The World Is Yours
(It’s yours)
Whose world is this?
The world is yours, the world is yours
It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mine; whose world is this? (It’s yours)
It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mine; whose world is this?
The world is yours, the world is yours
It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mine; whose world is this?
April 19, 1994 was the date that changed hip hop with the official release of Nas’s debut album, Illmatic. As a listener, I felt a shift in the soul of hip hop music when I heard this album. It was an evolution from rapping about the abstract to rapping about the pulse of the streets. Nas is a storyteller that composed narratives that dropped you into the middle of a scene where you could see, touch, smell and most of all, hear everything loud and in surround sound.
Every song on Illmatic dropped nuggets of wisdom but one track always echoed in my mind — The World is Yours. The song’s hook became my mantra back in 1994 and it still is in 2017. Notice that phrase “The World is Yours” repeated 9 times. I think that was intentional and it was meant to create a momentum to help the listener believe beyond their current circumstance and reality. I kept the song on constant rewind (yes, I said rewind since I had a Sony cassette player back then and guess what, I still got it).
So let’s dig a little deeper — in order for a belief to become ingrained into your subconscious, the thought has to be repeated and embraced without resistance. It has to become a habit — until you become a creature of habit and it no longer takes an effort to change your mind. This can be a positive or negative action so you have to choose wisely. We will focus on the positive actions that we want to ultimately achieve — to believe that the world is yours.
The power of our subconscious is amazing. Just think, as move through your day there are simultaneous things that are occurring in our physical bodies that we are not intentionally doing. For example, we do not have to say to ourselves, “heart I need you to beat right now to stay alive or lungs I need you to pump air now so I can breathe”, your subconscious mind is the mechanism that enables these actions to conduct themselves — everything is always working in a beautiful concert at the same time.
The subconscious mind is where your deeper connection lies, awaiting to provide answers and guidance that you seek — sometimes with you knowing or unknowing — just know that you are always being guided. You may feel it in your gut (something feels right or doesn’t feel right) or you have an urge to take an action. You may have heard a close conversation that by coincidence happened to discuss something that recently was on your mind. Or maybe someone just ran across your mind and they suddenly text or call you. Coincidences are not by chance, everything happens in a designated order. Remember that nothing is a coincidence in this Universe.
You have to sow seeds of positive thoughts in your mind and have full belief and faith that the things that you seek will be revealed to you because ultimately it’s yours.
“Change your thoughts, and you change your destiny.” — Dr. Joseph Murphy
Thank you for taking the time for reading these thoughts. Sending much gratitude and appreciation.
