Tony Gaskins here. For those of you for the Blessed Tribe members, if you make it on here, y'all make sure when I get this situated to let folks know it's not a Q&A. I just popping in to do my Sunday sermon live today, but I gotta make sure my service working. I was having a little issues a little earlier, so I turned off my Wi-Fi, so hopefully my service working and I can, I'm at my son's soccer game, so they got to get here an hour early. And so I typically get some work done in that hour before the game. He always got to be here an hour before so they could fake warm up because they still start the game and be cold, but I'm not sure what they get an hour early for. And this is another thing too that I've learned that I've experienced is my son, my oldest son, 14, these youth sports today, they don't care about your relationship with God. My seven-year-old got a photo shoot today at 10 a.m. So if your church got an 8 a.m. service, got a 10 a.m. service and 11 30 service, they cut and write in the middle of everything for your child to come do a photo shoot. And then my oldest son, he had a game yesterday and now you got a game today. So it goes to show that in this day and age, you got to have a relationship with God for yourself. You got to know God yourself. You can't depend on being able to sit inside of a building to get to know God.  That's how he want to be a light. That's how he want to be a light for me. So that's your dependent.   When he wouldn't be here had you not brought him here. So I had that revelation because I see a lot of times I see a lot of times parents take their child's dream so that they could be in a building on Sunday, quote unquote, getting, you know, getting closer to God and not a child can't grow and do what they wanna do and fulfill their dreams and be their best because their parent had them in a building every Sunday and thought that that would make them more of a Christian like they say sitting in the garage ain't gonna make you a car. So Lord gave me that revelation is you got to have a real relationship on your own. But I was thinking today and I wanted to pop in and chat with you that's about for a little while as I'm thinking about lack because one of the things I'm noticing is that we live in lack and it's what I call broke minded but we live in lack and we live in a state of penny pinching and we live in a state of barely getting by and we don't really have a sense of abundance because any and everything we get, we want to spend it, we wanna live out of it and we wanna realize the fullest extent of our income and a lot of times we can get caught up keeping up with the Joneses and doing too much. And a lot of times we don't understand balance and we don't understand seasons and one of the things that I see all around me and in my own life for so many years is lack from paycheck to paycheck and never really get into a place of freedom, a place where we can enjoy life and appreciate life and come to a space to where we can be grateful. And as I was reading a word and I saw where God says, he closed the lilies of the field and he feeds the fowls of the air. So how much more will I do for you, my child? And a lot of times we speak lack and we speak scarcity and we speak brokenness and we speak downtrodden and all of this stuff over our life and we say it out loud and we claim that instead of claiming abundance, instead of claiming overflow, we claim lack and we move like that and we think like that and it's one thing to, you gotta be able to stretch your mind to the place to where you can see more. You can see more for yourself and when you can see more for yourself and your mind, what your mind is gonna do is it's gonna give you a solution, it's gonna give you a plan so that you can be more, so that you can realize more. So one of the things that I did, instead of saying my glass is half empty, I started saying it's half full and then I started saying my glass is full and so what happens is my mind stretches and I can see more and I can do more. So you know how crazy it is and the reason why I say this is because you passing through earth and stress kills. So you have relationship stress and that's what we're trying to alleviate is relationship stress, stress for the most part on my page and I saw a thing that said, relationship stress is the number one form of stress, that it's more stressful than work-related stress, than family-related stress, than death-related stress, when a family member or a friend, they die, that relationship stress is the most toxic form of stress and that it increases your chances of a premature death by 300 to 500% by natural causes. And I realized that so I focus on the foundation of life which is relationships, we seek in relationships but after you do a lot of work in that area, it's other types of stress that'll take you out and the next stress after relationship stress that'll take us out is financial stress, robbing Peter to pay Paul and living paycheck to paycheck. And the reason why a lot of times we live paycheck to paycheck is because we live out of everything that's in the check and we don't store up anything for the hard times for the rainy days and we have to get to a place to where you can really understand abundance and you can trust God and you can walk with God and you can not fret in the middle of what you're going through and never and in any way, in any aspect, speak it over yourself. So many times I'll see people who they're going through and they're experiencing something in their life and they will write it out in the comments on social media saying that they broke. I post a new course or I post a video and somebody said, I'll never find love. I never, it's so hard to find love. I never have a happy relationship. Not only did you think it, but you took the time to write it. So now your brain accepts that as the truth and you can't move away from that. You're going to walk right into it. I was talking to a client the other day and the client asked me, Tony, why you don't believe in horoscopes? Why you don't read horoscopes and zodiac? What does zodiac mean and all of that? And I said, because for one, that stuff related to divination, a different form of sorcery. And if I go read something that tells me I am this way based on the time that I was born, the day that I was born, I have just locked myself into that because my mind will believe anything that it reads. So now I got to do extra work trying to break that barrier, trying to break those boundaries because as humans we always seeking the answers to the unknown. So we want to know what's going to happen tomorrow.  They writing me for an answer that will give them peace about their future as if I'm a psychic, which is working for the devil or a prophet, which is working for God. But they essentially saying, will my ex come back to me and will we live happily ever after? And I have to remind them I can't see the future but we want to know the answers for tomorrow. And that's why so many people get into these horoscopes and these zodiac signs because you trying to get the answers to the unknown and you trying to solve a puzzle instead of walking by faith, instead of naming and claiming, instead of saying what you want to be, instead of saying what you want to do and who you going to be and what you going to do. And I remember reading one of them things that a lot of people talk about and they got whole Instagram pages about your zodiac sign and it'll tell you who you are and half of it might be true and the other half might be false but half that is false we will do everything in our power to make it true. And then we will get into a rut and we'll go into a place in our life to where we living in a way and we might be living toxic and we might be living out of order and we'll say, oh, I'm a Capricorn, I'm a Libra. So, you know, that's how I have to be. You know, that's what I got to do. That's what I got to do because I'm this, I'm that. And we put boundaries on ourself. And then I post some, hey, life code certification or this right here and I see a whole bunch of people like, I can't afford it. I can't afford it. I can't afford it. And it's like, if you can't afford something, don't put that out in the world. Don't write that in cement. Keep that to yourself. And tell yourself, I can afford it. I will be able to afford it. So your mind will start to see solutions so you can go to the next level. When you hear somebody talk about a relationship, don't tell yourself, I'll never find a happy relationship. I'll never be happy. I can never meet somebody.  If you tell yourself, you can't do something, guess what? Your countenance changes. Your mind shuts down. Your smile goes to a frown.  I'm gonna be moping and complaining. I'm gonna be moping and complaining. I'm gonna be walking around. I'm gonna have my head down and my blessing could be standing in the elevator with me. My blessing could be a conversation that I would've had if my head was up and a smile was on my face. My blessing could be the networking that would've transpired had my mindset been telling me that I'm in the blessing. I'm living in a blessing. That because I'm breathing, I'm blessed. That because I'm living, I'm blessed and I'm blessed going and I'm blessed coming. I'm blessed in the now and I'm gonna be blessed tomorrow. I was blessed yesterday. And so when you change that mindset and you stop speaking scarcity, stop speaking lack because your mind will believe everything you tell it. Your subconscious mind cannot decipher between fact or fiction. Anything it hears, anything it reads, anything that it is told, it believes it and it moves towards it. So you determine what you're going to believe. You can't control what's gonna happen to you but you can control how you respond to it, not react to it, how you respond to it. And this where you have to go. You have to get to that place to where you take the limits off of your mind.  You know, when I was making, when I was a dog and I was living reckless and we counted the amount of women we could get determine our manhood. It was absolutely crazy for me to say that one day I'm gonna meet my wife and be 100% faithful. That was so unbelievable. That was so far fetched but I knew that's what my heart wanted. My heart wanted to be settled and secure in real love. But because of the environment that I grew up in and the way that we live, a happy healthy marriage without knock down drag out arguments was so far fetched. To be in a relationship now going on 15 years of marriage and we barely argue and when I say argue, I mean getting mad and getting silent. That never happens in our relationship. We go through that probably once a quarter to where we have a disagreement. And you know what the disagreement is about? And I tell y'all this all the time. It's typically about my wife yelling too loud at the soccer game. And I almost had to take a man life because she yelling too loud. He go to yelling loud. I'm quiet, I don't say a word. Then he go to threaten to knock me out. So now he finna lose his life over a soccer game. And I had to get on my wife about that. That's what we disagree about. But coming from a place where all I saw around me was domestic violence in a relationship. All I saw around me was divorce. All I saw around me was kids being abandoned by their father, abandoned by their mother.  I remember watching women in my family. I saw a woman in my family pick up that telephone. You know the telephone that was shaped like a square and it got to receive with that sit on the top of it. Pick up that telephone and throw it like a baseball pitch and hit my cousin, he was a boy, hit my cousin in the arm with it while he running away from her. That was his mama. The women in my family, they didn't have a, there was no father to my cousins. None of them knew their father. That's what I saw growing up. I was the only one that would be at my grandma house that knew my daddy. And I had another cousin who knew her daddy, but he was in a thing where they cut the head off of chickens and dance around in circles. And they did voodoo and all of that right there. So her upbringing was rough in that household because her daddy was in the voodoo and all the other stuff, he was from Haiti. But he wasn't into Christianity or nothing like that. He was into other spiritual stuff that they did from his homeland. And a part of that too turned into him being abusive to her. So she was the only one who knew her dad out of my mama, 12 siblings. So for me to say, I'm gonna be in a happy, healthy marriage, that's the furthest thing from my reality. I remember seeing my female cousins after they would be beat by a male and pregnant by a male, have one or two kids from a male, they would then give up on males because it was so toxic, so abusive, and then they would start dating females and leave the males alone. And I would see them. I remember a lady coming over to my grandma's house and half of her skin was black and half of her skin was white and it was not vitiligo, vitilago. I said, what happened to her? Oh, your auntie burnt them. Your auntie burnt them with on hot, hot grease. Like what, in the room? I remember being at my grandma's house, another auntie come over there hunched over, she limping, say, what happened to her? She got thrilled, ribs broke by a boyfriend.   I say, what happened to her? Your uncle broke her jaw. Wow, another time, auntie come up. I say, what happened to her? She had permanently swole lips. She had full knots, knots on both lips, knots on both eyes. She had a thumb that was turned to this, like he was doing a right turn and it was stuck like that. I say, what happened to her? Her boyfriend's beat on her.  Another one, she splashed hot water on him. And so you see, I'm seeing this and it's all around me and who would have thought? And so a lot of times people don't realize why people do what they do. That's why I teach on relationships because I saw it destroy homes. I saw it destroy people. I saw it ruin people. And every single woman I knew had been violated before the age of eight. And people wonder why I do what I do because of what I come from. But for me to say, hey, I want a marriage that's healthy, that's whole, that I wanna change my life and not be a product of my environment. But I want every environment I go into to be a product of me. That was far fetched, but I had to say it.   It got to be a thought. It got to be a vision before it's reality. And so stop speaking lack over yourself. Stop speaking damnation over yourself. Stop speaking curses, generational curses over yourself. Stop speaking poverty over yourself. Stop speaking oppression over yourself. Stop, you know, I see everything through the lens of color because I'm raised in Florida. So because I'm raised in the South, because Clue-Club's clan came to my middle school, it's hard for me to see stuff outside of the lens of color.   My son come and do a soccer play and the ref call a foul. And then another kid, a white kid do the same thing and the ref don't call a foul.  And here I am trapped in that loop because of how I was raised. And this what I recognize and this what I realized. So I have to now walk with a confidence. I got to walk with a presence that says I deserve to be here and I'm gonna get everything that I deserve. I'm gonna get everything that God got for me and can't nobody stand in my way. And so I have to approach life like that to get outside of that loop that my brain may be in. And that's what you got to realize and understand. And so this is the thing. When God say, I clothe the lilies of the field and I feed the fowls of the air, how much more will I do for you my child? You got to know that your tomorrow is taken care of. So why you got ulcers today? Why you crying today? Why you worried about today? Instead you got to walk by faith. You got to believe and you got to know. And this one thing that I believe in that a lot of people might not believe in and I've heard people speak against this. A lot of people speak against this right here. But one thing about me is I believe, I believe in working twice as hard as I pray. A lot of people just wanna, a lot of people just wanna pray. Just wanna pray and then don't do nothing. I believe in working twice as hard as I pray because faith without works is dead. And what I mean by that is I got to get out and I can't just say, Lord, heal the world and then sit down. I got to show up on here and I got to share a message with somebody cause it's gonna bless somebody. It's gonna help somebody. So I got to do my work. I got to do my work. If I say, Lord, I need you to bless. I need a blessing. The men, they was on a boat.  We ain't caught nothing. We ain't caught nothing.  And Jesus say, hey, listen, cast the net on the right side of the boat. Cast the net on the right side of the boat. And thank y'all for the super chats and somebody just sent me cash. I've seen it pop up on my notification. God bless y'all, I really appreciate it. But y'all, I'm speaking to you right now. So y'all forgive me if I miss it.  What you talking about? Cast the net over there. When the last time you fish? When the last time you went fishing? You don't know nobody know fishing. Ain't you the son of God? You ain't got the fish. You turn five loads and two fish, defeat a multitude. What you know about this? Hey, cast the net over there like I told you, nah? So when they finally listen to Jesus and they cast the net over there, the net went in the water and the next thing you know, so many fish in that net, they couldn't even pull it up. They had to just ride back and let it float in the water. They couldn't even pull it up. It was so many fish in there. See, you can't just pray, you're gonna have to cast the net. You're gonna have to cast the net.  So when I say, Lord, I need a blessing. Something got to give, something got to happen. I go to work him. I don't just pray and sit idle. I go to work. Cause God say, study the ant. The ant don't stop working. The ant don't stop or the proverb tell you that too much of that folding of your arms and too much slumbering, it's gonna lead to poverty. So you got to get up and you got to go to work. It's so many people that I see just crying, broke, crying, broke, crying, broke, but don't wanna do nothing extra. Don't wanna do nothing extra. I refuse. If I'm broke from my job, I'm finna start working on a dream. And I'm gonna balance the dream and the job until the dream becomes a job. Until the dream surpasses the job. Until I'm being paid more from my dream than I am from my job. I'm gonna balance it too. If I got to work 80 hours a week instead of 40, that's what I'm gonna do. If 40 I'm full rested and the other 40 I'm drained, that's what I'm gonna do until my breakthrough happen. And then it's gonna be a seasonal rest. I done had grind time and then I done had rest time. So I done lived it and I done seen it. I done seen where I had to work 70, 80 hours. 70 to 80 hours a week to make $60,000. And then I done seen where I had to work 10 hours a week and make seven figures. See, seasons change. Seasons change, but you got to know when it's time to grind. You got to know when it's time to do the work. And the one thing I can't stand is broke mouth people.   It's easy to say when you're married, it's hard I help other singers. And it's like, it's gonna stay hard as long as you walk around looking like that.  Anybody say something to you? You got to add, what do you want? I remember the time when I'm out promoting my book. I'm at the mall promoting my book. I'm handing out the business card, promoting my book, promoting my book. And the security guard come up to me. Mall caught, Paul Blart, come up to me. Sir, you can't be in here with that. You can't be in here with that, sir. You can't be in here soliciting. I didn't know what soliciting meant at the time. I was 23 years old. I ain't had no degree. And he put me out of the mall.   Woo, what a, yeah, that's that mid grade. Yeah, that's that drove. So now that's what I'm doing on my books. I'm putting it in the hand. And I remember I went in the hand of a later business card and she was with her daughter. And she's the latest say, hold on now, now listen, do not come over here playing games because I am tired of the games.  I was like, man, man, I'm married. I said, man, I'm married. I'm coming to hand you a business card promoting my new book.  Excuse me. So yeah, so tell me about your book. I rather not, but I went on head and told about the book. But see, this is how we confrontational with our blessings. What if I was single? If I was single going to shoot my shot, if I got that kind of response, what I'm finna see at this point is a woman chopping me up, putting me in her freezer because she found a text message in my phone from Pizza Hut. Let me know the deliverer is on the way. And she thought P.H. stand for Felicia Henderson. You see what I'm saying? And so I had to realize, Tony, you can't block your blessings through a mind that's broken. You have to speak. So when I said I want to be married, healthy, and whole, but all I saw growing up was abuse, that was far-fetched. When I got a job and my W-2 said $19,900, at $19,900 a year, I said I want to earn six figures before the age of 30. I want to earn six figures before the age of 30. I was 25 years old making $19,900 a year when I said I want to earn six figures. And then I said, well, what is six figures now? It sound good. I heard somebody say it. I said that's $100,000. How in the world am I finna go from $20,000 to $100,000? That's five times what I'm making. Guess what? I had to say it in order to see it. People always say, well, it's easier said than done. Everything is easier said than done, but it got to be said in order to be done. It got to be said in order to be done, but we get so caught up in lack. We get so caught up in scarcity. We get so caught up in limited beliefs. We get so caught up in being afraid to believe, being afraid to think about the next level, and we get scared of heights. You can't be scared of heights when you've been given wings to fly. You cannot be scared of heights when you've been given wings to fly. So you have to understand that the next level depends on you. And if you can't believe it, then you can't receive it. And we've been hearing that since we was children and we never let it soak in, but you got to hear that. You got to believe that. You got to hold on to that. And so when I said that, that was so far fetched. And then guess what? In a matter of a couple of years, my brain showed me in my stillness, in my stillness, when I would lie down at night, I would lie in stillness. I would lie in peace. I would lie in quiet. And I would just envision, what can I do? With what I have to help me get to where I want to be. And my brain, when I took the limits off of it, and I allowed my mind to be boundless, I could then see the visions, the ideas. Do this, do this, do this. So I started stringing things together. I said, oh, I could write a book telling my story. Then I said, oh, I can ghost write books for other people who can't write because I wrote my book in 10 days. So that must be a gift because I heard it took this person a year to write a book. I wrote my book in 10 days, one, two hours at a time. So that 130 page book, so that must be a gift. Let me ghost write. Oh, you know how to write, but you don't know how to publish. Okay, let me be an author consultant. Okay, I wrote about the book, you got questions. I don't have free time, so let me charge for my time. Oh, this is called consulting. This is called coaching. Oh, it's people getting paid for coaching because they're giving value and they're giving time that they cannot redeem on their death bed. So they put a price on their time for their value and it's a whole industry for it. I said, oh, let me, okay. Somebody told me that on a, because I was seeking knowledge, I heard on a conference call a tele-seminar where the man say, if you wrote a book, you could coach on that subject. Then he said, you could speak on that subject. Then he said, you could make a course on that subject. So it's book, course, speak, coach. One thing become four streams of income. So now I'm 23, 24, 25 years old, but because I said, I wanna take my family from $20,000 a year to $100,000 a year. So my mind said, what can I do? You see what I'm saying? You gotta stop speaking scarcity. You gotta stop speaking lack. You gotta stop speaking failure. You gotta stop speaking condemnation and damnation and trials and tribulation over your life. And you have to trust and believe that if the files of the air don't go a day without being fed, how much more will he do for you, his child? If the lilies of the field are clothed, how much more will he do for you, his child? So then one thing became another and guess what? When I hit six figures, I didn't hit six figures. I hit 150,000. I literally went from way below 100,000 to 150,000. And I said, wow. But see, that's what your mind will do. With a little bit of flavor, a little blessing dabbed on it. And then when I got there, I was crazy. I say, I wanna go from 100 to 250. I said, I done tried this before it worked. Let me say it again. Hey, I wanna go from 100 to 250. And on one side in a little piece of my mind, it's like, boy, you crazy. Boy, you crazy. Boy, you come from nothing. Boy, your parents never even made more than 50 grand in a year. Hey, what are you talking about? You wanna be at 250. What you talking about? You want a healthy relationship. When all you saw was abuse growing up from your family, not my household, but all around me. What are you talking about? See, you had that little thing right there that's in your mind, that's in your ear, but you gotta keep speaking what you want. You gotta keep believing what you want. And then you gotta work towards it. So if I want a healthy marriage, guess what I gotta work on me? If I want a healthy business, guess what I gotta work on me? I got to do the work. I got to stop speaking lack. I got to stop speaking doubt. I got to stop speaking failure. So guess what? I said, I want 250. So then, okay, instead of ghost writing for 1500, let me see what ghost writing go for. Oh, this man got a contract on Google. He charge 20,000, but he older than me and he white, this is what I said to myself. I'm young, I ain't got a college degree. I got to charge 10K. So I charge 10K to ghost write. And then I started getting clients. It was celebrity wives that was hiring me to ghost write their book. $10,000, one nothing to them. So I write their book, 100 pages. Then Olympians, gold medalists start hiring me to write their book. People was coming to me, just from me sending tweets out of quotes on Twitter. So because I cast the net. See, over here when I'm fishing alone, without God, nothing happening. But then when I say, what can I do? How it's gonna work? Cast the net on the right side of the boat. You essentially doing the same thing you've been doing, but now you locked in with the X factor that a lot of people don't believe real.  I say, okay, well, y'all using the N word not like it don't mean nothing. So what, so what you mean? It must not be too bad a thing. Y'all the way y'all using it. So let me use this Holy Bible then. And guess what? It was keys in them. It was keys to the city in that Holy Bible. It was liberation in that Holy Bible. It was freedom in that Holy Bible. I'm like, whoa, whoa, there's some Jews in here. Oh my goodness, you mean to tell me these are the principles I should be living by? And these are the promises that come with it. Let me try this. Let me try the word by the word at the word. And guess what? The blessing came, the blessing came. And now with blessings, the adversary always try to add burdens because it's people around you who they wanna see you sacrifice, but then they wanna be in your success. They don't wanna be in your sacrifice. They don't want the heat from the kitchen, but they want the aroma at the dinner table. They want the flavor. They don't wanna help season, but they wanna taste it. And so that's where the blessing come with burdens. Now the burden don't come from he who bless you. The burden come from he who wanna steal your blessing, who wanna turn your blessing into a curse. And that's what you got to realize and understand.  And I had to lie down in my stillness. And the reason why I say I want 250 cause I say it's another level of living. Why I got the sacrifice and why I got the slave and why I got to be down here when I'm watching this man over here and he can do this right here for his family. He could do this right here for his family. That's the old way of what you already make is enough. Who said, who said I got to put a limit on my dream? Who said I got to cap my potential? Who said I want 250? I ain't see how I was gonna get there and guess what, the next year 250 came. The next year I say, I think I'm doing pretty good at 250, 250 might, hey, I want 350. Guess what, the next year 350 came. And I say, oh man, man, do I want 450? I say, I want 450. Guess what, the next year 450 came. I say, man, I want 500. I want 500 and guess what? Things change. Things change. I went back to 250 or 280. I said, whoa, hold on. Now this ain't how it's supposed to work. Hold on. Now this ain't how it's supposed to work. But see, sometimes what you got to realize, a slingshot got to be pulled back in order to go forward. See, sometimes you got to step back.  But see, when I pull this picture back, now you could see, now you could see the beauty of the picture. So see, I had to take a couple steps back. And when I went from 500 to two fifth back, the two fifth, I'm like, hold on now. Hold on now, what's going on now? This ain't how this supposed to work. Hold on now. You supposed to be able to speak this thing and believe this thing and this thing come. But then guess what? What I saw is, see, you got a little lazy. See, you got a little complacent. See, you got to understand you could be content, but you can't be complacent. It's a difference. It's a difference between being content and being complacent. See, you got complacent. See, it started coming too easy and you got comfortable. No, you got to keep working. You got to keep grinding. You got to keep doing what you've been doing. You got to keep sowing. You got to keep growing. You got to keep going. So I'm like, oh, okay. All right, so, oh, all right. So I got to do something else. So then I had to put my hand to the plow. Put my head down and go to work. So I'm working. I'm working. I'm working and I'm working twice as hard as I'm praying. I'm working twice as hard, but I'm believing twice as hard as I'm working. And I'm moving and I'm moving. And the next thing you know, okay, all right, boom. I'm back by the 500. And then I'm at 500 and I say, I say I'm finna make a stretch. So I'm gonna make a stretch. I say, you know what? Cause see what I said I wanted in my marriage, what I said I wanted in my household, I got that. So see what mattered to me is the things that money can't buy. That's the thing that mattered most. But see what I realized, that's on me. That's on me. If I treat my wife like a queen, my household gonna be peaceful because I chose a person with character and integrity. So if I'm a good man, I don't have to worry about a marriage being hard. People always talk about marriage being hard. Marriage not hard. The people that's in it are stubborn. The marriage easy. Marriage easy when you're not hard headed. Marriage ain't hard, you hard headed. The person in the marriage. So men fear marriage. A lot of men fear marriage because they fear being with one woman for the rest of their life. They fear being a man of integrity, who is not lying, who is not cheating, who is not manipulating, who is not controlling. So they say marriage is hard. So they see marriage like a prison. Marriage is freedom. When you have integrity and you have character. So see, I had everything that money, I got everything that money can't buy. So at that point I say, well, I wanna do better in my business. I wanna give my family more. I don't wanna just be able to live and take care of my kids. I wanna be able to put something away for my kids.  I wanna be able to put up for the down payment on their house. I wanna be able to put up for their higher education, their advanced degrees. I wanna be able to do that. I wanna be able to go to that next level. So I'm sitting at 500, knocking on the door and I say, I want 750. And then something is, man, you crazy. You're crazy. How you finna do 750 and you don't do manual labor? But the world you finna do for 750. You know what I had to get out of my way. I had to get out of my way because I felt unrightfully privileged. So I was watching people, I was watching people create something that was 10% of what I had created. And they was doing launch parties. They was doing Instagram countdowns. They was doing whole parades for they knew product. I was writing a book a year and not batting the eye. I wasn't telling a soul. I remember when I started to promote a book, people were like, you're an author? I'm like, I've been an author for a decade. Oh, I didn't know he was an author because I just was serving, I just was giving. And so God was blessing me without me even promoting myself. I just was giving, just giving, just giving. And my quotes started reaching 20 million people a week on Facebook. So on Facebook, my quotes was reaching 20 million people a week. So my self-published books was earning 5,000 to 15,000 a month without me promoting them. People was Googling my name because they saw my quotes. And I realized, okay, it'll take me a wild account to 1,000. Let alone 10,000, 100,000, 500,000, 1 million. Facebook showing me insights that say your posts have reached 20 million people this week. And that was every single week. And then when I took off from posting, I went on vacation for a week. And when I looked at the end of that week, it say your posts reached 10 million people this week. I didn't even make a post. So I said, hmm. So the Lord say, okay, you sitting here and you being blessed from your work, from your service.  Like don't get caught up feeling, being scared because everybody talking about fake gurus and fake dis and charlatans because you know you're not that. You know you serve from your heart.  It's okay to let people know that you exist, that you leaving a mark on the world. Ain't nothing wrong with doing what you're doing. It's something wrong with the people who doing it for the wrong reasons and doing it the wrong way. But don't confuse yourself as that if you know you're not that because this ain't that. And I said, whoa, okay, all right. So when I'm sitting there and I say, okay, instead of, I said, I want 750 because I want generational wealth. Now I wanna be able to set my grandkids up. And that thing say, boy, you crazy, man, you crazy.    You don't have a mentor. You don't have an assistant. You ain't even got an office. How you finna do 750,000 in a year? Offer just your natural God-given gifts. You don't even, you don't take, you don't ask for donations. You don't post your cash out. You don't post your PayPal. You don't say hit the like. You don't stop the video and ask everybody to hit the like button. You don't ask nobody to subscribe. You just giving, you just serving. So how are you gonna go to the next level? I said it and do you know what? For the first time in my life, that year, my wife had, she bought me a planner every year and I never wrote in the planner. I never wrote in the planner. I gotta get ready for my son again. I gotta get ready to go. I never wrote in the planner. But for the first time I sat down and I wrote, I said, I wanna train a thousand life coaches this year. I wanna pay off credit card debt. I wanna earn 750, my hand almost locked up when I went to write that. But for the first time I wrote my goals and when I look back at the end of the year, I had trained probably 1,500 to 2,000 life coaches, people to become life coaches. I think I said I want to get my mentor.life to 100 coaches, get 100 coaches on my mentor.life. When I look back at them goals, they had been hit. And do you know it wasn't just, it didn't go from 500 to 750. It went from 500 cross a million and a half. See, I'm sharing this, like the multi-level marketing people say, there's a quote when I did multi-level marketing for a few months. We was in the meeting, the man say, I don't say this to impress you, but to impress upon you. I was like, whoa, whoa, that was cold. But what say that again, what you said? So I don't say this to impress you, but to impress upon you.  I don't speak famine, I don't speak broke, I don't speak scarcity, I don't speak loneliness, I don't speak arguments in my relationship, I don't speak normal, I don't speak average, I speak exceptional, I speak abundance, I speak exceedingly, I speak above and beyond. Don't tell me that every marriage gonna have arguments and fights. I'm not claiming that, I'm claiming peace, I'm claiming prosperity, I'm claiming happiness and I'ma change me, I'ma do everything I could do in my power and then I'ma lead or rest up to God. I'ma cast a net on the right side of the boat. I've been on the left side of the boat all day and ain't caught nothing. Jesus say cast on the right side of the boat and I'm gonna move in you, I'ma move for you. This what you got to do. So I say that's what I'm gonna do. That's what I'm gonna do and guess what? I saw exceedingly above and beyond. I'm not finna get caught up in rappers talking about Jesus ain't real. Well, who, for when, he real for me, showed up and showed out in my life. I'm not finna listen to people talking about this or slave religion. Well, I'm free, I'm living good. I'm blessed, I'm favored, it going and coming. When it's up, when it's down, I'm good. In the rough times, in the bad time, in the whatever you call it, I got peace because I'm connected to something. So look, call it what you wanna call it. Call it how you wanna call it. See it as you wanna see it, but I'm finna do what's for me. I'm finna believe and receive for me. I'm not getting caught up in your propaganda and what you talking about because I tried the word at the word. I opened the Holy Bible and I read it and I lived it for myself and I saw that it's real. So you can believe in what you wanna believe in because I don't believe in fairy tales. This my reality. I'm not telling you about a fairy tale. I'm telling you about a peaceful reality based on the lifestyle that I'm living. So listen, rapper, listen, comedian, listen, gatekeeper, listen, radio host, listen, TV host.  But for me and my house, we will serve the Lord and we blessed and highly favored. We peaceful.  You ain't seen kid, my ninth grader is in a school that they do college freshman work in the ninth grade. The kids on his soccer team, the work that they doing at their school my son did in the sixth grade. Since the fourth grade, they started giving our A's and they give our A minuses. My oldest son has never had an A minus. He got nine classes. The boy played travel soccer, just made the Olympic development program. He gotta do homework till midnight this year he did homework till 2 a.m. one night because he want that. But God give him peace, give him grace. So see, when I invite God into my household and I see his peace and I see his presence and I see his blessings and I see his grace, you can't convince me that I believe in a fairy tale. You can't convince me that God ain't real. You can't convince me that the Holy Bible is fruitless, you can't convince me of that because my life shows me otherwise. You can't convince me of that.  Anything you wanna compare, the spiritual, the emotional, the physical, the financial, anything you wanna compare, I'm gonna show you that God gonna win in and out of season. That God gonna be good in and out of season. That in the Job season, there's gonna be peace. In the famine, there's gonna be peace. In oppression, there's gonna be peace. In bondage, there's gonna be peace. See, peace is the real prosperity.  If people that's on the radio sleeping on somebody couch, it's people on a TV show sleeping on somebody couch. Rob and Peter to pay Paul. But because people got a platform, we wanna listen to they blasphemy. We wanna listen to they sacrilegion. We wanna listen to they ignorance. They wanna believe in science.  They wanna look at how the body heals and how we heal and how we grow and they wanna believe that come from evolution. They wanna believe that come from a combustion in the sky. They don't wanna believe in a supernatural power because they got science. Guess what? The human mind came rapid self around the creator. That's like a laptop computer, an Apple computer trying to understand Steve Jobs with a stroke of a key. Steve Jobs, God rest his soul, could disrupt that Apple computer. And I don't think he believed in God. So guess what? That science can heal you. That science can't buy your health. That science can't do nothing for you.  If you think you the highest creation, if you think that you created yourself, that you made yourself, I'm here to tell you I beg to differ.  I dare you to try Jesus. Listen, I was in the streets 21 hours a day. I don't believe in fairy tales because bullets is a reality. My life could have been lost. You hear me? I don't believe in fairy tales. It got to be real for me to believe in it. And I'm gonna tell you what's real. Jesus Christ, that holy Bible, because one thing I've seen is a lot of the bad times I brought it upon myself. I couldn't even blame nobody. And the other bad times that I didn't bring upon myself, what I realized is life happens. That's what we call life. There's good, there's evil, and life happens. Good and bad happens to everybody. So you can't look at because you lost your mama, because your sister was abused. All that doesn't happen. Life happens. Stop blaming God. Stop questioning God. Walk by faith, live by faith.  B-I-B-L-E, basic instructions before leaving earth. And give it a real chance. Give it a real shot and see what happens in your life.  You start to do right and everything start to go wrong. That's evidence that you own to something because opposition only meets those who are set up for greatness. Opposition don't approach you if you mediocre. If you ain't meant to be, nothing to do, nothing opposition don't wanna have, nothing to do with you because you ain't nothing to oppose. So you gonna go through when you going to.  You gonna lose people. Read the book of Job, that's the holy Bible trying to let you know that just because you faithful, just because you righteous don't mean everything gonna be peaches and cream. Job whole family was killed. All his assets was taken. Everything was burnt to the ground. But on the other side, he got double for his trouble. You just got the weather to storm. You got the weather to storm without cursing God. And when you stop cursing God, when you stop blaming God for your pain, for your problem, for your trouble and you realize that it's him who you go to in those times. You don't pull away from God and get mad with God because you going through, this is life. We set up to go through. You see the evil in the world? You see the evil people? How you expect to have an evil people and not to have trials and tribulations in the world? You gonna have trials and tribulations. You gonna have upsets.  So what you expect? So it's in that time that you draw closer to the cross. It's at that time that you believe harder, that you dig deeper and that you keep walking by faith, not by sight. Because see when you walking by sight, you won't get far. You got to be able to walk even when you can't see and trust and believe that it's gonna work out in your favor. And I'm telling you, I done seen it.   I ain't got nothing invested in this. I ain't got to pay no, I ain't got to pay to build and rent. I'm not a pastor. I'm not a reverend. I don't want your donation. I don't need your donation. I ain't, so don't feel like when the word coming from me that it's a motive attached to it. I ain't got, I don't have no collection plate.    I used to sleep with a 380 under my pillow. A nightmare would have blew my brains out because I was hustling 21 out of 24 hours a day. All I believe in is reality.  The take a man, when I told you, God gave me everything. See, what the wisdom was that God gave me. He say, son, listen, before you worry about getting money, get the things money cannot buy. Get the things that you don't want money to buy. What's that? A wife. Find you a wife.  Find you a woman who want you for you. Find you a woman who can respect your ambition. Find you a woman who gonna love you where you at, not for where you have arrived. Get what money can't buy first.  Get that first. Get a healthy household where your kids are well behaved, well mannered to where they walk around like they got some sense. Get that first. And then everything else will be added unto you. And that's what I did. So when I'm sitting there with a happy wife, with healthy kids and I look at my business and I say I want more because I wanna build something that I could pass down. The Bible say a good man leaves an inheritance to his children. And so I got the marriage, I got the kids and money didn't buy it, frame didn't buy it.  I need a woman that's gonna work with me and build with me, that's willing to toil in the field with me. I need a woman that's gonna love me for me, that could see where I'm going, that's gonna speak life into me. She got a hand up, she helping me. She working with me, she encouraging me. She holding me accountable. She not settling for less than my best. She not settling for me cheating on her. She ain't settling for me beating on her. She ain't settling for me cursing at her. She want my best. And if I could give her my best, my integrity, my character then she gonna ride with me cause it ain't about money. And God sent me that, God blessed me that. So when you see my wife, when you see my wife with $100,000 on, understand that she was there when I didn't have a dollar. So now that God then gave me what money can't buy, guess what? When you read the word, do you know who Solomon was? Do you know who Solomon was? Do you know that in this day and time, Solomon would be worth $3 trillion. That if you add up all of the richest men in the world, they would not equal Solomon. So see, a lot of time people get caught up and they think that because you serve God, you can't be blessed. Do you know what David was? Do you know what Solomon was? Do you know what these men of God, what God blessed them with? Do you think you could live with integrity and not be blessed? Do you think you could live a righteous lifestyle and not be blessed? Not have a good job? Not get a raise on your job?  They're gonna promote you. If you go into your job and you work as if you're working unto the Lord, what you think they're gonna do? They're gonna promote you. See, people think that it's about the prosperity. No, it's about the principle because principles don't change. So when you live by principle, there are byproducts that come from you living that way. When you live a righteous lifestyle, good eventually is going to happen. On the other side of the trouble, it's gonna be double, a double portion. So what did the scripture say? It say, I've been young and I've been old. I got to go, my son ain't going, but see the Lord move, but I'm finna go. I've been young and I've been old, but never once have I seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread. So that lets you know that although you may feel like you've been forgotten, you have not been forsaken. Although you may feel down, it is not over. You down, but you not out. If you could look up, what the man said, if you could look up, you could get up. So guess what? You got to get back up and you got to keep going and you got to know, you got to know who holds tomorrow. What they say, I don't know what tomorrow will bring, but I know who's bringing it. And that's what you got to understand. And so what you have to realize, and I started to talk to God about that, I said, Lord, I said, Lord, hold on. I said, hold on. Now, how you want me to help people believe in you if I'm struggling? If the word, if the word don't work for me, how am I gonna get somebody else? How am I gonna get the word to work for somebody else?  You got to get your heart aligned. You got to get your heart right. You got to get your mind right. Then I could pull out.  And I'm not a man that I should lie, so I can't put more on you than you can bear. You ain't ready to receive everything I got for you.  Oh my goodness. God just gave me a revelation and a mystery.  I see it, I see it. See, I ain't talking to you right now. I'm talking to me right now. Oh my goodness, the Lord just showed me something. Oh my goodness, and my wife been telling me this. Oh my goodness, my wife been telling me this.  With every level, there are new devils. But with every level, there are new lessons. In order to get to the next level, you got to get the lesson. Until you get the lesson, you cannot level up. You got to destroy the monster at the end of the level in order to be advanced to the next level. And as long as you keep losing to the monster at the level that you own, you cannot realize your next level. Oh my goodness, I got the goal because I realized what I got to do. And I hope you realize what you got to do too. Hey, God bless you. The spirit just left the room. I got to get to my son because your family is your first ministry. We'll...


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Red Hat Summit 2016. Brought to you by Red Hat. Now, here are your hosts, Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely. Welcome back to theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's flagship program here at Red Hat Summit 2016. Sitting here in the lobby at street level of Moscone West, happy to have on the program fresh off the afternoon, day three keynote, Randy Meyer, who is the president and general manager of Mission Critical Systems at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Randy, thanks so much for joining us. Well, thank you for having me here. All right, so it's interesting times in technology, the mashing together of things that you're like, wait, how does that go together? So today, Mission Critical and what's happening with open source, bring us up to speed as to how those go together. Well, and I talked about it in the keynote. It's one of the fastest growing things we've got. That part of my business, scale up x86, resilience, open source software is growing 60% year over year for me. And we're watching, a couple of things happen. You're watching increased scale, increased capability. That's being driven by the open source community. Red Hat's certainly fostering that in their partnership with us. You're also looking at this trend towards in-memory. People are moving data in memory. SAP HANA's the poster child for that, but it happens with Oracle databases, happens with DB2 databases even. And you start to see when the data's that close to the processing, now analytics and transactions really start to meld and you can do some really cool things. You know, imagine your IoT data is now married to your transaction data and in real time you can make some decisions about that. That's changing the way people think about what they're doing. I've got a customer in Germany. They get information off of high-end air compressors, believe it or not. They have thousands of sensors in these things. It all goes into a predictive analytics database. That lets them ship parts somewhere in advance so that the air compressors there to service the Lufthansa jet that's sitting at the Frankfurt Airport so it doesn't go down. So amazing analytical capabilities and then they marry that into their transaction stream. That's one of the big confluence areas we're seeing. Yeah, we hear that a lot. We're starting to hear more. Things like predictive maintenance are one of the killer IoT applications and so forth. I mean, it really is and in order to do that you have to realize that it's not just collecting the data.  You got to marry it all the way back up your supply chain and in many cases that's got to go not only to your shop but to a partner where you say, I got to make my part plus somebody else's part arrive in the right place at the same time. That's the magic in this. You said scale up computing is growing. We hear lots of buzz around scale out and distributed system. What are we not seeing in the news and the headlines about scale up computing that people need to know about? Well, so there's certain problems that scale out really well and I want to go spray data across and I want to shard the database, do things. It turns out there's other kinds of problems that really don't distribute very well. Think about, I'm trying to do a massive billing application. I run 20 million telecom subscribers that all got to get a bill every month. It turns out it doesn't scale out very well. It wants to scale up. It wants to have the account database. It wants to have the call database and it wants to go map all that stuff all at once. I talked to my keynote about pillow windows. Great example. There's a billion different ways to configure a custom window and you can't spread it out because it's got to all integrate in there. So there's a certain set of applications and a lot of these for the longest time have lived in the Unix world or the mainframe world. We're now seeing the capabilities in the open source world that say I can get enough compute power going at it. I can put a 24 terabyte memory footprint all accessible by a kind of this sea of compute coming at it and I can solve those scale up problems. So what's interesting is a lot of the times that gets married to scale out environments where you say, oh, all those transactions are coming in across a web forum and I'm going to add data to them as they come across. Great. There's your scale out model that says add it right into the transaction stream, do what you have to do in the scale up model and then spit it back out that way as well. So Randy and Nukino, you said that technology today isn't about data centers, infrastructure or cloud. It's about people. Can you unpack that for our audience? Oh, you bet. My favorite concept. Ultimately, it's not about running a system or running an OS or running a database. I want to go down the street to Macy's and buy something. I want to know that it's there and I know that my credit card is going to work and guess what?  If I do that and say, okay, I've been gone a couple of days, I'm going to bring my wife a gift on the way home because I happen to live in the Bay Area. I order it, I show up there and they say, oh sorry, we only had it in the wrong size or you only had it in green even though you wanted pink. Is that okay? No, it's not okay. And you promised me that it would be there and ready. At the end of the day, that's a person trying to do something. It's somebody trying to get something done, whether that's a sales rep trying to sell something, a customer trying to pick something up, somebody trying to make an airline reservation, you trying to get data on your phone, whatever it might be. There's a person at the end of that business process and every interaction, if you can't make it work, somebody thinks you failed. And what's interesting in today's world, we're all connected. You guys are carrying at least three different devices I bet each, we don't think about it when it goes right. We assume it's gonna go right, but as soon as it goes wrong, that's a failure in your eyes. And it's not the company failure, you go, I'm personally disappointed. That's it. What do we have to do as IT people? How do I deliver on that promise every single day? How do I figure out to do that? And by the way, there's not infinite costs. There's not infinite number of resources. There's not infinite amount of processing power. Inside of all those envelopes, we all have to deal with as business people and technologists, how do I satisfy that customer 100% of the time that they're going to try to do something with me? Yeah, like you just talked about, there's different ways to access things these days. Mobile is an experience, tablets an experience, just being around is an experience. Being able to deliver that for customers, there's a cost to having access to all those experiences. What is the cost change that's going on between those Unix systems, those mainframe systems, and now moving it on to x86 and open source operating systems? Well, and that's one of the things you're getting to. The front end costs are multiplying like crazy, because you're right. The watch experience is different than the phone experience is different than the tablet experience, and I have to optimize for that. One of the things you want to do on the back end is say to the extent that I can take out the cost, but have a consistent experience there, so manage the front end the way you want to, but the back end's going to be clean and more effective. So we were talking about this earlier, there's a banking conglomerate based out of Austria, and they used to run on mainframes and IBM Power Linux systems. They went to our Superdome X product, run on Red Hat Linux for their core banking environment, which, again, you get through all these different channels. They took 78% out of their maintenance cost stream, which was massive, millions and millions of dollars a year reduced by three quarters. That's huge, and then you can go reinvest that in all the other front end, in the experience pieces of it. And they're able to maintain the same performance and availability they expected before? Same performance, same service level agreements, and the kicker was that new function, new features that would take them weeks to deploy, they're now doing overnight. The whole DevOps model because of all the tools that you get to do that is just easier for them. Yeah, if a customer sees this story, they're watching, they see the story, so Randy, what are the steps that I need to do? How can HPE help me get from that mainframe application to that environment that you're talking about? So the first thing that we want to talk to you about is explain what you're trying to do. Talk about the workload, what are your SLAs, where are you trying to go, and what do you have today? Because not very many of us walk in and say, okay, yeah, we'll just build everything new from scratch, everything will change. There's business processes that are running, you got to go do that. We look for opportunities where you say, ah, there's a piece of infrastructure that if you use a new model, this one can go quickly versus some over here you say, you know, the best model for that is gonna be connected into the new infrastructure. So our terminology, we'd say that you wanna build a hybrid infrastructure. There's gonna be some things that run in traditional IT computing models because they're either hard to move or there's no value in moving them. There's other things that you can now move today because the capabilities there, Linux has evolved, systems have evolved. We can move that and get value for you immediately. And then there's things you say, you know, it might wanna live in a public cloud. We have to say, how do you optimize that? So that's one of the things we do. We have technical professionals, we've got solution centers. You have to step back and look at the whole environment. It's not by a box. A box doesn't solve anything. For this set of workloads, here's how they have to communicate and how do you go do that? So it really is, to the extent you can talk about your business, your business processes, we can go in and say, there's the place. There's the win. Connect this in, work that on the mobile front, and that's gonna save you costs and it's gonna make you faster. Talk about it earlier. Time is the new currency. If you try to do everything big bang, it doesn't work. Solve this problem really fast and then go to the next one. So we definitely agree, we talk to customers. It's not one solution fits all. I guess one of the challenges is if I've got some big iron, I've got some public cloud, how does the management and orchestration fit across all of that? So that becomes critical and that's where software defined is the new mantra. And by the way, there's software defined elements for some of your big iron that's there. That's where as people are moving to, whether it's puppet chef, open stack, you leverage the capabilities there. I mean, I'm doing some pretty cool things. I have customers that have UNIX applications that they depend on that are unlikely to be able to move easily to something else. But I've taken and done some work, so I've got a prototype of my UNIX environment running in Docker. Okay, maintain the applications. You don't have to port those, but now I can leverage the new infrastructure. My nonstop systems, things that are running, banking networks and payments and telcos and that. I've got that running in my labs, full nonstop environment using KVM and Red Hat Linux as its underpinnings. So not too distant future, you want to put nonstop in a cloud based environment because that's where you go. I can do that. So you have to orchestrate across all those things and you got to leverage open stack, you got to leverage all the key things that are there to orchestrate that. And then underneath, you change them as you get value out of them. Which sometimes might be never. Yeah, Randy, one of the challenges we find is something like your mission critical system. Do you think nonstop Superdome? People think back, it's like, oh, I run the Superdome from 12, 15 years ago in what it does. If, you know, what message you want to give people to give them a fresh look at where your portfolio is today and how they should think about it going forward? Well, so first and foremost, the capabilities of doing what we've done for years and years and years, leveraging new platforms, X86 engines, open source software. If you can do a lot more than you thought you could today and there's clustering capabilities and there's that.  Those are software choices that you're making, right? My nonstop business is a software choice you're making. Unix, it's actually a software choice. To the point that you can leverage that and say, know what you're doing, why you're doing it. You can create value and there's five or six different paths to success that are all going to let you reduce cost, get more agile, take advantage of the community tools that are out there, but at the same time, you can't break what you're running because your customers expect it to work all day, every day, year round. So if you're going to do one thing, have a plan, right? And if you haven't thought about it, where do you go in the future? That's where we can go help you and say, step back, look at all the different things you're doing and what is the plan? Because at the end of the day, there's a lot of opportunity out there. All right, Randy Meyer, really appreciate the updates. We'll be back with more coverage of Red Hat Summit 2016. You're watching theCUBE.


Do you know everybody here? I do. Bill and Bob Tierra, Judge Clark, Mitch Hector, Judge Clark, Irving Crystal, Bill Rusher. Thank you. We're going to be able to have us here today. We're grateful for your time. I'm grateful to all of you for coming and, of course, having a chance to live by a belief that you get in trouble when you're talking about each other and not when you're talking to each other and I think about when we talk to each other. Well, that's wonderful. I remember a dinner we had at the Union League Club, a somewhat similar dinner before your election, before the campaign, in which we had kind of the same group of writers and electionals here, and I remember Irving wasn't here on that occasion. And Irving had spent the first half of his life avoiding Republicans and now he's spending the second half making up for his drama. I promise, I promise I'm not going to interrupt your pleasure for more than about a minute and a half, if that, but I just want to thank you and welcome you here to the White House. You may be on your way to the National Aquarium, but Nancy and I thought that it then would be appropriate for you to start in what's often been referred to as the Goldfish Bowl. But the whole country is, especially the thousands of schoolchildren who visit the Aquarium every year will all of you a tremendous debt of gratitude because of your efforts, not only will the Aquarium remain open, it'll flourish, sprucing up has begun thanks to strict and creative management and I understand that you're already planning some long-term capital improvements. I'm so pleased that Midge Baldridge and Mary Jane Wick and the other members of the National Aquarium Society have made this cause their own. You're proving that private sector initiatives really can work. In the past decades, America seemed to drift off course because our leaders insisted that government was the answer to every question and could minister the solution to every problem. Our nation built by people with a strong sense of self-reliance, neighborliness and community pride was being robbed of its special American spirit. So in these last 20 months, we've tried to unleash that spirit again and I think it's working. From across the country, we've been getting reports from businessmen, from volunteers and community organizations that are all rising to the challenge. Your experience and these other examples make it clear that we don't have to turn to the federal government to fill every need. This kind of private sector cooperation can renew the quality of life across America and I'm going to stop now because we can talk with you more personally than this but let me close by saying how grateful and how proud I am of each one of you. Thank you all and God bless you. Thank you. This is the responsibility bill of 82.  Well, I thought it was important because first, a lot of people out here it was important to have a picture like that. It was tactical. Then of course, I believe that we needed some economic incentive within the economy. So we just tried to stretch out and try to do something about jobs and I did it for that reason and I'm glad it worked out well. I'm glad you know something about the OIC. The opportunities and utilization centers began as a self-help movement some 18 years ago in Philadelphia. It was during those days, as you, when we were very much involved in trying to better conditions for people to know from your history you were in the union movement and so on and so forth. And I was in the leadership of getting jobs for minorities with businesses that refused to employ them. When the jobs became open, I found that people need skills to do the jobs. I said integration without preparation is frustration. So we had to do something in preparation as well as getting the jobs. So I took an older man in jail house, no federal money, no government money, private money collections from churches. I got a loan on my house. Got a lot of volunteers. From that jail house started a training program that matched the jobs that were available with the skills that many training programs don't do. And also to concentrate on motivation and the attitude because a person has a skill and doesn't have an attitude he still cannot be a benefit on a job. So for the first time a program occurred that dealt with developing motivation and attitude, self-competence, self-appreciation, belief in the freedom. Belief in what we are all about in America but also training for a skill for a job that existed in the economy and then on the job. And as a result in this older man in jail house turning to a training center, the program began to spread. A fellow named Philip Phillips, who was chairman of General Electric at that time, who was a predecessor to Reg Jones, became chairman of the National Industrial Advisory Council to help me to get business leadership for this low IC all over the country. And when Philip died, George Champion, who was then chairman of Chase Manhattan by the time, became chairman of the Industrial Advisory Council and he's still chairman of the Industrial Advisory Council. And we have the chairman of 30 years before he hasn't fought except in the month. We still aren't thinking about next summer. With the private sector summer job provides an excellent opportunity. I was 14 when I got mine and I started out digging foundation for the construction outfit that was buying old houses and remodeling in the summer. Before the summer was over, I laid hardwood floor and shingled roof and painted. It all comes in very handy with the ranch now. But I went to New York last January and David Rockefeller was there, thunder was saying that it was their personal leadership which made the program so successful. You've all heard us talk, I know, about the private sector. We had a pretty successful 5,000 of the largest corporations and asked their CEOs to work with the National Alliance of Business. They're private industry councils to make the hire a teenager program a success. Many new programs were started, but much more can be done. We didn't invite you here today because you don't know what needs to be done. We invited you today to work with the National Alliance of Business and the White House to help encourage other business and private industry councils to come with you. You can be our ambassadors for private sector summer jobs so that we can do a better job next year. Before I have to go, I'd like to say a few words about the National Alliance of Business. This is Chairman John Filer. The Chairman will be succeeded by David Roderick, Chairman of the United States Steel. I welcome Dave Warnley to our business government partnership. I'm going to say good-bye and thank you very much and welcome to you. Thank you. I hope you want to regret the decision to move up that we want to make things too rough for you here. And closing, let me express our deep appreciation to you Chief Executives, Officers, Private Industry Council Executives to the National Alliance of Business and to John Filer for their untiring efforts to expand a helping hand to thousands of needy youth last summer. We're out and grateful. Thank you to all of you and for your dedication. We hope that your patriotism, far-sightedness will be emulated and your ranks will be joined by additional businessmen and women in 1983. And now I understand that there's little photography sessions through the numbers. I'm sure it's going to stop the wheels of progress here. But I'll get on by the door and we'll get started. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Welcome to 11th lecture and from 11th lecture now we are getting into finite element analysis. There are two distinct approaches in finite element method. One is the variational approach which is basically energy minimization approach which is more sort of closer to the physics because you know we are calculating the energy and we are minimizing the energy and why we minimize energy basically because fields will generally, fields will always get distributed in a given problem domain such that energy content is minimized that is you know is one of the nature's laws. So in the fields will get distributed such that energy content is minimized. There is another approach weighted residual approach wherein we minimize errors because of approximation that we are doing. So we will see you know this weighted residual approach little later the first two set of lectures we will concentrate on this variational approach which is basically energy minimization. See here and remember we are taking again this parallel plate capacitor problem to understand what is this you know energy minimization and how energy gets how you know the field distribution corresponds to energy minimum condition. So here always remember that you know most of these problems that we are taking particularly in electrostatics you will find that we are not considering the charges on the plate because those sources because the source actually charge always remember in electromagnetic the basic entity that source is charge only that charge when it is moving then it is current that current can be DC or time varying but the basic source is charge all current. But here you know you may wonder you know in all these things we are not actually representing charge. But the charge is represented by the corresponding boundary condition here for the 100 volt and 0 volt. Now again for simplicity we are neglecting the end effect. So we are considering you know it is like in one of the previous lectures we saw in is it not we actually will terminate this whole geometry here like by this vertical boundaries and impose Neumann homogenous Neumann condition that is daba v by daba z equal to 0 in this case. Now actually you know here since it is a uniform field condition because end effects are neglected everywhere the field is uniform. So your electric field intensity is simply 100 volt by 10 meter because 10 meters is the gap between the two plates. So you have you know e a given by 10 volts per meter everywhere and we know the energy is you know integral volume integral half epsilon e square dv. Now see it is becoming easy if I had directly started with FEM then I would have to explain what is this energy. Now we have covered almost all background theory required for FEM and it will be easier for you to understand electromagnetic aspects of FEM. We have to concentrate more on the mass aspects of the FEM in the lectures that are going to follow. So energy is given by this and now here this dimension is shown here as x so you know you have in yz it is infinite in yz extent. Remember when we imposed here homogenous Neumann condition effectively you know you what you are doing is you are making the plate this plate infinite in extended z direction. In y anyway into the paper it is infinite. So effectively what we are doing it is this dv is dx into 1 into 1 like we saw in basics when we did 2D approximation we always said dx into 1 is it not per meter depth and also we saw the parameters are calculated per meter depth so here it is since it is you know you are assuming infinite extent in both x and y and z you have it is basically you are per meter depth in those. So that is why this will this problem will essentially reduce to 1D is it not is a 1D problem effectively and then we also know for this problem the solution is the equi-spaced lines the equi-potential lines will be equi-spaced is it not all these lines will be equi-spaced but you know let us assume so by our logic that we just you know saw the nature's law so this should lead to minimum energy condition right so we need to prove that this indeed equi-spaced equi-potential lines indeed lead to minimum energy condition so we will have a counter argument and then sort of prove it right. So let us assume that no these equi-space lines are is not energy minimum condition so this dotted line here shown suppose you know that line is representing 90% of voltage which is say 90 volts right and you know the so the solution is not equi-space line but one of the lines is you know not equi-spaced it is above the actual solution as but then now what you will see the energy in this only if you consider energy in this region up to this you know 80 volts you know energy up to 80 volts line in the previous case when it is exact solution the energy will be proportional to 10 square plus 10 square because e was 10 is it not 10 volts per meter so e square 10 square plus 10 square that will be proportional to 200 but in case of dotted line you will have you know assume that since this line is taken above in the top this region between the droplet and this dotted line the electric field intensity will be more is it not and that I have assumed that it is say 11 volt per meter and in this case between 80 volt and 90 volt now the electric field intensity will be lower which I am taking it as say 9 volts per meter now you can see you know 10 square plus 10 square is 200 and 11 square plus 9 square is 202 is it not so this that is why the dotted case would represent higher energy than the exact solution so in a way if we have proved that in this case the equiposive potential line equi-space equipotential lines lead to the minimum energy condition right so now actually if you take the other case where in which also we have been seeing previously lead to ground now here the equipotential lines are going to be like this is it not we have seen that now these lines are not equi-space the actual exact solution of this would corresponding will would correspond to equipotential lines would which you are not equi-space because the lines which are closer to the conductor they will be more closely spaced as compared to equipotential lines which are towards this ground electrode they will be sparsely spaced right so now here in this case the exact solution corresponds to this non-equi-space equipotential lines and in this case suppose you know you assume equi-space equipotential lines then in fact you will calculate higher energy than the exact solution which is non-uniform case and not equi-space line is this point clear right now you know here equi-space lines that will have to you know actually from the FEM solution you will have to work out then and that is not very straightforward to calculate it was very simple in case of parallel plate capacitor to prove but here it would be difficult but I hope intuitively you understood that you know why energy minimum condition is the exact solution from the previous you know capacitor problem now let us go further so we are considering again I am repeating it is a source free electrostatic problem because we are not considering charges on the plate right but that source of charges is being represented by corresponding bonding conditions on the top and bottom plate and the corresponding energy is given by what is written there now before going into you know the details of this how to solve this electrostatic problem let us see the two most standard partial differential equation pd stands for partial differential equation in electromagnetic so we will be basically considering three cases typically for low frequency electromagnetic when we are dealing with electrical machines and equipment one is the magnetostatic case del square a is equal to minus mu j where a and j are vectors now again you are very comfortable with this equation is it not Poisson's equations for magnetostatics where a is the magnetic vector potential j is the current density the second equation also we have seen you know we had some discussion also on this I have also explained you know this this is the induced eddy current term right because this dA by dt is the induced electric field intensity so sigma dA by dt is j induced right so that is why the units are matching because the unit is mu times j so these also mu times induced eddy current density is it clear okay so del square a will be equal to minus mu j if it is a static case if it is a general transient case this will be the case wherein this is the source source current and this is the this is representing the eddy current and I as I mentioned in that previous lecture when you bring this on this side this sign becomes plus as it it should be because source current and induced eddy current they should have opposite sign right but their angle will not be exactly 180 degrees mind that so that will depend because this will be all phasors and angle will get decided by you know many other considerations but maybe little later we will discuss this but in general the sign should be opposite and now if you actually are dealing with time harmonic case that means if your quantities are varying sign certainly with you know time then you can make convert d by dt as j omega and then you get this expression where now this a and j they are phasors are not you know represented by another symbol for sake of you know gravity and simply for simplicity right but remember this in this thing a and j they will be phasors now let us go further so now we have to minimize this now we are going back to electrostatic problem so first we will in this you know remaining course what we will do is we will start with electrostatic then we will go to magnetostatic field then we will go to time harmonic then we will go to you know axisymmetric we will get into permanent magnet we will go into transient then forces coupled circuit field and in that complexity we are going to proceed in this course so again you know always electrostatic is probably the simplest thing to analyze so we are starting with electrostatic so you know you are minimizing this and this we have already seen this for 1d electrostatic you get 1 into 1 so it is basically only d x now here for a standard you know capacitor problem we know we knew that the energy is this because it is related to you know capacitor and then half epsilon e square is the energy density right and that is why we started directly with you know assuming that this is the energy that has to be minimized but in general you know how do we sort of for a given partial differential equation we have to know its energy the corresponding energy to be minimized right so we will later on see how do we you know find out the corresponding energy functional that need to be minimized for each of these you know partial differential equations right so then we are coming to an important concept of what is known as functional now functional is basically is the energy so functional is nothing but the energy so in variational calculus we basically term energy as functional so functional f phi now this phi here is potential right that is the reason you know in the previous in the basics we you know call flux by psi because you know it will otherwise interfere with this in call of you know potential so here phi is the potential it could be in general electric potential magnetic potential of any any potential right it is generally it is a phi okay in this case if you are dealing with electrostatic it will be you know electric potential V okay so this is V for electrostatic now in this case this functional it can be defined in general of this form p1 to p2 that means this there is a one-dimensional domain so this is a one-dimensional domain so it could be is a one-dimensional domain so this is x and this is say phi right and this is a p1 this is p2 so this is a one-dimensional domain from p1 to p2 right and say potential may be varying between this like this it may vary in any way I just shown by a straight line but it is not it can vary depending upon the boundary conditions and the source condition right so here now for example so this functional energy can be in general represented by f of x phi phi dash now phi dash is the derivative right now here for example if you compare here this functional for electrostatic case here only what is that appearing here only V dash because e is nothing but dv by dx is it not so only V dash is or phi dash is appearing so this e is nothing but this phi dash so for this case is only you know it is a energies function of only phi dash but in general it will not be so it will be generally in the function of x phi phi dash for example in case of Poisson's equation you will get you know it has a function of phi also that we will see later so there will be some term in this expression which will be function of phi right so here so then you have one independent variable for this case and dependent variable is phi, phi is the potential right so you know you have this Laplace equation only phi dash appears in functional and as I mentioned Poisson's equation phi also appears so we will go further so this is what we said and then Laplace equation only phi dash appears in the energy functional but later on we will see Poisson's equation for PD for the corresponding functional for Poisson's equation we will have phi term also. Now we will go further and discuss more about this functional F and the corresponding variational calculus right now here we know total differential d capital F is daba F by daba x into dx daba F by plus daba F by daba phi into d phi plus daba plus daba F by daba phi dash d phi dash right but when it comes to variation in F in variation in F when we are doing we are not varying x so that is why we are saying del x is equal to 0 what it means we know that you know we want to minimize this energy which is represented by capital F that energy when we will get minimize when it will get minimize when we vary potential at each point and for one combination of potentials at various points we will get minimum energy. So what we are doing is in this figure now this one dimensional domain there are so many points x and there are so many points here at each of these points we will vary the potential values right. So at this point example for example we are varying potential from some initial guess value to something higher value so at this point it is varied like this. So at every point we are varying the potential but we are not varying x we are not varying potential as function of x so we are at every x we are varying potential right. So that is why here we are varying potential so that is given by del phi so there is variation we are doing variation in phi similarly as phi is varied phi will be a function of x so phi dash also will vary so again there will be variation in phi dash so as you vary potential there will be variation in potential derivative also but we are not varying del we are not varying x that is why here del x here will be 0 that is why this term is not there so f by x into del x this term will be 0 because del x is equal to 0. So this is the main concept in when we do variation. So again you know del phi is variation in phi at fixed x so this is the various phi distribution that we are attempting to minimize the functional f which is the energy. Now here let us come to this graph now this figure now here what you see is variation of f with respect to phi now remember this when we are saying this phi and this phi plus del phi these are set of values now suppose if there are say 100 points here say and we calculate the energy associated with you know 100 points so and that corresponding total energy what will happen is this phi will correspond to a vector of 100 values. So all those 100 values will decide the energy of that region one dimensional region so now if you change the potentials or at those 100 points you will get new set of set of values of potentials that will give another this kind of potential versus x and that may give some other energy value. So now when actually you are approaching the minimum energy point what will happen when you suppose for example this is the minimum energy potential distribution now if you change the potential values at all the nodes by some small value it is not going to lead to any appreciable change in the total energy content so that means we have reached the minimum that is the meaning of this statement del f capital F is equal to f phi plus del phi is my minus f phi is equal to 0 when this becomes 0 that means we are near the minimum energy point this will lead to 0 and that is the corresponding phi is the solution. Now you know let us expand this further so what does this mean f of phi plus del phi is nothing but f of x plus del x phi plus del phi phi dash plus del phi dash integrated over you know this domain with dx as you know integration distance minus this f phi as it is. Now again I just want to repeat f is just function which is function of x phi phi dash integral f dx is capital F so functional f capital F is function of function right so this is again to just highlight the difference between capital F and small f. Now this expression this equation if we further simplify this you know by using standard rule that f of x plus h is equal to fx plus hf dash x and there are remembering that there are two variables here this and this and this del x is equal to 0 so that is why it will be only f of x and then this because del x is equal to 0 so that is why here you know you get as written here. So now you have only two variables here this will get expanded to this plus this right by the formula that I just mentioned previously. So now this term can be written as this f by f of phi I am now just omitting this thing for simplicity and now this g remember this g is del phi is gx g as a function of x because this variation at every point is a function of x because here the variation is small here the variation is bigger here again it is becoming smaller. So the variation that we are making in phi is function of x right so that is why g is a function of x and that is nothing but del phi so this we are writing it like this and then this term we are you know splitting by using integration by parts and these are standard integration by parts and then this term first term there which is rewritten here that becomes 0 because at when that term evaluated at boundaries it will be this will reduce to 0 because g is 0 at the boundaries because potentials are already fixed at the two boundary points right. So this becomes 0 and then these two terms this term and this term these two terms are combined this is 0 so you get integral of this equal to 0 so when this is this integral is equated to 0 we are basically minimizing the energy right. So if this has to be 0 and if energy has to be minimum effectively this integrand has to be 0 because for any arbitrary gx g of x this whole thing can be 0 only if this is 0 right. So this is called as Euler-Langrange equation and this you bracketed term is called as Euler-Langrange expression right. Now let us see some you know application and example to understand what we just now saw in little bit more depth. Now let us again take a parallel plate capacitor problem and we know the functional for that is half integral epsilon E square dx right and is one dimensional that is why this dv reduces to simply dx into 1 into 1 right.  Now if we substitute now if we suppose we want to solve this capacitor problem and find out the distribution we will assume some potential distribution v right. If that potential distribution v is exact solution and we know it then when it is substituted in this Euler-Langrange equation the energy will be minimized because solution is known and it is exact. So when you substitute in Euler-Langrange equation you will get it equal to 0 and that is what so here we are assuming that this v is known exact solution is known and when it is substituted in this Euler-Langrange equation we will get on the right hand side 0 and then if that energy gets minimized in that way this v is known exactly. Now let us see when in Euler-Langrange equation when you substitute this f and then further simplify you will get this as d2v by dx square equal to 0. So this we are getting Laplace equation in 1d. So when this exact solution say was known to us and we substituted in Euler-Langrange equation we will have the minimum energy condition and therefore the right hand side of the equation will be 0 satisfying Euler-Langrange equation. This further leads to d2v by dx square equal to 0 which is Laplace equation. So again I want to highlight this here f was only function of v dash dv by dx but in general it can be function of xv and v dash. We will see such examples in some other cases later. Thank you.