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Name: You Owe You
Rating: 4.3 (425 reviews)
Author: Eric Thomas

Eric Thomas

Ignite Your Power, Your Purpose, and Your Why

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What’s in it for me? Leverage your superpower to achieve success and fulfillment in your personal and professional life.

Many people feel powerless over the decisions that shape their lives. This is even more common when they’re part of a marginalized group.

It’s easy to embrace victimhood and blame everyone else for what’s happening to you when you have no control.

But motivational speaker, Eric Thomas strongly disagrees. He turns that mentality on its head and implores you to take full responsibility for your circumstances.

Why?

Because you owe it to yourself to be independent, successful, and abundantly fulfilled. Now, this might sound daunting, so let’s put it in a more empowering way: your task is to crown yourself the CEO of your life.

Take the time to understand your talents and apply them to fulfill your purpose. Taking this path will guide you to your why, that intrinsic, intangible thing in your life you value over everything else.

Your why could be the satisfaction you get when you take care of your family, solve a puzzle, contribute new knowledge, or advance your community.

Matched to your purpose, your talent and passion will lead you toward excellence.

So, let’s get started!

Become the CEO of your life.

Long before becoming a regular guest inside NBA locker rooms, Eric Thomas was a troubled young man who’d left home to escape family trauma. Growing up, opportunities were rare. Segregation, preceded by slavery, had locked Black people into particular neighborhoods and jobs.

The most people in his community could hope for was a job on the car assembly lines in Detroit. But, Thomas’s story changed when he became the boss of his own life.

Based on his own story, Thomas advises the following to take control of your own life.

The first step is to shed your victim mentality.

Nobody owes you anything. Playing victim undermines your ability to act. Be courageous enough to take responsibility for your shortcomings. In many ways, you can be your own strongest adversary.

Here are some practical tips which build on this idea and help you shed victimhood.

To begin, own your decisions, including your mistakes, and be accountable for them. Once you’ve decided you’re the author of your own fate, set goals and standards to give you direction.

Next, don’t be a loose cannon. Clarity and direction will help you decide what series of activities you need to complete each task. Build a structure, a regime, and follow it strictly.

Third, once you have standards, you should have no excuse for not sticking to them.

Finally, before deciding you’re in it alone, take a look around. Find the people who want to see you succeed and reach out to them for help, advice, and leads. Learn to accept help and lean on the experience and knowledge of kind people. Don’t be too quick to assume people want to see you fail.

Shedding victimhood is the crowning act that makes you the CEO of your life. When you get here, you’re ready to wear your cape and discover your superpower!

Use your superpower to walk in your purpose.

Now that your future depends on you, how do you pick the most important tool you’ll need along the journey? In other words, what is your superpower?

Finding your superpower isn’t just about picking what you’re good at. It’s an active process. So here’s how to find it.

Put yourself in miracle territory.

When Thomas was asked to introduce the famous African-American psychologist Dr. Na'im Akbar at a conference, he didn’t go there for a paycheck.

The passion he put into the work, however, drew the the attention of Murray Edwards and Rodney Patterson who admired his delivery. The two men were leaders of the Black Male Initiative, a program that offered support to Black men in the majority-white Michigan State University.

Become a triple threat.

When you’ve placed yourself in miracle territory, you need to elevate your game to maximize opportunities. To become a potent force for your convictions you must become what Thomas calls “a triple threat.”

A triple threat is a professional who combines mastery in their field with the ability to perform and express themselves with supreme clarity.

Transform yourself into a business.

When Thomas started getting paid for his speaking, he approached it from a point of gratitude. When a company paid him $140,000 plus perks for 14 engagements a year, he thought he’d made it!

A mentor advised him to demand more. To his surprise, he found people were willing to pay. He’d transformed himself into a business!

Final Summary

Nobody owes you anything. You owe you.

When you become the CEO of your life, you shed victimhood and eliminate your disadvantages. Take time to discover your superpower, that unique talent you can improve with practice and dedication.

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You Owe You (2022) leaves you with no doubt as to who is responsible for changing the trajectory of your life. It implores you to identify your purpose and then turn your unique talents into assets that will make you achieve unbridled success.

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Anyone trying to take control of their lives
Historically disadvantaged people and minorities
Organizations trying to inspire their teams toward collective success and individual fulfillment

Über den Autor

Eric Thomas is one of the most successful motivational speakers of all time. He works with individuals and teams in the NBA, NFL, NCAA, and Fortune 500 companies, as well as disadvantaged kids trying to find their way through school. He’s authored several books including The Secret to Success, Greatness Is Upon You, and Average Skill Phenomenal Will.

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