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 mom when are you going
to stop going I said when I die 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 reduced 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 would never
cower before the master nor been to any
fair it’s my heritage they 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 be pleased I will fail my
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 things going to happen to
you I was in pursuit of my dream and all
of a sudden boom 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 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 if you understand
what I’m talking
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 and my
best friend died it took something out
of me I called 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 percent don’t care and 20
percent 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 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
going to happen to everybody it does
eight out of ten millionaires have been
fine
phaedra walt disney at seven he for
filed 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 right there 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 cause 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
ear 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 says 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
in fact 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 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 their 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 hot
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’ve 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
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 can I’d 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
chef 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 my tie my
mother is 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 floor stinky 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’ve been Paul work for you you
you haven’t
seeing 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
milk has to take 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 are 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
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 pulled out 68 terrorists the
neighbors came out and said Wow Mamie
Mamie 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 how’s that bum oh I can’t she said a
hole your head up
I said why 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 and
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 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 the 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 it’s
that 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 at deeper
than a hungry unstoppable
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 until T hobb
when we’re standing by the stage they
said hey man I want to work more with
you I want you to coach me I want to
learn from you see I’ve 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 you 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 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 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
thinking 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 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 cake the key
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 is that your not the
band the renowned 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
that’s 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 specialist special education
class project that’s my quote he said I
know I in all my speeches with that
[Applause]
and dr. peale 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 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
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 mom when are you going
to stop going I said when I die 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 reduced 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 would never
cower before the master nor been to any
fair it’s my heritage they 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 be pleased I will fail my
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 things going to happen to
you I was in pursuit of my dream and all
of a sudden boom 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 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 if you understand
what I’m talking
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 and my
best friend died it took something out
of me I called 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 percent don’t care and 20
percent 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 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
going to happen to everybody it does
eight out of ten millionaires have been
fine
phaedra walt disney at seven he for
filed 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 right there 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 cause 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
ear 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 says 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
in fact 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 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 their 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 hot
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’ve 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
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 can I’d 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
chef 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 my tie my
mother is 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 floor stinky 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’ve been Paul work for you you
you haven’t
seeing 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
milk has to take 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 are 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
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 pulled out 68 terrorists the
neighbors came out and said Wow Mamie
Mamie 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 how’s that bum oh I can’t she said a
hole your head up
I said why 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 and
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 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 the 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 it’s
that 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 at deeper
than a hungry unstoppable
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 until T hobb
when we’re standing by the stage they
said hey man I want to work more with
you I want you to coach me I want to
learn from you see I’ve 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 you 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 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 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
thinking 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 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 cake the key
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 is that your not the
band the renowned 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
that’s 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 specialist special education
class project that’s my quote he said I
know I in all my speeches with that
[Applause]
and dr. peale 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 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
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