The Moral Compass Chronicles
An audio time capsule centered around morality - encouraging people around the world on the importance of governing one’s life in a morally [and biblically] sound manner!
The Moral Compass Chronicles
Just Do It Already!
Ever feel stuck at a crossroads, paralyzed by indecision despite knowing exactly what you want to do? You're not alone. This deeply personal episode dives into the frustrating phenomenon of "analysis paralysis" and offers a refreshingly simple solution: just start.
What's going on everybody? This is Eon J. Welcome to another rendition of the Moral Compass Chronicles. Another day, another chronicle, another week, another month. It's been about a month. It's been about a month, man, and I am here, I am back.
Speaker 1:I quite honestly, man, I have had so much going on, there has been so much going on in my life and I am grateful to say that I counted all joy. I counted all joy, the good, the bad. I counted all joy, even when I fall into unfortunate situations. I have gotten to a place in my life where I have learned how to count it all joy, as Paul says. I've learned how to remain content in whatever state I find myself to be in. All right, and it's so funny. I feel like I mentioned that recently as well on one of these chronicles. I'm not even sure, but I'm just grateful, man. I'm grateful to be here, grateful to be able to lock in here yet again and speak to you all, speak to the world here yet again and speak to you all. Speak to the world. I know we're listening from many, many different places and I'm just super grateful for each and every one of you that find me and find this podcast, from wherever you are, from the East Coast of the United States to the West coast, canada, europe, the Caribbean I think I saw a South America in there somewhere and I'm just super grateful, man. I'm super grateful. So many things that I want to talk about and so many things that I am doing. I'm a certified mediator. At this point in my life, continuing my education. As far as that's concerned, I found myself starting a business around mediation and consulting as well, and so this is something that I am doing regularly. I'm here on the podcast, speaking to you here, um, in my free time. Right, this is this is something I'm doing because I felt led to do Um, but God has given me a business as well, and a long time ago.
Speaker 1:It's so funny how you look back and you recognize that you are in the middle of a blessing. If I can be cliche, you're in the middle of a blessing that you once prayed for, right, that ever happened to you when, at one point in your life, you find yourself praying. You find yourself at a crossroads. You're not sure what to do. You know what you want to do, but you're not sure what direction to go in. You feel leading in some way, shape or form, you pull the trigger on something. You look up, five years has passed and you realize that you are living in a prayer that was answered a significant time ago. That ever happened to you. Because this right here, this, what you are experiencing right now, is an answered prayer. This is an answered prayer, this is direction from God that you are a part of right now.
Speaker 1:The business that I have started, the podcasting, all the videos and the content that I've been creating, and the one-on-one consultations just about life. I'm not a business consultant, I'm not a. I'm a life consultant. I don't even want to call myself a life coach, um, but that is what I do.
Speaker 1:And I remember I didn't know where to start at one point in my life. It wow, it's so funny that this is the road, this is the direction I'm going in, because this is literally the topic for today's episode, today's Chronicle. It's so funny. I just I didn't even mean to go into that spiel, but I did that and unknowingly I just went into that and it's literally going to segue right into exactly, or exactly what the topic is for today. And so I remember I didn't know what direction to go in at one point. I wasn't sure what direction to go in.
Speaker 1:I had several ideas that I felt like God had given me, all of them based on the gifting that I have, all of them based on the gifting that I have. Um, I, I felt like I, lord, do I start this podcast thing and start making, or do I? Do I start making these videos? Cause that was a time where I I I saw podcasting as audio and then, you know, I have the videos that I was creating and putting on Instagram. Lord, do I go in that route? Do I go on in that direction? Do I start the podcast? Do I start the mediation and consulting business?
Speaker 1:And I remember exactly where I was. I was in a Staples parking lot. I was at the Staples on Utica Ave, utica and Kings Highway, over there for my people in Brooklyn, and I was waiting for my then girlfriend. She was in the Staples, I was in the parking lot and I had been praying for a significant amount of time. I'd been praying for a significant amount of time and in that parking lot, god gave me the revelation of how all three of these things will be combined into one and how I was so torn between what do I start. What do I start? What do I start? And then my um, all the things that I do on the side, right, trading, and, um, uh, different little businesses, different ways I earn money. Right, lord, what do I focus on? Do I focus on these little things? And I remember one of those things was starting a vending machine company. That was one of the things I was considering. I haven't started that yet, but I put that in the same bucket as one of those things that I will be doing to make money at some point. Right? So, lord, do I start with the bucket of things? Right? The podcast and the content creation, or the mediation and consulting business? What direction do I go in? And in that very parking lot, god gave me the revelation, no pun intended, but how the three would become one, how the three would work hand in hand as one.
Speaker 1:And it was up to me at that point to just start it, just start. It was up to me at that point. Do I continue to drag my feet? Do I continue to be torn between everything to the point where I don't make a decision? Right? Because, let's be honest, a lot of us have. Some of us call it analysis, paralysis, and some of us call it paralysis by overanalysis. Right, overanalysis, paralysis or paralysis by overanalysis? Do I sit here and continue to overanalyze things? I know what I wanna do, I know the things that I have to do. Do I continue to drag my feet and waste time valuable time let's be honest, time is probably the most valuable asset Time, health or do I start somewhere? And at that moment I realized yo, I just gotta start, bro, I have to start, I have to start.
Speaker 1:So I started with the videos and and making some videos. Wasn't doing full podcasts yet, just little like you know. You know five, six, seven minute long joints. Chopped them up, started putting them on Instagram and TikTok whatever. I didn't even start with TikTok yet. Started with that, created the podcast, eventually, pull the trigger on that. Now I'm doing two of those things. Right, because now actually I'm doing the same thing, except I started the podcast, and so now the audio is going to the podcast and I'm still doing the videos and the content creation.
Speaker 1:Started my business eventually, the mediation and consulting business and when I look up, I look now from those two, three years ago however long ago that was, and I am living in the middle of that answered prayer when God finally gave me that revelation. And the truth is, I didn't start all at once. You can't do more than one thing at the same time. For real, for real. You know. You know what I mean, but you got to start somewhere. You got to start somewhere. So that leads me to the topic. The topic for today, for real, for real, is yo, we just got to do it. I don't even know what I'm going to name this episode, bro, that doesn't matter. If I can borrow the slogan from Nike just do it. It just has to be done. You have to start somewhere. You know what you got going on.
Speaker 1:Some of us are in school. Some of us are working. Some of us, you're working a job. You know nine to five vibes. Some of us, you know some of us are working. Some of us, you're working a job. You know the 9 to 5 vibes. Some of us, you know you own a business. Some people are doing both the gym, working out, eating healthy. Some of us making life changes, changing your circle around, like I could go. The list could go on and on. Sometimes, the answer, bro, is just starting. You just got to start, you just got to do it. I always tell people because I'm somebody who has to have a lot of tough conversations, uncomfortable conversations, and I know people don't, we don't, we don't enjoy, um, tough conversations. Right, typically people don't usually enjoy having that tough conversation, having that that uncomfortable conversation connecting with someone who maybe you don't know very well. A lot of us are more comfortable talking to someone that we already know, right? So if you're someone who does networking, we all look forward to networking. For those of us who are in that into that sort of thing, we look forward to networking. But we can agree that the networking sometimes can be uncomfortable, right? Some of us are in church. You start a new job. Some of y'all are in high school, middle school, first day of school. You're going to a new school, graduate high school. You're going to college. Shout out to my little sister that just graduated college had one graduate last year. One graduated this year. Another one graduated high school this year. Another one's graduating college next year. We're moving through these different phases of our life.
Speaker 1:It is extremely uncomfortable sometimes to have to start a conversation with somebody that you do not know and, god forbid, it starts off a little awkward, right, extremely uncomfortable for us. I always tell people that anytime I have to like call somebody, I know I have to call them, right, you're on my schedule to call you or I have a call list sometimes where I know I got to reach out to certain people for specific things. Whatever the case may be, if I have to reach out to somebody to check on them right, I'm a minister at my church youth president Sometimes I may have to like reach out to somebody who I'm not used to talking to, and this is full transparency. If y'all haven't realized, this is my podcast, right, and it's about full transparency. I tell all myself on here too. Okay, sometimes it's uncomfortable, but anytime I'm like, oh god, I don't want to take this phone call. I have this meeting on my schedule, bro, with somebody and I do not want to talk to them for whatever reason, whether I'm not having a good day or this person and me really just don't like vibe, like that. I'm unsure how the conversation is going to go. Me and this person are at odds and there's something we have to work out. And you're, like you know, typically when you got to work something out with somebody, tend to avoid. Oh lord, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go there. You tend to avoid them. We've talked about that on here before right. We avoid the tough conversation anytime I am put in that position and I realize that I've been dragging my feet for a little too long.
Speaker 1:You know what I do. I just do it, I know. I know. I know, I know we're looking for a magic pill. I know we're looking for, we're looking for some sort of like mystical enlightenment where, you know, I prayed for, for my, for my believers. I prayed and I'm seeking the Lord and you're looking for the voice of God to thunder from the heavens to tell you what to do. And, yes, there are times you need to wait, but I'm really talking to those people who already got your answer for real. Yo, sometimes the answer is just doing it, you just got to do it, bro. I'm really talking to those people who already got your answer for real. Yo, sometimes the answer is just doing it. You just got to do it, bro. Just do it, just do it. You've gotten confirmation after confirmation, and let me backtrack. Let me talk about me again, real quick. Let me go back to me.
Speaker 1:So, if I know I have to call somebody, and I know the conversation is going to be uncomfortable or I don't really want to do it any, I will literally pick my phone up. No, I'm there like cursing at myself on the inside, like, oh my god, right, I will pick my phone up, go to my contact list. I will go to the person's name. I will click on their name as I'm like really cursing myself, as I'm like what's the word? Cringing? As I'm cringing on the inside. This is my secret. Anybody want some help with communicating? Yo, like, if yo listen, go look at the episodes, man, and see where we started and how we got here.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about communication and accountability. This is the moral compass chronicles. Baby, you want to know my secret? I go to their name, click on it as I'm cringing and uncomfortable on the inside. I click on the number and the phone starts ringing on the inside. I click on the number and the phone starts ringing, surprise, and the phone rings and it rings and guess what? I would say like 60% of the time the person answers the phone. And then guess what? Now I'm having a conversation.
Speaker 1:Now we are having a conversation, whether I like it or not, whether I want to or not, whether I want to or not whether you want to or not. You answer the phone when I call you. Now we're having a conversation and we are talking now and nine times out of ten, all of them butterflies, the uncomfortability, the awkwardness, it goes right out the window. Next thing you know, we've been on the phone for a half hour. Next thing you know, the problem is worked out and we good now. Next thing, you know, we solving whatever issue needs to be solved.
Speaker 1:I'm coaching you through something. You're coaching me through something. I'm encouraging you. You're encouraging me through something. I'm encouraging you, you're encouraging me. You know, sometimes there is no magic pill. There is no, there is no like I mean yo. Sometimes you just got to do it, bro, you just got to do it, and I've had so many things on my plate over these last few weeks.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you something that last episode, the anxiety episode, took so much out of me. I don't know how much preparation y'all really think goes into this stuff, but I'm seeking god for some of this, for most all of this stuff right, and once I have it all, then I sort of like decide what I want to go with if I'm not feeling led with. I got a whole topic list, bro, and I'm like all right, lord, which direction should I go in? And sometimes he makes it real clear. But sometimes I'm like all right, I mean, he's the one that gave me the idea at some point. So now I'm gonna just pick one, I'm gonna just pick one, I'm gonna just pick, I'm gonna just see which direction am I leaning toward. And I'm gonna just pick one. That anxiety one, though that one had been burning a hole in my stomach for as long as I've been hearing that song to like even getting on here right now as you listen to this. This was a decision. It's been.
Speaker 1:It's been over a month since the last chronicle, april 12th, and I've been so busy, so busy Since then, haven't found time To get on here. But please believe, the work hasn't stopped. The work hasn't stopped. The praying hasn't stopped. The studying hasn't stopped. The mediation hasn't stopped. The consulting hasn't stopped. Truth is, the podcasting hasn't stopped, it just hasn't been recorded. That's the truth. This, right here, I'm doing this with someone several times a day, every single day. It's just that I got a microphone in front of me right now.
Speaker 1:This was a choice, I had the opportunity, I carved out the time, and so we're doing it. Some of you guys oh, that's a word right there Some of us. You have the opportunity. You have the time Now. You need to carve out that time for that specific thing and you need to do it. Bro, you need to start. You know what else works for me A whiteboard.
Speaker 1:Some of us need to. Some of us are visual. Right, we need to see certain things. Stop keeping your schedule in your head. Stop keeping your schedule in your head. Write it out, write the vision right, make it plain and then run, prioritize. I hope this is helping somebody. Write it out, prioritize it.
Speaker 1:Yo, what looks like it's most important, what is most pressing? If that's where you're at, if that's where you're at, what looks most important, what's most dire, what's most pressing? Let me number them one through. Okay, put numbers on it one through 10. I gotta start at number one and start. Get started and watch how quickly your life changes. Watch how quickly your life changes.
Speaker 1:If you just do it, we need to stop dragging our feet on everything and you know what? Being content. There's nothing wrong with being content. There's nothing wrong with being content where you are. If you are in, you find yourself in a good enough place. You are content where you are cool. But if you are somebody and you know what, truthfully, if you are content where you are and with everything that you're doing, if there isn't anything that you are dragging your feet on, if there isn't anything that you're struggling to do, and whatever the case, maybe this conversation isn't for you and that's okay. Maybe this one isn't for you, but you know who you are, you know if this applies to you or not. You know if this applies to you, you've got to do it. You've got to start. You got to.
Speaker 1:For me, I think that right now, my thing is like is YouTube? I just need to. I have all this content already. And editing, bro, editing really be eating me alive. I ain't gonna hold y'all, let me, can I? Can I continue?
Speaker 1:To be honest, editing is probably the thing that's my thing right now, where I just need to do it, and unfortunately, that takes time and I'm kind of like a little bit of an amateur. I'm not going to lie, I'm a bit of an amateur when it comes to video editing, so that it takes me a lot of time to edit stuff, whereas like a professional, it'll be much quicker for them. So eventually I'm going to hire an editor, bro, because I ain't gonna lie, man, editing is tough. It's tough. It's tough, especially the way I want stuff to look and be clean and, honestly, it ain't even what I want it to be right now. What I want it to be, I'm not even capable of making it that right now. I just can't afford an editor like consistently right now. And that's okay, I will get there. There will be somebody editing my content soon, because once I'm able to hire somebody, bro, I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1:Bro, you got to know your strengths. You got to know your strengths and I believe I edit fairly decently. But I have to be honest with myself. It takes me too long. It takes me too long and in order for me to do it quicker, the quality would have to drop significantly. You know what I'm saying. I would have to drop the quality significantly in order to get the same product that I'm putting out now, which already isn't that great. You know what I'm saying. It's already like amateur vibes, and that's okay. I'm owning it, I'm walking in it and I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm walking in it and I'm doing it. I'm doing it. But you know what? The editing be eating me alive and I could be doing more. I could be doing more editing, but because of how difficult it is and because of how much time it takes, I kind of put it off. I have so much more content I could be putting out if I actually put the time into editing. So you know what I'm going to. This is my personal. This is me personally holding myself accountable For doing more editing. And this is now.
Speaker 1:I'm speaking this before the eyes and the ears of God and the ears of you all, whoever will listen to this. But sometimes you just got to do it. I'm kind of I'm getting older. You know what I'm saying. I'm getting older. I'm married now. I got a baby on the way. If you didn't know, now you know. Okay, a lot of my friends are getting married and well, not a lot, but you know there's a lot more marriages around this age, you know what I'm saying and babies and stuff like that and a lot of my I don't even want to go there but a lot of my fellas man. We struggling, right? We struggling to figure out. Okay, you know, who am I going to marry? What am I going to do? I ain't going to lie to you, bro. I ain't going to lie to you. I ain't gonna lie to you, man. Read your bible, son. Read your bible. Lock in, stop doing the things you need to stop doing. That's for real. Start doing the things you need to start doing. Keep yourself single. Stop mingling so much. Read your bible again. Find out what the lord is saying about choosing a wife, how it's a wonderful thing, how it's your choice. You know I'm a really. I'm a really. Dive into that another time for real. Cause, my fellas, I know y'all want to hear more about this and me and my me and my brother shout out to my dog we going to lock in on this, 're going to lock in on this. We're going to lock in on this. Some married men going to come on here and do some teaching, you know, in some different capacities. That's on the way. But do the work that you need to do and make a choice, bro. Yo, we keep ladies, you keep waiting for god's voice to thunder from heaven to tell you who to say yes to. I'm telling you right now you will be single for the rest of your life. There was a man that was drowning in the water and he prayed and prayed lord, lord, please save me, please save me, lord, please save me. Not too long after a ship comes by, a boat comes by, says hey, yo, do you need help, are you drowning, do you need help? The guy says drowning, do you need help? The guy says oh, no, no, no, no, thank you, I'm good, god is going to save me. The people on the boat looked at him like he was crazy, said OK, you sure. Yeah, yeah, I'm good, god is going to save me. Boat takes off. The guy's drowning, still drowning. Another ship comes by oh, my God, do you need help? You need help About to throw him life rafts and all that. No, I'm okay, I'm okay, god is going to save me, god's going to save me. They say yo, are you crazy. You look like you're drowning. Oh, I'm good, god is going to save me, god is going to save me, thank you. Boat takes off, guy drowns, goes to heaven. Guy says, or the guy says God, I didn't want to die, I thought you were going to save me. I thought you were going to save me, god, I prayed and I prayed. I thought you were going to save me. And God says yo, I sent you two big boats, stupid, I sent you two big boats, not just one, I sent you two. I sent people. Oh Lord, have mercy. I didn't mean to preach on here. I sent people to come and help you. I sent someone to your. You prayed and I sent somebody to your rescue. You prayed and you prayed and I sent somebody to your rescue. You prayed and you prayed and I sent help, and you weren't listening, you weren't paying attention, you didn't recognize my voice, you didn't recognize my help, and now you're dead. I don't know who that's for, but some of us are drowning in our own waters and God has continued to send help and you just don't recognize it. You're looking for your help to come in a specific way. You're looking for your answer. Let's go back to that. You're looking for your answer to come in a specific way. You're looking for your answer. Let's go back to that. You're looking for your answer to come in a certain way and it's not coming in the way that you think it's going to come. The answer is not. It's not. It's not coming to you the answer the way you thought it would, and so you're not receiving it as an answer, but I'm here to tell you today that God speaks in multiple ways and God is always speaking. The question is one are we listening? And two, do we know the ways in which God is speaking to us? Do we know what it sounds like? So some of us have already gotten our answer, some of us have already been given our direction. Some of us already we've already been told and led to go in a specific direction. Allow this to be your confirmation and I ain't talking to the people who just they want to do what they want to do, even though they know it's not good for them, and they still want to keep doing it. This is not your confirmation that you should keep doing that. I'm talking to the people who are doing things the right way, the moral way, the morally sound way, and you're seeking what it's time to find. You're knocking, the door's being answered, it's being opened unto you and it's time for you to do your part. It's time for you to do your part. You got to do your part. You got to do your part, all right. So listen, man, I hope this has been helpful for somebody on today. Um, I really just came on here to just chop it up with you. Talk a little bit. I think I did a good amount of talking and so, um, we're going to go from here, but, um, never from God's presence. Man, I love you guys. I pray that you guys are doing the things you're supposed to do. You know what I'm saying and let's keep on getting to it. Man, this is the Moral Compass Chronicles. I love you dearly, until next time.