Les Brown's Speech Will Change The Way You Think | Motivational Speech | Les Brown

When you are working on a dream, at some point a transition occurs and the transition is what you are becoming in the pursuit of the dream because even if you don't achieve the dream, you become a very strong and powerful person. It

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your life so much that you can look at something else and say well, I guess I'll do this then because now you've developed so much confidence and so much competence and how to cope in the realm of life that you can move on. to another area and not miss a b. Once you begin to discover who you are, then you truly realize how you have been given authority and dominion over everything on the face of the earth, including all dimensions of your life, but you can only do so through the struggle of life and most people avoid struggle.

Most people go through life avoiding pain and when you go through life like that, something in you dies, something in you that you never activate lies dormant there and you never get the chance to call it out because you haven't challenged yourself. Someone said that land of familiarity belongs to the dead that most people like to feel like kings in the area of ​​their comfort zone they only want to do those things that they know how to do well osborne said unless you try to do something beyond what you already If you dominate, you

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never grow, so if you want to start growing, you have to put something here that you can't easily reach and that will make you stretch. making you jump has to make you back up a little bit and dig in so you can make a jump and maybe you jump there and you miss and you skin your knees and you come back again and you break the next time, but you keep going and through that process you learn how jump higher, you start to challenge yourself to go deeper and then you discover some things about yourself that you don't know right now, some talents that you have in you that you didn't know about.

I don't know what you can do. I started speaking with children and now I speak in corporations. Now I'm traveling. I didn't know I could do this, but if you hadn't given me the chance, I'm saying. give yourself a chance here's something else if you want to start making things happen for you i

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it's very important that you start trusting yourself listen to yourself listen to that still small voice inside you don't try to make everything logical There are some things in life that defy logic and you just can't explain what the outcome will be.

Once you start trusting yourself, your ideas, and your instincts, life takes on a whole new meaning because now I want you to. that feeling that you are led I just feel like I am led I remember the worst

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I have ever given in my life I let someone exploit a fear I had for years I had a tremendous inferiority complex because I don't have a college education and this person I knew this and she said : let me write this

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for you. You're going to speak at Ohio State University. Those people there are very educated and they will know when you make grammatical areas and they will know it because of the substance of your speech that you do not know how to read and write I care about you I want you to be ashamed so this person proceeded to write a speech for me he had a speech in my mind but this person was stronger than me in negative terms than I was positive my own thoughts and I gave up my power with my permission I allowed this person to guide me to do something I really didn't want to do but I didn't feel enough inner strength and conviction about my skills as a speaker and the message that I had to hold firm and I went up to the Ohio union and I read this direct speech and I didn't move and I didn't take my eyes off the page because I'm not used to reading and then people finish them He gave me a standing ovation because I read it very well and I was very tense and very nervous, ladies and gentlemen, do not give up your power.

You do not need anyone to approve your dream. It was given to you. If you cannot see it, it is because it was not given to you. It was given to you. you hold it nurture it cultivate it work on it it's yours it's your baby work corner until it comes true I gave up my power and said I'm not going to do that anymore, here's something else for those who make it today, do what you know it is right, treat people how you want to be treated, don't try to take shortcuts, don't try to cheat, pay your debts.

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, ladies and gentlemen, what happens, what happens, you can pay now or you'll pay double later, so do the right thing. Sometimes, due to the negative part of our consciousness and our own programming, there can be a tendency to want to say. Well I'm just doing it this once, it won't matter, no one will know, ladies and gentlemen, everything matters and you know you're someone who knows, I'd rather lose my dream doing the right thing than the cheater trying to take a shortcut. To reach my goal I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and that is what you want to do.

It is not said to judge a man not by what he does but by what he does not have to do and judge what is true. The quality of a man is what What you do when no one is looking at you, you see that there is something good for you in the universe that has your name and no one can get your good, it has your name, they can't take your things, they are yours. things so when you know that, when you know that whatever you are looking for is also looking for you, don't worry, don't run scared, don't think that someone is going to take it away from you, you listen to your inner voice and always take the path high there will be a tendency the natural inclination to take the low road you must resist that here is something else that I encourage you to do if you want to achieve it today keep your agreements keep the agreements that you make and establish a network of people who will also do that, establish a network of people in your life that you can count on, who will be there for you when you need them and you will be there for them.

The other thing is to work hard on your dream. People have been calling me saying: Hey man, I read about you on Ebony Boy, you're lucky ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something. Here's something else, the three P's that you should have in your life and work on your dream and do your life's work. You must be patient persistent and positive no matter what I called john h johnson for two and a half years to appear in that magazine the first time I called him he wouldn't talk to me so I was persistent trying to find out who knew him and could I invite him there to to meet him or the opportunity to speak so he could hear me and I met a guy who worked for him and I said, hey, I like to speak for you guys for free, I just want to know if he's going to be in the audience, they said.

Yeah, well, I talked and tried to break the microphone and he said after I finished. Hey, young man, you're pretty awesome. I'm going to ask my staff to do an article on you. I said thank you, Mr. Johnson, and sent you information about. I federal express and it didn't happen I waited a month and it didn't happen I waited two months it didn't happen I start calling every month Hello, how are you? talk to mr johnson sorry he's not available tell him les

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calling i just want to say thank you very much for the article when he posted it i kept doing it kept calling kept calling sending new articles sending new information about me kept updating the information about me sending him thank you for your letters, thank you mr johnson, I was always positive, I could have gone negative saying where you lied to me, well don't tell me you're going to put me in the magazine and you didn't, I could have gotten a positive attitude no matter what, because when you are negative ladies and gentlemen you are sending out negative energy and you are blocking your good so don't send out any negative energy don't take it personally I didn't care what he did.

The entire staff thought of me as a nuisance to them. They get paid to deal with people like me. I see many people have an idea or a dream and give up. No, no, don't do that. Make your dream come true until it does. get tough look most things don't happen as soon as we think they should happen the messenger of misery could come up to you and say hello murphy's law could come and hit you on the head a lot of things can happen to interrupt your flow it's well don't take it personally just recognize what's happening, it's called life and keep working on your dream keep calling keep calling because this is your life this is what you love this is your passion take a step back don't do it judge it if you judge it don't judge yet unless they judge you why because when you judge it you invest emotion in it and that emotion could be anger and guess what it is that hurts you that doesn't hurt anyone else, said a doctor, the man who makes you angry it kills me and then he allowed someone to goad him into an argument on the floor of the national medical convention and he had a massive heart attack when you're in a rage you have so much acid in your blood if they take even a little bit of your blood. from you and inserted into a pig it would die from the acid, so why do you want to get yourself out early by internalizing things?

Shakespeare said that nothing is either good or bad, but thought makes it so, so do not judge according to your appearances, but write down your judgment. and feel that everything is going to turn out well for you because you are patient, you are persistent and you are going to be positive no matter what happens, do not allow other things, people or circumstances to determine what your reaction will be. I went out to dinner with some people and we had a waitress who was quite rude and rude and the people around me took an attitude about it.

I learned to observe life. I believe that to overcome life you have to learn. how to observe it just stand back and observe what is happening and choose not to accept it I said excuse me ma'am I said do you know what tip means? She said no, I said tipping means guaranteeing promptness we have been Sitting here for a long time, I want to give you five dollars in advance to guarantee a quick meal. Could you help me? She gave me the biggest smile and said, of course I will and I said, by the way, I'm not with these people.

I'll be sitting at another table, please put my food there, serve them alone. Look, I don't want to upset anyone who goes behind closed doors to prepare my food. Oh no, so don't let people determine how you go. to respond to them or to circumstances, learn to look at it a friend of mine, tom perkins, a handsome and articulate man in his 50s, had a tremendous business and at the height of his success, someone died in his business, he was sued and He lost 750,000. He lost his business He lost his family He lost his house Everything was devastated Ladies and gentlemen He started living in his car He was washing at a McDonald's across from Howard University on Georgia Avenue in Washington DC He said he was so depressed He said he I had everything and then one day I lost everything.

He said he didn't want to live anymore. He took some sleeping pills and took more than 35 sleeping pills and went to bed with his hands crossed over his chest and said he went to sleep and died two days later. , to his amazement he woke up, he couldn't even understand that, I said what happened, then tom said something incredible happened, he said he was lying there for a moment, he said with a voice, he told him inside his mind that It was not your life that you should take, that was something he said from that day, when I have some important challenge, I do not take it personally, I feel like I have someone with me, he said, I will never leave.

I won't even abandon you he said hey I said god you have to handle this for me this is too much for me he said I don't worry about life's challenges tell me again please don't worry about the small things because everything is small things, see whatever it is that bothers you. worry, if someone calls you, they will call you right now and say, listen, you have two days to live. I tell you, you won't worry about your bills, ladies and gentlemen, you won't worry about whether someone or not. loves you or is he cheating on you because you're about to leave okay so put things in perspective here's something else that Tommy said that I think is important he said the voice also told him that if you

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your ways it will I will give away more than you've lost look at your life right now if you want to keep getting what you're getting keep doing what you're doing you have to be willing to change the way your life works if not you don't like what you've produced you're a director you're the star you wrote this script produce this whatever it is if it's a hit you produced it if it's a flop you produced it take ownership of it and decide to go back to the drawing board and rewrite the script you are the star you have the power to make that on this day you can declare that I am going to change as you look back on your life you can decide that I don't like what I do produced here and I want higher ground I want to start experiencing more love I want to have more adventures in my life I want something that give my life a sense of meaning ladies and gentlemen I have been selected to head a program called project Life in Chicago trained thousands of children and I had the experience that we had our second session last Monday and seeing these young people when they came in and seeing the youth, parents, and community volunteers as they came out. a man from the Cabrini green housing projects who didn't want to be there, who came up and said I want you to know I'm very happy to be here and said I'll never be the same again and said thank you Mr Brown.

He said I have to go now but thank you sir I will never be the same again to see a letter I received from a young man who was in the Cook County Jail where I work on Monday morning and this young man will not get out ofjail for at least 50 years at least 50 years they gave him a hundred years this A guy has shot at least 60 people we know and killed at least 10 and in this letter he wrote he said that since he heard their tapes he said no I have changed but I feel like a different person in me.

More than 70 percent of these young people are there for murder, we wanted to have a double attack where we would train the people on the outside and those who are in prisons because I think that if you cage them like animals and treat them like animals and they are out on the streets every 22 months are going to come out and act like animals and come back in like animals, so we said, let's take an approach, this gives me life, this now might be crazy, but it felt so good, I think, ladies and gentlemen, yeah can we accept the possibility that this is the decade of awareness, that's what I think this is the decade of awareness, please, a time when we can start to create in people's minds the idea that we can create a more humane society. the possibility that we can create more love, communication and understanding in relationships the possibility that we can create the kind of respect for diversity and difference in our multicultural society the possibility that we can begin to develop the mindset to bring out the best in people to encourage them to achieve their greatness and support them in their dreams that if we can in this decade of consciousness begin to see and imagine that it will happen and that we can all play a role that we were born for a moment like this in which we appeared For this We survive one in nine million sperm and we have been chosen for this great job.

There is something else here to recognize anywhere on the ladder of life and I was reading it in Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's latest book called The Power of a Positive Life. which I think is their best work and it has something in there, a section called power back, wherever you are in life, ladies and gentlemen, you have power back, I don't care how low you are, I don't care what you've done . I don't care what you've experienced, I don't care how devastated your life may seem, what chaos it may be in, there is a power in you that can allow you to be stronger and better than anything that is out here, a man who came to training he wasn't a kid and I knew he had a drinking problem and he was looking at me and I can smell the alcohol on him I said, excuse me, come here, come here, come here, he said what is it, I said, let me tell you.

You are something I want you to know that you have something in you that is stronger than that poison that you are putting in your body. You understand me? And he was looking, he was backing away, he said, he said, no, I don't know, he said. I don't know man, I said it's, I said that's why you're here, something drew you here and that made you come, you said you wanted help and you needed to be around some people who can help you get in touch. with your power because you know that your life deserves this.

Look, I think the reason we abuse ourselves with drugs and alcohol is that we're trying to numb something in us that hurts us, that urges us to do something. It can't be bigger and better because it knows so well that when we deceive ourselves or contaminate our minds it numbs us and we don't have to face reality because we don't know what we have going for us. Once you discover who you are, the truth of knowing who you are will free you from craving alcohol, from wanting any kind of drug that destroys who you are, once you begin to know who you are, it will free you from believing.

I can't see myself doing any better once you discover this power, this perfect essence of who you are, that is in all of us, that permeates our being and that allows us to be the directors of our lives.