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Commit to Success - Les Brown

Mar 24, 2024
thank you, you see whatever you are doing, however you spend your time, that tells you who you are, so think about what it is that you like to create in your life experience, once I look at how you spend your time, a Once I make an assessment of how you spend your time, I can tell you exactly what you are

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ted to. People who say they have dreams. They want to open a business or want to do something different from what they are doing now. They don't like their job. They are not happy. They are dissatisfied people. they say they want to improve their income level look at how they spend their time how they spend their time the

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ment of their time how they use that that will really tell the truth people who said I would like to do better but you don't find them in vocational or technical schools improving their skills and their knowledge how they spend their time that will tell you what is happening people who say they want to normalize their weight they want to be healthy but every time you see them they are eating that will tell you that they are committed to being obese for the rest of their lives people will tell you They say they want to quit smoking and they light up a cigarette at that moment they're supposed to say I want to quit drinking and every time you're in your face, they stink of alcohol that will tell you what's going on, you don't have to listen to what they say, just look at what they do, the commitment is reflected in your life in what you do, on the other hand, you can make the commitment with your life that you don't like the results you have and that you are going to do something about it.
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You see the power is available to all of us, the people who look at life and decide: I want something different for Me Carol Hatfield Carol lives in Detroit. Single mother decided that she wanted to have her own business. She didn't have enough money to do it. She wanted to have a health food store. She sold her car and used the money to start a small store. she little hole in the wall she rode her bike to work and then when she got enough money she bought a scooter and she did it for a long time.
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She now she is a very

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ful person. She now has three health food stores. She said it was harder. fight less she said but I did it she said I made the commitment to do it and I did it why people are scared of commitment because when you say the word commitment that intimidates a lot of people why because it means that you have to deliver see the majority of people people you ask him hey look here I would like you to do this they will say I'll try I'll try it means that's my escape clause when I don't comply it's really a courtesy no.
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I don't have the courage to tell you no so I'll tell you I'm trying hey look I need you to come to this meeting I'm trying I said what do you mean you're going to lean into the meeting try to sit down? either you try or you don't try and take this pencil out of my hand you either do it or you don't try so most people like to use that language and they don't want to commit because commitment means among many things no excuse is acceptable that's what which means there is no excuse that if you decided that you are going to do this if it becomes difficult then do it difficult if it is difficult and what if it is inconvenient and what do you see, a lot of people promised to come here tonight but they looked outside and said it's raining, the temperature dropped, it's cold outside and they decide to give up their commitment and that's how people make their dreams, they don't honor their commitment to themselves, let me tell you what happens.
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When you don't keep your number one commitment, it starts to deplete your self-esteem and erode your self-image, it weakens your faith in yourself, you don't feel good when you don't keep your commitments, the other thing is that you start to develop weak relationships with others. people, people start to realize that they can't depend on you, they can't trust you because you don't keep your word, you've established that kind of reputation, just think, what would your life be like if you decided to keep your word? commitments, what our whole lives would be like if we decided to keep our commitments but decided to do the things we said we were going to do and we wouldn't even talk about them unless we were going to do them if we decided just for a week just see what your life can be like. life let's just do it for a commitment so it's a seven day commitment that I won't say I'll do anything unless I'm You're going to do it and you'll find out what your life will be like.
Let me tell you what happens if you follow it to the end. If you keep your commitment, at the end of the seven days you will feel strong and powerful because by honoring your commitment. Every time you do it, it makes you stronger, whatever the discipline that is required, whatever it is that you need to do. I suggest that, first, you commit to living in the present. I saw the beloved Port Society movie Robin Williams and he caught a lioness on me. At a time when many of us are not able to move forward, develop and manifest our greatness because we spend a lot of time looking back or worrying about the future, seize the moment, you see that you cannot go to the future and manifest your greatness when you have several things in mind. your life is blocking you, let's see how we can start to follow through on our commitments, remembering what Dr.
Robert Anthony said about results. When you keep your commitments, you can produce different types of results in your life, so how can we keep our commitments? and we keep all the commitments no, we don't, you won't be at 100, however, you will have a higher percentage rate of keeping your commitments to yourself, whatever those things are, if it's about starting a business, if it's about changing a habit that you know is working against you if it's about overcoming self-destructive behavior if it's about retraining your way of thinking if it's about reinventing yourself if it's about starting to design your relationship differently we all have a possibility by focusing and really harnessing our attention and really concentrating on it.
We have the power at our disposal to fulfill our commitments in those particular areas, so number one is Priority. No one would get on a plane if they thought their chances of reaching their destination were as good as their luggage. I'm right? and I say that the reason you will arrive at your destination more times than your luggage is because the airline, and I am glad that they do this, has made it a priority to move human beings from one point to another safely, not to say goodbye . to Boston or somewhere with their luggage, so I don't get too upset when my luggage doesn't show up.
I'm glad they delivered because they made me a priority. See, you've made it important to get you to your destination, so if you want to honor your commitment, whatever you decide you're going to do, make sure it's important, make sure it's a priority, keep it before you, the other thing is whatever you want to do, whatever you want, start creating and start. to manifest your greatness and strengthen your level of commitment and it is really exercising, you will find something that you want to do in your goal, an action step, but make sure that it demands you, that it challenges you, but it is doable, that you can do it like this. year I decided I was going to exercise, so I started by doing just 10 setups and 10 push-ups.
I know I can do that and not get angry about it. I can do it without thinking, so I start small, now I'm ready. to 50, but if I tried to get to 50 at first, I wouldn't keep doing it, so I started doing it in manageable segments. Do that and that strengthens your will, so my commitment is now strengthened and strengthened by the activity of doing it. so now I can expand and build from there when I decided to start managing my money differently and I started saving five percent of my money then I increased it to 10 and then to 15 so now I have disciplined myself to live off 75 percent of my money.
Income I took discipline to do that, but I started watching how I spent my money. I started keeping track and tracking myself, so you want to start finding something that's manageable and you know you can do the following to get started. keep your commitments to yourself have some friends who will hold you accountable who won't let you off the hook who won't tolerate anything less than your best people who will support you in this new way of being in this new state of consciousness something else is that It is important to have a contingency plan. You see that a lot of times when you commit to doing something, other variables will happen that you can't control or maybe you didn't think about, so you want to have others. plans in place you want to be creative you see that most people don't keep their commitments because when something goes wrong they just stop they don't have a contingency plan so they don't know what to do next stop being creative if you challenge yourself I often say I don't know what to do and I always wonder, but if you knew that doing less would activate another part of my mind.
I start to think about the possibilities and just experiment, but many, many of us simply stop following our path. I don't know. what to do, you know what to do, you have genius in you, challenge yourself, push yourself, invent something, use your imagination and what you will find is that you know more than you do. Realize that you know that you are more creative and more resourceful than you think you are and as you do it, the more you do it, the easier it will be. At first it will be a struggle and after reaching a certain level. of Consciousness you'll wonder how come I didn't see this before at the level I'm running my business now they say Consciousness is what we are I literally look at myself and say how come I didn't see him do this before why couldn't I see this before and the Why didn't I watch it before because I didn't challenge myself?
I didn't try hard here. I see the reason most of us go through life. never discovering our true greatness literally walking around breathing corpses the uncommitted life is not worth living why because it produces nothing look you just make things happen your life only counts you only make a difference when you are committed when you commit to your life those are the people who commit to their lives the people who commit to their clients the people who commit to their families and their relationships are the people who make the biggest impact on life what is commitment commitment is the salesperson who says look here I'm going to make a thousand dollars today and I'm not going home.
You can turn off the lights. The janitors could be here using the vacuum cleaner. I won't leave here until I do. I used to be a daughter to ourselves, but I had X number of televisions. I had a minimum amount that I knew I had to sell every day to be able to support my mother, who at the time was sick and had lost her job at the coffee shop due to arthritis. and I said I'm going door to door and sometimes I didn't get home until one at night knocking on people's doors people locking what do you want would you like to buy yourself a nice TV for months of work no Down payment No, how about an Emerson television?
No thank you very much. Do you know anyone else who might be interested? No, thanks. Please call someone else. Hello, would you like to buy a television that works well? No down payment. Don't walk away from our door. thank you very much, very kindly, do you know anyone else would do it? Yes, my cousin lives two doors down, thank you, very kindly, I tell him that you sent me when I had your cousin who told me that you wanted to buy television, that he told me to come here and talk. for you we have a special discount for you yes come on I'm interested I would go ahead I wouldn't go home until I did it's an interesting thing ladies and gentlemen that when we put ourselves in a situation where we say you're going to to do, it puts you in another Zone where the universe responds to you when you have that type of Consciousness.
Look, the universe responds to the man or woman who refuses to be denied because that is your commitment, that business that you want. book you want to write that dream that you have to control your destiny that is yours that power to create there and manifest that that is yours that is available to you but you have to be willing to stay there and face disappointment, not having support being alone doubting yourself sometimes being rejected again and again and again ruining yourself if necessary again and again and refusing to turn around until life gives up nothing can resist a person who has that kind of commitment, people who have made a difference on the planet when John F.
Kennedy said we would go to the Moon and in the next decade he pronounced it, it was a commitment and people share that vision, people accepted that we have had all kinds of examples in history in The people who have made statements that have committed their lives to making a difference are people who are taking a stand against hunger today. I guarantee it will be part of our past at some point someone took a stand against polio it no longer affects us as such once I did it because someone said it is my commitment to eradicate it from the face of the Earth someone made the commitment the reason why that we are here and enjoying the Democracy that we have someone made the commitment that whatever it takes if it means I die I remember Paul Roberson here I defend that I cannot do anything else and that is how you must be commitment means defending your life means honoring yourself yourself means to begin to speak and see and recognize your alignment and Oneness with the universe and that your channel for life stops us expressing ourselves and short-circuiting the anger, we make aWe short circuit with fear, we short circuit with envy, we short circuit by being lazy or apathetic or giving up easily why why it's always too difficult it's too difficult we don't do it challenge our spirit ladies and gentlemen there is nothing as powerful as the human spirit cannot be destroyed it can be perverted but it cannot be destroyed I was reading Man's Search for Meaning Victor Frank what a powerful book I am reading it now for the 7th time and it gives so many graphic examples of the power of the human spirit thank you and what These are some of the things that can strengthen us and give us the kind of inner strength that will allow us to move forward into the future. future by stating our commitments commitment number one means, in some cases, going back to school, getting trained, sitting in classes with people younger than you, putting yourself in a position where you don't know and that's strange and uncomfortable, but because to your commitment. develop or go back to school and get a high school diploma to get a college degree then it doesn't matter feeling stupid and saying what am I doing here setting up a boring class commitment can mean a lot of things it could mean you start backing up you have to back off sometimes it means going back and not giving up to regroup go back and regroup and come back again because life is a lost road because you got knocked down I know when when I was working on my I dreamed there were times when I lost my house at one point I lost my car I was in bankrupt my credit was bad I was sleeping at different friends houses on their couch or on the floor there were times for months when I slept on the floor in my office and I got up early and got dressed before my staff arrived to give them the impression that I arrived early before them and we all pretended not to know what we knew that the boss was staying in office.
I never talked about it, but I refuse. I refuse. give up on my dream and what happens, they say, you know, in the prosperous years you keep it in your pocket, in the lean years, you put it in your heart, that makes me appreciate it even more. I wouldn't change it. I would. Don't change it for anything, the misinformer, the pain I've gone through keeping the commitment, keeping the commitments you have, could mean taking a position that is unpopular, something was said once, when you take a position, it says that it becomes the question to a coward.
Is the policy safe? The question was asked. Is it popular but awareness or commitment begged the question? Is this correct and I see that most people prefer to trade from the first two? Is it safe for me to take this position? I remember when I was a state legislator I saw guys. and women who believed strongly in the legislation, but because the Speaker of the House said we would not accept that, they backed down and felt bad about it, they did not accept the position because they did not want to talk about the house to be angry with them they wanted to be well with the rest of our colleagues.
Look, it takes a lot of courage and commitment on your part to get out of a line. You already know. Henry David Thoreau said that if a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps he is listening to the rhythm of a different drama. Let him dance to the music he hears, no matter how measured or distant it may be. When you are engaged, you are dancing to the rhythm of a different drama. Don't wait for it. people understand you don't expect it to make sense to anyone why do you have to do this why do you have to leave why are you leaving this is a good job they will pay you well I'm leaving on your own for a few years until retirement I'm going because I don't understand it's not necessary I'm going for myself because I've made a different commitment to my life this is something I have to make commitment means taking a stand taking a stand for you means surrendering it means overcoming it What happens if you don't keep your commitment any less?
What happens if they give you everything you have and you fall short or if you don't give everything you want? you have what happens if you weaken along the way and throw in the towel you give in to your emotions what what what then a lot of people get discouraged, frustrated and say oh what the hell and go back to doing what they were doing before saying this doesn't work It's my number one suggestion that happens, so take full responsibility for it, just accept it, don't make excuses about why you gave in or why you didn't follow through, just accept it.
Face Flack, whatever it is, rise up within yourself. The next thing is to evaluate the situation. How did you get here? What happened? That you collapsed. You had a nervous breakdown and gave up. and I don't do that anymore. I am committed to living a healthy lifestyle. I used to eat until 12 midnight on Sundays. Anything that wasn't moving on Monday. I would get up and eat a piece of fruit. I had a light breakfast with fruits. For lunchtime, I would make some roast chicken and meticulously remove the skin and eat the chicken and then eat the skin.
He made five preparations. I would look in the mirror and get discouraged because my stomach didn't look like a washboard or an Alvin one. Haley dances, I say what's the point and then I go to the refrigerator and eat cold food standing right there in the refrigerator, so when I evaluated where I collapsed I realized that I can't have junk food in the house, so I had to take it away and Then I realized there were certain streets I couldn't drive on, so I changed my route. I stopped taking people to lunch or dinner because I couldn't sit there and watch them eat when I had to go somewhere and talk and they were eating.
He said call me downstairs when it's time to talk because if I sit at the table looking at them the food will call my name and I know it so I had to start making sure I didn't put myself in a position. Where would I give up my commitment? Do I make sense to you? So I started strategizing to avoid situations where I knew it would weaken me. Another thing I do when I don't keep my commitment. Either I deny myself something or I compensate if a glazed donut takes advantage of me, so I force myself to do 25 extra setups or I walk for an extra 15 or 20 minutes because I have a hammer in my head and I'm like, come here, so it's possible. that you have to deny yourself something or make compensation, do something that makes up for it, the other thing is to start again, then, what you felt on your face, then what to start again, learn from the experience and start again, don't you discard yourself? don't condemn yourself to a life of being miserable a life of being broke a life of being unhealthy a life of being in a relationship that no longer satisfies you a life of living working at a job that doesn't give you satisfaction that's not giving you the creative impulse that you need and that you must have in your life that stimulates you do not sin you are like that you are a human being do not offer your life voluntarily in that way your life has too much value for the universe you have something to contribute you have something to give and what if you commit and you're not able to do it like a professional you're not good at how everyone else lives in the moment. as this says, look at this day because it is life, the very life of life in its brief course, lie all the realities and truths of existence, the joy of growth, the splendor of action, the glory of power, because yesterday is nothing more than a dream and tomorrow is. just a vision but today today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope look good therefore until today see if we start to enjoy where we are if we make that kind of commitment to enjoy where we are experience the experience of life where we must do everything we can right now where we are forget about yesterday's mistakes forget about all your yesterday's failures forget about what you don't have that's not important the only thing we have is right now in right now and I say that life is calling you to invoke The Optimist, which I think is one of the most positive groups in the world, they have something called The Optimist Creed and I like that they say: Promise yourself, I changed it to commit . yourself because I believe that commitment has more power than promise says commit yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind speak health happiness and prosperity to every person you meet make all your friends feel that there is something in them look on the positive side of everything and realize your optimism think only of the best work only for the best and hope only for the best be as enthusiastic about the

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of others as you are with your own forget about the mistakes of the past and move towards the greatest achievements of the future future towards cheerful continents at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile to dedicate so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. too big to worry too noble for anger too strong for fear and too happy to allow the presence of problems committing to these things is not that powerful what a commitment to make with your life committing to pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and not getting worry about what people think about you because they are thinking it anyway don't worry about what they will say they already say it so what do you care decide that your life has so much meaning for the planet decide that you have something to give es that's why you're here so you didn't just show up you brought something here you're on a journey you have a destination mission to achieve do implement perform perform experience decide to commit to being an adventurer in life and look at the life around you look inside yourself and say where in my life I need to make a commitment right now where is it could be for your health could it be for being a happier person could it be? be to make a difference in your community it may be that where is it?
I say that commitment appears and the man or woman who has some idea, some dream that he has been nurturing within himself and no one believed it, no one saw it. For them who were not masters at it, they were not experts at it, no one would bill a statue and ever say their name and recognize them, they never made it to the front page of the newspaper, but they had something that was there, something. that that was their baby, something that they loved and believed in and they just did what they could with what God gave them with the commitment of their dreams appears and the people who are willing to give themselves a chance who look at their lives look inside themselves. and say I know, I know this just can't be the end of my life.
I know there's something I'm supposed to do. I don't know right now or maybe you know, maybe you know and you've talked about it yourself. I got out of this and I understand it because I arrive, I arrive late, no, no, everything happens as it should. I had the courage to take a step and commit. Seriously, I wasn't serious before and I decided. It took me a while to get up the courage to commit because it scared me, so I understand wrestling. I wish I could tell you I've been doing this for 20 years. I have not done it.
I have not done it. I'm glad I decided to commit before I left here and wherever you are, decide that you are going to commit your life now and let it be reflected in your contribution, let it be reflected in what you have to share and in any commitment. that you honor your commitment as yourself honor your word as yourself whatever you put in do it with what you have I want to thank you very much for your Consciousness this is Mrs. Mamie Brown's baby, Leslie Calvin Brown, saying that it has been a plum pleasant pleasure as well as a privilege thank you thank you

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