I just want to talk to you guys today about opinions. I want to reiterate the point that opinions just do not matter. In the grand scheme of things, who cares what other people think about you and what you are doing to be better? If you know you are working hard to be the best version of yourself that you possibly can be then that should be all there is to it. The problem is I see so many of you guys out there letting what other people think and what other people say get to them and just really want to drive home the point that other people’s opinions really should not matter to you all that much. When people gossip about you and try to talk about you behind your back you should just let it go because people are always going to talk. You do not want to waste your time trying to control them. Too many of us spend way too much time trying to control the things that are out of our control.

You cannot control how somebody feels about you. The only thing you can control is what you give. The only thing you can control is being a great person to the best of your ability. The only thing you can control is making it happen for your life. The only thing you can control is taking your life to the next level. The only thing you can control is to keep being great, keep being faithful, keep being who God created you to be. That is what you can control. What they say about you, what they think about you, you cannot control that.

You have got to realize that it is always the people who know the least about you who always have the most to say. You have got to realize that it is always the people who gave up on their dreams that want to criticize yours. It is always the people who have a miserable life (and I do not say that to talk down on them, they are choosing to stay there) that want to be mad at you for your happiness, okay? So do not let these people get you down. Do not let these people make you think that you are doing the wrong thing. Do not let these people let you throw in the towel on your dreams, on your life, on your vision, okay? I do not care how great you are, how nice you are, or how much you have accomplished, there is always going to be someone somewhere sometime that is going to have something negative to say about you. That is just the nature of the game. That is the way it goes. That does not mean that you are doing something wrong. There will just always be haters. The thing you need to understand is that their opinions truly do not matter.

It all starts with you.