Ladies and Gentlemen, this blog is one that I truly hope you read and think about with much haste. While many of you like to believe that this life owes you something because you’ve been through hardships at some point in time of your life, I want to submit to you that the only thing life offers is a promise to give you a chance. Whether you are born with a silver spoon or a wooden one or plastic, LOL, the only thing it promises is to give you a challenge.

Please realize that while you see the opportunities of others and you like to feel that you are promised that same chance, the truth is you’re not. I know that’s a very straight forward statement but it’s very true. I often sit and talk to folks that like to say: “Oh I know this is coming my way because life owes me one.” Sorry to tell you but doesn’t owe you shit. You were born and during the course of your life you are given chances to make your impact felt. That is what your promise is all about.

Damn these people who sit around and wait for things to happen because you feel that the law of averages will apply to everything. And the truth is that’s a lie. The law of averages only applies with things that are extremely one sided. Life by design gives each of us a different path and calling. It just might be that you are designed to have a hard life as a means to help folks who come into the world after you to handle the uncertainty and hardness of life.

We need a balance in life. We have people who will be rich billionaires and those who will be the common man left to make a mark the best way you can. But let me tell you one thing about the promise of life, whether you are rich or not, whether you’re known to the world or a few hundred people, how you interact with them will determine you impact and legacy left from the promise.

I really hope people who think they’re entitled wake up and realize you’re not. I hope those who feel that they’re doomed wake up and realize you’re not. I hope anyone who thinks that life is anything but a promise of waking up and dying, will wake up and understand that in the end those are the things you are guaranteed. The promise to be born, the promise to have an opportunity, the promise to face challenges, and the promise to die.

What you do with your life and what you allow your legacy to be, are all determined by how much you take advantage of your promise.