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I was sitting in my mother's beauty parlor.

And I'm looking in the mirror and I see behind me this woman under the dryer and every time she looked up - every time I looked up she was looking at me.

She was looking me in the eye, I don't know who she was and I said you know, she said somebody give me a pen, give me a pencil, I have a prophecy.

March 27, 1975, she said, "Boy, you are going to travel the world and speak to millions of people."

Now mind you I flunked out of college.

I'm thinking about joining the army.

I didn't know what I was going to go and she is telling me I'm going to travel the world and speak to millions of people.

Well I have traveled the world.

And I have spoke to millions of people, but that's not the most important thing - the success that I had.

The most important thing is that what she taught me, and what she told me that day has stayed with me since.

I've been protected, I've been directed, I've been corrected.

I've kept God in my life and it's kept me humble.

I didn't always stick with Him but he always stuck with me.

So stick with Him, in everything you do, if you think you want to do, what you think I've done, then do what I've done.

And stick with God.

NUMBER TWO: FAIL BIG.

That's right. Fail big.

Today is the beginning of the rest of your life and you can be just - it's going to be very frightening.

And it's a new world out there, it's a mean world out there.

And you only live once, so do what you feel passionate about, passionate about.

Take chances professionally, don't be afraid to fail, there is an old IQ test that was nine dots and you had to draw five lines with the pencil within these nine dots without lifting the pencil.

The only way to do it was to go outside the box.

So don't be afraid to go outside the box.

Don't be afraid to think outside the box.

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