those that have chosen to fight their
way towards the destiny to fight their
way towards their dreams know that life
has a special meaning for you a special
hey is it naysayers I’m gonna try and
come in your path but it’s decide to
turn them out don’t have these toxic
waste people in your life don’t take
shit from them they’re gonna try to put
you down don’t let them succeed because
the only person that ultimately can put
you down is you they can only try but
because the enemy there’s our inner
enemy inside you that tries to speak to
you and tells you who the hell do you
think you are trying to trying to go
after your dreams you think you’re gonna
make it you ain’t gonna make it
you ain’t capable of capable enough who
do you think you are fight the enemy
inside and the way I actually fight the
enemy inside is I tell myself I’m strong
I’m powerful
I got vision I got dreams given to me by
God and I will make them come to you I
will make them happen it’s just a matter
people may come in my path but I decided
I decided to find my face my inner talk
my inner enemy I decided to fight older
and make myself on the right path I know
where my goal is I’m getting there I got
my target I’m getting there
[Music]
pain will come in your life I’ve been
through pain I’ve been through struggle
but really and truly what actually
counts is what do you do by what are you
gonna actually do about the pain are you
gonna let it make you or are you gonna
let it break you it’s come in your life
to make you stronger and make you
powerful it’s not coming your life to
make you weak unless you let it don’t
let it make you weak don’t give in to
the inner enemy inside you’re powerful
just tell yourself I’m strong I’m
powerful
I got vision I got penance on the chosen
you got talents your dreams and it’s
time the time is now it’s not tomorrow
it’s not day after that time is now
you got a 9 to 5 job start your dreams
at 6 o’clock when you get home 6 o’clock
till 12 o’clock or whatever time you
want to give it because your dreams
deserve this time and what the place is
where it takes you I am deciding to
follow my dreams and make it come true
because I am strong I am powerful no
one’s coming in my balls you’ve got to
believe in yourself
you’ve got to believe in your abilities
you got to believe in your service your
company your ideas unquestionably you
must have faith it’s hard yes it’s
difficult yes 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 see my when are you
that’s when I’ll stop when does a man or
woman died when their dreams died when
are we done when we stop developing
ourselves its founding 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
faking 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 cower before the master nor
then to any threat it’s my heritage that
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 unquenching
desire and uncommon desire to manifest
your greatness give yourselves a round
of applause
thank you the other thing that you look
at your goals and look at your dreams
repeat out to me please I will fill 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 have a lot
of failures too 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 to
Fiery 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 hit
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 that you understand
what I’m talking about
I was parked I knew I could do more but
when my mama died it took something out
of me when I went through a divorce they
had took something out of me when when
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 lights 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
[Applause]
it happens to everybody
here’s the other thing if 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 he profiled bankruptcies 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 nor senator 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 were 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
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 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
have 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 going 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
called my attorney we followed up yes
less there’s a lien against the property
but he told me there were no liens
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
house is 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 up 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 less they’re gonna take my
house what about my down payment you
lost it less 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 tried to cut a deal it’s amazing
how spiritual you get when you get in
trouble early what I was diagnosed with
prostate cancer I was going this bed
with them 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 cares to take
everybody I was calling 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 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
to go back to Liberty City so she said
it’s okay I don’t like this house any
harm
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 a 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 wow maybe
maybe you’re coming back are you back
yes what happened to the home your boy
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 a chance
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 mama I can’t she said a 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 would 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 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 said people
that are 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 until 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 listened 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 buckles 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 he’d 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 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
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 tried to in 300 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 his 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 Kate the key
dr. Norman Vincent Phil’s 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. bill 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
he 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 you’ll 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
[Applause]
and dr. teal 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. peale
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 said that’s
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
way towards the destiny to fight their
way towards their dreams know that life
has a special meaning for you a special
hey is it naysayers I’m gonna try and
come in your path but it’s decide to
turn them out don’t have these toxic
waste people in your life don’t take
shit from them they’re gonna try to put
you down don’t let them succeed because
the only person that ultimately can put
you down is you they can only try but
because the enemy there’s our inner
enemy inside you that tries to speak to
you and tells you who the hell do you
think you are trying to trying to go
after your dreams you think you’re gonna
make it you ain’t gonna make it
you ain’t capable of capable enough who
do you think you are fight the enemy
inside and the way I actually fight the
enemy inside is I tell myself I’m strong
I’m powerful
I got vision I got dreams given to me by
God and I will make them come to you I
will make them happen it’s just a matter
people may come in my path but I decided
I decided to find my face my inner talk
my inner enemy I decided to fight older
and make myself on the right path I know
where my goal is I’m getting there I got
my target I’m getting there
[Music]
pain will come in your life I’ve been
through pain I’ve been through struggle
but really and truly what actually
counts is what do you do by what are you
gonna actually do about the pain are you
gonna let it make you or are you gonna
let it break you it’s come in your life
to make you stronger and make you
powerful it’s not coming your life to
make you weak unless you let it don’t
let it make you weak don’t give in to
the inner enemy inside you’re powerful
just tell yourself I’m strong I’m
powerful
I got vision I got penance on the chosen
you got talents your dreams and it’s
time the time is now it’s not tomorrow
it’s not day after that time is now
you got a 9 to 5 job start your dreams
at 6 o’clock when you get home 6 o’clock
till 12 o’clock or whatever time you
want to give it because your dreams
deserve this time and what the place is
where it takes you I am deciding to
follow my dreams and make it come true
because I am strong I am powerful no
one’s coming in my balls you’ve got to
believe in yourself
you’ve got to believe in your abilities
you got to believe in your service your
company your ideas unquestionably you
must have faith it’s hard yes it’s
difficult yes 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 see my when are you
that’s when I’ll stop when does a man or
woman died when their dreams died when
are we done when we stop developing
ourselves its founding 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
faking 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 cower before the master nor
then to any threat it’s my heritage that
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 unquenching
desire and uncommon desire to manifest
your greatness give yourselves a round
of applause
thank you the other thing that you look
at your goals and look at your dreams
repeat out to me please I will fill 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 have a lot
of failures too 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 to
Fiery 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 hit
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 that you understand
what I’m talking about
I was parked I knew I could do more but
when my mama died it took something out
of me when I went through a divorce they
had took something out of me when when
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 lights 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
[Applause]
it happens to everybody
here’s the other thing if 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 he profiled bankruptcies 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 nor senator 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 were 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
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 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
have 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 going 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
called my attorney we followed up yes
less there’s a lien against the property
but he told me there were no liens
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
house is 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 up 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 less they’re gonna take my
house what about my down payment you
lost it less 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 tried to cut a deal it’s amazing
how spiritual you get when you get in
trouble early what I was diagnosed with
prostate cancer I was going this bed
with them 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 cares to take
everybody I was calling 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 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
to go back to Liberty City so she said
it’s okay I don’t like this house any
harm
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 a 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 wow maybe
maybe you’re coming back are you back
yes what happened to the home your boy
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 a chance
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 mama I can’t she said a 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 would 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 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 said people
that are 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 until 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 listened 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 buckles 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 he’d 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 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
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 tried to in 300 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 his 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 Kate the key
dr. Norman Vincent Phil’s 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. bill 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
he 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 you’ll 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. teal 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. peale
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 said that’s
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
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