Hello, beautiful soul. I pray that you are doing well.
I'm recording to update you on my mother.
She is still alive.
I won't see she's kicking but my sister has been reporting in every single day,
and I've got to speak to her on video chat,
and she's not talking back,
but she is conscious and she's even taking spoonfuls of food.
It's been so touching to me
that opening up to share was really just to serve the people in my
community who may have actually worked with Dr.
P as she was known so I was really doing my video chat in service to
let people know what's been up with her.
She is someone who has been with me everywhere including you know,
when we flew to the Oprah Winfrey Show.
She's just been a part of my journey
as a medical doctor and I wanted to share.
And one of the other things that I want you to know whether you know
Dr. P or not is her entire life has always had this continuous theme
and that is around like living your life to the fullest
and not giving a crap about
what anyone else says or thinks I shared in my last video how she defied her family
and went to England to study nursing
even though that meant she would see naked people which at that time was just a scandal
but one of the things that she never stopped saying was you have a purpose. You have something
that you are meant to do on this planet that nobody else can do
and you should be doing that no matter what and the way that came home for me is a few years ago
I was visiting her in Las Vegas.
She was there with my sister
and my daughter and I flew in to spend time with her
and this was at a moment when she still had about 20 minutes of memory like after
that then she starts saying the same thing over again,
or she wouldn't remember. And at this time I had just done my first TED Talk on “Become who you are”
and I really wanted her to experience it.
So I pulled out my laptop
and put on this TED talk and she's sitting there listening intently
and she's kind of talking back to me
as if it was happening live and at the end I close my laptop and she said, “Good job.
I can tell you're doing your Master's work.”
And for my mom with her good Catholic upbringing that was a big thing for her and she said to me,
“you know, I would love to be able to travel more.
I'd love to dance more but I'm really ready.
I'm ready to meet my Maker to be with my sister and my mom and my brother.”
And it was really touching
for me because he or she was at that point still cognizant of the things that she loved about life
but fully ready to say if this were my last day I'm ready to go
because I've lived fully and she told the story to my daughter.
She's like, you know, I've been where I wanted, I dated who I wanted
and then she would go off on a rabbit trail about this really handsome
redhead guy that she met from Germany,
but she always shared how much he just sucked the juice out of life
and she wanted all of us to do that.
And so when she said that she could tell I was doing the Masters work
she said, “you know, what if I cock up my toes and meet my Maker,
I believe He will say, ‘job well done.’”
And so this idea of being able to live
and die with no regrets knowing that you have lived your life to the fullest on your own terms
is what infuses and inspires everything that I do in all of my companies
and of course in the way that I’m raising my daughter,
so I want to inspire you to consider or ask this question if you were on your deathbed,
would you be able to say that you're leaving with no regrets that
you've lived life on your terms to the fullest.
Well, if not, I know that Dr. P would say come on man and her little Guyanese accent.
I know that was a terrible rendition that she would just say get up
and do it! And that's kind of the message
it's not too late. And so I want you to do the same thing my friend
while my mother is still alive and not exactly kicking but she's with us.
She would say the same thing to you.
No more excuses. If there's an area in your life that you're not
living to the fullest it's time to rectify that
while you are still alive.
If there's some dream, some goals, some relationship that you either want to pursue
or repair or leave.
Then you owe it to yourself to do that
so that you give yourself
and your soul your highest version of you the opportunity to live your
life in the way that you most would feel proud of.
So at the end of watching that TED talk my mom said,
“you know, I would love it if you were here in America, and I could see my granddaughter more often.”
She said, “you're living your purpose. You've gone after your dreams if you love being in France
then do that!
And then she went down a rabbit
hole and told me about all the times that she visited France
but to have that blessing
for my mother to say that she, at that moment, could see that I was living my purpose
and almost giving me permission, noy that I needed
it, but her blessing to continue to follow my dreams and live my truth in my own way.
It's such a gift and that's has allowed me to have peace right now.
We don't know how much longer she has. She's clearly feisty and holding on for whatever reason,
but I know that I can honor her Legacy.
in my own way by staying true
to what I believe my soul is here to do and I just want to ask you to do the same.
So I'm sending you much love & blessings
and prayers from here the sunny south of France
and until next time remember that you are a gift to the world.
So share your presence with passion. Much love 💜🙏🏾
