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One of The Most Inspirational Speeches EVER – Les Brown – TRANSFORM YOUR MIND


there is something I’d like to talk to
all of you about and what are the things
I want to talk to you about if there’s
something you want to do do it do as
much of it as you possibly can and the
reason that I say that is that we’ve
been conditioned and trained to be
logical and practical and realistic in
our thinking and in our goals and as a
result of that we limit ourselves I had
no idea that I could do what I’m doing
and the reason my favorite book says be
not conformed to this world be
transformed by the renewing of your mind
this call is about transforming minds
and my life now at this age at 72 it’s
about training certifying speakers and
life coaches and trainers so that you be
able to train lives and build a business
and and be able to make your mark I
remember some reporters were
interviewing my mother and I got this
from my mother mrs. Mamie Brown I’m on
this phone because of two women one I
know her name she gave me love my birth
mother I don’t know her name she gave me
life and I’m thankful for that too okay
she has other choices so I’m grateful to
be here and and and so what I learned
from my mother when I was listening to
her being interviewed by reporters about
some things that I had achieved and and
the reporter was curious how did you
know when you adopted seven children
that you have the ability to do it
you’ve never had a new children yourself
and my mother said I just believe that
the Lord will make a way somehow somehow
I just finished talking to my youngest
son John Leslie I called him mr. magic
this boy this is the one that that all
of us who have a lot of children that
you have words that you say you bought
to make me lose my mind up in here up in
here you bout to make me act all fool up
in here John Leslie has got on my last
earth he an owner they’re both geminis
did they weren’t my children I would
shoot them but listen Joe Leslie is
going to friends all right
I still go why I don’t have the full
story but he is just like his
grandmother he will make something
happen
he’s on this plane going to France with
a friend of his and and I know I’ve seen
him I remember I was going to Nassau and
and he was going with Mona and I and we
got there and John Leslie did not have
his passport so I said John Leslie will
see you with the security and John
Leslie went to work who came on the
plane how did you do that he said don’t
worry about here leave Abul he makes
things happen so he’s going to France
with his book the Harvard effect and
some other things but I I just admire
his sense of adventure I I never went to
a foreign country until after I think I
was 37 at the time and I’ve been to over
40 different countries probably 50 I
just can’t remember them but he he
doesn’t know exactly what he’s going to
do or how he’s going to do it but he has
a goal in mind
my mother’s goal was to raise seven
children my mother’s goal was to make
sure we had a roof over our head clothes
on our back and food on the table and we
never missed a meal I remember you
talking about the power of a mother
love I remember when we didn’t have
enough food for momma to eat and always
kept my eye on her I’m a mama’s boy and
I remember her pretending that she was
eating drinking water and pretending
that she had something in her mouth I
never saw if she went back in the
kitchen and and I said mama why don’t
you eat and she said Leslie I’ve already
eaten so I assumed she had a plate back
in the kitchen and she came and sat down
at the table she would drink water and
she would she while we were eating so
being the nosy person that I am I went
in the kitchen and I didn’t see a plate
no we’re sitting out there was no plate
in the refrigerator and there’s no plate
in the sink and I said when we got
through I said mama you didn’t have
anything to eat she said that’s all
right I’m not hungry I just wanted to
make sure that Charlie that’s the power
of a mother’s love and I never forgot
that I never forgot that
and as you think about your goals and
dreams you don’t need to know exactly
how you’re going to do it you don’t need
to know that’s why we’re taught to walk
by faith and not by sight John Leslie
believes that he’s going to go there and
and make something happen in France in
fact as a result of a seminar that he
went to in Los Angeles before he left he
secured a speaking engagement for me and
Italy just this past week for 225
thousand dollars how did you do that he
said I was networking and talking to
this guy and and there was an engagement
that Tony Robbins turned down and he
knows the promoter and
and the yes this guy you know this guy
said you John Wesley bomb do you know
les run yes that’s my father and he
secured a speaking engagement for me and
and so now John Lewis is going because
he’s written a book called a Harvard
effect he’s taking two classes at
Harvard alder just folks here this past
weekend he got me my fourth speaking
engagement at Harvard the first time a
father and son spoke together I don’t
know how he does these things but John
Wesley believes in himself he believes
in himself and I’m so glad to see that
he’s a good father and he’s a great son
and and and he has this vision and dream
of doing big things and and we’ve had
some challenges we had some very serious
challenges because he is managing is
barzola and and I think I am just amazed
at at what he’s been able to do and so
he’s doing very and as you think about
your goals and dreams there’s some stuff
in you death some things that you can do
I was talking to gentlemen they Melvin I
met at the speaking engagement at
pleased Renaissance community and and he
said something to me that grasp because
Melvin has written a book and he said
you know don’t focus on just the best
until I focus on the rest to kill us and
so you look at yourself and look at your
goals and look at what do you want to do
the rest of your life
I’m leaving to go to a retreat tomorrow
it’s Martha’s Vineyard for 21 days I’ve
never taken 21 days just to focus on me
just to focus on my health and as a
result of the little scene and by the
way I want to thank all of you for
praying for me I took three different
gamma eyes and they were looking to
determine that the treatment method for
dealing with the little C in my father
first thing they said number one the
pain that you’ve been experiencing in
your shoulder and the scapula area even
though we told you that the little C has
metastasized in seven areas of your body
it has not moved and the pain that you
experience in mr. Brown he made a
mistake it’s not from the little C if
some arthritis
I said whoa I can handle that I can add
a little seat oh they don’t in for 21
years
do you know what a burden that lifted
off of me I was in one time for twenty
know what’s what’s what for
33 hours and 26 minutes 29 minutes three
hours and 29 minutes I will say 33 hours
in 30 minutes and so they get me little
faker squeeze that’s feasible sake they
said can we help you I said yes you can
I said you’re about to have a of stood
out say what do you mean has that bicep
scoot out of here I’ve already left you
a little president here they tell you
they play music you can’t hear anything
with all the loud sounds clicking in
that you all right
oh my god but I handled it I took my old
eye covers they gave you something to
relax eat and I got so relaxed
thank you so much baby brows nothing
else this is first publicly had an eat
sweet potato fight because my goal is to
be here as a result of the medication
they gave me suggesting Nemeth who
father takes all that that’s right
just again fifty five pounds and as a
result of gaining 65 pounds of
medication I became tired edit and then
I had to go on insulin and then it would
make some tough for you to lose weight
and then the part of the medication they
gave me throw of my blood pressure so
then I had to start taking blood
pressure medication my god I’m dealing
with arthritis can’t
obesity is about lucky double-side what
law I think one more to help you out
I guess I’m crazy this crazy does yeah
I’m crazy okay that’s never so when I
get back from Martha’s Vineyard I won’t
have a lot diabetes I won’t be obese I
will lose weight I want to have a high
blood pressure and and I my goal is not
to have a little C and I won’t have pain
for the sanika I’m just gonna go a total
makeover oh by the way laughter is good
for your immune system one minute of
anger weakens your immune system for
four to five hours listen to that one
minute of anger weakens your immune
system for four to five hours manage
your attitude one minute of laughter
boosts your immune system for over 24
hours
so after this call you will get sick for
ten years Report now so momma did not
know Jan Leslie did not know when I
asked him what are you going to
accomplish he’s going to some type of
Film Festival and he’s going to pitch an
idea in a concept for a film and he’s
going by faith with a friend and so this
is what I did when I ventured into
speaking I I did not know now I
procrastinated for a long time because I
was I was operating with the mind of the
world so there’s there’s mine site and
there’s I fight when you work on your
mind when you transform your mind when
you were out of your mind let that mind
be in you which was also in Christ Jesus
he said these things he shall do and
greater things shall ye do so as you
have another mindset that you’re ready
to do some great
things in your life ask your life what
will the rest of your life look like and
I’m asking myself that at 72 because I’m
supposed to be walking around here like
one foot on the banana peeling and the
other one in the graveyard no my goal is
to live to be a healthy 100 and beyond
and and so I have some other things that
I’m working on I’m a grandfather and I’m
a great grandfather my goal is to see my
great-grandchildren graduate from
college 3 and so so you have to have a
plan of action I want to ask you a
question what’s your strategy for being
here I’m going to see a lady named dr.
Ronnie and at Martha’s Vineyard and and
and she says this will extend your
longevity so because I plan to be here
I’m making this investment in myself and
I’m walking away from the things that
I’m doing because soon as I leave here
somebody else will pick those things up
and they will do them or they won’t do
them trust me you are not irreplaceable
I’m not be replaceable and so what’s
your strategy for being here what are
you going to do to reinvent yourself to
create the best version of yourself
physically mentally emotionally and
spiritually I’m working on myself I’m
not going out being fat no I’m not going
out with high blood pressure I’m not
going out with diabetes I’m not going
out with high cholesterol I’m not going
out with cancer I’ve been kicking
cancers butt for 21 years and I intend
to continue to do that I mean
Vava the program that I saw on the on
this dysentery talk about starving
cancer so now that’s a that’s a
discipline I have and I’m reading a book
called the art of healing by Bernie
Siegel I encourage you to get that so
you got to have a strategy for being
here and taking care of yourself so at
72 I’m practicing is
Oprah would say extreme self-care
extreme self-care the older you get your
thought getting the compass and the
bunkers no you got to fight remember the
quote that I love life is a fight for
territory and once you stop fighting for
what you want what you don’t want will
automatically take over so I’m fighting
for my health I’m fighting to be here to
continue to be productive that change
lives to Train speakers and trainers and
people who want to make a difference on
the planet and in life coaches what’s
your goal I see a lot of my friends who
sit around and watch a lot of television
listen to this I was with a friend of
mine Murray Costco and and and she is
one of my clients now and and she
creates instruments that help people to
overcome brain injuries so she took me
back and showed me some of the machines
she has she said do you know why people
have Alzheimer’s no she said they
studied some nuns and and she showed me
this study and half of them had
Alzheimer’s and their 80s and half did
not so they wanted to know what was the
difference was the diet was it like of
exercise no they found the ones who had
Alzheimer’s and the ones that didn’t
have it had two dramatic different
things of how they spent their time the
ones who did not have Alzheimer’s they
read every day and they journal they
wrote every day that’s what I do I read
every day and I encourage people to read
30 to 40 pages a day and I journal I
write about the activities and the
things that I’ve gone through during the
day the ones who did have Alzheimer’s
and dementia guess what they didn’t read
and they didn’t write and they watched a
lot of television because when you watch
television your brain is not active it
it
– just watching its passive you’re not
using your braids when you’re watching
television and there’s certain people in
the population who watch more television
than anybody else particularly after the
age of 50 think about that and so as you
look at yourself look at your goals have
a plan of action to be present to have
your mindset I used to wonder why my
mother would say I thank the Lord to
waking me up in my right mind this
morning I said mom why do you say that
every Sunday she said don’t worry you
live long enough you find out and she
was right she was right I was looking
for my glasses around the house and I
had them all I was looking for my phone
one day and I was talking to Calvin and
he said what’s all the noise why say
Calvin I said for the life of me I can’t
find my fault
he said dad you’re on the phone I saw oh
my god I need some I need some help ID
preffer Genesis I’m telling you I’ve
been looking for things they be right in
front of me it’s it’s it’s just this
memory thing is unbelievable I parked in
a parking lot and at the airport then
when I got back I couldn’t remember
where I put it I went into shopping mall
and God passed me about 1 or 2 times he
said do you need a lift to find your
cousin I got it I got just and then
after fasting but the eighth time I said
circuit you being there and still he was
riding riding say yes to your car yeah I
said no I don’t need say what color and
what they do you drive so I stopped mash
until the lights came or the horse
stopped floor I said that is that is I
just had a little slight fall but
they’re you know senior citizen over
heated or senior citizens tonight some
of our three with mascara
I ain’t got no shame in my game you know
everybody used to pair all the other bit
oh you got the exercise you’ve got to
get a fool you got to eat right you’ve
got to laugh a lot you’ve got to have
positive friends and here’s something
else
keep drama to a minimum you mean keep
drama to a minimum because it will
short-circuit your immune system and and
you’ll be out of here you’ll be out of
here I don’t care for your relatives
your children don’t let nobody drive you
crazy and don’t let nobody bring you any
bad news no they’re not worth it if you
in a relationship that person is
argumentative and and just always trying
to find something wrong trust me on this
run as fast as you can you hear me run
and don’t look back let me tell you
somebody and I almost was taken out
y’all talk too much
every chance you get to kind of welcome
to life one wait till I come back the
other words if you just let me go no
more no more no more thing I run but I’m
going to low steady
I’m telling can I don’t want runs it
into X billion they came here right now
drop this folks to get out of here
there’s something you need to be afraid
of dissolutes crazy people to taste you
hear me
there’s some crazy people and they’re
everywhere and just because they’re
gorgeous don’t mean ain’t crazy
there’s some crazy people I saw this
Tyler booby laughs Tyler Tyler Tyler
Perry movie last night and I kissed it I
say bad eye I know about that I know my
crazy now here’s the other thing
that do you want to create things in
your life that gives your life since me
but I work with people but this this
lady I just met and I know a lot of
people say I’m the one I know she’s one
infant and I want you to go on YouTube
and Google Les Brown speaking in the
Georgia though can you know what I’m
talking about her name is Marie cosgrove
and I was so fascinated with her and
fascinated with a story and and and
she’s a clear example of and listen to
this word fight it out
don’t allow your path to define you
don’t do that because I was labeled
vegetable mystery spots because I was
put back from the fifth grade fourth
grade until again the 8th grade because
I don’t have college education for years
I saw in serious people with college
education that I did not think I can do
what I’m doing now years I’ve trained
people from all walks of life and for 14
years I didn’t do it because I didn’t
think I was good enough and my mentor
tells me Mike Williams who wrote the
book and get it I’m reading it for the
fourth time the road to your best selves
don’t know thoughts on the road to you
the road to your best stuff road to your
best stuff and if your brownies we’re
all born the same ways naked and
speechless to learn and because I
listened to them sometimes you have to
believe in somebody’s belief in you
until your beliefs kicks in it
I listened to and I was willing to
invest in my he’s a strategist he you
you have to have people in your life
know things that you don’t know and he
knew how to bring out the best in me and
as a result of that I was able to build
a million-dollar business you can’t do
it by yourself if you can’t afford to do
it you can’t afford not to do it to
invest in yourself to find someone who
can see what you can’t thing you can’t
see the pictures when you in the frame
by just talking to a gentleman and and I
will be pulling his message out and I
say there are things that that I can get
out of these so I practice in the mirror
every day I think well guess who’s
looking back at you you you don’t know
what you’re looking at you don’t have
trained eyes I have trained eyes I’ve
been doing this before you were born son
I know I can see stuff that you can’t
see you can’t see the picture when
you’re in the frame and that’s the value
of life coaches let’s make sure you get
references make sure that the person has
an achievement driven life I’ve achieved
some things that I don’t just speak I
have done a lot of things I’ve been a
state legislator house casa been
recognized and inducted into the
National Speakers Hall of faith I
receive the Poland golden gavel award
from Toastmasters I was selected among
the top five speakers in the world and
I’m the only one living now and so
that’s you want to have an achievement
driven life the greatest among you will
be your servant and so find ways in
which you can serve find ways in which
you can volunteer find ways in which you
can make your mark because you’ve got
something in you you were created on
purpose bliss of purpose to manifest the
purpose that something that you supposed
to do and the fact that you haven’t
discovered it yet
it’s okay start experimenting not I’m
experimenting now to find out what’s the
next chapter for me you listening to me
because everything that I have done
listen to me everything that I have done
you have the ability to do and more
everything that I’ve done if it weren’t
true you’d already started doing
something else or looking at television
or you homophone a– you’ve got
greatness in you you have the ability to
do more than you can ever begin to
imagine
you
you
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