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IT TAKES COURAGE TO BE SUCCESSFUL – MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH [LES BROWN]


it takes courage to act part of being
hungry when you’ve been defeated it
takes courage to start over again one of
the things I have realized and many of
us have that if you want something out
of life if you want to change yourself
if you want to acquire something if
there’s some goal that you want to reach
that is really not easy as some people
will make us feel that living a dream
changing your behaviors overcoming
negative habits it’s challenging it’s
hard that living alone is just very
difficult it once we begin to come to
grips with the fact that living is
difficult so how do we begin to nurture
that hunger what are the characteristics
of the qualities of people that are
hungry what will it take for me to get
some of the things that I want and being
hungry for those things number one
you’ve got to work on yourself it’s very
important that you engage in an ongoing
process to develop you spend more time
on yourself than what you’ve been
spending it’s very important you owe
that to yourself I was reading a book by
augmentee know called the University of
Success read one line gave me a chill I
didn’t have to read anything else in the
book he said many of us never realize
how greatness because we become
sidetracked by secondary activity we
don’t know how to say no and we find
ourselves doing all kinds of things and
never ever have time to do those things
that we need to do to work on ourselves
and then there goes a second that goes
another second that goes another second
and we can’t stop it whole time and
before you know it you wake up one day
and you’re behind in your dreams and
your bills so decide that you’re gonna
take some time to work on you that you
deserve that from yourself that your
life deserves some prime time because
you are creating your own production as
Michael Todd would say you are the star
of your show you are the director you’re
writing the script and you will
determine whether your life is a smash
office hit or flop you determine that
working on yourself talking to yourself
that’s so very important overcoming the
negative conversation that is no
dialogue is going on all the time all
the time even when you don’t want it to
be there you can’t stop yourself right
now from thinking you can’t do it it’s
going on and so learning how to empower
yourself part of doing that is standing
up to yourself you get scared sometimes
your mind will go blink on you some
people you will allow to unnerve you and
you wonder what’s wrong with me I’m not
crazy that’s why you’ve got to learn to
make a conscious deliberate determined
effort to stand up inside yourself
working on yourself watching that inner
dialogue you will determine the quality
of your life when you’re working on
something you want to achieve you have
got to stand up to that voice you’ve got
to sell yourself every day on your
abilities on what you’re doing on the
goal that you want to reach you
sell yourself everyday everyday everyday
according to your level of belief it
will manifest itself and what you’re
doing whatever we have right now
whatever we’re demonstrating in our
lives is result of what we believe
subconsciously that we deserve and part
of increasing that belief level is that
you have got to convince yourself every
day you’ve got to sell yourself i I do a
lot of training for many corporations
and I conduct sales seminars and I’ve
heard all kind of guys doing techniques
and training people techniques of how to
close sales and how to work within and
begin to control the the sale and how to
ask for the clothes let me share
something with you you can learn all the
techniques in the world if you don’t
believe in yourself
it won’t happen for you I learned all of
it so that’s why I do a training called
focus on the seller you’ve got to focus
on you and as you convince you as you
sell yourself every day every day every
day you will begin to see a difference
in the things that you’re doing selling
yourself on your ability to perform a
job to achieve a certain objective
telling yourself everyday hair go again
and I got what it takes this is my day
when you when you have something you
want to do if you don’t develop the
courage to do that which has been given
you to do and you spend a lot of time
going around trying to convince other
people are trying to get their approval
what will happen is that you will lose
your nerve and other people will
convince you that what you’re doing
doesn’t have any value and you’ll give
up on your dream it’s an interesting
thing about life I’ve also found that if
you don’t have the courage to act
sometimes and particularly if you have
something special to do life will move
on you if it were not for life I would
still be a disc jockey I didn’t just
leave voluntarily to go to the state
legislature I was fired I was going
through all kind of changes because this
man controlled my paycheck and it was
Carlyle who said truth crushed to earth
shall rise again Winston Churchill said
the truth is incontrovertible malice man
tacit ignorant may derive it but at the
end there is and we know scripture that
said he shall know the truth and the
truth shall set you free and the truth
that I had to come to grips with that I
wasn’t in charge of my destiny
the truth was that I wasn’t giving all
that I had the truth was that there’s
some things that I wanted to do but I
didn’t have the courage to act on those
things
and the truth was that birch house was a
blessing to me
he made life so miserable for me I had
to start looking at my life differently
I started going to work earlier I
started being the last one to leave
there I started working harder than
anybody else the other guys could not
why would you work so hard less I said
I’m not working for them I have been
heating Burt I thought I’ve been
cheating myself and my family wherever
you are whatever you’re doing do it with
everything that you have develop the
habit of giving more than what you’re
paid for develop the habit of setting
standards that others will be measured
by someone said do not go where the path
may lead but go where there is no path
and leave a trail it is easy to have low
morale today I was at a corporation in
there they’re going through downsizing
and going to lay off some 1,500 people
over the next few weeks it’s very
depressing there and those people that
stay there nine times out of ten they’re
just going to do just enough to keep
from getting fired anybody can do that
but if you can begin to harness yourself
and say that where I am I’m going to do
the best I can with what I got because
that is an expression of Who I am if you
get into the habit of just being
mediocre it will become a part of your
consciousness if you get an a habit of
giving less than what you have it within
you to give it will begin to reflect
itself in your personality it will begin
to damage you psychologically and you
don’t want to be a part of that kind of
self-destructive behavior
and so you want to set some high
standards for yourself
the next thing part of what feeds that
hunger you’ve got to develop a sense of
urgency Aurelius said stop living your
life like you have a thousand years to
live and life you either here today and
you’re gone today if there’s something
that you want to do and you can’t do it
all at one time do just a little bit of
it I like what Robert Schuller says he
said by the yard it’s hard but inch by
inch anything is a cinch do just a
little bit of it a friend of mine Bobby
Kerr used to be a roommate
Bobby wanted to go into the area of
public relations he loved working with
the public young lady you want to marry
named Clarice Bobby was a great for
crass donator
pretty soon the job with Bobby work they
transferred him to another location he
went out to celebrate with the people on
that new job site and Bobby suffered a
massive heart attack and died Bobby
didn’t drink and didn’t smoke was under
40 and he died ask your question how
much time do you have left how much time
do you have left when you stop thinking
about that we don’t know we don’t know
Bobby took all the greatness and all of
the talent and all of his abilities to
his grave with him
one other thing that could have put in
parentheses under his name he didn’t
heels all his stuff most of most of us
do that most of us don’t use the stuff
that we have brought into the universe
and we want to make a conscious
deliberate determined effort to start
living life with a sense of urgency and
using what we’ve got
using ourselves sharing what we brought
into the universe to share because if we
don’t nobody else will stop wasting
valuable time knowing that if we begin
to live our lives as if each day we’re
less our lives will take off take on a
whole new meaning take on a whole new
expression valuing each moment that we
are blessed with the next thing that
begins to nurture that hunger on
yourself as your word
don’t give your word out lightly when
you throw your word out there and you
don’t honor it it makes a statement
about you
if you decide to maintain a sense of
integrity with yourself that if I speak
it I’m going to live it it’s Who I am
and I’m going to be very cautious and
how I give my word to others and most of
all were the commitments that I make to
myself because I want my life to reflect
my words and honoring Who I am then what
I express another challenging area in
terms of nurturing and developing that
hunger and yourself is learning the art
of becoming single-minded learning how
to concentrate learning how to focus in
and you’ll be surprised of the things
that you’re able to do
when you learn how to block things out
when you learn how to keep that eye
single you’ll be surprised of the ideas
that will come to you of the people that
you’ll be able to attract of the
opportunities that you’ll be able to see
you begin to see things I’ve been
staying there look at you in the face
say I can’t believe this is video all this time
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