Why Am I Here? Part I]] Finding Your Purpose with Sameer Ranjan

I'll just go ahead and share with you.

When I figured out what it is I'm really supposed to be doing here on this earth.

Like I said, I've always wanted to be a motivational speaker, always since high school.

People always came to me for advice, and I'm always giving advice, being supportive, trying to help people realize that they have greatness.

And it took me some years to go do some of the things that I wanted to do.

But when I kind of honed in on becoming a motivational speaker, first thing I thought about was, hey, you have to write a book.

So I started writing this book, and it was entitled Recognize Your Greatness.

At that present time, my mother was living in Lawton, Oklahoma.

And so I went to go visit her for Thanksgiving.

I met her pastor at church on Sunday and come to find out two or three months later, he was coming to Nashville.

That's where I'm located to visit.

And my mother said, I want you to just go and have dinner with the pastor.

So I said, okay, that's fine.

I have no problem with it whatsoever.

But then by that time I had finished writing my book and I really wanted him to read it because I really wanted his input on it.

And so I gave him the book.

By two days later, he called me.

He said, he said, Floyd, I read your book.

I said, yeah, what you think about it? He said, you know, you've been called a preach.

And I said, no, that's not.

I don't want to do that.

I don't want to be a preacher.

I don't want to be in the pulpit.

And he said, well, what do you want to do? I said, I want to be a motivational speaker.

And he said, what's the difference? And I was stunned.