Attention passengers going from stuck-in monotonous to growth and prosperous.
Attention all passengers going from stuck-in monotonous to growth and
prosperous. Your locomotive is here.
All aboard!
Welcome welcome welcome I am your conductor D. Wayne Roper and we're
going to be traveling from Louisiana, learn to think Louisiana to assembly
Alabama. That's just east of where we are right now. See your conductor have not
forgotten where he have came from. This journey will be for those who are on the
assembly lines or assembly plant workers. Hey your conductor's standing right
here before you to share a story of inspiration and triumph. You see going
from being stuck in the press to becoming master of the line but I like to
change that line to mind. Yes yes yes from you we gotta learn how to master our
mind. See each one of us have the journey have the own our own power to rewrite
our journey to change our narrative to achieving greatness. All aboard! Yeah
family listen listen listen listen we are who we are or better said I am who I
am. Oh the late great Peter Tosh made a song about that you see who we could
become in our mind is who we become in our reality. You know I started my my
journey on the assembly line way back sometime you know I recall you know
being so excited to to start to get employment or gain employment for an
assembly plant you know it was a great jumping pay you know it was about three
dollars and fifty cents you know I went from making I believe about five dollars
to about eight dollars and fifty-eight cents and yes family I was so happy about
that. Oh yeah you know the the pay for the in in the plant can be you know
exciting when you first get there but sometimes you know the the journey becomes
such a monotonous task or maybe or maybe you may end up like I was you know when
I first started my journey you know I was put on a task that it was just hard
yeah it was hard you know it was some backbreaking work you know I had to load
the the press operator and you know I had to dig down in this basket and boy by
time I would go home in the evening I would be dirty from head to toe my back
be hurting my knees be hurting my hands be hurting you know and I you know what
I would do I would say you know what I quit I quit I ain't going back to that
place I quit you know but I you know but I would show up the next day I would
show up the very next day and do the same thing all over again yeah family I
would even quit the next day as well and and that thing never stopped until I was
took off of stacking those parts you know I would quit and I would quit and I
would quit and finally you know I was moved to a place where I had my own
press I was able to become a press operator you know it's but but the
position I had I was the line leader I was you know I was thrown as the
operator and on this line that I was on you know I was the front of the line
but I had some individuals behind me that trained me you know they trained me
the way that they wanted me to be trained and family I want to tell you I
want to tell you I want to tell you watch who you let train you know see they
trained me for they or their advantage you know they would say you hey hey you
have to stop running the press or you have to stop feeding the line when we
go to the restroom or when we walk off the line or when we stop to take a pop
a drink a pop drink or or a snack you have to stop because we don't want these
parts to fall off the floor you know yeah and that would go on but see it was
two of them down there and you know one would stop at one time and the other one
would stop later on and you know family you know and I would keep stopping
every time I see those individuals walk off the line and and before you know it
the foreman came and um yeah he removed me from that uh from that that position
you know he removed me removed me from that leadership position you know I
guess it was some thought of myself but you know partly it was some thought of
all involved you know I'm talking about the individuals who was on that line and
my foreman as well you see all of those line leaders out there in the plants
out there you you got to set your people up for success all of those foremen
out there you have to set the individuals up for success you know
appeared them with someone who was gonna give them the right information I just
wanted to get that off my chest no no no no so you know I went over to the well
let me just say this you know the foreman ejected me off that press because he
looked like it looked like I was a problem it looked like I didn't want to
work it looked like I didn't want to feed the line properly but you know I was
fed wrong information or I was set up really you know to for failure you know
sometimes we are set up for failure from our environments or from our upbringing
or from some individuals who we may be hanging around yeah yeah sometimes
sometimes I had to get some things off our chest you know I have to bring some
things in and just be truthful by some things so yeah so so so you know these
individuals got me ejected from my leadership role well on my next line I
went on the other side of the plant and I became a number two person and you know
that went well you know we would all inspire each other you know we was all
wanting to get the job done wanting to do our best you know every day and you
know I was thriving in that in that environment because we was all inspiring
and motivating each other you know we're talking about your leaders out there we
talking about your line operators out there
form is we want you to set them up for success of course we are talking about
really sitting your mind up for success that's what the interground railroad is
all about again the interground railroad is is just dead set on taking you on a
journey from where you are to where you want to be family of course of course of
course I'm gonna be over the top sometimes but hey hey hey that's what we
do on the interground railroad so yeah family I'm right now I just want you to
I just want to take a pause break for your mind family you gotta be putting
some time in for your mind daily you should be studying and learning
something every single day of how you can use those things or that information
to better your situation yeah family so if you don't recall from earlier you
know you gotta watch your environment you gotta watch who you are on the line
with because they may retard you they may stop you from being your best or
being seen as talent family and we are talented in our own way we just have to
bring that talent out so I want to challenge you to learn something each
and every day spend an hour learning something every day yeah family we're
going back to our story yeah I was on the thriving on a line and guess what we
would be breaking records every day or we would challenge ourselves to break our
previous record and a lot of times you know with that mindset we was
challenging ourselves we was going up against our previous selves of how we
were the day before yeah family we want to challenge you to be better than you
were yesterday and that's how we will operate our line each day but guess what
what what happened is our machines will break down you know the machines will
break down yeah family I want you to know that your mind is stronger than
machines your mind is stronger than what you think your mind is stronger than
the limitations that people have placed on you
yeah okay okay okay so so yeah so later on the foreman you know after the foreman
saw that we was breaking records I was on a line that was breaking records and
they would ask me you know oh oh you will work over there huh and then I was
like well no I didn't understand the question back then he said you will work
over there but because I wouldn't work where I was before but I wasn't set up
for success so again a foreman's out there set your people up for success so
going along with the line of course we're talking about your mind now we want
you to set your mind up for success set your mind up for success by you know
first off believing that you can and first off knowing that every situation
that you find yourself in you are not going to be comfortable right off the
back but so so so I want to challenge you to embrace the discomfort of the start
embrace the discomfort of the moment because if you can push past that
momentary discomfort guess what family we got growth standing right there in
front of you a family growth learn to grow each day so you know the thing I
want to the thing I want to challenge you to take from this is if you are in a
place on the line where you don't feel like you're comfortable you don't feel
like you're you're fit or you don't feel like it's just drawing the best out of
you a family you know look around hey it's a place that need a person just like
you you know start to grow start to advance yeah family I went from press
operator to high-low operator to shipping and receiving operator to shipping
and receiving leader you know and guess what family I said well let me stop right
here because I didn't want people to know that hey my I had some limits going
on in me I had some some some things where my communication skills had stopped
because I had had not had the schooling or I stopped learning how to communicate
myself better so family I want you to be on a perpetual learning journey yeah
family your conductor is learning each day each day as I go I make a conscious
effort to learn something so family we want to tell you hey we are practicing
these things that we are talking about growth growth growth is what we need to
do each day and that will position us for success well the late great Earl
nightingale says if you have a goal you are actually if you have a goal in your
working towards it you are actually successful are you working towards your
goal family do you even have a gold family do you know what you want from
hey family I want you to know in the words of Les Brown it's possible it's
possible for you to achieve everything your mind can believe yeah family ah you
must believe that you are able to achieve that thing you know I want you to
know that in this journey as we are getting ready to approach assembly
Alabama assembly Alabama is just a couple more minutes away we want you to
know that you can transform your life family one step at a time family one
part at a time family one success at a time family and that's it starts with
just knowing what you want and it starts with just applying the knowledge
applying the faith knowing that with each victory hey it gets you closer to
your goal family you want to get closer to your goal don't you hey we're gonna
get you there we're gonna get you there we're gonna we're gonna help you realize
that a you know the the success of the assembly plant you know it starts with
the small man or the weakest link family with a formance formance formance you
want to set your you want to set your line leaders up you want to set your
press operators up you want to set your assembly assemblers up for success
family learn how to operate your position right now to the best of your
ability and guess what you will outgrow that thing you will grow your
current position family looking at the direction that you want to go don't let
no one puts put limitations on you so family I see this our our our destination
in the horizon but I want to challenge you today to you know make a conscious
effort to grow make a conscious effort to get rid of the things that you don't
think that you're able to do or the limiting beliefs or the doubt make a
conscious effort to strive every day to make your assembly plant the best that
you possibly can make it family we want you to become your best operator become
your best motivator become the best initiator you know those things in your
environment yeah family that that that shows who you are so if your environment
is cluttered start to declutter it if your environment is stagnant start to
agitate things to make it better to do better to be better yeah family want you
to know that this interground railroad is gonna help you get there we want you to
tune in each time that you hear it family you got a turn on your
notifications for when we start this locomotive up because hey you will miss
your ride hey each one I want you to know that each one of us have the power
to become masters of our line I'm talking about masters of our mind family
we want you to have the faith to know that you can grow to become better than
who you are today and it is our job it is our job as we get ready to come into
our next town it's our job to let you know that you have greatness and you
have all of the things that you need family you are set up for success once
you know that you can you are set up for success once you put success right
there in front of you knowing that hey you will get there I'm your host or your
conductor D. Wayne Roper and it is my hope that this journey has put you just
one more step close to your ultimate goal line hey until next time we want you
to know you have greatness and be blessed