at a time when people are feeling a
great deal of anxiety and fear and
reservations about the future at a time
when people are going to work and don’t
know whether or not they will have a job
when they get off and not necessarily
because of their performance but because
of what’s happening in the economy at a
time when there are challenges more so
than ever before in personal
relationships we look at what’s
happening in the crime level and what’s
happening with our youth that many times
I’m sure that we’ve all taken time just
to stop and reflect many times when we
hear what’s happening in the news or
read the newspapers where’s all of this
leading to what’s going on here and so I
think that now more than ever we must
begin to look at what are the things
that we can do that would put us on some
firm footing in life that will enable us
to do some things and and use some
powers that we have that many of us go
through life never ever discovering that
we have those things going for us and
part of that I believe is knowing what
it is your lifework what is it that
gives your life a sense of meaning and
purpose because once you find that it
puts you in your power place see if you
know what your lifework is I encourage
you to start working on it if you can’t
do it all at one time do just a little
bit of it and if you don’t know what it
is that you showed up to do if you don’t
know why you’re here I encourage you to
find out what your purpose is there what
is the meaning of your life what will be
different have you ever asked yourself
that question I’ve done that I remember
coming from a friends of my funeral and
I was reflecting on how much time I had
left and I went for a walk in a park
thinking about this guy whose life was
so promising and I mean he wasn’t an old
guy was quite young in fact and I
thought
about all of the things that he said he
was going to do and he never got a
chance to do those things and I start
thinking about my own life and how much
time I had left to do the things that I
would like to do and at that time I
wasn’t sure what my life purpose was
what my life’s work was I wasn’t sure
about it at that time and I thought
about it quite a lot I had some idea but
I wasn’t convinced that I don’t think I
felt worthy I didn’t believe that it
could be me to do this kind of work that
I’m doing right now and I say to you
that if you began to take a conscious
effort to find out what it is that
you’re supposed to do I say that it can
literally save your life I said that it
can literally save your life I was
telling a group of people of a study
that was conducted dr. Larry Darcy who
wrote a book called recovering the soul
he said human beings are the only living
species that has achieved the dubious
distinction of dying or having a stroke
or a heart attack on a certain day if
you ask most people what would you say
the primary cause of why people would
have a heart attack of stroke many
people will say well because they smoked
cigarettes or because of high
cholesterol or because of stress or
because of obesity and all of those
things are contributing factors but
ladies and gentlemen more heart attacks
take place in this country on Monday
that’s when the majority of people who
have their first heart attacks have them
85% of the American public according to
recent studies are going to jobs that
they hate working on jobs that do not
challenge them they get sick thinking
migraine headaches after the Sunday
afternoon football game or sixty minutes
they anxiety begin to build and come
Monday morning they drop dead of a
broken heart
some of you ought to think about not
going to work on Monday think about that
people are literally dying to go to work
because see when you go to a job and you
already know how far you can go you can
already see that proverbial glass
ceiling it’s like going to a movie when
you’ve gone in in the middle of the
movie and you’ve seen the inn and and
you sit there to afford to start all
over again but something is missing you
know what the outcome is going to be you
can’t get excited about going through
that movie all over again am I correct
see when you’re going someplace and you
already know how much you’re going to
make you already know how far you can go
you’re in a dead-end position it erodes
your self-esteem it lowers your sense of
yourself
it creates an inner turmoil
it creates an emptiness in you so I say
that your life is worth finding what it
is that you’re supposed to do and I’m
not saying quit your job I’m saying find
it and do just a little bit of it when I
wanted to become involved in speaking I
started just learning quotes listening
to other people’s tapes going to
seminars going to workshops asking other
people to help me just not working at it
just a little bit but do find out what
your work is and hold on to it and don’t
let your dream go don’t let it go see
and here’s something else I want you to
begin to look at why is it that most
people don’t pursue their dreams and
don’t do better than what they’re doing
if they’re capable of doing it I think
that many of us don’t go the next step
because we don’t know what to do yet and
I say that that the reason that we don’t
even explore the possibility of what to
do is because subconsciously we don’t
believe that it can happen for us and we
don’t believe that we deserve it so
here’s what I’m suggesting how much time
do you spend working on you how much
time do you spend every day working on
your dream in the last 90 days how many
books have you read
in the last year what new skill or
knowledge have you acquired what kind of
investment have you made in you so I’m
saying that as you begin to look at
where you want to go if you want to make
it today and things are changing so fast
you have to literally run to standstill
I’m saying that you’ve got to make some
conscious effort to begin to work to
develop you here’s something else most
people are not living their dreams
because of fear ladies and gentlemen I
was in Columbus Ohio yesterday speaking
for a particular Ohio Department you
lady named Karen who greeted me who
organized the event very talented very
skillful and she was talking about she
wanted to become involved in the
consulting business I say why aren’t you
doing it I said you have the abilities I
said you’re not here because they like
you you here because you’re doing the
job you’re making things happen and she
came up with all kind of ideas but
finally she said I guess I I can’t see
myself doing it I guess I’m afraid fear
limited vision and lack of self esteem
is what keep most people doing things
they don’t want to do I will flew from
Columbus Ohio to Denver Colorado to a
major communications company and the
person that taking up the airport told
me about the fact that the company is
planning on having a major downsizing
and they offered some of the employees
there in early retirement and some of
them will earn as much as $300,000 and
they said this is the last time that you
can take this offer if you don’t do it
when we have the downsizing you might be
among those who will lose their jobs and
all you will get is your severance pay
and only 50% of the people who were
eligible to take the $300,000
took it the others were afraid to take a
chance on themselves the others couldn’t
see themselves beyond that company they
couldn’t see life after that company the
same reason that people stay in
relationships where they’re abused are
they’re unhappy or it’s unfulfilled they
can’t see them
beyond that relationship they can’t see
themselves enjoying life without that
person they think that this is all that
they can do the same reason that people
get stuck at a certain level in life
they can’t see things being better for
them and they think that this is it and
this is all they deserve this is all
they’ve ever seen it’s been passed on to
them and they think that this is it for
them oh no looking what dr. Blanton
Smalley Blanton who was a colleague of
dr. norman vincent peale and what he
said about theories that fear is the
most subtle and destructive of all human
diseases
ladies and gentlemen fear kills dreams
fear kills hope fear put people in the
hospital fear can age you fear ladies
and gentlemen can hold you back from
doing something that you know within
yourself that you’re capable of doing
but it will paralyze you and it seem
like you’re in a hypnotic spell and I
ask you a question what is the benefit
what’s the benefit of allowing fear to
hold you back what’s the benefit of
giving up on yourself of not stepping
out on life and taking life on what is
the benefit for you what’s the plus in
that one of the things I had to ask
myself so I didn’t want to make any
mistakes I wanted everybody to like me I
wanted to be perfect the first time I
did something it’s not going to happen
you’re going to make some mistakes
you’re gonna hurt some folks feelings
you’re gonna create some enemies
whenever you decide that you want to
begin to take life on you’ve got to ask
yourself how long am I going to allow
this to hold me back I like what Zig
Ziglar says he said fear is false
that it’s an illusion that we create in
our mind it is a state of mind that can
be changed so let’s look at how we can
begin to take some steps to restructure
that fear to begin to expand our visions
of ourselves to begin to increase our
self-esteem Webster said that
self-esteem means confidence and
satisfaction in oneself look at your
life right now whatever you’ve done up
to this point in time your life is
working whatever you have produced it
came out of you but as a result of the
kind of person that you have become it’s
a result of your choices it’s a result
of your consciousness now you have to
ask yourself are you satisfied with what
you hit produce is this what you want
would you like for things to be better
than this do you believe that you
deserve better than this are you content
this is it you don’t have to do
everything anything else but you already
resign yourself in like I said well I’m
happy I’m not starving like the people
in Calcutta are you allowing yourself to
get off the hook like that or do you
believe somewhere in the back of your
mind or in your heart but there are some
other great work for you to do there’s
something else that light has for you
and that’s why you are here how do we
handle this fear factor how do we
increase our self-esteem you have to
begin to fortify yourself how do we do
that I believe that you have to begin to
consciously monitor your inner
conversation and start talking to
yourself start building yourself up
sometimes the only good things you will
hear about you are the things that you
young lady that that was in the audience
this afternoon said to me I told myself
yesterday for the first time I’m proud
of me and she said I felt good about
that
so I’m saying learn to be your own
booster stop building yourself up start
encouraging yourself start saying I can
do this I can make this happen when I
started thinking about becoming a
speaker I said yes I can do this I can
make this happen when I start trying to
convince myself I can be a businessman
after flopping and failing and losing
thousands of dollars and feeling stupid
and dumb and having people take
advantage of me because of what I didn’t
know I had to talk to myself because
people are saying to me that I was done
and somewhere in the back of my mind I
was saying you’re right look at what
I’ve done I had to say no no no no no no
no less hey hey come on man get yourself
together you can handle this you just
haven’t figured it out yet it’s all
right this is your training period this
is a tuition you have to pay but what
you don’t know you can do this other
people have done it doesn’t take an
Einstein get you some people that can
teach you some stuff that you don’t know
get you some people that have done it
successfully and learn from them take
some seminars workshops read some books
on how to manage a business change the
way you see yourself and begin to attend
to the personal details understand that
nobody’s going to take care of your
business better than you and when I
start changing that kind of mindset of
beating myself up because of my mistakes
and start looking at the possibility of
my doing better of my making the
adjustment that would enable me to do
what I want to do successfully things
begin to change and I say stop beating
up on yourself you do do it I know you
do it I’ve done it it’s a natural
inclination for us to put ourselves down
see we are born negative I think in a
negative consciousness because we live
in a negative world so you don’t have to
teach children to lie there Lyle E
did you wet in your pants no I did not
well what is that I don’t know
you don’t have to encourage kids to
misbehave they will do it by themselves
you don’t have to encourage them to do
the wrong thing they would do it
automatically you have to correct their
behavior so I’m saying that we have to
work through the challenges of life and
learning how to begin to work to
quantify ourselves repeat after me
please I can live my dream I can find my
purpose in life and live my purpose I
deserve more for myself I deserve more
from life
shake somebody’s hand on your right and
left and say you deserve more from life
here’s some other things ladies and
gentlemen begin to guard your mine
against negative programming like turn
off the television don’t watch the news
don’t watch it I think that more people
have a sense of hopelessness and anxiety
about life if you look at the news you
cannot feel good looking at the news
you’ll be scared to death you’re scared
to go to sleep I mean it turns your
power down you’ve got to be conscious of
it don’t pick up the newspaper and read
it no no I could just try this just
experiment with yourself now if your job
depends upon your knowing certain things
let somebody tell you just about those
things but stop filtering the stuff you
allow to come in your mind you know that
song you censor don’t let nobody bring
you no bad news I tell my staff look
here don’t tell me any bad news while
I’m on the road let me handle it
tomorrow unlikely anybody tell me any
bad news at night before I go to sleep I
can’t do anything about it anyhow why
let me go to sleep with that on my
consciousness no no in my step they know
that said let it wait till tomorrow and
I have a period of time tell me bad news
between 10 o’clock and 12 news after I
prayed and meditated and read my books
I’m fortified I’m ready to handle it I
deal with that I’m out of there and I’m
going on to something else so you’ve got
to guard the kinds of things that you
put in your mind see if you don’t
program your mind your mind will be
programmed because human beings are goal
oriented that’s why we die of broken
hearts early that’s why we’re running
through life too early grades we’re
going through life ladies and gentlemen
and I think that Henry David Thoreau
stated that most men live in quiet
desperation most of us go through life
running scared
Larry DNG who I think is going to be one
of the greatest motivational speakers
around today told me a story a true
story of a friend of his that everyday
when he came home from school when he
would get to a certain block in his
neighborhood there was a neighborhood
dog that would chase him and that dog
would start after him barking bought he
would run just running from that dog
every day every day wow he just got
tired of that dog chased him every day
he said his dog come around here Delma
take a brick of stuff him bust him in
here so he was walking home that day
mining his own business sure enough same
area there was that dog there the dog
that barked and he started running he
saw a brick and he stopped and picked up
the brick and turned on and the dog got
close to him he realized the dog didn’t
have any teeth he said he put the brake
down and said get out of my way and
ladies and gentlemen all our lives many
of us go through life running from
things that ain’t got no teeth the doors
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haven’t you been afraid to do something
and then after you did it you say whoa
if I noted was this easy I would have
done it before haven’t you ever have
that experience raise your hand
absolutely so we created this in our
minds false evidence appearing real
we made it real in our minds that’s why
Churchill said there’s nothing to fear
but fear itself
that’s the destructive monster so turn
off things that can contribute to your
fear turn a deaf ear to people that all
they can do is talk about how negative
things are because they have bought into
the consciousness of the world start
attending workshops seminars listening
to tapes on a daily basis to begin to
recondition your mind to retrain your
thinking faith comes by what hearing and
hearing and hearing listen to things
that can empower you that can enable you
to create a new reality for yourself in
a new life for yourself you might appear
to be strange around most people you
know most people think you’re strange if
you’re happy today people say how you’re
doing I said better than good whoa
what’s wrong with him just go around
smiling and watch people look at this is
this a weird guy over here because most
people are smile watch him look at their
faces in the morning here we go another
Monday morning how you doing
haven’t had my coffee yet don’t ask me
say these people have not found their
purpose in life that’s why they are
grumpy but that’s why they’re miserable
that’s why they’re so negative they’re
hurting and they want to hurt other
people so start practicing using
programs for your mind seminars books
workshops keep a journal record your
thoughts what’s happening with you every
day when you get up have a journal near
you I use a Jack Bolan journals so that
I can write down my ideas I keep it by
my bed so I can write down my thoughts
see ladies and gentlemen we get three to
four thoughts a year that if we would
act on those thoughts they could change
our life
don’t say well I’ll remember that no
write that thought down I got a thought
today I wrote down a friend of mine is
in the hospital his morale is low
they’re talking about amputating his
foot he’s got to feel very bad such days
you know I’m gonna I’m not only am I
going to see him but I can’t be there
with him all the time I said I’m going
to create a cake for him that that he
can listen to that will heighten his
level of morale we told him the other
night don’t go to surgery you are
depressed your energy level is down no
no tell him not now don’t do it now in
fact most doctors will have any sense of
awareness don’t perform surgery on
patients that in the state of fear but
don’t think they will make it they wait
till they’re in a different state of
mind so I said what about making tapes
for people that are facing physical
see their ideas that can come to you out
of things that appear to be negative I
have a friend out of Chicago just met
him he was 23 years old and this guy he
went financially bankrupt two years ago
ruined his credit guess what he decided
to do
he found a blessing in it he wanted to
restore his credit it was very
challenging very difficult and he
realized that a lot of other people
during these particular times of ruin
their credit so now he started a credit
repair business last year he earned over
$100,000 helping people to restore their
credit I met a young lady who attends
this church that she was at her father’s
funeral and and she was putting flowers
on her father’s grave and she looked
around and saw the other grave sites
they did not look well-groomed and they
were not attended to on a regular basis
she start a gravesite maintenance
business out of that tragedy something
positive has come out of it and now
she’s earning more money during that
than on her present job what idea are
you sitting on right your ideas down and
then once you get that idea
take the lead hello take the lead see a
lot of people get the ideas and just
walk around with them have you ever had
an idea and all of us have you looked
around and somebody had that idea and
gone with it think you gonna be gone
with my hospital idea forget that buddy
we will be out there together Jack take
the lead see it’s out of the universe
if you don’t take the plunge I guarantee
you somebody else will take the plunge
go into action and ladies and gentlemen
you will be surprised how things will
come together you’ll be surprised now
you’re going to have some difficult
challenges I can tell you that now
be aware of that things are not going to
work out exactly right for time they
will sometimes and that’s when life is
just playing a game with you
I want you to feel good and relaxed and
then after a while say ok the honeymoons
over now
and their life will come over then slap
your side to hear you say what you’re
doing out here well this is my dream
life is that right come over here a
minute oh oh you went to the seminar huh
come here I can tell you that but ladies
and gentlemen go into action with your
dream and don’t avoid where the fights
are get in the midst of the fight and
get some hickeys on your head get
knocked down so you can learn how to
fight so you can hold your position
see most people don’t get out in the
arena of life because they don’t want to
fight most people don’t get out there
because they don’t want to get knocked
down they don’t want to be dropped to
their knees but see you’re going to be
dropped worthy you on the field or where
they’re not just sitting on the
sidelines you’re going to be dropped so
at least get dropped for something don’t
get knocked down while you’re sitting
see that’s not most evil of spectators
in life you don’t want to be a spectator
you want to get out in the field where
the action is and you will be amazed
after the struggle there will be a calm
period and things will begin to click
for you come out here with what you got
you don’t have enough money don’t worry
about it you got the dream you got the
idea you don’t have enough resources
don’t worry about it you need some help
don’t worry about it you get out here in
the arena someone will look at you and
become inspired and say hey can I help
you but if you sitting up on the
bleachers nobody’s gonna ask you
anything you’ve got to get into the flow
of action Frances Hart called me from
Chicago she had been sitting on an idea
of a show that she wanted to produce for
ten years called mind-body connection
so someone saw me speaking in Chicago
and a sorority convention and said I saw
a guy that perhaps can host this show
for you who has energy and charisma she
called me she was so fired up I said
listen on the day that you want to do
that I’m speaking in Chicago I can do it
for you and I said by the way I met
somebody two weeks ago in Baltimore who
has an idea of the same type of show and
she’s doing it on radio why don’t you
call her and then she called me back who
else would you suggest I say well I know
Deepak Chopra he wrote the book called
quantum healing and Bernie Siegel could
you get his number I tell you what I
have a friend named Jack Bolan at the
Church of the day he knows how to get in
touch with him call him and he will give
you the number so you can get in touch
with Bernie Siegel that lady start
calling all around did not have the
resources but she had this idea and
dream and she said the other night when
she came before the audience that had
gathered in the studio she said I feel
like I’ve been pregnant for ten years
and tonight you’re going to witness a
beautiful delivery and it was she said I
couldn’t believe less how things began
to happen how it all began to come
together and how many of you ever
started on some dream and you didn’t
have all your stuff together but you
just went out there with nothing but faith
great deal of anxiety and fear and
reservations about the future at a time
when people are going to work and don’t
know whether or not they will have a job
when they get off and not necessarily
because of their performance but because
of what’s happening in the economy at a
time when there are challenges more so
than ever before in personal
relationships we look at what’s
happening in the crime level and what’s
happening with our youth that many times
I’m sure that we’ve all taken time just
to stop and reflect many times when we
hear what’s happening in the news or
read the newspapers where’s all of this
leading to what’s going on here and so I
think that now more than ever we must
begin to look at what are the things
that we can do that would put us on some
firm footing in life that will enable us
to do some things and and use some
powers that we have that many of us go
through life never ever discovering that
we have those things going for us and
part of that I believe is knowing what
it is your lifework what is it that
gives your life a sense of meaning and
purpose because once you find that it
puts you in your power place see if you
know what your lifework is I encourage
you to start working on it if you can’t
do it all at one time do just a little
bit of it and if you don’t know what it
is that you showed up to do if you don’t
know why you’re here I encourage you to
find out what your purpose is there what
is the meaning of your life what will be
different have you ever asked yourself
that question I’ve done that I remember
coming from a friends of my funeral and
I was reflecting on how much time I had
left and I went for a walk in a park
thinking about this guy whose life was
so promising and I mean he wasn’t an old
guy was quite young in fact and I
thought
about all of the things that he said he
was going to do and he never got a
chance to do those things and I start
thinking about my own life and how much
time I had left to do the things that I
would like to do and at that time I
wasn’t sure what my life purpose was
what my life’s work was I wasn’t sure
about it at that time and I thought
about it quite a lot I had some idea but
I wasn’t convinced that I don’t think I
felt worthy I didn’t believe that it
could be me to do this kind of work that
I’m doing right now and I say to you
that if you began to take a conscious
effort to find out what it is that
you’re supposed to do I say that it can
literally save your life I said that it
can literally save your life I was
telling a group of people of a study
that was conducted dr. Larry Darcy who
wrote a book called recovering the soul
he said human beings are the only living
species that has achieved the dubious
distinction of dying or having a stroke
or a heart attack on a certain day if
you ask most people what would you say
the primary cause of why people would
have a heart attack of stroke many
people will say well because they smoked
cigarettes or because of high
cholesterol or because of stress or
because of obesity and all of those
things are contributing factors but
ladies and gentlemen more heart attacks
take place in this country on Monday
that’s when the majority of people who
have their first heart attacks have them
85% of the American public according to
recent studies are going to jobs that
they hate working on jobs that do not
challenge them they get sick thinking
migraine headaches after the Sunday
afternoon football game or sixty minutes
they anxiety begin to build and come
Monday morning they drop dead of a
broken heart
some of you ought to think about not
going to work on Monday think about that
people are literally dying to go to work
because see when you go to a job and you
already know how far you can go you can
already see that proverbial glass
ceiling it’s like going to a movie when
you’ve gone in in the middle of the
movie and you’ve seen the inn and and
you sit there to afford to start all
over again but something is missing you
know what the outcome is going to be you
can’t get excited about going through
that movie all over again am I correct
see when you’re going someplace and you
already know how much you’re going to
make you already know how far you can go
you’re in a dead-end position it erodes
your self-esteem it lowers your sense of
yourself
it creates an inner turmoil
it creates an emptiness in you so I say
that your life is worth finding what it
is that you’re supposed to do and I’m
not saying quit your job I’m saying find
it and do just a little bit of it when I
wanted to become involved in speaking I
started just learning quotes listening
to other people’s tapes going to
seminars going to workshops asking other
people to help me just not working at it
just a little bit but do find out what
your work is and hold on to it and don’t
let your dream go don’t let it go see
and here’s something else I want you to
begin to look at why is it that most
people don’t pursue their dreams and
don’t do better than what they’re doing
if they’re capable of doing it I think
that many of us don’t go the next step
because we don’t know what to do yet and
I say that that the reason that we don’t
even explore the possibility of what to
do is because subconsciously we don’t
believe that it can happen for us and we
don’t believe that we deserve it so
here’s what I’m suggesting how much time
do you spend working on you how much
time do you spend every day working on
your dream in the last 90 days how many
books have you read
in the last year what new skill or
knowledge have you acquired what kind of
investment have you made in you so I’m
saying that as you begin to look at
where you want to go if you want to make
it today and things are changing so fast
you have to literally run to standstill
I’m saying that you’ve got to make some
conscious effort to begin to work to
develop you here’s something else most
people are not living their dreams
because of fear ladies and gentlemen I
was in Columbus Ohio yesterday speaking
for a particular Ohio Department you
lady named Karen who greeted me who
organized the event very talented very
skillful and she was talking about she
wanted to become involved in the
consulting business I say why aren’t you
doing it I said you have the abilities I
said you’re not here because they like
you you here because you’re doing the
job you’re making things happen and she
came up with all kind of ideas but
finally she said I guess I I can’t see
myself doing it I guess I’m afraid fear
limited vision and lack of self esteem
is what keep most people doing things
they don’t want to do I will flew from
Columbus Ohio to Denver Colorado to a
major communications company and the
person that taking up the airport told
me about the fact that the company is
planning on having a major downsizing
and they offered some of the employees
there in early retirement and some of
them will earn as much as $300,000 and
they said this is the last time that you
can take this offer if you don’t do it
when we have the downsizing you might be
among those who will lose their jobs and
all you will get is your severance pay
and only 50% of the people who were
eligible to take the $300,000
took it the others were afraid to take a
chance on themselves the others couldn’t
see themselves beyond that company they
couldn’t see life after that company the
same reason that people stay in
relationships where they’re abused are
they’re unhappy or it’s unfulfilled they
can’t see them
beyond that relationship they can’t see
themselves enjoying life without that
person they think that this is all that
they can do the same reason that people
get stuck at a certain level in life
they can’t see things being better for
them and they think that this is it and
this is all they deserve this is all
they’ve ever seen it’s been passed on to
them and they think that this is it for
them oh no looking what dr. Blanton
Smalley Blanton who was a colleague of
dr. norman vincent peale and what he
said about theories that fear is the
most subtle and destructive of all human
diseases
ladies and gentlemen fear kills dreams
fear kills hope fear put people in the
hospital fear can age you fear ladies
and gentlemen can hold you back from
doing something that you know within
yourself that you’re capable of doing
but it will paralyze you and it seem
like you’re in a hypnotic spell and I
ask you a question what is the benefit
what’s the benefit of allowing fear to
hold you back what’s the benefit of
giving up on yourself of not stepping
out on life and taking life on what is
the benefit for you what’s the plus in
that one of the things I had to ask
myself so I didn’t want to make any
mistakes I wanted everybody to like me I
wanted to be perfect the first time I
did something it’s not going to happen
you’re going to make some mistakes
you’re gonna hurt some folks feelings
you’re gonna create some enemies
whenever you decide that you want to
begin to take life on you’ve got to ask
yourself how long am I going to allow
this to hold me back I like what Zig
Ziglar says he said fear is false
that it’s an illusion that we create in
our mind it is a state of mind that can
be changed so let’s look at how we can
begin to take some steps to restructure
that fear to begin to expand our visions
of ourselves to begin to increase our
self-esteem Webster said that
self-esteem means confidence and
satisfaction in oneself look at your
life right now whatever you’ve done up
to this point in time your life is
working whatever you have produced it
came out of you but as a result of the
kind of person that you have become it’s
a result of your choices it’s a result
of your consciousness now you have to
ask yourself are you satisfied with what
you hit produce is this what you want
would you like for things to be better
than this do you believe that you
deserve better than this are you content
this is it you don’t have to do
everything anything else but you already
resign yourself in like I said well I’m
happy I’m not starving like the people
in Calcutta are you allowing yourself to
get off the hook like that or do you
believe somewhere in the back of your
mind or in your heart but there are some
other great work for you to do there’s
something else that light has for you
and that’s why you are here how do we
handle this fear factor how do we
increase our self-esteem you have to
begin to fortify yourself how do we do
that I believe that you have to begin to
consciously monitor your inner
conversation and start talking to
yourself start building yourself up
sometimes the only good things you will
hear about you are the things that you
young lady that that was in the audience
this afternoon said to me I told myself
yesterday for the first time I’m proud
of me and she said I felt good about
that
so I’m saying learn to be your own
booster stop building yourself up start
encouraging yourself start saying I can
do this I can make this happen when I
started thinking about becoming a
speaker I said yes I can do this I can
make this happen when I start trying to
convince myself I can be a businessman
after flopping and failing and losing
thousands of dollars and feeling stupid
and dumb and having people take
advantage of me because of what I didn’t
know I had to talk to myself because
people are saying to me that I was done
and somewhere in the back of my mind I
was saying you’re right look at what
I’ve done I had to say no no no no no no
no less hey hey come on man get yourself
together you can handle this you just
haven’t figured it out yet it’s all
right this is your training period this
is a tuition you have to pay but what
you don’t know you can do this other
people have done it doesn’t take an
Einstein get you some people that can
teach you some stuff that you don’t know
get you some people that have done it
successfully and learn from them take
some seminars workshops read some books
on how to manage a business change the
way you see yourself and begin to attend
to the personal details understand that
nobody’s going to take care of your
business better than you and when I
start changing that kind of mindset of
beating myself up because of my mistakes
and start looking at the possibility of
my doing better of my making the
adjustment that would enable me to do
what I want to do successfully things
begin to change and I say stop beating
up on yourself you do do it I know you
do it I’ve done it it’s a natural
inclination for us to put ourselves down
see we are born negative I think in a
negative consciousness because we live
in a negative world so you don’t have to
teach children to lie there Lyle E
did you wet in your pants no I did not
well what is that I don’t know
you don’t have to encourage kids to
misbehave they will do it by themselves
you don’t have to encourage them to do
the wrong thing they would do it
automatically you have to correct their
behavior so I’m saying that we have to
work through the challenges of life and
learning how to begin to work to
quantify ourselves repeat after me
please I can live my dream I can find my
purpose in life and live my purpose I
deserve more for myself I deserve more
from life
shake somebody’s hand on your right and
left and say you deserve more from life
here’s some other things ladies and
gentlemen begin to guard your mine
against negative programming like turn
off the television don’t watch the news
don’t watch it I think that more people
have a sense of hopelessness and anxiety
about life if you look at the news you
cannot feel good looking at the news
you’ll be scared to death you’re scared
to go to sleep I mean it turns your
power down you’ve got to be conscious of
it don’t pick up the newspaper and read
it no no I could just try this just
experiment with yourself now if your job
depends upon your knowing certain things
let somebody tell you just about those
things but stop filtering the stuff you
allow to come in your mind you know that
song you censor don’t let nobody bring
you no bad news I tell my staff look
here don’t tell me any bad news while
I’m on the road let me handle it
tomorrow unlikely anybody tell me any
bad news at night before I go to sleep I
can’t do anything about it anyhow why
let me go to sleep with that on my
consciousness no no in my step they know
that said let it wait till tomorrow and
I have a period of time tell me bad news
between 10 o’clock and 12 news after I
prayed and meditated and read my books
I’m fortified I’m ready to handle it I
deal with that I’m out of there and I’m
going on to something else so you’ve got
to guard the kinds of things that you
put in your mind see if you don’t
program your mind your mind will be
programmed because human beings are goal
oriented that’s why we die of broken
hearts early that’s why we’re running
through life too early grades we’re
going through life ladies and gentlemen
and I think that Henry David Thoreau
stated that most men live in quiet
desperation most of us go through life
running scared
Larry DNG who I think is going to be one
of the greatest motivational speakers
around today told me a story a true
story of a friend of his that everyday
when he came home from school when he
would get to a certain block in his
neighborhood there was a neighborhood
dog that would chase him and that dog
would start after him barking bought he
would run just running from that dog
every day every day wow he just got
tired of that dog chased him every day
he said his dog come around here Delma
take a brick of stuff him bust him in
here so he was walking home that day
mining his own business sure enough same
area there was that dog there the dog
that barked and he started running he
saw a brick and he stopped and picked up
the brick and turned on and the dog got
close to him he realized the dog didn’t
have any teeth he said he put the brake
down and said get out of my way and
ladies and gentlemen all our lives many
of us go through life running from
things that ain’t got no teeth the doors
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haven’t you been afraid to do something
and then after you did it you say whoa
if I noted was this easy I would have
done it before haven’t you ever have
that experience raise your hand
absolutely so we created this in our
minds false evidence appearing real
we made it real in our minds that’s why
Churchill said there’s nothing to fear
but fear itself
that’s the destructive monster so turn
off things that can contribute to your
fear turn a deaf ear to people that all
they can do is talk about how negative
things are because they have bought into
the consciousness of the world start
attending workshops seminars listening
to tapes on a daily basis to begin to
recondition your mind to retrain your
thinking faith comes by what hearing and
hearing and hearing listen to things
that can empower you that can enable you
to create a new reality for yourself in
a new life for yourself you might appear
to be strange around most people you
know most people think you’re strange if
you’re happy today people say how you’re
doing I said better than good whoa
what’s wrong with him just go around
smiling and watch people look at this is
this a weird guy over here because most
people are smile watch him look at their
faces in the morning here we go another
Monday morning how you doing
haven’t had my coffee yet don’t ask me
say these people have not found their
purpose in life that’s why they are
grumpy but that’s why they’re miserable
that’s why they’re so negative they’re
hurting and they want to hurt other
people so start practicing using
programs for your mind seminars books
workshops keep a journal record your
thoughts what’s happening with you every
day when you get up have a journal near
you I use a Jack Bolan journals so that
I can write down my ideas I keep it by
my bed so I can write down my thoughts
see ladies and gentlemen we get three to
four thoughts a year that if we would
act on those thoughts they could change
our life
don’t say well I’ll remember that no
write that thought down I got a thought
today I wrote down a friend of mine is
in the hospital his morale is low
they’re talking about amputating his
foot he’s got to feel very bad such days
you know I’m gonna I’m not only am I
going to see him but I can’t be there
with him all the time I said I’m going
to create a cake for him that that he
can listen to that will heighten his
level of morale we told him the other
night don’t go to surgery you are
depressed your energy level is down no
no tell him not now don’t do it now in
fact most doctors will have any sense of
awareness don’t perform surgery on
patients that in the state of fear but
don’t think they will make it they wait
till they’re in a different state of
mind so I said what about making tapes
for people that are facing physical
see their ideas that can come to you out
of things that appear to be negative I
have a friend out of Chicago just met
him he was 23 years old and this guy he
went financially bankrupt two years ago
ruined his credit guess what he decided
to do
he found a blessing in it he wanted to
restore his credit it was very
challenging very difficult and he
realized that a lot of other people
during these particular times of ruin
their credit so now he started a credit
repair business last year he earned over
$100,000 helping people to restore their
credit I met a young lady who attends
this church that she was at her father’s
funeral and and she was putting flowers
on her father’s grave and she looked
around and saw the other grave sites
they did not look well-groomed and they
were not attended to on a regular basis
she start a gravesite maintenance
business out of that tragedy something
positive has come out of it and now
she’s earning more money during that
than on her present job what idea are
you sitting on right your ideas down and
then once you get that idea
take the lead hello take the lead see a
lot of people get the ideas and just
walk around with them have you ever had
an idea and all of us have you looked
around and somebody had that idea and
gone with it think you gonna be gone
with my hospital idea forget that buddy
we will be out there together Jack take
the lead see it’s out of the universe
if you don’t take the plunge I guarantee
you somebody else will take the plunge
go into action and ladies and gentlemen
you will be surprised how things will
come together you’ll be surprised now
you’re going to have some difficult
challenges I can tell you that now
be aware of that things are not going to
work out exactly right for time they
will sometimes and that’s when life is
just playing a game with you
I want you to feel good and relaxed and
then after a while say ok the honeymoons
over now
and their life will come over then slap
your side to hear you say what you’re
doing out here well this is my dream
life is that right come over here a
minute oh oh you went to the seminar huh
come here I can tell you that but ladies
and gentlemen go into action with your
dream and don’t avoid where the fights
are get in the midst of the fight and
get some hickeys on your head get
knocked down so you can learn how to
fight so you can hold your position
see most people don’t get out in the
arena of life because they don’t want to
fight most people don’t get out there
because they don’t want to get knocked
down they don’t want to be dropped to
their knees but see you’re going to be
dropped worthy you on the field or where
they’re not just sitting on the
sidelines you’re going to be dropped so
at least get dropped for something don’t
get knocked down while you’re sitting
see that’s not most evil of spectators
in life you don’t want to be a spectator
you want to get out in the field where
the action is and you will be amazed
after the struggle there will be a calm
period and things will begin to click
for you come out here with what you got
you don’t have enough money don’t worry
about it you got the dream you got the
idea you don’t have enough resources
don’t worry about it you need some help
don’t worry about it you get out here in
the arena someone will look at you and
become inspired and say hey can I help
you but if you sitting up on the
bleachers nobody’s gonna ask you
anything you’ve got to get into the flow
of action Frances Hart called me from
Chicago she had been sitting on an idea
of a show that she wanted to produce for
ten years called mind-body connection
so someone saw me speaking in Chicago
and a sorority convention and said I saw
a guy that perhaps can host this show
for you who has energy and charisma she
called me she was so fired up I said
listen on the day that you want to do
that I’m speaking in Chicago I can do it
for you and I said by the way I met
somebody two weeks ago in Baltimore who
has an idea of the same type of show and
she’s doing it on radio why don’t you
call her and then she called me back who
else would you suggest I say well I know
Deepak Chopra he wrote the book called
quantum healing and Bernie Siegel could
you get his number I tell you what I
have a friend named Jack Bolan at the
Church of the day he knows how to get in
touch with him call him and he will give
you the number so you can get in touch
with Bernie Siegel that lady start
calling all around did not have the
resources but she had this idea and
dream and she said the other night when
she came before the audience that had
gathered in the studio she said I feel
like I’ve been pregnant for ten years
and tonight you’re going to witness a
beautiful delivery and it was she said I
couldn’t believe less how things began
to happen how it all began to come
together and how many of you ever
started on some dream and you didn’t
have all your stuff together but you
just went out there with nothing but faith
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