It's Not Over Video Of Les Brown - Motivational Guru just by being himself

Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honor to introduce Les Brown to what I like you to do next. I want you to think about his dream because I'm in a room full of dreamers. Think about your dream right now. think about it and visualize it now ladies and gentlemen, let me share something with you. I don't think any of us have dreams that weren't given to us for the purpose of achieving those particular dreams and I want to share with you something that Changed my life I started as Jack told me to. My beginnings were very humble.

I don't know what that dream is that you have. I don't care how crazy it may seem. I don't care how disappointing it may seem. You have been working towards that dream, but this is what I know, that dream that you have in your mind, that it is possible, let's say it together, please say that it is possible, look, sometimes we can't say that I can do it, but What we can say is it is possible that I could have my dream as we run towards it as we work on it day after day no one, ladies and gentlemen, could have convinced me when I started a little over six years ago to work on my dream. and I want you to think about what your dream is because I was willing to take a risk and most people won't.

Most of the people you talk to to try to bring them into the business are not risk takers. People have done everything they were going to do, they start a family, they make a living and then they die, but the people who run towards those dreams, life has a special kind of meaning and this is what I will share with you in the In the process of working on your dreams you are going to incur many disappointments, many failures, many pain, many setbacks, many defeats, but in the process of doing so you will discover some things about yourself that you don't know.

I don't know now, what you will realize is that you have greatness within you, what you will realize is that you are more powerful than you can imagine. What you will realize is that you are bigger than your circumstances. I don't have to go through life

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a victim if Jack indicated that I was born in Miami Florida in the area called Liberty City in an abandoned building on a hardened Olien floor with my twin brother we were six weeks old we were adopted when I was in fifth grade grade I was identified as e/m they are labeled as mentally educable they regressed from 5th grade to 4th grade and I remained in that category until I left high school I do not have any university training but I obtained a high level school teacher that one day changed my life I was waiting for another student and when he came in he said young man go to the board and write what I'm going to tell you and I told him I can't do that shift he said why didn't I say I'm not one of your students he said it doesn't matter follow my instructions instructions and said I can't do that sir he said why didn't I say because I'm mentally magical and he came from behind his desk and looked at me and said never say that again.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality and that man, Mr. Leroy Washington did something for me, he began to plant seeds in my mind that allowed me to start dreaming like Dexter has been doing for you. and ladies and gentlemen, I started working on my dream and most people don't work on their dreams, why for many? years that I did, one is because of fear, fear of failure, what if things don't work out and fear of success, what if they work and I can't handle it, the other thing is that most people, ladies and gentlemen, are they feel comfortable.

They stop growing, they stop working on themselves, they stop stretching, they stop trying and they end up becoming very cynical about life and they throw in the towel on themselves and on their families and on their dreams and the other thing is that most of people don't. I feel worthy of what I'm doing now. I could have been doing it years ago, but because I didn't have a college education, because I didn't believe in myself, because I allowed other people's opinions of me to control my destiny, I didn't act on it. my ideas, so I applaud you for dreaming, for running towards your dream.

I applaud you for believing in yourself, because that's what life is all about, stretching and challenging yourself, looking for ways in which you can begin to improve, ladies and gentlemen, as a result of stretching. to act according to my dream and I don't know what that dream is for you, I can tell you that it is possible that no one could have convinced me that after a little more than six years I will have my own book titled live your dreams a little more than six years old I would be five specials on public television

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over six years I've done

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speaking for AT&T Procter & Gamble McDonald's Corporation Xerox IBM

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over six years now I'll have my own talk show premiering on Monday Labor Day. to tell you that your dream is possible, your dream is possible, but it is not only important that you believe and begin to know that it is possible for you to live your dream as you run towards it, but that I have done something that I want to share with you. you called choosing your future, in fact, I have developed a series of tapes that talk about how to start creating your own reality by choosing your future and it is not only important that you know that it is possible for you to choose your future, but it is necessary. that you work on yourself that you develop you need to remove the energy drainers from your life people who don't want anything people who don't make an effort people who don't challenge themselves people who don't grow people who have stopped dreaming you need to You align yourself with people and attract people to your business who are hungry people, who are unstoppable and unreasonable, who refuse to leave life as it is and who want more.

My mother used to say that birds of a feather flock together if you run with losers you will end up

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a loser you need to get the losers out of your life if you want to live your dream you need to know that not everyone will see it that not everyone will join you that everyone won I don't have the vision, it is necessary to know that many people like to complain but do not want to do anything about their situation. That you are a rare breed. You know you have to know within yourself that I can do this even.

If no one else sees it for me I must see it for myself that is necessary it is also necessary ladies and gentlemen to be creative when working on their ideas to understand the importance of changing or readjusting their strategies many times we may have a great idea but if not you're moving forward in the right way and things aren't happening you get discouraged and think the idea isn't working no, that's not true we need to get creative I remember when I was in New York walking down the street and a guy came up to me and told me He said hey sir, can I shine your shoes? and I told him no, I'm in a hurry, I don't have time.

I kept walking with another person, hey man, your shoes, what a mess, my shiny shoes. I said no I don't have time sorry I am busy I was walking fast and many people requested me for my business and finally a young man stood in front of me excuse me and started counting 97 98 99. 100 he says sir I said yes he said come here please I said what is it he said today is my birthday and every year just to thank God for another year of life to the hundredth person who passes by the shoe shine stand I offer them a free shoe shine would you give me the honors?

I said why I sure got into the shoe shine position. George and I told him then and he shined my shoes diligently and when I came down I looked at him, they were shiny and I walked away and I said thank you. and I stopped I said sorry but how much do you usually charge he said only two dollars I said I'm telling you today is your birthday here you have five keep the change he said thank you as I walked away looking in the opposite direction and other people come and start counting again 97 98 99 100 You need to be flexible You need to always be thinking about how I can improve this better This is a customer-driven economy You need to always explore various ways in which you can improve the quality of service that you provide to the people in your organization .

I remember something that a major company had talked about the added value service they provided to their customers and the lady who had the press conference summed it up this way: She said it is not our intention to satisfy our customers or please our customers our The intention is to surprise them. It is necessary if you are going to compete today that you look for ways to surprise your clients by being one of those people who fulfill their commitments and keep their word, which is relentless. It is necessary that you work with the people that you incorporate into your entire organization so that They see that you are a good example of a person to work with because you are a model of integrity, determination, ambition, truth, honesty and the way you conduct business.

The next step is that you are you, that no one can do it for you except you, and even if you face disappointments, even if you experience some setbacks, it goes with the territory, you have to understand that I remember I was playing a game with my John Leslie, my nine-year-old son. years, and I beat him ten games in a row in a game called Connect Four and finally I said, John, let's put the board down, I don't want to play with you anymore and I got up, I said, I'm ready to start. go to sleep now and repeat myself please let's say we do this together it won't be over until I win John Leslie said no you can't go now dad I said why did he say it won't be over until I win that was his attitude we sat down and played several more games and Finally, after game number 11, John Leslie won, he got up, yawned, and said, I'm ready to go to sleep now, and I tell you, What if we all adopted that attitude after we faced rejection and a Noah, we have a meeting and no one shows up or someone says you can count on me and they don't get over it.

What if we have that kind of attitude? The car is repossessed. Nobody believes in you. You have lost again. and over and over again the lights go out but you keep looking at your dream going over it every day and telling yourself it won't end until I make a living I'll give in to you now here's the next step repeat after me please it's possible I can live my dream it is necessary work on myself surround myself with winners become creative it is me I have to make it happen it is not over until I win the next thing it is important to know if it is possible that you can choose your future and direct the course of your life as you run towards your dream you need to have goals that you write down those goals that you plan that you constantly think about how you can start to improve what it is that you are doing if it is your presentations if it is your recruiting skills, whatever they are, you also need to look for ways to always finding a way to pull it off when everyone else thinks you'd beat it, that you have to take personal responsibility to know that in order to be successful.

I have to make it a personal matter to do it, but next, ladies and gentlemen, I want to share with you that some of you already know that it is difficult, it is not easy, it is difficult to change your life, it was difficult when just over three years. Recently at the Penobscot building in Detroit, Michigan where I was operating my business, I went through some tough times and was sleeping in my office, it was difficult to get into the lobby and security told me excuse me, sir. Brown, can we see you for a moment? I said yes and walked up to the counter and he gave me an envelope and said, would you mind reading it here?

I opened the envelope and the envelope was from the management who said that this is an office tower it is not a hotel please do not sleep in your office and I said excuse me sir I told him that I only worked many hours to create my business I am an entrepreneur and Right now things are bad for me but they are not going to be like this forever and I just asked for the opportunity to continue operating as I am doing. I'm not trying to make this my home and it was difficult to get through the lobby and they laughed at me sometimes.

There's a guy talking about being successful. and look at him, he is bathing in the bathroom upstairs on the 21st floor, he sleeps on the floor, he and two other dreamers up there, look at him, it was difficult, ladies and gentlemen, to come and talk to people and I was facing financial difficulties in my own life. I was behind on my bills and my dreams and I tell you, you can live your dream, it was difficult ladies and gentlemen, it was very difficult to wake up every day believing that I can do it, there were times when I doubted myself.

I said God, why is this happening to me? I'm just trying to take care of my kids and my mom. I'm not trying to steal a Rob from anyone. How did this have to happen to me? It was very difficult and this is what I want to tell those of you who have experienced some difficulties to not give up on your dream. No one could have convinced me to hold on, keep moving forward, keep running towards my dream that one day I would have. my own talk show is a long shot ladies and gentlemen of Liberty City an abandoned building on the ground never meeting my mother or father is a long shot being here with you today in this dome in Atlanta is a long shot no training university labeled as mentally educable but I kept running towards my dream don't stop Goldstar don't stop running towards your dream it is very important while you hold on to that dream there are times when you are going to doubt yourself Hard times are going to come but they have not come for stay.

Have passed. It is very important that you know that. Don't say I'm having a bad day. Say I'm having a character-building day. It is very important that you believethat it is you who will make this happen. I remember this high school teacher, Mr. Leroy Washington at the end of school one June, it was just a few days until we left and I had just received my report card stating that I had failed History and English and that I would have to go to summer school and I felt inside myself that I was a failure, that I'm slower than most people and I was doing paperwork and I was feeling depressed and very negative and mr.

Washington was giving a speech to the graduating seniors and I was in the 11th grade and even though I wasn't supposed to be there, I walked in because the speech he was giving was for me and as he spoke, my heart started beating . Fast heartbeat, tears start running behind my eyes and I was in the back listening to him because he said and he was a very dramatic man. “I still talk to him to this day,” he said as they graduated from Booker T Washington High School. I want you to know that you are blessed and highly favored and as you move into the future you begin to know that you have greatness within you and if just one of you here begins to visualize yourself as blessed and highly favored to achieve your goals if only one of you captures the essence of what that means you have greatness within you in the responsibility to manifest that greatness you can make your parents proud you can make your school proud you can touch the lives of millions of people and the world will never be Lo same again because you came here and the students gave you a standing ovation and when you left the auditorium I ran down the stairs and met you in the parking lot, I said sir.

Washington said yes, I said do you remember me sir? He said no, I said my name is Leslie Brown, my mom works in the cafeteria here. I'm one of the Leslie Wesley twins. I said sir. Washington, but you know, you know, I have big dreams, you know, I like talking to people, I love people, I said I want to work with people and I had this dream about my mom's house, could I do it, Mr. Washington said it is possible that mr. Brown and as he walked away I called him again and said sir. Washington said what do you want now?

I said, "I'm the only one sir. I said. I'm the only one. You remember me, sir. I'm this, maybe, eyebrow boy. I'm the word. I'm the word. And you. You must feel bad, but that's why that you're here because you're you and I remember when PBS first aired one of my specials called "You Deserve You" on a Sunday afternoon in Miami, Florida some friends called him to tell him to tune in and he watched the show. Detroit and I answered the phone I said hello he said can I talk to Les Brown please? I said who's calling he said do you know who it is I said Oh Mr.

Washington, it's you, he said it was you, right? I said yes sir, he said and. you were so crazy. I said I know, but I'm rich now, ladies and gentlemen, it's not going to be easy, it was hard lying on the floor of the Penobscot building looking out the window daydreaming saying can you do this can you do? I used to listen to tapes day after day about seeing you at the top my great friends igg and Denis Waitley and other different

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speakers and dr. norman vincent peale and dex are saying don't let anyone steal your dream i used to wonder can i do this? and something said inside me you are the one and let me tell you something ladies and gentlemen while you are here and before you return to your respective cities and communities, write down at least five reasons why you deserve your dream and why you will not give up.

What will make you unstoppable. Why you must be unreasonable. Because you have logical and practical thinking. It says you can't do it today, but if you want to produce irrational results in your life, like living your dream and taking charge of your destiny, you have to be an irrational person, you have to be an unusual person, so write down the reasons why. who are here, my first big goal was to buy my mother a house and let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen, what will be the reasons that Nietzsche said, if you know why, you can do it almost anyway.

Do you mean by that that if you know why you are doing something when the hard times come and they will come when the disappointments and rejections come and they will come by the truckload your reasons will be your rod and staff to comfort you to rise up once again I have a saying in one of my tapes life knocks you down try to land on your back because if you can look up you can get up let your reasons help you get up I remember when I bought the house for my mother and she got out of the car when I opened the door she said Mom, I think I know these people at home, that was my first big goal and then I couldn't hide it anymore, I said Mom, I got it. this for you and as I went from room to room looking at the house and saying thank you Jesus, thank you Lord, no one could ever have convinced me that this could have happened to me and she looked at me and said Lesley and it cost me so much.

When I was a kid you were always into that stuff, she said no one could have convinced me that day when I walked into that house and this lady was hugging you and your brother and she said lady, I want you to promise me two things. and she said what is it she says one you promised me you wouldn't separate it she said I want you to grow up together I want you to know each other I got pregnant while my husband was on the wall and I can't keep him promise me you won't separate him she said I promise you I won't I will I have never had children I promise I won't break it up and she said promise me you will never tell her who I am because if my husband ever found out he would kill me she said I promise and she said she gave it to us and she told Kratt inches and she was leaving through the door and looked at my adoptive mother and said remember not to use separate she says I swear to God I won't I won't separate it I'll keep it together and she said as I held them all in my arms I never had children of my own I didn't know how I was going to do it But I knew with the help of God how we will do it, ladies and gentlemen, my mother had a dream of having children and raising us.

I didn't know how she was going to do it. You're going to be just like that. Some of you are already there, well, you don't know how you're going to do it. make this happen, but you just feel it inside of you somehow, some way, with God's help, I'm going to make it happen, repeat after me, please, it doesn't matter. how bad it is or how bad it gets I'm going to make it I'm going to make you shake someone's hand to your right and left and tell them you've got it right so yeah you might live your dream you need to you associate with winners you work your system you are relentless you never give up it is you you have to take personal responsibility you have to make it your personal business to make this happen and you have to resolve within yourself that I can do this, that it is difficult, but you have I have to say that it's me, I'm the one that's going to make this happen, I'm the one that's going to be successful in this business as you work to help other people Succeeding is what fuels your success, but you know it's going to be hard, but find out what It will make it worth it for you.

I told Mr. Washington I wanted to be a disc jockey, someone asked me to tell this story and he said Les Brown, he said if you want to do something worthwhile in life you have to be hungry, so I started working to develop myself and he said : I want you to practice every day being a disc jockey I said but I don't have a job anymore he said it doesn't matter he said it's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have it than to have an opportunity and not be prepared so every day I was working to develop myself and that It's what you should do and while I was working on developing myself I applied for a job as a disc jockey WM VMI Miami Beach I went to a guy named Milton Butterball and I said how are you?

Sir. Butterball I would like to get a job as a disc jockey. He looked at me and said he has experience in broadcasting. I said no, sir, he doesn't have experience in journalism? I said no, sir, didn't he say we don't have any? Jobs available I said yes sir. I went back to Mr. Washington and I told him that he said not to take it personally. He said that most people are so negative that they will have to say no seven times before they say yes. He told him to come back again, so I came back again.

I told him: how are you, sir? butterball my name is les

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he said I know what your name is what do you want I said I would like to know if you have a job or not a disc jockey sir he said no I told you yesterday that we didn't have any job I said yes sir but I know if anyone was fired or not with someone was fired sir he said no one was fired a fire I'm leaving here I came back the next day hello sir. butterball, how are you?, he said well, what do you want now?

I told him: I would like to know if you have any work or not, sir, you better tell him that the last two days we did not have any work. I told him yes, sir, but no I don't know if someone got tired or not someone died sir he said no one got tired of dad I'm not coming back here and he kicked me out again I came back the next day as if I saw him for the first time and I greeted him sir . butter ball how are you looking at me angrily said go get me some coffee I said yes sir and went to get you some coffee after a while I would give them lunch and dinner and I would go into the control rooms and drink the disk jockeys their food and I wouldn't leave until they asked me to leave, so they started relying on me to pick up the artists that came to town, artists like The Four Tops and the Temptations and Dinah Ross and The Supremes.

I would take them all. over Miami Beach in the disc jockeys' big, long Cadillacs. I didn't have a driver's license but I drove like I had something and one day on a Saturday afternoon while I was at the radio station a guy named Rock was drinking while he was on the air I was the only one there looking at him through the control room windows pacing back and forth young man smart and hungry I'll send ray kroc drag rock drink or get him some more if he asked me to call him on the phone real soon He called and it was a general manager and I answered the phone I said Hello, unless it's mr.

Klein I said, I know he said Rock can't finish his show, I said, I know he said, would you call one of the other DJs? I said yes sir, I hung up the phone, I said now you must think I'm crazy. I called my mom and my girlfriend Cassandra. I told them to turn on the radio and go out on the porch. I'm about to go on air. I waited about 20 minutes and called him back. I said Mr. Klein, I can't find anyone, he's a kid, hasn't he worked the controls? I told him yes sir, he said he was going there, he can't sit here.

I say yeah, I couldn't wait to get behind those controls I put on the old Stevie Wonder record. called fingers, I sat behind that record player, I said, watch out, this is me LV Triple P, let's circle your plate playing daddy, there was none before me and there won't be none after me, so that makes me the only young and single Count of Domingo. certificate of good faith, undoubtedly qualified to bring you satisfaction, lots of action, care, darling, I'm your love, man, I was hungry, I was hungry, you gotta be hungry, you gotta be hungry, so ladies and gentlemen, if you want to make it happen his dream. become a reality the people who run towards dreams know that it is possible that you can live your dream you need to be relentless you have to have a plan of action you be creative the people who are living their dream to find winners to join the people who They are living their dreams, a people who know that if this is going to happen, it is up to them and they are resolving within themselves that it will not end until I win.

The people who run after that dream know it. They are going to have hard times, they keep running because they are saying within themselves I am me, no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets, I am going to make it be the people who are running. After their dreams, other people who are hungry shake the head of someone to your right and left and say that you have to be hungry and as you run towards your dream I want to dedicate this to you who I love very much. I want to thank Dexter and everyone. you is something I'm known for it's on our tapes called choosing your future networks that's just this that if you want to pretend enough to go out there and fight to make it work day and night so that you give up your time your peace and your sleep for it if everything your dream and your plan revolves around it and life seems useless and worthless without it and if you gladly sweat for it on the tuning fork and plan for it and lose all the terror of opposition for it and if You simply pursue what you desire with all your ability, strength and sagacity, faith, hope, confidence and severe pertinacity, if not even cold poverty pleases you, your golden illness, the pain of body and brain, can keep you away from what What do you want, if you are tenacious. and gloomy, you beg and harass him with the help of God, you will get it.

This is Mrs. Mamie Brown's baby, Leslie Calvin Brown, saying it has been a delightful pleasure as well as a privilege, thank you.