THERE’S GREATNESS WITHIN YOU – Motivational Speech for Success 2017

this man has got to be the greatest
preacher since Jesus John Lennon looked
at me he said I can’t say that I said
why he said I never see Jesus preach he
said I know Jesus is the greatest healer
but up in here preach it he’s got to
earn his props now but just meeting him
personally apart from being a great
preacher a visionary and strategist and
marketing genius but this man is just a
good person just down-home cornbread
good person he just saw good there I
love that vibe he’s just all good there
and we share the same passion I want to
ask you how many of you have some major
goals you want to achieve raise your
hands please
very good I want to ask you another
question if you had your life to live
over again you could do more than what
you’ve done thus far raise your hands
very good I want you to shake somebody’s
hand on your right and left look them in
the eyes and say you have something
special do that quickly please
I say that not to be kind to you not to
be courteous I said that because it’s
true you have something special you have
greatness within you you have talents
abilities and skills that you don’t even
know that you have and then the limited
time that I have to share with you I’m
going to share some ideas and concepts
with you that I want you to take some
notes now I want to make this clear
number one everything that I’m going to
say you already know it it’s a part of
who you are
we’re cut from the same cloth you
wouldn’t be here you wouldn’t have
invested your money your time and your
energy to be in this place to be a part
of this man power conference if what we
talked about with you at this particular
time did not represent a part of who you
are your consciousness and your value
system and your philosophy of life so
I’m going to only confirm and validate
that which is a part of you anyhow
that’s number one everything I’m gonna
say you already know this it’s common
sense but not common practice
second thing is everything I’m going to
say you heard it before Bishop Jake’s is
not only a great preaching visionary and
lecturer but he’s a great motivator a
great strategist he provides concepts to
help people to deal with the whole
person spiritually mentally economically
our communities every area of our lives
last night when I saw the ministry that
was going on in the prisons thought
about the scripture that says the least
that you do under these my children you
do it also unto me that kind of vision
that kind of commitment that kind of
stand that it’s taken with his life in a
historical context one day when
historians look back on this age they
will see the imprint and the impact that
he’s made the next thing is not only
that you already know what I’m gonna
share with you and you’ve heard it
before from Bishop Jake’s and many other
great speakers everything I’m gonna say
I don’t want you to agree with me and I
don’t want you to believe me
that’s not important I wanna share with
you some ideas and concepts has made a
difference in my life I want you to
think about something that you want to
create in your life experience right now
some goal that you
some spiritual goal that you’d like to
achieve some contribution you like to
leave to humanity Horace Mann said we
should be ashamed to die until we’ve
made some major contribution to
humankind once you think about some
major goal that you’d like to achieve
think about it right now something
that’s important to you my first major
goal was to buy my mother a home that’s
something I wanted to do that was
important to me I’m one of seven
children my mother adopted I was born in
a poor section of Miami Florida called
Liberty City I was born in an abandoned
building on a floor with a twin brother
when we were six weeks of age we were
adopted when I was in the fifth grade I
was terrified at zmr labeled educable
mentally retarded put back from the
fifth grade and to the fourth grade I
fail again when I was in the eighth
grade
I don’t have any college training but
between my mother and a high school
teacher that I met by the name of Leroy
Washington made a dramatic difference in
my life and gave me a larger vision of
myself and so therefore my first major
goal was to take care of my mama I
really identified with Deion Sanders
last night I feel like Abraham Lincoln
who said all that I am and all that ever
hoped to be I owe to my mother and so
that’s what I wanted to do buy my mother
a home let her sit home and I go to work
and take care of her that was important
to me and I achieved that goal my mother
passed three years ago from breast
cancer my goal now is to raise millions
of dollars for breast cancer research my
goal now is to alert men over 40 to get
their prostate examination last year I
was diagnosed with prostate cancer and
given a very limited prognosis one of
the things I strongly believe when we
gave you a handout
indicating that doctors should never
tell a person that they are terminally
ill what they should say my knowledge of
my ability has terminated now you need
to go someplace else and get some help
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they should determine the diagnosis God
determines the prognosis
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so every man here if you 40 years old
go get your prostate examination don’t
get your PSA test which is a blood test
go get your digital rectal examination I
assure you it is not a pleasant
experience it’s not something you look
forward to doing it but go do what you
got to do anyhow I was at a major
medical convention and they were giving
free rectal exams guys ahead last come
on man let me give you an examination I
said no you too motivated brother no way
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no no you can’t come up in here
how do you get motivated to do that you
know what I’m talking about
no 58% of men don’t go get the test tell
you showing the symptoms it is a number
one killer of men it’s serious and so
therefore I’m telling you part of my
mission is to alert you
I came up two at a time we believe what
you don’t know can’t hurt you what you
don’t know can kill you go get your
examination and encourage your brothers
and your uncles and your friends do the
same thing so we can reduce the number
of men that will die from prostate
cancer over the next year or 40,000 we
can reduce that number by early
detection
now the other goal I have is training
and developing speakers I don’t travel
like I used to since I’ve been given
this health opportunity remember
something that that TD jakes said he
said if you got a problem that man could
solve you ain’t got no problem yeah I
mean true words could not have been
spoken when I was diagnosed with
prostate cancer I’m telling you I start
talking to Jesus more than ever talked
before I increased my tithe by 30
percent I’ll try to cut a deal
I said lord if you save me let me tell
you thank Paul work for you just save me
like I’m trying to get him to move it
someplace else
put it in my toe anywhere not hard who
are you hi Dave
is it it’s amazing how spiritual you
could get it you think you go down
whoa
I’ll tell you truth I used to pray so
hard I got shaved I went to so much in
1997 if somebody went through that and
then also filed for divorce from someone
that I loved very much I thought we were
the perfect couple and I thought we
would be together for the rest of our
lives and so I learned that thing the
two about life and the challenges of
life one of the things I strongly
believe that in life you either in a
problem but just live won or hit it
toward word so part of what I’m doing is
training and developing speakers I have
a gift in that area helping a person
find their message and how to use their
life example to craft an experience a
special moment for an audience to
transform their lives and teaching
methods and techniques how to reinvent
themselves training and duplicating
myself through men and women and young
people because I believe that we live in
the greatest country on the planet
that gives us an opportunity to make a
difference in other people’s lives now I
know what your goal is but I want you to
visualize it right now and repeat after
me with power and conviction let us say
together it’s possible together please
say it again please
see that’s the first step I want you to
think about this goal that you want I
want you to envision it and see it in
your mind’s eye and every day say to
yourself that it’s possible see most
people are not accumulating wealth most
people are living in poverty most people
are living far below their potential not
because they don’t have the capacity not
because they have not been given
authority and dominion over everything
on the face of the earth but most people
are living like they’re living because
of the fact that they don’t believe they
can have anymore than what they now have
and the book called a mis-education of
the negro doctor ecology Woodson says if
you can determine what a man shall think
you’ll never have to couldn’t discern
yourself with what he will do if you can
make a man feel inferior you’ll never
have to compel him to seek an imperious
status well he will seek it himself and
if you can make a man feel justly an
outcast you never have to order him to
go to the back door he’ll go without
being told and if there’s no door this
very nature will demand one that’s why
scripture reminds us be not conformed to
this world but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind so everyday you
have to sell yourself and get out of
your mind those old thoughts that old
belief system every day you’ve got to
sell yourself on that it’s possible that
you got to put a new mind in you you got
to get out of your mind you got to begin
to restructure your thinking every day
you’ve got to begin to recondition your
mind see many of us go through life
making choices thinking it’s our choices
and it’s not what do you mean by that
a reminder of the great anthropologist
Margaret me she was in a restaurant in
Europe and a waiter saw her and said oh
how are you I’m so glad to see you he
said there are several other Americans
here tonight and she said is that right
he said yes he said when you served in
dessert let me know and I’ll tell you
exactly how many are here he said that’s
not possible
she said let me know after you serve
dessert when he served dessert he came
back and he told her she got up she walk
around and she looked and she observed
and she said you have exactly 65
Americans here he checked the guest list
and he was amazed he said how did you
know that she said because in Europe
when you eat a slice of pie or cake you
eat it from the back toward the tip in
America when we eat a slice of pie or
cake we eat it from the tip toward the
back how many of you when you eat a
slice of pie a cake you eat it from the
tip toward the back raise your hands
please good not what else is in your
mind what else are you doing
unconsciously that you don’t even know
I’m going to say something and I want
you to answer it after it I want you to
end it for me Winston tastes good like
what how many of you don’t even smoke
Winston but know it raise your hands
please now that commercial been off the
air for thirty years thirty years
see let me share something with you the
easiest thing I’ve ever done was to earn
a million dollars the most difficult
thing I’ve ever done was to believe it
could happen to me that was the most
difficult part to believe that given my
circumstances if my birth parents came
down this aisle right now I
not know either one if my daddy came up
here but my mother came up here given
the fact that I was born an abandoned
building on a floor being labeled
educable mentally retarded not having
any college trading I used to feel all
my life that people who had college
degrees were more intelligent than me I
remember going to see the late dr.
norman vincent peale the author of the
book the power of positive thinking and
I used to look at him up on stage and I
said I could do that I would love to
talk to people I’d love to talk to
people and I said I could do that but
then when I started going back to my car
my mental conditioning activated itself
and it said let’s Ron you can’t do that
you don’t have a college education less
Ron you can’t do that you don’t have the
training you’ve never worked for a major
corporation you can do that what makes
you think you can earn 5 10 15 20
thousand dollars in an hour you don’t
earn that not working for two or three
months what makes you think that you can
speak for AT&T Proctor and Gamble
McDonald’s Corporation General Electric
these are clients I have that you’ve
never even worked for them how many you
ever thought about something you wanted
to do and you talk yourself out of
iterate your hand if you know what I’m
talking about
that inner conversation is what’s gonna
haunt you after standing here and saying
I can do all things with Christ who
strengthens me after saying that again
and again we are more than conquerors
that inner conversation will cost you
when you leave here to go back leading a
life of mediocrity leading a life of
unproductivity
leading a life of poverty so I’m going
to share with you how to break out of
that
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I want to share with you how to reach
your goals I think the Bible’s greatest
motivational book ever been written now
I want you to repeat after me please we
got to recondition our minds first let
us say together good things that’s
supposed to happen to be
yeah write that down I want you to say
that to yourself every day see we live
in a world where we believe that bad
things are supposed to happen to us
I remember the part of my life bishop
when things are going good for me and I
said this is too good to be true
something is bound to happen guess what
it did
thou shalt decree a thing that shall be
established under you and shall
accomplish that win – it has been sent
watch your words watch what you say
about yourself about your affairs be
conscious of that on a daily basis why
because your words are powerful in the
beginning was the word life and death is
in the tongue watch what you say never
say I’m broke
say I’m overcoming a cash flow problem
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claim what you want not what you don’t
want so affirm good things that suppose
to happen to me and begin to believe
that began to expect that now I was
talking to my oldest son Calvin we were
going for a walk and I said Calvin do
you want to be successful he said yes
sir dad so okay we kept on walking then
I stopped and I looked him in the eyes
it’s my namesake my junior that’s it
Calvin
we’re looking at each other eye to eye
now do you expect to be successful given
the fact that you are a single parent of
two kids given the fact that you decided
not to go to college to further your
education given the fact that you’re
very talented but you’re behind on your
dreams and your bills do you expect
based upon your performance based upon
what you produced at this point in time
in your life do you expect to be
successful and Calvin got quiet but you
see if you ask those people at the
manpower conference do you want to be
successful do you want to live a life of
productivity do you want to live a life
of contribution do you want to be a
better father do you want to have your
own business other dreams you want
everybody will say yes but see Warren
shows up in conversation expectation
shows up in behavior say I can tell what
you expect by what you do that’s why the
Bible says judge it’s a tree by the
fruit it bears
not the fruit that it wants not the
fruit that it talks about not the fruit
that it claims but by what you are doing
see what you do when you leave here when
the music stops when the shouting dies
down your behavior how you conduct
yourself writing your goals down
deciding to enroll in school to get a
GED deciding to sit in the class with
children young enough to be your
grandchildren decide to find some
products some idea of some service that
you can provide so that you can begin to
create some value for yourself so you
can create well and let me tell you
something ladies and gentlemen it’s very
important that we begin to learn how to
create well I’m not talking about loving
money so I believe that a lack of money
is the root of all evil people are steal
for money people have killed for money
people go to jail for money every time
the unemployment goes up in those areas
where the unemployment is high that’s
where you have the highest incidence of
crime and violence whenever the
unemployment goes up 1% in our community
10,000 children and women are better
what money makes a difference in your
life I never wanted to be rich all I’ve
ever wanted to do was to be comfortable
how many of everyone to be comfortable
raise your hands then I realize not to
be comfortable you got to be rich
no friend of mine Zig Ziglar said people
say money won’t make you happy but
everybody want to find out for
themselves
Rina Davenport say money and important
put it right up there with oxygen
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and let me tell you something fellas
even if he was homeless I am if you got
some money women will find something
cute on you
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he got it loaded like Denzel honey money
makes a difference I used to be so broke
when creditors would call the house my
children would answer the phone to say
bye daddy say I was on broke at one time
my life I walked by bacon tripped the
alarm
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I’d say you poverty sucks you hear me
repeat after me please I’ll never be
broke again
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yes write that down I affirm that I’ll
never be broke again
never never will I ever be broke again
let me tell you what money does number
one it gives you control over your life
write that down
number two it gives you options three it
allows you to live a life of
contribution to contribute to things
that you feel strongly about like this
ministry and the work a project mm we’ll
be doing the change the lives of young
people
Bishop Jake’s vision is that we can have
little league football teams and
baseball teams and basketball teams then
we can have Little League dermatologists
and cardiologists and endocrinologist so
he is now establishing an institution
project mm to give our young people the
methods the techniques to reinvent
themselves as we go into the next
millennium and this era that Peter
Drucker calls the era of the three C’s
accelerated change overwhelming
complexity and tremendous competition so
here’s the first step to accumulating
wealth if you expected to it write this
down you must be willing to do the
things today others won’t do in order to
have the things tomorrow others won’t
have that’s why the book of life said
the road to life is straight and narrow
and few there be that find it because
fuel there will be that are willing to
do the things today others won’t do in
order to have the things tomorrow others
won’t have what are the things that
others won’t do number one make
discipline a major force in your life
how many of you know if you’d have been
more disciplined you’d be further long
to reach your goals right now
Socrates said the undisciplined life is
an insane life the road to life is
straight and narrow because few there be
that are willing to discipline
themselves here’s something else that
most people won’t do make it okay to
fail a lot of people 85% of people allow
their fear of failure to outweigh their
desire to succeed repeat after me please
anything that’s worth doing
is worth doing badly
yes anything is worth doing is worth
doing right as we have been taught if
you know how to do it but if you don’t
know how to do it is worth doing badly
until you get it right I bet you and I
wasn’t there I bet you that when Bishop
TD jakes first stood up to preach when
he gave his trial sermon he did not have
a command he did not have the mastery he
did not have the confidence he did not
have the depth he did not have the
capacity to translate and milk scripture
like he did last night when he first
started out now write this down you
don’t have to be great to get started
but you have to get started to be great
the first time I set up the speak I
stood up and my mind set down I looked
at the audience and I panicked I had to
introduce a play it’s cool
we’ll both whip up the stone ran up mr.
Washington mr. Brown where are you going
on mr. wash and I I can’t think I don’t
know did you rehearse yes sir I did well
what’s wrong why did you say you’re Liza
I don’t know I don’t know Sal I just I
got it then I looked at them and
everything let me let me do it another
day please sir no go back out there mr.
Brown mr. Washington how miss appley
circle
don’t don’t don’t send me out there now
I’ll mess up mr. Brown if you run now
you will always be running anything
that’s worth doing it’s worth doing
badly until you get it right why are you
moving like that I’ve got to go to
bathroom sir mr. Brown go back out there
yes sir
astana play called 12 Angry Men directed
by mr. Leroy Washington that ran off the
next day they dogged me out
they talked about me so bad
the next time another event came up mr.
Washington mr. Brown you were up I said
no mr. Washington everybody says no not
him I said they’re right mr. Washington
not me he said mr. Brown you are up yes
sir and I went out and pretty soon when
people laughed at me didn’t bother me
they would throw paper and I can catch
it without losing my concentration
and then one day I came out and a hush
went across the audience because it must
have been something about me that
indicated that I had come to myself and
mr. washing had been practicing with me
to give a presentation and I looked at
the audience and I said I choose not to
be a common man it’s my right to be
uncommon if I can I seek opportunity not
security I do not wish to be a kept
citizen humbled and dull by having the
state look after me I want to take the
calculated risk to dream and to build to
fail and to succeed I refuse to live
from hand to mouth I prefer the
challenges of life to the guaranteed
existence the thrill of fulfillment to
the stale calm of utopia
I will never cower before any master nor
been to any threat it’s my heritage to
stand erect proud and unafraid to face
tomorrow boldly and say this I have done
girl stood up say that’s my boy Freddie
I like me from that fried baby but I
didn’t start off like that you have
something special you have talents and
abilities in you that you don’t even
know so how do we begin to create wealth
let me give you some some ideas
number one write this down knowledge
what knowledge that you have in this
economy part of what we need that people
are willing to pay you for that next is
talent
what talent Deon’s talents playing
football I’d have that as a talent my
talent is talking to me that my
definition of success is doing what you
love to do and find somebody to pay you
to do it so I find people to pay me to
talk I talk I bought a game to this you
to this country called beard whiz that I
invented and as I talk I shoot pool I
sipped if I make you tear up your cars
break your cue stick cuz I talk a lot of
trash I throw you all
you’ve never been to Boston out take you
there
so I learned how to signify talk trash
alright so I make a living talking trash
280 I make more in one hour than ninety
percent of the American public earn
working for a whole year doing what I
love to do that I’ve developed my talent
you want to master your talent find out
what it is that you love to do I love to
talk scripture is another key that says
to us of what we need to do to begin to
develop ourselves
Luke 1234 where your treasure is there
will your heart be also so what do you
love to do and then explore ways in
which you can earn a living doing that
cooking writing painting working with
numbers working with people the other
thing is not only must you have
knowledge talent some skill but the
other thing that’s important faith to
act on whatever your dream is see if you
don’t believe in yourself how many
people you know that have a lot of time
a lot of abilities but they don’t
believe in themselves raise your hands
cf faith is very important so the faith
to act on those dreams those desires
hear scripture that I that I like very
much
primer is 1616 chapter third verse
commit thy works unto the Lord and I
thoughts shall be established commit
means to carry into action deliberately
commit means to make it happen no matter
what commitment the difference between
next time you have bigger names the
chicken was involved the pig was
committed he had to give it all up
that’s gonna take a minute to sink in
all right see when you make a commitment
I’m going to become wealthy when you
make it important
when you decide I’m gonna do it no
matter what life changes for you see
most people don’t keep their commitments
to their commitments that’s why they
lead lives of poverty lives of misery
lives of unhappiness Socrates said the
uncommitted life isn’t worth living
it’s a part of what you must do whatever
commitment or whatever covenant you make
with God while you here to go back to be
a better father to go back to make a
difference in the community to go back
to change your life to decide not to
ever to use drugs or alcohol again to
decide to bid that you’re going to begin
to recreate yourself that you’re going
to be reborn to a new state of
consciousness whatever commitment that
you make keep your commitment to your
commitment no matter what if it’s hard
then do it hard but keep your commitment
to your commitment and then it says that
works see now most people look at that
commit that works most people look at
activity that one engages in to achieve
a predetermined objective but works
commit guy works it PluralEyes –is an S
they’re learned this for Bishop you got
to watch these things in Scripture just
can’t go on the surface there’s an S
then say commit by work whatever task
whatever talent whatever skill whatever
knowledge you have and begin to make
money doing that making a difference
impacting people’s lives but commit that
work so there’s two kinds of work
there’s external work activity that
you’re engaged in and there is internal
work now why is that important Pharisee
said the Jesus wind chill the kingdom of
God come became of God coming not by
observation they shall say it’s neither
low very low here behold the kingdom of
God within you
it’s within you seek you first the
kingdom and all these things will be
added unto you wealth good relationship
peace of mind good hell better community
whatever you want to desire a more
powerful ministry so the work is
internal as well as external so
therefore number one is first step is
you got to live your calling you got to
decide what is it you love second thing
is you’ve got to work on yourself write
this down on the work on yourself you
don’t get in life what you want you get
in life what you are you have a ministry
and you have 300 people that’s a
reflection of you you have 2,000 that’s
a reflection of you you have a job
you’re generating 1,200 dollars a year
or $2,000 of $500,000 whatever you earn
whatever you’re producing in your life
is reflection of you
that’s why says judge a tree by the
fruit it bears I can look at what you’re
producing and I can tell you a lot about
who you are and if you look at people
who are living below their potential and
sinning and sin and the Aramaic language
means falling short of the mark I asked
a question earlier how many of you have
goals the raise your hands how many of
you know if you had your life to live
over again you can do more than what
you’ve done the majority of us raise our
hands then that was an indication that
was testimony to reflect the fact that
you are palade operating below your
potential that’s a sin here in my father
glorified that ye bear much fruit then
just say fruit much fruit see when you
leave here you’ve got to make a
commitment to be more fruitful for thee
to be more productive to make greater
impact so what will allow you to do that
you got to spend time working on
yourself in order to do write this down
in order to do something you’ve never
done you’ve got to be someone you
never been in order to do something
you’ve never done you got to be someone
you’ve never been that’s why scripture
says you must be born again
you’ve got to die as you are now you’ve
got to be willing to give up who you are
now for what you can become certain
things will no longer fit
into your life there’s no place for it
in order to do something you’ve never
done you’ve got to be someone you’ve
never been so you got a spin serious
time reading writing your ghost out
reading scripture anchoring yourself
spiritually to handle the storms of life
because they’re going to come
you’ve got to read things that will help
to develop your mind your consciousness
your attitude this man changed my life
mr. Leroy Washington I was in his class
one day and I was waiting on another
student he came in he said young man go
to the board and work this problem out
for me I said um I can’t do that sir he
said why not I’m not going to be
students sir he said it doesn’t matter
go to the board and work the problem out
anyhow I I can’t do what you’re asking
me to do sir why not because I’m a
mágico but mentally retarded sir and
all the kids laughed because they knew I
was in special education and then he
came from behind his desk he looked at
me he said don’t you ever say that again
someone’s opinion of you does not have
to become your reality
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most of us live it in the context of
somebody else’s opinion of us I saw a
movie a few weeks ago called The Truman
Show with Jim Carrey not a very popular
movie but there was one line in there
that made it worth the movie for me this
young man was born under the camera to
somebody said about a gigantic studio
and created the life of a real person to
act out in the context of a soap opera
everybody knew but him all of it was
created was fabricated and then when he
discovered it he was trying to escape
and a guy said he won’t get out and the
guy said why he said he won’t leave the
guy said why would you say that
he said because most people accept the
reality that they have been given here
that see most people are not creating
wealth why because they were born in
poverty and they go for life unconscious
they don’t know that they can have more
they don’t know that they can be more
they say the words I can do all things
with kreisel strength of me we’re more
than conquerors but subconsciously and
that’s how you judge if a person really
knows if you know it you’re doing it if
you’re not you’re living it if you know
it you’re manifesting it you’re
producing it and so therefore as you
look at yourself you’ve got to have this
vision of yourself beyond your
circumstances you’ve got to see yourself
every day I can do this I can make this
happen I’m blessed and highly favored
good things are supposed to happen to me
you’ve got to see yourself every day
working on your goals here so I want you
to once you get a three by five card and
here’s the scripture I want you to put
on the back of that God Matthew seventh
chapter and the seventh first ask and it
shall be given you seek and ye shall
find knock and it shall be opened unto
you for every one that asketh receiveth
he that seeketh findeth and to him that
knocketh it shall be opened now put that
on one side of the car and on the flip
side write your gold down and read that
three times a day whatever that goal is
my goal was about my mother home I read
that three times a day ask and it shall
be given seek and ye shall find not
gonna she’ll be open every day I have a
goal right now my goals on this card I
read it three times a day sometimes more
I read that scripture that I read my
goal to put that in my subconscious mind
why our thoughts have magnetic power
demonstration how many have ever thought
about somebody they call you out of the
blue raise your hands please you said I
was just thinking about you you were on
my mind she thought to have power we
think according to psychologists 40 to
50 thousand thoughts a day
so well now you want to begin to horn in
on your thoughts keep an eye single you
want to focus you want to begin to
discipline yourself to control your
thinking most people never achieve their
goals because they allow themselves to
be sidetracked by secondary activities
the distractions of life Peter would
still be walking on the water
had he not allowed himself to be
distracted people are all concerned
about the scandal that’s going on in the
White House obsessed with it going out
buying newspapers and books to read
about it they should be obsessed by
their own lives what’s it to thee you
should be so focused so busy on your own
life keeping the main thing the main
thing
until you oblivious as to what’s going
on around you you don’t have time people
asked me do you think you did it I don’t
know and I don’t care
it’s not putting any money in my pocket
and I was advising him when I went into
that grand jury all I would have done it
just started speaking in tongues that
I’ll fix them
jambalaya chowder
[Applause]
Danka what would Kim star say then
cross-examine there
[Applause]
they wouldn’t have been able to get him
on perjury
here lies we read the next day the
president spoke in tongues my law
[Applause]
I got a pray for y’all y’all so bill sum
it all right here’s the other thing you
got to become a risk-taker write that
down
this job said if you’re not willing to
risk you can’t grow and if you can’t
grow you can’t become your best and if
you can’t become your best you can’t be
happy and if you can’t be happy then
what else is there you know what I saw
dr. Norman Vincent Peale 23 years ago
but for 13 years I wouldn’t take the
chance for 13 years I was living in my
comfort zone for 13 years I kept saying
let’s run you can’t do that let’s drown
you can’t have that kind of audience Les
Brown you don’t have the oratorical
skills you don’t have the knowledge you
don’t have the money I kept saying I
can’t do that there’s an old African
proverb that says if there’s no enemy
within the enemy outside can do us no
harm
Bishop talks about the enemy in me if
there’s no enemy within how many of you
know that you’ve been your own worst
enemy raise your hands
so you’ve got to be willing to get
outside your comfort zone and no one
could have told me that the willingness
to get outside of my comfort zone the
willingness to fail the willingness to
try to experiment the willingness to
take some chances the willingness to do
something I’ve never done that in the
last 12 years for 13 years
I convinced himself I couldn’t do it
then the last 12 years I’ve earned in
excess of 14 million dollars let me tell
you some 14 million dollars a good
garden and I helped me halt and you can
make it through the winner and
Birmingham Alabama do you hear me no one
could have told me I have two books live
your dreams and it’s not over until you
win no one could have told me born in an
abandoned building on the floor labeled
educable mentally retarded no college
training no one could have told me I
would have produced five specials for
public television then I’ve had three
years ago the highest-rated fastest
cancelled talk show in the history of
television because I wouldn’t do those
conflict and controversy shows no one
could have told me I had no idea that I
can do what I’m doing right now let me
tell you what I know about you and I
don’t know you you got greatness within
you have won a doctor ha doctor um kings
mentors dr. Howard Thurman said
something one night I was reading and I
couldn’t sleep
he said the ideal situation for a man a
woman to die if they have family members
standing around their bed praying with
him as they cross over he said but
imagine if you will being on your
deathbed and standing around you are the
ideas the dreams that have been given to
you by life the talents the gifts that
you’ve never nurtured that you never
develop the skills that you never did
anything with
standing around your bed looking at you
with large angry eyes saying we came to
you only you could have given us life
and now we must die with you forever and
the question is if you died now what
dreams what ideas what talents what
abilities what skills what books what
sermons what seminars what businesses
will die with you Myles Munroe said the
wealthiest place in the planet is not in
the Far East where they have oil in the
ground it’s not in South Africa where
they have diamond mines
he said the wealthiest place on the
planet is the cemetery because there
you’ll find dreams not pursue whoops
never written songs never saw sermons
never delivered businesses never erected
talents never nurtured skills never
develop you survive one out of 40
million sperms
you were born to win
God wants you to be rich and wealthy and
successful and to live the abundant life
you must affirm that for yourself every
day says you look at yourself and you
look at your life and you look at your
circumstances as you work on your goals
and your dreams here are some things I
want to give you write this down pull
yourself to high standards see what if
Bishop TD jakes had decided when he
first received the idea of the manpower
conference that it could not be what if
he had alive allowed that idea to die we
would not be here see many of you here
you were pregnant with some ideas I’m
telling you what I know
I will leave here this afternoon tonight
in one hour doing what I’m doing down
one hour hour earn in excess of 150
thousand dollars I had no idea that I
had the capacity to do what I’m doing
right down you’ve got genius in you you
made and unlike this an image of God
you’ve got greatness in you you have
some special stuff in you you showed up
with
[Applause]
so as you look at your life and you
decided to come eristic and make it okay
to fail the experiment
trial and error repeat after me please
no tests no testimony yeah you’re gonna
face some hard times when you decide
that you want to commit your life to
Christ you’re going to at that time go
through unadulterated hell what’s the
first thing they say when you get on an
airplane before they take off fasten
your seat belt
why because you will experience some
turbulence before you reach a
comfortable altitude
life is testing me when the man looked
at me and said you have prostate cancer
your tumor is too large to have the
surgery we’re gonna give you radiation
seed implants the most anybody’s ever
gotten looks 90 they gave me 238 I went
back three weeks ago they checked my PSA
level which indicates the presence of
cancer your prostate area one to four is
normal beyond that is that you have
cancer and it’s spreading when I first
went a year ago it was six point one
when I went three weeks ago at Howard
University Hospital gave me an MRI it
was ten point five the guy said I’m
sorry to tell you this and so what do
you mean you’re in the same situation
that you were in when I when you came
here here’s something I heard at Christ
universal temple Church at Ana
restaurant Bishop TD jakes was praying
for a lady in a wheelchair and it’s on
how things come to you when he finished
praying for the lady I’m sure there was
some questions were asked that weren’t
verbal that if the prayer worked why did
she get up and walk and what he said as
he is walking away healing takes first
place first
he said healing takes place first in the
spirit
it didn’t matter about this numbers it
did not about their diagnosis judge not
according to appearances you must have a
faith the car for those things that be
not as though they were now do you
really believe see it’s one thing to
believe when you got money your pocket
it’s one thing to believe when your
marriage is working out and you got your
help and your children acting like they
got good sense oh it’s good to show all
the Lord is blessing me it’s easy to
believe then oh but when you get that
diagnosis say you ain’t will be hello
when you lose your job when someone you
thought you’ll be with for the rest of
your life say no we can’t do this no
more that’s when you have to stand
that’s when you have to begin to live
this faith and that’s not on you that’s
when you got to call on something
however you let that mind be in you you
got to be out of your mind to believe in
spite of these numbers you can still
make it in spite of the pain you feeling
you can still come back again you got to
be out of your mind that’s right I’m in
that Christ mind I believe it and not
when things are just favourable not fair
whether faith and you’ve got to believe
that when you’re going out here with
your ideas with your products with your
services and part of being successful is
you got to hold yourself to high
standards
I used Bishop Jake’s as a model because
people take care of you
he’s Sparrow hold yourself to high
standards whatever you do there’s no
saying do not go where the path may lead
but go where there’s no path and leave a
trail
treat people with respect treat them the
way that you want to be treated Tony
who’s with me who’s been assigned to me
courteous respectful call several times
is there anything I can do for you can I
help you out as first-class service if
you decide to provide first-class
service
Jonny’s just a book called making
against the odds he said there’s no
defense against an excellence that meets
a pressing public need when I decided to
become involved in the motivational
industry I didn’t have the money of a
dr. norman vincent peale
of Zig Ziglar of tony robbins and all
the other giants out there i had the
gift of gab so what I did was I trained
myself I disciplined myself to read
three to four books a week first I
sought out a month now I’ve increased it
with a reading system that I have mr.
Washington said mr. Brown yes sir do you
want to make it yes sir
first you’ve got to develop your mind
young man because you don’t get in life
what you want you get in life what you
are next you’ve got to develop your
communication skills
once you open your mouth you tell the
world who you are they said about Jesus
who obviously was an effective
communicator never speck a man the
reason that you’re here is because no
one can milk scripture and deliver a
sermon that can transform your life and
have you jumping up and down like you
crazy like TD jakes I’m home one day
looking at this video my daughter gave
me call he called me son
let me tell you something by the end of
that video and I’ve never seen my father
when that video got to the end I’ll go
to the television said daddy
[Applause]
I push reverse it back to the Pacific
everything is up he just brought me down
if I’m being rule friend
oh by myself I’m looking around seeing
me to my CV that man crafted that
message you happy I’m crying like about
a funeral
see as a kid do you hear me hey that’s a
gift you your people use his word
anointed this is not only a place I’ve
ever seen inapplicable is it his case
happy to tell you not think I’m a good
speaker but this is this a bad boy we
got up in here words cannot encompass
the symbolism of what we have the chance
to see up in here
and yet he’s down to earth I mean down
to earth where all he little funny
outfits he has I mean it knocks me happy
[Applause]
and let me tell you what my daughter
said to me my daughter my oldest
daughter is on his advance team she said
you know what I was listening to Dion
last night and I think I’m gonna call on
Bishop Jake’s daddy – I said I wish you
would I beg you I will throw you out
here right now and break his leg – by
calling him daddy
now here’s I want you to write this down
write down take responsibility for your
life take responsibility for your life
now that’s a very important remember
what what would Bishop said last night
about Adam Adam when God asked him what
happened
Adam did not want to take responsibility
for what he had done
men have always tried to escape that now
you know that we believe a lot in
marches let me tell you something here’s
a march I like to enroll you on I want a
million men to March to mailbox to give
support payments just drop some support
payments in the mailbox to children that
you have helped to create that you have
been irresponsible and you’re not taking
care of
don’t give that money to the airlines or
the bus stations or the hotels send that
money to those mothers that are still
there dealing with and raising those
children all your stuff came out Oh
where’s my daughter Kim Ilana I got a
call five years ago from this person
here I happened to be at the office late
at night she I believe in being open and
being honest with you and the call was
tell them what you said to me I said if
you had a child in this world that you
were unaware of a descendant in this
world that you unaware of would you or
would you not want to know what did I
say you think yes I would want to know
so I told her I wanted to know and I
said send me some pictures she sent me
some pictures overnight I saw this
flower I see that mine
send one of my sons to pick her up he
drove her from Columbus to Detroit he
came in first daddy my sister’s right
behind me and we’ve been together ever
since and I’m not ashamed of her
I can’t unscramble these raging don’t
want to but I have to take
responsibility that this is my daughter
and I take care of my daughter she
guards I’m trying to fatten her up she
got a little big I’m trying to find a
husband while we here God makes us small
you can sue for non-support that’s why
she ran pants
okay thank you baby give a round of
applause all right
[Applause]
now
so the reason I’m telling you that we
gotta start owning our stuff as men
don’t make a big deal can you imagine
what will happen if a million men decide
to go to the mailbox and just
unexpectedly
drop just what you can’t don’t have to
have a you know return address in case
they looking for you you don’t have to
put that on there
[Applause]
if you reel behind you understand what
I’m talking about
I said be no fool
[Applause]
now the only reason I can put a return
address on this because I have an MBA
somebody I got juggler – you don’t have
a college degree I don’t
the MBA stands for mega beggar cop so
anyhow join me then don’t tell me well I
don’t like her she got old man or she
don’t need my money or the children
don’t look like me I went to court and
the paternity suit with a friend of mine
Ronnie and he went to the judge just
want you to Pancho’s the boy he said it
babies don’t look like me just they
would feed him til they do
[Applause]
but as men
see we can’t teach our sons to be
responsible if they don’t see us being
responsible if they don’t feel that we
care so don’t say well I don’t have it
get it that doesn’t let you off the hook
right down the NexStar and that is not
only responsibility but be resourceful a
lot of men I don’t have I had it I’ll
give it if the women had that kind of
attitude
the children would starve to death the
reason that they the reason that they
have some place to stay and delay their
heads and have clothes on their backs
because the women decide I’m going to
make it happen no matter what and
they’re resourceful my mama raised seven
without a man she cooked she cleaned
houses here’s something else that will
cause you to reach your goals when you
leave here
write this down reasons compelling
reasons
while you here when you make this
covenant with God when you decide to
live like a conqueror when you decide to
become more successful to create wealth
to be a change agent in your community
what is it that can keep you on the
straight and narrow that will cause you
to keep your commitment to your
commitment I used to do door-to-door
sales with a man named Sam axe right
Sam axe Arad was intrigued by me because
when he came to pick me up he did have
to blow his horn I was downstairs
waiting for Sam when he came around the
corner and unlike the men that worked
with him and other young people when it
got dark and Sam blew the horn everybody
ran to the station wagon and they would
do a headcount and they’d say who’s here
today everybody’s here except less and
they’d say laughs come on now I’m not
coming Sam why I haven’t sold anything
no one sold anything less it’s a long
run from Liberty City to over town you
got to pass a 20th Street shop to the
14th Street game that Egyptians will
stop running soon I can’t stop Sam until
I sell something see my reason for going
door-to-door different than everybody
else most people are they’re trying to
make some extra money to party on the
weekend or to buy a new outfit or new
bicycle the reason that I was working
was to take care of my mama the reason
that I was working is because I was
working on Miami Beach with my mother
and she’s working for a family called
the sidarsky family and one day when I
was outside raking the yard I came in
and my mother was on the floor on her
knees cleaning up some grease spots that
mrs. sidarsky had spilt some briefs my
mother was 56 at the time she had
adopted us when she was 40 and I came in
my mother had arthritis in her knees and
I could hear a moaning
different times when she moved on her
knees and it’s Harlan Olien floor and I
said mrs. sidarsky can I do that for my
mother and you can have her do something
else
she said if it’s all right with me me
and my mother said no son that’s all
right I said no mama it’s not all right
I don’t want you and then he means mama
please let me do it baby and I helped my
mother up and mrs. sidarsky said made me
go in the other room and find that hat I
was looking for earlier and my mother
went in the other room and I heard her
clapping her hands I said mama she said
what boy I said baby why are you
clapping your hands she said don’t worry
just keep on doing what you’re doing
then after a while mrs. sidarsky said
Mamie maybe it’s in the other room go
look in there mama went in the other
room and sure enough she started
clapping her hands again this year I
said mama why are you clapping your
hands she said did not tell you to pay
attention to what you’re doing then at
that moment mrs. sidarsky came over she
said I can tell you why she’s clapping
her hands
I said why ma’am she said ‘would because
when I have domestic workers looking for
something and they’re out of my view I
make them clap their hands to make sure
that they’re not stealing I put the
scrub brush down and I stood up
as excuse me mrs. sidarsky I don’t mean
any disrespect ma’am my mother raised us
to say yes ma’am and no man but my
mother’s a Christian she would never
steal from you or anyway when my mama
talked about your children when she
talks to her friends she say my children
the sitarski children she loves you and
your husband and your children she would
never steal from you and she just walked
away
later that evening when we were riding
across the Venetian causeway I was very
quiet and my mother noticed it I was not
my bubbly self she said what’s wrong son
I said mama I wish I was a man she said
boy you’re 16 years old you’ll be a man
soon enough I said no mama I want to be
a man now because if I was a man right
now we would never have to wear somebody
else’s hand-me-down clothes that their
children no longer want I’ll be able to
buy clothes for my brothers and sisters
in you if I was a man he would never
have to eat anybody’s leftover food that
you cooked for because I’ll be able to
buy his groceries if I was the man if I
was a man mama no one would ever have
you on your knees cleaning of grease and
they’d spill and nobody nobody would
ever ever make you clap your hands
because they think that you’re stealing
follow the man mama I’ll take care of
you she said mrs. sidarsky told you that
didn’t she I said yes ma’am so I was a
man you would never cook for anybody but
me my mama used to fix the kind of sweet
potato pie that you couldn’t eat with
your shoes on
[Applause]
you have to take your shoes off so you
can wiggle your toes
and when we would go door-to-door
sometimes as late as 10 o’clock at night
I would not go to door who’s there would
you like to buy a nice working
television set no money down boy are you
crazy
yes I am crazy I’m crazy about my momma
and I’m gonna take care of her and I’m
gonna sell a television set tonight and
invited where were you
[Applause]
and after a while somebody who said come
on in there born that better be a good
set one of the reasons right down while
you’re here at this man power conference
write down five compelling reasons why
you’re going to keep your commitment to
change your life
keep your commitment never to go back to
the life that you once live keep your
commitment to creating wealth for
yourself to taking care your children to
be more responsible to manifest Christ
in you in your life in your community
keep your commitment to live a life of
contribution to keep your commitment to
be a conqueror and to act like that and
to have a third in dominion of
everything in your life one of those
reasons I got on one of my tapes his
life knocked it down try and land on
your back because if you can look up you
can get up your reasons will help you to
get back up again
there’ll be your rod and staff to
comfort you so you got to write down
five reasons on everything that Bishop
is saying and Bishop Merritt and all the
different speakers and the relationship
seminar that brother Lewis Greenup will
do how you will incorporate the
principles from this manpower conference
in your life and live them and manifest
them and support them now here’s one
second to the last thing let us say
together you got to be hungry
mr. wash that mr. Broun what do you want
to do well sir I’d like to be a disc
jockey mr. Brown if you want to be a
disc jockey you got to be hungry what do
you mean by that sir you’ve got to be
willing to do the things that a others
won’t do in order to have the things
tomorrow others won’t have he said you
got to work on yourself develop yourself
develop your mind you don’t get it live
what you want you get in life what you
are always strive to get on top in life
because it’s the bottom that’s
overcrowded you got to be hungry I said
yes sir I’m hungry I want to be a disc
jockey sir he said is that right I said
yes sir he said start listening to Paul
Harvey started listening to people who
are effective communicators be conscious
of what you’re saying and how you’re
saying it because how you express
yourself once you open your mouth you
tell the world who you are see yourself
as a radio disc jockey start working to
get sponsorship start creating the radio
format that you want start developing
your personality I said wait a minute
sir I said I want to be a disc jockey I
don’t have a job yet and then he quoted
Whitney Young he said it’s better to be
prepared for an opportunity and not have
one then they have an opportunity and
not be prepared
got to be hungry so I started working to
develop myself and developing my
communication skills I expected to have
a radio program so I created my format I
started learning how to write
commercials and do jingles and then I
came to him one day I said okay mr.
Washington he said okay mr. Bao remember
you’ve got to be hungry you don’t have a
college degree you have no journalism
you have no broadcasting this is a very
crowded field it’s very very competitive
mr. Brown you’re gonna face know and
rejection every day but if you are
hungry enough the world will make a
place for you so I went to apply for a
job on Miami Beach to Milton butterball
Smith the program director hello mr.
butterball how are you sir my name is
les from Sur I liked a bit disc jockey
you have any journalism in your
background no sir
you have any kind of broadcasting
experience no something I’ve been
training myself sir let me audition for
you let me show you how good I am
he’s I’m sorry we don’t have any job for
you how’s this courage I went back and I
told mr. Washington I said mr.
Washington they said no he said don’t
take it personally most people are so
negative they have to say no seven times
before they say yes he said you got to
be hungry go back again I said yes sir
hello mr. butterball how are you sir my
name is les franc so I like to be a disc
jockey weren’t you here yesterday yes
sir didn’t I tell you no yesterday yes
sir then why you back today well sir I
didn’t know whether or not somebody was
laid off of somebody was fired sir no
one was laid off and no one was fired I
came back the next day
hello mr. butterball how are you sir my
name is les Ron sir I like to be a disc
jockey I know what you’re
name is weren’t you here the last three
days yes sir
did not tell you to know the last in
Asia something why you back today well
sir
I didn’t know where that someone got
sick of someone died sir no one got sick
no one died don’t wonder if laid off a
fight now don’t you come back here again
I came back the next day talking loud
looking happy like I’ve seen him for the
first time
hello mr. butterball how are you he
looked at me to rage he says go get me
some coffee I said yes sir
[Applause]
sometimes you have to stoop before you
conquer you got to sacrifice before you
rain so I became the errand boy for the
disc jockeys
I’ll go get their lunch in that dinner
and I stand in the control room and I
would not leave until they would ask me
to then pretty soon they trusted me to
pick up entertainers that came to town
entertainers like Diana Ross Supremes
The Four Tops and Gladys Knight I used
to drive them all over Miami Beach in
the disc jockeys big long Cadillacs I
didn’t have any driver’s license but
I’ll Drive it like a hat truck
then one day I was at the radio station
and a disc jockey by the name of rock
and Roger was drinking while it was on
there he was slurring his words it was
obvious he was so inebriated he couldn’t
complete his show and there I was
looking at into the control room when
walking back and forth
and hungry
Allyson drink rock drink
fragile
I’m going to get him some morphine asked
me to then pretty soon the phone rang it
with the general manager and I answered
the phone it said hello he said young
boy this is mr. Klein I said I know he
said a rock can finish his program I
said I know
he said would you call one of the other
DJs in I said yes sir I hung the phone
up I said now he must be think I’m crazy
I call my mama and my girlfriend
Cassandra said y’all come out on the
front porch and turn up the radio I’m
bout to come on there
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I waited for about 20 minutes not
calling back I said mr. Klein I can’t
find nobody he’s a young boy
do you not have work the controls I said
yes sir he said gone and segue the
records and don’t say nothing here I
said yes
I couldn’t wait to get behind that
turntable I’ll put on a path record I
said look out this is me lb Triple P
let’s try on your platter playing papa
you’ll remember for me and there will be
none after me therefore that makes me
the one and only young insane rule of
the mango certified bona fide
indubitably qualified to bring you
satisfaction and a whole lot of action
look out baby I’m your love man I was
hungry
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check somebody town on your riding
leopard so you got to be hungry
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there are people who come to this
country who can’t speak the language and
they hit the ground running because they
are hungry the people that are hungry
are willing to do the things that they
others won’t do in order to have the
things tomorrow others won’t have the
people that are hungry are willing to
make it okay to fail they’re risk takers
the people that are hungry are willing
to reinvent themselves to develop
themselves they know you don’t get in
life what you want you get in life what
you are the people that are hungry have
goals and practical steps that they
engage in day in and day out and here’s
the second to the last principle write
this down repeat out to me oqp only
quality people yes I want you to connect
with at least 10 men before you leave
here get their names addresses and phone
numbers 10 men who are dreamers 10 men
who want to do something with their
lives 10 men that you can get together
and make a covenant where two or three
are gathered in my name I will be among
you get together with 10 men who wants
to develop themselves who want to grow
who want more out of life who see
themselves in the future doing better
than they have right now
10 men who decided that the manpower
experience will not just be an emotional
catharsis but they’re going to go out
and live the message that they’ve heard
preached from this pulpit up here Tim
men who’ve decided to get serious about
their lives to make a commitment to
commit themselves and their ways in
their behaviors and their habits to
achieve a better life for themselves for
their families and the communities and
the people that they care about
touch yourself with ten men why that
gives you hope when there’s hope in the
future that gives you power in the
present let me tell you what happened
scientists did an experiment with rats
and they dropped them in water and they
watched him and they timed it and these
rats swam for about 45 minutes and
drowned and then they put it in another
group of rats and they watched him and
just before they drown they took him out
and they let them rest then they put in
another group of rats including the ones
that had been in before and were saved
and the ones that were put in the second
time swam an hour and a half longer than
the group that had been put in there for
the first time with the hope and the
expectation that they might be saved
listen to me – power of assembly – power
of relationships one goose can fly 75
percent further and formation with other
geese than it can ever fly by themselves
it’s important you find some men here
who are serious over there people who
just came just to see but there’s some
men here who are serious who said I’m
gonna change I’ll never be the same
again
I want God to use me in a special time
to win you want to find those men see
there are two types of relationships
they’re nourishing relationships and
there are toxic relationships most
people when you leave here and you face
the world and all of your negative toxic
family members and friends it will knock
the winner
you that’s why you gotta have 10 min to
stay in you’re here so when you break
down and you’re going to break down when
you go back to the fiery furnaces of
this world and you forget everything you
heard here these men can stand with you
when you have your moments in the garden
of gethsemane and you need someone to
tarry with you these men will pray with
you when you find yourself get weak and
losing control you need someone to get
you anchored again and these 10 men make
this the greatest man power conference
ever because of the relationship that
you’re going to develop with 10 men who
share your vision for a better future
can I get your commitment on that and
let me share something there’s nothing
as powerful as a made up mind to human
will for Nelson Mandela you look at your
dream and think there against the odds a
man being incarcerated for 26 years with
every major government in the world
supporting his government and his
suppression of his people in prison even
Joseph’s accomplishment is pale in
comparison to Nelson Mandela and to go
from prisoner to president I say there’s
a Nelson Mandela and everyone here
in this room and he didn’t do it by
himself Jesus didn’t do it by himself he
had 12 men who shared his vision the
power of the human will killer John
Wesley the power of the human will say
jealous the human will that force unseen
the offspring of a deathless soul can
hew away its any goal though walls of
granite intervene you will be what you
will to be let failure find its false
content of that poor poor word
environment but spirit scorns it it is
free it masters fine in it conquers face
it cowes that boastful trickster chance
and bids the tyrant circumstance in
uncrowned and feels a servant’s place
there is no chance no destiny and no
fate that can suck your bits or hinder
or control the firm resolve of a
determined soul gifts count is nothing
will alone is great all things give way
before it too soon or too late what
obstacle could stay the mighty force of
the sea seeking river in his course or
can cause the arbor beg to wake while
each swirl borne soul knows it gets what
it deserves that the fools freight of
luck the fortunate is he whose earnest
purpose never swerves whose slightest
action or inaction always serves battle
one great aim why even death himself
stand still and wait an hour sometimes
for such a will thank you
the human will
Donna Leslie how many of you have
children raise your hands I’ve got a set
of tapes we have a limited number at my
table called choosing your future call
it’s possible it’s necessary it’s hard
it’s worth it it’s done
these safes will help you to create
wealth and I’m sharing with you what
I’ve learned that enabled me in the last
12 years to create a multi-million
dollar corporation but most importantly
to learn some practical steps on how to
begin to move myself from poverty to
where I am right now see many of us have
we knew better we would do better
most people are failing not because they
don’t have the talent but most people
don’t know that they don’t know and they
think they know and consequently they’re
not open to any new information so we
will be at our table and I will sign
these tapes but use them with your
children I have seven children and all
my children listen to tapes why because
we just can’t leave our children’s mind
out here to a lot of this filth and
garbage they call rap music listening to
profanity day in and day out words are
very powerful there’s an old saying evil
prevails with good men and women do
nothing so we’ve got to give our
children some other options and don’t
tell your children just listen to the
tape that won’t work no don’t give these
tapes of people that you care about say
listen to this they won’t do it why
because of ego ego means edging God out
no here’s what to do get your children
in the car get on the expressway and put
the tape in see I can say the same thing
did you say but because they don’t know
me
they’re here differently the hardest
people to reach other people that are
closest to you and then put the tape in
don’t say listen to it just put the tape
in and then after that it runs out flip
it open for the second side of mine and
then pretty soon they’re started listing
themselves a lady saw me in the hotel
she said mr. brown if I had known you
were here my god she said I would have
brought more people she said let me tell
you something I did what you said my son
was on drugs drop
school he started listening to the tapes
he got off drugs he got back in school
came home one day he got a decent
haircut took his hearing out pulled up
his pants and took a bath
she’s saying and I know you’re gonna be
in town I brought my husband here so I
don’t know what your goals are but we
will have this and also those of you
that are involved in sales we have
Senate it’s called selling your way to
greatness and other tapes out there that
if you listen to these tapes I guarantee
you they’re changed your life and I’ll
be at the table and I’m looking forward
to shaking your hands in addition those
of you that are interested in
motivational speaking let me be your
mentor let me help you learn how to
develop your communication skills
because that’s not what I have is a gift
I gave you a help form to fill that out
and get that back to us but those of you
that have not had your prostate
examination I want your commitment to
protect yourself and your family by
getting your examination and I like to
thank Bishop TD jakes for giving me this
opportunity to spend this time with you
and I want to share this with you and my
saying that this has been an incredible
experience for me last night he said to
me he said I want the people don’t
nobody else long I said that’s my life
that’s why I wasn’t born just to teach
those who have how to get more III know
what it is to feel inferior I don’t have
any college training and I said lord
give me an opportunity said if you help
me get this home for my mother if you
help me change my life I said I’ll help
others like me I’m not wearing any crown
I’m still growing I’m still developing
what I’m like the woman who said Lord I
ain’t what I want to be ate what I’m
gonna be and thank God I sho ain’t what
I was so I like to leave this with you
that I’m known by that my mother used to
love to hear me say and I dedicate this
to you into the bishop says simply this
if you want to think bad enough to go
out and fight for it to work day and
night for it to give up your time your
peace and your sleep for if all that you
dream and scheme is about it and life
seems useless and worthless without it
and if you’re blindly sweat for didn’t
fret for and plan for and news all your
terror of the opposition for it and if
you simply go after that thing that you
want with all of your capacity
strengthens of gasoline Faith Hope and
confidence and stern pertinacity if
neither cold poverty famish of gulf
sickness of pain of body and brain can
keep you away from the thing that you
want if dogged and grim you beseech
endless headed with the help of God
you’ll get it
mrs. Mamie Brown’s baby boy Leslie Kevin
Brown said go to the top because you are
armed and dangerous