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One Of The Greatest Motivational Speeches Ever | Les Brown | Motivational Compilation

May 31, 2021
Why don't most people pursue their dreams or do better than what they are doing if they are capable of it? I think many of us don't take the next step because we don't yet know what to do and I say the reason we don't even explore the possibility of what to do is because subconsciously we don't believe it can happen to us and we don't believe we deserve it. This is what I am suggesting How much time do you spend working on yourself How much time do you spend each day working on your dream In the last 90 days How many books have you read and in the last year What new skills or knowledge have you acquired What type of investment have you done in you?
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So I'm saying that as you start to look at where you want to go if you want to achieve it today and things are changing so fast that you literally have to stay still. saying that you have to make a conscious effort to start working to develop yourself here's something else most people don't live their dreams because of fear ladies and gentlemen, yesterday I was in Columbus, Ohio, speaking on behalf of a young woman from the department from Ohio in particular named Karen. who greeted me who organized the event very talented very skilled and she was talking about wanting to get involved in the consulting business I said why don't you do it I told her you have the skills I said you're not here because they like it You're here because you're doing the work, you're making things happen and she came up with all kinds of ideas, but finally she said I guess I can't see myself doing it I guess I'm afraid limited vision and lack of self-esteem is what keeps most people people doing things they don't want to do.
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I was flown from columbus ohio to denver colorado to a major communications company and the person who picked me up at the airport told me about the fact that the company is planning a major downsizing and they offered some of their employees early retirement. and some of them will make up to $300,000 and they said this is the last time they can take this offer if you don't do it when we have the downsizing you could be among those who will lose their jobs and all they will get is their s

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ance pay and only 50 of the people who were entitled to receive the 300,000 accepted it, the others were afraid to risk it. about themselves others couldn't see themselves beyond that company they couldn't see life after that company the same reason people stay in relationships where they are abused or unhappy or unfulfilling they can't see themselves beyond that relationship they can't see themselves enjoying life without that person they think this is all they can do the same reason people get stuck at a certain level in life they can't see things being better for them and think That this Is this and this is all they deserve?
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This is all they have seen. It has been passed down to them and they think this is it for them. Oh no, I was looking at what Dr. Blaton Smiley Blanton, who is a colleague of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. what he said about fear he said that fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human illnesses, ladies and gentlemen, fear kills dreams, fear kills hope, fear puts people in the hospital, fear can help them, fear, ladies and gentlemen, may prevent them from doing something that I know within yourself that you are capable of doing but it will paralyze you and it will seem as if you are in a hypnotic spell and I ask you a question: What is the benefit of allowing the Does fear stop you?
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What is the benefit of giving up on yourself not to leave life and take life according to what is the benefit to you what is the advantage of that is one of the things I had to ask myself so I didn't want to commit no mistakes, I wanted

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yone to like it I wanted to be perfect the first time I did something that's not going to happen you're going to make some mistakes you're going to hurt some people's feelings you're going to make some enemies every time you decide you want to start to take life you have to ask yourself how long am I going to let this stop me I like what he says zig ziglar said that fear is false evidence that seems real it is an illusion that we create in our mind it is a state of mind that can be changed, so let's see how we can start taking some steps to restructure that fear, start expanding our view of ourselves, start increasing our self-esteem, the website says self-esteem means confidence and self-satisfaction look at your life right now what you have done up to this point your life is working whatever you have produced came out of you as a result of the type of person you have become as a result of your choices is the result of your consciousness now you have to ask yourself if you are satisfied with what What you have produced is this what you want You would like things to be better than this You think you deserve better than this You are happy This is all You don't have to do everything You just resign yourself to life You say well I'm happy Are you allowing yourself to get out of trouble that way or do you believe somewhere in the back of your mind or in your heart? that there is another great job you can do there is something else that life has for you and that is why you are here how do we handle this fear factor?
How do we increase our self-esteem? You have to start getting stronger, how do you do it? We do that, I think you have to start consciously monitoring your self-talk and start talking to yourself, start building yourself up, sometimes the only good things you will hear about yourself are the things you tell yourself, so I say learn to be your own drive begins to strengthen you begins to encourage you begins to say I can do this I can make this happen when I started to think about becoming a speaker I said yes I can do this I can make this happen when I start trying to convince myself that I can being a businessman after failing and losing thousands of dollars and feeling stupid and dumb and having people take advantage of me for what I didn't know.
I had to talk to myself because people were telling me I was stupid and somewhere in the back of my mind I was saying you're right, look what I've done. I had to say no, no, no, no, no, less, hey, hey, come on man, pull yourself together, you can handle this, you just haven't. I figured it out still it's okay this is your training period this is tuition you have to pay for what you don't know you can do this other people have done it you don't need an Einstein get some people who can teach you Some things you don't know they offer you some people who have done it successfully and learn from them.
Take some seminars. Workshops. Read some books on how to run a business. Change the way you see yourself and start paying attention to personal details. Understand that. No one is going to take care of your business better than you and when I start to change that kind of mentality of beating myself up for my mistakes and start looking at the possibility of doing it better by making the adjustments that would allow me to do what I want to do successfully things start to change. change and I say stop punishing yourself you do it you do it I know you do it I have done it is a natural inclination for us to put ourselves down look we are born negative I think in a negative consciousness because we live in a negative world so you don't have to teach the children to lie, they will lie automatically, did you wet your pants?
No, I didn't do it right. What's that? I don't know, you don't have to do it. encourage children to misbehave, they will do it on their own, you don't have to encourage them to do something wrong, they would do it automatically, you have to correct their behavior, so I am saying that we have to overcome the challenges of life in learning how start working on strengthening ourselves start protecting our mind against negative programming like turning off the TV not watching the news I think more people get a sense of hopelessness and anxiety about life if they watch the news You can't feel good watching the news.
You will be scared to death. You are afraid to go to sleep. I mean, it cuts your energy. You have to be aware of that. Don't pick up the newspaper and read it, no, no. I'm just trying this, experiment with yourself now if your job depends on you knowing certain things let someone tell you about those things but stop filtering the things that you allowed to come to your mind you know that song you said I said no Don't let them no one brings you bad news, I tell my staff, look here, don't tell me any bad news while I'm away, let me handle it tomorrow.
I'm like anyone telling me any bad news at night before I go to sleep. I can't do anything about it anyway, why let me go to sleep with it on my conscience? No, no, and my staff knows it says, let it wait until tomorrow and I have a window of time to tell me bad news between 10:00. clock and 12 noon after praying, meditating and reading my books, I am strengthened, I am ready to handle it, I will deal with it, I will get out of there and move on to something else, so you have to be on your guard. the kind of things you put in your mind, look, if you don't program your mind, your mind will be programmed because human beings are goal oriented, that's why we die early with a broken heart, that's why we run through life to early graves.
We are going through life, ladies and gentlemen, and I believe Henry David Thoreau said that most men live in quiet despair. Most of us go through life running scared. Larry D'angie, who I think will be one of the best

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speakers today. He told me a true story about a friend of his that every day when he came home from school when he arrived at a certain block in his neighborhood there was a dog from the neighborhood that would chase him and that dog would start barking after him but he would simply run away from that dog. dog every day, every day, he finally got tired of that dog chasing him every day, he said, this dog, come over here, I'm going to take a brick of stuff and break his head in, so he was.
Walking home that day minding his own business effectively in the same area there was that dog there the dog started barking he started running he saw a brick and he stopped and he picked up the brick and he turned around and the dog came up to him and He noticed the dog had no teeth, he said he left the brick, he said, get out of my way and ladies and gentlemen, throughout our lives, many of us go through life running from things that don't have teeth to hurt us. Haven't you been afraid to do something and then after doing it you say, wow, if I knew it was that easy, I would have done it sooner?
Have you never had that experience? Raise your hand absolutely, so we create this in our minds. False evidence. seemingly real, we made it real in our minds, that's why Churchill said there is nothing to fear except fear itself, that is the destructive monster, so turn off the things that can contribute to your fear, turn a deaf ear to people that all they can do is talk about the negative. Things are because they have bought the conscience of the world. They begin to attend workshops, seminars, listen to tapes daily. They begin to recondition your mind to retrain your thinking.
Faith comes from what you hear, you hear and you hear, you hear things that can empower you. can allow you to create a new reality for yourself in a new life for you you may seem strange to most people you meet most people think you are strange if you are happy today people say how are you I said better than good Wow, What happens? Just go around smiling and watch people watch this. Weird guy here because most people don't smile. Watch him look at their faces in the morning. Here we go another Monday morning. How are you?
I haven't had it. my coffee don't ask me yet look these people haven't found their purpose in life that's why they're in a bad mood that's why they're miserable that's why they're so negative they're suffering and want to hurt other people so start practicing using programs for your mind seminars books workshops keep a journal record your thoughts what happens to you every day when you wake up keep a journal close to you i use jack bowling's journal so i can write down my ideas i keep it next to my bed so i can write down my thoughts, ladies and gentlemen, We have three to four thoughts a year that, if we act on those thoughts, could change our life, don't say well, I'll remember, don't write that thought down.
I have a thought today. I wrote it. A friend of mine is in the hospital. His morale is low. They are talking about amputating his foot. He must feel very bad. So I said, "You know I'm going to do it." I go to see him but I can't be there with him all the time. I told him that I am going to create a tape for him that he can listen to and that will raise his morale level. We told him no the other night. you are going to surgery you are depressed your energy level is low no, tell them no now, don't do it now, in fact, most doctors who have any sense of conscience do not perform surgeries on patients who are in a state of fear that they do not I don't think they'll make it, they wait until they're in a different state of mind, so I said how about we make tapes for people who face physical challenges?
I said that's a good idea, okay, look, there are ideas you can come up with. of things that seem to be negative I have a friend ofChicago I just met him he is 23 years old and this guy went bankrupt financially two years ago he ruined his credit guess what he decided to do he found a blessing in it that he wanted to restore His credit was very challenging very difficult and he realized that many other people during These particular times are ruined. Your credit, so now you started a credit repair business last year you made over a hundred thousand dollars helping people restore their credit.
I met a young woman who attends this church who was at her father's funeral and was putting flowers on the grave and she looked around her and saw the other graves, they didn't look well kept and weren't attended to regularly. . She started a grave maintenance business out of that tragedy, something positive came out of it and now she is making more money. During that in your current job, what idea are you sitting on? Write down your ideas and then what idea are you sitting on? Write down your ideas and then once you have that idea, take the leap.
Hello, take the leap. I see a lot of people get the idea. ideas and just walk with them. Have you ever had an idea and suddenly you looked around and someone had that idea and ran with it? I think you'll go with my hospital idea. Forget it, buddy, we'll be out. there together jack take the leaf see it's here in the universe if you don't take the step I guarantee that someone else will take the step take action and ladies and gentlemen you will be surprised how things will turn out Surprised, now you are going to have some difficult challenges.
I can tell you that I am now aware that things aren't exactly going to work out over time, sometimes they will and that's when life is just messing with you. I want you to do it. feel good and relax and after a while say "it's okay, the honeymoon is over once in a while life will come and slap your side here say what are you doing here well, it's my dream, life is like that , come here a minute, oh, you went to the seminar, hey, come here, I can tell you that, but ladies and gentlemen, get into action with your dream and don't avoid where the fights are, get in the middle of the fight and receive some hickeys on the head, be knocked down so you can learn how to fight so you can hold your ground.
Look, most people don't go out into the arena of life because they don't want to fight. Most people don't go out because they don't want to fight. They want to get knocked down. I don't want them to knock you down, but you see they're going to drop you, whether you're on the field or whether you're sitting on the sidelines or not, they're going to drop you, so at least let yourself drop for something. Don't let yourself drop. while you're sitting watch that's how most people are spectators in life you don't want to be a spectator you want to go out on the field where the action is and you'll be surprised after the fight there will be a lull period and things will start to click so that you come out here with what you have you don't have enough money don't worry you have the dream you have the idea you don't have enough resources no Don't worry, you need help, don't worry, you go out here in the sand, someone will look at you, be inspired and will say, "Hey, can I help you?" but if you're sitting in the stands, no one will. ask yourself anything you have to get into the flow of the action francis hearth called me from chicago she had been thinking about an idea for a show she wanted to produce for 10 years called mind body connection so someone saw me speaking in chicago at a convention sorority and I said I saw a guy who maybe can host this show for you who has energy and charisma.
She called me and was so excited that I told her listen to the day you want to do it. I'm speaking in Chicago. I can do it for you and I said, by the way, two weeks ago I met someone in Baltimore who has an idea for the same type of show and she's doing it on the radio, why don't you call her and then she called me. If not, could you suggest saying good? I know Deepak Chopra, he wrote the book called quantum healing and Bernie Seagull, could you get his number? I'll tell you what I have a friend called Jack Boland in the church of the day, he knows how to get it. get in touch with him, call him and he will give you the number so you can contact bernie siegel that lady started calling everywhere she didn't have the resources but she had this idea and dream and she said the other night when she came to the audience earlier that she had Gathered in the studio she said I feel like I've been pregnant for 10 years and tonight you are going to witness a beautiful birth and it was she said I couldn't believe how things started to happen how everything started to come together when you want some of the life you have to be willing to take action don't wait for things to be good don't wait for things to be perfect don't wait for it to be ideal The situation will never be ideal, there will always be a reason.
Well, as soon as the kids are grown, as soon as I pay my bills, as soon as I get divorced, okay, as soon as I have enough money, do what you can where you are. with what you have and never being satisfied many people never take risks in life they don't want to take any risks they want the situation to be ideal look that's not walking by faith it's walking by sight I was born in a poor country Section of Miami Florida called Liberty City I was born in an abandoned building in an apartment with a twin brother and when we were six weeks old we were adopted and when I was in fifth grade I was identified as EMR labeled mentally educable returned From fifth grade to fourth grade and I feel again that when I was in 8th grade I don't have any college education, but thanks to my mother and I I feel like Abraham Lincoln, who said everything I am and everything I ever hoped for.
I owe it to my mother. I once saw a sign that said that God took me out of my biological mother's womb and placed me in the heart of my adoptive mother, so my first important goal was to buy my mother a house to take care of her and And that's what I did, I took care of her until she passed away at 88, but I will never forget meeting Mr. Washington. He was in a class waiting for another student and he came in and told me, young man, go to the blackboard and work on this. problem for us I said oh sir I can't do that he said why did I say I'm not one of your students he said look at me I said yes sir go to the board and solve the problem anyway I said sir I can't do what you're asking me to do, He said why, sir, because I am mentally teachable, sir, and when the students burst into laughter, he came out from behind his desk, looked at me and said, right?
Do you ever say that again, someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality and that was a turning point in my life. On the one hand I was humiliated but on the other hand I was liberated because he looked at me with beam eyes that said Look at a man as he is, he only gets worse, but look at him as what he could be and then he becomes what he should be. I have found that most people fail in life not because they aim too high and fail. most people fail in life because they aim too low and hit, and many don't aim at all, so raise the bar and don't ask how you're doing, how you're going to do it, I'll never forget when.
I decided I wanted to become a

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speaker. I saw the late Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and my heart said I could do it, but my mind asked me how and for over 14 years, for 14 years, I would go see Zig Ziglar and dr. norman vincent peale and jim rohn and different speakers and I was in the audience and my heart was jumping and I was like you can do that, you can do that less and then when I left I would go to the parking lot and my mind said how are you going to do it? and I spent many years trying to figure out how I wasted 14 years.
How many of you have ever procrastinated? The thing is to write this, commit, see once you commit, how it will come, the path will come, once you commit, you will figure it out and if you go in the wrong direction, all you have to do is turn around and go in the other direction you will find out you want to start challenging yourself you want to push yourself because you really don't know what you can't do once you think about the goals you want to achieve and I really want to challenge you to decide that you are going to do that happen for yourself and I hope it's some goal that really resonates with who you are when I was a little kid, my goal was just to buy food for our In my family, my mom worked in Miami Beach, she was a maid and my goal was being able to go to the supermarket and buy food ourselves.
The families knew that my mother had adopted seven children and said that maybe any food will do. What was left after eating, you can take it home with the children, they were very kind people, very, very considerate, the mother, my mother, when she worked in Miami Beach, the people were very kind, I appreciated their generosity, but when I was a child, I said. Mom, one day, when I'm a big boy, I'll be able to buy us food. My goal when I was little was to buy clothes for my brothers and sisters, we used mommy's used baby clothes. prepared for when she went to miami beach and if the clothes were too small she would let them out and if they were too big mom could sew them and pick them up and i will never forget um david sadirsky, his father was very rich mom worked for him, but david was my friend and that's why his father gave him two gifts for his birthday, he gave him a new boat but he also gave him some Earl Nightingale motivational tapes, I'll never forget it, so he said, David, let me tell you something when when I die you'll get everything, I want you to listen to these tapes and when his father left the room, David threw those tapes in the trash can.
I said, David, can I have those tapes? He said yes. I told him man, your father. He said if you listen to this, you can get more than do more than he's done. He said look, I'll get everything anyway, go ahead, take it, write this, it's not what you leave for your children, it's what you leave in them. them, what you have something special you have greatness within you and the only reason you are here you are my task you can feel me some of you feel me here in the bottom of your hearts and my goal is to move from your mind to your heart then you need to have the mindset that I can do this, you have to start believing and strengthen that belief and feed that belief by listening to tapes, going to seminars and workshops, challenging yourself, pushing yourself, it was Osborne who said that unless you try do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow and as you start to challenge yourself you will discover some things about yourself that you don't know right now, the other thing is that you start to look at yourself, look your dreams and start experiencing and moving towards your greatness.
One thing is very important, whatever goals and dreams you have, make your move before you are ready. Chris Pritchard, who is a great motivator and coach. he said make your move before you are ready in life we ​​are instructed to walk by faith, not saying look you really want to start pushing yourself, you want to become a risk taker, what you want most is to raise the bar for yourself. . people won't do that see most people engage in low living live with low risk live this god said if you're not willing to take risks you can't grow and if you can't grow you can't become the best you can be and if You can't become the best you can.
Don't be happy and if you can't be happy then what else is there? I like what Helen Keller said. Life is short and unpredictable. Eat dessert first. So you want to start taking some risks. You want to start challenging yourself. Make it okay to feel and learn from your failures. Don't let the fear of failure and the lure of playing it safe in life draw you in. You can't get out of life alive. You have to die. get out of here another thing is to look at yourself look at your dreams detoxify your life write it down look I think most people never achieve their true goals in life because they are surrounded by too much toxic negative energy that drains the people you have Look at the people in your life and ask yourself, What is this relationship doing to me?
How is it impacting my life? Am I a better person? Sidney Porter wrote a book called The Measure of a Man, he said: "When you go for a walk" with someone something happens unconsciously you don't talk either you adapt to their rhythm or they adjust to your rhythm whose rhythm you have adjusted to see you want to surround yourself my my daughter owner

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who is a speaker and coach she says call your team but make sure these are people you can learn from. You may be able to live your dream. You need to have the mindset that I'm going to do this, but you need to take responsibility.
You have to decide. Hey. I'm going to do this, you're going to, you have to take responsibility for your life. George Bernard Shaw said that people who succeed in this life look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, believe them you have to decide I'm the one you have to say and say this with conviction I hope to win I think it's important that we say that you know if You ask most people if you want to be successful they will say yes, I took my oldest son out for a walk, for the love of my name, you know, we always expect our children to do a lot more than we do.
Calvin said, he wants his own identity. This is Leslie Calvin Brown Jr. I stopped him, looked him in the eyes and said: I wantbe successful son said yes sir dad very good let's walk son walk more stop them again I said calvin look me in the eyes son yes sir daddo you expect to be successful son? And he sat there and looked at me, his eyes glazed over, he said let's walk and the reason he said let's walk is because my son is very bright of all my children, he may be the smartest, but now Calvin. over 30 years old calvin is now a single father of two daughters good father calvin now this stage of his life he is behind in his dreams very talented many skills very conservative one of those people great mind but he just hasn't developed that oh you know things we want him our children have and what I wanted calvin calvin you have to improve a little son you never thought you would be 30 years old you have to improve a level you have to increase your energy to live your dreams you cannot be casual about your dreams bill bailey said yes you are casual about your dream you will end up being a victim shake hands with someone to your right and left and say kick some more yes you have to do it go up a level what you bring and whatever you bring you have to raise it a level, what is your signature when you look at where you want to go and what do you want to do while you look at your product or your services repeat after me please provide more service and you will get paid for yes, see that becomes your firm when you look at your goals and you look at where you want to go in your products in your services in your industry that you want to set high standards for yourself I like what Henry David Thoreau said don't follow the path you can lead but go where there is no path and leave a trail how is your industry going to be done differently five years from now 10 years from now what is your reputation in your industry when you walk into a room and leave what is the buzz about you that you make people say hey, that's a go-to person, that's a person, if you ask them to do that job, you're talking about the job that's being done, they will do it extremely well.
Are you known for that person who excels at what you do, that stands out for your quality of service, with your standards, always looking for ways to improve the best you can, are you one of those people who believe well if so? It's not broken, don't fix it, Japanese, think it's not perfect, keep working on it. Are you willing to continue working? You are willing? Are you willing to realize that you haven't done your best yet? That you can improve as best you can. We have to take responsibility for that and now let's move to the next level.
Not only is it possible for you to live your dream, you need to rally your team and surround yourself with people you can learn and grow from. You must work on yourself, monitor and train yourself, you must begin to take full responsibility for the results you want to produce in your life, but let's say together with power and conviction that it is difficult, ladies and gentlemen, to live a dream that changes. your life is hard it's hard when you lose all your money when you've given it the best you have when you have a major setback it's hard when a doctor looked at me and told me three horrible words that no one wants to hear you have cancer it was hard to mobilize my mind in spirit to listen to tapes and music and read scriptures and be around other people and seek out other prostate cancer overcomers to believe that I could do this it was hard to never forget that my son said daddy you are You're going to die, why are you asking me what won't you go out much?
You don't have the happy personality that I know you are. You don't talk much. You spend a lot of time alone in the room, Dad. Are you going to give up? Will you give up? Are you going to let the doctor's opinion become your reality? Will my dad see me graduate? Yes, son, yes, I'm going to fight, no, no, I don't think it's my time yet. see you graduate but more than that I have other things that I'm going to do with my life and I thank you for asking me that um but I have to tell you that I'm scared I'm scared and I've never been in this situation before, it's been easy for me to talk to people and encourage her when they have had challenges in their lives, but it's me and I don't feel less than a man in literature and I admit this, yes.
I am scared and I need help, repeat after me, please ask for help, not because you are weak, but because you want to stay strong and ask for help and don't stop until you get it. Yes, look, life is difficult and there are some moments. In life, when you're going to need help, you're going to need someone to talk to you, you're going to need someone to tell you something. I have a friend of mine, Willie Jolly, who is a motivational speaker, he said a setback. It's a preparation for a comeback, I had to listen to Willie's tapes, I have another friend, Kevin Braces, who is a speaker, he said, come on, man, you can do this, you can make this happen, you can hit a home run, that's it. made. less

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that cancer has to leave your body I said talk to me Kevin talk to me that's what I need to hear I needed to hear those words I don't care who you are many people want to allow themselves to ask for help because of pride pride comes before the fall because of ego ego it means surpassing God don't ask for help not because you are weak but because you want to stay strong and ask for help and not stop until you get it I am here because many people help me I am here because many people believed in me at a time when I was struggling to believe in For me the other thing is let's say together it's worth it you see I think and write this I have to find five reasons that will make it worth it for you.
Five reasons that will make it worth it for you. Mine was, I want to take care of my mother. Mine was, I want to do something with my life. Why will it be worth it? you mine is that I want to leave a legacy my is that I refuse to die and stop living life what will make it worth it for you repeat after me please you have to be hungry no one could have convinced me that I would be doing what I am What I'm doing right now, you know, the easiest thing I do every year is go into a sales organization and dramatically increase their sales or go into a prison and allow prisoners to see themselves differently and teach them the methods and techniques to plug into the system o Motivate young people to start seeing how they can envision themselves in the future and fit in, that's the easiest thing I do o Train a speaker to help them leverage their experience as a speaker and say look talking about the projection of who you are.
You are not who you think you should be and you come with power from a platform that is the easiest thing I have ever done in my life let me share with you the hardest thing I have ever done the hardest thing I have ever done was I think I can do what I am doing now , no one could have convinced me, given my circumstances, I made millions of dollars every year, no one could have convinced me if both of my parents came here right now, I wouldn't know either of them. one could have convinced me to be labeled educable, mentally born in an abandoned building or apartment in the poor Liberty City section of Miami, Florida, failing school twice with no college training, never worked for a large corporation, didn't know that I can do what I'm doing now, never forget Mike Williams, my mentor.
I think a lot of people fail in life because of the fact that they need some mentoring, they need some coaching when you start to understand and recognize your fear and you move forward anyway, you move forward with a spirit and a knowing that there is a way start to handle this there is a way out here somewhere there is a solution what are you looking for that you have the ability to face whatever comes up to face it and instead of feeling helpless I start to feel powerful, I see when all the big downsizing that are taking place in this country, there are many people who bite their fingers for fear of losing their jobs, but there are few people who have decided within themselves that they are going to make it, some people are not waiting to be cut off some people are moving on their own because they feel within themselves that I have what it takes to achieve it they are not afraid of tomorrow because of how they see themselves because of what they feel they deserve because of what they feel they can create for themselves because these people have decided as they look to the future they look at themselves there is a path where there is a will there is a path for me to begin to create a path there is no way and when you have that kind of consciousness when you have that kind of spirit nothing can stop at all what would your life be like when looking towards the future if you decided that I was not going to allow my fears to stop me, what would your life be like?
What would your future be like if you decided to want what you want so strongly that it prepares you for overcome your fears? May you experience the fear like the book says, feel the fear and do it anyway. Would it be your life? And I tell you that all of us who have been buried by fear have the ability to resurrect ourselves. It is easy? No, it's not easy. I can do it? Yeah, what's one way to get started? We need someone to hold our hand sometimes we need someone to help us be willing to say I don't know be willing to reach out be willing to receive help to take you to the next level of what great athlete you never expect boxes to make profound statements I think it was joe frazier said this he says we are all like the blind man at some point in our lives standing on the corner waiting for someone to guide us to the other side see us all at some point in our lives need help need someone to come to us to throw out the life preserver and help us cross treacherous waters that we couldn't navigate on our own none of us does it alone we all at some point in our lives need that kind of help we need that kind of help because we grow from the people we have in our lives who can enrich our lives personally, professionally, spiritually and in all dimensions of our lives we do not grow in a vacuum so when you look at yourself, whatever fears you have that maybe you need some help and get stronger in that area as you evaluate your strengths and weaknesses as you begin to test yourself and your passions and your dreams and your goals and the things you desire if you decide to experience all of your true potential when you decide to manifest your full greatness when you decide wait a minute what else is available to me here if I decided to experience the fear of rejection the fear of no the fear of failure the fear of remaining on the sidelines myself what else is available to risk for fear of losing everything what else is available to me that will bring some meaning and extra value the fear that people won't like me you know how many people do things they don't want to do because they want everyone to like you, not everyone will like you, excuse me, special announcement, not everyone will like you the world, no, that's not that kind of world, but you know a lot of people who won't take positions on the issues they won.
They don't stand up for things they believe in and they don't speak up for themselves because they don't want to upset anyone. Oh, it was Bill Cosby. He said I don't know what the secret of success is. He said, but here it is. What I know is the secret of failures, he said, trying to please everyone, I guarantee that as you begin to give more of yourself in your work, give more of yourself in your marriage, give more of yourself in your relationships with your family and friends. give more of yourself to your talent to your calling to your job or your business as you begin to set high standards for giving what you have been given to share in the universe I guarantee that life takes on a whole new dimension you will be more happy you have a greater sense of happiness and satisfaction in life now, that doesn't mean you're not going to have some challenges, that doesn't mean you're not going to have some problems that you're going to have to deal with in the future.
On a day-to-day basis, no, that doesn't mean anything like that, no, that won't exempt you from that, but what it does mean is that now you will begin to take new paths towards new horizons that you will begin. see life totally different than most people, i think that's what henry david thoreau meant when he said that most men live in quiet desperation, that most of us get through life because we don't use what that they have given us, that we are punished for that. We are going through life getting up in the morning with no reason to get up.
Look, once you discover your purpose in life and once you decide that you are going to live a life of sharing, giving and contributing to life, you don't need an alarm clock to wake up. You move differently. You have more life in you. But most people walk dead. Most people seem lifeless. Most people find it difficult to smile. Most people abuse alcohol and drugs and avoid their own greatness and repress themselves for years. I was fooling myself for years. I could have been doing exactly what I'm doing now, but I was afraid of not feeling worthy and didn't want to admit it. that they had given me had a limited view of myself and I was literally running away from myself, I mean, life sometimes chases me and I was like, no, no, no, we want you to do something great, no, yo, go find someone. more, no, you won't. talking about me no, no, you don't know what I've been doing, no, no, no, we love you, we can prepare you, train you andprepare yourself, I mean, yes, are you sure about me?, yes, no, no, about me, no.
I just don't know, I won't do that, ladies and gentlemen, one of the reasons we should start giving more is because we owe a debt to read a John Powell book. who I'm afraid to tell you who I am because it might don't like it and that's all I have there I love to quote we are made by those who love us and by those who refuse to love us as I speak For you right now, you are seeing a lot of people here, ladies and gentlemen, no It's just Les Brown that's here, so many people have contributed to making me who I am today, none of us are here because we've done it all.
Of us have had life to contribute to us many times complete strangers, so we all have cookie people in our lives, what do you mean cookie people, cooking people and chicken soup people, as I call them when I make my workshops? Cookie people are people like the lady. legging when my mom used to spank me when i was a kid and i was a bad twin i always got in trouble miss lee would hear me scream and after mom was done miss lee would come over to the house and give me some cookies and milk and my you know, and my mom said what do you do about it, you know, I'm just giving him some cookies, maybe and she said here, you're Leslie, even though you're a bad boy, I bought you some cookies, so the cookie people are people who even when you are bad even when you are not who you really are they look beyond your thoughts and see your needs even if you are a moody person and they curse them and chase them sometimes these cookie people love you unconditionally how many of you Have they ever done it?
You had cookie people in your life, so we've all had cookie people that the universe has put in our lives to contribute to us. The other people are the chicken soup people. Chicken soup people are people you can call at two o'clock. morning and say I have a flat tire, would you come help me or is my battery not working? in your life you better be sober, but these are people you can always turn to for help, so I encourage you to give a thank you letter to some of the cookie makers in your life, some of them Maybe they've already transitioned write some letters to some people who were an asset to you, some people who helped make you who you are and just say I was thinking over the years, I know you know I love you and I appreciate everything you've done. been for me. but I just wanted to leave you this letter, how do you think they will feel if they receive that out of the blue?
I just want to thank you for how you have enriched my life. You may not have thought much about it, but for the help and assistance. you gave me on that particular day which was a turning point in my life why should we give well? Giving creates a vacuum and as we know nature hates a vacuum look when you give you create a vacuum now you are in a position to receive look yes I have my arms closed holding on to everything I have, there is nothing available to enter, but if I am open, yes I created a void there by giving and keeping the flow, the things in the universe will come back to me.
Ladies and gentlemen, everything you give will come back to me every time I walk into a room and give a speech to inspire people to help them develop their greatness if they get 10 of what I get because, like the box says, we teach what we need more. I don't wear any crown I need it as much as I'm sharing it I'm still growing I'm still developing I'm still seeking to discover my greatness and if you get ten percent of what I get when I walk Out of here, you see, there will be a different man walking out of here from the who came in here and the more I give, the more I give to you, the more I get.
Most people don't understand that this is the law of life. You know what we? we could literally eliminate poverty overnight we could eliminate hunger and homelessness overnight if people understood the concept of what it means to give and the power it has over the difference it can make in our lives. lives again if you go to any run-down neighborhood and interview the people there to evaluate their lifestyles and what they are doing and what they are contributing to life and then go to a wealthy neighborhood and talk to those people and evaluate them and see what what they are doing with their energy and their time and what they are doing. contributing to life this is what you are going to discover what Earl Nightingale said he said our success in life is directly related to the quantity and quality of service we provide I guarantee you will find people who have more people who are living a life abundant are the contributors to life, ladies and gentlemen, these are the people who give the most and the people who operate out of scarcity and poverty consciousness these are the people who are depressed these are the people who complain about These are people who are blaming the world and everyone for where they are, but if they would take that same energy and start investing and putting something back into life, I was in New Jersey and I had to give a political presentation to a group there that We are trying to organize a community to start revitalizing that particular community and the guy was telling me with great pride as we were walking through a housing project, he said the city is about to donate 55 million dollars to renovate these housing projects.
I told him, how wonderful! waste said why would you say that I said let me ask you something and the person standing next to him said do you live in this building? He said yes I said how many families live here he said six families I said we walk in the door and we can smell the stench of urine. Does it take a genius to go down to the store and maybe sacrifice buying three packs of cigarettes and buy some tired soap and water and come back here and wash this stench out of here? It takes a genius to get a can of paint and paint over the graffiti and repair the mailbox.
Does it take a genius for that? I tell them to invest the money in these housing projects and not change the people who live in them. The projects before you complete them will go back to where they were before if they are maintained and I am not saying that there are situations where people need help and assistance, but they should be allowed to contribute. Here's something else. We are going to discover in giving something that is very important give thanks give thanks create being able to give thanks for your house give thanks for your apartment for your car for your family for your health for your relationships for what you have when we focus on something it expands when you are giving thanks when you are showing a spirit of gratitude for what I have now that you are satisfied with it but you are grateful for what you have whatever you focus on that is what you are going to continue to multiply and expand in your life, but If you focus on what you don't have, if all you can do is point out the negative things in your life, whatever you focus on, you're going to expand that some people can only complain, that's all.
What can they do? They can't find anything good to say about life and about others every time they open their mouths, that's what consumes their minds and that's all they're producing in their lives and these are people I don't want. be close Develop a spirit of gratitude I am grateful for life I am grateful to be an American I am grateful to be in this part of the planet I am grateful to see another day No, things are not what I want them to be no, I do not have all the things that I want to have but I'm grateful that I'm still here I have another chance another day to live another chance to contribute another chance to make a difference in life so start giving thanks for what you have in whatever you focus on remember now you want to align yourself with the universe if you have scarcity in your life it is because you have awareness of scarcity as you begin to be grateful for what you have but for the abundance that you now know is coming to you and that you are attracting to you through good relationship What is coming up right now will begin to create incredible opportunities for you to begin to improve your life and the quality of life of the people around you. giving is also ladies and gentlemen forgiving giving forgiveness many of us do not realize that we cannot grow that we are blocking ourselves we are blocking our good in the universe we are literally getting in the way of the flow of what life has to offer because we have not learned to forgive we have not learned to let things go so we can move on with our lives when we forgive ladies and gentlemen it is not because of the other person oh it is not because of you it is not because of them not because they deserved it or they earned it you are forgiving other people first of all you have to forgive yourself but when you forgive other people it is mentally and spiritually healthy to forgive letting go of that baggage like paul said forgetting those things that are left behind reaching for those things that are before oh we hear it but it is difficult to do is difficult what you have is enough whatever you have to give and the more you give, the more you realize that you have to give and we all have to do it. people who made the ultimate sacrifice for us to enjoy the freedoms we take for granted oh none of us none of us can feel like we have nothing to give back if you do what is easy your life will be difficult but if you do what is difficult your life it will be easy if you do what is easy complain about your situation your circumstances if you do what is easy stay still and be a willing victim like everyone else if you do what is easy give up and abandon your dreams depressed and bitter and angry, anyone can do that, if you do what is easy, your life will be difficult, but if you do what is difficult, keep coming back again and again, if you do what is difficult, approaching strangers, talking to people in shopping malls, getting dressed every time. day going out exploring knowing somehow somehow in a spirit of expectation someone is here looking for an opportunity you can go out right now and see some doves but you are hunting eagles and they are not common and if you do that again and again and again someone Someone is going to appear and say I'm the one who remembers what Dr. said. robert anthony on results when you follow through on your commitments you are able to produce different types of results in your life so how can we? we keep our commitments and we keep all commitments no, we don't, you're not going to be at 100, however, you're going to have a higher percentage rate of keeping your commitments to yourself, whatever those things are, if you're going to go into business, if it's if it's 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 everyone We have a chance by focusing and really harnessing our attention and focusing on We really have the power at our disposal to honor our commitments in those particular areas, so number one, make it a priority.
Look, you just make things happen. Your life only counts. You only make a difference when you are committed. When you make a commitment to your life. those are the people who are committed to their lives the people who are committed to their clients the people who are committed to their families and their relationships are the people who make the

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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 door-to-door salesman 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 was sick at the time and who had lost her job at the coffee shop mm due to arthritis and I said I'm going to go door to door and sometimes I don't I didn't get home until one at night knocking on the door people closing what do you want would you like to buy a nice television for a month 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, very kindly call another Hello, would you like to buy a TV that works well, no down payment, don't walk away from my door. Thank you very much, kindly, do you know anyone else would be? Yes, my cousin, he lives two doors down. Thank you very much, kindly tell them that you sent me when I heard that your cousin told me that you wanted to buy television. He said he told me to come here and talk. 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 do, it puts you in another zone where the universe responds to you when you have that type of consciousness.
See, the universe responds to the man or woman who refuses to be denied because that is your commitment, that business that you want that book. you want to write that dream that you have to control your destiny, that it is yours, that power to create that and manifest that that is yours, that it isavailable to you, but you must be willing to stay there and face disappointment, not feel supported. lonely 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 that have made a difference on the planet when john f kennedy said we would go to the moon and in the next decade he said it, that was a commitment and people shared that vision, people accepted that we have had all kinds of examples in history where people have made statements that they have committed. their lives to make a differenceyour people are taking a stand today against hunger I guarantee it will be part of our past at some point someone took a stand against polio it no longer affects us like it used to because someone said it is my commitment to eradicate it from the face of the earth someone made the commitment the reason we are here and enjoy the democracy we have someone made the commitment that whatever is necessary if it means I die I remember Paul Robertson here I defend him I can't do anything others and this is how you should be commitment means standing up for your life means honoring yourself means beginning to speak and see and recognize your alignment and oneness with the universe and that you are a channel for life to express itself and we short circuit with anger, short circuit with fear , short circuited with envy, short circuited by being lazy or apathetic or giving up easily, why, why, why do we say, oh, it's too hard, it's too hard, we don't challenge our spirit ladies and gentlemen there is nothing as powerful as the spirit human cannot be destroyed it can be perverted but it cannot be destroyed I was reading The Search for the Meaning of Man by Viktor Frankl what a powerful book I am reading it now for the seventh time and he gives so many graphic examples of the power of the human spirit and what 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 by manifesting our commitments commitment number one means in some cases going back to school getting some training settling into classes with people younger than you getting into a position where you don't know it and that's uncomfortable and uncomfortable, but because of your commitment to developing yourself or going back to school to get a high school diploma to get a college degree that it doesn't matter to feel stupid and say what am I doing here setting up a boring class commitment can mean a lot of things, it could mean that you start backing up you have to go back sometimes it means going back and not giving up regroup back down and regroup and come back again because life hit you because you got knocked down I know when when I was working on my dream there were times I lost my house at one point I lost my car I was bankrupt my credit was bad I slept at different friends houses on their couch or on the floor there were times for months when I slept on the floor of my office and got up early and I 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 the boss stayed in the office so we never talked about it but I refuse, I refuse a Give up 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. I wouldn't trade it for anything the disappointment the pain I've gone through to keep the commitment keeping the commitments you have could mean taking a position that is unpopular something was once said when you take a position it says the coward has asked the question is politics safe asks the question: is it popular? but conscience or commitment asks the question: is it right? and I see that most people prefer to operate 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 wouldn't accept that, they backed out and felt bad about it, they didn't take the job because they didn't want the president of the house Get mad at them, they wanted to be right 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 know, Henry David Thoreau says that man does not deliver. he walks with his companions maybe he is listening to the rhythm of a different drama let him dance to the music he hears, no matter how measured or distant he is when you are engaged you are dancing to the rhythm of a different drama don't expect people to understand you don't expect them 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 I'm going to pay you well I'm going to leave you alone for a few years from retirement I'm leaving why I don't understand you don't have to I'm going to do it because I've made a different commitment to my life, this is something I have to do.

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