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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 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 summer 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 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 nor then to any
threat it’s my heritage to stand erect
prouder and afraid the face the world
boldly and say this I have done that’s
what it means to be a part of peak
potentials your unquote
desire and uncommon desire to manifest
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
yes part of the reason why we have to
continue to work on ourselves and
surround ourselves with quality people
is because you have a lot of failures
you can have a lot of disappointments
Maya Angelou said it’s true I found 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
thinking that strange that your face the
firing furnaces of this world you will
have tribulation things are going to
happen to you I was in pursuit of my
dream and all of a sudden I got hit a
person that I thought I would be with
for the rest of my life I thought was my
soulmate 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 hint and life staggered me and
I talked 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 if you
understand what I’m talking about
I was Park I knew I
do more but when my mama died it’sit’s
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 right they’re
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 have it 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 going to happen
to everybody it does eight out of ten
millionaires have been financially vague
walt disney at seven he profound
bankruptcy seven times and had two
nervous breakdowns
it’s called life but I got a saying that
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 in 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 is
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 they’re
people who have seen their retirements
taken away from them by the corporations
that they work for they were within two
or three years of retiring and it had it
taken from them the number one
entrepreneurs in this country now a
senior citizens the number one employer
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
they’re people making choices between
purchasing prescription drugs or paying
for gas or mortgage note it’s hard are
you working on a job for 20 years 30
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 when people are blowing up
against that’s 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 called my attorney we
followed up yes less there’s a lien
against the property 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 tonight
what about $5,000 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 him to give me give me
three months please give me three my
tight 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 them
and let them know they called me les do
you have the money no I don’t Friday you
have to leave the chef 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 worked for you
you’ve 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
tried to cut a deal
it’s amazing how spiritual you get when
you get in trouble you don’t leave what
I was diagnosed with prostate cancer I
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 to Jesus Yahweh
no cancer dick everybody I was called it
out 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 town 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 I said thank
you mama
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 well 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 yesterday 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 are gonna 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 says 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 ladies 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 duck disc jockey said Mr
Brown 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 once
you listen to Earl 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
unstoppable people that are hungry are
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’re
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 continued 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 knuckles 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 spoke you didn’t move
and he spoke you were hanging on every
word indeed 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 when
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 filled
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 dried 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’s at last I’m stuck in
Philadelphia need to be in cake the key
dr. Norman Vincent Fields appearing I
can’t make it hurt 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 and
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
I said come backstage and his wife
Martha was there and she said Papa Les
Brown is here the speaker and he said
les brown Les Brown shoot for the moon
because even if you miss your land among
the stars has it sir that’s my quote I
wrote you when I was in the 11th grade I
was a part of a special special
education class project that’s my call
he said I know I in all my speeches with
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and dr. diehl 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. pill how
old are you and he was up in age he’s at
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 listen to
motivational tapes on a regular basis I
would go to seminars and workshops
whenever Zig Ziglar and dr. Denis
Waitley and Jim Ron 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
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 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 summer 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 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 nor then to any
threat it’s my heritage to stand erect
prouder and afraid the face the world
boldly and say this I have done that’s
what it means to be a part of peak
potentials your unquote
desire and uncommon desire to manifest
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
yes part of the reason why we have to
continue to work on ourselves and
surround ourselves with quality people
is because you have a lot of failures
you can have a lot of disappointments
Maya Angelou said it’s true I found 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
thinking that strange that your face the
firing furnaces of this world you will
have tribulation things are going to
happen to you I was in pursuit of my
dream and all of a sudden I got hit a
person that I thought I would be with
for the rest of my life I thought was my
soulmate 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 hint and life staggered me and
I talked 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 if you
understand what I’m talking about
I was Park I knew I
do more but when my mama died it’sit’s
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 right they’re
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 have it 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 going to happen
to everybody it does eight out of ten
millionaires have been financially vague
walt disney at seven he profound
bankruptcy seven times and had two
nervous breakdowns
it’s called life but I got a saying that
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 in 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 is
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 they’re
people who have seen their retirements
taken away from them by the corporations
that they work for they were within two
or three years of retiring and it had it
taken from them the number one
entrepreneurs in this country now a
senior citizens the number one employer
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
they’re people making choices between
purchasing prescription drugs or paying
for gas or mortgage note it’s hard are
you working on a job for 20 years 30
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 when people are blowing up
against that’s 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 called my attorney we
followed up yes less there’s a lien
against the property 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 tonight
what about $5,000 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 him to give me give me
three months please give me three my
tight 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 them
and let them know they called me les do
you have the money no I don’t Friday you
have to leave the chef 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 worked for you
you’ve 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
tried to cut a deal
it’s amazing how spiritual you get when
you get in trouble you don’t leave what
I was diagnosed with prostate cancer I
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 to Jesus Yahweh
no cancer dick everybody I was called it
out 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 town 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 I said thank
you mama
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 well 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 yesterday 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 are gonna 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 says 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 ladies 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 duck disc jockey said Mr
Brown 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 once
you listen to Earl 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
unstoppable people that are hungry are
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’re
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 continued 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 knuckles 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 spoke you didn’t move
and he spoke you were hanging on every
word indeed 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 when
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 filled
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 dried 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’s at last I’m stuck in
Philadelphia need to be in cake the key
dr. Norman Vincent Fields appearing I
can’t make it hurt 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 and
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
I said come backstage and his wife
Martha was there and she said Papa Les
Brown is here the speaker and he said
les brown Les Brown shoot for the moon
because even if you miss your land among
the stars has it sir that’s my quote I
wrote you when I was in the 11th grade I
was a part of a special special
education class project that’s my call
he said I know I in all my speeches with
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and dr. diehl 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. pill how
old are you and he was up in age he’s at
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 listen to
motivational tapes on a regular basis I
would go to seminars and workshops
whenever Zig Ziglar and dr. Denis
Waitley and Jim Ron 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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