Mm hmm. Something I really wish and salute to the youngest people. And when I say youngest, man, salute to people that are in their thirties. You feel me the couple of folks because the couple of y'all are in your twenties. So salute to the youngins that are in their twenties, in your thirties, and you're hearing this because I'm about to share something with you. I wish somebody would have taught me years ago. I really wish somebody would would have taught me this. And I say it, but you know, and I say it a lot, but I don't think it doesn't really resonate you, feel me. So hopefully this resonates you, and hopefully you know you can take this and take this newse and use it. Salute the boxing and barbecue in the building. This is something I wish somebody would have taught me years ago. Every promise you break to yourself comes with interest, you feel me. Every promise you break to yourself comes with interest, compounding interests. Yeah, you don't just lose one workout. You lose confidence. You understand. You don't just an overspend one weekend. You lose financial authority. Did you hear what I said? You don't just lose one workout, you lose confidence. What does that look like, Junior? Okay, so you don't just lose one workout, you feel me, you lose confidence. What does lost confidence look like? I'm about to punch on somebody, so y'all be cool. Lost confidence is when you get in a swimming pool with a T shirt on as a man. That's lost confidence. You feel me. You don't just lose one workout, you lose confidence. You don't just overspend one weekend. You feel me. You lose financial authority. You lose financial authority for am Sniper said, oh man, hey, bro, if we're gonna talk, we're gonna talk. Man Like I told y'all, I'm a little foggy, but I ain't that foggy. I'm still gonna I still got some shit. It's still some shit with me. Four ounce, It's still some shit with me. You feel me? Boxing and barbecue saying, wait a minute, I swim with T shirts, especially in the ocean. Hey, bro, I ain't saying swim shirts. I ain't talking about swim shirts. I'm talking about motherfuckers, all right, man Like, Bro, I'm talking about poorly motherfuckers that get in this swimming pool and we have on T shirts because we don't want the world to see our titties. You understand what I'm saying. Can we have a real conversation, bro, we gotta we gotta play you feel me salute the k Underscore, And that's not that's not just one missed workout. That's a loss in confidence, because every promise you break to yourself comes with interest. You've been saying you're gonna get in shape for I don't know how many years. You understand what I'm saying. Next thing, you know, you at the swimming pool, your T shirt on in the pool. Yeah? Yeah, Hey man, you just don't overspend one weekend. You lose financial authority. I wish somebody was in here and was bold enough to say that they don't trust themselves financially. They've lost financial authority. I wish somebody was in here, bold enough to tell the truth and say, hey, man, I have lost financial authority. Man, I don't trust myself with this money. I don't you feel me? I need financial supervision. Let me see anybody in the chat need financial supervision? Anybody in the comment section, anybody catching a replay replay game. Any of y'all need financial y'all need financial supervision? What about in the podcast family? Any of y'all y'all can respond in the comment section, anybody need financial Look at my brother k underscore man, Man, I knew I loved him. He said, Oh that's me. I'm reckless with the with my spending. Bro you're telling brou I'm stupid with my shake me. I'm a money tree. You feel me? You got magic jumping beans for sale? Huh you got magic? You got you got dripped for sale. Man, take my money, man, shake me down, not wipe me down. Shake me down. Nah, I need a man, because like man, I need penny. Just give me my allowance and pin it to my sweater. Man, because I'm stupid, you feel me and I'm man. Hey, man, say man, you don't just overspend one weekend. You lose financial authority. You don't just procrastinate today. You teach your brain that tomorrow is always available. You don't just procrastinate today. You teach your brain that tomorrow is always available. Man, I wish, I wish, I wish that would I wish that would resonate with you. So let me say it again. You don't just procrastinate today. You teach your brain that tomorrow is always available. And eventually you become someone who no longer believes in themselves period. And you have become let me stop playing with this. You have become somebody who no longer believes in yourself. Like you can act and you can play, and. I know you got to go through your days and you gotta work, and you gotta do this stuff where you got to present as if you, you know, got it all together, and so on and so forth. But late in the midnight hours and my friend him in voice. When it's you and it's you, you feel me and everything and slow down, and you are looking at yourself like you know, you have become someone who no longer believes in themselves. And you got to think about how dangerous study is though, and think about how dangerous it is to stay there. You understand what I'm saying, And now think about how dangerous it is that it's not eight hundred people in the chat listening to this, having this conversation with us, you feel me. Think about how dangerous that is that you got to lead to some motherfuckers out here running around the streets who really, at the end of the day, do not believe in themselves. They don't trust themselves. They have to be told what to think. They go to places to be told what to think. They go to boxing chats to be told what to think. They go to political platforms to be told what to think. They go to relationship channels to be told what to think because they know longer trust themselves. Think about how fucking dangeroustudy is. Man, you don't trust your own commitments, you don't trust your own discipline, you don't trust your own decisions. Then you wonder why you struggle to be a leader. You wonder why you struggle to lead. Leadership starts with trust. Self leadership starts with self trust. Man, you feel me, kay, Underscore said, I need that, Papa. He said, Papa, I'll take your money home yo Nana and to Nana and she give you back a few dollars to hold you feel You don't hear me, though, Yeah, you don't hear me though. Self leadership starts with self trust, And I'm the only thing I'm concerned with. I'm talking about leadership, but I'm only concerned with you and your ability and willingness to lead yourself. That's all I'm talking about, because we got to start there because of what I see all day, every day, and all I encounter industries, all I encounter in the social media platforms, all I encounter in my business is people who are who don't lead themselves. You feel me, they don't lead themselves, So. Excuse me? Can I tell you what changed What changed my life? What changed my life is I asked you that was just a formality. You feel me? That was just a formality. What changed for me, man, was I stopped chasing motivation. I stopped chasing motivation and I started chasing followed through. You understand what I'm saying. So people are. Looking and you look at me, and you look at things that I'm telling you, ay Man, go do that? You feel me? I'm telling you, ay Man, you need a You need a You need an instruction manual. Man, you need a system. Go get the simple truth man, and man your system. Go get the book, Go get the planner. I had to stop chasing motivation and I started chasing follow through. You feel me? I started chasing follow through Motivation I realized is emotional. Follow through is structural. Anybody can get excited, like, think about the shit we get excited about. Like literally, take them inte and think about the shit we get excited about. Like, if y'all want to have a real conversation, think about the shit you get. Think about the shit that gets your attention. You feel me, Think about the stuff that will make you excited enough that you could be looking up. You could be looking up a stop to invest in. You could be looking up a performing, a high performing index fund to invest your money in boxing and barbecue. I'm talking to you because you know exactly what I'm talking about. You could be looking at an index fund that's high performing, and you park some money into right, and in doing your research you scroll past a Tark video. You will get excited enough to stop and watch the Tark video and say, damn. So all I'm trying to say to you is anybody can get excited about anything. You feel me our attention. We are just so easily diverted. We get excited about all kinds of stuff. Motivation is emotional. Anybody can get excited. Very few people can actually stay committed. Yeah. Yeah. Identity is not built by intentions can underscore told on myself, he said, Boy, my Explore page is a dangerous place, man, I'm talking about I'm talking about all the way from from from a juice juice recipes nigga to midget twerkoffs. Man, I'm telling what you gonna see. You ain't no telling what you gonna see. Bro. My brother dad said, I'm behind in the chat, but them finances, I be spending. Man, saluted Das. I appreciate, appreciate you taking the time to listen to the content, bro, I really truly do that mean a lot to me. Man, that you ain't just you just ain't skimming through. You feel me. You ain't just skimming through, nah, Man, follow through its structural. Anybody can get excited. Very few people stay committed. Identity is not built by intentions. It's built by repetition. You don't become disciplined because you say you are, you feel me. You become disciplined because you repeatedly do disciplined things. Man, I know that sounds stupid. I wish Joe was I wish Joe was still in here. Joe Joe is disciplined at going to the gym and working out. You see her walking in there. She talks, Hey, hey, family, Hey guys, this this Joe here. I'm just going into the gym again today and I'm going to go get my workout. I wasn't really feeling good. I didn't really feel like it, but I decided I was just gonna come in here and just do it because because God led my steps to the gym. That's how Joe talked I can't wait to today when Joe say, hey, hey, guys, you know, I'm just going in here to the gym because I really didn't feel like working out today. But then I just said, fuck it, I'm finna come to the gym and work out because it's sundress season and I want to wear this sundress and I want to prints around and you know, I'm just you know how, I just love it, you know what I mean, I just really truly love and I just feel like I want to work on this booty. Like I'm waiting on Joeah to have that to say that shit. But at the end of the day, man, like, you don't become disciplined because you say you discipline. You become disciplined because you do discipline shit. Yeah, yeah, you become disciplined because you do discipline shit over and over and over and over again. Brick by brick by brick by brick by brick. And eventually your habits introduce you before your mouth. Does you understand what I'm saying. The guy ain't in here. The guy is a motherfucker that when you look at the guy, he like, okay, God. The guy's habits introduce him. I talk to the guy every day. You understand what I'm saying. And he and. Every day when I talk to the guy, he's either going to the gym in the gym or leaving the gym. Every man, I gotta go to the gym. And he played pickleball too. He a pickleball. Really, the truth is the guy is a dope thing, bro. But he's like channel the dope thing. Like that's the other stuff. Y'all understand, Like dope fiends. Like it's like addiction is a personality trait. You feel me, so like you gotta you gotta feed it with positivity. So don't smoke the crack. Play pickleball. You feel me, like, don't smoke dope. A play pickleball? You feel me. Don't smoke dope like right right, motivational children's books. You feel me. But the guy's habits. Introduce him, introduce him far before he even opened his mouth. You look at him, and it's always been this way. I've known him thirty years. It's always been this way. It's always been that way. Yeah, when I made him, he's a college football player. You feel me. He was a student athlete. I said that way Okay, Underscore said, I ain't seen the sun dress all season. All right, man, let's get into this, man, because I gotta it's time for me to go. Man, it's time for me to go. Man. So let's get let's get let's get into this. Man. Oh man, man, man, man, man. Everybody worries about reputation. What do people think? That's the wrong question, you know what I mean. Here's here's here's the better one. Here's the better one. What do you think about you? What do you think about you? Yeah? I stump people when I ask that. Now, what do you think about you? What do you think about you? Because deep down, you know you know if you're living beneath your standards. You know if you if you've been negotiating, you feel me. You know if you if you're making excuses, you know what you're hiding. You know, if you pretending nobody has to expose you. Your conscious already has you feel me. It is kept an accurate account. Your conscience already has man. It's kept an accurate account. And that's why self respect matters. It isn't. It isn't confidence. It's evidence you respect yourself because you've watched yourself keep your word over and over and over and over again. You feel me King Vonnie said, I think I'm amazing. I think I'm amazing too, Bro. Honestly, you know I'm a cold piece. But I got some shit with me. Bro, I got some shit with me. I got some you feel me. I need some fine tune and I ain't fnna hold you. I need some fine tuning. People constantly, constantly ask me how do I become more confident? How do I become more confident? Like I hear that all the time, especially because people look at me and they think I'm you know, I'm just confident. They say this, you know what I mean, the way I, you know, walk in the room and the way I move around and so on and so forth, and they want to know, like, man, how do I come become more confident? That a lot that's the wrong target, you feel me. Confidence is like the byproduct. You understand what I'm saying. Integrity is the goal. Like integrity is the goal. Follow through is the goal. Keeping your promises is the goal. The confidence comes after that, like confidence is the byproduct of that. Confidence is inevitable if you do those things. Think about it, why would you believe in your self if you spent years proving yourself unreliable. Confidence doesn't come from affirmations. You understand what I'm saying. Confidence comes from receipts. You earn confidence one kept promise at a time. So confidence is the is the is the is the wrong That's not the target. I say it all the time, So stop. You know, motherfuckers try to work out to become more confident. They try to dress a certain way to become more confident. They try to wear a certain cologne to be more confident. They try to you know, get a haircut or do this to become more confident. That's not the goal. That's the wrong target. Confidence, Like for real, confidence is a byproduct of your integrity. Yeah, so you could never be confident if you don't possess integrity. That's arrogance. That is arrogance. Arrogance, it's fake confidence. You understand what I'm saying. Arrogance is face is fake confidence. Arrogance is confidence that's unproven. All right, man, I need more people to understand this. But when we talk about your identity, like my whole purpose in me when I come in here and I talk to you all in the mornings is to I want you to be, to be what you do best. You feel me, I want you to be what you do best. And one of the most strongest habits man is shit. Your identity. Identity is not what you post, It's not what you tell people. It isn't identity is not your job title. You feel me. And I go through this all the time, Like when I talk to folks and I have them introduce me, you know, or introduce themselves to me. You know what I'm saying, and I'm talking to you. And when you talk to people, do you realize in twenty twenty six, can't you can't talk to a person. You probably can't get four sentences out of them before they start talking to you about what they do for a living, what they do for work. You understand what I'm saying, And I always stop them because I'm like, that's not what you do. I mean, that's not what you who you are, that's what you do. Like you have who you are, then you have what you do. So when I'm asking you who you are, don't tell me about what you do. You feel me, tell me about who you are. That's a whole nother conversation, You feel me, Joe says, I think the problem is people are always trying to please everybody else instead of trying to please themselves. And even with and even with the to be honest with you, though, Joe, even with people who are always trying to please everybody else, that's a violation of themselves. Right, And so why do people feel the need to always please others? Right? It's because it's because of the lack of self respect for themselves. You understand what I'm saying. So, when you don't respect yourself, off, when you don't necessarily have integrity, when you don't, when you when you aren't a person that you can trust, what do you want? You want to be validated by everybody else? The God was just talking about you. You want to be validated by everybody else, you feel me. So you seek the approval of other folks and a lot of in a lot of instances, to your own detriment. So you violate yourself trying to please other folks. It's a cold game. Yeah, it's a it's a cold game. But that's a very good point. She said, that was me once once upon a time. It was me too. It was me too. Yeah, but once again, man, your your identity. It's not what you post man. You know what I'm saying. It's not what you tell people. It's not your your your job title. Your identity is your strongest habit. If your strongest habit is procrastination, that's your identity. Did you hear what I say? Your identity is your strongest habit. If your strongest habit is procrastination, then that's your identity. If your strongest habit is excuses, the natural identity. If your strongest habit is discipline, the natural identity. Your life always introduces the real youth, and it's not the version of you that you advertise. Your strongest habit is your identity. Yeah yeah, all right, man, let me, let me, let me let me. I gotta wrap this soulk because I gotta go. Wek thirty nine minutes here and I'm supposed to be in here twenty five minutes. Vader, what's up with your hommy? All right, we're gonna be let's keep let's keep this a cold break. Most men don't have an information problem, right, we have an implementation. Motherfuckers know what to do, know what to do? Motherfucker drink more water, exercise, eat cleaner, read, lead your family, tell the truth, keep your word. You feel me like. The issue ain't knowledge. The issue is respect. Do you respect yourself enough to obey yourself? That's the question. That's the question. So it's crazy as hell. Let me punch real quick. So y'all cover your eyes because I'm about to throw some I'm about to throw some shit. So it's crazy as hell that a motherfucker can tell you can come in your office, throw some paperwork on your desk and say I need this done by tomorrow morning, and you obey them and get that shit done. But you tell yourself to get up. At six am and get to the gym before you go to the and before you go to work, and you don't do that. You understand what I'm saying. The issue is in knowledge. The issue is respect. Do you respect yourself enough to obey yourself? That's the question. Yeah, yeah, all right, man, This this the shit for today. You understand what I'm saying. Here's the here's today's black coffee for the Black Coffee Club. King Vonnie said, perspective. It's a cold piece, ain't it though? Bro? So you want me to stay there for a second. Let's stay there for a second. Literally, somebody can tell you, hey, man, I need you to do this, and you will stop what you're doing and get it done because of the respect that you have for that person. Be it a boss, be at a or excuse me, be it a supervisor, be it a leader, be it a owner, be it a customer, be it a spouse, be it a child, be it whatever. But you don't respect yourself enough to go get that project done that you've been procrastinating and been putting off, you feel. Mekay underscore said, respect yourself enough to start, even if it's starting over, and respect yourself enough to obey yourself to keep going. Yeah, but all right, man, here's the news you could use. It's self leadership if it's simply simply self leadership is simply self respect emotion. Did you hear what I said? This is what I really want you to get. Self leadership is simply self respect in motion. Every disciplined decision says I matter, Every boundary says I matter. Every standard says y'all matter, I matter. Every promise you keep says I can trust myself. And once you trust yourself, once you trust yourself, other people will begin to trust you too. Authority ain't it's not It isn't demanded, man, it's observed. People are gonna follow consistency, even you. They follow integrity, they follow evidence. They follow men. You feel me. Motherfuckers look around and they say where are the men? Where are the men? Where are the men? When people say shit like where the men, they don't mean like where are the males? Where are the they don't mean that, They mean where are the motherfuckers that are in the position and other status that you can actually follow. You understand what I'm saying. I said all the time when I refer to the men that raised me, and I say stuff like, man, I miss the my old niggas like I miss them. I miss when men were men, like I miss it. I miss when you could follow behind men. Yeah, people follow men, and they follow men because men have first learned to follow themselves, King Vonnie, They've learned to follow themselves. Yeah. So anyway, y'all listen, before you try to lead like another group, before you try to lead another movement, before you try to lead another meeting, start with leading yourself. You understand what I'm saying. Don't you take your ass up. There and go start trying to lead groups and lead many meetings, and you ain't made your bed this morning. You feel me. Before you try to discipline your children, discipline yourself. I'm bad about that shit, man, like I'm bad about my shit. I just jumped on my kids about leaving their shoes in the middle of the floor. You feel me. And I walked in this motherfucker kicked my shoes off and was walking back and tripped over my shoes. I left in the middle of the floor. Before you discipline your children, you got discipline yourself. You understand. Before you ask your wife to trust you, you got to become trustworthy. Before you ask your employees for accountability, you got to hold yourself accountable. Because the fact of the matter is, man, the person who disrespects them has already lost their own authority. And it's not because somebody stole it, but because they gave it away. Period. Boxing and Barbecue said, they gone, they did what they were supposed to do. We them now, We them now. And because of that exact reason, Boxing and Barbecue, we's in trouble, bro We's in trouble. You feel me. We's in trouble because of them men that were talking about We them. Now it's about eight of us in here having this conversation, but it's gonna be. But it's gonna be about eight eight million of us today that gossip about Diddy. You feel me? We in trouble, bro, We're in trouble. Saluting my brother dead, Thank you bro? All right? Man, So let me go. Man. I'm a challenge y'all, like I do. And then I'm out of here. Man, it's forty six minutes in. This is twice as much. This is up. I might not go lie tomorrow, man, because I didn't give y'all two on one today. I ain't playing with you. Today. I want you to. Answer one question. Where have you been breaking promises to yourself? Y'all think I'm finna lead y'all alone on this, I'm not. Where have you been breaking promises to yourself? Don't justify it, don't explain it, just identify it. Then, starting today, keep one promise, just one, because every promise you keep restores a little bit of authority, and eventually you become the kind of man whose life follows his leadership. You will become the type of man whose life follows his leadership. Hey man, I'm Junior the Truth. 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