who’s impacted me who’s in your ear what
influence do they have on you
dr. Dennis Kimbrell said if you’re the
smartest one in your group you need to
get a new group so practice the
principle of oqp only quality people and
somebody’s saying less can I change them
no it’s a full-time job changing
yourself some people are so negative
they’re walking to a dark room and begin
to develop my family members and friends
call me crazy for going to seminars
spending money on books and tapes and
going to SEMA when are you going to stop
going I said when I die when does a man
or woman died when their dreams died
when are we done when we stop developing
ourselves expanding our minds
challenging ourselves raising the bar on
ourselves the best thinking that that I
had at that point in my life had
produced his life that I have I need
some help I’m where Einstein was he said
the thinking that has brought me this
far has created some problems that this
thinking can’t solve I applaud you for
investing in yourself for coming here
flying thousands of miles investing
money in yourself I can tell you based
upon my own experience you have
something special you have greatness
within you what you’re doing is
different you represent only 2% of the
planet one great American said I choose
not to be a common man it’s my right to
be uncommon if I can I’ll 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 still calm of utopia I will never
call before they master north then to
any threat it’s my heritage to stand
erect prouder and afraid to face the
world boldly and say this I have done
that’s what it means to be a part of
peak potentials your unquenching desire
and uncommon desire to mana
your greatness give yourselves a round
of applause the other thing that you
look at your goals and look at your
dreams repeat out to be pleased I will
fail my way to success yes part of the
reason why we have to continue to work
on ourselves and surround ourselves with
quality people is because you and have a
lot of failures you can have a lot of
disappointments Maya Angelou said it’s
true our founder in my case that most
people go so far in life and then they
Park they stop dead in their tracks why
because they take some hits when you
have a goal and dream think it not
strange that you face the firing
furnaces of this world you will have
tribulation savings are going to happen
to you I was in pursuit of my dream and
all of us have one I got hit a person
that I thought I would be with for the
rest of my life I thought was my soul
mate I went through a divorce I was
embarrassed I was humiliated how can I
teach people how to live their dreams
and I wasn’t able to make my marriage
work I questioned myself I took another
hit my mother was diagnosed with breast
cancer then I was diagnosed with
prostate cancer then my best friend from
the second grade
Alexander Wims he was diagnosed with
cancer of the liver I took a hit and
life staggered me and I parked and I
didn’t turn on my emergency lights
because I didn’t want to call attention
to myself
I didn’t want anybody coming say hey do
you need a job no I don’t need a job I’m
not out of gas my battery is not dead my
heart is beating I’m parked leave me be
I’m Park was in my comfort zone I was
doing just enough to get by working on a
job they paid me just enough to keep me
from quitting and I work just hard
enough to keep from getting fired how
many know people like that blink your
eyes that you understand what I’m
talking about
I was Park I knew I could do more but
when my mama died
it took something out of me when I went
through a divorce it took something out
of me when and my best friend died it
took something out of me
iPod and somebody said that life is like
an onion you have to peel it one layer
at a time and sometimes you cry life’s
going to happen to you when you have a
dream you’re gonna get slapped around
and don’t take it personal don’t ask why
did this have to happen to me why not
you who would you suggest you want to
give us some name some email addresses
and don’t tell everybody 80% don’t care
and 20% glad is you it’s called life
suck it up and move on get over it it
happens to everybody here’s the other
thing is you look at your goals and look
at your dreams when you’re going through
some stuff repeat out to be pleased when
things go wrong don’t go with them yes
write that down when things go wrong
don’t go with them when you’re working
on a business deal you’re counting on
some money someone said you will get the
loan and it falls through you have an
event and the people that you thought
would be there and support you they
don’t come through if someone turns
against you or you get ripped off it’s
going to happen to you happen to me
so let’s stole all my products my
database over a hundred and eighty
thousand names and addresses it’s not
personal it’s gonna happen to everybody
it does eight out of ten millionaires
have been financially bankrupt Walt
Disney had seven heap four filed
bankruptcy seven times and had two
nervous breakdowns it’s called life
but I got a saying when life knocks you
down try and land on your back because
if you can look up you can get up you’ve
got the power in you to do that you’ve
got something special you’ve got come
back power here’s the other thing let us
say together it’s possible it’s
necessary it’s me yes write that down
it’s me take ownership for your life
nobody can live your dream for you but
you nobody’s gonna take care of your
business like you stop coming up with
excuses don’t give yourself permission
to continue to live a small life you
can’t fit a big dream into a small life
give yourself permission to go for it to
test yourself to challenge yourself to
live fool like the saying always strive
to get on top of life because it’s the
bottom that’s overcrowded the reason
you’re here is because there’s something
in you that says I can do more this just
can’t be it there’s something in you
there’s a calling on your life there’s
something in your heart that costs you
to get dressed and spend the money to go
to the seminar after seminar listen to
message after message and speaker after
speaker because there’s something in you
that tells you this is not it for you
you have not peaked here there’s more in
you that you are expressing eyes not
seen here is not her nose enter to man
heart of mankind what’s in store for you
if you challenge yourself if you persist
and persevere if you take ownership for
your life George Bernard Shaw said the
people that make it in this life they
look around for the circumstances that
they want and if they can’t find them
they create them create what you want
you have the power you to do the more
than you can ever begin to imagine to
control your destiny to make a
difference in our children to make a
difference on the planet to make an
impact let us say together it’s me and
let us say together it’s hard said like
you know it’s it’s hard
ladies and gentlemen it’s hard that
people who have seen their retirements
taken away from them by the corporations
that they work for they’re within two or
three years of retiring and they had it
taken from them the number one
entrepreneurs in this country now a
senior citizens the number one employer
at number two McDonald’s and Walmart and
there’s nothing wrong with those jobs I
guarantee you those people did not have
a plan to end up living their lives at
the end of life with those types of jobs
and they didn’t have a plan like you
have and why are you investing in
yourself not to and it’s hard there are
people making choices between purchasing
prescription drugs or paying for gas or
mortgage know it’s hard are you working
on a job for twenty years thirty years
give them some good years and then they
come in and tell you we’ve downsized in
other ways other words you’re fired
and then you have to start all over
again how many of you know it’s hard
raise your hands please it’s hard and
it’s not fair one of the things I like
about tea harvest he talks about work
and investing in yourself it’s not fair
but people are blowing up against that
kind of stuff to tell them just faint
positive and be enthusiastic and
everything will work out all right ain’t
that kind of party it’s hard life we’ll
put some nuts on your head I bought my
first home for my mother I was rushing
didn’t know what I was doing and I
bought a home that had a lien against it
and they called me mr. Brown yes as a
lien against your property we need fifty
five thousand dollars if you’re going to
stay there wait a minute sir I just
bought this home the guy told me there
were no liens against it I’m not the one
that owe you the money you should have
checked that out mr. brown come on I
call my attorney we followed up yes less
there’s a lien against the prop
but he told me there were no leaves he
lied obviously oh my god he told me he
wanted to help me because he admired the
fact that I was buying this home for my
mother and that he was adopted he he
identified with me less he suck at you
he played you man so what well would
they take payment arrangements can I
what about five thousand dollars a month
they want all the money less they want
all the money or you’re gonna have to
get out of the houses going up for share
sale do you have it
no I I don’t have them can they give me
some time tell them to give me give me
three months please give me three months
I my mother’s in her 70s man she has a
bad heart don’t do this to me this is my
dream don’t do this man please let me
talk to him less I’m talking to their
attorney they don’t want to talk to you
I’ve got to talk to the attorneys do you
have the money no will they give me
three months no what about two months no
less they want the money in seven days
oh my god let me call you back I’m not
sure and I walked the floors thinking
God how could this happen to me
I’ve got to figure this out huh I’ve got
to figure this out and seem like the
days are just ticking off ticking off
Thursday I had to call up and let them
know they called me les do you have the
money no I don’t Friday you have to
leave the sheriff will be there you’d
have to leave les they’re gonna take my
house what about my down payment you
lost it les you lost it okay I gotta go
yes I prayed Lord please if you show me
that you’re real if if it’s if you’re
really real you think Paul work for you
you you haven’t seen anything don’t let
me lose this house and watch what I’ll
do for you I was trying to cut a deal
have you ever try to cut a deal it’s
amazing how spiritual you’ll get when
you get in trouble you know Li what I
was diagnosed with prostate cancer
was going this bed with the with the
Bible and the Holy Quran and science of
mind and Joel go sniff everything I
could find I was banned too Jesus Yahweh
no Qasr dick everybody I was called it
on everybody it’s amazing and and there
I was walking the floor three o’clock in
the morning and I had to go and wake my
mother up I got on my knees and I said
mama I said I need you to wake up she
said what’s wrong Leslie I can I can
hear you walking back and forth I’m not
sleep son I said there’s something I
need to tell you she said your eyes are
red why your eyes red because I feel so
stupid now
why we got to move tomorrow
why’d Leslie there’s a lien against the
property and they want fifty five
thousand dollars and I don’t have it and
we’re going to be set out tomorrow we
have to go back to Liberty City
so she said it’s okay I don’t like this
house anyhow I said why she said because
of my arthritic knees it helps it hurts
my knees when I go up the steps I said
it why didn’t you tell me because you
were so happy I just said it because you
were happy I’ll live in a shack with you
boy I love you it’s not the house I love
you I love all my children as it thank
and the next day the next day when we
were in the truck going back to Liberty
City and we pull down 68 terrorists the
neighbors came out and said wow maybe
maybe you’re coming back are you back
yes what happened to the home you bought
bought for you those boys you adopted
Leslie didn’t do a title search he made
a mistake
and boy I was I was so humiliated how
many ever made a mistake that you were
just accumulated raise your hands I was
devastated I was taking the furniture
off the truck and my mother came and I
was crying and she said boy I said yes
ma’am she said hold your head up I said
bummer
I can’t she said hold your head up I
said one look what I’ve done she said
it’s okay it’s okay you all gotta make a
lot of mistakes in life young man you’re
gonna fail your way to success you have
nothing to be ashamed of keep your head
up and take that furniture back in the
house I said yes ma’am and I learned
something for that if you ever go
through something hold your head up if
you ever make a mistake hold your head
up if you ever do something that
everything goes wrong like catch you on
the Blind Side hold your head up it’s
not over Goethe said that which does not
kill you will make you stronger hold
your head up shake someone’s hand on
your right and left and say hold your
head up here’s something else slaves and
gentlemen repeat after me please you got
to be hungry everybody together you got
to be hungry
I’ll never forget mr. Washington said
mr. Brown yes sir what do you want to do
with your life young man I said sir I
want to be a disc jockey said mr. Brown
and I said yes sir he said you got to be
hungry I said what do you mean by that
he said people that are hungry are
willing to do the things a day others
won’t do in order to have the things
tomorrow others won’t have people that
are hungry are willing to invest in
themselves people that are hungry will
go to seminars and workshops people that
are hungry always searching always
seeking higher ground
so how do you want to make it I said I
want to be a disc jockey that’s good
here’s what to do he said I want you to
read 10 to 15 pages of something
positive every day he said you don’t get
in life what you want you get in life
what you are
you must program yourself to success he
said won’t you listen to her on
Nightingale and Zig Ziglar listen faith
comes by hearing and hearing and hearing
he said I want you to change your
relationships and I don’t want you to
ever lose your hunger I said what do you
mean by that he’s a deeper that I’m
hungry
I’m stoppable people that are hungry a
no matter what people they make it
happen no matter what is I want you to
listen to Paul Harvey who is he
he’s the world’s greatest communicator
success leaves Clues young man always
listened and follow people who are doing
what it is you want to do at the level
you want to do it and learn from them I
tell t-hub when we’re standing by the
stage and said hey man I want to work
more with you I want you to coach me I
want to learn from you so I found you
never too old to learn and you’re never
too young to teach always have a thirst
for learning so I listen to Paul Harvey
every day on the radio while in school I
would go out and listen in his car he
gave me his keys I was working to
develop myself and I continue to listen
to motivational messages and he would
take me to see the late nor dr. Norman
Vincent Peale who wrote the book the
power of positive thinking I toured with
him before he passed you you have
something special
you have greatness within you don’t
allow your circumstances to determine
who you are don’t allow your negative
thoughts to hold you back you you have
something special you can do more than
you can ever begin to imagine dr. Peale
was an incredible man I I admired he
when he spoke he gave me goose pimples I
can feel him and my heart and and I
never forget we were coming back to the
school and mr. Washington said mr. Brown
yes sir
when dr. Peale’s folk you didn’t move
and he spoke you were hanging on every
word he need when he spoke we didn’t
have to tell you to sit down and be
quiet why I said sir I could I could
feel him then he talked I felt like he
was talking to me sir he said he was I
said but he doesn’t know me but he was
speaking to you did you feel him in your
heart I said yes sir he said most people
feel him in their head if you felt him
in your heart he said listen to him son
follow him learn from him and I would go
to seminars and workshops anywhere I
would find where dr. Peale was I would
be in the audience
I’ve Drive two and three hundred miles
just to hear him speak and my dream and
vision was was to share the stage with
him I thought about it what is your goal
what is your vision I want you to hold
it in mind he’s some power in that
because when I became involved in
speaking I never forget I got a call
from augmentee know who wrote the book
the greatest salesman in the world he
said les I’m stuck in Philadelphia need
to be in Kankakee dr. Norman Vincent
Fields appearing I can’t make it heard
you’re in Chicago I said yes I am can
you go and open for me I said yes man oh
my god dr. Peale I said yes I’d love to
do it and I went there and I came by
said hi I’m I’m Les Brown he said you’re
not the Bandari now and i said no i’m
i’m mrs. Mamie Brown’s baby boy I’m here
to speak
it’s a comeback stage and his wife
Martha was there and she said Papa Les
Brown is here the speaker and he said
Les Brown shoot for the moon because
even if you miss your land among the
stars that’s it sir that’s my quote I
wrote you when I was in the 11th grade I
was a part of a specialist special
education class project that’s my call
he said I know I in all my speeches with
that quote and dr. Peele had a great
sense of humor a young man was backstage
and I had so many questions to ask him
and my mind froze up and young guy said
dr. Peele how old are you and he was up
in age he said Sonny I’m I’m 92 young
man looked at him said I don’t know if I
want to live to get 92 he says because
you’ve never been 91 so I did the things
that mr. Washington suggested I listened
to motivational tapes on a regular basis
I would go to seminars and workshops
whenever Zig Ziglar and dr. Denis
Waitley and Jim Rhon would come to town
and I said sir I said what do you want
me to do now he said mr. Brown I’ve
given you everything that I can give you
he said develop your mind put your money
where your mouth is continue to learn
how to be an effective communicator
because once you open your mouth you
tell the world who you are and always
surround yourself with oqp only quality people
influence do they have on you
dr. Dennis Kimbrell said if you’re the
smartest one in your group you need to
get a new group so practice the
principle of oqp only quality people and
somebody’s saying less can I change them
no it’s a full-time job changing
yourself some people are so negative
they’re walking to a dark room and begin
to develop my family members and friends
call me crazy for going to seminars
spending money on books and tapes and
going to SEMA when are you going to stop
going I said when I die when does a man
or woman died when their dreams died
when are we done when we stop developing
ourselves expanding our minds
challenging ourselves raising the bar on
ourselves the best thinking that that I
had at that point in my life had
produced his life that I have I need
some help I’m where Einstein was he said
the thinking that has brought me this
far has created some problems that this
thinking can’t solve I applaud you for
investing in yourself for coming here
flying thousands of miles investing
money in yourself I can tell you based
upon my own experience you have
something special you have greatness
within you what you’re doing is
different you represent only 2% of the
planet one great American said I choose
not to be a common man it’s my right to
be uncommon if I can I’ll 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 still calm of utopia I will never
call before they master north then to
any threat it’s my heritage to stand
erect prouder and afraid to face the
world boldly and say this I have done
that’s what it means to be a part of
peak potentials your unquenching desire
and uncommon desire to mana
your greatness give yourselves a round
of applause the other thing that you
look at your goals and look at your
dreams repeat out to be pleased I will
fail my way to success yes part of the
reason why we have to continue to work
on ourselves and surround ourselves with
quality people is because you and have a
lot of failures you can have a lot of
disappointments Maya Angelou said it’s
true our founder in my case that most
people go so far in life and then they
Park they stop dead in their tracks why
because they take some hits when you
have a goal and dream think it not
strange that you face the firing
furnaces of this world you will have
tribulation savings are going to happen
to you I was in pursuit of my dream and
all of us have one I got hit a person
that I thought I would be with for the
rest of my life I thought was my soul
mate I went through a divorce I was
embarrassed I was humiliated how can I
teach people how to live their dreams
and I wasn’t able to make my marriage
work I questioned myself I took another
hit my mother was diagnosed with breast
cancer then I was diagnosed with
prostate cancer then my best friend from
the second grade
Alexander Wims he was diagnosed with
cancer of the liver I took a hit and
life staggered me and I parked and I
didn’t turn on my emergency lights
because I didn’t want to call attention
to myself
I didn’t want anybody coming say hey do
you need a job no I don’t need a job I’m
not out of gas my battery is not dead my
heart is beating I’m parked leave me be
I’m Park was in my comfort zone I was
doing just enough to get by working on a
job they paid me just enough to keep me
from quitting and I work just hard
enough to keep from getting fired how
many know people like that blink your
eyes that you understand what I’m
talking about
I was Park I knew I could do more but
when my mama died
it took something out of me when I went
through a divorce it took something out
of me when and my best friend died it
took something out of me
iPod and somebody said that life is like
an onion you have to peel it one layer
at a time and sometimes you cry life’s
going to happen to you when you have a
dream you’re gonna get slapped around
and don’t take it personal don’t ask why
did this have to happen to me why not
you who would you suggest you want to
give us some name some email addresses
and don’t tell everybody 80% don’t care
and 20% glad is you it’s called life
suck it up and move on get over it it
happens to everybody here’s the other
thing is you look at your goals and look
at your dreams when you’re going through
some stuff repeat out to be pleased when
things go wrong don’t go with them yes
write that down when things go wrong
don’t go with them when you’re working
on a business deal you’re counting on
some money someone said you will get the
loan and it falls through you have an
event and the people that you thought
would be there and support you they
don’t come through if someone turns
against you or you get ripped off it’s
going to happen to you happen to me
so let’s stole all my products my
database over a hundred and eighty
thousand names and addresses it’s not
personal it’s gonna happen to everybody
it does eight out of ten millionaires
have been financially bankrupt Walt
Disney had seven heap four filed
bankruptcy seven times and had two
nervous breakdowns it’s called life
but I got a saying when life knocks you
down try and land on your back because
if you can look up you can get up you’ve
got the power in you to do that you’ve
got something special you’ve got come
back power here’s the other thing let us
say together it’s possible it’s
necessary it’s me yes write that down
it’s me take ownership for your life
nobody can live your dream for you but
you nobody’s gonna take care of your
business like you stop coming up with
excuses don’t give yourself permission
to continue to live a small life you
can’t fit a big dream into a small life
give yourself permission to go for it to
test yourself to challenge yourself to
live fool like the saying always strive
to get on top of life because it’s the
bottom that’s overcrowded the reason
you’re here is because there’s something
in you that says I can do more this just
can’t be it there’s something in you
there’s a calling on your life there’s
something in your heart that costs you
to get dressed and spend the money to go
to the seminar after seminar listen to
message after message and speaker after
speaker because there’s something in you
that tells you this is not it for you
you have not peaked here there’s more in
you that you are expressing eyes not
seen here is not her nose enter to man
heart of mankind what’s in store for you
if you challenge yourself if you persist
and persevere if you take ownership for
your life George Bernard Shaw said the
people that make it in this life they
look around for the circumstances that
they want and if they can’t find them
they create them create what you want
you have the power you to do the more
than you can ever begin to imagine to
control your destiny to make a
difference in our children to make a
difference on the planet to make an
impact let us say together it’s me and
let us say together it’s hard said like
you know it’s it’s hard
ladies and gentlemen it’s hard that
people who have seen their retirements
taken away from them by the corporations
that they work for they’re within two or
three years of retiring and they had it
taken from them the number one
entrepreneurs in this country now a
senior citizens the number one employer
at number two McDonald’s and Walmart and
there’s nothing wrong with those jobs I
guarantee you those people did not have
a plan to end up living their lives at
the end of life with those types of jobs
and they didn’t have a plan like you
have and why are you investing in
yourself not to and it’s hard there are
people making choices between purchasing
prescription drugs or paying for gas or
mortgage know it’s hard are you working
on a job for twenty years thirty years
give them some good years and then they
come in and tell you we’ve downsized in
other ways other words you’re fired
and then you have to start all over
again how many of you know it’s hard
raise your hands please it’s hard and
it’s not fair one of the things I like
about tea harvest he talks about work
and investing in yourself it’s not fair
but people are blowing up against that
kind of stuff to tell them just faint
positive and be enthusiastic and
everything will work out all right ain’t
that kind of party it’s hard life we’ll
put some nuts on your head I bought my
first home for my mother I was rushing
didn’t know what I was doing and I
bought a home that had a lien against it
and they called me mr. Brown yes as a
lien against your property we need fifty
five thousand dollars if you’re going to
stay there wait a minute sir I just
bought this home the guy told me there
were no liens against it I’m not the one
that owe you the money you should have
checked that out mr. brown come on I
call my attorney we followed up yes less
there’s a lien against the prop
but he told me there were no leaves he
lied obviously oh my god he told me he
wanted to help me because he admired the
fact that I was buying this home for my
mother and that he was adopted he he
identified with me less he suck at you
he played you man so what well would
they take payment arrangements can I
what about five thousand dollars a month
they want all the money less they want
all the money or you’re gonna have to
get out of the houses going up for share
sale do you have it
no I I don’t have them can they give me
some time tell them to give me give me
three months please give me three months
I my mother’s in her 70s man she has a
bad heart don’t do this to me this is my
dream don’t do this man please let me
talk to him less I’m talking to their
attorney they don’t want to talk to you
I’ve got to talk to the attorneys do you
have the money no will they give me
three months no what about two months no
less they want the money in seven days
oh my god let me call you back I’m not
sure and I walked the floors thinking
God how could this happen to me
I’ve got to figure this out huh I’ve got
to figure this out and seem like the
days are just ticking off ticking off
Thursday I had to call up and let them
know they called me les do you have the
money no I don’t Friday you have to
leave the sheriff will be there you’d
have to leave les they’re gonna take my
house what about my down payment you
lost it les you lost it okay I gotta go
yes I prayed Lord please if you show me
that you’re real if if it’s if you’re
really real you think Paul work for you
you you haven’t seen anything don’t let
me lose this house and watch what I’ll
do for you I was trying to cut a deal
have you ever try to cut a deal it’s
amazing how spiritual you’ll get when
you get in trouble you know Li what I
was diagnosed with prostate cancer
was going this bed with the with the
Bible and the Holy Quran and science of
mind and Joel go sniff everything I
could find I was banned too Jesus Yahweh
no Qasr dick everybody I was called it
on everybody it’s amazing and and there
I was walking the floor three o’clock in
the morning and I had to go and wake my
mother up I got on my knees and I said
mama I said I need you to wake up she
said what’s wrong Leslie I can I can
hear you walking back and forth I’m not
sleep son I said there’s something I
need to tell you she said your eyes are
red why your eyes red because I feel so
stupid now
why we got to move tomorrow
why’d Leslie there’s a lien against the
property and they want fifty five
thousand dollars and I don’t have it and
we’re going to be set out tomorrow we
have to go back to Liberty City
so she said it’s okay I don’t like this
house anyhow I said why she said because
of my arthritic knees it helps it hurts
my knees when I go up the steps I said
it why didn’t you tell me because you
were so happy I just said it because you
were happy I’ll live in a shack with you
boy I love you it’s not the house I love
you I love all my children as it thank
and the next day the next day when we
were in the truck going back to Liberty
City and we pull down 68 terrorists the
neighbors came out and said wow maybe
maybe you’re coming back are you back
yes what happened to the home you bought
bought for you those boys you adopted
Leslie didn’t do a title search he made
a mistake
and boy I was I was so humiliated how
many ever made a mistake that you were
just accumulated raise your hands I was
devastated I was taking the furniture
off the truck and my mother came and I
was crying and she said boy I said yes
ma’am she said hold your head up I said
bummer
I can’t she said hold your head up I
said one look what I’ve done she said
it’s okay it’s okay you all gotta make a
lot of mistakes in life young man you’re
gonna fail your way to success you have
nothing to be ashamed of keep your head
up and take that furniture back in the
house I said yes ma’am and I learned
something for that if you ever go
through something hold your head up if
you ever make a mistake hold your head
up if you ever do something that
everything goes wrong like catch you on
the Blind Side hold your head up it’s
not over Goethe said that which does not
kill you will make you stronger hold
your head up shake someone’s hand on
your right and left and say hold your
head up here’s something else slaves and
gentlemen repeat after me please you got
to be hungry everybody together you got
to be hungry
I’ll never forget mr. Washington said
mr. Brown yes sir what do you want to do
with your life young man I said sir I
want to be a disc jockey said mr. Brown
and I said yes sir he said you got to be
hungry I said what do you mean by that
he said people that are hungry are
willing to do the things a day others
won’t do in order to have the things
tomorrow others won’t have people that
are hungry are willing to invest in
themselves people that are hungry will
go to seminars and workshops people that
are hungry always searching always
seeking higher ground
so how do you want to make it I said I
want to be a disc jockey that’s good
here’s what to do he said I want you to
read 10 to 15 pages of something
positive every day he said you don’t get
in life what you want you get in life
what you are
you must program yourself to success he
said won’t you listen to her on
Nightingale and Zig Ziglar listen faith
comes by hearing and hearing and hearing
he said I want you to change your
relationships and I don’t want you to
ever lose your hunger I said what do you
mean by that he’s a deeper that I’m
hungry
I’m stoppable people that are hungry a
no matter what people they make it
happen no matter what is I want you to
listen to Paul Harvey who is he
he’s the world’s greatest communicator
success leaves Clues young man always
listened and follow people who are doing
what it is you want to do at the level
you want to do it and learn from them I
tell t-hub when we’re standing by the
stage and said hey man I want to work
more with you I want you to coach me I
want to learn from you so I found you
never too old to learn and you’re never
too young to teach always have a thirst
for learning so I listen to Paul Harvey
every day on the radio while in school I
would go out and listen in his car he
gave me his keys I was working to
develop myself and I continue to listen
to motivational messages and he would
take me to see the late nor dr. Norman
Vincent Peale who wrote the book the
power of positive thinking I toured with
him before he passed you you have
something special
you have greatness within you don’t
allow your circumstances to determine
who you are don’t allow your negative
thoughts to hold you back you you have
something special you can do more than
you can ever begin to imagine dr. Peale
was an incredible man I I admired he
when he spoke he gave me goose pimples I
can feel him and my heart and and I
never forget we were coming back to the
school and mr. Washington said mr. Brown
yes sir
when dr. Peale’s folk you didn’t move
and he spoke you were hanging on every
word he need when he spoke we didn’t
have to tell you to sit down and be
quiet why I said sir I could I could
feel him then he talked I felt like he
was talking to me sir he said he was I
said but he doesn’t know me but he was
speaking to you did you feel him in your
heart I said yes sir he said most people
feel him in their head if you felt him
in your heart he said listen to him son
follow him learn from him and I would go
to seminars and workshops anywhere I
would find where dr. Peale was I would
be in the audience
I’ve Drive two and three hundred miles
just to hear him speak and my dream and
vision was was to share the stage with
him I thought about it what is your goal
what is your vision I want you to hold
it in mind he’s some power in that
because when I became involved in
speaking I never forget I got a call
from augmentee know who wrote the book
the greatest salesman in the world he
said les I’m stuck in Philadelphia need
to be in Kankakee dr. Norman Vincent
Fields appearing I can’t make it heard
you’re in Chicago I said yes I am can
you go and open for me I said yes man oh
my god dr. Peale I said yes I’d love to
do it and I went there and I came by
said hi I’m I’m Les Brown he said you’re
not the Bandari now and i said no i’m
i’m mrs. Mamie Brown’s baby boy I’m here
to speak
it’s a comeback stage and his wife
Martha was there and she said Papa Les
Brown is here the speaker and he said
Les Brown shoot for the moon because
even if you miss your land among the
stars that’s it sir that’s my quote I
wrote you when I was in the 11th grade I
was a part of a specialist special
education class project that’s my call
he said I know I in all my speeches with
that quote and dr. Peele had a great
sense of humor a young man was backstage
and I had so many questions to ask him
and my mind froze up and young guy said
dr. Peele how old are you and he was up
in age he said Sonny I’m I’m 92 young
man looked at him said I don’t know if I
want to live to get 92 he says because
you’ve never been 91 so I did the things
that mr. Washington suggested I listened
to motivational tapes on a regular basis
I would go to seminars and workshops
whenever Zig Ziglar and dr. Denis
Waitley and Jim Rhon would come to town
and I said sir I said what do you want
me to do now he said mr. Brown I’ve
given you everything that I can give you
he said develop your mind put your money
where your mouth is continue to learn
how to be an effective communicator
because once you open your mouth you
tell the world who you are and always
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