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They Call Me Mista Yu: You Are What You Do
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They Call Me Mista Yu: You Are What You Do
Jun 14, 2024
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Can age alone be your claim to wisdom? In this eye-opening episode of the All Purpose Pod for All Purpose Life, we challenge the common belief that growing older automatically grants you maturity. Drawing inspiration from the Old Testament, we illustrate how true wisdom comes from continual learning and evolving through life’s experiences. We call upon older generations to remain active in their personal growth and contributions, encouraging all listeners to embrace their ongoing journey of development.

The road to genuine success is often paved with perseverance and resilience. Using the metaphor of plant growth, we explore how enduring hardships and staying committed can lead to remarkable transformation, whether in your church, business, or personal endeavors. This episode is packed with powerful quotes and scriptures that emphasize the value of humility, accountability, and non-conformity. We dispute the myth of overnight success and instead advocate for vie

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Have a question for Mista Yu? Text the show and he’ll answer it personally.

Can age alone be your claim to wisdom? In this eye-opening episode of the All Purpose Pod for All Purpose Life, we challenge the common belief that growing older automatically grants you maturity. Drawing inspiration from the Old Testament, we illustrate how true wisdom comes from continual learning and evolving through life’s experiences. We call upon older generations to remain active in their personal growth and contributions, encouraging all listeners to embrace their ongoing journey of development.

The road to genuine success is often paved with perseverance and resilience. Using the metaphor of plant growth, we explore how enduring hardships and staying committed can lead to remarkable transformation, whether in your church, business, or personal endeavors. This episode is packed with powerful quotes and scriptures that emphasize the value of humility, accountability, and non-conformity. We dispute the myth of overnight success and instead advocate for vie

Thank you for listening to the All Purpose Pod for an All Purpose Life and your Weekly Mirror Check before you go change the world! You can find and subscribe to our show on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Theycallmemistayu

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Thank you, welcome back to the All Purpose Pod for All Purpose Life. Wherever you are today and however you're listening to the Call Me, mr U the podcast. Thank you for making us a part of your morning, your day and your week. We're your weekly mirror. Check before you go change the world. Of course, you can find us on all social media platforms, at TheyCallMeMrU and, of course, if you're just listening and not watching anywhere, we have your audio podcast Spotify, iheartradio, pandora, the Apple podcast you can find us there. Of course, our YouTube channel has full-length episodes where you can see us and hear us. Everything we're sharing, teaching and just having some fun with. You can find us on our YouTube channel and, of course, on a social media platform like TikTok, facebook, twitter, linkedin and, of course, instagram as well. Thank you again for joining us. It means so much that you're here, listening to us, continuing to support us. Believe it or not, despite how the numbers look, we're growing and we're really excited about what's happening. We can go into a lot of that. I'll do that at another time, perhaps later on in the episode or on a different one, but I want to jump into a couple of things that are kind of on my heart today that I think I've been hearing from you guys a lot of our friends face-to-face in my personal circles and networks, and of course, also our social media connection that we're making on a daily basis. One of the things that I think is a challenge for anyone who either aspires to call themselves a believer excuse me, anyone who aspires to grow themselves in any significant way. As far as personal development goes, the word maturity is the one that comes up a lot. I know that it can be triggering for some people because maturity has been twisted so much in today's vernacular that we don't fully even understand what it means to be mature anymore.

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I know a lot of people who are in their 50s and 60s and 70s and the things that they say out of their mouth not calling any names or pointing fingers at anybody in particular, just a general concept or idea that I see in people's lives, coming out of people's lives, about what mature means. They think that because they're at a certain age and because they have grandchildren and great-grandchildren, they become an authority on family. They become an authority on life in general. They become an authority on everything because general. They become an authority on everything because they've lived longer than most people and, honestly, it's just not true. If you have a Bible and you ever opened it up before and you've read it, especially in the Old Testament, you'll find folks, if you pay attention to it, that are in their 50s and 60s and 70s and they lived their whole lives compounding the same mistakes and not having learned anything from what they should have learned from their journeys and experiences that they've gone through, trials that they've gone through and endured. They should have learned from those, took corrective action and made significant adjustments in their life, but they haven't done that. So in that one case, that old saying that age is nothing but a number, that makes a lot of sense. It definitely is applicable here.

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If you're 50, 60, 70 years old and you're hearing our podcast today, I'm not talking to you as somebody who's an authority on everything. I'm talking to you as somebody who your best days are before you, I'm sure, and I proclaim that I come in agreement with that. At the same time, you don't have a lot of time to mess around. You don't have a lot of time to play games. You don't have a lot of time to count your pennies and ignore what's going on outside your window. You don't have that kind of luxury. So there's work to be done. I've shared this on a platform before I won't mention it where and when but I shared it with people who are a little bit up there in age we call them seniors and I shared something similar to this and the results were a bit shocking, but not so shocking as well. There was not a reception for what I was talking about, but I believe it was a God-inspired thing. So I said it anyhow, and we deal with the results after the fact. But I'm going to say what God says to say.

Speaker 1:

One of the things that came out of that was that, even though you're at a certain age, you may think that you are at stage level or at advisor level or mentorship level, but you could still be in an area where you should be still praying, you should still be fighting and being a warrior in certain areas of your life. A lot of people in that age group kind of feel like their work is already done. They've raised children and grandchildren, they've done that circuit and they think that they're finished. They're just waiting, basically, for the Lord to come and take them home, or waiting to die, just to be honest and frank. But that's not the truth. There's still a work to be done. We are still instructed and mandated to still be working and still being salt and light. We're not done with our work because we're at a certain age. I didn't mean to even go this route, but I believe that somebody might need to hear that, to be encouraged, hopefully. But we're not done with the work. There's still more work to be done.

Speaker 1:

If you know me, you know what my age is. I don't even think I'm even close to being done with what I'm called and assigned to do. I'm here on earth for a reason, not just here to make you guys' lives miserable and to give you hard things to think about. It's not why I'm here. There's more than that. There's a purpose to why I'm here. There's a purpose of what I'm saying and what I'm teaching and sharing. There's a purpose to everything we do on our show. You might look on the show and see sports and gardening and you might see interviews and teaching. There's a point to all of it. If you dig a little deeper and get off of the surface a little bit, you'll see there's a point to everything that we've been doing on this brand that we call the. Call Me, mr U.

Speaker 1:

But maturity is a big deal. It's important, it's something that we can't overlook. I mean, if you are somebody who goes to a grocery store and you buy your produce from a grocery store, I'm not saying that's the thing to do, especially in these days and times, but if you're doing that and you take that fruit home, for example, and you bite into that apple and it's really bitter and doesn't have a lot of flavor, what does that tell you? It tells you that the fruit is bitter because it was moved too early. You, that the fruit is bitter because it was moved too early. It was taken away from its power source, if you will, its flavor source. It didn't have the time to create its potential flavor profile because it was moved too early. It was taken from this place of rest and growth too early, and that's just a fruit.

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Imagine people's lives that are like that. The reason why we see so many people who are in the faith, that are immature, is because they move too early and like those same fruit that you get from the produce store. That may not be quite right. That's what you're seeing in their lives you. You're seeing bitterness, you're seeing a lack of flavor, a lack of vitality, a lack of obedience in doing the things that one person is called to do, and what you see is a lifestyle that turns into laziness, it turns into complacency, it turns into strife and bitterness and pride and before you know it you have an unfulfilled life thing because that fruit or, in this case, that person was moved too early. So people move from church to church because they refuse to allow themselves to be grounded and go through the process.

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As amateur gardeners, my wife and I, we experience this all the time. We got to fight off all kinds of pestilence. We got to fight this off out of our garden to make sure that we get a good yield from whatever it is that we're planting. I don't care if it is a collard green, I don't care if it's a squash, I don't care if it's a Meyer lemon, I don't care if it's some kind of sweet potato. Whatever it is that we're planting, we don't want it to be destroyed by pestilence. We got to fight off those things. But we can't move the plants around because if we do that we'll stunt their growth and the year that we're expecting to get we will not be able to receive. It won't happen and the season will be past us and we won't have anything to show for it To be a mature Christian requires that you stay in the ground in which you were planted.

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Now for some people they may say, oh, there's an exception to that rule. Okay, perhaps I know people who are personal to me, people who are relatives of mine. They're in places or spiritual houses that are not doing the right things. The pastors are abusing their authority. That's being given to the ministry for its upkeep and for its growth in the community and beyond. It's being used for other things that it was not intended by the person who gave or sold that financial seed. In those kind of cases you can't stay in places where you're not being fed. You can't stay in places where you are being potentially associated with something that's anti the word of God or anti Bible and scripture or anti some kind of moral code you may have. You got to think about that kind of stuff and, of course, adjust accordingly. That's just common sense.

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But there's people who you may know, who bounce around from church to church. They can't find themselves being submissive or obedient to any kind of authority. They got their own way and they don't care what you're talking about. They're going to do what they want to do and they would never yield themselves to anybody in any authority. I don't care if it's a policeman, I don't care if it's a supervisor, I don't care if it's a policeman, I don't care if it's a supervisor, I don't care if it's a pastor. They won't give themselves to anybody. We all know people like that. But those folks are never going to grow, they're never going to hit their optimum flavor profile if they're constantly moving around and uprooting themselves like you shouldn't do.

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If you are a plant, you should have moved that plant before it's time for the plant to be moved after it's done what it's supposed to do, what it was made to do. We found out the hard way in the gardening world and we're finding that out now in the spiritual world too. In the religious circles. We're seeing that so much People are bouncing around. Some people are even being promoted to positions that they're not ready for. That's the same thing as moving too early. What ends up happening is they get bitter because things didn't go the way they imagined it, the way they thought, and they have more of them than they can actually handle because they are out of position. They're in a place where they shouldn't be, and those are the kind of things that we see often. Because I'm talking, I have to lube up here. So if it wasn't a while, you see me grab my all natural energy drink. I'm going to be drinking it throughout the course of this episode, just so you know. So take a little break. Ah good, all right. So when you move too early or remove yourself from a situation where you're being planted, you limit your ability to grow.

Speaker 1:

If you know anything about plants, that's not really a hard concept to understand. I want you to understand that where you are, are you being challenged with staying where you are? Are you hearing things that are causing you to become uncomfortable? Are you hearing things and seeing things that's causing you to question if you should stay in that place? Don't dismiss those feelings. Don't act like you don't feel them and you're not thinking it. Address it. Deal with it In the realm of community. Have somebody that's mature. Perhaps that can help you understand that. Help you understand what that means. What's that look like?

Speaker 1:

It may not always mean it's time for you to move. It could mean you stay where you are and endure until you get to the place where you are able to produce fruit and blossom even out of the midst of a bad situation. I mean, people talk about how plants have feelings, and I don't disagree with that. But just imagine what happens to a plant when we plant, start from a seed and in the beginning to grow and we know this from firsthand experience. You got to prune them, you got to cut back some of their growth so that they're going to have exponentially more growth. If you stay in a place, say it be a church or a ministry just helping somebody in that area I hope it does or a club or some kind of association where you're getting some kind of encouragement and upliftment, whatever that may be, if it's uncomfortable and it's beginning to be a challenge for you, it doesn't mean move.

Speaker 1:

The problem that I see so much is that anything that seems to be hard, we all seem to have a problem with it and we run away from it because it's hard Rather than embrace the hard. We run from it because we want something more softer, something more comfortable, something with more ease, not so much struggle, not so much conflict and strife, something simple. You've got to find ways to have it easier and it's like that's so. Contrary to everything that we know and we've learned and we've seen throughout time in and out of the Bible, there are people who have accomplished major things in the world around us, whether it be in commerce, whether it be in finance or even in the governmental realm, or even if it's in the realm of inventions people who have accomplished so many, even in big business and in companies, in corporate structures. They've accomplished so many big things. You think they did it all because it was easy. You think there was no conflict, there was no struggle in getting there.

Speaker 1:

If you hear the stories of people who have been successful in life in any I don't care if they were an author, I don't care if they were an actor, a doctor Look at all of the background, listen to their story. They all had conflict, because that's life. Anybody that tries to avoid that, you avoid the life part. You're not living your best life when you're avoiding doing the hard things, the things that make you stronger as a person, that make you more evolved and more fulfilled as a person. You ain't avoiding that kind of stuff if you're going to be successful. There's no shortcuts.

Speaker 1:

Unfortunately, I'm in a business right now that I've been doing for many years now, and what I encounter is people who are looking for a quick way to get wealth, a quick way to make all their problems go away. But what they don't understand is that there is no such thing as that. There's no overnight successes. Those people go through challenges to get to where they are. It seemed like it's overnight because that's how we see it. We see it in that picture, in that window, because that's what we're taught or even programmed to see. But there's a story that precedes all that success. There's a conflict that succeeds all of that victory. They didn't just get there from A to Z, everything from B to Y. They're going through some things to get there.

Speaker 1:

And maturity is really important in all of that, because if you don't stay where you're planted, if you don't avoid the temptation of moving too early, you'll find that you'll not get the results that you're looking for. I don't care if that's in gardening, it's in your religious walk, it's in your family dynamic, it's in your business and your entrepreneurship ventures. It applies to everything. It is truly and indeed universal. There's a quote by DL Moody that I love. It says every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. It's a quote by DL Moody. Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. Humility and wisdom precede any success you think you're going to have, or you think you deserve or you want in your life. It's going to happen, and one of the things that come with maturity is accountability.

Speaker 1:

There's a scripture in Romans 12, 1 and 2, one of my favorite ones in all the scriptures. I'm going to read it to you real quick. It says this is a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God. This is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you'll be able to test and approve what God's will is his good, pleasing and perfect will. One of my favorite passages for a lot of reasons, but the biggest reason and I've shared this on multiple episodes throughout the course of our history on the Call Me, mr U, the podcast.

Speaker 1:

But that one touches me in a deep way because it's probably one of the sharpest knives in scripture in my estimation. That one cuts on me more than most any other because it calls me to be humble. That's something I learned when I was in New York City, growing up as a young kid in Brooklyn, but it forces me to be humble. It reminds me of the importance anyway to be humble and it reminds me also of the mindset of not conforming to everything. I see that seems to be popular. It's so easy and we do it in so many ways. If your friends are shopping from a certain online store, you think it's a good idea, you do it too. If your friends are binge watching a certain show and they say, oh, how great it is, you think you should do it too, because they said it was so great. It's so easy to fall into the pattern of following what other people are doing.

Speaker 1:

I got a mentor and coach in business that tells us this all the time. It's just a profound saying. I love when he says it and it works. I think about it all the time. He says observe the masses and do the opposite. Observe the masses and do the opposite.

Speaker 1:

Maturity and accountability are not as common as you might think. They're very rare. They're very hard to find. We see counterfeit versions of it People like I said, who are up there in age, who think they're authority and everything and they have no desire to learn from anybody, maybe somebody even younger than them. Most of the things that I've got that I call wisdom and even revelation, to some degree it came from people who were younger than I. Was that served as a mentor in areas that I did not understand or did not know. I don't care if it was in my workplace with the government, they were younger than me. I don't care if they were in the business realm and the e-commerce realm with me, they were younger than me. I don't care if they were in ministry. They had a position I didn't have and they were over me.

Speaker 1:

As a teacher and as a leader, I learned more from people who were younger than me than those that were older than me. I don't know why that is, but it is that and it is what it is. But you learn in those kinds of situations to be humble, to embrace accountability and learn how to mature. Learn not to conform to what everybody else is doing but, of course, be transformed by changing your mindset, changing how you see the situation that you're in, that you think is so hard and so rough that you want to run away from it so badly. Look at how you look at that Change your mindset, transform the way that you think, yield to the purpose that's inside of you.

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I love 1 Peter, 5 and 6. It says humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God that he might exalt you, or he may exalt you in due time, casting all your cares on him because he cares for you. It's a very loving, compassionate scripture. It's talking about taking all of that stuff that you've been carrying around, thinking it's your job and your responsibility and your burden, and putting it into his hands where it belongs. I ain't trying to get too deep. I'm just trying to just help you out with something here, because I think, as a as aspiring to be a mature believer, as a mature person, as a mature member of this global community, we have a responsibility to check ourselves before we wreck ourselves. You know what I mean. We can't help anybody and be a teacher and a mentor and an influencer excuse me, influencer out here and not take care of business at home first. Taking care of this first. Taking care of this first. If we don't do that, we really can't help anybody. How many cups can you pour somebody else out of an empty vessel? Zero. You got to yield to the purpose that's inside of you. That kneeling figure is a symbol of humility and obedience to one higher than you are. We got to learn how to adjust and not be moved by everything that comes down the pike.

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Church hopping and breaking contracts with people and spitting on covenants with people has become commonplace. With people and spitting on covenants with people has become commonplace. It's basically the flag-bearing symbol of our world today. Do what you want, change your mind, duck out of meetings, ghost people who you're supposed to be meeting with, who have put time in their schedule and their calendar for you. Duck them and hopefully they'll forget about it after a few months. That's the world that we live in.

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But those are not mature responses. Those are immature people pretending to be mature. They say, oh, I wasn't feeling that, or that church wasn't for me, or I didn't like that word, or that council was for somebody else, not me. And we make excuses. We put on mature clothes, but we're still babies. We want steak, but milk is all we can handle because we're not mature. We're being moved too early. We're moving ourselves in a lot of cases too early, and then we wonder why we don't have the kind of fruit that we hope for.

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I can't even tell you how many times countless amount of times that I've met people who want a 25 hour job but they got a 10 hour mindset. They don't mind stealing from the dollar store, they don't mind taking a cart and leaving it in the parking lot because they don't want to take it back, because it's too much work. Or they take something off of a grocery aisle and leave it on a different aisle because, hey, that's why people work here. I want to put it back where I got it from. I changed my mind. Or they have meetings at 9 pm or 9 am and they don't show up. And then they wonder why. People are like where are you? What happened? Did something happen to you? And they get offended because they didn't show up for a meeting. They said they would, they gave their word and it didn't mean anything.

Speaker 1:

I love Psalm 15. It's one of my favorite psalms. It talks about swearing to your own hurt and change, not In layman's terms. What it's saying is if you give your word, you keep it. Even if it inconveniences you, even if it causes you a few problems at the house or with your calendar and juggling other events on your calendar. Even if that happens. Keep your word. That's maturity. Excuse me, that's maturity. Excuse me, that's accountability. That's what you do, and people talk about it all the time.

Speaker 1:

There's a quote not sure who it's attributed to, but I love this. It says we become what we repeatedly do. We become what we repeatedly do. I don't know if this helps you at all. I hope it does, but maturity is a big deal and we really don't have the ability or the luxury, I would say, to avoid it. Look at what's going on around us right now. If you want to go into politics, I'll never discuss politics on any aspect of our show.

Speaker 1:

In this case, I make one exception Look at the leadership of our country. Look at the leadership and tell me do you see mature individuals or do you see immature individuals? This isn't about one person in particular, please don't get me wrong, but I'm asking you do you see maturity in the folks that represent you in your country, in your county, in your city? Do you see maturity or do you see immaturity? That is what it looks like when you don't do what you said you're going to do, when you make a promise and you don't keep it.

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That's what it looks like when you are moving around and nobody can trust you to do anything. Nobody can trust you with more responsibility, nobody can trust you with a different position or a different role. Nobody can trust you with more finances. Nobody can trust you with a bigger house, nobody can trust you with a bigger yard, because the yard that you have, the house that you have, the job that you have, the role that you have, the position you're in right now, you don't honor it. You don't treat it with honor and integrity. You don't treat it with respect, but you want more than that. You want $25 an hour, but you've got a minimum wage mindset. You're still operating at $8.75 an hour.

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You don't get up for jobs on time. You're always late. You're always struggling to be somewhere on time, but when it's somewhere you want to be, you get there on time. You might even be early, but because you don't personally enjoy what is taking place, you don't like it and how it's maybe perhaps changing you or causing you to be stressed in some way. You're nonchalant about it. You show up when you show up, you get there. When you get there, it's not about the places you're going to, it's not about your job, it's not about your church, it's not about your club or group, it's about you. That reflects more on you than the places you're coming in late for. It reflects more on you than the places you're coming in late for. It reflects more on you. You become bitter because you've been moved too early. You're not in position, you're not where you're supposed to be and you could be there presently, but you're not there functionally. You're not doing what you're supposed to be doing to the level you're supposed to be doing it.

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I think it's funny. We talk about it. It's going to be a type of conversation every year. People talk about Father's Day. So it's so funny to me sometimes because people go all out for Mother's Day, no offense, but they go all out for Mother's Day. They shower mothers with everything and the Father's Day go to the bare minimum for the fathers. I don't know if that's an individual household thing or I definitely know that in the media, fathers are getting a bad rap when it comes to media coverage and how they're being viewed.

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You know what I'm saying, but what you give to your father or to your mother, what you give to your mother or father as a gift, is reflective of who you are. It has nothing to do with who they are? You think it does, but it doesn't. It's reflective of who you are, who you are as a person, how you think, how you feel about somebody else. I know people who didn't treat me well in the marketplaces and in the workforce, but when we all got together as employees and we wanted to give a gift to that person who was our supervisor or our manager, I tried to find the very best gift I could find for the amount of money that we were asked to spend. Or if we were asked for a financial donation, I would try to give as much as I could, even if it was more than what was asked. You know why? Because that's symbolic of who I am as a person, not how they treated me, which wasn't good.

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That voice will tell you real quick They've been treating you like garbage. Don't give them nothing. Don't take your money, your hard-earned cash, and give them nothing. Just buy them the bare minimum and get out of this. But that's not who you're supposed to be. That voice should be rebuked, because that's flesh and it's not who you're supposed to be. That's not the mature response. That's not the accountable response. That's not the accountable response. That response should be. You know what? I'm going to do better for them, even though they haven't done better for me, because at some point in time I'm going to want somebody to do something for me. And what am I going to receive?

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There's an old story and we're in with this about a man who I guess he worked at a place where they build houses and, long story short, he was getting ready to retire and go start his own company. But his employee asked him to do one last job for him. And what he did was he said I want you to build one house for somebody. For us it's the last one, and then you can go on your way and start your own business and kind of move on and be an entrepreneur. So what the person did because they had their mind set on their own thing, on their own venture, and they were kind of already emotionally done with the job they were working they said you know what? I'm going to get this done as fast as possible. I'm going to use the cheapest materials I can find, use the cheapest resources I can find so I can get this done, so I can move on with my life and move into my next phase of life.

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So they went ahead and built a house like the company specified, but they did it with shoddy materials. They did it quickly, they did it with not a lot of care. They didn't care about regulations and rules and the methods and standards the things you normally do care about when you're building a home. And he built the home. The guy built the home and then we reported back to his employers. You know what it's all been done. The house has been built. The employee, the employer gave the employee the keys to that house. He said what's this? That house you built, that's for you. It's a gift from us to you all of your hard work and service while with our company. So the house that he built shoddily was now his house. See that Everything you're doing right now, everything you're building right now, everything you're putting seed to the ground regarding that's going to end up being your harvest. Is it mature? Is it accountable? Is it a humble mentality? Is it purposeful? Think about it, because that's going to end up being the fruit you're going to have to eat.

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