One of the Most Motivational Videos You'll Ever See - Underrated Speech | Les Brown

Thinking of a guy who had

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ything going for him, he went to Harvard, became a lawyer, joined a big, prestigious law firm, married the perfect wife, had kids, and guess what he was doing

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y day, but it didn't give him what he wanted. he wanted to get out of life he was going through an act he was performing on a road and one day he couldn't get out of bed he was just there in bed he couldn't get up paralyzed they called the doctors they looked at him they examined him from head to toe and he said no There was nothing physically wrong with him, get up, John, come on, get up, he couldn't get up, he stayed like that for months, he had to take therapy, see, because there was this ease, there were conflicts in his body many times when life calls us to change and grow and expand we said no no I don't want to hear that no no no we resist that so we can go back to that lifestyle of mediocrity we resist that change that growth come on come back so we can go back to sleep what is the focus of your life what is your focus in life in life you have a critical choice you can take a stand in your life or you can follow the crowd see people following the crowd their lives are not focused they are not immersed in anything people who take a position are living a life that has some power a life of achievement a life that has some meaning people who take a position in life are consciously involved in a process of designing a substantial life people who follow the crowd these are people who are simply doing what everyone else is doing, so there's a crowded road there, they're following the followers I want to talk to you about how to take a stand with them your life and what are some of the things that we can do that will allow us to deliver our lives in a way that has some purpose and meaning that can be real to us and that can give us a sense of fullness of joy, happiness and peace. mentally I see that

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people are bored with life

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people feel that life is not worth life it is just exhausting me it is boring it is monotonous I have nothing to look forward to here we go again another Monday morning thinking about a situation where I had to give a conference in Los Angeles, California, for Xerox Corporation.

Part of what I do when my profession is doing corporate training, my passion is training kids, so when I go somewhere I always try to organize a community. group to have a group of young people together to volunteer with them at night, so I decided to go to an area of ​​Los Angeles to talk to someone about how to do that and they suggested that I come speak at a community center right in the outside of Los Angeles at the Carson Community Center and because of the gangs in Los Angeles, one of the young people who came there to organize it and his mother had a twin brother and she became interested in me because I have a twin. and his twin brother was the victim of a gang ritual, they brought in a new gang member and he had to prove that he was really with them and committed and his job was to just pick anyone at random and kill them, and he did.

As this young man was leaving the store they said to me, Mr. Brown, could he come and talk to the teenagers? There is a lot of depression, desperation and hopelessness here, and people feel powerless against the gangs and I would bring some brochures and materials so you can do a workshop and the parents will also participate, would you be willing to do that? I said well, I'm doing a full day seminar and I'm usually physically exhausted after how many people you say you're going to have. We guarantee there will be at least four to five hundred people there.

I said okay, I'm going to go there and work with them and take them through this intensive, so I came there after working a totally exhausted seminar in LA traffic. It took me more than an hour. get there I got there they only had seven people I had an attitude I said you had me come from Los Angeles after working all day just to talk to seven people you told me over 400 people were going to be here where are the parents? just a father here my time is valuable I have all this material that we have copied to do a workshop so I went ahead and talked to those young people who were in the room the seven that were there and I just gave them a little

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and then I left I went back to the hotel that night around 3:30 in the morning the phone rang the minister who invited me called me said Mr Brown I have to ask for your attention for a moment I said what am I what is Kenyatta one of the young men who was there wants to talk to you it was the The brother of the guy who was murdered would like to talk to you.

He's been here for over an hour and I told him please don't call you but he insisted, could I talk to him for a moment? I said yes, put him on the phone, Kenyatta, what can I do for you? He said, Mr. Brown, I listened to his tapes for a long time. I have come to love and admire him among all. the things I heard on your tapes that you said you should deal with the circumstances as you found them, you came tonight and I admit that no, we didn't have the numbers you asked for, no, we didn't deliver as promised.

We would but we were looking for you, the motivator to give us some hope, we were depressed and didn't know what to do, we were looking for some direction and you were so stuck in poutine with your ego that you didn't give us your Best thing I said, excuse me , I was lying in bed, I sit up and see that part of what doesn't let us grow in life is number one, we identify it when we receive comments and we start to take it personally. Number two we started justifying, so I got defensive. and I said wait a minute, I worked all day, I didn't charge you a dime for this, I went to carpet material, I came there, I was there to give training to the people and you, all you had to do was bring . people there, if not do it for me, for the next speaker, at least provide an audience he can work with, he said, are you done, sir?

I said yes, mr

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, he said you have to deal with circumstances like the that you find. We went around and around for about 45 minutes because my ego can't let this young man come out and debate me, he wasn't intimidated, I used all the verbal gymnastics and examples I could, he wouldn't blow up and I said, okay, I'll do it. I feel. give me a break and he said it takes a big man to say sorry that night after i broke up with that young man i prayed i stayed on the floor next to the bed i said lord if you ever give me a chance to talk Again, I don't.

I don't care if he's a person in the audience, I'm going to wear them down. I remember a young man who was on a bus, a young boy and some kids were picking on him, some older guys kept hitting him. head and hiding his hands and then he got tired of them doing that and he stood up so he wouldn't be close to him out of reach and they took him and told him to sit down and shut him up and he got up because I don't I don't want to sit down he said sit down didn't we tell you they pushed him down?

I don't want to sit down he said sit down and they held him down and he looked at him he said you could hold me down but I'm standing inside of me and what we have to do is know that there is something in you, there is something in us, there is a power in you that regardless of Whatever happens to you, you can stay within yourself, I think that's what Puerto meant when he said out of the night that covers me black is a well from pole to pole I thank whatever god there may be for my invincible soul you have an uncomfortable soul don't try to make a deal with life life is not donald trump life will not give you any special treatment because you maintain a sense of integrity, you have to do what you do because no inner motive is going to get you any benefit special or some special treatment in the universe, no, no.

It means someone might not steal your car while you're trying to do something nice for someone. No, there will not be any special lights around your car, they will take your car too. All the good people who will come to you. You have to do what you do because that expresses who you are and for no other reason they will not throw a banquet to recognize you or give you a special plaque and dedicate a day in your name. Don't do what you do because it's you. The next thing is to dedicate your life to something dedicate your life to a cause bigger than yourself look if you dedicate your life to a cause bigger than you you are not following the crowd look if your life is not dedicated to something of value and I like it what howard thurman said he said that the quality of life is often determined by what the individual dedicates himself to if the dedication of life is vague and diffuse the quality tends to be poor and weak there is much to be said about the intensity of Most people are very casual about life, they haven't found anything to become intense about, so when you dedicate your life you don't care what the odds are that someone says when the dream is big enough to The arts don't matter Look, when you dedicate your life, you generate a special power.

There is a power in you that people's circumstances, events, and I'm not talking about the physical you, I'm talking about the real you, the indestructible, invincible perfect essence of who you really are that can bring a government to its knees that can change the course of history when you dedicate your life like a Nelson Mandela who has decided to sacrifice his freedom, all he has to do is say whatever the government wants him to say and then let him go free and he can go to a foreign nation and he said . I only said that because I've been in prison for over 20 years and no one would say, well Nelson, you sold out, no one would say that, they'll say, wait a minute.

Nelson, you gave more than 20 years of your life, what more can we ask for? That's fine, but because of his integrity to himself and the fact that he has dedicated his life to ending apartheid and freeing people from it, when you dedicate your life to something, you move forward. some powers in the universe that work through you to bring about changes that you would never know about unless you have dedicated yourself. serena williams is a young woman that i really admire and she blew me away at the french open when she won, she accepted the award in french during the time she was practicing with a coach to win, she also had a tutor who taught her to speak french fluently because He said: I'm going to win.

All victories are carried out twice, first in the mine and then outside, and that's it. What I want you to do now I want you to think about who you have to be because who you have been, said Einstein, the thought that has brought me here has created some problems that this thought cannot solve so that this will be an explosive year for you to for your business to grow by leaps and bounds you have to be a different person you have to die to who you are now to give birth to who you must become so I want you to think about what radical change will occur what will be different in you think about it what will change for you what It is in terms of your attitude in terms of the number of people you talk to in terms of your conviction in terms of how you organize yourself in terms of your drive and determination what will be different for you winning is a regiment it is a routine in which you get involved I have a habit of reading 30 to 40 pages of something positive every day most people never achieve their goals because their heads are full of junk and they are victims of what I call weapons of mass distractions, they are distracted by things in this world that will not lead them towards their dream, raise your energy level, yes, you can't be like that. everyone else you have to increase your energy level you have to have a vision you have it's a difference between having the vision and the vision having you you can't listen to the naysayers you don't want to waste time trying to convince someone to do this business a person convinced against his will has the same opinion still you have to be convinced in your spirit I am going to do this I am going to make this happen I am going to achieve my goals you have to determine you have to tell yourself I am bigger than my circumstances I'm bigger than what I'm going through now We all go through something called life It's called things Charles Udall said that in life you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.

See it as something that is testing you. Things will happen to you here so you can have a full life knowing that things are going to happen. let it happen expect the unexpected no matter what happens use everything for your uplifting learning and growth whatever happens use it for your uplifting learning and growing through it ask what can I learn from this what can I get from this how did I finish Up here is something for you and everything that happens to you so that you learn from that experience. Look at it, examine it, analyze it, dissect it, take it apart until it is revealed to you and then get what you need from it and move on, but everything. that's what's happening to you you have a friend she stutters and I said are you taking any special class to stop stuttering she said I didn't say why because it helps my business I said how when I go to someone I tell them now if you're busy I'll be back because I stutter and they used to say oh no no you can't tell me right now this is my product and she said after reviewing it if they say no she said well you don't understand leave me alone I tell you again and I see thatThey say oh no, no, it's okay, how much did you say, okay, don't say it, don't tell me anymore, okay, just let me know how much I need to give you so you can get everything.

Get out of here so she turned that stutter into her advantage someone says if your life gives you lemon write a cookbook with lemon no matter what happens turn it to your benefit