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RECONDITION YOUR MIND FOR SUCCESS – Les Brown Motivational Speech


I want to share with you how to reach
your goals I think the Bible’s greatest
motivational book ever been written now
I want you to repeat after me please we
got to recondition our minds first let
us say together good things that’s
supposed to happen to me
yeah write that down I want you to say
that to yourself every day see we live
in a world where we believe that bad
things are supposed to happen to us
I remember the part of my life bishop
when things are going good for me and I
said this is too good to be true
something is bound to happen guess what
it did
thou shalt decree a thing that shall be
established unto you and shall
accomplish that when – it has been sent
watch your words watch what you say
about yourself about your affairs be
conscious of that on a daily basis why
because your words are powerful in the
beginning was the word life and death is
in the tongue watch what you say never
say I’m broke so I’m overcoming a cash
claim what you want not what you don’t
want so firm good things as opposed to
happen to me and begin to believe that
began to expect that now I was talking
to my oldest son Calvin we’re going for
a walk and I said Calvin do you want to
be successful he said yes I dad it’s
okay
you kept on walking then I stopped and I
look them in the eyes it’s my namesake
my junior that’s it Calvin we’re looking
at each other I died on do you expect to
be successful given the fact that you
are a single parent of two kids given
the fact that you decided not to go to
college
to further your education given the fact
that you are very talented but you’re
behind on your dreams and your bills do
you expect based upon your performance
based upon what you produce at this
point in time in your life do you expect
to be successful and Calvin got quiet
but you see if you ask those people at
the manpower conference do you want to
be successful do you want to live a life
of productivity do you want to live a
life of contribution do you want to be a
better father do you want to have your
own business other dreams you want
everybody will say yes but see what
shows up in conversation expectation
shows up in the
haveá– say I can tell what you expect
by what you do that’s why the Bible says
judge it’s a tree by the fruit it bears
not the fruit that it wants not the
fruit that it talks about not the fruit
that it claims but by what you are doing
see what you do when you leave here when
the music stops when the shouting dies
down your behavior how you conduct
yourself writing your goals down
deciding to enroll in school to get a
GED deciding to sit in the class with
children young enough to be your
grandchildren decide to find some
product some idea of some service that
you can provide so that you can begin to
create some value for yourself so you
can create well and let me tell you
something ladies and gentlemen it’s very
important that we begin to learn how to
create well I’m not talking about loving
money so I believe that a lack of money
is the root of all evil people are steal
for money people are killed for money
people go to jail for money every time
the unemployment goes up in those areas
where the unemployment is high that’s
where you have the highest incidence of
crime and violence whenever the
unemployment goes up 1% in our community
10,000 children and women are better
what money makes a difference in your
life I never wanted to be rich all I’ve
ever wanted to do was to be comfortable
how many of everyone to be comfortable
raise your hands then I realized not to
no friend of mine zig-zig would say
people say money won’t make you happy
but everybody want to find out for
rita davenport say money and important
but it’s right up there with oxygen and
let me tell you something fellas even if
you’re homeless I am if you’ve got some
money women will find something cute on
money makes a difference I used to be so
broke when creditors would call the
house my children when answered
reporters say bye daddy say yeah I was
on broke at one time my life I walked by
baking trip the alarm I’d say you
poverty sucks you hear me
repeat after me please I’ll never be
yes write that down I affirm that I’ll
never be broke again never never will I
ever be broke again let me tell you what
money does number one it gives you
control over your life write that down
number two it gives you options three it
allows you to live a life of
contribution to contribute to things if
you feel strongly about like this
ministry and the work a project two
thousand will be doing to change the
lives of young people Bishop Jake’s
vision is and we can have little league
football teams and baseball teams and
basketball teams then we can have little
league dermatologists and cardiologists
and endocrinologist so he’s now
establishing an institution project mm
to give our young people the methods the
techniques to reinvent themselves as we
go into the next millennium and this era
that Peter Drucker calls the era of a
three C’s accelerated change
overwhelming complexity and tremendous
competition so here’s the first step to
accumulating wealth if you expect to do
it write this down you must be willing
to do the things today others won’t do
in order to have the things tomorrow
others won’t have that’s why the book of
life said the road to life is straight
and narrow and few there be that find it
because fuel there will be that are
willing to do the things today others
won’t do in order to have the things
tomorrow others won’t have what are the
things that others won’t do
number one make discipline a major force
in your life how many of you know if
you’d have been more disciplined you’d
be further along to reach your goals
right now Socrates said the
undisciplined life is an insane life
road to life is straight and narrow
because few there be that are willing to
discipline themselves here’s something
else that most people won’t do make it
okay to fail a lot of people 85% of
people allow their fear of failure to
outweigh their desire to succeed repeat
after me please anything that’s worth
doing
is worth doing badly yes anything is
worth doing is worth doing right as we
have been taught if you know how to do
it but if you don’t know how to do it is
now write this down you don’t have to be
great to get started but you have to get
the first time I set up the speak I
stood up and my mind set down I looked
at the audience and I panicked I had to
introduce a play at school we about
we’re on the starter ran up mr.
Washington mr. Brown where are you going
on mr. wash and I I can’t think I don’t
know did you rehearse yes sir I did well
what’s wrong why did you say you’re Liza
I don’t know so I just got up then I
looked at them and everything let me let
me do it another day please sir
no go back out there mr. Brown mr.
Washington how mentally certo don’t
don’t don’t send me out there now I’ll
mess up the surround if you run now you
will always be running anything is worth
doing it’s worth doing badly until you
get it right
why are you moving right yeah I got to
go to bathroom sir mr. Brown go back out
there yes sir whereby I start a flea
call 12 Angry Men directed by mr. Leroy
Washington that ran off the next day hey
they dogged me out they talked about me
so bad
the next time another event came up mr.
Washington mr. Brown you were up I said
no mr. Washington everybody says no not
him
I said there right mr. Washington not me
he said mr. Brown you are up yes sir and
I went out and pretty soon when people
laughed at me it didn’t bother me they
would throw paper and I can catch it
and then one day I came out and a hush
went across the audience because it must
have been something about me that
indicated that I had come to myself and
mr. Washington been practicing with me
to give a presentation and I looked at
the audience and I said I choose not to
be a common man it’s my right to be
uncommon if I can
I seek opportunity not security I do not
wish to be a kept citizen humbled and oh
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 Thrilla fulfillment to the
stale calm of utopia I will never cower
before any master nor bin to any threat
it’s my heritage to stand erect prouder
than afraid the face to go boldly and
say this I have done girl stood up say
unlike me semester our baby but I didn’t
start off like that you have something
special you have talents and abilities
in you that you don’t even know so how
do we begin to create wealth let me give
you some some ideas number one write
this down knowledge what knowledge that
you have in this economy part of what we
need that people are willing to pay you
for that next is talent
what talent Deon’s talents playing
football I don’t have that as a tower my
talent is talking to me that my
definition of success is doing what you
love to do and find somebody to pay you
to do it you want to master your talent
find out what it is that you love to do
I love the top scripture is another key
that says to us and what we need to do
to begin to develop ourselves
Luke 1234 where your treasure is there
will your heart be also
so what do you love to do and then
explore ways in which you can earn a
living doing that cooking writing
painting working with numbers working
with people the other thing is not only
must you have knowledge talent some
skill but the other thing that’s
important faith to act on whatever your
dream is see if you don’t believe in
yourself how many people you know that
have a lot of talent lot of abilities
but they don’t believe in themselves
raise your hands
cf faith is very important so the faith
to act on those dreams those desires
here in scripture that I that I like
very much proverbs 16 sixteenth chapter
third verse commit thy works until the
Lord and I thought shall be established
commit means to carry into action did
live
commit means to make it happen no matter
what commitment the difference between
next time you have bigger than AIDS the
chicken was involved the pig was
committed he had to give it all up
that’s going to take a minute to sink in
all right so when you make a commitment
I’m going to become wealthy when you
make it important when you decide I’m
going to do it no matter what life
changes for you see most people don’t
keep their commitments to their
commitments that’s why they lead lives
of poverty lives of misery lives of
unhappiness Socrates said the
uncommitted life isn’t worth living it’s
a part of what you must do whatever
commitment whatever covenant you make
with God while you’re here to go back to
be a better father to go back to make a
difference in the community to go back
to change your life to decide not to
ever to use drugs or alcohol again to
decide together that you’re going to
begin to recreate yourself that you’re
going to be reborn to a new state of
consciousness whatever commitment that
you make keep your commitment to your
commitment no matter what if it’s hard
then do it hard
but keep your commitment to your commitment
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