The Greatest Motivational Speech Of All Time | Les Brown

an idea can change your life decide that you are going to concentrate on developing your skills the guy was the new owner of a team a team a baseball team that was in the basement of the league when he took over went to the photo and says what it is your best throat said well I have a good curveball and I have a good fastball and he went on talking about his different pitches he said but tell me this what is your best pitch he thought for a moment he said I have a good fastball he said that's it I want you work on nothing else just develop your fastball next year they went to the world series most people don't know where their fastball is most people go through life never discovering what their talents are most people never They develop their talents, they have abilities and skills, but if you don't cultivate them, if you don't develop them, your gifts will never serve you.

They can take you to many places if you develop your gifts. Most of us don't like to do those things that are easy for us. I have always loved talking to people. I decided to follow this advice to develop my skills as a speaker and my gift has grown and developed and taken me to many places. I have something that you brought into the universe and that if you decide that my life deserves that I develop this, what I do well and I become the best at it and I master myself and see what I have inside me if you decide to drop your cubes where you are and develop your gifts I grant you that you will never be without I grant you that your gifts will take you to places that will literally surprise you I grant you that if you start working to develop your gifts you will develop a strong sense of happiness You will gain a broader vision of yourself because, Apart from starting to have a broader vision of yourself, we all need some area of ​​our lives where we can have a feeling of competence that people know when they think in this area, that is something you do. you eat and you sleep and you do that, you do that, so you have to work at it.

Has anyone ever seen something for you that you didn't see for yourself? I didn't see it myself, maybe that's why. My favorite book says I am not seen heard has not heard nor is it heart of humanity what God has in store for you because of what he saw in me he inspired me he gave me a vision of myself beyond my circumstances beyond my mental conditioning and beyond the job where I was because I thought I was just a disc jockey I love that I am a microphone master you leave me in any city I could master a microphone I can turn a city upside down with a microphone but I had more in me than what I was expressing and I didn't know it and because of this encouragement I became a community activist because of this encouragement I started doing a talk show called voice of the people because of this encouragement when I left the radio I ran for the Ohio legislature and I was elected and thanks to this stimulus I passed 14 bills in my first term thanks to your encouragement I was elected three

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s and became chair of the human resources committee thanks to your encouragement I became a public speaker thanks to your encouragement I became an author thanks to your encouragement.

I did a show for King World called Les Brown Show and they paid me five million dollars. Two million dollars not to mention thanks to his encouragement. I produced specials for PBS public television. They said it couldn't be done. do that you don't have a university education it's educational television thanks to your encouragement I did so many things that I had no idea I could do I encourage you to live fully and die empty is more than you at this moment than just working at a job where they pay you what enough to keep you from quitting and you work hard enough to keep you from getting fired and when you make the decision and identify that key area of ​​your life that you need to make a radical change, things will start to open up for you now here's the other thing that is Very important once you identify your target, I want you to get, if possible, a visual image of your target.

My main goal was to buy my mother the house. I got the picture of the house with a 12. foot pool and a basketball court on a golf course I bought that house from my mother it cost a little over four hundred thousand dollars ten thousand square feet I had a picture long before I had the money and the initial payment to get it my goal was to be known nationally and internationally as a speaker I had that goal I had a card that I had on one side asking for it to be given looking for it will not be open on the other side I have I am number one in the world speaker i produced that result in my life i had a goal to become a talk show host i used to watch phil donahue and put my photo on the tv screen while listening to the show i visualized myself there and they called me king world production and i had my own talk show.

Well, it was the fastest, highest-rated council talk show in the history of television. It's called life. Now here's something else. You will fail on your way to success. Trust me. You have many failures. many disappointments but you will fail on your path to success gerda says that what doesn't kill you will make you stronger see 85 percent of people allow their fear of failure to overcome their desire to succeed, that's why you have to have good courage. have courage when life knocks you down and have a saying try to land on your back because if you can look up you can get up so once you look and decide the goal you want you want to put some things that put a treasure board or a gold board and you have images of the goal you want to achieve so you can see it every day when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you are programming into your subconscious mind is nine out of 10 decisions you make. what comes from there I used to do door to door sales and I was working with another friend of mine and door to door sales I mean, it's a punishment, it's cruel and unusual punishment and I was a little kid knocking on the door hello Do you I would like to buy a good working TV with no money down no bam they slammed the door in your face and the friend of mine who was working with me slammed the door in his face and I looked back and he was walking to the car?

He said I can't do this and he sat in the car and said go ahead I'll be here when you come back now he had a mother and a father to take care of him my mother was sick I'm adopted I was hungry I had to continue I learned something about myself: When you go into your fears, someone said it was Winston Churchill, he said that courage is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm, when you go into your fears and continue to strive to achieve it. follow something happens to you it will allow you to transcend yourself I went to the next door you like to buy a good work until no bam I went to the next no bam after a while I no longer took it personally and I start playing a game, I say well , I know there's a yes in here somewhere and I'm going to keep going until I find it and I'm not going home until I do and I keep knocking on doors and then someone would eventually say yes and I was like are you sure? and I would go there and get the sale when you have something you want to do if you don't develop the courage to do what you've been given and spend a lot of

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You spend your time trying to convince other people trying to get their approval, what will happen is that you will lose your temper and other people will convince you that what you are doing has no value and you will give up on your dream, it's an interesting thing about In life I also discovered that if you don't have the courage to act sometimes and particularly if you have something special to do, life will go your way. Abraham Maslow said life is about growth and he said you can do it. go back to your comfort zone and there you will not find any growth or you must be willing to move forward and face your fears again and again because you will never have a fear-free existence, that is, some fear. it is acceptable and legitimate there are some things you should really fear now you should not allow it to hold you down you recognize it you take it into account and behave accordingly there are times when we should proceed with caution but it is the difference between being stopped by fear It's the difference between having a fear and the fear of having you.

So what do we do? Acknowledge it and know that it is okay. Don't condemn yourself for being afraid. It's perfectly okay to have some fears. You recognize your fear. fears, you accept those fears and then you move forward, you act on whatever it is that you fear, because once you accept it, you see that what you resist will persist, what you resist will persist, so one of the most important things is to start accepting your fear so What do we have to start doing? How do we handle that? What is the process? Because everything is here.

I think it's imagining the worst case scenario. Then I had another technique that I used. Visualize yourself being more than capable and able to handle it. and I used to have a tremendous inferiority complex when speaking in front of people who I felt had more going for them than me because I don't have a university education. I used to feel like college kids were the smartest people on the planet and I had nothing to say for them and what would I do? Why would they listen to me? That's how I felt and I had to visualize myself speaking before them speaking before various audiences that had more going for them than me and I realized and appreciated my own value and that I was a worthwhile person, although I didn't have everything going for me, no.

He had the money, he didn't have the education that they had, so part of the process is seeing yourself as worthy of being. capable of having what you need to be a valuable person and that you are more than capable and that you deserve to be heard or you deserve to have that dream and that passion and whatever you see and imagine there, you have to see it in your mind and know that you have what necessary to decide as you look at your life, look to the future and say: what fears am I holding on to?

What fears am I allowing to imprison me? that's stopping me from bursting out that's stopping me from reaching my true potential that's stopping me from being truly happy that's stopping me from having a sense of adventure and excitement in my life what's stopping me from controlling my destiny what's afraid that I am giving permission to notice what I said, we must give fear permission to immobilize us because any discomfort you experience, any challenge, difficulty, you have to handle it, you have to get up there and fight with it. it will be easy it will not be challenging yes the next part is that you accept yourself then you accept fear as a fact and not a force look when you accept yourself and accept fear as a fact that means it is something that happens it is something that you are going to experience but it is not a force that stops you, it has no special power other than what you give it, so you accept the fact that you are afraid and then you move forward however you move.

Go ahead and do what you have to do, look when you're not filling your life with the things you're capable of doing, look, we all have some things that we've been given and I don't think it's optional for us to sit on what we have to see. If you're sitting on what you have what you've been given I think everyone has been given something to bring to the planet that only you can do that only you can do that only you can start that activity and if you don't do it, if you don't you are filling your life with your job or your mission then there are gaps in your life and what we do when we are not living our true identity we start to fill the gaps we fill the holes with garbage alcohol drugs worry self destructive behavior so when you start looking your life and you know that you are not doing what you can do because you have allowed yourself to be captive by your fears this is what I discovered that happens to you in life that you will go through things and while you go through them you cannot understand why it is happening to you but then After going through that you go back and look at it and say oh, now I understand why I needed that lesson that I did.

I couldn't understand it there, but after I got through it I saw that it was preparing me for bigger and better things as you go through life's challenges. and you look at it and accept whatever comes your way, don't run away from it, take a step towards it, don't try to avoid it, as most people see, most people want it easy when you handle those difficult things that you have at your fingertips, you make those difficult decisions. Right now you don't want to learn those things that you don't like to do, but you know that to get where you want to go, this is one of the obstacles that you have to overcome and I'm telling you what you have to do, do it because if you don't what you do, life is going to scream at you until you give up and say: okay, okay, okay, I'll cooperate, okay, I learned, okay, they had to wear me down. a long time so if it's hard then do it hard now what do you do?

How do you endure during difficult times? less you have to have faith you have to believe in yourself you have to believe in your abilities You have to believe in your service, your company, your ideas, unquestionably, you must have faith and that faith gives you patience, that will not happen as fast as you want, they will happen many things that will surprise you. guard and therefore you have to deal with it and handle it as it comes and not only that but faith and patience propel you to action, you have to keep moving and keep working and some people, ladies and gentlemen, stop because they don't see instant results, it doesn't happen quickly, they stopped oh no, no, no, you have to keep going. watering your dreams when you're working on yourdream someone said that the harder the battle, the sweeter the victory oh, it is sweet for you, it is good for you, why see when, when it is difficult and there is a struggle, see what you become in the process is more important in the dream that is much more important the type of person you become the character you built the courage you develop the faith you are manifesting oh, it's something you wake up in the morning you look in the mirror You're a guy different person, you walk with a different type of spirit and people know that you know what life is, that you have embraced life, you know it was difficult, but you made it difficult for us to start looking at the future, you know it is It is possible that we can have our dream, yes, other people have done it, so we can do it.

We failed many times, well many other people fail and eventually they came back and succeeded so we might be able to have what we want. and we know that we want to achieve it, we need to align ourselves with people who think like us, we need to get rid of the negative people who do nothing from our lives, we need to never stop learning, growing and developing, we need to never give up, we know. that it's you, it's me, we are responsible for our things and we decide that we are going to move forward, that we are going to find a way to win or find a way to make it happen and we know it.

It's hot it's not going to be a picnic yeah it's hard it's hard and we'll do it hard and once we do it we do it hard and we get through it we realize it was worth it and once you find out it was worth it , It's well done. This is what I suggest to you: when you are working you have a wall to cross, let's say that a friend of mine who walks, runs a marathon, says that when he runs the 26 mile marathon, he said, let's say that hypothetically that 18. The mile is the wall, Les said, when you get there and you're running, he says everything in you is telling you to stop and give up, every muscle aches and you tell yourself I can't do it, I can't. do it and you go and go and go, it seems like you're moving in slow motion and then eventually when you go through that 18 mile wall, then you know it's like you're doing it on your own automatic and you slide. you walk in and you know it's there, you know you're going to reach the goal and we've all had experiences where we were working on something and we knew it was possible and we did the things that were necessary to achieve it. reality we took responsibility for making it happen all the people couldn't see it many people didn't believe it they attacked you they criticized you people were opposing you but you kept doing it it was difficult it was hard it was difficult but for you it was worth it and you finally reached a point level you know, nothing can stop me now I'm moving finally I'm thinking about a friend of mine who no longer operates in this dimension his name was jack Boland he had this vision of a church that would address various types of needs for people, their support needs and help him recover from drugs and alcohol and any addictions they might be involved in, and he was known to bring in different types. of speakers and over a year ago he was diagnosed with cancer and he announced to his congregation that he was going to receive chemotherapy and that there was a possibility of the cancer going into remission and he was optimistic about it and sure enough, he did it for a year and a one of the things jack always talked about was that he wanted to have his funeral while he was alive, so he invited some friends, wayne Dyer, me and some other speakers, he didn't tell us why we were there, but once we got together there , the church, we were told in the room that jack is going to announce to the congregation that he is bringing his doctor, the doctor is going to say that we feel we can keep him in remission, he is out of remission and he doesn't have much time left and any words What do you want to say to Jack, what would you say to him if he had transitioned, say those words now, well, we were shocked and kind of stunned until Jack got there, they brought him in in a wheelchair and the boy was.

He was brave and had a strong smile and they helped him up the stairs and he sat behind the podium and we each stood up and said a few things about Jack and the impact he had on our lives and he said, "The doctor." after announcing that jack didn't have much time, doctor says, he said: I accept what you say, but that may not have to be the case, but if it is, I will enjoy life until my last breath. I even take chemotherapy. I'll enjoy it and Jack did, ladies and gentlemen, and when they said all his vital organs were failing, they called his family and the close staff of his church to the hospital and said he was dying, so they came and they all gathered in the room and Jack at that moment was unconscious and regained consciousness and looked at them and said well how strong he was he said I want to thank you all for being here you have been a great staff for me I look at his children his daughter said they have been a great family say no feel sorry for me he said I'm ready to go I'm waiting for the next adventure and he sat there for a while lying there and he closed his eyes and lost consciousness about an hour and a half later he opened his eyes and looked at them he said, this It's embarrassing, I'm not dead, but they were laughing through tears, he said, hey, I hate giving up this kind of thing. control so they predicted that jack would die at the end of february and then in the second they said he will not see the light of day he will be dead in the morning ladies and gentlemen jack died on march 4th and we believe that even in his dying jack sent his congregation A message I want to give you with your permission March 4th is the day he died and we believe Jack was saying March 4th.