Les Brown | MAKE IT HAPPEN! ᴴᴰ | Motivational Greatness

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 has changed my life. I started as Jack Sparrow indicated, humble beginnings. 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 was while you were working towards that dream, but this is what I know. that dream that you have in your mind that is possible let's say that together please say that it is possible look sometimes we can't say that I can do that but what can we say that it is possible that I can have my tree while we run towards it while we work on it day day after day, no one, ladies and gentlemen, could convince me when I started a little over six years ago to work on my dream and I want you to think about whatever your dream is because I was willing to do it. take a risk and most people won't do it most of the people you talk to to try to get them into the business are not risk takers most people have done everything they are going to do, they start a family they

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a living life 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 process of working on your dreams, you are going to incur a lot of disappointments, a lot of failures, a lot of pain. many setbacks many defeats but in the process of doing it you will discover some things about yourself that you don't know right now what you will realize is that you have

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within you what you will realize is that you are more powerful than you can ever imagine.

What you will realize is that you are bigger than your circumstances and that you don't have to go through life being a victim like Jack indicated I was. I was born in Miami Florida in the area called Liberty City in an abandoned building on a floor Olien hardened with my twin brother we were six weeks old we were adopted when I was in fifth grade students identified as EMR labeled as mentally educable from fifth grade to 4th grade and I stayed in that category until I left high school. I don't have any university education, but I am referring to a high school teacher who one day changed my life.

He was waiting for another student and when he came in he told me, Young man, I'm going to the blackboard and I write what I'm going to tell you and I said I can't do that shift. He said why not. I said I'm not one of his students. He said it doesn't matter. Follow me. address style, since I can't do that sir, he said why not, I said because I'm Jewish Keable in my mind and he came out from behind his desk and looked at me and said, don't ever say that again, someone's opinion about you it does.

It doesn't have to become your reality and that man mr. Leroy Washington did something for me, he started planting 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. 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 live and, gentlemen, they 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 would have my own book titled live your dreams a little more than six years I would be five specials on public television a little over six years I've done

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speaking for AT&T Procter & Gamble McDonald's Corporation , 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 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 it is necessary that you remove the energy drainers from your life people who do not want anything people who do not

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an effort people who do not challenge themselves people who are not growing people who have stopped dreaming it is necessary that you align with people and attract hungry, unstoppable and irrational people to your business who refuse to leave life as it is and who want more.

My mother used to say that birds of a feather flock together and run back and forth. with losers you will end up being 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 not everyone will have the vision you need to know that many people They like to complain but they don't want to do anything about their situation 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 too it is It is necessary ladies and gentlemen to be creative when you are working on your ideas to understand the importance of changing or readjusting your strategies.

Many times we may have a great idea but if you are not advancing it in the right way and things do not

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you become discouraged and think that the idea doesn't work 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 approached me and 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. Hey man, your shoes look bloody, my shoes look shiny. I told him no. I don't have time sorry I'm busy I was walking fast and many people requested me for my business and then I file a young man stood in front of me need excuse for you and started counting 97 98 99 100 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, the 100 people who pass by the shoe shine stand are all for them, a free shoe shine, right? would you give me? the honors I said why sure I went up to the shoeshine stand George and said there and he shined my shoes diligently and when I got down I looked at him they were shiny and I was walking away and I said thank you and I stopped.

He said excuse me, but how much do you usually charge? he said only two dollars. I told him: "Tell me something: it's your birthday, it's five here, keep the change," he said thank you as I walked away looking in the opposite direction, other people came and started counting again. 97 98 99 100 you need to be flexible and always thinking about how I can improve this. This is a customer-driven economy. You need to always explore various ways in which you can improve the quality of the service you offer. We are providing services 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 to please our clients, our intention is to surprise them.

It is necessary if you are going to compete today that you find a way to surprise your clients by being one of those people who fulfill your commitments and keep your word, which is relentless. It is necessary how you work with the people that you bring throughout your organization so that they see that you are a good example of a person to work with because you model integrity, determination, ambition, truth and honesty and the way you conduct business, the next step is that it is 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 I remember I was playing a game with my nine year old son. -My oldest son, John Leslie, and I beat him 10 games in a row in a game called Connect Four and I finally said John drops the board.

I don't want to play with you anymore and I got up. I said I'm ready to go to sleep. and repeat me please let's say this together it won't be over until I win John Leslie said no you can't leave 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 other games and finally after the eleventh game John Leslie won and got up and yawned and said, I'm ready to go to sleep now and I tell you, what if we all took that attitude after facing rejection? and a no or we have a meeting and no one shows up or someone says you can count on me and they don't

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What happens if we have that kind of attitude? The car is repossessed. Nobody believes in you. You have lost again and again. and again the lights go out but you keep looking at your dream, reviewing it every day and telling yourself it won't end until I win.