In this video I share with you an inspirational success story by a man who fought with drugs,
gangs and violence in his early years and became a beacon of hope for his community
in the meantime.
By the end of this video, you will understand why your past does not equal the future and
why it is never too late to make a U Turn from pain to pleasure and purpose.
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"My destiny was to be dead by the time I hit 21 years old or to do life in prison without
parole.
"
Robert Renteria was born into poverty to the level where mice, rats and roaches were walking
all over him at night.
His father was a heroin addict and an alcoholic who eventually left his family.
Robert's mother was working three jobs to provide for her kids and to protect them from
the troublesome life and being part of the system.
Robert was sent to a school for the physically disabled and the mentally challenged because
he could not walk, talk, read or write.
After 3 years of painful rehabilitation, he came out stronger, taller and his own person.
When he was 9 his mother married a violent man who let his anger and frustration out
on Robert and his mom.
Having been bitten by the snake of domestic violence, and seeing running away to escape
as the only option, Robert started to let the venom of guns, gangs, robbing, stealing,
doing and dealing drugs control his life.
But he could not escape the violence.
FInding out his biological father died on SKID ROW he felt drawn to understand why his
dad did not love him.
When he started to see how his dad died, he realized that it wasn't that his dad did
not love him but that his dad did not love himself.
It is actually quite similar to Wayne Dyer's father who left the family and died alone
and Wayne realized while visiting his father's grave that his father actually showed his
love in the only way he could think of … by leaving his family out of his damaged life.
That is when he suddenly felt the love he was missing so much.
People show their love in different ways.
How might the people you want to feel love from show it to you?
What sacrifices might they make to feel their love even if it might not be apparent?
"A lot of people think that you can take control of drugs and alcohol but I am here
to tell you they always take control of you no matter what and my father's death proved
to me that if you play with the devil you are gonna get burned."
And that was what Robert was doing.
He played and slept with the devil until the devil did what he did best, he causes hurt,
harm and pain.
In a drug deal gone wrong Robert almost got shot...twice.
Thank God it was a misfire both times.
Having gotten out of there alive, he ran down the street and yelled "God if you let me
live I won't sin no more."
He had nobody to turn to.
So he joined the military where he "learned about a word called character.
Character is not just doing this right when someone is watching but doing things right
when nobody is watching you."
It is not about what others think of you that matters but what you think of yourself and
that you can live without regret with the decisions you make in life.
When he came out of the military having had served the USA honorably for over 7 years,
his former friends called him a punk and a sellout for not running with them anymore.
That is what you call the crab mentality where instead of raising yourself up to make yourself
feel better, you tear someone else down, because it is easier.
You find the same mentality all over, even among moms in the hospital ward of sick and
premature babies.
He started working hard in the commercial laundry industry selling washers and dryers,
worked his way up over several years all the way into the boardroom of a publicly-traded
company on the New York stock exchange.
But he did not stop there like many others would.
Eventually he created his own business living the good life.
But he did not stop there either.
Oh no!
"I learned that the two greatest days in your life are the day you were born and the
day you realize why you were born and I wanted to give back."
And that he did.
He wanted to make sure people did not end up like his dad, alone, and broken, because
of their bad choices.
"I wanted to teach people the greater the struggle the greater the victory that your
pain, my pain, our pain is not in vain."
So he wrote a multilingual book about his life called From The Barrio To The Boardroom
which has been turned into a curriculum for schools around social and emotional learning,
a curriculum for churches, a CD for the visually impaired, a play, a graphic novel, an activity
coloring book, a cartoon about conflict resolution: How to settle our differences without hurting
each other, and soon into a movie.
It has spread across America and now in 25 other countries across the world.
"You have to get involved because if you don't you are going to realize too late
that the most valuable property on the planet is the graveyard...because in the graveyard
there are hopes and dreams and aspirations, ideas and inventions that we'll never know
about and that will never be realized."
Wayne Dyer calls this, ' Don't die with your music still inside you.'
"You can't be part of a solution unless you're part of the process" so accept
this challenge from Robert and "tell your story so we can all be healed."
But don't just tell your story.
Share it and grow it like Robert did.
Turn the story into a movement of hope, dreams and possibilities becoming reality through
hard work, determination and education.
Please comment: I won't die with my music still inside me and I will tell my story!
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With love and gratitude in my heart, I say, I'm sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you and I remind you to MAKE this an outstanding day for yourself and others.
Smile and the reason for the smile will appear!
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