LES BROWN VIDEO - EPIC MOTIVATION 2022

they can't stand the movements you may be sitting down thank you very much it's a pleasure to be here with you to share a few moments with you and let's give a round of applause to a man who has been empowering people to help them live their dream of moving to the next level eight, great pause now hello, everyone should always have a battery ready, you know, okay, let's try this again, thank you very much, this is an even better microphone, anyway, as I was saying, Eric has been helping. Let people live their dreams for a long time, that has been his passion, that is what he is giving people the tools, the mindset, the attitude of what it takes to really control their future, let's give him a tremendous round of applause.

Please, yes, yes, yes. this is who he is yes that is my brother from another mother how many of you have important goals that you would like to achieve raise your hand please very good I like to see that I always like to ask that question how many of you have important goals that you would like to achieve, I continue with another question because this is a crucial place in my life. I just attended Zig Ziglar's memorial services in Plano Texas yesterday. I remember the first time I saw him speak. I knew I was watching my destiny.

I love helping people and and my goal was to be on stage with zig and dr. norman vincent peel and jim rohan. These guys have gone to the next level, but that was my goal and dream and I was very fortunate to achieve it at a crucial time in my life. This industry has really given me a lot. I go back to multi-level marketing from the days of a company called Best Line Products. A guy named Bill Bailey. He was one of Jim Rohn's mentors. One of the best speakers in the world. The magic of the planet and vacations at this stage of my life and I think about all the things I have done.

I can say unequivocally to the dreamers. There is no business that contributes more to its growth and development than this industry. There are several power strategies. I would like to share with you, but with the limited time I have, I want to delve into three of what you will have as a result of being a part of this industry because what this industry allows you to do and I want it. writing this number one secure your future secure your future number two it will stretch you develop new skills interpersonal skills you are a dreamer you cannot make your dream come true without building people while I reflect on my life you I know that 15 years ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer and given a two to three year forecast and the skill set I developed and multi-level marketing allowed me to generate enough income to be able to focus on my health, taking care of my mother.

Adopted, I was born in a poor area of ​​Miami, Florida, called Liberty City. The other thing it did was broaden my view of myself. Right now, when you look at yourself, there is no such thing as job security. How many of you know raise your hands? please and instilled in me a sense of confidence a strong sense of self you have a strong sense of self that gives your life a sense of purpose your life has a sense of purpose it gives your life a sense of direction and the economy has changed we I have changed, I remember reading a book by Alvin Toffler called Future Shock and the things he talked about about what he predicted that we are living and that right now there is the 40 40 plan where you can go to college and graduate and get a job and work. 40 hours a week doing the same thing for 40 years gone 73 of college graduates when they graduate can't find a job they move home with their parents what does multilevel marketing do empower you and give you the ability to create your own work gives you the ability to create your own destiny i remember seeing zig on stage if you give enough people what they want they will give you what you want i remember dr.

Norman Vincent Peale Change your way of thinking and you will change your life I remember Jim Rohn, when the end comes for you, let it find you conquering a new mountain, not sliding down an old one. I remember Earl Nightingale. We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it. I remember listening to those recordings over and over again. and again to change my mental plan I was born in a poor area of ​​Miami Florida called Liberty City with a twin brother and in an abandoned building in a flat and when we were six weeks old we were adopted by Mrs.

Mamie Brown every time I speak I always say everything that I am and everything that I ever hoped to be I owe to my mother so I signed once I said that God took me out of my biological mother's womb and placed me in the heart of my adoptive mother mom was a domestic worker she worked in miami beach she made beds and cleaned houses she cooked for families she waited for leftover food from families she cooked for my mother she also knew how to bake mom she could bake a sweet potato pie so good you couldn't eat it with your shoes on you can't take off your shoes so you can wiggle your toes we used the hand-me-down clothes of the kids mom had these families are kind and generous they said maybe any leftover food you can pack up and take home with those kids you adopted when I asked you how many have big goals and dreams.

I want to ask you to think about your goals and dreams in three areas, number one, what is some personal goal that you have for someone that I love, my first big goal was to buy my mother a house, that's what I wanted to do. I remember walking by these big, beautiful mansions before taking the bus back to Liberty City and passing through the city of Miami and I said mom, she said, what's up Leslie, when? I become a man. I'm going to buy you a big, beautiful house like this. Let me have someone you like to make something personal.

Raise your hand. Please, very good. I want you to think about that. I want to share it. with you some strategies on how you can make that happen. Next, I want you to think about your financial freedom number. When you reach that number, when you make that amount of money, you will feel a sense of relief and you will feel very stressed. out of your life it gives you more time for yourself and your family and what is that number if you wrote it down or if you are thinking about it I want you to multiply it a hundred times and the reason why I want you to do it I do that, I have discovered in my own life that most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, most people fail in life because they have done what I did for the first part of my life, they aim too low and hit , and then I want you to think about your social contribution.

I believe we live in the best country in the world that allows us to live a life of contribution. The man from Hora said that we should be ashamed of dying until we have made an important contribution to humanity. The goals I have is to reduce the number of women who die from breast cancer. My mother was a breast cancer conqueror for 22 years. One of the goals I have every time I go on stage is to tell men that 15 years ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. a prognosis of two to three years one of the things that I think they should never tell doctors they should never tell someone who has a terminal illness what they should say is that my ability to help you has ended so I encourage men to have them take the psa test, which is valid. for prostate specific antigen and digital rectal exam and I will be happy when they can check our prostate by looking in our ears.

Can you feel the brother up here and here he was at this medical convention? A friend of mine said: Hello, let me give you a free rectal, it's nobody, you motivated too, friend, don't move like that, you know I was in the hospital in Florida, God came, the new doctor didn't say hello, good morning , anything goes, get some gloves and some Vaseline, I said, hello. Dude, this is our first date. Hey, you have to bring me some fries. Some impending peanuts. We have to sit down and talk. I have to relax. What's your mom's name? I can't believe what I'm telling you.

I'm turning red but you can't see it, oh my gosh, one of the goals I have is to train my gifts in the area of ​​helping you discover your powerful voice, how to become a powerful presenter, that's what multi-level marketing does. the money is at the front of the room the money is in 101 small groups on the phone your ability to present yourself as a gentleman changed my life mr. leroy washington he is over 90 years old now he is blind from glaucoma never forget the first day we met i was in your class, he said, young man, go to the meeting, you solved your problem for us, I said, oh, I can't do that, seriously, why not, I said I'm not one of your students, he said, look at me, yeah, Sir, go to the meeting, resolve the problem. anyway i said i can't do that sir and the other students started laughing saying he is leslie he has twin brothers the twin brother wesley is smart he is smart he said what does it mean he is the dumb twin and many of the children.

He laughed like some of you did and I said "I'm sir" and he came out from behind his desk and looked at me and said "never say that again" someone's opinion of you doesn't have to become your reality , that was a changing moment of my life on 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 if he was what he could be then becomes what it should be I want you to shake hands with someone on your right and left look in the eyes and say you have something special do that right now ladies and gentlemen you have something special I don't know you, but this is what What I know about you based on my own experience.

You have something special. You have greatness within you. You have the ability to do more than you can imagine. Just the fact that you showed up. The fact that you said yes. For this industry, it says a lot about you, you are unusual because it means you have a sense of taking responsibility for your own life. George Bernard Shaw said that the people who will succeed in this life seek the circumstances they want. and if they can't find them, they create them you have something special you have greatness within you you have experienced setbacks and disappointments like everyone else in the economy but you are operating according to the thinking of an elsie robinson who said that things will happen happen around you and you Things happen, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you, you have something special for some of you, it was a struggle to get here, you couldn't afford to be here, but there's something about You Said I Can't allow me the luxury of not being here.

You have something special. You are unusual. A great American said. I choose not to be an ordinary man. I have the right to be unusual. If I can, I look for opportunities, not security. I do not desire it. to be a citizen kept humiliated and dulled by the State taking care of me I want to take the calculated risk of dreaming to build to fail and succeed I refuse to live day to day I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence of the thrill of achievement to the quiet calm of utopia. I will never cower before a teacher nor have I been faced with any threat.

It is my heritage to be proud and unafraid to bravely face the world and say this I have done, that is what it means to be a part of multi-level marketing an uncommon desire to live your dream and control your destiny there is something in you that says You're not sitting around waiting to see what the politicians are going to do for you. There's something in you that says I'm not going to focus on the general economy. I want to focus on my personal economy. There's something in you that says the most reliable hand in the world is the one that is at the end of your tether there is something in you that says always strive to get to the top in life because it is the bottom that is overcrowded you are different you have greatness within you dr howard thurman come here is a man who after having 238 implants of radiation seeds and my psa continued to rise, in fact last year this time it went over 1,500 and the little cancer ate 40 percent of my t1 vertebrae and I was reading his words that night after leaving the hospital in florida and the doctors had told me that the cancer had come back and had metastasized to eight areas of my body and I started laughing while the doctor was talking to me and he was looking very serious he said while you were laughing I said I feel like mother Teresa he He said what do you mean she said lord I know you know how much I can take I wish you didn't have so much confidence in me and now my psa is 0.0 I am debt free cancer free yes indeed I stand before you by grace and mercy of God and believe me, it is better to be seen than to be seen, but Dr.

Martin Luther King Sr. called Dr. Thurman, he said. How would I want you to mentor my son mlk? He was a member of an elite group of orators, mystics and philosophers in his time. He was an advisor to Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer. He wrote deep as hunger, the voice of the genuine. the moment of sin wrote some words that I was reading around three in the morning that caught me said that the ideal situation for a man or woman to die is for their relatives to pray with them as they cross said but imagine being in your bed of death and standing around your bed the ghost of dreams the ideas the skills thetalents that life gave you but you for some reason never chase those dreams you never use those talents you never use those gifts you never use those abilities and there they are standing around your bed looking at you with big angry eyes saying we came to you and only you could give us the life and now we must die with you forever and the question is if you died today what dreams what ideas what books what leadership what voice what story will die with you thousands monroe great speaks from the bahamas said that wealth is located on the planet it is not in the four This one where there is oil in the ground is not in South Africa, where there are diamond mines.

He said that the richest place on the planet is the cemetery. There you will find potential. You'll never notice. There you will find books never written. There you will find abilities, skills and talents. gifts that the world never had to expose you to maybe that's why henry david thoreau asked in a moment of distress what if you lived your whole life only to discover that it was wrong that it was wrong that god had so much more in mind for you maybe? that's why he said oh god, reach the point of death only to realize that you've never lived only to realize that you've never scratched the surface of your potential let's all say together live full die empty and the people in this room have decided live full the people in this room have decided to die empty the people in this room have decided to live life on their own terms and not be a willing victim when you say yes to this industry you are saying yes to a bigger life you are saying yes Yes, I'm tired of playing small You're saying yes, I'm really too ready to have the power to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat You're saying yes to supporting yourself and your family There's something in you that says I am not mentally fit to work for anyone for the rest of my life you say yes to your life yes to your dreams yes to your developing future give yourself a round of applause give yourself a round of applause I didn't do this for years.

I would go to the balcony of the auditoriums and watch Jim Rohn, Dr. Dennis Waitley, and Zig Zigler, and my heart would beat so fast because I love helping people. How many love helping people? Raise your hand. I love helping people. and my heart was saying I can do that, but then as I was leaving there and as I was walking to the car, my mental conditioning started talking and it was saying les

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you can't do that what makes you think you have something to say that someone would listen to you les brown you can't do that what makes you think you can speak for att procter gamble mcdonald's corporation ibm you have never done it worked for a large corporation les brown you can't do that you were adopted you don't even know who your parents are how many of you ever thought about something you wanted to do you felt it in your heart and then your mind spoke to you Outside of that, raise your hand please I convinced myself to that I couldn't do it.

I learned something from that experience whenever there is an argument between your heart and your mind, follow your heart, the things that the heart can understand and feel that the mind cannot relate. Maybe that's why my favorite book says: don't lead your own understanding and all your ways acknowledge it and it will direct your path there are things you feel you know deep in your heart that's not logical it's not practical it's not realistic but there is something in you that says I can do this, I can do this after facing defeats, disappointments and failures over and over again, there is still something in you that says I can do this operating from a thought when life knocks you down try land on your back because when you can look up you can get up I can do this I can do this when you're presenting and people say oh yeah I'd like to be a part of that yeah they have the personality and they need it and they don't show up you end up being a babysitter you have to to be a counselor and a psychologist and a minister they challenge you to pray to jesus and yahweh and melchizedek and buddha and they will get on your nerves they will make you sing no me yoho renge kyo it's interesting when you talk to people about how to secure their future and you can't help them get involved actively in his own life.

A friend of mine named Lorraine asked me to come do an intervention with her brother who was addicted to drugs and she told us to get out of her house and as we were going down the stairs I told her: I'm sorry, I failed. I am very disappointed and she said something I will never forget. I want you to do it. Remember that she said that most people will not participate in her own rescue. Wow, most people won't participate in her own rescue. You have a vehicle that will allow them to create their own work. You have products that people need.

You have training and coaching where They are business for themselves, but not by themselves. You have the leadership of people who have shown that it is possible. You can live your dreams. You may have the opportunity to create a fortune. Not everyone will do it. We cannot predict performance. and everything you say, hey, listen, here you have a chance and don't take it personally when people say no to you, they don't say no to you, they say no to themselves, they say no to living another life. big. They are saying no to what's going on in their head because they suffer from blindness to possibilities, they don't see themselves doing more, they don't want to do that extra work so they are saving you, sometimes they know they are insignificant and they don't want to work don't try to convince them to say yes a person convinced against his will is of the same opinion still this is hard work hard and heart hard work and hard work you have to gut this you have to make your vitamin known you have to fail in your road to success you have to be unstoppable you have to operate like willie jolly who said that a setback is a preparation for a comeback you have to be relentless when When building a business, you must be able to have courage after facing rejection and over and over again time after someone tells you they are going to show up and then doesn't come, doesn't return your calls, it takes courage.

You go out and start talking to people. It takes courage when the bill creditors are breathing down your neck and your family members are saying, "Oh, there he goes again with another pyramid scheme. Does what I'm doing make sense to you? I haven't done this for 14 years." Because I didn't have courage I was afraid of being rejected for not having university studies I had a tremendous inferiority complex and something else for this business to be successful going from a nine to a five to a five until you faint is a different mentality requires a radical change how many of you know that it is difficult to generate a prosperous residual income monthly raise your hand please yes that is why most people don't say yes it is much easier to complain about the economy it is much easier to complain about our officials elected it's much easier to talk about the recession it's much easier to find excuses why you can't do it that's where I was that's why I set my position for a long time my mentor said something to me mike williams I want you to write this down he said anyone can complain He said if you do what is easy that is complaining if you do what is easy your life will be difficult but if you do what is difficult your life will be easy Come on, that is strong in medicine, 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 give up on your dreams, get 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 it keeps coming back again and again if you do what is difficult approach strangers talk to people in shopping malls get up dressed everyone the days going out prospecting knowing somehow with a spirit of expectation someone is here looking for an opportunity you can go out right now and see some pigeons but you are hunting eagles and they are not common and if you do that again and again someone is going to show up Someone is going to say I am Dr.

Thurman I love him so much what a great writer he said there is something in each and every one of you that waits and listens to the voice of the genuine in yourself it will perhaps be the only guide you will have and if you cannot listen to it all your life your days will be spent in the ends of the strings that someone else is pulling and I assure you that you invested the time and money to go to the airport to fly across the country I suggest that some of you drive here I suggest that you show up because you said I'm going to pull my own strings I'm going to control my own life no one will ever pull my strings again give yourself a round of applause I want you to write this choosing your future is a is a is a program that we have created that is designed to be implemented so that you work on yourself a systematic process changes the way you think it's possible it's necessary it's you it's difficult it's worth it it's done it's six cds repeat after me please it's possible yes look the easiest thing I do now is go up on stage and talk to you that's easy but the hardest thing I've ever done What I did and it took me years was to believe that I can do it, believe that I can stand up and not be afraid, speak from my heart, think and be able to show up, believe that that was possible for me for 14 years.

I didn't Mike Williams said, "You can do more than what you're doing now, but I didn't believe it, I just couldn't see myself doing it. I'm telling you, there are some things you can achieve." that you can't see right now my favorite book says the eye has not seen the ear has not heard has not entered the heart of humanity what god has in store for you when you are willing to say yes when you are willing to move forward you are willing to return again and again in search of your dreams life will answer you only some you discover some things about yourself the transformation of mentality is very important do not settle for this world transform yourself by renewing your mind you do not want to think like everyone else, you want an unusual thought, here's the other thing, expand your abilities, this is the era of what the late peter drucker called the era of the three seeds, accelerated change, overwhelming complexity and tremendous competition, so you have to expand. your skill set to be on the cutting edge of technology and cheap labor overseas when I was a kid you got on an elevator I was an elevator operator what floor please we operate elevators manually so we are going through creative destruction someone created an elevator and they didn't do it required a person to be there employed to close the door and take people to the designated floor when I was a child girls said what do you want to do when you're an adult I want to be an operator a long distance operator years ago When you made a long distance call you had to call a long distance operator so someone created a technology that you can dial directly Am I making this up?

Does anyone remember using that call to a long distance operator? It's called creative destruction. Someone created a technology that we didn't. You don't have to do that anymore, so today multi-level marketing allows you to secure your future to be at the forefront of technology and cheap labor abroad. You can hire a PhD or NBA in the Philippines or India for two dollars and sixty cents an hour. what you're doing is staying ahead of the curve because we're going through ongoing creative destruction. I think of Mr. Washington, young man, yes, sir, what do you want to do with your life?

Uh, I want to buy my mother's house, sir. I want to take care of my mother. Yes sir. I want to make my mother proud. How can she say that she wants to make her brother proud? The other day she was in the dean's office for fighting. Sir, they called me the dumb twin. so you are going to fight them yes sir why brown why anger is the wind that blows out the lamp of the mind how can I get revenge sir tell me they pick on me all the time because it takes me longer to learn things than others I'm not like my sister at the University of Miami I'm not like my brother I'm always compared to him Mr.

Brown you want revenge yes sir you said you have a good memory young man yes I have it yes I have sir remember these words from Frank Sinatra the best revenge is a massive success become a massive success this is how you become even thank you sir sir brown yes sir why did you sign those papers what are you talking about are you the first special education student to be labeled? mental educable regressed from fifth grade to fourth grade you failed in eighth grade i fought for you i saw something in you you have greatness in you i know you're not as fast as your brother i know you're not like margaret and her sister, but there's hunger in you, sir, and I fought for you to get that and I saw your name, I couldn't believe it when you signed it for someone else, why did you do that?

Several professors met with me and said they wouldn't be with me at the University of Florida to help me, Mr. Washington. They said if he didn't make the honor roll at Booker T. Washington High School, he wouldn't make it at Florida. You have been like a father to I would never want to bring shame to your name, Mr. Brown, I know it is harder for you, but once you learn something because of your hunger, you understand it, you master it, he said, I don't care what what they said, but did you believe thatI could go there and graduate to be honest with you sir no sir not without you sir sir brown yes sir listen to me yes sir sometimes you have to believe in someone's belief in you until your belief kicks in sometimes you have to believe in the belief from someone in until your faith kicks in, who recruited you to get involved in their organization, saw something in you, who asked you to be part of their team, saw greatness, so you need people in your life who can see things that You can not see.

You want to find who you got You're in the business and you say thank you, I told Robert Boyd who recruited me for top of the line products, thanks Bob, I don't know what you saw, but I'm not going to let you down, you find who recruited you because you are looking for. For the eagles in this business you are not looking for people who need more you are looking for people who want more let's say together it is possible all together it is possible I can live my dreams I will work on myself every day I will retrain myself thinking every day I will listen to audio programs I would read 10 to 15 pages of something positive every day I will turn off my television and turn on my life let's say together you need to detoxify your life ladies and gentlemen how many of you are serious about achieving goals, raise your hand please, very good, Jim Rohn asked this question.

Look at the people in your life and ask: What is this relationship doing to me? In order to get to the next level, there are some people you need. let us say together let yourself go or let yourself be carried away there are some people because of their negativity they are emotional vampires it will exhaust you you want to be surrounded by people that you can learn from that you can grow from dr. dennis kimball from atlanta said if you are the smartest in your group you need to get a new group, bless you, can I change them?

No, it's a full-time job to change yourself. There are some people who are comfortable being negative. They feel comfortable being a willing victim. There are some people who are so negative. I can walk into a dark room and start developing oh behave my medication wears off now when you talk about making more money you have to be serious an illness can wipe out a fortune 95 of the people who filed for bankruptcy last year did so Because of medical expenses, people say money won't make you happy, but everyone wants to find out for themselves. A friend of mine, Rita Davenport, said that money is not important, but it is right up there with oxygen and let me say it yourself, even if you are a bum, I am, you have some money, women will find something nice about you, oh, he has elo like tom cruise, he has a walk like denzel washington, i was so broke that i would go by the bank and activate the alarm credits to call my children's house, he would answer the phone and say that my dad said he wasn't home. complete and sometimes they caught me on the phone.

Can I talk to Les Brown? Please, I'm sorry, but he's not here. You sound like Les Brown, don't you go? There, boy, oh my God, red fox, that money can't buy you happiness, but it can give you a big down payment, this thing called life, here's something else, write this down, you're going to fail your way to success, there's people who seem promising. They are going to disappoint you They will hurt your feelings There are people who should be there to encourage you To motivate you They are going to be the number one member of the discouragement club before things get better for you They are going to get It's really bad when you have a dream thinking that they are not strangers, you will face the fiery furnaces of this world.

You will not do it. You may have tribulations. How many of you know that to be true? Raise your hand for yourselves. Things will happen to them and they won't. complain, don't go around telling everyone eighty percent doesn't care twenty percent I'm glad it's you, hang in there and keep exploring and make it happen life is happening to everyone, everyone, let's say together, jump in and grow your wings on the way down, see. To control your destiny you have to take risks. You have to be willing to risk people talking about you. You have to be willing to risk someone saying no.

You have to be willing to fail again and again. You are different you are a self-starter you are strange you are not like everyone else we live in a world where we talk more about our limitations than our potential and that is why most people simply cannot see themselves doing better, but you are different see some things that they can't see and I encourage everyone who is in this room right now is here for a reason how many of you know people who should be here raise your hand please yes but you know what they are in place They are in their rightful places where their thoughts have taken them.

Their true place is where their thoughts can take them. They are all in their rightful place. Here is something else. Look for positive information. I want you to write this on my Facebook page. brown dot less every day we post a positive message there every day on brown.less because you are in this room I want you to write this because we are going to send you we are going to do something called presentation power You will have the opportunity to watch some

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I'm going to send you seven powerful strategies on how to be a powerful storyteller, so email me at Yes, at lestround.com and say, send me the seven principles. Mention that you were at this convention. We will send it to you for free. It will give you a guide on how to tell your story. When I began this presentation, I began by telling my story. I was born in a poor area of ​​Miami Florida in Liberty City I was born in an abandoned building with a twin brother do you remember I told you that my mother worked in Miami Beach as a maid making beds cooking for families do you remember I told you that? your story is your power how many of you have been through some things raise your hand please how many of you experienced some things in your life raise your hand please how many of you have periods in your life like me where you are temporarily crazy where this? your athlete your story a presentation we will tell you how to tell your story i have lectured at harvard yale spoken around the world telling my story you too have a story this is what the power of story does and why it is important in your presentation and in building your organization and why it will give you the advantage and how to recruit people and how many players like to raise their hands please, well this is what makes your story, write this, distract, see how you live the people. as a result of the story they believe about themselves when you are presenting one on one or in a small group or in a large group when you tell your story you are creating a disruption when you are telling your story about the business of being on the path to creation of financial independence, you are interrupting their story, what psychologists call that self-explanatory style, so let's distract, say together, let's distract, here's the other one, let's say dispute, when you're going over your presentation, we'll show you how. to do this you are dismantling their limited belief system where they have been programmed to believe only in having a job the journey of the broke where they are miserable they go to work where they are paid enough to keep them from quitting and they work hard enough to keep them from say goodbye That's what you call mixed emotions.

Watching someone you hate fall off a cliff in your car. You're glad they're gone, but not in my car. Can you feel me here, here? Yes. Feel me, people go to jobs that 87 of Americans hate and guess what and pray they don't get fired, that's right, that's right, that's no way to live, that's why you're here, you just said, you know what, no , I'm not going. I tell you so and people think you are crazy and you are you have to be crazy today you have to be crazy my favorite book said let that mind be in you you have to have another mind in you that says I have this this is my life I own this I'm going to make the decisions here no one is going to tell me how much I'm worth what time I can take a lunch break I'm not going to go to anyone asking for permission to take my family on vacation no, no, I have this, I have a vehicle that can take me somewhere else, so they said yes, give yourselves a round of applause, Mr.

Washington said, Mr. Brown, transform your mindset number two, he said, practice, let's say. together oqp write this only quality people only quality people you don't want everyone in your organization you only want quality people here is something else said Mr. Brown yes sir and this is what we are going to do in this presentation called power presentation, he said, develop your communication skills, how you present yourself, how you sell yourself, he said, once you open your mouth, you tell the world who you are and then he said something else, let's say together with conviction, I want everyone to join me in this. we say together you have to be hungry say it again you have to be hungry he said what do you want to do with your young life I said sir I want to buy my mother's house he said you have to be hungry I said what do you mean by that he said that Are hungry people willing to do things today that others won't do in order to have things tomorrow that others won't have?

He said that people who are hungry are relentless people who are hungry are unstoppable people who are hungry they refuse to give up people who are hungry there is no acceptable excuse for not making your dream come true I said I am hungry sir I am hungry to take care of my Mother, I'm hungry to make you proud, I told my Mother, you'll never have to pay another bill once I turn 18 and she hasn't, Mr. Washington. I am hungry, sir, for another life. I'm not going to die here in Liberty City. I want to travel, sir, I want to see. the world, said you can do that sir, said practice OQP only with quality people if you run with nine broke people.

He said I guarantee you will become number 10. He said work on your mindset, listen to these audio programs. giving yourself every day glenn turner dare to be great every day dr norman vincent peale jim rohn every day zig ziglar program your mind mr brown said how do you plan to buy your mother's house? I said sir I want to become a disc jockey he says That's right, yes sir, he said it's good, he said work on your mind, listen to my car keys, what do you want me to do with this at lunch time, come on up to my car, turn on the radio and listen to Paul Harvey, why he's the best in the world. communicator you want to be successful yes sir he says listen and study people who are great communicators that is the key to controlling your future I said but that is at lunchtime to be successful you must be hungry you must be willing to do the things you one day others will not do are you willing to do that to be successful in buying your mother's house yes sir yes sir and that is what you have done you have some goals that you want to achieve there are some things that you want to do and you have told yourself I am willing to face the nose you told yourself I'm willing to make people laugh at me you told yourself I'm willing to gut this yourself you said I'm willing to make this happen you told yourself I'm going to do whatever it takes to build this business I can do it if anyone has ever done it at any point in history then what is possible for you is possible for me and I'm going to do it that's what you told yourself said listen to paul harvey every day so you want to be disc jockey yes sir he said I want you to create your format what will be your personality what style are you going to have I said wait a minute sir I want to be a disc jockey but I don't have a job yet and then he said something he said it is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one that have a chance and not be prepared said you I have to hope to be successful let's stay together I hope to win I hope to increase my recruitment I hope to be a great presenter I hope to become a millionaire it's my time it's possible it's necessary it's me it's difficult it's worth it Nietzsche said if you know the wife of life, you can almost endure your task anyway and write down five reasons that will make it worth it for you, so when the hard times come and they will come when you feel like you can't see the Light at the end of the tunnel and that's part of the process.

Your reasons will be your rod and your staff to comfort you and carry you through the storms of life. He told me you want to be a disc jockey. He practices your communication skills. Visualize yourself. talking to thousands of people mr brown look at you on stage presenting be willing to invest in yourself warren buffett was being interviewed by a financial analyst on cnn said what is the most important investment a person can make today warren buffett a billionaire has thousands of billion dollars in the stock market billions of dollars in real estate looked at the journalist and said the most important investment you can make is in yourself the reason you are here the reason you invested your money your time and energy and transportation and housing and all the costs in the so-called difficult economy because you have the mentality of a billionaire, you know that investing in yourself is your most precious asset, give yourself apeace and your dream for it if you dream of all that and The plan is about that and life seems useless and worthless without it, and if you gladly sweat about it, worry, plan and lose all the terror of opposition and if you simply pursue what you want with all your strength. of your ability strength and sagacity faith hope and confidence and stern perseverance if neither cold poverty nor gulf sickness nor pain a body and a brain can keep you from what you desire if tenacious and gloomy you besiege and harass it with God's help, you will understand, this was Mrs.

Mamie Brown's baby, God bless you, God bless your dream, God bless America, thank you very much, anything you give will come back now. It may not come back through that channel, but it goes. to return why because it is a law, whatever you give will return now we all hear the saying as you are so you will reap and we usually use it in a negative context but let's look at the positive side. about that if you sow some good things here if you make it your business how you give your life to give the best you have to give love to give encouragement to give help to give support if that's what your life is about whatever you want Put here, ladies and gentlemen, I guarantee he will be back now.

The reason most people don't give is because they operate from a consciousness of scarcity. They don't believe there is enough for everyone. They can't see. They themselves having the ability to give don't believe they have anything to offer, they don't see themselves as an opening for the universe to work, so if you start looking at this new era we're in, start looking at yourself. as an opening for the universe to move forward and work to make a difference in life see life use it to improve the quality of life to expand and grow most people have a very limited view of themselves in a very limited of the universe they do not see their relationship with the universe and they cannot see how energy and things can flow through them I love Gibran and the prophet then said a rich man talk to us about giving and he responded you give little when you give of your possessions but it is when you give of yourself that you really give jabron va I continue to say that those who give little of the much they have and give it to be recognized and their hidden desire makes their gifts unhealthy and we know people who give only to be recognized.

I love that old saying. Don't judge a man by what he does but by what he doesn't have to do and to judge the true quality of a man is what is done when no one is looking gibran goes on to say something more important he says and there are those who have little and give everything These are those who believe in life and the generosity of life. Most people don't give, ladies and gentlemen, because they don't believe in life. Most people don't give because they don't understand the abundance in life and that's why they go through life withholding withholding from life without also understanding this that what you withhold from life, life withholds from you so most of us spend for life ladies and gentlemen without giving and we are fooling ourselves and you are also fooling life, see?

I believe that we all have a job to do I firmly believe that each of us showed up to do something that each of us showed up to contribute something to life and that if we don't do it it won't be done, look, nobody is going to give the les brown speech, no one is going to write your book, see if they have given you something to do and if you don't do it, what you are doing is short-circuiting the flow of the universe, see if imagine, please, that we had a circle and the people were standing in this circle and let's say they gave us a love cube and then I pass it to the person on the right and they pass it to another person and they pass it to another person and they pass it to another person and they pass it on to someone else and it comes back to me one of the best things about giving is that when you give you're going to receive what we want to do is keep the flow going keeps the floor going if someone takes the cube of love stops and keeps it there , we all suffer, they have short-circuited the flow that stopped what was happening, the energy that was circulating, look, you are part of an equation and you are a necessary part of why we should start to see how we give our lives, we have to start to see what I'm supposed to do, what my life's work is and then give ourselves over to that.

Because as we do that, ladies and gentlemen, I guarantee that as you begin to embrace this new era that we're in, if you decide that I'm going to start living life generously, I'm going to start giving more of myself. I am going to start contributing more to life, this is what is going to happen, ladies and gentlemen, I guarantee that life will take on a whole new meaning for you. I guarantee that as you begin to give more of yourself to your work. give more of yourself to your marriage give more of yourself to your relationships with your family and friends give more of yourself to your talent your calling to your job or your business as you begin to set high standards for giving what you you have been given to share the universe I guarantee that life takes on a whole new dimension you will be happier you will have a greater sense of happiness and satisfaction in life now that doesn't mean you won't have some challenges that don't It doesn't mean you won't to have some problems that you will have to deal with on a daily basis.

No, that doesn't mean anything like that. No, that won't exempt you from that, but what does it mean? that you will now begin to take new paths towards new horizons that you will begin to see life totally differently than most people, I think that is what Henry David Thoreau meant when he said that most men live in a quiet desperation that Most of us go through life because we are not using what we have been given that we are punished that we go 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 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 are looking lifeless at the majority of people find it difficult to smile most people abuse alcohol and drugs and evade their own greatness and repress themselves for years.

I was fooling myself for years. I could have been doing exactly what I'm doing right. now but I was afraid I didn't feel worthy and I didn't want to acknowledge what I had been given I had a limited view of myself and I was literally running away from myself I mean life sometimes chases me and I said no no we don't want you to do something great no I don't go find someone else no no no no you're not talking about me no no no you don't know what I've been doing no no no we don't want you we can just prepare you and train you and prepare you means, yeah, are you sure about me? say, come here, come on, you don't have enough common sense to come, just come and shut up and they straight up spank you so hard after a while you say, okay, okay, okay, ladies and gentlemen, one of the reasons why the ones we should start hitting morris because we owe a debt reading a book john powell why am I afraid to tell you who I am because maybe you don't like me and that's all I have there I love to quote we are made by those who love us and those who refuse to love us as I speak to you right now, you are seeing a lot of people here, ladies and gentlemen, it is not just Les Brown that is here, a lot of people have contributed to making me who I am right. now none of us are here because of us, we have all 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 soup people chicken, what do I call? them, when I do my cooking workshops, the people are people like Miss Lillian when my mother used to spank me when I was a child and I was a bad twin, I always got in trouble, Miss Lee would hear me scream and after mom got over , Miss Lee was coming to the house and give me some cookies and milk and my you know and my mom said what are you doing ma'am and I'm just giving her some cookies baby and she said here, you're Leslie, you're a bad boy though.

I bought you some cookies, so cookie people are people who even when you're bad, even when you're not who you really are, they look past your thoughts and see your knees, even if you're a bad-tempered person, and sometimes They curse them and persecute you. These cookie people love them unconditionally. How many of you have ever had cookie people in your lives? Okay, so we've all had cookie cutter people that the universe has put in our lives to contribute to us. The other people are the chicken soup people. Chicken soup people. There are people you can call at two in the morning and tell them I had a flat tire, would you come help me or is my battery not working?

Could you come give me a push or do I need help? Could you come take me out? from jail if you don't have chicken soup people in your life you better get soaked but these are people you can always call to help you so I encourage you to give some of them a thank you letter the cookies. people in your life, some of them may have already transitioned, write some letters to some people who were an asset to you, some people who contributed to making you who you are and just say: I was thinking about the years, I know You know.

I love you and appreciate everything you have been to me, but I just wanted to send you this letter, how do you think they feel if they receive that out of the blue? I just want to thank you for how you have enriched my life, maybe I haven't given it much thought, but thanks to the help and assistance you gave me on that particular day that was a turning point in my life, why should we give well? Giving creates a vacuum and, as we know, nature abhors a vacuum. Look, when you give, you create. a void that you are now in a position to receive, look if I have my arms closed holding on to everything I have, there is nothing available to enter, but if I am open, if I created a void there giving and maintaining the flow the things of the universe will return.

Me, ladies and gentlemen, you will return whatever you give 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 most we need 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 10 of what I get when I leave here, you'll see there will be a different man leaving here than the one who walked in here and as I give, the more I give to you, the more I get, most people don't understand.

That is the law of life, do you know that we can 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 that comes with it over the difference it can make in our lives if you do. to any run-down neighborhood and interview the people there, assess 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, assess them and check what they are doing with their energy and their time and what they are 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 it. you will find that the people who have the most people who live an abundant life are the ones who contribute to life, ladies and gentlemen, they are the people who give the most and the people who operate from scarcity and poverty consciousness, these are people who are depressed. and these are the people who complain, these are the people who blame 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 do it.

I made a political presentation to a group there that we're trying to organize a community to start revitalizing that particular community and the guy was telling me very proudly 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 said what a waste he 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 buy three packs of cigarettes and buy some tired water and soap and come?

Come back here and get this stench out of here. Does it take a genius to get a can of paint and paint over the graffiti and fix the mailbox? Does it take a genius for that? I am telling you to invest the money in these housing projects and don't change the people who live in the projects before they are completed, they will go back to where they were before if they are maintained and I am not saying that there are situations where people need helpand assistance. but people should be allowed to contribute I say they should pay for the paint I say they should pay to repair the mailboxes and the broken windows and I guarantee you that if the kids come out throwing a ball and say don't hit that window, you fool, You know how much I paid for that window it makes a difference.

People should be given the opportunity to contribute and invest in life and then life is appreciated, but if we just give and you don't just give, you want to give. To the people who are out there struggling and achieving success and trying to make an impact on the universe, I'd rather give it to a guy who's already doing it than to someone here who's doing nothing and trying to go there. Why do not you get up? and do something, hey, listen, if you have to go there and lift them up, you have to do it for the rest of your life, so do it with those who make you, so you want to keep the flow working with people who are contributors.

To life, leave the dead alone who are taking your life. There is a scripture. When I heard it, I couldn't understand it. I said how cold those who have will get and those who don't have, not even what they have will be taken away. He said, "Now that's not fair." Ladies and gentlemen, that's just the one who has what becomes the key, the one who has a generous vision of life, the one who has courage, the one who has initiative, the one who has wit, will get it, but if you're like the guy I was in a hotel and I asked him I said look here I said um you know I was a bellman I said you know I need my shoes photographed oh I don't shine my shoes well how long have you been working here oh about three months what were you doing before that?

Oh, I just got off the joint. Yeah, you don't shine shoes that are under you, but it was okay to steal. Not under you, hey, look, and the same other guy, ex-felon that I was telling, had a job, what kind of job is it, what do you think? Does it matter to earn an honest living? You don't worry about someone knocking on your door in the middle of the night if it's cleaning. bathrooms, you should be happy to see the recipient, ladies and gentlemen, you think someone is going to come and give you something here in life, it doesn't happen that way, no, it doesn't happen that way, here's something else you're going to do . 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 thank you when you show a spirit of gratitude for what I have, it is not 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 It's all they can 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 are producing in their lives and these are people you don't want to be. around developing a spirit of gratitude I am grateful for life I am grateful to be American I am grateful to be in this part of the planet I am grateful to see another day no, things are not the way I want them to be no, I don't have all the things I want 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 what you focus on remember now you want to align yourself with the universe if you have scarcity in your life it is because you are aware of scarcity as you begin to be grateful for what you have but because of the abundance that you now know is coming your way that you are attracting towards you because of the good relationship that is coming at this moment , will begin to create incredible opportunities for you to begin improving your life and the quality of life of the people around you. and gentlemen, forgive, forgive, 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 interfering in the flow of what life has for us because we have not done it we 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 for the other person oh it is not for you it is not for them not because they deserved it or because you earned it, you are forgiving To other people, first of all, you have to forgive yourself, but when you forgive other people, it is mentally and spiritually healthy to forgive, to let go of that baggage, as Paul said, to forget those things that are behind, to reach out to those things. people. things that come before oh we hear it but it's hard to do it's hard what you have is enough what 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 they are people who made the ultimate sacrifice so we can enjoy the freedoms we take for granted oh none of us none of us can feel like we have nothing to give back next thing is giving empowers you makes you more powerful look the more you give to life the more we are able to get from it life seeing most of us go through life ladies and gentlemen feeling like we don't have enough to share feeling like we will be depleted if we give of our resources because we don't see ourselves connected to the abundance of life I feel strongly that we can make an incredible difference in life phyllis mark said that giving makes you stronger because taken to its maximum what you are really giving is love love is the motivating force behind the infinite supply of universal energy love truly makes the world go round and as with anything circular, will keep coming back.

Phyllis is right, as she continues to give love and hope to these people, she receives love and hope for herself and helps begin to restructure and redesign the kind of life she wants for everyone. We have had experiences in our lives that, if we allow these experiences to do so, we allow them to wear us down. If we allow it, there will be baggage that will creep through life and hold us down, stifling our potential to give and give. contribute in life if we continue to carry all these things we will never be able to be open to the love and abundance and opportunity that life has to offer us because we are so full with what we have.

I'm thinking about an exhibition. That took place in Africa where they were trying to catch monkeys that were very rare species and since they were so fast, agile and very fragile, they did not want to hurt them and, when catching them, they did not want to hurt them physically, so what they did to catch them they discovered that These monkeys really liked a certain type of nut that grew in that particular area of ​​Africa and what they did was put these nuts inside bottles and put a rope on the bottle. and they held the rope from a distance and then the monkeys came and, curious, saw the nuts inside the bottle, they put their hand in and picked up the nuts, now what happened was that they couldn't get their hands out with the nuts still in the bottle. bottle. and then the exhibitors, the hunters would come while the monkeys are there, they would just jump, all they have to do now is drop the nuts, that's all they have to do is dance softly, all they have to do is let them go . and they can be free and run away, they keep everything in the desert, the people who come catch them and for a lot of us life is kicking our butts and all we have to do, all we have to do is let it go, just we continue to hold on.

Like we're crazy ladies and gentlemen, giving creates energy in ourselves and others, have you ever helped a blind person cross the street or helped an elderly person or given someone some help that You know, you just know, did you open the door for someone in an elevator? I mean, don't you have a good feeling inside like I've done good? How many of you have a good feeling inside? Would you do something good for someone? Look, we're really giving of ourselves. See, that's really the law when you're giving. you're giving to yourself, that's who you're giving to, so you want to give yourself some good gifts.

There is an underlying principle in the concept of giving the energy that flows through us as we do so, that love creates abundance in our lives and that we can reap. much of life as a result of our donations, how are you giving up your life? Do you know to what extent you are giving? To that degree, it determines how much you enjoy life. How meaningful is your life. The things, ladies and gentlemen, that I used to do. I can't do it now, that's inappropriate for the role I've selected, where I am in my life and what I want to contribute to life, it's inconsistent, I can't do it even if I want to do it, I can't. do it not because it does not fit my vision of myself and the contribution I want to make to life because it is not enough to give the message you must also be the message the next thing is that we must give as a sense of duty emmanuel khan in the book called criticism Pure reasoning says that sometimes we must assume out of a sense of duty that certain things happen and we simply say something must be done about them.

A police officer in Washington DC was working in one of his patrol areas and approached a car in a park and the car was driving and he saw a figure slumped over the steering wheel. He got there looking with a flashlight and saw a 14-year-old boy with a bullet in his back. out of his head and said oh no, he himself has a son who could have been his son, he said something should be done, we are losing too many young people, so this man went home, he had exercise equipment worth several thousand Dollars. In his basement he rented a place where he began bringing children to involve them in taking care of their bodies in physical exercise and athletic activity.

Now he has expanded it to involve them in business projects, saying that this is a free enterprise system and the more entrepreneurial you are, the freer you are and now these children have started their own business, they have a small shopping center that they run, operate, manage and They have commercials on the radio and I will go there to train. with them, so because of that event he decided that he should do something now some of the things that will happen when they look and see what I can contribute, what I can give, I guarantee you, ladies and gentlemen, that you are going to have a voice says that just It's no use, it's out of control now there will be a voice that will tell you that you will be wasting your time and wasting your energy and wasting your effort I say don't listen to it, listen to that still a little voice that says I can do something and I must do it we must do it Israeli said this nothing can resist the will of a people who will risk even their existence in the pursuit of that purpose for good I firmly believe that as we begin to look to the future and that is every day that we get up in the morning and Whether you're going to give to make the environment safer for everyone on the planet, Whether you're going to do things to help the sick of the physically disabled or crack cocaine addicts, Whether you want to help and contribute to the youth or do something for the homeless, whatever you want to do if you wake up in the morning out of a sense of order and decide that I am an opening to the universe through which life can work and use me as a channel and as an instrument for change and every day we wake up we personally take care to make a difference in those areas in which we care.

We are going to do it, we don't know, but we know we can make a difference and we may not be here to see the results of our efforts. We may not be here like many of the people before us who made the sacrifices they did. Not to live the sea nor reap the benefits by James Weldon Johnson Stoney The road we trod A little of the chest bar was felt in the days when unborn hope had died, but with a steady beat our weary feet​​ They have not reached the place for which our fathers died.

We have traveled a path that has been watered with tears. We have walked a path through the blood of slaughter. When we got here, someone paid the price for us to be here and when we start looking to the future, we all have an obligation to give something in return many of us don't give more because we allow ego to get in the way. I'm thinking about a man who was well dressed walking through a neighborhood one day and a lady came up. to the door and she said hey, you stopped me, he said very politely, yes ma'am, he said, come here, he came to her, yes, what can I do for you, man, he said, I want you to cut my wood, He said, yes, ma'am, he.

She took off her coat and he took the ax she had there and chopped the wood. She said, why don't you take some in the back and put some in the fireplace? He said yes, ma'am, and he did so after finishing. She said what do I owe you he didn't say anything man thanks for the opportunity to serve you she said okay and he left and he was walking down the street with his coat over his shoulder and our maid came up she said do you know who? was and the lady she worked for said no, she says that's itthe great black educator, Booker T Washington, looked out the window, said, you're right, he said sin for him, and that lady, that boogity Washington, came in and cut the wood, and contributed several million dollars. to his dream of building a higher learning institution, the tustigi institute, that exists today, what if he had said, excuse me, you said: do I cut the wood from it?

Don't even come here with that kind of stuff, you better cut your own wood if you wanted it cut dry he didn't let his ego get in the way he gave what he had he contributed how much we've denied ourselves how much we've blocked ourselves because we allow that little ego to get in the way to keep us from giving and serving, what is the essence of life, what is the essence of life, it's about service, that's why I say, as you look to the future, decide that you are going to allow your life to be a life of service, decide that.

You are going to give more than you have given before. Decide that every day you are given life you are going to make a difference in your life. You are going to make a statement with your life that is once again opposite. to sit feeling like a victim, that you will see yourself as a channel, an opening for the universe to function and that you will say to life, use me, oh, use me, I have more to give, use me, repeat after me. I want life to use me I want to give more share more be an expression of love be an instrument of hope to impact our youth to recreate their future I am grateful for life I am grateful to be here I am grateful to be able to serve this is the Mrs.

Brown's baby Leslie Calvin Brown saying it has been a pleasant pleasure as well as a privilege thank you all here thank you