I’ve never met a person who was not
successful that didn’t have a great
amount of self-discipline within their
life self-discipline and being able to
perform and being able to keep your life
on schedule and being able to keep
commitments and promises and meet
deadlines is essential to success
none of us none of us can afford to have
a life that is controlled by someone
else
or a life that is basically controlled
by our emotions I learned many years ago
that there are two kinds of people
there’s the type of person who says I’m
gonna wait till I feel like it before I
do it and then there’s a person who says
I’ve got to do it so that I feel like it
one will never get anything done because
they’re sterile waiting to feel the
moment to move and the other person says
no I need to move and then I will begin
to feel the moment Sonia self-discipline
is essential in your life and in my life
if we’re going to get things done so I
have a challenge for every one of you
this weekend the challenge is simple as
you go through your weekend and
sometimes it’s kind of a hopefully an
easier time of your week ask yourself am
i practicing self-discipline in my life
am i doing the things that I should do
because I need to do them or am I kind
of waiting to feel the moment do like
our friends Nike say just do it and if
you don’t do that if you get up and you
just have no discipline whatsoever you
get no value of anything your diets
don’t work when you don’t do them
exercise doesn’t work when you don’t do
them but mostly people have some
experiences that they want to shift and
once you shift those things your whole
life changes but life is constant growth
my life isn’t here because I went to one
seminar one time and now my life is fit
for life I I workout I train my mind and
train my body it becomes a lifestyle
it’s not just like you’re depending upon
somebody else I’m gonna here to become
somebody’s guru I’m not here to give
them a gift I’m here them to open up
their own gifts and that’s really what
my work has been
but you’re going to focus to develop
your skills the guy was was the new
owner of a team a team a baseball team
that was in the basement of the league
what he took it over he went to the
picture and he says what is your best
throat he said well I got a good curve
ball and I’ve got a good fastball he
went on talking about his different
throws he said but tell me this what is
your best throw he thought for a moment
he said I’ve got a good fastball he said
that’s all I want you to work on nothing
else just develop your fastball the next
year they went to the World Series most
people don’t know what their fastball is
most people go through life never
discovering what that talents are most
people never develop their talents they
have skills and abilities but if you
don’t nurture them if you don’t develop
them they will never serve you your
gifts can take you many places if you
develop your gifts most of us don’t like
to do those things that come too easy to
us I’ve always loved to talk to people I
decided taking this advice to develop my
skills as a speaker and my gift has
developed and developed and has taken me
many places you have something that you
brought to the universe and that if you
decide that my life deserves my
developing this what I do well and
becoming the best at it and mastering
myself and seeing what I have within me
if you decide to drop your buckets where
you are and develop your gifts I grant
you you will never ever be without I
grant you that your gifts wouldn’t take
you places that will literally amaze you
I grant you that if you begin to work to
develop your gifts you develop a strong
sense of happiness you’ll get a larger
vision of yourself because part of
beginning to get a larger vision of
yourself all of us need some area of our
lives where we can have a feeling of
competence
that people know when they think about
this area that’s something you do that
you eat and sleep bad and that you do
that you do that and people know it and
you know it and you know that you know
that you know this if you don’t know
anything else you know this can you tell
I know I know what I’m doing oh hello
you know this so you’ve got to work on
it when other folks are having a good
time you’ve got to have this the
strength of character to concentrate to
read to digest information if you decide
in any particular area that you’re
concerned about to make a conscious
deliberate determined effort to read one
book a month in that area in five years
you’ll be among the top 5% experts in
the world I read a minimum of two books
a week the average American reads only
one book a year if you decide that area
that you love that you are going to
master that particular area in this era
of accelerated change overwhelming
complexity and tremendous competition as
you begin to develop and expand your
skills and your talents and your vision
of yourself you will always be in
control of your destiny the next thing
is whatever it is that you want to do
you want to do it massively have a
friend who was telling me that his sales
were down I said well how many phone
calls you make a day he said twenty-five
I said double them make 50 or 75 or 100
he said aw man that’s just too much what
do you mean too much you behind on your
bills you’re talking about too much you
know one way to get back on your feet
you talk about your time there’s no
competition out here decide that you’re
going to push yourself most people won’t
do that most people give up on
themselves easily you know the human
spirit is powerful this nothing is
powerful it’s hard to kill the human
spirit
there’s Benjamin Disraeli a man who
became the head of a country at a time
when Jews were not allowed out after ten
o’clock he said how did you do it how do
you achieve against such great odds he
said nothing can resist the will of a
people that will stake even their
existence on the extent of their purpose
for good that when you have a made up
mind when you decide that you want to do
something I was reading something the
other day he said the power to hold on
in spite of everything the power to
endure this is the winners quality the
hunger the ability to face defeat again
and again without giving up this is a
winner’s quality you have that quality
within you when you’re hungry you don’t
care about the facts you don’t care
about the odds Doug Williams play for
the Washington Redskins quarterback John
Elway of the Denver Broncos in the Super
Bowl everybody was talking about our way
Elway after the Superbowl when Doug
Williams made a historic passing game
asked him said how are you able in spite
of all of that negative publicity saying
that you couldn’t win how did you how
did you do it
he said I ignored my critics I just
didn’t pay any attention to them I
ignored myself because they kept on
saying it so much
there were times I doubted whether or
not I can do what I needed to do there’s
a Doug Williams and everybody here
that’s greatness in you and you’ve got
to learn how to tune out the critics
outside and the critic inside and since
I’m going to do this I’m going to
harness my will and I’m not going to let
anything stop me I deserve this
I’m going to do it until and this way I
told him said start increasing your
calls I said make a hundred calls a day
I got a callus in my ear my you kind of
doc you can’t see it but it’s there his
sales have increased he’s working harder
now the other thing is that if you want
something you have got to be relentless
in pretty soon I think there’s some
people watching us in the universe and
say wait let’s call a meeting over here
you know that guy Mustafa look heading
down there he won’t stop just that fool
don’t know he can’t get over look look
look
look look here why don’t we do this let
him go and let’s make mess with somebody
else just let him go home through life
would just get tired of whippin you
sometimes and yes sir let’s just let
this one go
with some drive I was giving a seminar
the other day and I mentioned that I was
going to do some training in August with
some young teenagers and take about a
hundred away to a two or three day camp
and wipe them out
I’ve been working on this so after the
speech what her parents walked up to me
and said mr. Brown I’d like for you to
do something for my son he’s not
[Applause]
see what
[Music]
what you do speak so loudly folk can
hear what you say and so if you don’t
have any fire you know you’ve got to
watch the the people the relationships
that you develop how people of kindred
mind says if your round folk who are
dead and negative all the time they will
affect you you want people that around
you that have smiles on their faces
looking good I was telling a group last
week Abraham Lincoln refused to hire a
guy because of its face he said but the
guy can’t help but he said anybody over
30 is responsible for their face if you
have some depressing face looking at you
every day it affects your blood pressure
keep these dead faces away from you it’s
this is serious so you’ve got to watch
your countenance watch your face have an
uplifted expression watch your body
posture all of these things affect you
psychically you’ve got to be the kind of
person that you are fearless fearless
leave Phyllis people alone there’s
some people walk through a neighborhood
and every dog in the neighborhood would
but there’s some people come through
ain’t nobody gonna mess with this you
are unstoppable and because you aren’t
stoppable because you’ve got power that
you haven’t even began to use yet you
are to yourself to release your brakes
how many of you have the experience of
pulling out of your drive when you’re
matched on accelerator and the car will
just start but move and you matched
harder and it could move and then you
discovered you had your emergency brakes
on and then you release those emergency
brakes it goes true have you ever had
that experience before most of us go
through life with our brakes on holding
back not giving all that we have not
sharing all of our cells most of us go
to our graves still holding on rather
than releasing it what are some of those
things that that keep us from releasing
it because of past experiences past
defeats past pain we look back well it
didn’t work out then it probably won’t
work out now many people get confused
their performances with who there are
they are I was reading Pat Riley the
but you’re gonna like this quote here
after the trailblazers had blown them
out of the water and I’m sure he said
this last night they asked him how do
you feel he said tonight we were exposed
for what we are right now you see that
if my speech tonight doesn’t work it
doesn’t mean that I’m a bad speaker it
means that what I did didn’t work
tonight and I’ve got to separate what I
do from Who I am and I’ve got another
shot see the last chapter to your life
has not been written yet and it doesn’t
matter about what happened yesterday it
doesn’t matter about the things that
you’ve done that you feel guilty about
if you wouldn’t do it today you’re
convicting an innocent person you’ve
been reborn to a new state of
consciousness and as I say if we knew
better we would do better and so you
begin to decide I’m not going to be
tonight I remember and I was telling
someone and they asked me would you
repeat that again I was interested in
going into broadcasting I’m adopted and
that was my key out I want to make my
momma proud of me I was a proud I was
very much appreciative of what she’s
done for my brother and sister and I and
that was my way out and I went over to a
radio station that’s the guy that and
told him that I was interested in
broadcasting he looked at me and my
straw hat and my overalls he said you
have any broadcasting background I said
no sir I don’t what do you do I cut
grass
young ladies after what kind of work I
do and I was working on a garbage truck
I say well I’m a sanitary technician he
said we don’t have any job for you I
decided that that was something I was
going to do I decided I’m unstoppable
I’m going to go up and hit I’m going to
do this I started going to the radio
station every day developing a
relationship with the people that were
doing what I wanted to do and that’s
what I encourage you to do where
whatever area you want to go and find
people that are doing it the way you
want to do it and develop a relationship
with them when I decided to go in this
area I wrote letters to dr. norman
vincent peale to Zig Ziglar to Denis
Waitley all of the Giants in this area
and I said this is something I want to
do I’ve been following your career would
you help me dr. norman vincent peale
answered my letter did an article on me
wrote about me in the most recent book
that he issued and done many broadcasts
about me I’d wanted to develop a
relationship and rapport with those
people that were achieving those things
that I wanted to achieve by the same
token I would go to the radio station
and I developed a relationship with the
guys and they used me as the errand worm
they needed some food or someone to go
pick up entertainers that came into town
temptations singing my girl Jerry Butler
singing for your precious love Sam Cooke
singing darling you send me I would pick
up the entertainer’s at the airport and
driving around in the disc jockeys big
Cadillacs didn’t have any driver’s
license but I was acting like a head
every day I used to go home and work on
my communication skills developing
myself it was Whitney Young he said it’s
better to be prepared for an opportunity
and not have one than to have an
opportunity and not be prepared start
working and developing yourself not and
prepare yourself for what it is that you
want because you expect to get it and
when the disk jockeys were in the
control room I would go in and watch
them and develop the trust level and
they would let me stay and I would watch
and observe them working the controls
when you want something out of life
don’t worry about how you’re going to
get it how is none of your business
the most difficult thing is this to hold
the vision
it’s to hold the vision so there I was
at the radio station a guy was on the
air and he started to drink by the name
of rock I was outside the window looking
pretty soon the phone rang it was a
general manager I said hello
he said les this is mr. Klein I said I
know he said Rock can’t finish his
program he’s slurring his words I said I
know can you work the controls until one
of the other disk jockeys come in would
you call them I said yes sir
I hung the phone up I said now he must
be think I’m crazy I call my mama and my
girlfriend Cassandra said y’all come out
on the front porch and turn up the radio
I waited by 15 minutes I called him back
I said mr. Klein I can’t find nobody he
said well why don’t you go and then work
your controls until they get there and
don’t say nothing here I said yes sir I
couldn’t wait to sit down at that
turntable Mustapha I said look out this
is me lb Triple P Lester on a platter
playing papa there were a number for me
and there will be none after me
therefore that makes me the one and only
young insane don’t love Dominguez
certified bona fide then duplicate
qualified to bring you satisfaction and
a whole lot of action look out baby I’m
[Music]
shake somebody’s hand on your right and
left and say you’ve got to be hungry
where are y’all something else you want
to be persistent about what it is that
you want to achieve Alexander Graham
Bell said what this power is I cannot
say all I know is that it exists and it
becomes available only when a man or a
woman is in that state of mind in which
he or she knows exactly what he or she
wants and is fully determined not to
quit until they find it
when our children are learning how to
walk how many times will your baby
attempt to walk and fall and you just
say just sit down don’t try anymore you
fallen 20 times just sit down somewhere
busting your lip and everything get
didn’t folks waiting one will the baby
walk it will walk when it walks that’s
when it will walk less when will you be
known nationally as the motivator I will
be known when I’m known that’s when I’ll
be known don’t get caught up in well
I’ve tried it four or five times and
things didn’t work out if there’s
something that you want and you’re
hungry for it you’ve got to do whatever
is necessary until and when you give the
best you can and that’s not enough you
must do what is required and don’t give
up on yourself don’t throw the towel in
so quickly many people give up on the
one-yard line we if they have the
determination just to keep on market
it’s a funny thing about life if you
alone one day and someone is knocking on
the door and you say I don’t want to be
bothered today and if that person just
keep on anoxic can you believe that
full-scale market
pretty soon you’ll say what is it what
do you want and that’s how you’ve got to
be about your dream some people well I
guess they nobody home I’m not gonna go
but nobody came
I heard the television on and people
were moving around but I guess
opportunity probably went out the back
door oh no no no see life is not just
that simple
it’s not that cut and dry and that’s why
most people never realize their personal
greatness because they’re casual about
life and when you are casual about life
you will end up a casualty life is
serious business so I encourage you to
be persistent to not decide that well
I’ve done the best I can I guess I just
can’t have it don’t make that decision
many of us make premature decisions
about ourselves Calvin Coolidge says
something man who was a president that
was not known for his eloquence or
making any historical decisions but
something he wrote about persistence
he says press on nothing can take the
place of persistence
talent will not the world was followed
unsuccessful people with tower
genius will not unrewarded genius is
almost a proverb
[Music]
education alone will not the floral is
persistence and determination alone are
as a person that is the embodiment of
persistence and determination a person
who decided that some time ago that I’m
not going to take anything to my grave
with me I’m going to use myself up and
I’m gonna give and give and give until
my last breath this summer I’m going to
be working for her and with her doing
training teaching young people
techniques and strategies on how to
manifest their personal greatness
teaching them techniques and strategies
that will change them at the
subconscious level changing their value
systems and let them see the major role
they can play in society
let’s give mrs. Rosa Parks a round of
applause if you please
can we on the presence of greatness
[Music]
mrs. box people he couldn’t see you
would you come up could you she’s such a
[Music]
I encourage you to see mrs. Potts and
mrs. Elaine Steele about the Rosa and
Raymond pods Institute for self
development if you’re interested in your
children participating in that they have
some information over here to share with
you it is just fascinating and just a
blessing to to have this woman win a lot
of folk who are giving up here this year
she celebrated her 75th birthday and
still has a dream of being an instrument
of change and there is a Rosa Parks and
all of us who made a decision at one
point in time standing on the platform
of oughtness as Immanuel Kant talks
about in a book called critique of Pure
Reason that there are certain things we
know we ought to do we just know it we
are to ourselves and those around us I
don’t know what your dreams are I don’t
know what your goals are but let me
leave this with you – to be the best son
that I can – my mother – to be the best
father that I can to my children and to
be the best servant that I can to
humanity the best man that I can – the
woman that I’ve decided to share my life
with whatever your goals are I know that
you can achieve them here’s something
I’d like to leave with you it says
simply that if you want a thing bad
enough to go out and fight for it to
work day and night for it to give up
your time your peace and your sleep for
it if all that you dream and scheme is
about it and life seem useless and
worthless without it and if you gladly
sweat for it and fret for it and plan
for it and lose all your terror of the
opposition for it and if you simply grab
for that things that you want with all
of your capacity strength and sagacity
Faith Hope and confidence and stern
pertinacity if neither cold poverty
famish of God sickness of pain of body
and brain can keep you away from the
thing that you are if dogged and grim
you proceed you miss headed but the help
of God you’ll get it
this is mrs. Mamie Brown’s baby boy
Leslie Calvin Brown saying it’s been a
plum play big play
as well [Applause]
successful that didn’t have a great
amount of self-discipline within their
life self-discipline and being able to
perform and being able to keep your life
on schedule and being able to keep
commitments and promises and meet
deadlines is essential to success
none of us none of us can afford to have
a life that is controlled by someone
else
or a life that is basically controlled
by our emotions I learned many years ago
that there are two kinds of people
there’s the type of person who says I’m
gonna wait till I feel like it before I
do it and then there’s a person who says
I’ve got to do it so that I feel like it
one will never get anything done because
they’re sterile waiting to feel the
moment to move and the other person says
no I need to move and then I will begin
to feel the moment Sonia self-discipline
is essential in your life and in my life
if we’re going to get things done so I
have a challenge for every one of you
this weekend the challenge is simple as
you go through your weekend and
sometimes it’s kind of a hopefully an
easier time of your week ask yourself am
i practicing self-discipline in my life
am i doing the things that I should do
because I need to do them or am I kind
of waiting to feel the moment do like
our friends Nike say just do it and if
you don’t do that if you get up and you
just have no discipline whatsoever you
get no value of anything your diets
don’t work when you don’t do them
exercise doesn’t work when you don’t do
them but mostly people have some
experiences that they want to shift and
once you shift those things your whole
life changes but life is constant growth
my life isn’t here because I went to one
seminar one time and now my life is fit
for life I I workout I train my mind and
train my body it becomes a lifestyle
it’s not just like you’re depending upon
somebody else I’m gonna here to become
somebody’s guru I’m not here to give
them a gift I’m here them to open up
their own gifts and that’s really what
my work has been
but you’re going to focus to develop
your skills the guy was was the new
owner of a team a team a baseball team
that was in the basement of the league
what he took it over he went to the
picture and he says what is your best
throat he said well I got a good curve
ball and I’ve got a good fastball he
went on talking about his different
throws he said but tell me this what is
your best throw he thought for a moment
he said I’ve got a good fastball he said
that’s all I want you to work on nothing
else just develop your fastball the next
year they went to the World Series most
people don’t know what their fastball is
most people go through life never
discovering what that talents are most
people never develop their talents they
have skills and abilities but if you
don’t nurture them if you don’t develop
them they will never serve you your
gifts can take you many places if you
develop your gifts most of us don’t like
to do those things that come too easy to
us I’ve always loved to talk to people I
decided taking this advice to develop my
skills as a speaker and my gift has
developed and developed and has taken me
many places you have something that you
brought to the universe and that if you
decide that my life deserves my
developing this what I do well and
becoming the best at it and mastering
myself and seeing what I have within me
if you decide to drop your buckets where
you are and develop your gifts I grant
you you will never ever be without I
grant you that your gifts wouldn’t take
you places that will literally amaze you
I grant you that if you begin to work to
develop your gifts you develop a strong
sense of happiness you’ll get a larger
vision of yourself because part of
beginning to get a larger vision of
yourself all of us need some area of our
lives where we can have a feeling of
competence
that people know when they think about
this area that’s something you do that
you eat and sleep bad and that you do
that you do that and people know it and
you know it and you know that you know
that you know this if you don’t know
anything else you know this can you tell
I know I know what I’m doing oh hello
you know this so you’ve got to work on
it when other folks are having a good
time you’ve got to have this the
strength of character to concentrate to
read to digest information if you decide
in any particular area that you’re
concerned about to make a conscious
deliberate determined effort to read one
book a month in that area in five years
you’ll be among the top 5% experts in
the world I read a minimum of two books
a week the average American reads only
one book a year if you decide that area
that you love that you are going to
master that particular area in this era
of accelerated change overwhelming
complexity and tremendous competition as
you begin to develop and expand your
skills and your talents and your vision
of yourself you will always be in
control of your destiny the next thing
is whatever it is that you want to do
you want to do it massively have a
friend who was telling me that his sales
were down I said well how many phone
calls you make a day he said twenty-five
I said double them make 50 or 75 or 100
he said aw man that’s just too much what
do you mean too much you behind on your
bills you’re talking about too much you
know one way to get back on your feet
you talk about your time there’s no
competition out here decide that you’re
going to push yourself most people won’t
do that most people give up on
themselves easily you know the human
spirit is powerful this nothing is
powerful it’s hard to kill the human
spirit
there’s Benjamin Disraeli a man who
became the head of a country at a time
when Jews were not allowed out after ten
o’clock he said how did you do it how do
you achieve against such great odds he
said nothing can resist the will of a
people that will stake even their
existence on the extent of their purpose
for good that when you have a made up
mind when you decide that you want to do
something I was reading something the
other day he said the power to hold on
in spite of everything the power to
endure this is the winners quality the
hunger the ability to face defeat again
and again without giving up this is a
winner’s quality you have that quality
within you when you’re hungry you don’t
care about the facts you don’t care
about the odds Doug Williams play for
the Washington Redskins quarterback John
Elway of the Denver Broncos in the Super
Bowl everybody was talking about our way
Elway after the Superbowl when Doug
Williams made a historic passing game
asked him said how are you able in spite
of all of that negative publicity saying
that you couldn’t win how did you how
did you do it
he said I ignored my critics I just
didn’t pay any attention to them I
ignored myself because they kept on
saying it so much
there were times I doubted whether or
not I can do what I needed to do there’s
a Doug Williams and everybody here
that’s greatness in you and you’ve got
to learn how to tune out the critics
outside and the critic inside and since
I’m going to do this I’m going to
harness my will and I’m not going to let
anything stop me I deserve this
I’m going to do it until and this way I
told him said start increasing your
calls I said make a hundred calls a day
I got a callus in my ear my you kind of
doc you can’t see it but it’s there his
sales have increased he’s working harder
now the other thing is that if you want
something you have got to be relentless
in pretty soon I think there’s some
people watching us in the universe and
say wait let’s call a meeting over here
you know that guy Mustafa look heading
down there he won’t stop just that fool
don’t know he can’t get over look look
look
look look here why don’t we do this let
him go and let’s make mess with somebody
else just let him go home through life
would just get tired of whippin you
sometimes and yes sir let’s just let
this one go
with some drive I was giving a seminar
the other day and I mentioned that I was
going to do some training in August with
some young teenagers and take about a
hundred away to a two or three day camp
and wipe them out
I’ve been working on this so after the
speech what her parents walked up to me
and said mr. Brown I’d like for you to
do something for my son he’s not
[Applause]
see what
[Music]
what you do speak so loudly folk can
hear what you say and so if you don’t
have any fire you know you’ve got to
watch the the people the relationships
that you develop how people of kindred
mind says if your round folk who are
dead and negative all the time they will
affect you you want people that around
you that have smiles on their faces
looking good I was telling a group last
week Abraham Lincoln refused to hire a
guy because of its face he said but the
guy can’t help but he said anybody over
30 is responsible for their face if you
have some depressing face looking at you
every day it affects your blood pressure
keep these dead faces away from you it’s
this is serious so you’ve got to watch
your countenance watch your face have an
uplifted expression watch your body
posture all of these things affect you
psychically you’ve got to be the kind of
person that you are fearless fearless
leave Phyllis people alone there’s
some people walk through a neighborhood
and every dog in the neighborhood would
but there’s some people come through
ain’t nobody gonna mess with this you
are unstoppable and because you aren’t
stoppable because you’ve got power that
you haven’t even began to use yet you
are to yourself to release your brakes
how many of you have the experience of
pulling out of your drive when you’re
matched on accelerator and the car will
just start but move and you matched
harder and it could move and then you
discovered you had your emergency brakes
on and then you release those emergency
brakes it goes true have you ever had
that experience before most of us go
through life with our brakes on holding
back not giving all that we have not
sharing all of our cells most of us go
to our graves still holding on rather
than releasing it what are some of those
things that that keep us from releasing
it because of past experiences past
defeats past pain we look back well it
didn’t work out then it probably won’t
work out now many people get confused
their performances with who there are
they are I was reading Pat Riley the
but you’re gonna like this quote here
after the trailblazers had blown them
out of the water and I’m sure he said
this last night they asked him how do
you feel he said tonight we were exposed
for what we are right now you see that
if my speech tonight doesn’t work it
doesn’t mean that I’m a bad speaker it
means that what I did didn’t work
tonight and I’ve got to separate what I
do from Who I am and I’ve got another
shot see the last chapter to your life
has not been written yet and it doesn’t
matter about what happened yesterday it
doesn’t matter about the things that
you’ve done that you feel guilty about
if you wouldn’t do it today you’re
convicting an innocent person you’ve
been reborn to a new state of
consciousness and as I say if we knew
better we would do better and so you
begin to decide I’m not going to be
tonight I remember and I was telling
someone and they asked me would you
repeat that again I was interested in
going into broadcasting I’m adopted and
that was my key out I want to make my
momma proud of me I was a proud I was
very much appreciative of what she’s
done for my brother and sister and I and
that was my way out and I went over to a
radio station that’s the guy that and
told him that I was interested in
broadcasting he looked at me and my
straw hat and my overalls he said you
have any broadcasting background I said
no sir I don’t what do you do I cut
grass
young ladies after what kind of work I
do and I was working on a garbage truck
I say well I’m a sanitary technician he
said we don’t have any job for you I
decided that that was something I was
going to do I decided I’m unstoppable
I’m going to go up and hit I’m going to
do this I started going to the radio
station every day developing a
relationship with the people that were
doing what I wanted to do and that’s
what I encourage you to do where
whatever area you want to go and find
people that are doing it the way you
want to do it and develop a relationship
with them when I decided to go in this
area I wrote letters to dr. norman
vincent peale to Zig Ziglar to Denis
Waitley all of the Giants in this area
and I said this is something I want to
do I’ve been following your career would
you help me dr. norman vincent peale
answered my letter did an article on me
wrote about me in the most recent book
that he issued and done many broadcasts
about me I’d wanted to develop a
relationship and rapport with those
people that were achieving those things
that I wanted to achieve by the same
token I would go to the radio station
and I developed a relationship with the
guys and they used me as the errand worm
they needed some food or someone to go
pick up entertainers that came into town
temptations singing my girl Jerry Butler
singing for your precious love Sam Cooke
singing darling you send me I would pick
up the entertainer’s at the airport and
driving around in the disc jockeys big
Cadillacs didn’t have any driver’s
license but I was acting like a head
every day I used to go home and work on
my communication skills developing
myself it was Whitney Young he said it’s
better to be prepared for an opportunity
and not have one than to have an
opportunity and not be prepared start
working and developing yourself not and
prepare yourself for what it is that you
want because you expect to get it and
when the disk jockeys were in the
control room I would go in and watch
them and develop the trust level and
they would let me stay and I would watch
and observe them working the controls
when you want something out of life
don’t worry about how you’re going to
get it how is none of your business
the most difficult thing is this to hold
the vision
it’s to hold the vision so there I was
at the radio station a guy was on the
air and he started to drink by the name
of rock I was outside the window looking
pretty soon the phone rang it was a
general manager I said hello
he said les this is mr. Klein I said I
know he said Rock can’t finish his
program he’s slurring his words I said I
know can you work the controls until one
of the other disk jockeys come in would
you call them I said yes sir
I hung the phone up I said now he must
be think I’m crazy I call my mama and my
girlfriend Cassandra said y’all come out
on the front porch and turn up the radio
I waited by 15 minutes I called him back
I said mr. Klein I can’t find nobody he
said well why don’t you go and then work
your controls until they get there and
don’t say nothing here I said yes sir I
couldn’t wait to sit down at that
turntable Mustapha I said look out this
is me lb Triple P Lester on a platter
playing papa there were a number for me
and there will be none after me
therefore that makes me the one and only
young insane don’t love Dominguez
certified bona fide then duplicate
qualified to bring you satisfaction and
a whole lot of action look out baby I’m
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shake somebody’s hand on your right and
left and say you’ve got to be hungry
where are y’all something else you want
to be persistent about what it is that
you want to achieve Alexander Graham
Bell said what this power is I cannot
say all I know is that it exists and it
becomes available only when a man or a
woman is in that state of mind in which
he or she knows exactly what he or she
wants and is fully determined not to
quit until they find it
when our children are learning how to
walk how many times will your baby
attempt to walk and fall and you just
say just sit down don’t try anymore you
fallen 20 times just sit down somewhere
busting your lip and everything get
didn’t folks waiting one will the baby
walk it will walk when it walks that’s
when it will walk less when will you be
known nationally as the motivator I will
be known when I’m known that’s when I’ll
be known don’t get caught up in well
I’ve tried it four or five times and
things didn’t work out if there’s
something that you want and you’re
hungry for it you’ve got to do whatever
is necessary until and when you give the
best you can and that’s not enough you
must do what is required and don’t give
up on yourself don’t throw the towel in
so quickly many people give up on the
one-yard line we if they have the
determination just to keep on market
it’s a funny thing about life if you
alone one day and someone is knocking on
the door and you say I don’t want to be
bothered today and if that person just
keep on anoxic can you believe that
full-scale market
pretty soon you’ll say what is it what
do you want and that’s how you’ve got to
be about your dream some people well I
guess they nobody home I’m not gonna go
but nobody came
I heard the television on and people
were moving around but I guess
opportunity probably went out the back
door oh no no no see life is not just
that simple
it’s not that cut and dry and that’s why
most people never realize their personal
greatness because they’re casual about
life and when you are casual about life
you will end up a casualty life is
serious business so I encourage you to
be persistent to not decide that well
I’ve done the best I can I guess I just
can’t have it don’t make that decision
many of us make premature decisions
about ourselves Calvin Coolidge says
something man who was a president that
was not known for his eloquence or
making any historical decisions but
something he wrote about persistence
he says press on nothing can take the
place of persistence
talent will not the world was followed
unsuccessful people with tower
genius will not unrewarded genius is
almost a proverb
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education alone will not the floral is
persistence and determination alone are
as a person that is the embodiment of
persistence and determination a person
who decided that some time ago that I’m
not going to take anything to my grave
with me I’m going to use myself up and
I’m gonna give and give and give until
my last breath this summer I’m going to
be working for her and with her doing
training teaching young people
techniques and strategies on how to
manifest their personal greatness
teaching them techniques and strategies
that will change them at the
subconscious level changing their value
systems and let them see the major role
they can play in society
let’s give mrs. Rosa Parks a round of
applause if you please
can we on the presence of greatness
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mrs. box people he couldn’t see you
would you come up could you she’s such a
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I encourage you to see mrs. Potts and
mrs. Elaine Steele about the Rosa and
Raymond pods Institute for self
development if you’re interested in your
children participating in that they have
some information over here to share with
you it is just fascinating and just a
blessing to to have this woman win a lot
of folk who are giving up here this year
she celebrated her 75th birthday and
still has a dream of being an instrument
of change and there is a Rosa Parks and
all of us who made a decision at one
point in time standing on the platform
of oughtness as Immanuel Kant talks
about in a book called critique of Pure
Reason that there are certain things we
know we ought to do we just know it we
are to ourselves and those around us I
don’t know what your dreams are I don’t
know what your goals are but let me
leave this with you – to be the best son
that I can – my mother – to be the best
father that I can to my children and to
be the best servant that I can to
humanity the best man that I can – the
woman that I’ve decided to share my life
with whatever your goals are I know that
you can achieve them here’s something
I’d like to leave with you it says
simply that if you want a thing bad
enough to go out and fight for it to
work day and night for it to give up
your time your peace and your sleep for
it if all that you dream and scheme is
about it and life seem useless and
worthless without it and if you gladly
sweat for it and fret for it and plan
for it and lose all your terror of the
opposition for it and if you simply grab
for that things that you want with all
of your capacity strength and sagacity
Faith Hope and confidence and stern
pertinacity if neither cold poverty
famish of God sickness of pain of body
and brain can keep you away from the
thing that you are if dogged and grim
you proceed you miss headed but the help
of God you’ll get it
this is mrs. Mamie Brown’s baby boy
Leslie Calvin Brown saying it’s been a
plum play big play
as well [Applause]
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