how many of you thought about some
things that you know that you deserve or
you want out of life where you would
like to enjoy experience and you found
yourself blocking your separation and if
that ever happened to you before
all right very good here’s what I want
you to shake somebody’s hand on your
right and your left and here’s what I
want you to say whatever you’re seeking
it’s seeking you you can have it give
now the reason I brought that up is I
was riding with a friend the other day
and I I know this friend of mine who has
been working on a job where she’s been
miserable for a long time she was
telling me about how she was miserable
on the job and how how she was so
unhappy so I said if this if it’s that
stressful and if it’s causing you that
much pain I say why don’t you just quit
and do something else and she said
something that really put her in the
chorus line with a lot of other people
she said I would but and then I started
to thinking about that so let me take a
poll so I started talking to other
people and I would ask them what they
were doing and I said but is that your
passion and they would say no I said
then what’s your real passion and they
would tell me what their real passion
was then I said well then why aren’t you
doing what you really want to do oh I
can do it but and they would continue on
so this word you know but just kept on
coming up and then it also has some
friends like water and cooter and sugar
and one day I’m gonna have my own
business those people who talk about one
day I’m going on some of y’all know some
of those one day I’m going to people out
raise your hand some of you get up in
the morning look in the mirror that
person I just tease and I just tease I
like it so how is it that many times we
block ourselves and we use these words
almost like we are in a trance like with
sleepwalking through life that we find
ways to cancel out our dreams and I
think that but is a dream killer that a
lot of things that we want to do a lot
of places we would like to go a lot of
things we would like to experience and
we just stop at but and we build a case
in fact I was reading something the
other day that that talked about but it
says but is an argument for our
limitations and when we argue for our
limitations we get to keep them
see but will cost you to procrastinate
but will cost you to hide out behind
fear but will cause you to come up with
all type of excuses that you can
validate you’re in action and not acting
on your dream and right now more than
ever people need to look for ways to
live their dream people need to look for
ways to make it on their own there is no
such thing as job security there’s no
such thing as a storm proof or tragic
proof life there’s no guarantees today
ladies and gentlemen the illusion is
gone there was a time when when we
graduated from high school you’re told
go to college and get out and you go and
work for a corporation for 30 or 40
years they give you a gold watch and
you’ll retire special announcement that
day is gone that day is gone never to
return again so instead of people living
in fear feeling stressed out feeling
powerless feeling like victims I think
it should be a time that we need to
begin to look at ways that we can become
an active force in our own lives look at
ways when we can decide to take charge
of our own destiny look at ways when we
can decide to design a life of substance
and begin to truly live our dreams and
it’s time for people inside I’m ready to
get on with my life shake somebody’s
hand on your writing life a guy named
Bob may say then say don’t let nobody
now you’re not a lot of people say I’m
going to live my life one day when
things get right when I get all my bills
paid when I get my feet on the ground I
see there no problem three moments guy
named dimples had a record one time
called if it ain’t one thing it’s
another and I say if it ain’t one thing
is twelve others always something there
to bilikiss and why you can’t move on
why you can’t grow to the next level why
you can’t begin to manifest your
greatness why you can’t begin to live
life on your terms always something
there to block you to keep you where you
are and keep you from beginning to
develop your true greatness always some
fear how do we handle it and I’m saying
that if you’ve been hiding out behind
but if you’ve been using the fact that
you don’t have enough money or you don’t
have the education take it head-on don’t
get the education I’m saying to a guy
the other day who was saying he said how
old are you it’s 47 years old I said
your sister tell me that you can’t read
he said that’s right I said why well you
know I I didn’t go to school excuse all
are you I’m 47 47 yes and you can’t read
or write yes have you ever heard of
adults school adult education
have you decided that you should learn
how to read to begin to expand your
world why are you using that as a racket
why don’t you decide now that you can
expand your world that if other people
can learn you could learn to well it’s
hard for me how do you have you been and
sit in a class yet have you signed up
yet no I haven’t see a lot of people say
no ladies and gentlemen two things and
they don’t even know what they’re saying
no to ever even challenge themselves
he hasn’t even gone to sit into a class
and say teach me how to read and stand
it’s been easier for him to go for life
he thinks
trying to play a whole con game
pretending he knows how to do something
that he doesn’t know how to do and you
know what most of us go through life
like that
most of us go through life pretending
pretending that we’re satisfied where we
are pretending that everything is okay
pretending that that we don’t have any
special goals or ambitions or desires
when really deep down inside we do
really want more but if you look at our
behavior if you judge based upon what we
do and really we’ll tell you some true
stories about people because you have to
judge a tree by the fruit it bears not
the fruit that it talks about a lot of
people pretend that they want more out
of life but all you have to do is watch
their actions that will tell you
something so I used to pretend that I
want to lose weight but how could you
tell I was pretending watch me when I
let me get within walking distance of
the peanuts some potato chips so I was
pretending that I really wanted to lose
weight no you didn’t watch what I eat
that tell you what I’m seriously
committed to people tell you all yeah
one day I want to have a restaurant see
they’re pretending they want to go into
watch what they’re doing the proof is in
the pudding so if you want to do
something if you’ve thought about
something you want to do take it head-on
decide that you’re going to start
looking at it start doing research on it
start tackling it start becoming
involved in whatever and wherever it
might lead you to begin to explore the
possibilities in that particular thing
that you’re seeking so that you can
begin to learn all you can about it
decide that you’re going to face it that
whatever shortcomings you have that
you’re going to strip in yourself there
whatever training is required that
you’re going to go get that training
that you’re going to get started right
now the George Washington Carver which
they do what you can where you are with
what you have and never be satisfied yes
be fully used to say it I heard Jo
Dudley talk about always trying to be
more than that which you are yeah don’t
get satisfied with yourself always know
that wherever you are you can enjoy more
that you deserve more but most people
you know what they do most people go
through life quietly and safely tiptoe
into an early grave find out what it is
you want and go after it as if your life
depends on it why because it does people
that have found their passion people
that found the things that they love
people that have found the things that
they can pour their lives into those
people live longer I was in New York and
I had to do a seminar at a special
church and a guy by the name of Reverend
Johnny Youngblood and I said how is it
that you were able to build this big
housing facility and got all of the
various community and religious groups
together to to have this dwelling for
2,000 residents that were were once
homeless how were you able to take on
this responsibility wasn’t it
overwhelming he said the kind of work I
do he said it’s in me I’ve got to live
what’s in me
that’s everybody’s desire in life you
got to live what’s in you life is just
too short and unpredictable but what are
what are we say but but there always be
tomorrow oh no there’s no guarantees
you’re gonna show up tomorrow a lot of
people who were here yesterday that
they’re not here today they’re up a lot
of opportunities that were around
yesterday they’re not here today oh you
can wait but you know what Abraham
Lincoln said well good things might come
to those with to who wait but all of the
things that have been left over by those
so who want to go through life picking
up leftovers you deserve much more than
that the leftovers that somebody has
left you so take it head-on begin to
explore here’s something else decide to
do it now decide whatever you want to do
that you are now going to become
actively involved right now exploring
the possibilities for you that you’re
going to look at it and do just a little
bit of it right now when I decided to
become a speaker I didn’t just quit my
job and just ran out and say I’m a
motivational speaker no what I did was I
decided to start looking at other people
there were involved in the speaking
profession I volunteered to work with
some speakers so that I could learn
whatever you want to do get your feet
wet gain some experience doing some
volunteer work in the area and find out
whether or not this thing you want to do
will fit for you friend of mine told me
he wanted to have a restaurant and say
have you ever operated restaurant before
he said no I said we’re really you don’t
even know if you want one
I said what’s your expertise what do you
bring to the table he said I can cook
real good I said well what about the
management side what about the business
part of the restaurant you’re not gonna
be cooking all the time somebody’s got
to receive the money who’s gonna manage
the personality said you got it right
you got a point there
so this guy got a job in a restaurant in
the evening time on a part-time basis
after doing that for a while he said you
know what I think I just want to be a
chef he said after working there people
that show up the working it’s hard to
find the help people weren’t responsible
they headaches the guest was just giving
him problems day in and day out they
weren’t ever satisfied he said no I just
think I should stick to cooking see you
gotta find out what fits for you because
you might decide after you go up in
there and examine it experience it and
get some experience on the about on it
well you say this is really not what I
want this does not fit for me so decide
that you’re going to do that now Johnny
Johnson said something that’s very
important he said there’s no defense
against an excellence that meets a
pressing public need see whatever you
decide to do look at it and find out
what is it that I have that I could
bring to the table that can begin to
enable me to ensure that
I could be successful in this where is
the opening for you there’s room for you
out here out here in the arena called
life there’s room for you to come out
and live your dream don’t allow but to
keep you in the corner or keep you up in
the bleachers looking at life being a
spectator not being a participant making
a difference in life I believe that all
of us came here with something all of us
showed up to give something and that
nobody but nobody’s going to give that
service that you have to give no one’s
going to produce your product no one’s
going to write your book no one’s going
to open your Academy no one’s going to
begin to create your dig here with a
special curriculum to help to cultivate
the high self-esteem and our children
that’s your idea and if you don’t bring
your idea out here when you die all of
us will suffer because we’ve been
deprived of your genius because you
allowed but to keep you in the bleachers
and not pursuing your greatness you take
it to your grave with you and that’s
what most people do I think that’s why
the guy said that many people die at age
21 and don’t get buried until they’re 65
they’re Walking Dead you can tell him by
the way they walk car they look in the
fence when they speak to you I was
giving a speech of this high school and
a lady came after school she said mr.
Brown I want to talk to you about my son
I said what is it she said he’s not
you’ve gotta have energy ladies and
gentlemen you got to have life if you
excited about what you’re doing even in
the area of selling you know people
don’t buy because of logical reasoning
people buy because of your way of
feeling people don’t like to be around
their people oh no let the dead bury the
dead no no keep them away from before
they grab you what a hold onto you so
the fact that that whatever you do you
want to be excited about it you want to
have the kind of excitement that is so
contagious that people want to be around
you because whatever you’re doing
whatever you talk to people about this
particular idea that you have they’re
looking at you and they want to know do
you believe it and are you the kind of
person they want to be in business with
and if you’re not positive if you’re not
energetic if you’re not fired up about
it how can you expect anybody else to be
fired up about your idea am i right all
right but repeat after me please I’m
gonna be fired up about my dream I’m
gonna go at it with everything I got
shake somebody’s hand on your right and
there are a lot of people who say but I
tried once or twice and it didn’t work
out and so they use that as an excuse
not to ever come out again guy said if
at first you don’t succeed you’re
running about average so-so
so if you have come out here with an
idea and it didn’t work out two or three
times well that’s all right you’re
running about average you know I heard
something a jarring question it says why
is it that people prefer known hell’s to
unknown heavens you know why because
it’s comfortable ladies and gentlemen I
remember I was in a service lunch and I
heard dr. Johnny Coleman give this
example she talked about a man who had
been captured behind the enemy lines in
a war and was sentenced to to be killed
or another option the captain said to
the guy listen he said tomorrow morning
at 6 o’clock you can face the firing
squad or you can go out this door over
here and the guy said what’s off the
door
he said no one knows all we can tell you
just unknown horrors he thought and the
next morning he selected the firing
squad after the shots rang out the
captain’s secretary said what’s beyond
that door and he said freedom but very
few people would select to do it because
it’s unknown see a lot of people never
live their dreams a lot of people never
do the things they want to do a lot of
people stay on jobs where they’re
miserable I read an article call is your
job making you sick a lot of people some
of y’all know about that already here
they’re gonna say hey man it’s alright
that one lady told me she said less when
I used to go to work she said when I
stepped in the door felt like a
refrigerator dropped on my shoulders how
many all understand that kind of feeling
they were miserable just hated to go
after 60 minutes on Sunday afternoon or
come Monday morning my head used to
thrive I just couldn’t take it didn’t
wanna go sometimes just just for the
heck of I just drive on by I used to
hate to go to work many must choose an
active living death many months are
Walking Dead The Walking Dead that we’re
not doing what we want to do many of us
stay in relationships where we’re dying
together rather than growing and
expanding and living together we’re
miserable but because we don’t have the
courage to see ourselves beyond that
relationship that has turned toxic we go
through life living dead people and then
you can always tell couples that have
been together for a little while born a
restaurant the one sitting side-by-side
giggling and talking to each other feed
each other with their fucking food they
just got together for one week you see
them in the car they sitting all up each
other hug or they’ve been together about
three days
but if you see people to the restaurant
to you know see a couple and they’re
sitting in front of each other take so
long for this food I wonder when they go
hurry up those are Mary was four years
living in two separate rooms sleeping in
two separate beds well it’s cheaper to
keep it not necessarily it’s a quarter
to the price you want to pay see the
price of peace of mind
the price of living the truth of being
honest with yourself in that wait a
minute it’s gotta be more than this so
you’ve got to decide wait wait even if I
things don’t work out even if I
experience defeat a failure that does
not make me a failure it’s the
difference between failing and being a
failure if you if things don’t work out
if you don’t produce the results you
want that’s all but don’t confuse who
you are with the results that you
produce I used to be a state legislator
in Columbus Ohio and I remember once I
was going to introduce some legislation
on the floor and after getting that
legislation passed a guy came up behind
me and he had some legislation that I
opposed him on that and I was about to
stand up to debate this guy and got next
to me said sku don’t don’t debate that
guy why do you know who that is I said
no it’s will Kowski from Toledo it’s a
bad dude he’s a lawyer less that man can
raise my hand miss mr. speaker
he said the gentlemen from the 29th
House District so yes sir to tell the
gentleman I like to take him on
challenge him on this legislation
he said well cause he said I would more
than like to mr. speaker
everybody say whoo I asked him some
questions he responded I say I wonder
why is that man that question well cos
he won’t be out I mean I was up there
and I just live it back to my rule about
yes I get out of however here’s what I
learned when you win see you if I win a
debate I win because of what I know when
I lose I lose because what I don’t know
so I had to check out what is it that I
did not know I wasn’t prepared I did not
do enough research I did not do my
homework so he had with me like he
wanted to so I came back again I waited
on some other legislation did my
homework but he was more than able to
take me out again but pretty soon each
time it would take him it would become a
little bit more difficult and a little
bit more difficult and the older guy say
would you argue on behalf of at this
legislation for me I said sure I started
volunteering to do work in the
legislative committees for the older
guys I said absolutely and the more I
did it the better I became and then
people began to start respecting me and
when I would ask her said Mr Speaker I
like to speak on that bill so guys let’s
but if I wasn’t willing to be humiliated
if I wasn’t willing to allow myself to
be embarrassed if I wasn’t willing to be
debated and defeated if I wasn’t willing
to look at and say well I’m just not
good as I’m going to be you want that
lady to say Lord ain’t what I want to be
ate what I’m going to be but thank God I
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say you want to learn all you can in
life you’ve got to be willing to
experiment you’ve got to be willing to
learn to dance with life you know Larry
the NGC if you don’t learn to dance with
life life will pass you by and get
another partner I’m saying you’re gonna
have to dance even if you don’t want to
you’re gonna have to dance with life so
you might as well learn you some steps
because it’s gonna drag you out on the
floor
anyhow so you better get out there try
to do the twisting all right because
like go put some nuts on your head
anyhow I mean you can you come up in the
bleachers and slap you before everybody
if that’s it why it’s called life no one
is immune
just think just over a year ago
everybody talked about Donald Trump he
was a darling of America the American
dream fulfilled just over a year ago
less than two years everything that
people were bragging about this wealthy
invincible American figure look what has
happened now everybody no one no one is
exempt from that I was talking to a
friend of mine by the name of Maria
Maria who was diagnosed as having
muscular dystrophy at age 15 and
wheelchair-bound
figured that enough had happened to her
she was somewhat immune she felt
unconsciously for many more accidents or
misfortunes in life her wheelchair
malfunction she fell out suffered a
closed head injury almost went blind
lost a memory and concentration for a
long period of time she said on that day
less I decided to live I said why she
said life is about today she said I felt
because what had happened to me I was
exempt somehow no no life will knock on
everybody’s door I don’t care who you
are care how nice you are life will come
get you what people will dislike you
because you’re nice oh she thinks she’s
nice you tell me
you people would dislike you because you
look better than they do because you
have more than if they do they’ll be
envious and make up lies about you and
attack you the ambience of you why I
don’t know that’s where you set it up I
don’t know I don’t even ask any
questions that’s just the way it is
that’s the way it is handle it
and that’s what Maria said last I’m
gonna live
she said they told me I was gonna go
blind I said wait a min you imagine me
around a shopping center in a wheelchair
and a walking dog too oh she said I’m
gonna see doc I’ve got to as she can see
today that that will power that
determinate very positive upbeat person
I’d say but don’t don’t sometimes you
feel sorry for yourself and don’t you
wish you had the capacity to do what
other people do she said I don’t waste
my time comparing my condition with
other people one and she said people
that suffer from a lack of motivation
suffer mainly from a lack of self
appreciation she said I know that I have
value in the fact that I’m in a
wheelchair doesn’t make me any less of a
human being
who can contribute something to life
and I’m saying that there are all of us
can begin to affirm that that my life is
worthwhile doesn’t matter what I’ve
experienced doesn’t matter about what I
don’t have doesn’t matter about what
I’ve gone through what’s important is
that where I am right now that I live
life and I experience my life fully
she said less before the accident I
wasn’t living 100 percent of my life I
said what were you living
she said around 20 percent and I said
you know what I said I know what that’s
like see if you go through life holding
back and most of us do most of us if we
ask ourselves have we done all we can do
most of us will have to answer no we
haven’t we’ve been holding back we have
ideas and we don’t act on things we want
to do we afraid to take chances we go
through life trying to seek security and
not coming outside of our comfort zone
and we take most of our stuff with us to
the grave and I’m saying that the fact
that you’re still here that you’re still
breathing you’ve got some more work and
you owe it to yourself you owe it to
yourself so when you get up in the
morning that you can look yourself in
the face and say hey I’m living my life
on my terms
that’s important not to give up on your
dream not to give up on yourself now are
there going to be some moments when you
want to give up yes will there be some
moments when it’s going to seem like
it’s impossible the pain that you’re
experiencing the disappointment that
you’re experiencing that you’re going to
say it’s not worth it yes that’s that’s
going to be right there for you it’s
going to be in your face telling you to
go back you’re gonna start listening to
the boxin and buts we’ll have all kind
of help and support from your family
members and friends saying I told you
fool you gotta do this positive thinking
stuff look at you now
bet you wish you had that job now
remember I lost my job is very
controversial in in Columbus Ohio than
broadcasting lost my job and and here’s
what I learned that you’ve got to
immediately start using your energy
positively know folks you said I don’t
mind as the devil’s workshop
that’s real I mean when I didn’t have
thing to do my mind you said you better
go back and get your job why did you
just shut up always running your mouth
why did you just us you’ll be working
right now broadcasting was all that I
knew and that was my life I love talking
to people and I love playing the records
used to come on their lookout this is
Les Brown all right get up face these
raise your right hand throw your head
back put your teeth in and say I am
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here’s what you discover when you’re
real good at what you do a lot of people
are find you to be a threat they will
hire you know they want people in that
they can control or dominate so if
you’re a high-powered person sometimes
that can be a liability for you so it
was difficult for me to get a job in
broadcasting did not get a job in
broadcasting had to take another route
had to begin to use my talents and
abilities in another area wherever you
are right now I’m saying to you you’ve
got at least three or four or five
talents that you are not even aware of
right now and you will never be aware of
them unless you come outside your
comfort zone and challenge yourself to
develop your talents and abilities to
see what it is that you might have a
knack for that you haven’t discovered it
yet see most people never discover their
true potential or their other talents
and abilities because they figure that
they’re one-dimensional and they don’t
try and stretch themselves and learn
more guys say he who learns the most
earns the most so if you start learning
more things and finding out and
experimenting with your life and finding
out what else fits for you here’s what
you discover that as you start working
with it and the more you do it the more
you realize other ideas coming to you
the more creative you can become and
then you say wait a minute wait a minute
you know this comes much much more
easily than I realize I’ve developed a
knack and a style for this see a guy
said to me he said if you develop your
gift you you like to talk you like
people I said yeah he said if you
develop your gifts he said your gifts
will take you a long ways in life and
ladies and gentlemen because I decided
so I used to be a jack of all trades and
master of none I tried to earth I used
to be a disc jockey State Representative
community activist used to do public
relations work used to promote shows
used to be an emcee in a nightclub used
to own a nightclub the pink pussycat in
Columbus Ohio I did everything sold
insurance you name it door-to-door
salesman I did it all but finally I
decided to focus my energy
I looked at all my talents and abilties
I said well I’ve gotta just find what’s
my one thing what’s my trump card what’s
the one thing that I do better not do
anything else I said well I’d like to do
a lot of things I like to promote I like
the MC I like to talk I like being a
disc jockey Program Director like being
a community activist I enjoy being a
state legislator but I had to find one
thing and I found that one thing I
decided I was going to develop myself as
a speaker and I started following other
speakers around I started doing research
I would read about Marcus Garvey federic
Douglass Booker T Washington Winston
Churchill the truth is incontrovertible
malice meant tacit ignorance they
derided but at the end there it is
Carlisle truth crushed to earth shall
rise again I would follow dom dr. Otis
Moss I’ve read to a dr. Martin Luther
King said he’s the greatest preacher
into where I used to follow him of
Charles Adams out of Columbus out of
Detroit Michigan any great speakers I
would follow them and watch him I’ll be
in the back just checking him out
used to watch Billy Graham on television
turn the volume down to watch his hand
movements because he’s so expressive
with his hands I just became a student
of the area that I wanted to become
involved in I would go to the
motivational rallies join the National
Speakers Association and watching all
these guys and then I would work in
practice in other areas in developing my
own style sometimes I would imitate
other guys and eventually what you’ll
begin to do is that you emerge and
develop your own style as you do it and
work with and work with and work with
and work with it and I say to you that
is so exciting
people that are working on their dreams
and developing themselves they have a
different kind of walk I have different
kind of energy you can tell in the tempo
of their conversation they walk
differently they have a lot of energy
they have a glow about them people that
aren’t working on their dream see that
there is a this you can tell in how they
move into a body language ya know their
voice conversation there real slow hey
I’ll just call I wasn’t doing then
thought I called you
well don’t do that over here they look
at a lot of television what’s on I don’t
know I’m just looking look no you got to
watch this you got you got you don’t
want to be like that you you want to
actively be involved in creating life
and making it exciting for you see if
you watch the news all day and read
what’s happening a news thing you’ll be
scared to come out your house I’m all
right you be scared see you’ve got to to
keep the little boy and the little girl
alive in you see one of the most evil
don’t smile you know that just smile
this this smile some time you know yet
even if you’re hopefully you look good
with your smile that’s something smiling
a homeless person on your right or left
right quick now you look over there they
already smiling and you are the holy way
I just made I just made I’m glad to be
alive and so I feel like that
you know Robert Elliott who’s a hitter
they call a geology department at the
University of Nebraska he suffered a
massive heart attack he was in hospital
for three months and while there he
reflected on his life after this
near-death experience because his mother
and father both of them had no history
of heart failure both of them lived to
be over 80 and he wrote something in
order to live a long life me happy he
said number one rule number one don’t
sweat the small stuff and rule number
see if you’re working on your dream sure
they’re gonna be times you’re gonna want
to give up sure there’d be times in life
are knock you down and catch you on the
Blind Side but the challenge is is to
hold on and if you hold on tenaciously I
say the universe is on your side a way
will come out of nowhere someone will
step forward and help you just a
blessing who are you I don’t know but
so don’t allow about difficult and
challenging times to demoralize you I
love to quote this guy Charles Udall he
said in life you will always be faced
with a series of god-ordained
opportunities brilliantly disguised as
problems and challenges and I’m saying
in your hands you have ideas you have
been given something to bring to the
universe that was not here before you
showed up
see nobody ladies and gentlemen he’s
gonna give Les Brown speech this is my
speech
the motivator from Detroit it’s my
speech you can’t it man this boy can’t
take my speech no you gotta go get your
speech you can’t cover it take my speech
No
so I’m saying to you kid nobody take
your good see if that which is meant for
you has your name on it no one can take
your good from you that’s you that work
you’ve been given that idea that you’ve
been given if you don’t come out here
with that idea no one’s gonna bring your
idea out here whatever you’re sitting on
whatever idea you working on whatever
passion you gotta be like Johnny
Youngblood he said hey I’ve got to live
what’s in me and let me tell you I’m
happier than I’ve ever been in my life
why I got peace of mind you can’t put a
and I say to you
the universe is calling you then lady
wrote me a letter once after hearing me
speak in Detroit and I had just finished
working with some kids and it really was
a short letter a short letter but
powerful in the letter read she said the
voice of greatness has called me and I’m
afraid to answer oh I know what it is
not to answer so I could have been doing
this years ago but I was afraid to
answer
I had these bucks that I was hiding
behind like idiom I didn’t want to come
not me not me I’m not good enough I’m
not wait let me get ready let me get
ready you know you ever seen those
perpetual students all let me get rid of
em again ready got a friend of Kellerman
going to school ten years ten years of
degrees ain’t doing nothing and like you
know I’m saying answer your call the
universe is calling you here’s something
about life you can’t get out of it alive
hello you can’t get out of life alive
live now like Maria said live your dream
now so other night I had a funeral and I
don’t mind doing it again
we buried but we said but you all have
no place in our lives no more these
dreams you’ve been killing oh but you
ain’t gonna kill no more dreams up here
everybody repeat after me but get out of
my life I don’t need you no more don’t
come back here shake somebody’s hand on
your right and left and say keep him
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so currently I say look at your life and
decide that my life is beautiful that my
life is meaningful to me I’m not exactly
sure what I want to do but because my
life means so much to me and there are
no guarantees in life I’m gonna live as
much as I can each day I’m gonna do what
I can where I am right now and whatever
I shared with you I wrote it write a
book call it works if you work it that’s
what Johnny Coleman said see if you
don’t decide to act on your dream if you
don’t decide to make a decision to live
your life if you don’t decide to step
into your fears if you don’t decide to
say yes to your life it will never work
for you the time for just wishing is
past time for doing that’s the time
right now time for acting on your dream
holding on courageously as Winston
Churchill said and not lose enthusiasm
time to face yourself and talk to
yourself in the mirror time to look
around and become creative and see what
need a service that you can provide with
high standards so that people will talk
about you being a master and what you do
because of the commitment of Pride and
excellence and high standards that
you’ve set for yourself it’s time for
you to look within yourself and decide
that I’m in charge of my destiny I’m in
charge here and I’m not going to allow
anybody to turn me around I am
determined that I’m going to make it and
here’s something ladies and gentlemen
when you make it important it’s not a
preference it’s not negotiable it’s a
must and when you decide I’m going to do
it regardless of the opposition with the
godless of the difficulties I’m going to
make this happen because it’s important
to me I’m saying the universe will yield
to you and life will never be the same
again live your dreams
this is mrs. Mamie Brown’s baby
Leslie Calvin Brown Chang has been a
plumb pleasing pleasure as well as a
privilege back here
things that you know that you deserve or
you want out of life where you would
like to enjoy experience and you found
yourself blocking your separation and if
that ever happened to you before
all right very good here’s what I want
you to shake somebody’s hand on your
right and your left and here’s what I
want you to say whatever you’re seeking
it’s seeking you you can have it give
now the reason I brought that up is I
was riding with a friend the other day
and I I know this friend of mine who has
been working on a job where she’s been
miserable for a long time she was
telling me about how she was miserable
on the job and how how she was so
unhappy so I said if this if it’s that
stressful and if it’s causing you that
much pain I say why don’t you just quit
and do something else and she said
something that really put her in the
chorus line with a lot of other people
she said I would but and then I started
to thinking about that so let me take a
poll so I started talking to other
people and I would ask them what they
were doing and I said but is that your
passion and they would say no I said
then what’s your real passion and they
would tell me what their real passion
was then I said well then why aren’t you
doing what you really want to do oh I
can do it but and they would continue on
so this word you know but just kept on
coming up and then it also has some
friends like water and cooter and sugar
and one day I’m gonna have my own
business those people who talk about one
day I’m going on some of y’all know some
of those one day I’m going to people out
raise your hand some of you get up in
the morning look in the mirror that
person I just tease and I just tease I
like it so how is it that many times we
block ourselves and we use these words
almost like we are in a trance like with
sleepwalking through life that we find
ways to cancel out our dreams and I
think that but is a dream killer that a
lot of things that we want to do a lot
of places we would like to go a lot of
things we would like to experience and
we just stop at but and we build a case
in fact I was reading something the
other day that that talked about but it
says but is an argument for our
limitations and when we argue for our
limitations we get to keep them
see but will cost you to procrastinate
but will cost you to hide out behind
fear but will cause you to come up with
all type of excuses that you can
validate you’re in action and not acting
on your dream and right now more than
ever people need to look for ways to
live their dream people need to look for
ways to make it on their own there is no
such thing as job security there’s no
such thing as a storm proof or tragic
proof life there’s no guarantees today
ladies and gentlemen the illusion is
gone there was a time when when we
graduated from high school you’re told
go to college and get out and you go and
work for a corporation for 30 or 40
years they give you a gold watch and
you’ll retire special announcement that
day is gone that day is gone never to
return again so instead of people living
in fear feeling stressed out feeling
powerless feeling like victims I think
it should be a time that we need to
begin to look at ways that we can become
an active force in our own lives look at
ways when we can decide to take charge
of our own destiny look at ways when we
can decide to design a life of substance
and begin to truly live our dreams and
it’s time for people inside I’m ready to
get on with my life shake somebody’s
hand on your writing life a guy named
Bob may say then say don’t let nobody
now you’re not a lot of people say I’m
going to live my life one day when
things get right when I get all my bills
paid when I get my feet on the ground I
see there no problem three moments guy
named dimples had a record one time
called if it ain’t one thing it’s
another and I say if it ain’t one thing
is twelve others always something there
to bilikiss and why you can’t move on
why you can’t grow to the next level why
you can’t begin to manifest your
greatness why you can’t begin to live
life on your terms always something
there to block you to keep you where you
are and keep you from beginning to
develop your true greatness always some
fear how do we handle it and I’m saying
that if you’ve been hiding out behind
but if you’ve been using the fact that
you don’t have enough money or you don’t
have the education take it head-on don’t
get the education I’m saying to a guy
the other day who was saying he said how
old are you it’s 47 years old I said
your sister tell me that you can’t read
he said that’s right I said why well you
know I I didn’t go to school excuse all
are you I’m 47 47 yes and you can’t read
or write yes have you ever heard of
adults school adult education
have you decided that you should learn
how to read to begin to expand your
world why are you using that as a racket
why don’t you decide now that you can
expand your world that if other people
can learn you could learn to well it’s
hard for me how do you have you been and
sit in a class yet have you signed up
yet no I haven’t see a lot of people say
no ladies and gentlemen two things and
they don’t even know what they’re saying
no to ever even challenge themselves
he hasn’t even gone to sit into a class
and say teach me how to read and stand
it’s been easier for him to go for life
he thinks
trying to play a whole con game
pretending he knows how to do something
that he doesn’t know how to do and you
know what most of us go through life
like that
most of us go through life pretending
pretending that we’re satisfied where we
are pretending that everything is okay
pretending that that we don’t have any
special goals or ambitions or desires
when really deep down inside we do
really want more but if you look at our
behavior if you judge based upon what we
do and really we’ll tell you some true
stories about people because you have to
judge a tree by the fruit it bears not
the fruit that it talks about a lot of
people pretend that they want more out
of life but all you have to do is watch
their actions that will tell you
something so I used to pretend that I
want to lose weight but how could you
tell I was pretending watch me when I
let me get within walking distance of
the peanuts some potato chips so I was
pretending that I really wanted to lose
weight no you didn’t watch what I eat
that tell you what I’m seriously
committed to people tell you all yeah
one day I want to have a restaurant see
they’re pretending they want to go into
watch what they’re doing the proof is in
the pudding so if you want to do
something if you’ve thought about
something you want to do take it head-on
decide that you’re going to start
looking at it start doing research on it
start tackling it start becoming
involved in whatever and wherever it
might lead you to begin to explore the
possibilities in that particular thing
that you’re seeking so that you can
begin to learn all you can about it
decide that you’re going to face it that
whatever shortcomings you have that
you’re going to strip in yourself there
whatever training is required that
you’re going to go get that training
that you’re going to get started right
now the George Washington Carver which
they do what you can where you are with
what you have and never be satisfied yes
be fully used to say it I heard Jo
Dudley talk about always trying to be
more than that which you are yeah don’t
get satisfied with yourself always know
that wherever you are you can enjoy more
that you deserve more but most people
you know what they do most people go
through life quietly and safely tiptoe
into an early grave find out what it is
you want and go after it as if your life
depends on it why because it does people
that have found their passion people
that found the things that they love
people that have found the things that
they can pour their lives into those
people live longer I was in New York and
I had to do a seminar at a special
church and a guy by the name of Reverend
Johnny Youngblood and I said how is it
that you were able to build this big
housing facility and got all of the
various community and religious groups
together to to have this dwelling for
2,000 residents that were were once
homeless how were you able to take on
this responsibility wasn’t it
overwhelming he said the kind of work I
do he said it’s in me I’ve got to live
what’s in me
that’s everybody’s desire in life you
got to live what’s in you life is just
too short and unpredictable but what are
what are we say but but there always be
tomorrow oh no there’s no guarantees
you’re gonna show up tomorrow a lot of
people who were here yesterday that
they’re not here today they’re up a lot
of opportunities that were around
yesterday they’re not here today oh you
can wait but you know what Abraham
Lincoln said well good things might come
to those with to who wait but all of the
things that have been left over by those
so who want to go through life picking
up leftovers you deserve much more than
that the leftovers that somebody has
left you so take it head-on begin to
explore here’s something else decide to
do it now decide whatever you want to do
that you are now going to become
actively involved right now exploring
the possibilities for you that you’re
going to look at it and do just a little
bit of it right now when I decided to
become a speaker I didn’t just quit my
job and just ran out and say I’m a
motivational speaker no what I did was I
decided to start looking at other people
there were involved in the speaking
profession I volunteered to work with
some speakers so that I could learn
whatever you want to do get your feet
wet gain some experience doing some
volunteer work in the area and find out
whether or not this thing you want to do
will fit for you friend of mine told me
he wanted to have a restaurant and say
have you ever operated restaurant before
he said no I said we’re really you don’t
even know if you want one
I said what’s your expertise what do you
bring to the table he said I can cook
real good I said well what about the
management side what about the business
part of the restaurant you’re not gonna
be cooking all the time somebody’s got
to receive the money who’s gonna manage
the personality said you got it right
you got a point there
so this guy got a job in a restaurant in
the evening time on a part-time basis
after doing that for a while he said you
know what I think I just want to be a
chef he said after working there people
that show up the working it’s hard to
find the help people weren’t responsible
they headaches the guest was just giving
him problems day in and day out they
weren’t ever satisfied he said no I just
think I should stick to cooking see you
gotta find out what fits for you because
you might decide after you go up in
there and examine it experience it and
get some experience on the about on it
well you say this is really not what I
want this does not fit for me so decide
that you’re going to do that now Johnny
Johnson said something that’s very
important he said there’s no defense
against an excellence that meets a
pressing public need see whatever you
decide to do look at it and find out
what is it that I have that I could
bring to the table that can begin to
enable me to ensure that
I could be successful in this where is
the opening for you there’s room for you
out here out here in the arena called
life there’s room for you to come out
and live your dream don’t allow but to
keep you in the corner or keep you up in
the bleachers looking at life being a
spectator not being a participant making
a difference in life I believe that all
of us came here with something all of us
showed up to give something and that
nobody but nobody’s going to give that
service that you have to give no one’s
going to produce your product no one’s
going to write your book no one’s going
to open your Academy no one’s going to
begin to create your dig here with a
special curriculum to help to cultivate
the high self-esteem and our children
that’s your idea and if you don’t bring
your idea out here when you die all of
us will suffer because we’ve been
deprived of your genius because you
allowed but to keep you in the bleachers
and not pursuing your greatness you take
it to your grave with you and that’s
what most people do I think that’s why
the guy said that many people die at age
21 and don’t get buried until they’re 65
they’re Walking Dead you can tell him by
the way they walk car they look in the
fence when they speak to you I was
giving a speech of this high school and
a lady came after school she said mr.
Brown I want to talk to you about my son
I said what is it she said he’s not
you’ve gotta have energy ladies and
gentlemen you got to have life if you
excited about what you’re doing even in
the area of selling you know people
don’t buy because of logical reasoning
people buy because of your way of
feeling people don’t like to be around
their people oh no let the dead bury the
dead no no keep them away from before
they grab you what a hold onto you so
the fact that that whatever you do you
want to be excited about it you want to
have the kind of excitement that is so
contagious that people want to be around
you because whatever you’re doing
whatever you talk to people about this
particular idea that you have they’re
looking at you and they want to know do
you believe it and are you the kind of
person they want to be in business with
and if you’re not positive if you’re not
energetic if you’re not fired up about
it how can you expect anybody else to be
fired up about your idea am i right all
right but repeat after me please I’m
gonna be fired up about my dream I’m
gonna go at it with everything I got
shake somebody’s hand on your right and
there are a lot of people who say but I
tried once or twice and it didn’t work
out and so they use that as an excuse
not to ever come out again guy said if
at first you don’t succeed you’re
running about average so-so
so if you have come out here with an
idea and it didn’t work out two or three
times well that’s all right you’re
running about average you know I heard
something a jarring question it says why
is it that people prefer known hell’s to
unknown heavens you know why because
it’s comfortable ladies and gentlemen I
remember I was in a service lunch and I
heard dr. Johnny Coleman give this
example she talked about a man who had
been captured behind the enemy lines in
a war and was sentenced to to be killed
or another option the captain said to
the guy listen he said tomorrow morning
at 6 o’clock you can face the firing
squad or you can go out this door over
here and the guy said what’s off the
door
he said no one knows all we can tell you
just unknown horrors he thought and the
next morning he selected the firing
squad after the shots rang out the
captain’s secretary said what’s beyond
that door and he said freedom but very
few people would select to do it because
it’s unknown see a lot of people never
live their dreams a lot of people never
do the things they want to do a lot of
people stay on jobs where they’re
miserable I read an article call is your
job making you sick a lot of people some
of y’all know about that already here
they’re gonna say hey man it’s alright
that one lady told me she said less when
I used to go to work she said when I
stepped in the door felt like a
refrigerator dropped on my shoulders how
many all understand that kind of feeling
they were miserable just hated to go
after 60 minutes on Sunday afternoon or
come Monday morning my head used to
thrive I just couldn’t take it didn’t
wanna go sometimes just just for the
heck of I just drive on by I used to
hate to go to work many must choose an
active living death many months are
Walking Dead The Walking Dead that we’re
not doing what we want to do many of us
stay in relationships where we’re dying
together rather than growing and
expanding and living together we’re
miserable but because we don’t have the
courage to see ourselves beyond that
relationship that has turned toxic we go
through life living dead people and then
you can always tell couples that have
been together for a little while born a
restaurant the one sitting side-by-side
giggling and talking to each other feed
each other with their fucking food they
just got together for one week you see
them in the car they sitting all up each
other hug or they’ve been together about
three days
but if you see people to the restaurant
to you know see a couple and they’re
sitting in front of each other take so
long for this food I wonder when they go
hurry up those are Mary was four years
living in two separate rooms sleeping in
two separate beds well it’s cheaper to
keep it not necessarily it’s a quarter
to the price you want to pay see the
price of peace of mind
the price of living the truth of being
honest with yourself in that wait a
minute it’s gotta be more than this so
you’ve got to decide wait wait even if I
things don’t work out even if I
experience defeat a failure that does
not make me a failure it’s the
difference between failing and being a
failure if you if things don’t work out
if you don’t produce the results you
want that’s all but don’t confuse who
you are with the results that you
produce I used to be a state legislator
in Columbus Ohio and I remember once I
was going to introduce some legislation
on the floor and after getting that
legislation passed a guy came up behind
me and he had some legislation that I
opposed him on that and I was about to
stand up to debate this guy and got next
to me said sku don’t don’t debate that
guy why do you know who that is I said
no it’s will Kowski from Toledo it’s a
bad dude he’s a lawyer less that man can
raise my hand miss mr. speaker
he said the gentlemen from the 29th
House District so yes sir to tell the
gentleman I like to take him on
challenge him on this legislation
he said well cause he said I would more
than like to mr. speaker
everybody say whoo I asked him some
questions he responded I say I wonder
why is that man that question well cos
he won’t be out I mean I was up there
and I just live it back to my rule about
yes I get out of however here’s what I
learned when you win see you if I win a
debate I win because of what I know when
I lose I lose because what I don’t know
so I had to check out what is it that I
did not know I wasn’t prepared I did not
do enough research I did not do my
homework so he had with me like he
wanted to so I came back again I waited
on some other legislation did my
homework but he was more than able to
take me out again but pretty soon each
time it would take him it would become a
little bit more difficult and a little
bit more difficult and the older guy say
would you argue on behalf of at this
legislation for me I said sure I started
volunteering to do work in the
legislative committees for the older
guys I said absolutely and the more I
did it the better I became and then
people began to start respecting me and
when I would ask her said Mr Speaker I
like to speak on that bill so guys let’s
but if I wasn’t willing to be humiliated
if I wasn’t willing to allow myself to
be embarrassed if I wasn’t willing to be
debated and defeated if I wasn’t willing
to look at and say well I’m just not
good as I’m going to be you want that
lady to say Lord ain’t what I want to be
ate what I’m going to be but thank God I
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say you want to learn all you can in
life you’ve got to be willing to
experiment you’ve got to be willing to
learn to dance with life you know Larry
the NGC if you don’t learn to dance with
life life will pass you by and get
another partner I’m saying you’re gonna
have to dance even if you don’t want to
you’re gonna have to dance with life so
you might as well learn you some steps
because it’s gonna drag you out on the
floor
anyhow so you better get out there try
to do the twisting all right because
like go put some nuts on your head
anyhow I mean you can you come up in the
bleachers and slap you before everybody
if that’s it why it’s called life no one
is immune
just think just over a year ago
everybody talked about Donald Trump he
was a darling of America the American
dream fulfilled just over a year ago
less than two years everything that
people were bragging about this wealthy
invincible American figure look what has
happened now everybody no one no one is
exempt from that I was talking to a
friend of mine by the name of Maria
Maria who was diagnosed as having
muscular dystrophy at age 15 and
wheelchair-bound
figured that enough had happened to her
she was somewhat immune she felt
unconsciously for many more accidents or
misfortunes in life her wheelchair
malfunction she fell out suffered a
closed head injury almost went blind
lost a memory and concentration for a
long period of time she said on that day
less I decided to live I said why she
said life is about today she said I felt
because what had happened to me I was
exempt somehow no no life will knock on
everybody’s door I don’t care who you
are care how nice you are life will come
get you what people will dislike you
because you’re nice oh she thinks she’s
nice you tell me
you people would dislike you because you
look better than they do because you
have more than if they do they’ll be
envious and make up lies about you and
attack you the ambience of you why I
don’t know that’s where you set it up I
don’t know I don’t even ask any
questions that’s just the way it is
that’s the way it is handle it
and that’s what Maria said last I’m
gonna live
she said they told me I was gonna go
blind I said wait a min you imagine me
around a shopping center in a wheelchair
and a walking dog too oh she said I’m
gonna see doc I’ve got to as she can see
today that that will power that
determinate very positive upbeat person
I’d say but don’t don’t sometimes you
feel sorry for yourself and don’t you
wish you had the capacity to do what
other people do she said I don’t waste
my time comparing my condition with
other people one and she said people
that suffer from a lack of motivation
suffer mainly from a lack of self
appreciation she said I know that I have
value in the fact that I’m in a
wheelchair doesn’t make me any less of a
human being
who can contribute something to life
and I’m saying that there are all of us
can begin to affirm that that my life is
worthwhile doesn’t matter what I’ve
experienced doesn’t matter about what I
don’t have doesn’t matter about what
I’ve gone through what’s important is
that where I am right now that I live
life and I experience my life fully
she said less before the accident I
wasn’t living 100 percent of my life I
said what were you living
she said around 20 percent and I said
you know what I said I know what that’s
like see if you go through life holding
back and most of us do most of us if we
ask ourselves have we done all we can do
most of us will have to answer no we
haven’t we’ve been holding back we have
ideas and we don’t act on things we want
to do we afraid to take chances we go
through life trying to seek security and
not coming outside of our comfort zone
and we take most of our stuff with us to
the grave and I’m saying that the fact
that you’re still here that you’re still
breathing you’ve got some more work and
you owe it to yourself you owe it to
yourself so when you get up in the
morning that you can look yourself in
the face and say hey I’m living my life
on my terms
that’s important not to give up on your
dream not to give up on yourself now are
there going to be some moments when you
want to give up yes will there be some
moments when it’s going to seem like
it’s impossible the pain that you’re
experiencing the disappointment that
you’re experiencing that you’re going to
say it’s not worth it yes that’s that’s
going to be right there for you it’s
going to be in your face telling you to
go back you’re gonna start listening to
the boxin and buts we’ll have all kind
of help and support from your family
members and friends saying I told you
fool you gotta do this positive thinking
stuff look at you now
bet you wish you had that job now
remember I lost my job is very
controversial in in Columbus Ohio than
broadcasting lost my job and and here’s
what I learned that you’ve got to
immediately start using your energy
positively know folks you said I don’t
mind as the devil’s workshop
that’s real I mean when I didn’t have
thing to do my mind you said you better
go back and get your job why did you
just shut up always running your mouth
why did you just us you’ll be working
right now broadcasting was all that I
knew and that was my life I love talking
to people and I love playing the records
used to come on their lookout this is
Les Brown all right get up face these
raise your right hand throw your head
back put your teeth in and say I am
[Music]
here’s what you discover when you’re
real good at what you do a lot of people
are find you to be a threat they will
hire you know they want people in that
they can control or dominate so if
you’re a high-powered person sometimes
that can be a liability for you so it
was difficult for me to get a job in
broadcasting did not get a job in
broadcasting had to take another route
had to begin to use my talents and
abilities in another area wherever you
are right now I’m saying to you you’ve
got at least three or four or five
talents that you are not even aware of
right now and you will never be aware of
them unless you come outside your
comfort zone and challenge yourself to
develop your talents and abilities to
see what it is that you might have a
knack for that you haven’t discovered it
yet see most people never discover their
true potential or their other talents
and abilities because they figure that
they’re one-dimensional and they don’t
try and stretch themselves and learn
more guys say he who learns the most
earns the most so if you start learning
more things and finding out and
experimenting with your life and finding
out what else fits for you here’s what
you discover that as you start working
with it and the more you do it the more
you realize other ideas coming to you
the more creative you can become and
then you say wait a minute wait a minute
you know this comes much much more
easily than I realize I’ve developed a
knack and a style for this see a guy
said to me he said if you develop your
gift you you like to talk you like
people I said yeah he said if you
develop your gifts he said your gifts
will take you a long ways in life and
ladies and gentlemen because I decided
so I used to be a jack of all trades and
master of none I tried to earth I used
to be a disc jockey State Representative
community activist used to do public
relations work used to promote shows
used to be an emcee in a nightclub used
to own a nightclub the pink pussycat in
Columbus Ohio I did everything sold
insurance you name it door-to-door
salesman I did it all but finally I
decided to focus my energy
I looked at all my talents and abilties
I said well I’ve gotta just find what’s
my one thing what’s my trump card what’s
the one thing that I do better not do
anything else I said well I’d like to do
a lot of things I like to promote I like
the MC I like to talk I like being a
disc jockey Program Director like being
a community activist I enjoy being a
state legislator but I had to find one
thing and I found that one thing I
decided I was going to develop myself as
a speaker and I started following other
speakers around I started doing research
I would read about Marcus Garvey federic
Douglass Booker T Washington Winston
Churchill the truth is incontrovertible
malice meant tacit ignorance they
derided but at the end there it is
Carlisle truth crushed to earth shall
rise again I would follow dom dr. Otis
Moss I’ve read to a dr. Martin Luther
King said he’s the greatest preacher
into where I used to follow him of
Charles Adams out of Columbus out of
Detroit Michigan any great speakers I
would follow them and watch him I’ll be
in the back just checking him out
used to watch Billy Graham on television
turn the volume down to watch his hand
movements because he’s so expressive
with his hands I just became a student
of the area that I wanted to become
involved in I would go to the
motivational rallies join the National
Speakers Association and watching all
these guys and then I would work in
practice in other areas in developing my
own style sometimes I would imitate
other guys and eventually what you’ll
begin to do is that you emerge and
develop your own style as you do it and
work with and work with and work with
and work with it and I say to you that
is so exciting
people that are working on their dreams
and developing themselves they have a
different kind of walk I have different
kind of energy you can tell in the tempo
of their conversation they walk
differently they have a lot of energy
they have a glow about them people that
aren’t working on their dream see that
there is a this you can tell in how they
move into a body language ya know their
voice conversation there real slow hey
I’ll just call I wasn’t doing then
thought I called you
well don’t do that over here they look
at a lot of television what’s on I don’t
know I’m just looking look no you got to
watch this you got you got you don’t
want to be like that you you want to
actively be involved in creating life
and making it exciting for you see if
you watch the news all day and read
what’s happening a news thing you’ll be
scared to come out your house I’m all
right you be scared see you’ve got to to
keep the little boy and the little girl
alive in you see one of the most evil
don’t smile you know that just smile
this this smile some time you know yet
even if you’re hopefully you look good
with your smile that’s something smiling
a homeless person on your right or left
right quick now you look over there they
already smiling and you are the holy way
I just made I just made I’m glad to be
alive and so I feel like that
you know Robert Elliott who’s a hitter
they call a geology department at the
University of Nebraska he suffered a
massive heart attack he was in hospital
for three months and while there he
reflected on his life after this
near-death experience because his mother
and father both of them had no history
of heart failure both of them lived to
be over 80 and he wrote something in
order to live a long life me happy he
said number one rule number one don’t
sweat the small stuff and rule number
see if you’re working on your dream sure
they’re gonna be times you’re gonna want
to give up sure there’d be times in life
are knock you down and catch you on the
Blind Side but the challenge is is to
hold on and if you hold on tenaciously I
say the universe is on your side a way
will come out of nowhere someone will
step forward and help you just a
blessing who are you I don’t know but
so don’t allow about difficult and
challenging times to demoralize you I
love to quote this guy Charles Udall he
said in life you will always be faced
with a series of god-ordained
opportunities brilliantly disguised as
problems and challenges and I’m saying
in your hands you have ideas you have
been given something to bring to the
universe that was not here before you
showed up
see nobody ladies and gentlemen he’s
gonna give Les Brown speech this is my
speech
the motivator from Detroit it’s my
speech you can’t it man this boy can’t
take my speech no you gotta go get your
speech you can’t cover it take my speech
No
so I’m saying to you kid nobody take
your good see if that which is meant for
you has your name on it no one can take
your good from you that’s you that work
you’ve been given that idea that you’ve
been given if you don’t come out here
with that idea no one’s gonna bring your
idea out here whatever you’re sitting on
whatever idea you working on whatever
passion you gotta be like Johnny
Youngblood he said hey I’ve got to live
what’s in me and let me tell you I’m
happier than I’ve ever been in my life
why I got peace of mind you can’t put a
and I say to you
the universe is calling you then lady
wrote me a letter once after hearing me
speak in Detroit and I had just finished
working with some kids and it really was
a short letter a short letter but
powerful in the letter read she said the
voice of greatness has called me and I’m
afraid to answer oh I know what it is
not to answer so I could have been doing
this years ago but I was afraid to
answer
I had these bucks that I was hiding
behind like idiom I didn’t want to come
not me not me I’m not good enough I’m
not wait let me get ready let me get
ready you know you ever seen those
perpetual students all let me get rid of
em again ready got a friend of Kellerman
going to school ten years ten years of
degrees ain’t doing nothing and like you
know I’m saying answer your call the
universe is calling you here’s something
about life you can’t get out of it alive
hello you can’t get out of life alive
live now like Maria said live your dream
now so other night I had a funeral and I
don’t mind doing it again
we buried but we said but you all have
no place in our lives no more these
dreams you’ve been killing oh but you
ain’t gonna kill no more dreams up here
everybody repeat after me but get out of
my life I don’t need you no more don’t
come back here shake somebody’s hand on
your right and left and say keep him
[Music]
so currently I say look at your life and
decide that my life is beautiful that my
life is meaningful to me I’m not exactly
sure what I want to do but because my
life means so much to me and there are
no guarantees in life I’m gonna live as
much as I can each day I’m gonna do what
I can where I am right now and whatever
I shared with you I wrote it write a
book call it works if you work it that’s
what Johnny Coleman said see if you
don’t decide to act on your dream if you
don’t decide to make a decision to live
your life if you don’t decide to step
into your fears if you don’t decide to
say yes to your life it will never work
for you the time for just wishing is
past time for doing that’s the time
right now time for acting on your dream
holding on courageously as Winston
Churchill said and not lose enthusiasm
time to face yourself and talk to
yourself in the mirror time to look
around and become creative and see what
need a service that you can provide with
high standards so that people will talk
about you being a master and what you do
because of the commitment of Pride and
excellence and high standards that
you’ve set for yourself it’s time for
you to look within yourself and decide
that I’m in charge of my destiny I’m in
charge here and I’m not going to allow
anybody to turn me around I am
determined that I’m going to make it and
here’s something ladies and gentlemen
when you make it important it’s not a
preference it’s not negotiable it’s a
must and when you decide I’m going to do
it regardless of the opposition with the
godless of the difficulties I’m going to
make this happen because it’s important
to me I’m saying the universe will yield
to you and life will never be the same
again live your dreams
this is mrs. Mamie Brown’s baby
Leslie Calvin Brown Chang has been a
plumb pleasing pleasure as well as a
privilege back here
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