You missed him.
Jonathan Sprinkles from
But, don’t worry -- I was there taking notes for you!
Here they are some of Jonathan’s words of wisdom . . .
#1. If it’s going to be, it’s up to me.
#2. The best way for you to block your blessings is to complain about what you don’t have instead of appreciating what you do have.
#3. Somewhere, someone is praying to have your problems. We talk about not having enough shoes to wear, but there are people who don’t have any feet. We talk about having no place to go, but there are many people who don’t have anywhere to live.
#4. To have a choice -- but not use your choice -- is the same as not having a choice at all. If you can read, but you choose not to read, what’s the difference between you and someone who can’t read?
#5. If you take advantage of the choices you have in college, the rest of your life will be the best of your life.
#6. “Power” is the ability to get results.
#7. “Personal power” is the ability to determine the results in your life.
#8. When you’ve got your mind made up, I can’t make you care; I can’t make you pay attention; I can’t make you do your homework; I can’t make you do your sit-ups,
#9. But when you’ve got your mind made up, I can’t stop you either. I can’t stop you from caring; I can’t stop you from paying attention; I can’t stop you from doing your homework; I can’t stop you from doing your sit-ups.
#10. Because you have the power, you control the results in your life! No one can take away your power -- you can only give it away.
#11. Who has the power in your life? Is it you or your external circumstances?
#12. Don’t let what’s on the outside define what’s on the inside. YOU CONTROL THE RESULTS IN YOUR LIFE!
#13. Don’t tell me about your dreams -- show me your sacrifices and then I’ll tell you how serious you are.
#14. This is the way things are, but this is not the way things are always going to be.
#15. Every time you go through a tough time in life, it has one of two purposes: It’s either meant to put something in you that you didn’t have before or take something out of you that hindered you from getting where you need to be.
#16. Life will not judge you by the number of times you get knocked down. Life judges you by the number of times you get back up.
#17. Read the book “What Makes the Great Great” by Dr. Dennis Kimbro.
#18. Sometimes you find your purpose and sometimes your purpose finds you.
#19. A relationship that has not been tested cannot be trusted.
#20. Passion persuades. The person with better information will lose to the person with more passion.
#21. The measure of your life isn’t about the circumstances around you. It’s about what you choose to do with those circumstances.
#22. You have to talk to yourself the right way. You have to speak about those things that aren’t -- as though they were -- until they are.
#23. Whether you think you can or think you can’t -- you’re right.
#24. The thing you’re most afraid of -- do it first, because you’ll either get the thing that you want or you’ll get a great lesson.
#25. Some people are so negative that if you put them in a dark room they’ll start to develop!
#26. Life does not give you what you desire or what you deserve, but what you demand.
#27. Silence can never be misquoted.
#28. Why settle for second best?
#29. You were born an original -- don’t live like a copy.
