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ONE IDEA CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE – MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH [LES BROWN]


here’s a habit that I do maybe it might
be of some value to you I get up in the
morning and I start writing what great
ideas said I can think of today that can
improve me and that will enable me to
reach my goal and I just let my mind
flow sometimes I write 15 20 ideas some
days it’s more difficult than others one
idea can change your life one idea can
turn your life around deciding that
you’re going to focus to develop your
skills the guy was was the new owner of
a team a team a baseball team that was
in the basement of the league when he
took it over he went to the pitcher and
he said what is your best throat he said
well I got a good curveball and I’ve got
a good fastball and he went on talking
about his different throws he said but
tell me this what is your best throw he
thought for a moment he said I’ve got a
good fastball he said that’s all I want
you to work on nothing else just develop
your fastball the next year they went to
the World Series most people don’t know
what their fastball is most people go
through life never discovering what
their talents are most people never
develop their talents they have skills
and abilities but if you don’t nurture
them if you don’t develop them they will
never serve you your gifts can take you
many places if you develop your gifts
most of us don’t like to do those things
that come too easy to us I’ve always
loved to talk to people I decided taking
this advice to develop my skills as a
speaker and my gift has developed and
evolved and has taken me many places
you have something that you brought to
the universe and that if you decide that
my life deserves my developing this what
I do well and becoming the best at it
and mastering myself and see what I have
within me if you decide to drop your
buckets where you are and develop your
gifts I grant you you’ll never ever be
without I grant you that your gifts will
take you places that will literally
amaze you I grant you that if you begin
to work to develop your gifts you
develop a strong sense of happiness
you’ll get a larger vision of yourself
because part of beginning to get a
larger vision of yourself all of us need
some area of our lives where we can have
a feeling of competence that people know
when they think about this area that’s
something you do that you eat and sleep
at and that you do that you do that
people know it and you know it and you
know that you know that you know this if
you don’t know anything else you know
this so you’ve got to work on it when
other folks are having a good time
you’ve got to have this the strength of
character to concentrate to read to
digest information if you decide in any
particular area that you’re concerned
about to make a conscious deliberate
determined effort to read one book a
month in that area
in five years you’ll be among the top 5%
experts in the world I read a minimum of
two books a week the average American
reads only one book a year if you decide
that area that you love that you are
going to master that particular area in
this era of accelerated change
overwhelming complexity and tremendous
competition as you begin to develop and
expand your skills and your talents and
your vision of yourself you will always
be in control of your destiny and so as
you look at yourself as you look at your
goals look at your trees it’s very
important that you take time every day
and write this down to retrain your
thinking you’ve got to retrain your
thinking because how we live our lives
as a result of the story that we bought
into and to retrain my thinking because
of what I saw studies indicating the
decisions we make in life is directly
related to the things that we saw the
things that we experienced the
conversations we’ve been exposed to
between age zero and five
and so as a result of that my experience
I had to begin to engage in a process of
retraining my mindset and I don’t even
know what I was doing but this man mrs.
sidarsky I never forget Leslie come in
here yes sir look at my shoes you can
shine them better than this I do
apologize sir I’ll do a better job and
his wife said please don’t yell any
money that’s not nice it’s just a kid
it’s only ten years old he should go
I’ve got a job that he can I said it’s
okay mr. jerski
and he should have yelled at me he was
very rude arrogant guy but he was a time
guide to what I loved about him every
day he had a routine it was his time in
the morning he spent working on his mind
and I wanted to be in the office as he
was shining his shoes listening to Earl
Nightingale all of us are self-made but
only this successful will admit it
listening to dr. Denis Waitley people
form habits and habits pre futures
listening to Zig Ziglar if you give
enough people what they want they will
give you what you want listen to Jim Ron
when the end comes for you let it find
you conquering a new mountain not
sliding down an Ola one listening and
reading the words of Winston Churchill
the truth is incontrovertible malice
minute tacit ignorance be derided but at
the end there it is reading from my
favorite book be not conformed to this
world be transformed by the renewing of
your mind listening to these words help
to create a different vision for myself
some of you are already doing it right
now
I’m saying this is the time more than
ever that you want to begin to inoculate
yourself with positive words coming to
conventions showing up on meetings being
on the calls
to make yourself unstoppable to get out
of your mind the polluting negative
thoughts that’s causing most people to
go through life being stuck because
they’re volunteer victims somebody said
that many people died aged 25 and don’t
get buried until they’re 65 because they
got so much garbage in their minds you
are here because you’ve got a clear
vision of what you want and where you’re
going don’t worry if they don’t get it
don’t try and convince people to do this
business a person convinced against
their will is of the same opinion still
you are not black everybody else you can
walk outside and find pigeons but if
you’re looking for Eagles it’s gonna
take you a minute you are different it’s
lonely at the top how many of you know
it’s lonely at the top raise your hands
it’s lonely at the top but you eat
you’re different
one great entrepreneur said I choose not
to be a common man it’s my right to be
uncommon if I can I’ll seek opportunity
not security I do not wish to be a kept
citizen humbled and though by having the
state look after me I want to take the
calculated risk to dream and to build to
fail and to succeed I refuse to live
from hand to mouth I prefer the
challenges of life to the guaranteed
existence the thrill of fulfillment to
the still calm of utopia I will never
cower before a master nor been to any
threat it’s my heritage to stand erect
proud and unafraid to face the world
boldly and say this I have done you
showed up because you’re building a
business that you can stand and say I
did
this I did this this is my tree there’s
something in you that wouldn’t allow you
to stop talk to Howard Thurman he said
there’s something each and every one of
you then waits and listens to the voice
of the genuine in yourself it will be
perhaps the only guide you will ever
have and if you cannot hear it all of
your life your days will be spent on the
ends of strings that’s somebody else
holes and I said you the reason you
showed up even though you couldn’t
afford to be the reason you drove
hundreds of miles around the world
there’s something in you in your heart
of hearts that said I’m not gonna let
anybody pull my strings it said I’m
going to control my own personal economy
it’s sad I’ve got a dream I want to
achieve I want my children to have a
choice of the kind of education that
they want that said I am the captain of
my ship that’s
I’m going to control my destiny and
whatever it takes I’m willing to do the
1961 1961 President John F Kennedy had a
decision to make decision was whether or
not to call a news conference and tell
the world the United States was going to
go to the moon and I submit to you that
the decision to do that was very risky
and what govern his thinking is what
Devin you’re thinking when you decided
I’m gonna do this see the technology did
not exist the answer what will it take
did not exist no one had ever done it
before but he made a decision he looked
at Wernher von Braun the most brilliant
scientist of that day and he’s ever
wonder what will it take for us to go to
the moon and he spoke five words in
those five words I think is what governs
most entrepreneurs those five words I
think is what gives people like you the
courage to pursue their dreams fools
five words so what I think people who
are pioneers people who are breaking new
ground make decisions oh he said what
gonna take for us to go to the moon and
respond to us the will to do it you look
at yourself if you look at your business
as well into 2015 and beyond what will
it take for you to increase your
business the will to do it what will it
take for you to become more powerful in
your presentation skills and be able to
increase the number of people to
quadruple your business the will to do
it what will it take for you when others
are quitting because of the rejections
when others are stopping because they
just become so discouraged and they have
creditors breathing down their neck and
they have family members and friends
telling them their full what is it that
will allow you to have the mental
resiliency that keep on keeping on to
keep your commitment to your commitment
the will to do it every time I said and
ask you a question I want you to say the
will to do it what will it take for you
to build your business
what will it take for you to increase
your recruiting what will it take for
you to bring out the braces in youth and
to make your mock what will it take for
you to become a high achiever and to
bring out the billionaire at you if you
do what is easy point out all this to
some pyramid scheme oh I’ve been talking
to people and nobody’s interested I
talked to people and they said no or
I’ve done that before come up with
excuses if you do what is easy always
looking for a way to give yourself a
pass to let yourself off the hook
to do what everybody else is doing a job
the journey of the broke if you do what is easy
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