The Most Eye Opening 10 Minutes Of Your Life | Les Brown

The easiest thing I've ever done was get out from under the labels and live the

life

I live. The hardest thing I've ever done was believe I can do it. The difference is that when you don't know. what is impacting you and is something that is holding you back and you are not aware of it, there are things that we, in my situation, you live in a dominant culture that is designed to destroy

your

sense of self and

your

belief in yourself and and you have to learn ways in which you can begin to connect with this power that you have within yourself to manage where you are.

The key is to constantly be in a perpetual process of discovering the truth of who you are and constantly striving to seek it. ways you can escape the internal conversation between ages zero and five we determined what is available to us and what is not available to us and that was a turning point. I knew there were certain things I couldn't do, certain places I couldn't go. There used to be signs in Miami Beach that said no Jewish or colored dogs allowed, so now you have to operate within the limitations of dominant society and the things they have created for you, and it's a challenge to see yourself yourself beyond that and work. get out of it even after those laws change because that has become such a part of you that you unconsciously operate within the parameters of what has been established, as if you were driving down the highway at four or five. and you will take an exit where you were not going in that direction, but you did it unconsciously because you have done it so many times, that many people are not making a conscious and deliberate determination to think outside. of what

life

has thrown at them they end up doing the same thing over and over again I said that the thought that has brought me here has created some problems that this thought cannot solve and so through relationships through reading through studies through goals and dreams beyond your comfort zone, allows you to start living from your imagination instead of your story, didn't Disney say that imagination is a preview of what is to come ?

They have to expose themselves to something that will give them. give them a different vision of themselves and on top of that they have to place themselves in a community of what I call oqp, only quality people. A gentleman who dramatically transformed my life. I was a junior at boobity Washington High School in Miami, Florida and I got in. His class was looking for another friend and he said: go to the meeting and solve this problem for me. I said sir, I can't do that, he said why not. I said oh, I'm not going to be students, he said, do it anyway and and the other kids started laughing saying he's Leslie, he's DT and he said what's DT, he's his smart brother but he's the dumb twin and I said : I'm sir and he came from behind his desk and pointed at me and said don't you ever do it?

Say that again, someone's opinion of you doesn't have to become your reality and he taught me three things. He said it if you want to be successful in life, young man. He said number one, you have to change your way of thinking, he said you don't understand. in life what you want to get in life what you are number two practice oqp only quality people who earn between two and three thousand dollars from your closest friends I discovered that, I left everything and freed myself as I say, everyone has to do it see because I used to be really broke, I walked by the bank and set off the alarm, you know, and the third thing is you develop your communication skills because once you open your mouth you tell the world who you are, he said, those are three things important things you owe I want to work on that will free you from living in Liberty City, living in poverty and in the city, it will help you escape from where you are now because I see you looking at me and I know you want more.

I can see the hunger in your eyes it makes you hungry to find something that is you I think we are all born unique but

most

of us die copies you have to find out what turns you on what resonates with you one of the things I realized and Lo that allowed me to be successful as a speaker in the speaking industry has been hijacked by people who talk to sell and it's okay to do that to make money. I speak to change lives because someone spoke and changed my life, so this is my passion. It's my tribe, this is something I feel in my heart and therefore the key to that Humber-driven life is a life focused on the hard.

I didn't do what I'm doing for years because of my programming because of the culture I live in. He grew up in. I saw other people with degrees, PhDs and MBAs and credentials that I don't have and I convinced myself that I couldn't do it, but mr. Washington that day we became friends and he taught me that not only the opinion that someone has about you does not have to determine your reality, he said that you have to work on yourself and that you have to have an unstoppable attitude and that no excuse is acceptable and You have to do it, make it a priority, they are non-negotiable in your life, have a constant vision of what you want to achieve, see it achieved and do everything possible, find a way to win despite the setbacks. about disappointments despite your failures I tell people when I'm giving presentations you will fail on your way to success I have a saying your life knocks you down try to land on your back because you can look up you can get up and then those experiences of chasing goals that are beyond your comfort zone and have relationships that challenge you and surround yourself with coaches and mentors that can take you to a place within yourself that you can't go alone because you can't read the label when you're locked in the box and so Those experiences challenge you to move to the next level and continue to move forward in your life doing new and exciting things that I have not seen ears or heard or more than a heart of humanity, what God has in store for you when you live a life centered on what hard, you decide that you are going to live a life that will outlive you, you are going to live a life that counts, a life that will build a legacy and change the planet, you know.

Hardman said we should be ashamed to die until we have made an important contribution to humanity, so my goal is to make an important contribution to humanity every day. When I wake up, my mindset is what can I do to touch and impact. Someone's life today, what is it? what does that look like don't live the life that circumstances have given you because of the people around you that Sidney Poitier wrote a book called the measure of a man and he said when you go for a walk with someone something happens without it being spoken he said that either you adapt to their rhythm or they adjust to your rhythm whose rhythm you have adapted to and then they are things that we pick up and we think that there are options but they are the choices that life has programmed us to make when we leave the house in the morning we are bombarded with over 6,000 advertising views across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, television, our phones, our communities, computers, etc.

All of these things impact us every day, so if you don't have a program for your mind, then your mind will become programmed and you will find yourself doing things that you didn't know about and that affected you. through marketing techniques and strategies that will create thirst within you. I came up in an era that said if you built the best mousetrap the world would beat its way to your door, but if you knew the marketing people would sleep outside your store to buy a phone. have never touched or seen