Spoke to over 500 participants enrolled in the San Diego Job Corps!

Yesterday I had the pleasure and honor of speaking to over 500 Job Corps participants and staff members about living their dreams by standing out of the crowd and doing things in life that others do not have the ambition to change.  There are no secrets to success...it takes hard work, vision, and treating others the way you want to be treated.  Life does not open doors...you have to open them!

At the event I was elated to follow my mentor and spiritual father, Sergio De La Mora.  Unfortunately, the crowd was challenging and seemed like they wanted to be someone else. It never ceases to amaze me that you can have greatness speaking to you but because you are so preoccupied with low level living you miss the promise intended for you.  Don't let the mediocrity around you become you...rise above it!  I remember when I was 18 years old, still a gang member, homeless and living on the streets, working at a factory.  Most of the other employees that worked on the assembly line where twice my age and had been working there for years.  Being raised to always do my best, my very very best, I came up with a way to speed up production on the assembly line and help make the company more money.  The other workers were beside themselves because it meant that they had to work harder and smarter to do their job and keep up with the assembly line.

The spirit of lazyness and entitlement will keep you living a low standard, below quality of life where you have to be told when to sit, sleep, stand, eat, and go to bed.  I hope and pray that the youth and staff at the San Diego Job Corps catch a vision beyond the walls of where they are to where they can  and quite frankly need to be!  Did you know it takes $36,000 to put a youth through Job Corps and for the same amount of money you can send a student to Harvard for one year. Which young person would you want to invest into?  I'm just saying...