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When You Are About To Give Up – Powerful Motivational Speech Compilation by Eric Thomas & Les Brown


you’ve got the best two jobs in your
life
you got your dream job sir but this is
only beginning this is not the air this
is not where I want you to be for the
pain is temporary I’ve been trying to
get that into your I’ve been trying to
get you to celebrate play are you
hearing me I’m trying to get you to have
an understanding that pain is your
friend that pain is gonna take you to
the next level
it’s not your circumstances or your
situation that determines if you’re
gonna be successful or not I’ve been
telling you is your mindset I’m telling
you you got to pay I know what you feel
it I know exactly what I’ve been there
I’ve done that but you gotta work
through it
[Music]
what do you pay on the other side is a
reward listen to me pain a permanent
[Music]
you’re paying a permanent you can get
through this you bring it in your pants
I use the pain to push me to greatness
and I’m telling you right now don’t give
up I’m telling you right now don’t give
me get through it and if you can get
through if you can work through your
prey and you can work through your pain
I’m guaranteeing you on the other side
it’s a reward
[Music]
I gotta commit my very being to this
thing I got a boot I gotta breathe it I
gotta eat it I gotta sleep it and until
you get there you’ll never be successful
in life but once you get there i
guarantee the world is yours and listen
to me very closely
i’m telling you from personal experience
i know what my life was like when i put
in 55 i know what it was like when i
didn’t try I know what my life was like
when I didn’t care I know what my life
was like when I didn’t have any dreams
or any gold like like I didn’t want
anything I know what my life was like
now I’m putting in 120 baby
I’m putting me in 120 look at it I’m
putting here 120 in my life is sweet my
wife’s life my kid’s life my mama’s life
listen to my father I’m gonna I’m gonna
Detroit Free Press and my parents my
parents are proud are you hearing me
when you put in 120 not only does it
affect your life it affects your
family’s life it affects your friends
life it affects your community’s life
are you hearing what I’m telling you so
I didn’t do me a huge favor
yep this one is different this one is
the call of action all right I’m gonna
put you on a 21-day challenge I’m
challenging you if you listen to me if
you ain’t brave enough to challenge
yourself if you ain’t courageous enough
to challenge yourself I’m challenging
you I’m challenging the gift from where
you are I’m challenging to stop settling
I’m challenging you I’m challenging you
I’m challenging to stop accepting the
light that was given to you and I’m
challenging you for 21 days I’m
challenging you to give a 120 percent
are you hearing me I’m challenging you
now and I want somebody at the end of
this 21-day I need somebody to send me a
video I need somebody to send me a video
and just show me et you are 100% right
like I put in 120 percent for 21 days I
did not fatigue I did not give up I did
not give me an E I did exactly what you
told me to do eat and look boom things
changed like my marriage changed my
classroom change as a basketball player
of my team chain as a coach the way my
team respond it changed et a hundred and
twenty percent I want you to stop giving
70 stop giving 80
stop giving 90 and you deserve to see
what would happen if you gave 120
percent all right all right so a couple
things like
doing this 21 day challenge right the
first thing I need you to do for me is I
need you have a vision
I need you to have a vision of when you
get to that 21 days what do you want
what do you want to happen after that 21
days what what is dying in your life
look right now what is what is
mediocrity look like in your life look
what is defeat look like in your life
what what are limitations what a
boundaries look like in your life in 21
days this one looked like it my marriage
won’t look like this
my grades won’t look like this are you
hearing me we’re gonna be better as a
team our outcomes are going 21 days I
challenge you 21 days to first cast a
vision what would your life look like
after those 21 days listen to me do me a
huge favor
21 days do it right or don’t do it yep
you heard what I said
for the next 21 day do it right or don’t
do it stop half doing stuff stop putting
for a 50% effort 64 look stop do it
right or just don’t do it at all
are you hear me do it right when I
started doing it right that second book
greatness was the problem look through
it I did it right I wasn’t just right in
the book I did it right if you kinetic
learning listen to me very closely if
you got a touched up I put it in there I
went with the whole thing guys all right
I just didn’t go half doing look through
the book the artwork is in there the
work stuff is in there so you can work
it through everything is in there I
didn’t have do it I did it right look at
our videos we don’t have doing they free
but we don’t have doing do it number two
do it right or don’t do it all number
three listen to me know 21 days knowing
speech it’s only adjustment no excuses I
don’t want to hear I don’t want to hear
good excuses good reasons what happened
why you couldn’t do it I don’t want to
hear I don’t know everybody got an
excuse I don’t want to hear I don’t want
to hear anything about this happening
the weather wasn’t right
it might get the finances in this didn’t
come through it was supposed to what
that person did no no no no no no no no
number three three things guys number
one cast a vision 21 days so when you
get tired you can keep looking at that
vision do it right or do not do it at
all are you hearing me and finally guys
no excuses
just adjustments we’ve been going
through several stages we talked about
self-awareness Who am I asking that
central question in one’s life looking
at your strengths and your weaknesses
getting some evaluation determining what
it is you want out of life then we went
to the next level of self what self
approval approving yourself to do the
things that you like to do and going
after the dreams that you like to go
after and we know when we don’t approve
of our dreams because of the fact that
they stay up in our minds we don’t act
on them we procrastinate we come up with
a variety of excuses on why we’re not
going into action and then the next
level is what self commitment going for
that dream going for those goals
deciding to do the things that are
necessary to bring about the changes
that we want to bring in our lives or
what we want to bring in society and
then after that we are now to this level
and this stage is what self fulfillment
because when you are involved in
commitment when you are implementing
your plan of action you’re going to
produce some results you’re going to
have some victories that you can feel
good about and it’s a time of
celebration so what happens when you hit
the level of self fulfillment first of
all what we want to know is that self
fulfillment is unending and should be
viewed in that context Robert Schuller
says it best when he says success is
never ending so it means that we never
get to a level where we feel that
there’s nothing else for us to do that
we’ve achieved certain number of goals
and we figure that we’re through no no
you don’t want to stay there and
celebrate too long like a lot of people
do they do something they consider
outstanding they go around talking about
what they used to do see let me tell you
I used to do this and I used to do that
excuse me used to beans don’t make no
honey what are you doing now what have
you done for me lately you don’t go
around telling me about what you used to
do and who you used to be what does that
count for now nothing what are you doing
now you’re still here breathing that
means you’ve got some more to give
doesn’t matter how old you are doesn’t
matter about where you are doesn’t
matter about what you have
mad about what you’ve done life is about
growing is about being productive is
about stretching is about challenging
yourself so you start looking around and
decide hey hey what else do I want to do
what what got me here is a time for
celebration but also a time for
reflection what got me here what worked
what did not work what do I need to do
to repeat so that I can get the same
kind of results in other areas of my
life if the goal is to improve my health
if the goal is to improve my
relationship if the goal is to improve
my income if the goal is to improve
something in society what is it I need
to do now don’t get confused with what
you do with who you are don’t trip don’t
go on some type of ego trip
by talking about how bad you are none of
us do anything by ourselves develop an
appreciation for external support as
well as good fortune because all of
those things play a role the other thing
is don’t go overboard celebrating at
Kipling says it best you must meet with
triumph and disaster and treat those two
Impostors just the same you look at hey
I did it I feel good about that
now you’re moving on to the next thing
things did not work out the way you
wanted them to work out you didn’t
produce the results you wanted to
produce hey miss that win some you lose
them next moving right on don’t confuse
who you are with what you do let’s go on
to the next level looking in that
particular area you return to the area
of self-assessment you start looking at
yourself and evaluating yourself now
what are some of the elements are the
characteristics of the qualities of
people who are fulfilled who live a life
of fulfillment what are some of the
things we can look at about them I think
number one make your mind fertile ground
for the seeds of opportunity thinking if
you want to experience a sense of
fulfillment you’ve got to have an open
mind
so that ideas can come in there and take
root and grow so part of beginning to
have fertile ground you know you got to
break that ground up you got to break up
that hard crust because if you don’t
seem to fall there and the wind can blow
them away the lens of doubt when you’re
set in your mind and you refuse to grow
and you’re not open to new ideas new
methods new ways of doing things if your
mind is already fixed
you become stagnant you can’t grow you
can’t have a sense of fulfillment you
become extremely cynical and negative
about everything you know it all so you
want to begin to look at life and have a
sense of curiosity not know it all you
want to keep learning keep growing
realize that you had a theme you never
find out how much you know until you
find out how little you know and there
are some people you can’t tell anything
they have all the answers or I’ve
already done that
Larry Dion you was telling me he said he
was on a plane and he was observing two
men talking and he a guy was reading a
magazine he looked at the guy next to
him said would you like to read this
magazine I’m sure this magazine I have
know I read that before don’t like it
don’t like it okay so you had a
newspaper he said huh what about the USA
Today no I read that before I don’t like
that either
try that once don’t like that so they
serve them some food and he said would
you care to have anything I have here
because the guy was needing no no tried
that before I don’t like that and you
know this guy I only had one child he
said that a lot of people go through
life prejudging things how many of you
don’t like buttermilk raise your hands
please how many of you raise your hands
that never tastes about a bill please
and I water I just don’t like the way it
looks all right I might be missing out
on something all right so many of us
count ourselves out of things
prematurely you don’t know what the
possibilities are up in there so you
want to be open you want to continue to
learn you want to continue to grow you
want to begin to know that their
unlimited ideas out here waiting for you
to latch on to them and if you don’t
take advantage of them when they come
your way because you’re so closed-minded
do understand somebody else will and
we’ve all had ideas then we did not act
on and looked around and somebody else
had the idea and gone with it so be open
and receptive next thing in order to
live a fulfilling life become involved
in life live your fantasy most people go
through life not living their fantasy
going sitting up in the bleachers
looking out on the field looking out
into the arena wishing that they were
down there just fantasizing seeing
themselves running with the ball I used
to do that I used to always see myself
at a basketball game one second to go
Les Brown comes down court he looks his
right looks to his love he’s the only
one that can do it good the best kid
goes in last saved us and people pick me
up and carried me off but I never would out and it decide to live your fantasy
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