FORGIVE YOURSELF AND MOVE FORWARD WITH YOUR LIFE - Motivational Speech (Marcus Elevation Taylor)
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Is it that we unlock our futures and let go of the trauma and let go of the heartache and

and the challenges and the mountains and the giants and every disappointment and every failure. How is it that we are able to walk away from the past? Number one, I'm acknowledging that I've got some challenges in my present and they derive from my past. I'm understanding the trauma effects on my brain and how it changed my behavior. It changed my perspective.

I am aware that I am downtrodden and I am battered and broken and weary and tired and I'm stuck in a place of autopilot where I don't even know what tomorrow looks like. I'm not even free enough to dream about the future because I am so broken from my past. I understand what happened to me and I cannot change it. But I can change how I feel about it. I can choose to forgive.

I can't choose to let go. I can't choose to believe. I can't choose to dream. This is a charge to you in this moment. To let it go. Let it go.

You gotta let it go. This is more than an invitation to the future. This is a command to leave your past behind. Come on, this is your time to release. This is your time to release, to let it go. And the only way you're going to release is if you forgive them for the things that were done to you. The people who were present for a moment but then left you for dead. The people who bullied you, who hurt you.

who caused you to go into a state of depression and anxiety and defeat, doors to insecurity. I need to acknowledge what happened to me. I need to acknowledge what they did, how they stepped and stomped on the hope that was in me, how they lied, how they let me down, how now I've got diminished expectations, but now I'm gonna release it. If I want to be free in my present and in my future,

I gotta let it go. I want this thing off my back and out of my system, purged from my heart. I don't want to think about it anymore. I want the light, the brilliance, and the fire of my future. I want the hope of a new beginning. I'm letting this thing go. If you want to be released, then release it now. The present is a gift.

And the future is waiting. The question is, will you let go of your past? Stop wasting your precious present moments. When we meditate on the past, when we meditate on what is behind us, it takes up real estate in our present. And if we remain off kilter and fractured and beaten and broken in the present, then we have no future.

You're going to have to normalize not holding a grudge. You're going to have to normalize not hating people that hurt you. You're going to have to normalize forgiveness. And for many of you listening to me, joy and peace and abundance and the fullness of life is so unknown. It is so uncharted that you are afraid to release. You are afraid to

to let go. Every moment wasted. Looking back keeps us from moving forward. But today is the day you decide. Today I let the past go. Today I'm moving on. You want breakthrough, then this must be your moment of release. I need you to concentrate your mind on the power of the present and the brilliance of the future.

There are far, far better things ahead than anything we have left behind. Everybody wants new, but don't want to become new. It's time to become new. It's your time. It's your turn to live a life of abundance and the fullness of joy and peace and fire and passion and resilience. This is your time. To begin again, I choose to be free. In order for us to have a new beginning, there must be an ending.

And we've got to be okay with entrances and exits. Many of you desire, long for a new beginning. To feel again. To cry tears of joy. The you before you were hurt. The you before you had to grow up too soon. The you before the loss. The you before they left you. The you before they abandoned you.

Who were you before you were hurt? What if you could go back to the very moment you were hurt, you were let down, and you can be that person again and you can grow from that place? If you're listening to me and you're tired of living and you're ready to pull the trigger, I just need you to know that hopelessness and depression is not stronger than

than the possibility of beginning again. The sufferings from your past and even the present moment is not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in all of us. That revelation is my anchor to the ground for the sake of your future. Your greatest move is to let it go.

It is to set your ego and your pride aside. You got to forgive this person because going away and changing your zip code and changing your area code and trying to get a new career and marrying somebody else is not going to take the pain away because you are running from you. You got to look in the mirror and you got to decide, I forgive myself.

For the mistakes I've made, I forgive the people for what they did. This is about dealing with me first and the dream that God has given me and the purpose. When I understand who I am and where I am, I position myself for attraction. This is my opportunity for growth, for expansion. The more I release, the more I can become. And the more I become, the more I can attract people.

And so this is why I can press toward the mark. I can press toward the future. I can press for it. I can fight for it. I can build again. I can create again. I can believe again. I can forgive one more time. I can let it go. I can evolve. I can grow. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. This is your time. Make this your moment to no longer be a prisoner.

of the past. The past is not your prison. The past is your platform to build what it is that you were placed in this world to build. Step out, launch it, build it, create it, release the idea, release your brilliance. Whatever you can't let go of, whatever you can't get over, you have made it an idol.

And it simply means that you love it or them more than you love yourself. Let it go. Release from your spirit. It's time to let it go and move on. Be grateful for the people you have now. Be grateful for the clothes on your back and the roof on your head. Be grateful. Be grateful that you are living. Be grateful that you are breathing. You are alive for a reason. Seize the opportunity. The time is now.

Today, I let the past go. Today, I'm moving on. When you're a forward thinker, the only thing you're afraid of is business as usual. Workday is the AI platform that transforms the way you manage your people and money today so you can transform tomorrow. Workday, moving business forever forward. Are you still quoting 30-year-old movies?

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