LES BROWN>>you must work on yourself continuously never be satisfied with yourself always
know that as you invest the effort and time on you that's the greatest ability
that human beings have above animals see a dog can't be anything but a dog tree
can't be anything but a tree human being you've got unlimited potential
you can put effort on you and by concentrating on you and developing you
you can transform your life wherever you are right now
and as you continue to work on yourself you will begin to expand your vision of
yourself you'll begin to work towards self mastery and you will begin to see
it reflected self in all the dimensions of your life your mental life your
physical life your social life in your relationships your monetary life so
concentrate on developing yourself the next thing is develop a health plan so
you can't feel well and do well if you don't have good health you can't perform
if you don't have your health you'll help this valuable develop a
health plan a plan that you will follow because this is the only vehicle that
you have to carry you through this experience called life and you want to
take good care of it because you love you enough you care enough about you and
that's not easy it is not easy having a health plan and sticking to it
you want to live life with energy and passion you want to make a conscious
effort to be Lively you want to be happy you got a lot to be thankful for so
you've got to learn to stand up to yourself inside yourself and
short-circuit override that conversation that's always going on 85% of what that
conversation will tell you is negative it's negative it will tell you you're
tied when you really are not tired it will tell you you can't do it it will
feel you in fear so you've got to watch that conversation and when you find it
going on you've got to stand up to it and say I'm gonna do this anyhow I'm
afraid but I'm afraid not to do it and I'm not going to let you stop me the
biggest challenge that you will have in life is you there's an old African
proverb that says is this no enemy within the enemy outside can do us no
harm
what do you want what gives you your life what how will you know when you got
what will make you happy
you need to know you need to start asking yourself some questions what do I
really really truly want you need to be exact about that
don't be feyo I just want to be happy that's too vague what will make you
happy how will you know when you got in what you've done with your life thus far
is it giving you what you want is it giving you what you want when you look
toward the future when you look at all this going on out here is there some
place within yourself you say hey I know I need to be out there in that arena I
know I can do more than what I've been doing I know there's some great music
that I have within me that I haven't brought out here is that something that
you begin to look at within yourself so I used to do that and I used to go to
big rallies and see guys up speaking when I wasn't courageous enough to go
out there and say hey my name is les rotten the motivator made me Brown's boy
I want to talk I would never do that I just was I just be back there looking at
if it wanted to get their autograph it would say can I can I meet you mr.
Lister Wiggly or miss can I meet mr. Zig Ziglar please tell him who are you let's
Brown because I've felt within myself hours ago - they want my to go talk to
these guys and go get their autographs I'd like to do what you do
see I say if you look at your life and if you're not getting what you want you
owe it to yourself to do something differently you are if you want a job
eighty-five percent they say of Americans go to jobs but they're unhappy
if you're doing something eight hours a day that you don't like it's not giving
you what you want it's not giving you a strong feeling of satisfaction and
fulfillment you're miserable you hate to go there you're depressed just thinking
about it you're saying they thank God it's Friday song every week it's giving
you headaches just thinking about it on Sunday afternoon after the football game
goes off if that's what it is you owe it to yourself to start strategically
working to change directions see but you know what most people will do most
people will resist change most people will fight change as if
change would be worse than what they're experiencing see they know this they're
familiar with this most people will not challenge the unknown they won't just
step out there see this well see there certain things has got to be in place
they got to see it all together and like this and like that that's not how you
grow so as you look at your life you say I'm not getting what I want
as you begin to look toward the future begin to know that whatever it takes for
you to create that you've got that in you you got that you've got genius in
you you've got goodness in you you've got creativeness in you if you decide to
take the initiative to change the current quality of your life I say to
you that you will find that the universe is on your side then life is on your
side now will it be turbulent yes would it be easy no no well you have some
opposition yes will I make a lot of mistakes yes will I get hurt yes yes see
a lot of people won't try anything different in life because they don't
want to get hurt let me tell you something it's too much pain to doc pain
is everywhere you can hide under here it will come where you are
I'm really if I go back to your pay to come hey les come on out it will come
it's everywhere Viktor Frankl cause it unavoidable suffering you can't duck it
but most people spend their life not wanting to deal with the pain of
rejection the pain of defeat the pain of being disappointed the pain of losing
the pain of failure the pain of being criticized the pain of not being liked
the pain the pain the pain that's called life life is full of pain it's
everywhere but guess what there's no gain without pain now if you won't hurt
anyhow get some yardage out of it
because it's the pain of regret that you experience if I had it to do over again
that's a pain don't you know that's it when you know I was in a seminar once
and this lady's stood up if I had my life to live over again she talked about
all of the things that she would do and you can feel the pain of regret in her
voice a pain of regret she still experience pain she was trying
not to experience the pain of defeat the pain of disappointment the pain of loss
the pain of lack of support and she still experienced pain it was right
there we can't get around it most people are
governed by their habits the fears and the opinions of others a lot of people
never try anything differently because they have been convinced by people in
their lives that they value that they can't do it they're living within the
context of the opinions that other people have of them the low expectations
many people doubt themselves because when they thought about doing something
at some critical point in their life somebody they respected and honored
somebody they believed in somebody that they loved someone they trusted said you
can't do that and they accepted that that's why I didn't go off to college
I had an instructor that I believed who said you're not college material mr.
Brown you're not as smart as your brother Wesley or your sister Margaret
and you're not college material why don't you try and get you a job at the
post office
try and do something with your hand I'll go down to the Miami city sanitation
department if he can you get a job there oh why don't you try and go into the
army I took that test mr. Tillis already what happened I fail I told you anybody
fail the army test you're really in trouble so I went down to the Sanitation
Department to try and get a job because that's what I believed was possible for
me as you look at your life ask yourself
the question what would your life be like what would your life look like if
you decided not to care what people thought of you what would your life be
like if you decided to give up some of your fears what would your life be like
if you decided to become courageous what would you like be like if you decided to
act on your dream if you did what you felt in your heart you know what
courageous means Tom Ruskin and Randy Reed said they said that courage comes
from a French word which means of the heart that how does it feel to you he
says such courage you know it takes courage to live since most people go
through life not allowing themselves to step out because they don't want to let
go they don't want to be blown around they don't want to be moved the courage
to face life's whirling wind of contradictions the courage to love
yourself the courage to love for years I was afraid to love the courage to take a
chance the courage to be who you are
he says courage isn't for somebody else for metals applause immoral debts
courage is what at that moment feels most right for you
not just situational ethics but what feels right in your heart the word of
the heart what feels right in your heart one great philosopher says cowards die
many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but
once what does that mean the valiant people aren't afraid no no no it means
that they experience that fear and they move forward and move forward any how
many people are dead now many people allowing their dreams to die
many people applying the ideas to lie dormant and collect dust
many people have all this talent and ability that they are lying to be
embedding side of them that they will take with them to their games because
they didn't have the courage to be who they are and I say as you begin to look
to all the future and manifesting your braveness it's going to take everything
in you everything in you that your life deserves the concentrated effort to
begin to look at how is it that I can express more of me how is it that I can
bring my ideas out here now how is it and start living with a sense of urgency
because you're here today you're gone today life is unpredictable it's
uncertain there's no guarantees no guarantees out here at all so holding
back what are you waiting on ask yourself what's the benefit of your
waiting what's the benefit of your not living your dream what's the benefit of
not listening to yourself oh please listen to yourself you know
the feelings that you started listening to the feelings in your heart and I'm
doing it down lore every day I find that my feelings I can trust them and I say
to you that as you look toward the future you looked at life on a daily
basis if there's something that you have been given if you've heard something
within yourself that you know that that what you're doing now doesn't fit
you it doesn't work for you it's not giving you what you want and there's
something else that you want to do don't allow that inner doubt in you to talk
you out of it to build a case on why you can't have it
to tell you why you're not good enough you ignore that in a voice and all of
the external voices don't judge the possibilities for what you can do based
upon the circumstances because the circumstances won't determine who you
are don't determine what you're able to do based upon your resources don't
determine what's possible for you based upon where your life is right now where
your life is right now is not you that's just what it is right now but the
possibilities for you are unlimited if you're in a rebuilding process it's
unlimited if you're coming back from adversity and devastation it's unlimited
of what you can do that's the capacity of human beings it doesn't matter how
many mistakes you've made doesn't matter how many flops you've had doesn't matter
how much money you've lost in fact I see it only as an investment what you learn
from life not losses but investments of what's possible for you and I say to you
that once you start listening to yourself and as you began to act on your
dream as you start just trying to find your way doing what you can what you
have you will start seeing things opening up for you start attracting
people you say where'd it come from things will start coming together
clicking for you say whoa you start brainstorming ideas will come out of
nowhere as you focus on it the key to it is to begin to focus on what it is you
want to do why that's why is that important because as you focus on that
which you want to do that which we focus on that which we give our energy to it
will begin to multiply it will begin to expand it will begin to develop your
consciousness and out of that comes your greatness out of that comes a commitment
out of that comes a passion for life out of that comes a special power that you
have in you that you haven't even called on yet see the the powers that we have
will never reveal themselves if we don't challenge them
if we don't put ourselves in a position where we have to use them so one of the
most important things is reading a book that's a really interesting book called
instant millionaire and the guy said put yourself in a position where you can't
retreat where it's do-or-die sink or swim
here's what you'll find out you'll develop incredible swimming skills or
swallow half the pool of life you'll find yourself stroking unlike you've
ever seen before through the inspiration of desperation you'll become more
creative than ever before so what is it how do we handle that whole piece throw
your whole self into it see most people go at it tentatively they don't give all
their stuff they don't concentrate they don't put everything they've got in them
one guy wrote a book called all you can do is all you can do and all you can do
is enough but he said make sure you do all you can do and if we honest this
evening we know that we haven't done all we can do so as we look at the future we
can decide that from this day forward as I look at my personal relationships if I
look at my professional relationships if I look at my family relationships if I
look at all the dimensions of my life looking at myself mentally emotionally
and spiritually I'm going to do all I can do to develop me to bring my talent
out here to make a contribution to life