Tyler Perry: 'Keep Making Footprints'
- Michelle Smith
- Jun 16
- 2 min read
By COMMUNICATION INTELLIGENCE SUBSTACK
Published: June 15, 2025
The Psychology of the Struggle
“I don’t care if you’re struggling, if you’re trying to make it, you’re trying to build a business, if you have a dream: keep making footprints,” he said. “… dig in and keep leaving footprints everywhere you go.
“Don’t let your worry be greater than your faith.”“This is incredibly inspiring guidance, especially looking at someone like Tyler Perry who has built an empire on his own purpose and passions and created so many things,” Smith points out. “He is a human like us and had to start somewhere.”
“It is especially helpful when you think about the ways the brain tends to block us from being able to work through road blocks or achieve long-term goals because our brains are not hard wired for happiness, but hard wired to protect and keep us safe,” Smith says.
‘Your brain knows ‘OK, Michael has been safe and alive doing XYZ thing for the past XYZ period of time so why would we risk something that could not be safe when we can just keep doing what we have been doing.’
“Even if logically, you know this step will not create a true danger or threat, we must work with the brain to send subconscious messages that the change you are creating is safe, achievable and doable.
“It is as if when you do this, your brain carved a new pathway and when this experience shows up in real life the brain goes, ‘Oh right! I have been here before, even if only in the mind, and it was safe: I can do this!"
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