An old mans advice. — Transcript

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1. 0:02good morning whoops it's raining hold on
2. 0:05a
3. 0:07minute
4. 0:08there I thought I'd talk to you a little
5. 0:11bit this morning about uh oh by the way
6. 0:13this is a new computer and it does all
7. 0:16kinds of things so I have to be careful
8. 0:19uh I'm not the sharpest tack in the box
9. 0:21when it comes to this new equipment
10. 0:24you're talking to a guy or a guy is
11. 0:26speaking to you now that started driving
12. 0:29a Model A car I remember the first jet
13. 0:32airplane and many first things the
14. 0:34Iceman delivering ice to an ice box
15. 0:38taking it off of a mu drawn wagon so but
16. 0:41I'd like to speak to you a little bit
17. 0:43this morning about young people in
18. 0:46particular about accomplishing
19. 0:50things when I was young as you
20. 0:55know I had a difficult childhood
21. 0:58but there's no no excuse for people not
22. 1:02being able to do what they want to do
23. 1:04you can do
24. 1:06anything that you want to do for
25. 1:10example as I've told you before I lived
26. 1:13in the back of an old car I taught
27. 1:14myself to read and
28. 1:17right so if you're young don't give up
29. 1:22don't say the world is just against me
30. 1:25that's not
31. 1:28true I taught my myself to read and
32. 1:30write I've had five books
33. 1:33published I went to to college got a
34. 1:36little bit of
35. 1:39college I've studied scripture for many
36. 1:41many
37. 1:43years I've raised five
38. 1:45children I've buried a mother father
39. 1:48sister brother wife and
40. 1:51daughter so a person can accomplish
41. 1:55anything that they
42. 1:57want one time to prove to myself that I
43. 2:01was not an ignorant person I bought a
44. 2:05Blackboard and I
45. 2:08purchased a correspondence course for
46. 2:11computer programming and I completed it
47. 2:14with the
48. 2:16Blackboard
49. 2:19so Forge
50. 2:23ahead don't stop never stop
51. 2:27learning always reach out to better
52. 2:32yourself because when you do
53. 2:35that things
54. 2:37expand you understand more you're
55. 2:40happier you're
56. 2:42healthier this old saying
57. 2:45that if you don't use it you lose it is
58. 2:50absolutely
59. 2:51true if you don't use that brain that
60. 2:54God put in your
61. 2:57head one of these days you you'll be
62. 3:01sitting on a front porch
63. 3:04somewhere and you won't hardly know
64. 3:07what's going
65. 3:09on so don't don't give
66. 3:14up if times are
67. 3:16hard good things nor bad things last
68. 3:21forever but most
69. 3:24generally we are in control of our own
70. 3:28destiny
71. 3:30and when I say that I mean
72. 3:36this if you're not getting
73. 3:40ahead you need to do something to allow
74. 3:43yourself to get ahead for an
75. 3:47example excuse me for an example if if
76. 3:51you want a good
77. 3:53job if you want a secure future you have
78. 3:56to have something to offer a perspective
79. 4:00employer now I'm not saying you need a
80. 4:03PhD or a master's degree but you do have
81. 4:06to have something to offer there's going
82. 4:09to be a time in this
83. 4:13country that people that know how to
84. 4:16work with their
85. 4:18hands plumbers
86. 4:21electricians Carpenters cement layers
87. 4:25machine operators mechanics people that
88. 4:28know how to work with their hands are
89. 4:31going to be in great
90. 4:35demand yes it's true you have to have
91. 4:38Education and Training to be an engineer
92. 4:41or a doctor or a
93. 4:43lawyer but I'll tell you the truth I
94. 4:47spent 60 years
95. 4:49working I was successful I've started a
96. 4:52couple of businesses I'm not a wealthy
97. 4:54[Music]
98. 4:55man but I'm a guy that came from living
99. 4:58in the back of no
100. 5:00car to having a nice retirement and to
101. 5:04be able to talk to you on this
102. 5:07thing so I'm going to close but I I just
103. 5:10wanted to to share that with you this
104. 5:12morning young people I love you I do I I
105. 5:16love young people um my grandmother
106. 5:19always said you know when a baby smiles
107. 5:21the angel sing and that's true I believe
108. 5:25but young people you're the backbone of
109. 5:27this country you're the backbone of the
110. 5:29world I don't care if you're in Asia
111. 5:32Africa Korea Japan I don't care where
112. 5:34you are the United States you are the
113. 5:37leaders the Future Leaders of this world
114. 5:41so Reach Out be
115. 5:43yourselves don't be afraid to to go
116. 5:47after what you need so I love you have a
117. 5:50great day and I'll see you tomorrow