how do you rate yourself on a scale of
one to ten in terms of your physical
appearance in terms of your health do
you take care of yourself are you
allowing yourself to get overweight and
out of shape are you conscious of your
health are you watching the food that
you take into your body do you make a
deliberate effort to exercise you know
it was George Burns he said we cannot
help getting older but we don’t have to
get old
and many of us get old before our time
because we don’t take time to take care
of ourselves your environment is a very
good indicator on a scale of 1 to 10 is
it what you want it to be do you find it
desirable are you satisfied the job or
career that you’re involved in someone
said that 85% of the American public
unhappy with their jobs are you spending
8 hours a day just doing time doing
something that you don’t find
challenging that does not make you
stretch mentally that does not stimulate
you that does not inspire you something
that you don’t find a sense of
fulfillment in it if you’re doing that
day in and day out it has to affect how
you feel about yourself your level of
motivation your relationships what kind
of impact is that having on your life is
it nourishing or is that a toxic
relationship does it drain you or does
it build you up ask yourself that how
motivated are you to do something about
it
your contribution your actions what are
you giving many people will leave the
universe without a trace no one will
know they were here
and in fact under their name we could
put under they’re not used up will
anybody know that you came this way what
contribution are you giving what will
you leave what will be different because
you came this way someone once said that
life is our gift to us that God has
given us and how we live our lives is
our gift to God what kind of gift
are you formulating is this a gift that
you like to take back and do
something else before you turn it in
think about that what can we do what are
some of the keys that we can begin to
use to motivate ourselves when our
batteries were unload because I don’t
care who you are I don’t care what you
do at some time you are going to get
tired at some time you’re going to get
in a rut seem like nothing you do works
out right and sometimes it just seems
like you just don’t have the wherewithal
or the will to do anything that
sometimes you act like you’re
punch-drunk you’re just wading through
like just doing time day in and day out
looking at nondiscriminatory television
anything that’s all just looking and
depressed feeling powerless feeling
useless and bored what do you do how do
you get yourself out of a rut how do you
when you know you can do more than what
you’ve been doing and you’re not doing
it and you’re discontented where you are
you get angry at yourself how do you get
out of that rut how do you motivate
yourself one of the things that we must
do is that we must be involved in
working on achieving self mastery you
must work on yourself continuously never
be satisfied with yourself always know
that as you invest the effort in time on
you that’s the greatest ability that
human beings have above animals see a
dog can’t be anything but a dog tree
can’t be anything but a tree human being
you’ve got unlimited potential you can
put effort on you and by concentrating
on you and developing you you can
transform your life wherever you are
right now so you want to work on
yourself you want to read books that
inspire you and motivate you you want to
listen to tapes over and over and over
again and I suggest that you listen to
tapes when you first get up in the
morning you want to control the spirit
of your day when you first wake up in
the morning your mind is operating at
10.5 wave cycles per second that’s when
the subconscious mind is most
impressionable whatever you hear in the
first 20 minutes when you wake up that
will affect the spirit of your day when
you listen to tapes listen
with relaxed belief believing that this
can happen for you and by listening to
them listen to them over and over and
over again and you will get a
breakthrough you can listen to the same
tape for months and all of a sudden you
hear something you never heard before it
have a special meaning for you or read
the same book over again and you find
some special insight you said I can’t
believe I didn’t see that the first time
so you want to be involved in developing
yourself most people won’t do that most
people won’t take that kind of effort
and invest that kind of energy in
themselves because they will fall prey
to that conversation within oh don’t do
that you don’t have time you’re too busy
you’re too caught up in the rat race
most people won’t do that well they
won’t take time to go to lectures they
won’t take time to go to seminars they
won’t take time to go to classes to
improve themselves and as you continue
to work on yourself you will begin to
expand your vision of yourself you begin
to work towards self mastery and you
will begin to see it reflect itself in
all the dimensions of your life your
mental life your physical life your
social life in your relationships your
monetary life so concentrate on
developing yourself because if you don’t
I guarantee you that you will make a
settlement and most people have and most
of us already have what kind of
settlement have you made with your life
you know when we make settlements
out-of-court settlements you’ve heard
them that means that you decided to take
something less than what you originally
wanted to get had you gone into court
and the reason that you settle outside
of court is because you didn’t believe
that you can get it so you made an
out-of-court settlement many of us are
making in life settlement we’re settling
for less than what we actually deserve
we don’t feel good about it
but we make it work at our minds we’ll
come up with some kind of excuse to make
it all right what kind of settlement
have you made with your life many of us
settle for less than what we want out of
relationships because we don’t have the
courage to change them
I had a seminar used to do call are you
living together or dying to get
many people are just dying together
Gladys Knight used to have a song that
says neither one of us want to be the
first to say goodbye the next thing is
in order to begin to find some keys to
self motivation to drive yourself in
addition to working on yourself and as
you work on yourself you feel good about
yourself and as you feel better about
yourself you treat yourself differently
develop a health plan so you can’t feel
well and do well if you don’t have good
health you can’t perform if you don’t
have your health your health is valuable
develop a health plan a plan that you
will follow because this is the only
vehicle that you have to carry you
through this experience called life and
you want to take good care of it because
you love you enough you care enough
about you and that’s not easy it is not
easy having a health plan and sticking
to it but you’re worth it doing it again
and again and again I have lost 22
I always do it I love potato chips
people who know me know I love M&M
peanuts I love peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches I love my mother sweet potato
pie I love this it’s not always on my
health plan but I put it on there
sometimes I said life is too short to go
without sweet potato pie if I go tonight
I want you to slip us with rice and
sweet potato pie in my casket yeah and
next thing is as you take care of
yourself the next key is keys to
motivation to self motivation you want
to live life with energy and passion you
want to make a conscious effort to be
lively see in life you either saying
hello or goodbye you either on the way
or in the way leave that people alone
some folks just walking around looking
sad how are you doing honey stay away
from these people just go away from them
you want to smile you want to be happy
you got a lot to be thankful for but you
watch some of the faces around you every
day
and I tell you some of these faces they
will put you in a depressed state of
mind so you want to avoid these kind of
faces when you see them coming turn your
head next thing is that you want to
monitor your inner conversations the
things that you say to yourself you want
to watch them and in watching them you
want to take charge friend of mine told
me this evening as she did it
excellently she said I didn’t want to
come tonight I was feeling so depressed
and I said I’m going anyhow see that was
the conversation so you really don’t
feel like it
you really don’t need to do it you don’t
really need to read anything forget all
that that’s that in a conversation oh
you don’t need to worry about trying to
go into your own business forget that
you can’t do that what if you lose
everything you’ve got that in a
conversation that stopped you from doing
the things you want to do less don’t do
that
how can you possibly think about being a
motivational speaker you don’t have the
context you don’t have the money you
don’t know the right people you’re gonna
get up there your minds gonna go blink
forget all that you remember that time
you got up before some people and you
panic you stood up in your mind set down
don’t you remember
I said yes and then I said shout out so
you’ve got to learn to stand up to
yourself inside yourself and
short-circuit override that conversation
that’s always going on 85% of what that
conversation will tell you is negative
it’s negative it will tell you you’re
tied when you really are not tired it
will tell you you can’t do it it will
fill you with fear so you’ve got to
watch that conversation and when you
find it going on you’ve got to stand up
to it and say I’m going to do this
anyhow I’m afraid but I’m afraid not to
do it and I’m not going to let you stop
me the biggest challenge that you will
have in life is you as an old African
proverb that says is there’s no enemy
within the enemy outside can do us no
the next thing that is a key to self
motivation is that you’ve got to ask
yourself what do I want out of life what
do you want out of life what do you want
out of a job what do you want out of
career what do you want out of a
relationship what do you want what gives
you your life what how will you know
when you got it what will make you happy
you need to know you need to start
asking yourself some questions what do I
really really truly want you need to be
exact about that don’t be vague oh I
just want to be happy that’s too vague
what will make you happy how will you
know when you got it zero in on it be
exact be specific and as you do that
that will stimulate that super conscious
mind or the reticular activating system
of your mind then we’ll begin to find
those things to identify with it and
once you begin to determine that which
you want take the time to write it down
don’t just think about it write it down
that is a subjective process that
engages the subconscious mind write it
down
once you write it down read it three
times a day morning noon and night why
is that important because what it will
do it will cause you to focus it will
cause you to concentrate when that other
conversation is going on telling you
what you cannot do telling you all of
the impossibilities and all of the
obstacles you’re concentrating will
begin to create a larger vision within
yourself and you start looking for and
seeing some new opportunities you start
creating some openings for yourself as
you begin to read that every day every
day day in and day out that will make
you focus that will discipline your
thinking and you’ll get all kind of
creative ideas as I talk to you right
now being involved in this immersion
process you’re going to create some
openings for yourself you’re gonna get
some ideas you’re going to feel your
adrenalin flowing and you’re going to
think about something some idea you had
yourself a canned I’m going to look at
that again from a different vantage
point not from the level of the problem
of the obstacles that I encountered but
from a higher vantage point because what
you will begin to see them to know as I
have talked to the higher consciousness
within you that you are powerful that
you are a miracle worker and that inner
conversation has conditioned you to
believe that you’re not and as you begin
to discover the truth of who you are
whatever challenge that you’re facing in
life and if you’re living you’re facing
some challenge you begin to know that
you are powerful and that you’re America
maker so as you begin to write down
exactly what it is that you want read it
every day the next thing is see yourself
there how will you feel once you get
there what will the experience be like
for you what will be different what kind
of person do you have to become in order
to get there
visualize yourself there living the
experience I remember when I ran for
state representative in Columbus Ohio
and I had a lot of people telling me and
you got to watch not only the
conversation within but the conversation
without
telling us you can’t possibly win you
can’t do that and I went down to the
legislature and I saw myself I knew what
I wanted I saw myself in the chair I
pointed out the chair that I wanted I
used to go and set up in the galleries
and watch the legislative process I used
to go to the committee meetings and
listen to legislation being introduced I
learned how to write legislation how to
amend legislation I start thinking like
a legislator got up every day dressing
thinking like that selling myself on it
seeing myself in the legislature mr.
speaker I’m the gentleman from the 29th
House District I’d like to introduce a
bill I went in the legislature walk
around I have the experience of it and
when I ran and want to give overwhelming
odds they were shocked I won the
election even before it was held because
I was living it in my mind you want to
see yourself beyond your circumstances
you got to challenge see yourself beyond
your challenge see yourself with the
challenge already resolved and knowing
that all as well seeing yourself in
control and in charge of your destiny
being healthy and happy the next thing
is it is important in the area of
motivating yourself it’s important to
know why you’re doing it because that
mind will say why bother why go through
all this this is too hard no throw in
the towel it’s not worth it
has it ever said that to you before
here’s how you can handle that here’s
how you override that write down five
reasons why you deserve it why do you
deserve what you want why you why do you
deserve it what meaning and value will
it bring to your life what’s so
different about you that you deserve
your goal of this goal and when you
write down those five reasons when you
have some down moments and you’re going
to have them when that conversation
start talking to you and it’s going to
talk to you what you will do is you can
pull that out and read it and it will
build you up it will be your rod and
your staff to comfort you through some
challenging moments because you
a handsome life will knock you between
the eyes it will catch you on the Blind
Side come out of nowhere stuff you can’t
anticipate that was not the wind out of
you you want to give up that’s why it’s
important for you to work on yourself
listening to tapes building yourself up
talking to yourself
with power feeling and conviction
building yourself up day in and day out
because it’s coming I guarantee you
life is just waiting oh he’s doing good
now huh very good I’ve never had an
experience I was pursuing my dream and
that’s why you have to work on yourself
you don’t know what’s going to happen
and I was telling people I had this big
rally I had to do was 5,000 people there
and I said you must work on yourself if
you want a larger vision you’ve got to
empower yourself continuously because
the life will catch you on the blindside
and after I finished my speech I got a
rousing standing ovation and I wouldn’t
call the young lady that I was dating at
the time I said hey guess what I said
they love me I got a standing ovation
and they were chanting we want the
motivator we want the motivator
I said listen we want to motivate
everyone do you hear
she said yes unless I need to talk to
you I’ve been wait a minute you’re
talking about cows I was get go and I’ll
be home soon
less I heard a voice in background hurry
less huh you’ve been gone a lot in
there’s somebody else what they came in
less come on mr. motivator they want you
back out there wait a min hold it hold
it why’d you say I’m sorry this someone
hasn’t heard a voice say hang the phone
up come on I say what are they gonna say
hey hey motivator come on they want you
catch your ham chair I say okay come I
say
I say uh when you working on a larger
vision I say you you got a really work
on yourself good light will catch on the
I said you better be ready and you
better make sure you water cuz it’ll
make you cry and somebody said the
spirit is on him thank you thank you
thank you thank you
I was talking to tell it’s not blinking
the light they had to come put me on but
I said you got to have a larger vision
you made show later you make sure you
work on yourself I said come on Vince
around come on
yeah I went back to my hotel room and
loneliness and heartbreak was sitting on
the bed said are you coming in now do
you have your larger vision now how’s
your positive attitude yeah say get on
in here are you still breathing
shut up shut up no you want you’re gonna
die won’t just go Donald
Lite will wear you out you’ll be saying
no I care to know how long you try to
read it can’t see God through the tears
I went plumbing through the drawers in
this hotel trying to find a Gideon Bible
anything you know I said somebody
anybody help me Yahweh Yahoo anybody
well I tell you that’s why you got to
work on yourself good life we’ll send
you some curves
you cannot anticipate the next thing is
that whatever you do you want to develop
technical mastery you want to be the
best at what you do you want to master
it see part of self motivation is you’ve
got to find something that gives you a
strong sense of competence
well you become known for that you
develop a reputation of being good at
doing that you set some high personal
standards for yourself you’re not
competing with anybody else you’re just
unfolding yourself to be the best person
that you could be that you want to give
the best quality service that you can
give because that is a statement about
who you are the other thing that’s the
key to self motivation is recognize the
fact that you’re going to get into some
slumps recognize the fact
that you’re going to encounter a great
deal of failure in life it goes with the
territory but in the face of that you
want to be relentless when you want
something you can don’t expect everybody
to say oh come on in we’ve been oh you
want this oh great we want to give this
to you you’re such a nice person you’re
doing it for your family aren’t you
great now don’t like this and like that
no many doors will be closed to your
face many loans that you’ll want let’s
say no you don’t have enough collateral
you don’t have enough credit and most
people will give up but you’ve got to
decide that I’m going to be fearless
I refuse to be tonight and I’m going to
go all out I’m going to be ready lick
‘less I don’t care how many nose I
encounter I like something Isaiah Thomas
said when he’s getting ready for a
basketball game he said I’m going to
either shoot us in or shoot us out but
I’m not going to not do anything and
that’s the way to go
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you can’t make a basket unless you shoot
the ball you can’t hit a homerun unless
you take a swing at it most people won’t
even take a swing well I probably won’t
make it anyhow that’s the conversation
within they probably won’t give it to me
anyhow if you want something you’ve got
to be relentless you’ve got to decide I
deserve this and I’m going to have it
and you go all out to get it that drives
you the next thing is that when you want
something out of life you’ve got to be
willing to go into action don’t wait
around for things to be just right don’t
wait for things to be perfect don’t wait
for the ideal situation it will never be
ideal that will always be a reason well
as soon as the children grow up as soon
as I pay my bills well soon as I get my
divorce all kind as soon as I get enough
money together do what you can where you
are with what you have and never be
satisfied a lot of people never take a
chance in life they don’t want to take
any chances they want the situation to
be ideal
see that’s not walking by faith that’s
walking by sight if I can see it I’ll do
it no no no glass a lot of people say if
I can see it I’ll believe it no no if
and don’t be disturbed because no one
else can see it that’s not unusual that
is ordinary but because you want some
different kind of results in your life
you’ve got to be willing to be
unreasonable if you want unreasonable
results in your life you’ve got to be
willing to be unreasonable part of being
unreasonable you don’t judge according
to appearances part of being
unreasonable
you can see it because you believe it
that’s part of being unreasonable part
of being unreasonable you’re like Paul
who said you must have the faith to call
for those things that be not as though
they were that’s part of being
unreasonable most people won’t do that
most people say call me when you get it
together then I’ll support you the other
thing is that what are the keys to self
motivation that empowers you is that you
want to find a cause larger than
yourself find something that you can
contribute you find something that you
can make a difference because you can
part of what feeds your larger vision
part of what gives you a reason for
being part of what gives you your life
is being able to give something back so
I can’t afford to give anything you
can’t afford not to give give your time
give your talent there’s nothing just to
go and lick envelopes I don’t know
exactly what I’m going to do but I’m
going over there it’s part of my tithing
in the universe once you develop that
that special sense of mission and that’s
what you develop when you’re part of a
larger cause than yourself
it drives you you don’t need an alarm
clock to get up in the morning you have
special power you go places and folk
will like to be around you they will
know there’s something different about
you when you go in there say hey that’s
somebody important I want to know who
you are I just want to be near you that
energy that you have that consciousness
that you will embody will affect
everybody around you the next thing is
is that you want to create a home court
advantage for yourself you’ve got to be
aware of who you have around you so you
want to be selective have friends that
will enable you to grow I have friends
that help me to grow spiritually these
are my spiritual friends I talk
spiritual stuff with them I have some
other friends who are just intellectual
friends they make me grow intellectually
they make me stretch I have some
professional friends I’m a member of the
National Speakers Association I get
together with other speakers and we
learn from each other and we grow from
each other I have other friends suggest
social friends all we do is just
socialize together we look at a
basketball game together or go out
dancing but that’s all we can do we
don’t talk anything serious nothing
spiritual nothing intellectual that’s
not that kind of relationship nothing
heavy up in here have other friends we
walk together that’s all we can do walk
together talk about we’re going to lose
weight one day bye and bye for good all
right that’s all we do nothing else so
according to the relationships that you
develop we grow from people and projects
and the relationships that you develop
can enhance and can enrich your life or
they can drain you I know many talented
people who had a great deal of potential
but because they didn’t surround
themselves with other people that will
inspire them to transcend themselves
they never realize their greatness and
they will end up going to their grave
with all their good stuff still in them
so you want to look at your
relationships the people that you’re
involved with the people that you
communicate with almost often and you
want to ask yourself the question what
am i becoming because of this
relationship does it inspire me am i
motivated am i encouraged am i driven to
develop myself am i seeking my own
greatness what kind of person am i
becoming because of this relationship am
i becoming more cynical and negative
about life ask yourself that
the next thing is you got to say yes to
your life you’ve got to say yes yes to
my dreams yes to me yes I can make it
yes I can doesn’t matter how many
failures I’ve made doesn’t matter how
many mistakes I’ve endured doesn’t
matter about my defeats doesn’t matter
about what I’ve done
yes yes I don’t care about the fact I’m
in a hole now doesn’t matter about where
I am yes the last chapter to my life has
not been written yet if you judge me now
you judge me prematurely
I haven’t exposed all my stuff yet I’m
still in the process of transforming my
life I’m still in the process of
becoming yes I have somebody in my life
at one time told me you’re never making
and I said I was sure and I don’t know
what energized me what motivated me was
something that Frank Sinatra said he
said the best revenge is massive success
I’ll show you you just watched my smoke
so say yes stand up for your dreams
stand up for what you want in your life
decide that your life is so meaningful
to you that you love you and you love
life so much that you’re going to stand
up for something you want I used to have
a saying when I was on the radio stand
up for what you believe in because you
can fall for anything so when I say to
you this evening that you are powerful
you have miracle-working power in your
life right now but you’ve got to work on
yourself you’ve got to develop yourself
you’ve got to talk to yourself day in
and day out selling yourself on you and
on your potentials and you’ve got to
know that that you are worth all of your
effort
and that the key to your motivation as
you get a larger vision of yourself is
to know that you have something to give
is to know that you have a reason for
being in the universe at this point in
time I want you to stand up for your
life right now anybody want to stand up
for your life stand up your dream stand up for your tree
one to ten in terms of your physical
appearance in terms of your health do
you take care of yourself are you
allowing yourself to get overweight and
out of shape are you conscious of your
health are you watching the food that
you take into your body do you make a
deliberate effort to exercise you know
it was George Burns he said we cannot
help getting older but we don’t have to
get old
and many of us get old before our time
because we don’t take time to take care
of ourselves your environment is a very
good indicator on a scale of 1 to 10 is
it what you want it to be do you find it
desirable are you satisfied the job or
career that you’re involved in someone
said that 85% of the American public
unhappy with their jobs are you spending
8 hours a day just doing time doing
something that you don’t find
challenging that does not make you
stretch mentally that does not stimulate
you that does not inspire you something
that you don’t find a sense of
fulfillment in it if you’re doing that
day in and day out it has to affect how
you feel about yourself your level of
motivation your relationships what kind
of impact is that having on your life is
it nourishing or is that a toxic
relationship does it drain you or does
it build you up ask yourself that how
motivated are you to do something about
it
your contribution your actions what are
you giving many people will leave the
universe without a trace no one will
know they were here
and in fact under their name we could
put under they’re not used up will
anybody know that you came this way what
contribution are you giving what will
you leave what will be different because
you came this way someone once said that
life is our gift to us that God has
given us and how we live our lives is
our gift to God what kind of gift
are you formulating is this a gift that
you like to take back and do
something else before you turn it in
think about that what can we do what are
some of the keys that we can begin to
use to motivate ourselves when our
batteries were unload because I don’t
care who you are I don’t care what you
do at some time you are going to get
tired at some time you’re going to get
in a rut seem like nothing you do works
out right and sometimes it just seems
like you just don’t have the wherewithal
or the will to do anything that
sometimes you act like you’re
punch-drunk you’re just wading through
like just doing time day in and day out
looking at nondiscriminatory television
anything that’s all just looking and
depressed feeling powerless feeling
useless and bored what do you do how do
you get yourself out of a rut how do you
when you know you can do more than what
you’ve been doing and you’re not doing
it and you’re discontented where you are
you get angry at yourself how do you get
out of that rut how do you motivate
yourself one of the things that we must
do is that we must be involved in
working on achieving self mastery you
must work on yourself continuously never
be satisfied with yourself always know
that as you invest the effort in time on
you that’s the greatest ability that
human beings have above animals see a
dog can’t be anything but a dog tree
can’t be anything but a tree human being
you’ve got unlimited potential you can
put effort on you and by concentrating
on you and developing you you can
transform your life wherever you are
right now so you want to work on
yourself you want to read books that
inspire you and motivate you you want to
listen to tapes over and over and over
again and I suggest that you listen to
tapes when you first get up in the
morning you want to control the spirit
of your day when you first wake up in
the morning your mind is operating at
10.5 wave cycles per second that’s when
the subconscious mind is most
impressionable whatever you hear in the
first 20 minutes when you wake up that
will affect the spirit of your day when
you listen to tapes listen
with relaxed belief believing that this
can happen for you and by listening to
them listen to them over and over and
over again and you will get a
breakthrough you can listen to the same
tape for months and all of a sudden you
hear something you never heard before it
have a special meaning for you or read
the same book over again and you find
some special insight you said I can’t
believe I didn’t see that the first time
so you want to be involved in developing
yourself most people won’t do that most
people won’t take that kind of effort
and invest that kind of energy in
themselves because they will fall prey
to that conversation within oh don’t do
that you don’t have time you’re too busy
you’re too caught up in the rat race
most people won’t do that well they
won’t take time to go to lectures they
won’t take time to go to seminars they
won’t take time to go to classes to
improve themselves and as you continue
to work on yourself you will begin to
expand your vision of yourself you begin
to work towards self mastery and you
will begin to see it reflect itself in
all the dimensions of your life your
mental life your physical life your
social life in your relationships your
monetary life so concentrate on
developing yourself because if you don’t
I guarantee you that you will make a
settlement and most people have and most
of us already have what kind of
settlement have you made with your life
you know when we make settlements
out-of-court settlements you’ve heard
them that means that you decided to take
something less than what you originally
wanted to get had you gone into court
and the reason that you settle outside
of court is because you didn’t believe
that you can get it so you made an
out-of-court settlement many of us are
making in life settlement we’re settling
for less than what we actually deserve
we don’t feel good about it
but we make it work at our minds we’ll
come up with some kind of excuse to make
it all right what kind of settlement
have you made with your life many of us
settle for less than what we want out of
relationships because we don’t have the
courage to change them
I had a seminar used to do call are you
living together or dying to get
many people are just dying together
Gladys Knight used to have a song that
says neither one of us want to be the
first to say goodbye the next thing is
in order to begin to find some keys to
self motivation to drive yourself in
addition to working on yourself and as
you work on yourself you feel good about
yourself and as you feel better about
yourself you treat yourself differently
develop a health plan so you can’t feel
well and do well if you don’t have good
health you can’t perform if you don’t
have your health your health is valuable
develop a health plan a plan that you
will follow because this is the only
vehicle that you have to carry you
through this experience called life and
you want to take good care of it because
you love you enough you care enough
about you and that’s not easy it is not
easy having a health plan and sticking
to it but you’re worth it doing it again
and again and again I have lost 22
I always do it I love potato chips
people who know me know I love M&M
peanuts I love peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches I love my mother sweet potato
pie I love this it’s not always on my
health plan but I put it on there
sometimes I said life is too short to go
without sweet potato pie if I go tonight
I want you to slip us with rice and
sweet potato pie in my casket yeah and
next thing is as you take care of
yourself the next key is keys to
motivation to self motivation you want
to live life with energy and passion you
want to make a conscious effort to be
lively see in life you either saying
hello or goodbye you either on the way
or in the way leave that people alone
some folks just walking around looking
sad how are you doing honey stay away
from these people just go away from them
you want to smile you want to be happy
you got a lot to be thankful for but you
watch some of the faces around you every
day
and I tell you some of these faces they
will put you in a depressed state of
mind so you want to avoid these kind of
faces when you see them coming turn your
head next thing is that you want to
monitor your inner conversations the
things that you say to yourself you want
to watch them and in watching them you
want to take charge friend of mine told
me this evening as she did it
excellently she said I didn’t want to
come tonight I was feeling so depressed
and I said I’m going anyhow see that was
the conversation so you really don’t
feel like it
you really don’t need to do it you don’t
really need to read anything forget all
that that’s that in a conversation oh
you don’t need to worry about trying to
go into your own business forget that
you can’t do that what if you lose
everything you’ve got that in a
conversation that stopped you from doing
the things you want to do less don’t do
that
how can you possibly think about being a
motivational speaker you don’t have the
context you don’t have the money you
don’t know the right people you’re gonna
get up there your minds gonna go blink
forget all that you remember that time
you got up before some people and you
panic you stood up in your mind set down
don’t you remember
I said yes and then I said shout out so
you’ve got to learn to stand up to
yourself inside yourself and
short-circuit override that conversation
that’s always going on 85% of what that
conversation will tell you is negative
it’s negative it will tell you you’re
tied when you really are not tired it
will tell you you can’t do it it will
fill you with fear so you’ve got to
watch that conversation and when you
find it going on you’ve got to stand up
to it and say I’m going to do this
anyhow I’m afraid but I’m afraid not to
do it and I’m not going to let you stop
me the biggest challenge that you will
have in life is you as an old African
proverb that says is there’s no enemy
within the enemy outside can do us no
the next thing that is a key to self
motivation is that you’ve got to ask
yourself what do I want out of life what
do you want out of life what do you want
out of a job what do you want out of
career what do you want out of a
relationship what do you want what gives
you your life what how will you know
when you got it what will make you happy
you need to know you need to start
asking yourself some questions what do I
really really truly want you need to be
exact about that don’t be vague oh I
just want to be happy that’s too vague
what will make you happy how will you
know when you got it zero in on it be
exact be specific and as you do that
that will stimulate that super conscious
mind or the reticular activating system
of your mind then we’ll begin to find
those things to identify with it and
once you begin to determine that which
you want take the time to write it down
don’t just think about it write it down
that is a subjective process that
engages the subconscious mind write it
down
once you write it down read it three
times a day morning noon and night why
is that important because what it will
do it will cause you to focus it will
cause you to concentrate when that other
conversation is going on telling you
what you cannot do telling you all of
the impossibilities and all of the
obstacles you’re concentrating will
begin to create a larger vision within
yourself and you start looking for and
seeing some new opportunities you start
creating some openings for yourself as
you begin to read that every day every
day day in and day out that will make
you focus that will discipline your
thinking and you’ll get all kind of
creative ideas as I talk to you right
now being involved in this immersion
process you’re going to create some
openings for yourself you’re gonna get
some ideas you’re going to feel your
adrenalin flowing and you’re going to
think about something some idea you had
yourself a canned I’m going to look at
that again from a different vantage
point not from the level of the problem
of the obstacles that I encountered but
from a higher vantage point because what
you will begin to see them to know as I
have talked to the higher consciousness
within you that you are powerful that
you are a miracle worker and that inner
conversation has conditioned you to
believe that you’re not and as you begin
to discover the truth of who you are
whatever challenge that you’re facing in
life and if you’re living you’re facing
some challenge you begin to know that
you are powerful and that you’re America
maker so as you begin to write down
exactly what it is that you want read it
every day the next thing is see yourself
there how will you feel once you get
there what will the experience be like
for you what will be different what kind
of person do you have to become in order
to get there
visualize yourself there living the
experience I remember when I ran for
state representative in Columbus Ohio
and I had a lot of people telling me and
you got to watch not only the
conversation within but the conversation
without
telling us you can’t possibly win you
can’t do that and I went down to the
legislature and I saw myself I knew what
I wanted I saw myself in the chair I
pointed out the chair that I wanted I
used to go and set up in the galleries
and watch the legislative process I used
to go to the committee meetings and
listen to legislation being introduced I
learned how to write legislation how to
amend legislation I start thinking like
a legislator got up every day dressing
thinking like that selling myself on it
seeing myself in the legislature mr.
speaker I’m the gentleman from the 29th
House District I’d like to introduce a
bill I went in the legislature walk
around I have the experience of it and
when I ran and want to give overwhelming
odds they were shocked I won the
election even before it was held because
I was living it in my mind you want to
see yourself beyond your circumstances
you got to challenge see yourself beyond
your challenge see yourself with the
challenge already resolved and knowing
that all as well seeing yourself in
control and in charge of your destiny
being healthy and happy the next thing
is it is important in the area of
motivating yourself it’s important to
know why you’re doing it because that
mind will say why bother why go through
all this this is too hard no throw in
the towel it’s not worth it
has it ever said that to you before
here’s how you can handle that here’s
how you override that write down five
reasons why you deserve it why do you
deserve what you want why you why do you
deserve it what meaning and value will
it bring to your life what’s so
different about you that you deserve
your goal of this goal and when you
write down those five reasons when you
have some down moments and you’re going
to have them when that conversation
start talking to you and it’s going to
talk to you what you will do is you can
pull that out and read it and it will
build you up it will be your rod and
your staff to comfort you through some
challenging moments because you
a handsome life will knock you between
the eyes it will catch you on the Blind
Side come out of nowhere stuff you can’t
anticipate that was not the wind out of
you you want to give up that’s why it’s
important for you to work on yourself
listening to tapes building yourself up
talking to yourself
with power feeling and conviction
building yourself up day in and day out
because it’s coming I guarantee you
life is just waiting oh he’s doing good
now huh very good I’ve never had an
experience I was pursuing my dream and
that’s why you have to work on yourself
you don’t know what’s going to happen
and I was telling people I had this big
rally I had to do was 5,000 people there
and I said you must work on yourself if
you want a larger vision you’ve got to
empower yourself continuously because
the life will catch you on the blindside
and after I finished my speech I got a
rousing standing ovation and I wouldn’t
call the young lady that I was dating at
the time I said hey guess what I said
they love me I got a standing ovation
and they were chanting we want the
motivator we want the motivator
I said listen we want to motivate
everyone do you hear
she said yes unless I need to talk to
you I’ve been wait a minute you’re
talking about cows I was get go and I’ll
be home soon
less I heard a voice in background hurry
less huh you’ve been gone a lot in
there’s somebody else what they came in
less come on mr. motivator they want you
back out there wait a min hold it hold
it why’d you say I’m sorry this someone
hasn’t heard a voice say hang the phone
up come on I say what are they gonna say
hey hey motivator come on they want you
catch your ham chair I say okay come I
say
I say uh when you working on a larger
vision I say you you got a really work
on yourself good light will catch on the
I said you better be ready and you
better make sure you water cuz it’ll
make you cry and somebody said the
spirit is on him thank you thank you
thank you thank you
I was talking to tell it’s not blinking
the light they had to come put me on but
I said you got to have a larger vision
you made show later you make sure you
work on yourself I said come on Vince
around come on
yeah I went back to my hotel room and
loneliness and heartbreak was sitting on
the bed said are you coming in now do
you have your larger vision now how’s
your positive attitude yeah say get on
in here are you still breathing
shut up shut up no you want you’re gonna
die won’t just go Donald
Lite will wear you out you’ll be saying
no I care to know how long you try to
read it can’t see God through the tears
I went plumbing through the drawers in
this hotel trying to find a Gideon Bible
anything you know I said somebody
anybody help me Yahweh Yahoo anybody
well I tell you that’s why you got to
work on yourself good life we’ll send
you some curves
you cannot anticipate the next thing is
that whatever you do you want to develop
technical mastery you want to be the
best at what you do you want to master
it see part of self motivation is you’ve
got to find something that gives you a
strong sense of competence
well you become known for that you
develop a reputation of being good at
doing that you set some high personal
standards for yourself you’re not
competing with anybody else you’re just
unfolding yourself to be the best person
that you could be that you want to give
the best quality service that you can
give because that is a statement about
who you are the other thing that’s the
key to self motivation is recognize the
fact that you’re going to get into some
slumps recognize the fact
that you’re going to encounter a great
deal of failure in life it goes with the
territory but in the face of that you
want to be relentless when you want
something you can don’t expect everybody
to say oh come on in we’ve been oh you
want this oh great we want to give this
to you you’re such a nice person you’re
doing it for your family aren’t you
great now don’t like this and like that
no many doors will be closed to your
face many loans that you’ll want let’s
say no you don’t have enough collateral
you don’t have enough credit and most
people will give up but you’ve got to
decide that I’m going to be fearless
I refuse to be tonight and I’m going to
go all out I’m going to be ready lick
‘less I don’t care how many nose I
encounter I like something Isaiah Thomas
said when he’s getting ready for a
basketball game he said I’m going to
either shoot us in or shoot us out but
I’m not going to not do anything and
that’s the way to go
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you can’t make a basket unless you shoot
the ball you can’t hit a homerun unless
you take a swing at it most people won’t
even take a swing well I probably won’t
make it anyhow that’s the conversation
within they probably won’t give it to me
anyhow if you want something you’ve got
to be relentless you’ve got to decide I
deserve this and I’m going to have it
and you go all out to get it that drives
you the next thing is that when you want
something out of life you’ve got to be
willing to go into action don’t wait
around for things to be just right don’t
wait for things to be perfect don’t wait
for the ideal situation it will never be
ideal that will always be a reason well
as soon as the children grow up as soon
as I pay my bills well soon as I get my
divorce all kind as soon as I get enough
money together do what you can where you
are with what you have and never be
satisfied a lot of people never take a
chance in life they don’t want to take
any chances they want the situation to
be ideal
see that’s not walking by faith that’s
walking by sight if I can see it I’ll do
it no no no glass a lot of people say if
I can see it I’ll believe it no no if
and don’t be disturbed because no one
else can see it that’s not unusual that
is ordinary but because you want some
different kind of results in your life
you’ve got to be willing to be
unreasonable if you want unreasonable
results in your life you’ve got to be
willing to be unreasonable part of being
unreasonable you don’t judge according
to appearances part of being
unreasonable
you can see it because you believe it
that’s part of being unreasonable part
of being unreasonable you’re like Paul
who said you must have the faith to call
for those things that be not as though
they were that’s part of being
unreasonable most people won’t do that
most people say call me when you get it
together then I’ll support you the other
thing is that what are the keys to self
motivation that empowers you is that you
want to find a cause larger than
yourself find something that you can
contribute you find something that you
can make a difference because you can
part of what feeds your larger vision
part of what gives you a reason for
being part of what gives you your life
is being able to give something back so
I can’t afford to give anything you
can’t afford not to give give your time
give your talent there’s nothing just to
go and lick envelopes I don’t know
exactly what I’m going to do but I’m
going over there it’s part of my tithing
in the universe once you develop that
that special sense of mission and that’s
what you develop when you’re part of a
larger cause than yourself
it drives you you don’t need an alarm
clock to get up in the morning you have
special power you go places and folk
will like to be around you they will
know there’s something different about
you when you go in there say hey that’s
somebody important I want to know who
you are I just want to be near you that
energy that you have that consciousness
that you will embody will affect
everybody around you the next thing is
is that you want to create a home court
advantage for yourself you’ve got to be
aware of who you have around you so you
want to be selective have friends that
will enable you to grow I have friends
that help me to grow spiritually these
are my spiritual friends I talk
spiritual stuff with them I have some
other friends who are just intellectual
friends they make me grow intellectually
they make me stretch I have some
professional friends I’m a member of the
National Speakers Association I get
together with other speakers and we
learn from each other and we grow from
each other I have other friends suggest
social friends all we do is just
socialize together we look at a
basketball game together or go out
dancing but that’s all we can do we
don’t talk anything serious nothing
spiritual nothing intellectual that’s
not that kind of relationship nothing
heavy up in here have other friends we
walk together that’s all we can do walk
together talk about we’re going to lose
weight one day bye and bye for good all
right that’s all we do nothing else so
according to the relationships that you
develop we grow from people and projects
and the relationships that you develop
can enhance and can enrich your life or
they can drain you I know many talented
people who had a great deal of potential
but because they didn’t surround
themselves with other people that will
inspire them to transcend themselves
they never realize their greatness and
they will end up going to their grave
with all their good stuff still in them
so you want to look at your
relationships the people that you’re
involved with the people that you
communicate with almost often and you
want to ask yourself the question what
am i becoming because of this
relationship does it inspire me am i
motivated am i encouraged am i driven to
develop myself am i seeking my own
greatness what kind of person am i
becoming because of this relationship am
i becoming more cynical and negative
about life ask yourself that
the next thing is you got to say yes to
your life you’ve got to say yes yes to
my dreams yes to me yes I can make it
yes I can doesn’t matter how many
failures I’ve made doesn’t matter how
many mistakes I’ve endured doesn’t
matter about my defeats doesn’t matter
about what I’ve done
yes yes I don’t care about the fact I’m
in a hole now doesn’t matter about where
I am yes the last chapter to my life has
not been written yet if you judge me now
you judge me prematurely
I haven’t exposed all my stuff yet I’m
still in the process of transforming my
life I’m still in the process of
becoming yes I have somebody in my life
at one time told me you’re never making
and I said I was sure and I don’t know
what energized me what motivated me was
something that Frank Sinatra said he
said the best revenge is massive success
I’ll show you you just watched my smoke
so say yes stand up for your dreams
stand up for what you want in your life
decide that your life is so meaningful
to you that you love you and you love
life so much that you’re going to stand
up for something you want I used to have
a saying when I was on the radio stand
up for what you believe in because you
can fall for anything so when I say to
you this evening that you are powerful
you have miracle-working power in your
life right now but you’ve got to work on
yourself you’ve got to develop yourself
you’ve got to talk to yourself day in
and day out selling yourself on you and
on your potentials and you’ve got to
know that that you are worth all of your
effort
and that the key to your motivation as
you get a larger vision of yourself is
to know that you have something to give
is to know that you have a reason for
being in the universe at this point in
time I want you to stand up for your
life right now anybody want to stand up
for your life stand up your dream stand up for your tree
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