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 and time on you that’s the
greatest ability that human beings have
above animals so your 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 and as you
continue to work on yourself you will
begin to expand your vision of yourself
you’ll begin to work towards self
mastery and you will begin to see it
reflected self in all the dimensions of
your life you’ll 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 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
hell you can’t perform if you don’t have
your help 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 call light 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 pounds
several times
next thing is as you take care of
yourself the next key is keys to the
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 bad people alone
some folks just walking around looking
saying are you doing honey stay away
from these people just go away from them
it affects you
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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
things when you see them coming turn
your head next thing is that you want to
monitor your inner conversation the
things that you say to yourself you want
to watch them and in watching them you
want to take charge you don’t really
need to read anything forget all that
that’s that inner conversation oh you
don’t need to worry about trying to go
into your own business forget that you
can’t do that what did you lose
everything you’ve got that in a
conversation that stopped you from doing
the things you want to do let’s don’t do
that 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 that will 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 the 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 cost you to focus it
will cost 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 going to
get some ideas you’re going to feel your
adrenalin flowing and you’re going to
think about something some idea you have
you say I want to go back and I’m going
to look at that again from a different
vantage point not from the level of a
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 your 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 you want to see yourself
beyond your circumstances
you got to challenge see yourself beyond
your challenge see yourself with a
challenge already resolved and knowing
that all is 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 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 beautiful 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 starts 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’re going to have some life will
knock you between the eyes it will catch
you on the blindside come out of nowhere
step you can’t anticipate that will
knock 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 tower feeling and
conviction building yourself up day in
and day out 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 will you
become known for that you develop a
reputation of being good at doing that
you set some hard 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
a 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 it with it oh you want
this all great we want to get this to
you you’re such a nice person
you’re doing it for your family aren’t
you brave now that life isn’t like that
but you’ve got to decide that I’m going
to be feeling I refuse to be denied and
I’m going to go all out I’m going to be
ridiculous I don’t care how many nose I
encounter 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
would 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 feel reason well as
soon as the children grow up as soon as
I pay my bills well soon as I get my
divorce I have time 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 didn’t see that’s not
walking by things that’s walking by
fight if I can see it I’ll do it no no
no less a lot of people think if I can
see it I believe it no no if you believe
it you can see it
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 like Paulo said you must have the
faith to call for those things that be
not as though they were as part of being
unreasonable most people won’t do that
what are the keys to self motivation
that empowers you is that you want to
find a call larger than yourself find
something that you can contribute you
find something that you can make a
difference because you can part of
exceeds 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 television
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
planning 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 they say hey that’s
somebody important I want to know who
you are
I just want to be near you that’s energy
that you have that consciousness that
you will embody will affect everybody
around you 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 provolone
to reach your goals right now Socrates
said being undisciplined life is an
insane life the road 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
worth doing badly until you get it right
I bet you and I wasn’t there I bet you
that when Bishop TD jakes first stood up
to preach when he gave his trial sermon
he did not have a command he did not
have the mastery he did not have what
confidence he did not have the depth he
did not have the capacity to translate
and milk scripture like he did last
night when he first started out now
write this down you don’t have to be
great to get started but you have to get
started to be great
[Applause]
the first time I stood up to speak I
stood up and my mind set down I looked
at the audience and I panicked I had to
introduce a play of school Oh we’ll both
we run the store ran off mr. Washington
mr. Brown where you going wrong mr.
Washington I
I can’t think I don’t know did you
rehearse yes sir I did well what’s wrong
what if you say you’re Liza I don’t know
so I just got up and I looked at them
and everything let me let me do it
another day please sir no go back at
them it’s about mr. Washington how much
up please sir so don’t go don’t send me
I didn’t know I’ll mess up this around
if you run now you will always be
running anything that’s worth doing it’s
worth doing badly until you get it right
why are you moving my guest I’ve got to
go to bathroom sir mr. brown
go back out there yes sir we’ll start a
play called 12 Angry Men directed by mr.
Leroy Washington now ran off the next
day hey alfalfa
[Applause]
Nostromo are you they dogged me out they
talked about me so bad the next time
another event came up mr. Washington mr.
Brown you’re up
I said no mr. Washington everybody says
no not him I said there right mr.
Washington not me he said mr. Brown
you’re up yes sir and I went out and
pretty soon with people laughed at me
didn’t bother me they would throw paper
and I can catch it without losing my
concentration 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 had 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 think opportunity not
security I do not wish to be a chef
citizen humbled and dull by having the
state look after me I want to take your
calculated risk to dream in two bills of
failing 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 sale karma
gets hope you I will never cower before
any master nor been to any threat it’s
my heritage to stand erect prouder and
afraid to face the world boldly and say
this I have done girl stood up say
that’s my boy free Hardy
unlike me from that flower baby but I
didn’t start off like that you have
something special you have talents and
abilities than you that you don’t even
know so how do we begin to create wealth
let me give you some some ideas number
one right the found knowledge what
knowledge that you have in this economy
part of what we need that’s people
willing to pay you for that next is
talent
what talent jion’s talents playing
football I’d 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
so I find people to pay me to talk I
talk I bought a game to this you to this
country called beard whiz that I
invented and as I talk I should fool I
signify I make you tear up your cards
break your cue stick because I talk a
lot of trash I throw you all you’ve
never been to Boston out take you there
so I learned how to say goodbye and talk
trash alright so I make a living talking
trash 280 I make more in one hour than
ninety percent of the American public
aren’t working for a whole year doing
what I love to do that I’ve developed my
talent you want to master your talent
find out what it is that you love to do
I love the talk scripture is another key
that says to us and what we need to do
to begin to develop ourselves loop 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 face 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 a lot of abilities but they don’t
believe in themselves raise your hands
cf faith is very important so the pain
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 unto the
Lord and I thought shall be established
commit means to carry into action
deliberately commit means to make it
happen no matter what commitment the
difference between next time you have
big an age 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 alright 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
commitment that’s why they lead lives of
poverty lives of misery lives of
unhappiness Socrates said the
uncommitted life isn’t worth living so
part of what you must do whatever
commitment or whatever covenant you make
with God while you 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 submit 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 or
keep your commitment to your commitment
and then it says I work see now most
people look at that commit that works
most people look at activity that one
engages in to achieve a predetermined
objective but works commit die works it
plural izes and
they’re learned as a bishop you got to
watch these things in script you just
can’t go on the surface there’s an
essence they commit that work whatever
task whatever talent whatever steal
whatever knowledge you have and begin to
make money doing that making a
difference impacting people’s lives but
commit by work so there’s two kinds of
work there’s external work activity that
you’re engaged in and there is internal
work now why is that important
Pharisees said to Jesus wind chill the
kingdom of God come the kingdom of God
coming not by observation they shall say
it’s neither low very low here behold
the kingdom of God within you it’s
within you seek ye first the kingdom and
all these things will be added unto you
wealth good relationship peace of mind
good health better community whatever
you want to desire a more powerful
ministry so the work is internal as well
as external so therefore the number one
is first step is you got to live your
calling you got to decide what is it you
love second thing is you’ve got to work
on yourself
write this down under work on yourself
you don’t get in life what you want you
get in life what you are you have a
ministry and you have 300 people as a
reflection of you you have 2,000 that’s
a reflection of you you have a job
you’re generating 1,200 dollars a year
or two thousand dollars or five hundred
thousand dollars whatever you earn
whatever you’re producing in your life
is reflection of you that’s why says
Judge it free by the fruit it bears I
can look at what you’re producing and I
can tell you a lot about who you are and
if you look at people who are living
below their potential and sinning and
sin and the Aramaic language means
falling short of the mark I asked the
question earlier how many of you have
goals the raise your hands how many of
you know if you had your life to live
over again you can do more than what
you’ve done the majority of us raised
our hands then that was an indication
that was test
money to reflect the fact that you
operate operating below your potential
as a sphere here in my father glorified
that ye bear much proof then just say
fruit much fruit see when you leave here
you’ve got to make a commitment to be
more fruitful buddy to be more
productive to make greater impact so
what will allow you to do that you got
to spend time working on yourself in
order to write this down in order to do
something you’ve never done you’ve got
to be someone you’ve never been in order
to do something you’ve never done you’ve
got to be someone you’ve never been
that’s why scripture says you must be
born again
you’ve got to die as you are now you’ve
got to be willing to give up who you are
now for what you can become certain
things will no longer fit into your life
there’s no place for it in order to do
something you’ve never done you’ve got
to be someone you’ve never been so
you’ve got a spin serious time reading
writing your goes down reading Scripture
anchoring yourself spiritually the
handle the storms of life because
they’re going to come so every days you
have to sell yourself and get out of
your mind goes old thought that old
belief system every day you’ve got to
sell yourself on that it’s possible if
you got to put a new mind in you you got
to get out of your mind you got to begin
to restructure your thinking every day
you’ve got to begin to recondition your
mind see many of us go through life
making choices thinking it’s out choices
and it’s not see let me share something
with you the easy thing I’ve ever done
was to earn a million dollars the most
difficult thing I’ve ever done was to
believe it could happen to me that was
the most difficult pause to believe that
given my circumstances if my first
parents came down this aisle right now I
would not know either what if my daddy
came up here oh my
mother came up here given the fact I was
born an abandoned building on a floor
being labeled educable mentally retarded
not having any college trading I used to
feel all my life but people who had
college degrees were more intelligent
than me I remember going to see the late
dr. norman vincent peale the author of
the book the power of positive thinking
and I used to look at him up on stage
and I said I could do that I would love
to talk to people I love to talk to
people and I said I can do that
but then when I started going back to my
car my mental conditioning activated
itself and it said let’s Brown you can’t
do that you don’t have a college
education Les Brown you can’t do that
you don’t have the training you’ve never
work for a major corporation you can do
that what makes you think you can earn
five ten fifteen twenty thousand dollars
in an hour you don’t earn that now
working for two or three months what
makes you think that you can speak for
80 bucks and gamble McDonald’s
Corporation General Electric needs the
clients I have that you’ve never even
worked for them how many of you ever
thought about something you wanted to do
and you talked yourself out of it raise
your hand if you know what I’m talking
about that inner conversation is what’s
going to haunt you after standing here
and saying I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me after saying
that again and again we are more than
conquerors that inner conversation will
cost you when you leave here to go back
leading a life of mediocrity leading a
life of unproductivity leading a life of
poverty so I’m going to share with you
how to break out of that
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 point of my life issued
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 under
you until accomplish that win – it has
been sent
what’s your word what’s what you say
about yourself about your fears be
conscious of that on a daily basis why
because your words are powerful in the
beginning was to work life and death is
in the tongue watch what you say never
say I’m broke so I’m overcoming a cash
flow problem
plain what you want not what you don’t
want so affirm good things that suppose
to happen to me and begin to believe
that 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 says the road to light 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
have been more disciplined you’ll be
further along to reach your goals write
up Socrates said the undisciplined life
is an insane life
the road 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 is 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
worth doing badly until you get it right
I bet you and I wasn’t there I bet you
that when Bishop TD jakes first stood up
to preach when he gave his trial sermon
he did not have a command he did not
have the mastery he did not have her
confidence he did not have the depth he
did not have the capacity to translate
and milk scripture like he did last
night when he first started out now
write this down you don’t have to be
great to get started but you have to get
started to be great you want to master
your talent find out what it is that you
love to do I love to talk
scripture is another key that says to us
of 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 they all
the 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 thing to act on those dreams
those desires to make greater impact so
what will allow you to do that you got
to spend time working on yourself in
order to do write this out in order to
do something you’ve never done you’ve
got to be someone you’ve never been in
order to do something you’ve never done
you’ve got to be someone you’ve never
been that’s why scripture says you must
be born again
you’ve got to die as you are now you’ve
got to be willing to give up who you are
now for what you can become certain
things will no longer fit into your life
and so therefore as you look at yourself
you’ve got to have this vision of
yourself beyond your circumstances
you’ve got to see yourself every day I
can do this I can make this happen I’m
blessed and highly favored good things
are supposed to happen to me
you’ve got to see yourself every day
working on your goal you got to become a
risk-taker write the down
this job said if you’re not willing to
risk you can’t grow and if you can’t
grow you can’t become your bet and if
you can’t become your best you can’t be
happy and if you can’t be happy then
what else is there what are the reasons
write down while you’re here at this man
power conference write down five
compelling reasons why are you going to
keep your commitment to change your life
keep your commitment never to go back to
the life that you once live keep your
commitment to creating wealth for
yourself to taking care your children to
be more responsible to manifest price in
you in your life in your community keep
your commitments to live a life of
contribution to keep your commitment to
be a conqueror and to I reflected and to
have a chord in dominion of everything
in your life one of those reasons I got
on one of my taste is like knock your
down trying to land on your back because
if you can look up you can get up your
reasons will help you to get back up
again therefore your rod and staff to
comfort you
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 and time on you that’s the
greatest ability that human beings have
above animals so your 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 and as you
continue to work on yourself you will
begin to expand your vision of yourself
you’ll begin to work towards self
mastery and you will begin to see it
reflected self in all the dimensions of
your life you’ll 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 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
hell you can’t perform if you don’t have
your help 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 call light 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 pounds
several times
next thing is as you take care of
yourself the next key is keys to the
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 bad people alone
some folks just walking around looking
saying are you doing honey stay away
from these people just go away from them
it affects you
[Applause]
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
things when you see them coming turn
your head next thing is that you want to
monitor your inner conversation the
things that you say to yourself you want
to watch them and in watching them you
want to take charge you don’t really
need to read anything forget all that
that’s that inner conversation oh you
don’t need to worry about trying to go
into your own business forget that you
can’t do that what did you lose
everything you’ve got that in a
conversation that stopped you from doing
the things you want to do let’s don’t do
that 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 that will 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 the 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 cost you to focus it
will cost 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 going to
get some ideas you’re going to feel your
adrenalin flowing and you’re going to
think about something some idea you have
you say I want to go back and I’m going
to look at that again from a different
vantage point not from the level of a
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 your 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 you want to see yourself
beyond your circumstances
you got to challenge see yourself beyond
your challenge see yourself with a
challenge already resolved and knowing
that all is 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 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 beautiful 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 starts 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’re going to have some life will
knock you between the eyes it will catch
you on the blindside come out of nowhere
step you can’t anticipate that will
knock 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 tower feeling and
conviction building yourself up day in
and day out 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 will you
become known for that you develop a
reputation of being good at doing that
you set some hard 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
a 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 it with it oh you want
this all great we want to get this to
you you’re such a nice person
you’re doing it for your family aren’t
you brave now that life isn’t like that
but you’ve got to decide that I’m going
to be feeling I refuse to be denied and
I’m going to go all out I’m going to be
ridiculous I don’t care how many nose I
encounter 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
would 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 feel reason well as
soon as the children grow up as soon as
I pay my bills well soon as I get my
divorce I have time 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 didn’t see that’s not
walking by things that’s walking by
fight if I can see it I’ll do it no no
no less a lot of people think if I can
see it I believe it no no if you believe
it you can see it
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 like Paulo said you must have the
faith to call for those things that be
not as though they were as part of being
unreasonable most people won’t do that
what are the keys to self motivation
that empowers you is that you want to
find a call larger than yourself find
something that you can contribute you
find something that you can make a
difference because you can part of
exceeds 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 television
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
planning 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 they say hey that’s
somebody important I want to know who
you are
I just want to be near you that’s energy
that you have that consciousness that
you will embody will affect everybody
around you 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 provolone
to reach your goals right now Socrates
said being undisciplined life is an
insane life the road 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
worth doing badly until you get it right
I bet you and I wasn’t there I bet you
that when Bishop TD jakes first stood up
to preach when he gave his trial sermon
he did not have a command he did not
have the mastery he did not have what
confidence he did not have the depth he
did not have the capacity to translate
and milk scripture like he did last
night when he first started out now
write this down you don’t have to be
great to get started but you have to get
started to be great
[Applause]
the first time I stood up to speak I
stood up and my mind set down I looked
at the audience and I panicked I had to
introduce a play of school Oh we’ll both
we run the store ran off mr. Washington
mr. Brown where you going wrong mr.
Washington I
I can’t think I don’t know did you
rehearse yes sir I did well what’s wrong
what if you say you’re Liza I don’t know
so I just got up and I looked at them
and everything let me let me do it
another day please sir no go back at
them it’s about mr. Washington how much
up please sir so don’t go don’t send me
I didn’t know I’ll mess up this around
if you run now you will always be
running anything that’s worth doing it’s
worth doing badly until you get it right
why are you moving my guest I’ve got to
go to bathroom sir mr. brown
go back out there yes sir we’ll start a
play called 12 Angry Men directed by mr.
Leroy Washington now ran off the next
day hey alfalfa
[Applause]
Nostromo are you they dogged me out they
talked about me so bad the next time
another event came up mr. Washington mr.
Brown you’re up
I said no mr. Washington everybody says
no not him I said there right mr.
Washington not me he said mr. Brown
you’re up yes sir and I went out and
pretty soon with people laughed at me
didn’t bother me they would throw paper
and I can catch it without losing my
concentration 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 had 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 think opportunity not
security I do not wish to be a chef
citizen humbled and dull by having the
state look after me I want to take your
calculated risk to dream in two bills of
failing 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 sale karma
gets hope you I will never cower before
any master nor been to any threat it’s
my heritage to stand erect prouder and
afraid to face the world boldly and say
this I have done girl stood up say
that’s my boy free Hardy
unlike me from that flower baby but I
didn’t start off like that you have
something special you have talents and
abilities than you that you don’t even
know so how do we begin to create wealth
let me give you some some ideas number
one right the found knowledge what
knowledge that you have in this economy
part of what we need that’s people
willing to pay you for that next is
talent
what talent jion’s talents playing
football I’d 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
so I find people to pay me to talk I
talk I bought a game to this you to this
country called beard whiz that I
invented and as I talk I should fool I
signify I make you tear up your cards
break your cue stick because I talk a
lot of trash I throw you all you’ve
never been to Boston out take you there
so I learned how to say goodbye and talk
trash alright so I make a living talking
trash 280 I make more in one hour than
ninety percent of the American public
aren’t working for a whole year doing
what I love to do that I’ve developed my
talent you want to master your talent
find out what it is that you love to do
I love the talk scripture is another key
that says to us and what we need to do
to begin to develop ourselves loop 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 face 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 a lot of abilities but they don’t
believe in themselves raise your hands
cf faith is very important so the pain
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 unto the
Lord and I thought shall be established
commit means to carry into action
deliberately commit means to make it
happen no matter what commitment the
difference between next time you have
big an age 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 alright 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
commitment that’s why they lead lives of
poverty lives of misery lives of
unhappiness Socrates said the
uncommitted life isn’t worth living so
part of what you must do whatever
commitment or whatever covenant you make
with God while you 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 submit 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 or
keep your commitment to your commitment
and then it says I work see now most
people look at that commit that works
most people look at activity that one
engages in to achieve a predetermined
objective but works commit die works it
plural izes and
they’re learned as a bishop you got to
watch these things in script you just
can’t go on the surface there’s an
essence they commit that work whatever
task whatever talent whatever steal
whatever knowledge you have and begin to
make money doing that making a
difference impacting people’s lives but
commit by work so there’s two kinds of
work there’s external work activity that
you’re engaged in and there is internal
work now why is that important
Pharisees said to Jesus wind chill the
kingdom of God come the kingdom of God
coming not by observation they shall say
it’s neither low very low here behold
the kingdom of God within you it’s
within you seek ye first the kingdom and
all these things will be added unto you
wealth good relationship peace of mind
good health better community whatever
you want to desire a more powerful
ministry so the work is internal as well
as external so therefore the number one
is first step is you got to live your
calling you got to decide what is it you
love second thing is you’ve got to work
on yourself
write this down under work on yourself
you don’t get in life what you want you
get in life what you are you have a
ministry and you have 300 people as a
reflection of you you have 2,000 that’s
a reflection of you you have a job
you’re generating 1,200 dollars a year
or two thousand dollars or five hundred
thousand dollars whatever you earn
whatever you’re producing in your life
is reflection of you that’s why says
Judge it free by the fruit it bears I
can look at what you’re producing and I
can tell you a lot about who you are and
if you look at people who are living
below their potential and sinning and
sin and the Aramaic language means
falling short of the mark I asked the
question earlier how many of you have
goals the raise your hands how many of
you know if you had your life to live
over again you can do more than what
you’ve done the majority of us raised
our hands then that was an indication
that was test
money to reflect the fact that you
operate operating below your potential
as a sphere here in my father glorified
that ye bear much proof then just say
fruit much fruit see when you leave here
you’ve got to make a commitment to be
more fruitful buddy to be more
productive to make greater impact so
what will allow you to do that you got
to spend time working on yourself in
order to write this down in order to do
something you’ve never done you’ve got
to be someone you’ve never been in order
to do something you’ve never done you’ve
got to be someone you’ve never been
that’s why scripture says you must be
born again
you’ve got to die as you are now you’ve
got to be willing to give up who you are
now for what you can become certain
things will no longer fit into your life
there’s no place for it in order to do
something you’ve never done you’ve got
to be someone you’ve never been so
you’ve got a spin serious time reading
writing your goes down reading Scripture
anchoring yourself spiritually the
handle the storms of life because
they’re going to come so every days you
have to sell yourself and get out of
your mind goes old thought that old
belief system every day you’ve got to
sell yourself on that it’s possible if
you got to put a new mind in you you got
to get out of your mind you got to begin
to restructure your thinking every day
you’ve got to begin to recondition your
mind see many of us go through life
making choices thinking it’s out choices
and it’s not see let me share something
with you the easy thing I’ve ever done
was to earn a million dollars the most
difficult thing I’ve ever done was to
believe it could happen to me that was
the most difficult pause to believe that
given my circumstances if my first
parents came down this aisle right now I
would not know either what if my daddy
came up here oh my
mother came up here given the fact I was
born an abandoned building on a floor
being labeled educable mentally retarded
not having any college trading I used to
feel all my life but people who had
college degrees were more intelligent
than me I remember going to see the late
dr. norman vincent peale the author of
the book the power of positive thinking
and I used to look at him up on stage
and I said I could do that I would love
to talk to people I love to talk to
people and I said I can do that
but then when I started going back to my
car my mental conditioning activated
itself and it said let’s Brown you can’t
do that you don’t have a college
education Les Brown you can’t do that
you don’t have the training you’ve never
work for a major corporation you can do
that what makes you think you can earn
five ten fifteen twenty thousand dollars
in an hour you don’t earn that now
working for two or three months what
makes you think that you can speak for
80 bucks and gamble McDonald’s
Corporation General Electric needs the
clients I have that you’ve never even
worked for them how many of you ever
thought about something you wanted to do
and you talked yourself out of it raise
your hand if you know what I’m talking
about that inner conversation is what’s
going to haunt you after standing here
and saying I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me after saying
that again and again we are more than
conquerors that inner conversation will
cost you when you leave here to go back
leading a life of mediocrity leading a
life of unproductivity leading a life of
poverty so I’m going to share with you
how to break out of that
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 point of my life issued
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 under
you until accomplish that win – it has
been sent
what’s your word what’s what you say
about yourself about your fears be
conscious of that on a daily basis why
because your words are powerful in the
beginning was to work life and death is
in the tongue watch what you say never
say I’m broke so I’m overcoming a cash
flow problem
plain what you want not what you don’t
want so affirm good things that suppose
to happen to me and begin to believe
that 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 says the road to light 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
have been more disciplined you’ll be
further along to reach your goals write
up Socrates said the undisciplined life
is an insane life
the road 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 is 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
worth doing badly until you get it right
I bet you and I wasn’t there I bet you
that when Bishop TD jakes first stood up
to preach when he gave his trial sermon
he did not have a command he did not
have the mastery he did not have her
confidence he did not have the depth he
did not have the capacity to translate
and milk scripture like he did last
night when he first started out now
write this down you don’t have to be
great to get started but you have to get
started to be great you want to master
your talent find out what it is that you
love to do I love to talk
scripture is another key that says to us
of 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 they all
the 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 thing to act on those dreams
those desires to make greater impact so
what will allow you to do that you got
to spend time working on yourself in
order to do write this out in order to
do something you’ve never done you’ve
got to be someone you’ve never been in
order to do something you’ve never done
you’ve got to be someone you’ve never
been that’s why scripture says you must
be born again
you’ve got to die as you are now you’ve
got to be willing to give up who you are
now for what you can become certain
things will no longer fit into your life
and so therefore as you look at yourself
you’ve got to have this vision of
yourself beyond your circumstances
you’ve got to see yourself every day I
can do this I can make this happen I’m
blessed and highly favored good things
are supposed to happen to me
you’ve got to see yourself every day
working on your goal you got to become a
risk-taker write the down
this job said if you’re not willing to
risk you can’t grow and if you can’t
grow you can’t become your bet and if
you can’t become your best you can’t be
happy and if you can’t be happy then
what else is there what are the reasons
write down while you’re here at this man
power conference write down five
compelling reasons why are you going to
keep your commitment to change your life
keep your commitment never to go back to
the life that you once live keep your
commitment to creating wealth for
yourself to taking care your children to
be more responsible to manifest price in
you in your life in your community keep
your commitments to live a life of
contribution to keep your commitment to
be a conqueror and to I reflected and to
have a chord in dominion of everything
in your life one of those reasons I got
on one of my taste is like knock your
down trying to land on your back because
if you can look up you can get up your
reasons will help you to get back up
again therefore your rod and staff to
comfort you
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