Greetings, greetings, and welcome to another episode of your Sunday morning word. I am your host, Tara's Nick Knight, and today we will be talking about, we will be discussing empowering yourself. Because you know, and also, and also you know what else we want to discuss today, being relentless. We want to discuss that too.
Now, empowering yourself and being relentless, how does one empower themselves? Let's just get straight into it. How does one empower themselves? You empower yourself by doing.
That's simply it by doing. You set a goal, you reach it, you set a big goal, you reach that. And I didn't know, I didn't realize that how important having a mindset was until actually when I was working on my masters at Xavier. For those who don't know, I believe I have a masters in telecommittees to help counseling from Xavier University.
Now, within that program, when I was working on that program, I was running through the student volumes, I know I was saying that phrase every Sunday morning, where I just look at their phrase. As I run through a city of New Orleans, I'm running this, I'm running this in all the time, the conversation that I had with one of my cohorts. And it was our last year, I was working in about three jobs, going to school. I think I just started a new relationship at the time.
I think I just had a lot going on. You know, I had bills, you know, we had to pay my rent, things like that. And forgive me. But, um, yes, I was having this conversation because one of my cohorts, and it was like, Tyra, we see that you got a lot going on.
And I think I was the only person in my class that was working at the time, too. That's the crazy thing. I'm the only person that worked throughout the whole program. They had a job throughout the whole program.
That's the crazy thing. Other people had people that could depend on the things like that. And, you know, they had, they had, when the women had husbands, and for the most part, they had wives for the ones who did their wives. But anyway, our girlfriend's a weather case was, but I was up there like, I was just up at hand in my business.
And it was like, Tyra, how do you do this? How do you do all of this? And still, you know what I'm saying, are able to function and things like that, you don't never seem tired or anything like that. And I didn't know how to really articulate it at the time, because, you know, I'm not a real, I'm a poet, but when I speak to people, I'm not very poetic.
I'm just very forward. So I just told them that I may deal with myself. I told myself, that really deal. I just told myself, listen, or I was automated with myself.
I said, listen, either you're going to either I'm going to get this message or I'm a downtrend. That's a different type of mindset. That's a different type of mindset. Either I'm going to accomplish this goal, or I will cease to exist.
Now that's been relentless. Either I will accomplish this goal or I will cease to exist. And I think Will Smith, even articulated even further when he said, I'm not afraid to down the treadmill. If we get on the treadmill at the same time, either you're going to get all first, or I'm going to die.
It's really that simple. It's really that simple. Having a mindset like that is very, very good. That's a great, you know, something I'm saying is very, very good.
That's just a great mindset to have. That is an astounding mindset to have because like my time said, you know, I'm using all these sports references and all these physical things because you're not like to work out your mind a little bouncing. But like my Texas said, everybody has a plan until they got, they're hitting the mouth. Once you get hit in the mouth, you got a decision, you got a decision to make.
You have a decision to make once you get hit in the mouth. Are you going to fold or you're going to punch back? And most champions, people that are champions, once they got hit in the mouth, they responded. Say what you want to battle?
For all of my favorites, one of my favorites of all time. When their brother got wrapped, and everybody did get wrapped, their brother responded. Their brother responded. Their brother responded.
Hell, you can even say, well, yeah, when my guy hit, my dear response, my Tyson responded. Well, I mean, he's been hurt before and I've seen a lot of fights where he opened himself up for punishment. He opened himself up to be hit. They don't give him credit for it.
They call it. They say, oh, you're supposed to stand in the people here too. People are crazy. They don't know what the hell they be talking about.
But when everybody got hit in the mouth, their brother responded in the ring every single time. Some people call it they get hit in the mouth for real. And just opposed to somebody like a round of rousing, when she got hit in the mouth, she folded. And kind of a break.
Once he got hit back, doing all that talking, once he got hit in the mouth, once he got hit back, he folded, he folded, point blank period. Then people make the call, they tell them, they tell them, oh, once you get hit, it's hard to get hit in face. Throw out a make wadder, let me tell you something. That even adds on to flow, I made wadder greatness because he's made kind of a break of money 10 times over.
It still got up. It made even more pay days, bigger pay days and bigger pay days. I think it's less, it's a vision fight made 75 million. He made 75 million from an exhibition fight.
That's less than life, man. What should you get hit in the mouth and you will go hit the mouth. You will get hit by life. You've got to respond and be relentless and and keep going.
You have to make a deal with yourself like I did. Either I'm going to accomplish this or I'm going to die trying. Hell, when I started my documentary, when I started my documentary work, you know all these politics. I told people I said listen, I'm gonna get on TV.
I'm gonna go promote the radio and they gave me a little, oh, they gave me a little scarf. You know how people do? I don't believe that you could do something that you say. They're around you and they're supposed to be your friends.
You know, they give you a little scarf. Are you gonna do that, huh? Okay. All right.
Okay. Next thing you know, they heard me on the radio. Oh, congratulations. They heard me on the local radio at first.
Next thing you know, time is going to New York, the B.O.A.A.M. radio. Shout out to Karen Hone. Well, let's can accomplish.
Oh, before I leave though, I'm gonna go ahead do some more local radio. It's the TV. I'm gonna film a TV. I'm gonna film TV.
Oh, I'm gonna go to Washington DC and be on the B.O.A.M.A.M. radio. Shout out to Laura Coates. Oh, I'm gonna accomplish that.
I'm gonna do that. And I find myself getting to those crossroads a lot, but I want to accomplish something. And hell, shit. I didn't plan on it being a number one book, but when I dropped sincerely, Tyra's Midnight and it went number one.
I said, listen, you know what I understood? I understood by champions. Once they reached the top, they got to keep on reaching the top. I understood that because that feeling was like a feeling of like no other.
That feeling was a feeling like no other. Since certainly Tyra's Midnight went number one, I said, I said to myself, damn, I got to take my I got to take this more seriously. I was like, damn, that really was because I was planning to drop that book in a week. Not in a week, but it took me some time, but they're very weak that I dropped out.
Like, okay, I'm gonna talk to some of my birthday. I didn't expect what they go number one. Then I took six months off of a social media. Didn't do social media to myself.
I was gonna do social media. Didn't do social media for six months. After the six months was over with, came back with low hanging fruit. That went number one, two number ones within a span of six months on Apple and on Amazon.
I'm not flexing here. I'm just giving y'all, you know what I'm saying, some facts about what happened. I'm not flexing. Just letting y'all know the power being relentless.
The only crazy thing is I can't tell people stuff. I can't tell people listen. I'm gonna do this and it's gonna go number one. Because I wrote it down in the book.
I wrote it down in the book before I was going through. I wrote down in the book. I said I'm gonna go number one. But the performance I got out of that book, I was very proud of that performance because I went like it was like top 100 on Amazon and so many other different categories.
And you know Amazon, they got like millions of books and my book was like in a thousands. That's good. That's good. They got millions of book and millions of books and thousands before people kept on, you know, but recently it goes up and down.
But that's good. But I still got my goals accomplished as being an author, being a bestseller, being a man. Still got goals I'm gonna accomplish. And the only I'm gonna accomplish those goals if I'm relentless.
And this is not about me. I'm trying to just give you examples of situations that when I promised myself I was gonna do something, I went out and did it. I don't care who's going criticize me because trust me, I got criticism on his book. There's always going to be somebody that will criticize you and try to take you down a notch.
But you can't let that stop you. I was gonna be telling somebody to tell you, oh man, that's stupid. Don't do that. You can't do that.
You gotta be able to do that. Then once you do it, oh man, that's pretty good what you did over there. That's pretty good what you did over there. I always got some more heat in there, it's personal right like that.
Just say little slick comments to you. Little sign about comments. Yeah, you were number one, but yeah, you did this, but it's just the fuck up. Engratulate me.
So bitch ass on my face. Always gonna have somebody like that. But you gotta keep on going and not worry about what people say. Just keep going.
So when I tell y'all, one last thing, so when I tell y'all, I'm writing a script, and I'm almost done with it on a short film for low hanging fruit. And I'm putting it in movie theaters. It's gonna win awards. So when I tell y'all this was gonna happen, I believe that this is gonna happen because either it's gonna happen or I will cease to exist.
I'm gonna die trying. Now that has been your sending money word. Thank you for joining me. Have a great day.