hello my name is les Romney’s as Mamie
Browns baby boy I want to thank you so
much for joining us you know at this
particular time I want you to first of
all pat yourself on the back and take
the time to thank yourself for becoming
involved in a process for looking at
your life if this ever time that we need
to begin to stop and think and assess
ourselves that time is now when you
begin to look at the foreclosure rate
that’s going on in the country and the
foreclosures and the bankruptcies and in
addition to that the violence and people
losing their jobs and the level of
uncertainty and fear that people are
feeling and I think there’s a level of
stress in the air unlike anything we’ve
ever felt before and so just to take the
time to think to pause and particularly
not only looking at what’s going on but
asking yourself the question how is this
affecting me you know we want to all
become successful but I’ve found that
there’s some success that’s toxic
success what I mean is that you don’t
want to win end up going after goals and
dreams and neglect yourself I want you
to think about your goals and dreams and
things that you want to achieve and at
the top of the list I want you to put up
there your strategy for being here I
just came from the doctor let me share
something with you I don’t care what
goals and dreams that you have you’ve
got to have your health in order to be
here so at the top of my list and I’m
suggesting you put it at the top of your
list your strategy your game plan for
being here what are you going to do to
take better care of yourself that’s one
of the first things I want to ask you
about because when I look at my life at
64 and I used to think people in their
50s were old but now that I’m 64 I said
look here people in their 80s and 90s
there are old people my goal is to be
here not only just to see my
grandchildren but to see my great
grandchildren and my great great great
grandchildren but in order to be here
that’s not just lip service that’s a
commitment with my time with my energy
and the choices that I make so I want
you to think about your strategy for
being here and I want you to think about
your goal your goal for securing your
life in your future since I get older my
goal right now is to become an asset to
my children rather than a liability
financially and physically see I don’t
want to be a burden to my children I
don’t know if they like me that will I
love my mother my goal the dream was to
take care of my mother I did that I
brought her home I took care of her till
she’s 89 but children they’re different
today these are different type of people
up in here you don’t know what this
generation of I do I know they say
Darren we love you but I really really
want to stay in good shape and take care
of myself because I don’t want to be
around the house and my kids say look
here who’s gonna take care of me today
all these doing sit around talking to
themself tebah yes I’m kidding yes I
will talking out of his hair no I don’t
want that kind of party for me my goal
and objective is to die young at an old
age so I have a game plan I don’t like
to eat vegetables all the time but not
feel like a silly rabbit
why because I realized at this stage of
my life I’ve got to eat more vegetables
I got to get more rest I’ve got to drink
more juices and I’ve got to do all of
the things that make the healthy choices
that will say to my body less you plan
to be here I see that you’re serious
song to take care of you I do 160
push-ups every morning non-stop why I
couldn’t do that at 15 or 20 but at this
stage of my life I’ve got to do those
kinds of things in order to challenge my
body to stretch my body and to indicate
I plan to be here what’s your plan
what’s your goal because if you don’t
have a goal for being here being here is
not a given when I was a kid we used to
go to funerals of old people I can’t
tell you how many young people whose
funerals I’ve gone to I can’t tell you
how many and so and and there’s
something about between 40 and 60 I
don’t know what is about that period in
time between 40 and 60 when you if
you’re approaching 40 I can tell you you
already know life begins to intensify
things happen to you and things happen
to people you care about between 40 and
60 if you can make it through that
period you can take a deep breath
because most people don’t make 60 most
people don’t and why and I think it’s
because people just take it for granted
that they’re going to be here so I want
to share with you some goals and
strategies that you think about your
goals I want you to
visualize yourself having optimal health
I’m having your right mind I used to ask
my mama mama every Sunday you stand up
in church and other older members of the
church say I want to thank the Lord for
waking me up and my right mind this
morning why do you all say that all the
time she said don’t worry son you live
long enough you’ll find out she was
absolutely right I went in the room the
other day to find something I got in
there and I could remember what I was
looking for I came out I remember what I
was looking for I went back in I found
it then I could remember while I was
looking for it what if her children said
daddy you need some ginkgo biloba I said
what’s that she said something for your
memory I went down to the health food
store I was walking around lady said may
I help you sir I said I forgot why I’m
here she said you need something for
your memory I said I don’t so they took
me over to a little section and I bought
the stuff and then I took it home now I
can’t remember where I put it
so what I got in this water guys here I
want to thank the Lord for waking me up
at my right mind this morning see if you
woke up and your right mind afford it
that’s a good thing I called a friend of
mine the other day miss Williams says
Miss Williams how you do it she said
baby I’m doing good she said I went to
the bathroom by myself not all of
ourselves
I said too much information too much
information let me tell you something
but that’s a good thing I know about
that
I’ve been in the hospital I know what it
is not to be able to move I know what it
is to have back challenges I know what
it is to be in pain so this thing called
life you’ve got your health let me share
something with you that’s a good thing
friend of mine Bishop TD jakes said if
you’ve got a problem man or money can
solve you ain’t got no problem I can
agree with that and I learned some
things going through that experience and
really I should say growing through that
experience my goal at that time was to
be here trust me it’s better be seen
than to be viewed are you feeling the
brother of it here of it here so I want
you to think about your goals and dreams
and here’s what I want you to do right
now I want you to say to yourself it’s
possible it’s possible and I want you to
follow along with this process as you
think about your goals and dreams I want
you to write this down I’m going to give
you some strategies of main
this possibility mindset I want you to
write down mindset maintenance mindset
maintenance let me share something with
you the easiest thing that I do every
year is to live my dream that is helping
people to realize their potential to
step into their greatness challenging
themselves reinventing themselves to
start their own businesses I’ve helped
over 400 people earn millions of dollars
the easiest thing I do every year is
what I do on a day-to-day basis going
into prisons and juvenile detention
centers teaching young people mindset
development how to become effective
communicators how to dress like a
prospect rather than a suspect those are
the easy things that I do let me share
with you the most difficult thing that
I’ve ever done in my life and that was
to believe that I could do it that’s the
most difficult thing that I’ve ever done
in my entire life to believe that I less
ROM who was born an abandoned building
on a floor in a poor section of Miami
Florida with a twin brother
we were adopted we were 6 weeks of age
by mrs. Mamie Brown and I called myself
mrs. Mamie Browns baby boy all that I am
and all that ever hope to be I owe to my
mother so I’ll sign once it said God
took me out of my biological mother’s
womb and placed me in the heart of my
adopted mother to believe that I less
round who was labeled educable mentally
retarded put back from the fifth grade
to the fourth grade Phil again when I
was in the eighth grade to believe that
I had the ability to live the life that
I’m not living no one could have told
anybody who knew me including myself
looking in on us when mrs. Mamie Brown
was raising us in a poor section of
Miami Florida called Liberty City and
over town that I would be Who I am right
now I didn’t even know that and I want
you to think about your goals and dreams
and I want you to expand them why
because it has been said that most
people fail in life not because they aim
too high and miss no most people fail in
life because they’re just like I was for
14 years they aim too low and hit and
many never aim at all not at all they
just go through life surviving someone
said that many people died aged 25 and
don’t get buried in together 65 I was
talking to a friend of mine named Rosia
and I said Rosia how you doing
and she said let me tell you something
life is the mess let’s say girl what are
you talking about she said my life is a
mess she said you know what she said I
just was sitting up here thinking I
haven’t lived I haven’t lived she said
I’ve been working hard all my life
paying bills and taking care of my
children and my children are gone and I
just been thinking I haven’t done
anything she said when I die I don’t
want when people view my body I don’t
want them to say oh she had a funny
expression on her face I don’t want to
have an expression that I’m mad because
if I died right now I would be mad I
said why what are some of the things
you’d like to do she said travel I would
love to travel I like to see the
pyramids I’ve never been to Paris I want
to go to Paris I’ve never been there
there are things that I want to see
things I want to do she said I want to
make a difference in young girls lives
teenage mothers I was a teenage mother I
want to be able to make a difference in
their lives and see the impact that I
had on their lives and she learned she
mentioned a variety of things and I
remember a story about a lady who went
to the doctor and she was diagnosed with
terminal cancer and she came home and
she was sitting at a table and and she
was drinking some coffee and all of a
sudden she just looked up and she said I
refuse to die an unlived life I refuse
to die an unlived life and she decided
that she was going to live that up to
that point her life was for her family
for her children for a husband but she
she had left herself out of the equation
have you ever done that I remember it
appeared in my life I was going to work
and I was working on a job that I hated
and at the same time I was praying that
I wouldn’t get fired I was praying that
I wasn’t laid off I was miserable nobody
was holding a gun to my head but I
showed up every day and I used the
flimsy excuse well I got to pay the
bills I’ve got a car payment I have to
pay I have a family have children I have
a car note and I have a mortgage note I
have to pay I’ve got to survive I was
showing up for a paycheck ladies and
gentlemen that’s not living and a friend
of mine said you know when people change
and I said no he said
when they get to the point when they say
I’ve had it I’ve had it I think the only
reason that you’re listening to me right
now the only reason that you’re watching
this webinar that there’s somewhere in
your heart of hearts if you said as you
looked at your life you said I’ve had it
and not only have you said I’ve had it
but you said also in your heart of
hearts I can do better than this and let
me share something with you
you can because if anybody told me and
I’m not sure I’m gonna share some things
with you that I’ve done not for the
purpose to impress you but to impress
upon you what the possibilities are when
you work on your mind and have mindset
development because I’ve found that how
people live their lives is a result of
their state of mind it has been said you
don’t get in life what you want you get
in life what you are so part of the
process number one is expose yourself to
positive messages see what I’m doing
right now I’m distracting the story
that’s going on in your head right now
how you live your life how I live my
life how all of us live our lives is a
result of the story we believe about
ourselves and most of us are born into
stories I was born into a story where we
were poor but we didn’t know it I don’t
know we were poor until I got on a bus
with my mother going to do domestic work
on Miami Beach and when we crossed the
Venetian causeway and I saw those big
beautiful hotels and I was in the homes
with my mother making a bet and cleaning
wait the food leftover from the families
that she cooked for and we were of a
hand-me-down clothes of the children
that she kept and I kept saying mama
what is it boy as we got ready to pack
up to go back home and to over town and
Liberty City and all the poverty and
filth and the violence there I saying
why can’t we stay here why can’t we stay
here she said lesson we can’t why
because we can’t why mama why can’t we
she said it’s just the way it is now
shut up and I kept saying to myself why
is that the way that it is and I guess I
was okay for Wesley and Margaret Ann and
Leonard and Angelou and Sharon and Linda
but it wasn’t okay for me I was curious
I wanted to live like mr. sidarsky lived
I wanted the big car that he had
I wanted that big home that he had we
lived in a two-bedroom apartment it was
seven of us plus mama
he had a big mansion just three of them
10,000 square feet said mama what is it
Leslie one day I want to buy you
something just like this my brothers and
sisters when we were on the bus going
back they were just engaged in playful
things I was thinking and dreaming mama
didn’t understand why was thinking like
that because I’ve been exposed to
positive messages I had to take care of
mrs. sidarsky I to shine his shoes and
clean his office and every day when he
was listening to motivational messages I
was hearing those things too Earl
Nightingale
we become what we think about all of us
are self-made but only the successful
will admit it and all to be successful
you must be willing to do the things a
day others won’t do in order to have the
things tomorrow others won’t have your
mind is a machine you must program
yourself for success Wow when I heard
those words I said wait a minute I could
program my mind for success I can
program my mind for wealth you can too
trust me I’ve heard over fifty five
million dollars in the last 28 years
anybody told me that I would be doing
what I’m doing right now I spoke
recently in Sweden they paid me 40,000
euro for an hour speech I had no idea
that this les ROM that you now see have
the ability to do that I used to work
for the Miami sanitation department as a
garbage collector I used to be a janitor
I used to do door-to-door sales I used
to work for Sears in Miami on Biscayne
Boulevard I had no idea this less robbed
that you now see had the ability one day
to give lectures at Harvard or Yale
Dartmouth University I had no idea that
this Les Brown existed I don’t tell you
that to impress you but to impress upon
you there is more in you Simba there’s
more in you than you have been
expressing all of us have seen Lion King
some great symbols in there and I say to
you there’s more in you right now than
it’s represented in your bank account
there’s more in you right now that’s
being reflected by your life right now
your life is not a true reflection of
your potential you have greatness within
you you have the ability
do more than you can ever begin to
imagine there’s a reason that my
favorite book says as a man think it’s
so is he and as he continues to think so
he remains in order for us to begin to
break into that level of greatness that
we have within ourselves you have to
make a conscious choice every day to
expose your mind to positive messages so
I put myself on a regimen I do this
every day and I suggest that you do it
write this down number one listen to
motivational messages every day if you
have choosing your future a set of tapes
and CDs that we produce or creating your
greatest life I guarantee you if you do
what I’m sharing with you right now for
six straight months every day your life
will never be the same again
I guarantee it 100% you listen every day
for 1 hour to creating your greatest
life any of those messages because faith
comes by hearing and hearing and hearing
what it will begin to do is interrupt
the story in your mind
it will override the story that you
believe about yourself it will distract
all the negative thoughts that you have
that’s holding you back that held me
back for 14 years what I used to go see
the number one motivational speaker on
the planet Zig Ziglar and Tony Robbins
and and my heart said I can do that I
love to help people I’m just like my
mother and then my mind would ask how I
went from my heart to my mind and my
mind would say less Ron you don’t have a
college education less Ron you’ve never
worked for a major corporation less roun
you were labeled educable mentally
retarded they call you DT the dumb twin
you’re not as smart as your brother have
you ever thought about something you
wanted to do and you convinced yourself
that you couldn’t do it see sometimes we
need to have some external voices and so
by listening to motivational messages
that begin to override that negative
thoughts that I had about myself in my
mind and it gave me a new story and
empowered me and gave me a vision of
myself beyond my circumstances and
mental conditioning and started me to
writing a new chapter in my life and so
now money will never be another issue
for me and that was an issue for most of
my life because I didn’t know what I did
know and I thought I knew so one you
have to do is that you have to have a
mindset development strategy where you
are deliberately taking an hour
every day listening to a motivational
message every day here’s something else
read 10 to 15 pages of something
positive
every
de Y and read it with conviction and and
stay focused 10 to 15 pages every day
this is seven days a week absolutely
absolutely
every day McDonald’s know that you know
where they are Burger King know that you
know where they are but every day they
have some advertising they have
billboards to have radio they have
television why because by exposing you
to those messages that will begin to
impact your behavior and will drive you
into the place to purchase what they’re
advertising now you’re advertising for
your greatness and faith comes by
hearing and hearing and hearing and
hearing so you want to listen to
positive messages every day you do this
I’m telling you your life will never be
the same again and read 10 to 15 pages
of something positive every day I read
two to three books a week why because I
have goals and dreams of things I want
to achieve I want my life to count I
want to make a greater impact at this
stage of my life I’m working on my
children’s children’s children’s
education a good man leaves a legacy for
his children’s children so I’m working
on their education at this point in my
life and as I begin to look at myself in
order to achieve more to do more I know
I have to work more in my mind and let
me give you an example how this work the
most money I’ve ever earned an hour to
have two hundred and sixty thousand
dollars that’s the most money I’ve ever
earned it an hour and a half a lot of
people work a whole month and don’t do
that or six months then him this is the
next thing I want you to do I want you
to look at your relationships and I want
you to upgrade your relationships see
MIT did a study this study indicated
that you earn within two to three
thousand dollars of your closest friends
not only that I started reading books
every day and listening to positive
messages but I separated myself from my
friends who did not have goals and who
did not have dreams why because people
rub off on you is call a mind virus you
earn within two to three thousand
dollars of your closest friends so when
you upgrade your relationships you’ve
got to ask yourself the question who is
it that I need to associate with that I
can learn from that I can grow mentally
emotionally spiritually and financially
by aligning myself with another person
that I can learn from and dr. Dennis
Kimbrell said if you’re the smartest one
in your group you need to get a new
whoa think about that I was as smart as
what in my group then one person called
me who had been admired me for years and
said les I want you to coach me and my
trainers on how to tell a story and
create value for an audience and I want
to share with you some things I want to
teach you some things oh man I said is
that right he said yes you always say
you’re never too old to learn and you’re
never too young to teach I want to teach
you some things I said okay I’m open to
that let me share this with you
he blew my mind the most money as I
mentioned to you I’ve ever earned
speaking to over 8,000 people in Salt
Lake City Utah two hundred and sixty
thousand dollars I did an event with
this individual just over 500 people
because of what I learned from him
because I upgraded my relationships are
earned over four hundred and ten
thousand dollars and an hour and a half
I was excited but I was also depressed
because I’ve been speaking for 28 years
and I started thinking about all the
money that I left on the table all the
hotels and plane rides all of the
audience’s I spoke to all of the money
that I missed out on because I didn’t
know that I didn’t know and I thought I
knew how’s a big fish in a small pond I
can’t tell you if you don’t get anything
else you have to look at your
relationships and you’ve got to ask
yourself the question what is this
relationship doing to me and I mean in
every area of your life when the doctor
looked at me and said you have cancer
cancer is the most feared word in seven
different languages one of the first
things I had to do I found out who had
cancer at some point in time or was
living with cancer and conquered it I
surrounded myself with people who had
done what I wanted to do who were
winning at the game see it’s it’s very
important every area of your life if you
want to improve your health start
hanging around healthy people they did a
30-year study
and said that the reason that most
people are obese it’s a mind virus
listen to what they said a mind virus is
communicated mind to mind that if you
have a friend that’s fatter you marry
somebody that’s obese you have a 41% –
up to a hundred and sixty-one percent of
becoming obese yourself even if they
live in another state whoa why because
birds of a feather flock together
never forget high school teaching mr.
Luo Washington said mr. brown if you run
around with nine broke people I
guarantee you you’ll become number ten
whoa
think about that part of your mindset
development not only listening not only
reading but you have got to look at your
relationships upgrade your relationships
and continue to evaluate them and make
sure they’re an asset to you and not a
liability my son John list is a
motivational speaker he has a saying who
should you count on and who should you
count out see there’s some relationships
that can start out real positive and
then sometimes we outgrow people has
that ever happened to you have you ever
outgrown – when somebody used to be
close to used to be your bosom buddy and
then you haven’t been together for a
time and then when you get together you
have absolutely nothing in common
sometimes that happen with family
members my twin brother
it’s a strained conversation because
he’s taught my less did you hear who
died no I don’t get up reading the
obituary column
I’m glad my name is not there hello I
don’t care I’m focusing on living our
conversations are so different isn’t
interesting now you could be raised in
the same family same circumstances by
the same parents and end up dramatically
different
it’s called life here’s the other thing
that’s very important write down the
goals that you want to achieve write
them down
put them on a ten on a three by five
card and and and I want you to use a
King James Version Bible and in Matthew
7:7 ask and it shall be given seek and
ye shall find knock and it shall be
opened unto you once you write that on
inside of the cart on the flip side of
the car I want you to write down one
major goal that you want to achieve and
you want to read that three times a day
three times a day what are you doing
you’re hypnotizing yourself and your D
hypnotizing yourself what you’re doing
is you are dispelling the myths and all
of the spells that you’re living under I
think that a poverty mindset is a spell
I think that people go so far and
because they’re mesmerized by life they
unconsciously stop and you have to break
that spell by constant attention so on
one side you read your goal that one
major goal three times a day then the
flip side you flip that script over ask
you to show be given seek and ye shall
find knock and it shall be given unto
you as you read that every day every day
three times a day I can tell you amazing
things breakthroughs will happen for you
now we’re gonna take a break right now
and I want you to take the time to think
about this one thing what is it that
you’re going to do differently because
in order to do something you’ve never
done you’ve got to become someone you’ve
never been you got to be willing to give
up who you have been to give birth to
who you can become
I want you to take the time and write
down one radical change that you’re
gonna make about you and you know if you
do that your life will never be the same
again
this is mrs. Mamie Brown’s baby boy Les
Brown we’re gonna take a break right now
and we’ll be right back hello this is
les brown mrs. Mamie Browns baby boy I
hope you took some time to really go
within because see no one knows you like
you you know what it is that you need to
work on I mean one of my main issues
that I had dramatically changed about
myself was I had to develop courage I
used to go see people do things I saw
speakers on stage my heart would say I
can do that but I didn’t have the
courage to stand up for myself for 14
years I procrastinated for 14 years I
kept myself as a spectator sitting on
the sidelines and then I saw a speaker
and he was so boring the
was as quiet as a graveyard between
funerals and I say whoa if he could do
it I know I can do it and because I saw
what he did and his brother-in-law was
sitting next to me and he said you ought
to be that boring and earned the kind of
money he earned I said how much do their
pain he said five thousand dollars I
said five thousand dollars he’s always
been talking for about 45 minutes or an
hour he says that’s how much they make
now I wasn’t earning $5,000 a month I
said wait a minute if he can do that I
know I can do that have you ever done
that before
he gave me courage and so at that moment
now that was a decision I don’t have to
have his example of somebody that that
was less talented and I was to give me
the courage I should have had the
courage to stand up myself to believe in
my own stuff but the truth of the matter
is I didn’t and I can’t unscramble those
eggs I cannot pull those years back I
cannot recapture those 14 years maybe
that’s my favorite book says forgetting
those things which are behind reaching
forth unto those things which are before
and press toward the call of your higher
calling press toward that mark of your
higher calling and that’s what I do
that’s what I do every day I have to
continue to work up the courage I
remember going in to do a presentation
before a group of educators I was the
only one there without a college degree
and I had to talk to myself I went into
the bathroom and I said les Ron let me
tell you something
what do you care about the fact they
have MBAs and PhDs that only means piled
high and deep to you and not any
disrespect for credentials they’re very
important but I had to get myself
together Hey look here you can’t go in
there worrying about what they have just
bring what you have you got seven
children you got to take care you had a
mother you have to take care and you
have something to say you have some
talent you have some abilities you’ve
got to believe in yourself you’ve got to
stand up you can’t Punk out now you get
a phone now see sometimes you have to
talk to yourself it might be the most
intelligent conversation you will ever
have talking to yourself so that radical
change it doesn’t happen overnight you
can make the decision
you’ve got to stay on top of yourself
every day to come from and live your
life from a place of power courage and
faith as opposed to being a volunteer
victim as most people are volunteer
victims here’s something else get an
accountability partner get someone
that’s like you a like-minded like
hearted person that you have similar
goals and dreams and you hold each other
accountable and you talk with each other
on a regular basis and if you can join a
mastermind group of other supportive
mindsets of individuals who are working
to improve themselves who are stretching
and challenging themselves and here’s
something else a worthwhile investment
find yourself a coach find someone in
your industry so I find someone in your
area of interest that you can invest in
yourself and have an accountability
coach I have a coach I spent over
$100,000 a year on my personal growth
and development or my coach why less
you’re less wrong you were selected one
of the top five speakers in the world
you got the highs award from
Toastmasters International and the
National Speakers Association you you
one of the highest paid speakers in the
world why would you need a coach if you
ever watched Tiger Woods who everybody
would say arguably one of the greatest
golfers on the planet today whenever he
swings you will see him look at the ball
and then he’ll look to the right
to look at his coach if Tiger Woods
needs a coach what do you need what do I
need here’s something I can tell you
that I know you can’t see the picture
with you in the frame you can’t see the
picture when you’re in the frame most
people fail because they don’t know that
they don’t know and they think they know
Einstein said the thinking that has
brought me this far has created some
problems that this thinking can’t solve
see what got you where you are right now
your best thinking has produced the
level of money that you have your level
of accomplishment the growth of your
business or the lack of your best
thinking has produced that on that face
that and get some help one of the things
I teach ask for help
because you’re weak but because you want
to remain strong and ask for help and
don’t stop until you get it and so take
the time and find someone that can coach
you find someone that will have the
courage to tell you what you need to
hear and not what you want to hear and
that’s what I have in my Queens has been
my coach for the past 38 years and I
shudder to think what would have
happened to me I used to be a disc
jockey Les Brown the man about town lb
Triple P there were none before me there
will be none after me therefore that
makes me the one and only young insanely
love to make the certified bona fide
people to be qualified to bring you
satisfaction at a whole lot of action I
was bad baby yes I was and this guy said
less you’re more than a disc jockey what
do you talk about man if you can
entertain people and don’t see them if
you can reach people not less through
this microphone and you can’t see them
what can you do if you could see them if
you can entertain them you can educate
them you can empower them if you can be
less from them out of our town and you
can swim to the bottom of the deepest
ocean or climb to the mouth of the top
of the highest mountain no matter where
you go they’ll be talking about me lb
Triple P if you can come up with all of
that kind of godly garb garbage what
could you do if you sit down and you
started thinking and doing editorials
about things that’s maintaining out
detriment what could you do to inspire
people to register to vote what could
you do to begin to impact public policy
you got to get a larger vision of
yourself said Mike I never thought about
myself in that way
see has everyone anybody ever seen
something for you that you didn’t see it
for yourself
I didn’t see that for myself maybe
that’s why my favorite book says is not
seen ear has not heard North entered a
heart of mankind what God has in store
for you because of what he saw in me he
inspired me he gave me a vision of
myself beyond my circumstances beyond my
mental conditioning and beyond the job
where I was because I thought I was just
a disc jockey I love that I’m master of
microphone you drop me in any city I
could master off microphone I can turn a
city upside down with
microphone but I had more on me than I
was expressing and I did not know it and
because of this encouragement I became a
community activist because of this
encouragement I started doing the talk
show called
voice of the people because of his
encouragement when I got out of radio I
ran for the Ohio legislature and I was
elected and because of his encouragement
I passed 14 bills my first term because
of his encouragement I was elected three
times and became the chairman of the
human resource committee because of this
encouragement I became a public speaker
because of his encouragement I became an
author because of his encouragement I
did a show for a King world called the
Les Brown show and they paid me five
million dollars two million dollars not
to speak because of his encouragement I
produced specials for PBS Public
Television and said you couldn’t do that
you don’t have a college education it’s
educational television because of his
encouragement I did so many things I had
absolutely no idea that I could do I
encourage you to live full and to die
empty there’s more in you right now
than just working on a job where they
pay you just enough to keep you from
quitting and you work just hard enough
to keep from getting fired and when you
make the decision and identify that key
area of your life that you need to make
a radical change things will begin to
open up for you now here’s the other
thing that’s very important once you
identify your goal I want you to get if
possible a visual picture of your goal
my major goal was to buy my mother a
home I got the picture of the home with
a 12 foot swimming pool and a basketball
court on a golf course
I bought that home for my mother cost
just over 400 thousand dollars it’s
10,000 square feet I had a picture long
before I had the money and the down
payment to get it my goal was to be
known nationally and internationally as
a speaker I had that goal I had a card
that I had on one side asking to show be
given seek and you shall find
not gonna she’ll be off but on the other
side I have I’m the world’s number one
orator I produce that result in my life
I had a goal of becoming a talk-show
host I used to watch Phil Donahue and I
put my picture
on the screen of the television as I
listened to the program I visualized
myself there and I was called by King
world production and I had my own talk
show well it was a highest-rated fastest
capsule talk show in the history of
television well Levi had was it’s called
life now here’s something else you will
fail your way to success trust me on
that you have a lot of failures a lot of
disappointments but you will fail your
way to success Goethe says that which
does not kill you will make you stronger
see 85% of people allow their fear of
failure to outweigh their desire to
succeed that’s why you have to be of
good courage you have to have courage
with life knocks you down I have a
saying trying to land on your back
because if you can look up you can get
up so once you look at and decide the
goal that you want you want to put some
things I put a treasure board or a gold
board and have pictures of the gold that
you want to achieve so you can see it
every day when you get up in the morning
and the last thing about your
programming your subconscious mind where
9 out of 10 decisions that you make
comes from there here’s something else
not only do you heart what a physical
picture that you can see every day to
remind you to keep you on course but the
other thing that’s very important
achieving your goals writing your goals
down in detail and having seven action
steps that you take every day Robley
Shula said by the yard it’s hard but
inch-by-inch anything is a cinch you
want to think about one of the things I
need to do every day break it down into
increments you have you thirty day goals
and you have your three month goals and
your six month goals and your one year
goals all right you want to break it
down in increments what do you need to
do starting today don’t squander any
time there goes a second there goes
another second there goes another second
and all the power in the world can’t
bring it back so what are seven things
that you can do starting today and then
once you do those seven things then you
work on all the other stuff well what
are the seven most important steps that
you can take that can move you in the
direction of your goal and I decided to
become a speaker I started memorizing
quotes every day
that was one of the goals I had to
memorize quotes I have probably over 4
to 500 quotes and statistics in my heads
in all kind of areas I’ve spoken in the
National Convention for the real estate
conventions Remax I’ve spoken for
doctors and lawyers I trained over 5,000
doctors last year teaching doctors how
to communicate with their patients to
increase their taking of their
hypertension medication to increase
their compliance from 30% has paid 640
thousand dollars in one month Monday
through Friday or Monday through
Thursday 30 minutes a day a lot of
people work a whole year and don’t do
that I don’t tell you that to impress
you but to impress upon you you’ve got
greatness at you you can do more than
you can ever begin to imagine I had no
idea this less round you see existed I
had no idea and the reason that you’re
watching me now is because you know in
your heart of hearts that you can do
what I’ve done and even more and so as
you begin to think about that think
about writing your goals down listening
to motivational messages changing your
relationships upgrading your
relationships thinking about seven
things you need to do every day some
radical change you need to make in you
there’s an old African proverb that says
if there’s no enemy within the enemy
outside can do us no harm
here’s something else that’s very very
important as we talked about having a
personal coach the next thing that’s
important about reaching your goals is
this what is it as you look in your past
that’s affecting you right now I saw a
movie called Magnolia powerful lion in
that movie and the movie said we might
be through with our past but our past is
not through with us whoa let me share
something with you I realize about
myself the reason that I procrastinated
for 14 years was because when I was in
the fifth grade and Mrs Mary Ford
Williams said to mrs. Crompton he
doesn’t belong here he is slow he’s not
like his brother and they put me back
from the fifth fifth grade to the fourth
grade that affected me I didn’t even
realize it they say sticks themselves to
break your bones but words will never
hurt you yes they will but they can also
free you up because
I’ll never forget when I met mr.
Washington it was my junior year in high
school I’ve been in special education
from the fourth grade all the way up to
my junior year in high school my twin
brother always made the honor roll and
he said young man worked this problem
out for me he was a new instructor I
said sir I can’t do that he said why not
I said I’m not one of you students and
look at me yes sir
work the problem out anyhow I can’t do
what you asked me to do sir why Sir
because I’m imaginable mental retarded
and the students erupted and laughter
they said hey he’s DTS and what’s that
he’s the dumb two and he’s not Wesley
that’s Leslie and he came from behind
his desk and he said don’t ever say that
again
someone’s opinion of you does not have
to become your reality
how was I was a jarring statement on one
hand I was humiliated but on the other
hand I was liberated because he looked
at me with the eyes of Goethe who say
look at a man the way that he is he only
becomes worse but look at him as if he
were what he could be then it becomes
what he should be and here’s what I
learned from that experience I want you
to visualize yourself already there
whatever goal whatever dream that you
have see the picture complete see
yourself there why we have something at
the base of our brains called the
reticular activating system so you’ll
have genius within you and to prove it
let me give you an example
the other night I I said I’ve got to get
up tomorrow morning at 7 o’clock is that
a hotel I called downstairs and told
them to call me at 7 o’clock the hotel
neglected to do it but I woke up at 7
o’clock on the nose have you ever done
that before
how did you know when to get up hey
that’s subconscious mind everything we
need the answers are already there have
you ever seen somebody and said you know
what I remember your face but I don’t
exactly know where and then later on you
say hey I know I know where I saw you
and it came what happened the conscious
mind sent that thought to the
subconscious mind and it pulled that
information up and gave it to you now
when you begin to hold the vision of
what it is you want to achieve you
stimulate what is called the reticular
activating system it’s a network like
group of cells in the base of the brain
let me share with you how it works have
them purchase a car no one goes
I call that has the same color that
everyone else has has that ever happened
to you before but then once you buy the
car you drive it off the lot you start
seeing it everywhere say hey where did
this come from
let me tell you what happened you made
an investment and because you made an
investment that piqued your awareness
that stimulated your reticular
activating system another case important
I was at a party with a friend of mine
and and we were dancing and music was
blasting she said wait a minute
my son is crying he’s at the door I said
you said that at the door
because even if you weren’t you wouldn’t
be able to hear him and she stopped went
to the door opened the door and there
her four-year-old son was at the door
how did she hear it and I didn’t hear it
in the other people dancing
it wasn’t our child it was her child her
reticular activating system picked up
his whimpering sound and I’m saying to
you that you have that in you when you
focus on your goals and dreams and you
visualize it complete it will stimulate
the reticular activating system and it
will lead you there following all the
other things that we suggested now not
only is it possible you can live your
dream it’s necessary that you change
relationships that you get a coach that
you meet with other like-minded people
that will hold you accountable that you
write your goals out and you have seven
steps that you do every day on your
goals to monitor to see where you are
but you’ve got to take full
responsibility and everything work out
for you fine if you have the money fine
if you can get the help and support of
friends and family members and your
spouse great but if you don’t all of
those things are minor things the major
key to your reaching your goals as you
nobody’s gonna work on your dream harder
than you trust me on that one you’ve got
to take responsibility to make it happen
if it happens when you come out the gate
fire but if you fail so what come back
again and again and again and again if
it’s something that you love if it’s
your passion until you do it George
Bernard Shaw said the people that make
it in this life they look around for the
circumstances that they want and if they
can’t find them they create them here’s
something else it’s hard when I bought
the first home for my mother and they
did and I didn’t do a title search and a
guy sued
and I had to move out from the big
beautiful home I bought it to a
roach-infested home I moved her out of
and the neighbors came out and said
maybe y’all back yes what happened my
boy lost the house he didn’t do a title
search and we had to get out of there
foreclosed on the house he didn’t have
the $50,000 to pay the guy who put a
lien on the property it was devastating
but let me tell you something it was
worth it because I came back 90 days
later I got a bigger and better house
ninety days later I stayed focused on
the goal and that’s the thing that you
want to do stay focus on your goal keep
the main thing the main thing you’re
going to have distractions that’s a part
of the process it’s not there to stop
you it’s only there to challenge you you
want to grow through it you know I think
it was Robert Schuller’s that tough
times never last but tough people do
keep the main thing the main thing you
going through hell don’t stop keep
moving keep on moving those have to talk
about it keep moving that’s the name of
the game keep on swinging one of my
favorite movies is Cool Hand Luke and
and and then Paul Newman I don’t know if
you’ve ever seen the movie but there’s a
scene where Cool Hand Luke is fighting a
guy God big dude just kept knocking him
down BAM that’s kept on knocking about
cool hammer get up he’d knock him down
BAM and pretty soon the guys the field
inside said stay down cool head stay
down cool head and Luke would get back
up again God knocking down barrel the
guys say stay down man stay down Cool
Hand would get back up again got
knocking down BAM
and after a while the guy got tired of
knocking Cool Hand down and cool hands
stood up everybody’d walk away and he
was still swinging in the wind Reagan
nobody was there but him that’s who I am
Cool Hand Luke that’s who you want to be
cool hand look you keep on swinging and
the universe will yield to you it will
dispatch angels to come rescue you and
say back off give him what he wants give
her what she wants
let’s go find a whip today that’s the
way life is it’s hard but it’s worth it
what it will make it worth it for you
Nietzsche said if you know the why for
living you can undo almost any how I
want you to take the time and write down
twelve reasons on why you won’t fail
because when the tough times come and
they’re going to come when life hits you
on the Blind Side and that’s going to
happen your children start going crazy
or someone you thought you’d be married
to for the rest of your life like I went
through and they decide they want a
divorce
call life what is it that can keep you
going your reasons will be your rod and
staff to comfort you to take you through
that process I can tell you it’s
possible you can live your dreams it’s
necessary that you surround yourself
with people you can learn from and grow
from that you write your goals up you
work on them every day that you have a
mate of mine I’m going to make it it’s
necessary that you constantly work on
yourself reading positive material
listing the positive material going to
seminars and workshops investing in
yourself getting a coach and it’s you
you’ve got to take personal
responsibility to make it happen don’t
see yourself as a victim and it’s hard
it’s hard changing your life is hard
getting up working when you’re in pain
is hard it’s hard it’s hard working when
you are trying to make something happen
for you and the family and you go home
and you’re facing a living hell where
you need to refuel and replenish
yourself mentally and emotionally and
spiritually and you got a battle in your
home base it’s hard to keep your spirit
up it’s hard and people don’t see the
vision they don’t believe in you they
say oh you can count on me and they’re
not there they just lied but only if
they’re when they need you it’s hard
I’ll tell you it’s worth it the
sacrifice that you have to make I can
tell you from my experience it’s worth
it so take the time to write down what
are those 12 reasons of why you won’t
give up what is it that will make it
worth it for you and once you find that
you will create some momentum in your
life and then it’s done it’s done stick
a fork in it it’s done here’s something
I want you to keep in mind life is a
fight for territory it’s a fight for
territory and once you stop fighting for
what you want what you don’t want
will automatically take over I want you
to read that I want you to memorize that
I want you to put it someplace where you
can see it I want you to keep that in
mind
life is a fight for territory and once
once you stop fighting for what you want
what you don’t want will automatically
take over once you stop fighting for
financial freedom I am cancer free I’m
debt free and I’m drama free I have the
faith to call forth those things that be
not as though they were I’m fighting for
my peace of mind I’m fighting for my
freedom I’m fighting for my children’s
children’s children I’m fighting to
create a brighter tomorrow I’m fighting
to make a difference in life I’m
fighting to make my print to leave my
mark on I refuse to die an unlived life
and that that’s what you are doing right
now you’re saying to yourself I refuse
to die an unlived life I want my life to
count I want my life to mean something I
want not to be a burden to anybody I
want to control my own future to write
my own check to control my own destiny
did you want to do to do what I want to
do when I want to do it not to answer to
anyone else but myself you have it like
that the only reason you’re watching me
is because we’re cut from the same cloth
we have branches of the same tree
I don’t reason you take the time to
invest in your time your money in your
energy just just stay here and focus
right now because you feel me in your
heart where your heart is there your
treasure is also as a man thinketh in
his heart so is he
and I say to you keep in mind what I
said life is a fight for territory once
you stop fighting for what you want what
you don’t want well automatically take
over Jim Rohn said something I love he
said when the end comes for you let it
find you conquering a new mountain not
sliding down a no one know life is too
short and unpredictable as as Helen
Keller would say eat the dessert first
don’t let it find you sliding down
same mount I don’t know what your goals
are I don’t know what your dreams are
here’s what I know about you you have
greatness within you here’s what I know
about you and I don’t even know you but
based upon my own experience you were
chosen on purpose for a purpose 1 out of
400 million sperm you have greatness
within you
but greatness is a choice it’s not your
destiny it’s a choice that you have to
make every day choose ye this day whom
ye shall serve the mediocre part of
yourself or the greatness that you were
chosen for this has been missus Mamie
Brown’s baby boy I hope you got into
value out of this it’s been a plum
pleasing pleasure as well as a privilege
god bless you god bless your dream and
God bless the greatness that is in you
the world needs you and we need you now
and so it is
Browns baby boy I want to thank you so
much for joining us you know at this
particular time I want you to first of
all pat yourself on the back and take
the time to thank yourself for becoming
involved in a process for looking at
your life if this ever time that we need
to begin to stop and think and assess
ourselves that time is now when you
begin to look at the foreclosure rate
that’s going on in the country and the
foreclosures and the bankruptcies and in
addition to that the violence and people
losing their jobs and the level of
uncertainty and fear that people are
feeling and I think there’s a level of
stress in the air unlike anything we’ve
ever felt before and so just to take the
time to think to pause and particularly
not only looking at what’s going on but
asking yourself the question how is this
affecting me you know we want to all
become successful but I’ve found that
there’s some success that’s toxic
success what I mean is that you don’t
want to win end up going after goals and
dreams and neglect yourself I want you
to think about your goals and dreams and
things that you want to achieve and at
the top of the list I want you to put up
there your strategy for being here I
just came from the doctor let me share
something with you I don’t care what
goals and dreams that you have you’ve
got to have your health in order to be
here so at the top of my list and I’m
suggesting you put it at the top of your
list your strategy your game plan for
being here what are you going to do to
take better care of yourself that’s one
of the first things I want to ask you
about because when I look at my life at
64 and I used to think people in their
50s were old but now that I’m 64 I said
look here people in their 80s and 90s
there are old people my goal is to be
here not only just to see my
grandchildren but to see my great
grandchildren and my great great great
grandchildren but in order to be here
that’s not just lip service that’s a
commitment with my time with my energy
and the choices that I make so I want
you to think about your strategy for
being here and I want you to think about
your goal your goal for securing your
life in your future since I get older my
goal right now is to become an asset to
my children rather than a liability
financially and physically see I don’t
want to be a burden to my children I
don’t know if they like me that will I
love my mother my goal the dream was to
take care of my mother I did that I
brought her home I took care of her till
she’s 89 but children they’re different
today these are different type of people
up in here you don’t know what this
generation of I do I know they say
Darren we love you but I really really
want to stay in good shape and take care
of myself because I don’t want to be
around the house and my kids say look
here who’s gonna take care of me today
all these doing sit around talking to
themself tebah yes I’m kidding yes I
will talking out of his hair no I don’t
want that kind of party for me my goal
and objective is to die young at an old
age so I have a game plan I don’t like
to eat vegetables all the time but not
feel like a silly rabbit
why because I realized at this stage of
my life I’ve got to eat more vegetables
I got to get more rest I’ve got to drink
more juices and I’ve got to do all of
the things that make the healthy choices
that will say to my body less you plan
to be here I see that you’re serious
song to take care of you I do 160
push-ups every morning non-stop why I
couldn’t do that at 15 or 20 but at this
stage of my life I’ve got to do those
kinds of things in order to challenge my
body to stretch my body and to indicate
I plan to be here what’s your plan
what’s your goal because if you don’t
have a goal for being here being here is
not a given when I was a kid we used to
go to funerals of old people I can’t
tell you how many young people whose
funerals I’ve gone to I can’t tell you
how many and so and and there’s
something about between 40 and 60 I
don’t know what is about that period in
time between 40 and 60 when you if
you’re approaching 40 I can tell you you
already know life begins to intensify
things happen to you and things happen
to people you care about between 40 and
60 if you can make it through that
period you can take a deep breath
because most people don’t make 60 most
people don’t and why and I think it’s
because people just take it for granted
that they’re going to be here so I want
to share with you some goals and
strategies that you think about your
goals I want you to
visualize yourself having optimal health
I’m having your right mind I used to ask
my mama mama every Sunday you stand up
in church and other older members of the
church say I want to thank the Lord for
waking me up and my right mind this
morning why do you all say that all the
time she said don’t worry son you live
long enough you’ll find out she was
absolutely right I went in the room the
other day to find something I got in
there and I could remember what I was
looking for I came out I remember what I
was looking for I went back in I found
it then I could remember while I was
looking for it what if her children said
daddy you need some ginkgo biloba I said
what’s that she said something for your
memory I went down to the health food
store I was walking around lady said may
I help you sir I said I forgot why I’m
here she said you need something for
your memory I said I don’t so they took
me over to a little section and I bought
the stuff and then I took it home now I
can’t remember where I put it
so what I got in this water guys here I
want to thank the Lord for waking me up
at my right mind this morning see if you
woke up and your right mind afford it
that’s a good thing I called a friend of
mine the other day miss Williams says
Miss Williams how you do it she said
baby I’m doing good she said I went to
the bathroom by myself not all of
ourselves
I said too much information too much
information let me tell you something
but that’s a good thing I know about
that
I’ve been in the hospital I know what it
is not to be able to move I know what it
is to have back challenges I know what
it is to be in pain so this thing called
life you’ve got your health let me share
something with you that’s a good thing
friend of mine Bishop TD jakes said if
you’ve got a problem man or money can
solve you ain’t got no problem I can
agree with that and I learned some
things going through that experience and
really I should say growing through that
experience my goal at that time was to
be here trust me it’s better be seen
than to be viewed are you feeling the
brother of it here of it here so I want
you to think about your goals and dreams
and here’s what I want you to do right
now I want you to say to yourself it’s
possible it’s possible and I want you to
follow along with this process as you
think about your goals and dreams I want
you to write this down I’m going to give
you some strategies of main
this possibility mindset I want you to
write down mindset maintenance mindset
maintenance let me share something with
you the easiest thing that I do every
year is to live my dream that is helping
people to realize their potential to
step into their greatness challenging
themselves reinventing themselves to
start their own businesses I’ve helped
over 400 people earn millions of dollars
the easiest thing I do every year is
what I do on a day-to-day basis going
into prisons and juvenile detention
centers teaching young people mindset
development how to become effective
communicators how to dress like a
prospect rather than a suspect those are
the easy things that I do let me share
with you the most difficult thing that
I’ve ever done in my life and that was
to believe that I could do it that’s the
most difficult thing that I’ve ever done
in my entire life to believe that I less
ROM who was born an abandoned building
on a floor in a poor section of Miami
Florida with a twin brother
we were adopted we were 6 weeks of age
by mrs. Mamie Brown and I called myself
mrs. Mamie Browns baby boy all that I am
and all that ever hope to be I owe to my
mother so I’ll sign once it said God
took me out of my biological mother’s
womb and placed me in the heart of my
adopted mother to believe that I less
round who was labeled educable mentally
retarded put back from the fifth grade
to the fourth grade Phil again when I
was in the eighth grade to believe that
I had the ability to live the life that
I’m not living no one could have told
anybody who knew me including myself
looking in on us when mrs. Mamie Brown
was raising us in a poor section of
Miami Florida called Liberty City and
over town that I would be Who I am right
now I didn’t even know that and I want
you to think about your goals and dreams
and I want you to expand them why
because it has been said that most
people fail in life not because they aim
too high and miss no most people fail in
life because they’re just like I was for
14 years they aim too low and hit and
many never aim at all not at all they
just go through life surviving someone
said that many people died aged 25 and
don’t get buried in together 65 I was
talking to a friend of mine named Rosia
and I said Rosia how you doing
and she said let me tell you something
life is the mess let’s say girl what are
you talking about she said my life is a
mess she said you know what she said I
just was sitting up here thinking I
haven’t lived I haven’t lived she said
I’ve been working hard all my life
paying bills and taking care of my
children and my children are gone and I
just been thinking I haven’t done
anything she said when I die I don’t
want when people view my body I don’t
want them to say oh she had a funny
expression on her face I don’t want to
have an expression that I’m mad because
if I died right now I would be mad I
said why what are some of the things
you’d like to do she said travel I would
love to travel I like to see the
pyramids I’ve never been to Paris I want
to go to Paris I’ve never been there
there are things that I want to see
things I want to do she said I want to
make a difference in young girls lives
teenage mothers I was a teenage mother I
want to be able to make a difference in
their lives and see the impact that I
had on their lives and she learned she
mentioned a variety of things and I
remember a story about a lady who went
to the doctor and she was diagnosed with
terminal cancer and she came home and
she was sitting at a table and and she
was drinking some coffee and all of a
sudden she just looked up and she said I
refuse to die an unlived life I refuse
to die an unlived life and she decided
that she was going to live that up to
that point her life was for her family
for her children for a husband but she
she had left herself out of the equation
have you ever done that I remember it
appeared in my life I was going to work
and I was working on a job that I hated
and at the same time I was praying that
I wouldn’t get fired I was praying that
I wasn’t laid off I was miserable nobody
was holding a gun to my head but I
showed up every day and I used the
flimsy excuse well I got to pay the
bills I’ve got a car payment I have to
pay I have a family have children I have
a car note and I have a mortgage note I
have to pay I’ve got to survive I was
showing up for a paycheck ladies and
gentlemen that’s not living and a friend
of mine said you know when people change
and I said no he said
when they get to the point when they say
I’ve had it I’ve had it I think the only
reason that you’re listening to me right
now the only reason that you’re watching
this webinar that there’s somewhere in
your heart of hearts if you said as you
looked at your life you said I’ve had it
and not only have you said I’ve had it
but you said also in your heart of
hearts I can do better than this and let
me share something with you
you can because if anybody told me and
I’m not sure I’m gonna share some things
with you that I’ve done not for the
purpose to impress you but to impress
upon you what the possibilities are when
you work on your mind and have mindset
development because I’ve found that how
people live their lives is a result of
their state of mind it has been said you
don’t get in life what you want you get
in life what you are so part of the
process number one is expose yourself to
positive messages see what I’m doing
right now I’m distracting the story
that’s going on in your head right now
how you live your life how I live my
life how all of us live our lives is a
result of the story we believe about
ourselves and most of us are born into
stories I was born into a story where we
were poor but we didn’t know it I don’t
know we were poor until I got on a bus
with my mother going to do domestic work
on Miami Beach and when we crossed the
Venetian causeway and I saw those big
beautiful hotels and I was in the homes
with my mother making a bet and cleaning
wait the food leftover from the families
that she cooked for and we were of a
hand-me-down clothes of the children
that she kept and I kept saying mama
what is it boy as we got ready to pack
up to go back home and to over town and
Liberty City and all the poverty and
filth and the violence there I saying
why can’t we stay here why can’t we stay
here she said lesson we can’t why
because we can’t why mama why can’t we
she said it’s just the way it is now
shut up and I kept saying to myself why
is that the way that it is and I guess I
was okay for Wesley and Margaret Ann and
Leonard and Angelou and Sharon and Linda
but it wasn’t okay for me I was curious
I wanted to live like mr. sidarsky lived
I wanted the big car that he had
I wanted that big home that he had we
lived in a two-bedroom apartment it was
seven of us plus mama
he had a big mansion just three of them
10,000 square feet said mama what is it
Leslie one day I want to buy you
something just like this my brothers and
sisters when we were on the bus going
back they were just engaged in playful
things I was thinking and dreaming mama
didn’t understand why was thinking like
that because I’ve been exposed to
positive messages I had to take care of
mrs. sidarsky I to shine his shoes and
clean his office and every day when he
was listening to motivational messages I
was hearing those things too Earl
Nightingale
we become what we think about all of us
are self-made but only the successful
will admit it and all to be successful
you must be willing to do the things a
day others won’t do in order to have the
things tomorrow others won’t have your
mind is a machine you must program
yourself for success Wow when I heard
those words I said wait a minute I could
program my mind for success I can
program my mind for wealth you can too
trust me I’ve heard over fifty five
million dollars in the last 28 years
anybody told me that I would be doing
what I’m doing right now I spoke
recently in Sweden they paid me 40,000
euro for an hour speech I had no idea
that this les ROM that you now see have
the ability to do that I used to work
for the Miami sanitation department as a
garbage collector I used to be a janitor
I used to do door-to-door sales I used
to work for Sears in Miami on Biscayne
Boulevard I had no idea this less robbed
that you now see had the ability one day
to give lectures at Harvard or Yale
Dartmouth University I had no idea that
this Les Brown existed I don’t tell you
that to impress you but to impress upon
you there is more in you Simba there’s
more in you than you have been
expressing all of us have seen Lion King
some great symbols in there and I say to
you there’s more in you right now than
it’s represented in your bank account
there’s more in you right now that’s
being reflected by your life right now
your life is not a true reflection of
your potential you have greatness within
you you have the ability
do more than you can ever begin to
imagine there’s a reason that my
favorite book says as a man think it’s
so is he and as he continues to think so
he remains in order for us to begin to
break into that level of greatness that
we have within ourselves you have to
make a conscious choice every day to
expose your mind to positive messages so
I put myself on a regimen I do this
every day and I suggest that you do it
write this down number one listen to
motivational messages every day if you
have choosing your future a set of tapes
and CDs that we produce or creating your
greatest life I guarantee you if you do
what I’m sharing with you right now for
six straight months every day your life
will never be the same again
I guarantee it 100% you listen every day
for 1 hour to creating your greatest
life any of those messages because faith
comes by hearing and hearing and hearing
what it will begin to do is interrupt
the story in your mind
it will override the story that you
believe about yourself it will distract
all the negative thoughts that you have
that’s holding you back that held me
back for 14 years what I used to go see
the number one motivational speaker on
the planet Zig Ziglar and Tony Robbins
and and my heart said I can do that I
love to help people I’m just like my
mother and then my mind would ask how I
went from my heart to my mind and my
mind would say less Ron you don’t have a
college education less Ron you’ve never
worked for a major corporation less roun
you were labeled educable mentally
retarded they call you DT the dumb twin
you’re not as smart as your brother have
you ever thought about something you
wanted to do and you convinced yourself
that you couldn’t do it see sometimes we
need to have some external voices and so
by listening to motivational messages
that begin to override that negative
thoughts that I had about myself in my
mind and it gave me a new story and
empowered me and gave me a vision of
myself beyond my circumstances and
mental conditioning and started me to
writing a new chapter in my life and so
now money will never be another issue
for me and that was an issue for most of
my life because I didn’t know what I did
know and I thought I knew so one you
have to do is that you have to have a
mindset development strategy where you
are deliberately taking an hour
every day listening to a motivational
message every day here’s something else
read 10 to 15 pages of something
positive
every
de Y and read it with conviction and and
stay focused 10 to 15 pages every day
this is seven days a week absolutely
absolutely
every day McDonald’s know that you know
where they are Burger King know that you
know where they are but every day they
have some advertising they have
billboards to have radio they have
television why because by exposing you
to those messages that will begin to
impact your behavior and will drive you
into the place to purchase what they’re
advertising now you’re advertising for
your greatness and faith comes by
hearing and hearing and hearing and
hearing so you want to listen to
positive messages every day you do this
I’m telling you your life will never be
the same again and read 10 to 15 pages
of something positive every day I read
two to three books a week why because I
have goals and dreams of things I want
to achieve I want my life to count I
want to make a greater impact at this
stage of my life I’m working on my
children’s children’s children’s
education a good man leaves a legacy for
his children’s children so I’m working
on their education at this point in my
life and as I begin to look at myself in
order to achieve more to do more I know
I have to work more in my mind and let
me give you an example how this work the
most money I’ve ever earned an hour to
have two hundred and sixty thousand
dollars that’s the most money I’ve ever
earned it an hour and a half a lot of
people work a whole month and don’t do
that or six months then him this is the
next thing I want you to do I want you
to look at your relationships and I want
you to upgrade your relationships see
MIT did a study this study indicated
that you earn within two to three
thousand dollars of your closest friends
not only that I started reading books
every day and listening to positive
messages but I separated myself from my
friends who did not have goals and who
did not have dreams why because people
rub off on you is call a mind virus you
earn within two to three thousand
dollars of your closest friends so when
you upgrade your relationships you’ve
got to ask yourself the question who is
it that I need to associate with that I
can learn from that I can grow mentally
emotionally spiritually and financially
by aligning myself with another person
that I can learn from and dr. Dennis
Kimbrell said if you’re the smartest one
in your group you need to get a new
whoa think about that I was as smart as
what in my group then one person called
me who had been admired me for years and
said les I want you to coach me and my
trainers on how to tell a story and
create value for an audience and I want
to share with you some things I want to
teach you some things oh man I said is
that right he said yes you always say
you’re never too old to learn and you’re
never too young to teach I want to teach
you some things I said okay I’m open to
that let me share this with you
he blew my mind the most money as I
mentioned to you I’ve ever earned
speaking to over 8,000 people in Salt
Lake City Utah two hundred and sixty
thousand dollars I did an event with
this individual just over 500 people
because of what I learned from him
because I upgraded my relationships are
earned over four hundred and ten
thousand dollars and an hour and a half
I was excited but I was also depressed
because I’ve been speaking for 28 years
and I started thinking about all the
money that I left on the table all the
hotels and plane rides all of the
audience’s I spoke to all of the money
that I missed out on because I didn’t
know that I didn’t know and I thought I
knew how’s a big fish in a small pond I
can’t tell you if you don’t get anything
else you have to look at your
relationships and you’ve got to ask
yourself the question what is this
relationship doing to me and I mean in
every area of your life when the doctor
looked at me and said you have cancer
cancer is the most feared word in seven
different languages one of the first
things I had to do I found out who had
cancer at some point in time or was
living with cancer and conquered it I
surrounded myself with people who had
done what I wanted to do who were
winning at the game see it’s it’s very
important every area of your life if you
want to improve your health start
hanging around healthy people they did a
30-year study
and said that the reason that most
people are obese it’s a mind virus
listen to what they said a mind virus is
communicated mind to mind that if you
have a friend that’s fatter you marry
somebody that’s obese you have a 41% –
up to a hundred and sixty-one percent of
becoming obese yourself even if they
live in another state whoa why because
birds of a feather flock together
never forget high school teaching mr.
Luo Washington said mr. brown if you run
around with nine broke people I
guarantee you you’ll become number ten
whoa
think about that part of your mindset
development not only listening not only
reading but you have got to look at your
relationships upgrade your relationships
and continue to evaluate them and make
sure they’re an asset to you and not a
liability my son John list is a
motivational speaker he has a saying who
should you count on and who should you
count out see there’s some relationships
that can start out real positive and
then sometimes we outgrow people has
that ever happened to you have you ever
outgrown – when somebody used to be
close to used to be your bosom buddy and
then you haven’t been together for a
time and then when you get together you
have absolutely nothing in common
sometimes that happen with family
members my twin brother
it’s a strained conversation because
he’s taught my less did you hear who
died no I don’t get up reading the
obituary column
I’m glad my name is not there hello I
don’t care I’m focusing on living our
conversations are so different isn’t
interesting now you could be raised in
the same family same circumstances by
the same parents and end up dramatically
different
it’s called life here’s the other thing
that’s very important write down the
goals that you want to achieve write
them down
put them on a ten on a three by five
card and and and I want you to use a
King James Version Bible and in Matthew
7:7 ask and it shall be given seek and
ye shall find knock and it shall be
opened unto you once you write that on
inside of the cart on the flip side of
the car I want you to write down one
major goal that you want to achieve and
you want to read that three times a day
three times a day what are you doing
you’re hypnotizing yourself and your D
hypnotizing yourself what you’re doing
is you are dispelling the myths and all
of the spells that you’re living under I
think that a poverty mindset is a spell
I think that people go so far and
because they’re mesmerized by life they
unconsciously stop and you have to break
that spell by constant attention so on
one side you read your goal that one
major goal three times a day then the
flip side you flip that script over ask
you to show be given seek and ye shall
find knock and it shall be given unto
you as you read that every day every day
three times a day I can tell you amazing
things breakthroughs will happen for you
now we’re gonna take a break right now
and I want you to take the time to think
about this one thing what is it that
you’re going to do differently because
in order to do something you’ve never
done you’ve got to become someone you’ve
never been you got to be willing to give
up who you have been to give birth to
who you can become
I want you to take the time and write
down one radical change that you’re
gonna make about you and you know if you
do that your life will never be the same
again
this is mrs. Mamie Brown’s baby boy Les
Brown we’re gonna take a break right now
and we’ll be right back hello this is
les brown mrs. Mamie Browns baby boy I
hope you took some time to really go
within because see no one knows you like
you you know what it is that you need to
work on I mean one of my main issues
that I had dramatically changed about
myself was I had to develop courage I
used to go see people do things I saw
speakers on stage my heart would say I
can do that but I didn’t have the
courage to stand up for myself for 14
years I procrastinated for 14 years I
kept myself as a spectator sitting on
the sidelines and then I saw a speaker
and he was so boring the
was as quiet as a graveyard between
funerals and I say whoa if he could do
it I know I can do it and because I saw
what he did and his brother-in-law was
sitting next to me and he said you ought
to be that boring and earned the kind of
money he earned I said how much do their
pain he said five thousand dollars I
said five thousand dollars he’s always
been talking for about 45 minutes or an
hour he says that’s how much they make
now I wasn’t earning $5,000 a month I
said wait a minute if he can do that I
know I can do that have you ever done
that before
he gave me courage and so at that moment
now that was a decision I don’t have to
have his example of somebody that that
was less talented and I was to give me
the courage I should have had the
courage to stand up myself to believe in
my own stuff but the truth of the matter
is I didn’t and I can’t unscramble those
eggs I cannot pull those years back I
cannot recapture those 14 years maybe
that’s my favorite book says forgetting
those things which are behind reaching
forth unto those things which are before
and press toward the call of your higher
calling press toward that mark of your
higher calling and that’s what I do
that’s what I do every day I have to
continue to work up the courage I
remember going in to do a presentation
before a group of educators I was the
only one there without a college degree
and I had to talk to myself I went into
the bathroom and I said les Ron let me
tell you something
what do you care about the fact they
have MBAs and PhDs that only means piled
high and deep to you and not any
disrespect for credentials they’re very
important but I had to get myself
together Hey look here you can’t go in
there worrying about what they have just
bring what you have you got seven
children you got to take care you had a
mother you have to take care and you
have something to say you have some
talent you have some abilities you’ve
got to believe in yourself you’ve got to
stand up you can’t Punk out now you get
a phone now see sometimes you have to
talk to yourself it might be the most
intelligent conversation you will ever
have talking to yourself so that radical
change it doesn’t happen overnight you
can make the decision
you’ve got to stay on top of yourself
every day to come from and live your
life from a place of power courage and
faith as opposed to being a volunteer
victim as most people are volunteer
victims here’s something else get an
accountability partner get someone
that’s like you a like-minded like
hearted person that you have similar
goals and dreams and you hold each other
accountable and you talk with each other
on a regular basis and if you can join a
mastermind group of other supportive
mindsets of individuals who are working
to improve themselves who are stretching
and challenging themselves and here’s
something else a worthwhile investment
find yourself a coach find someone in
your industry so I find someone in your
area of interest that you can invest in
yourself and have an accountability
coach I have a coach I spent over
$100,000 a year on my personal growth
and development or my coach why less
you’re less wrong you were selected one
of the top five speakers in the world
you got the highs award from
Toastmasters International and the
National Speakers Association you you
one of the highest paid speakers in the
world why would you need a coach if you
ever watched Tiger Woods who everybody
would say arguably one of the greatest
golfers on the planet today whenever he
swings you will see him look at the ball
and then he’ll look to the right
to look at his coach if Tiger Woods
needs a coach what do you need what do I
need here’s something I can tell you
that I know you can’t see the picture
with you in the frame you can’t see the
picture when you’re in the frame most
people fail because they don’t know that
they don’t know and they think they know
Einstein said the thinking that has
brought me this far has created some
problems that this thinking can’t solve
see what got you where you are right now
your best thinking has produced the
level of money that you have your level
of accomplishment the growth of your
business or the lack of your best
thinking has produced that on that face
that and get some help one of the things
I teach ask for help
because you’re weak but because you want
to remain strong and ask for help and
don’t stop until you get it and so take
the time and find someone that can coach
you find someone that will have the
courage to tell you what you need to
hear and not what you want to hear and
that’s what I have in my Queens has been
my coach for the past 38 years and I
shudder to think what would have
happened to me I used to be a disc
jockey Les Brown the man about town lb
Triple P there were none before me there
will be none after me therefore that
makes me the one and only young insanely
love to make the certified bona fide
people to be qualified to bring you
satisfaction at a whole lot of action I
was bad baby yes I was and this guy said
less you’re more than a disc jockey what
do you talk about man if you can
entertain people and don’t see them if
you can reach people not less through
this microphone and you can’t see them
what can you do if you could see them if
you can entertain them you can educate
them you can empower them if you can be
less from them out of our town and you
can swim to the bottom of the deepest
ocean or climb to the mouth of the top
of the highest mountain no matter where
you go they’ll be talking about me lb
Triple P if you can come up with all of
that kind of godly garb garbage what
could you do if you sit down and you
started thinking and doing editorials
about things that’s maintaining out
detriment what could you do to inspire
people to register to vote what could
you do to begin to impact public policy
you got to get a larger vision of
yourself said Mike I never thought about
myself in that way
see has everyone anybody ever seen
something for you that you didn’t see it
for yourself
I didn’t see that for myself maybe
that’s why my favorite book says is not
seen ear has not heard North entered a
heart of mankind what God has in store
for you because of what he saw in me he
inspired me he gave me a vision of
myself beyond my circumstances beyond my
mental conditioning and beyond the job
where I was because I thought I was just
a disc jockey I love that I’m master of
microphone you drop me in any city I
could master off microphone I can turn a
city upside down with
microphone but I had more on me than I
was expressing and I did not know it and
because of this encouragement I became a
community activist because of this
encouragement I started doing the talk
show called
voice of the people because of his
encouragement when I got out of radio I
ran for the Ohio legislature and I was
elected and because of his encouragement
I passed 14 bills my first term because
of his encouragement I was elected three
times and became the chairman of the
human resource committee because of this
encouragement I became a public speaker
because of his encouragement I became an
author because of his encouragement I
did a show for a King world called the
Les Brown show and they paid me five
million dollars two million dollars not
to speak because of his encouragement I
produced specials for PBS Public
Television and said you couldn’t do that
you don’t have a college education it’s
educational television because of his
encouragement I did so many things I had
absolutely no idea that I could do I
encourage you to live full and to die
empty there’s more in you right now
than just working on a job where they
pay you just enough to keep you from
quitting and you work just hard enough
to keep from getting fired and when you
make the decision and identify that key
area of your life that you need to make
a radical change things will begin to
open up for you now here’s the other
thing that’s very important once you
identify your goal I want you to get if
possible a visual picture of your goal
my major goal was to buy my mother a
home I got the picture of the home with
a 12 foot swimming pool and a basketball
court on a golf course
I bought that home for my mother cost
just over 400 thousand dollars it’s
10,000 square feet I had a picture long
before I had the money and the down
payment to get it my goal was to be
known nationally and internationally as
a speaker I had that goal I had a card
that I had on one side asking to show be
given seek and you shall find
not gonna she’ll be off but on the other
side I have I’m the world’s number one
orator I produce that result in my life
I had a goal of becoming a talk-show
host I used to watch Phil Donahue and I
put my picture
on the screen of the television as I
listened to the program I visualized
myself there and I was called by King
world production and I had my own talk
show well it was a highest-rated fastest
capsule talk show in the history of
television well Levi had was it’s called
life now here’s something else you will
fail your way to success trust me on
that you have a lot of failures a lot of
disappointments but you will fail your
way to success Goethe says that which
does not kill you will make you stronger
see 85% of people allow their fear of
failure to outweigh their desire to
succeed that’s why you have to be of
good courage you have to have courage
with life knocks you down I have a
saying trying to land on your back
because if you can look up you can get
up so once you look at and decide the
goal that you want you want to put some
things I put a treasure board or a gold
board and have pictures of the gold that
you want to achieve so you can see it
every day when you get up in the morning
and the last thing about your
programming your subconscious mind where
9 out of 10 decisions that you make
comes from there here’s something else
not only do you heart what a physical
picture that you can see every day to
remind you to keep you on course but the
other thing that’s very important
achieving your goals writing your goals
down in detail and having seven action
steps that you take every day Robley
Shula said by the yard it’s hard but
inch-by-inch anything is a cinch you
want to think about one of the things I
need to do every day break it down into
increments you have you thirty day goals
and you have your three month goals and
your six month goals and your one year
goals all right you want to break it
down in increments what do you need to
do starting today don’t squander any
time there goes a second there goes
another second there goes another second
and all the power in the world can’t
bring it back so what are seven things
that you can do starting today and then
once you do those seven things then you
work on all the other stuff well what
are the seven most important steps that
you can take that can move you in the
direction of your goal and I decided to
become a speaker I started memorizing
quotes every day
that was one of the goals I had to
memorize quotes I have probably over 4
to 500 quotes and statistics in my heads
in all kind of areas I’ve spoken in the
National Convention for the real estate
conventions Remax I’ve spoken for
doctors and lawyers I trained over 5,000
doctors last year teaching doctors how
to communicate with their patients to
increase their taking of their
hypertension medication to increase
their compliance from 30% has paid 640
thousand dollars in one month Monday
through Friday or Monday through
Thursday 30 minutes a day a lot of
people work a whole year and don’t do
that I don’t tell you that to impress
you but to impress upon you you’ve got
greatness at you you can do more than
you can ever begin to imagine I had no
idea this less round you see existed I
had no idea and the reason that you’re
watching me now is because you know in
your heart of hearts that you can do
what I’ve done and even more and so as
you begin to think about that think
about writing your goals down listening
to motivational messages changing your
relationships upgrading your
relationships thinking about seven
things you need to do every day some
radical change you need to make in you
there’s an old African proverb that says
if there’s no enemy within the enemy
outside can do us no harm
here’s something else that’s very very
important as we talked about having a
personal coach the next thing that’s
important about reaching your goals is
this what is it as you look in your past
that’s affecting you right now I saw a
movie called Magnolia powerful lion in
that movie and the movie said we might
be through with our past but our past is
not through with us whoa let me share
something with you I realize about
myself the reason that I procrastinated
for 14 years was because when I was in
the fifth grade and Mrs Mary Ford
Williams said to mrs. Crompton he
doesn’t belong here he is slow he’s not
like his brother and they put me back
from the fifth fifth grade to the fourth
grade that affected me I didn’t even
realize it they say sticks themselves to
break your bones but words will never
hurt you yes they will but they can also
free you up because
I’ll never forget when I met mr.
Washington it was my junior year in high
school I’ve been in special education
from the fourth grade all the way up to
my junior year in high school my twin
brother always made the honor roll and
he said young man worked this problem
out for me he was a new instructor I
said sir I can’t do that he said why not
I said I’m not one of you students and
look at me yes sir
work the problem out anyhow I can’t do
what you asked me to do sir why Sir
because I’m imaginable mental retarded
and the students erupted and laughter
they said hey he’s DTS and what’s that
he’s the dumb two and he’s not Wesley
that’s Leslie and he came from behind
his desk and he said don’t ever say that
again
someone’s opinion of you does not have
to become your reality
how was I was a jarring statement on one
hand I was humiliated but on the other
hand I was liberated because he looked
at me with the eyes of Goethe who say
look at a man the way that he is he only
becomes worse but look at him as if he
were what he could be then it becomes
what he should be and here’s what I
learned from that experience I want you
to visualize yourself already there
whatever goal whatever dream that you
have see the picture complete see
yourself there why we have something at
the base of our brains called the
reticular activating system so you’ll
have genius within you and to prove it
let me give you an example
the other night I I said I’ve got to get
up tomorrow morning at 7 o’clock is that
a hotel I called downstairs and told
them to call me at 7 o’clock the hotel
neglected to do it but I woke up at 7
o’clock on the nose have you ever done
that before
how did you know when to get up hey
that’s subconscious mind everything we
need the answers are already there have
you ever seen somebody and said you know
what I remember your face but I don’t
exactly know where and then later on you
say hey I know I know where I saw you
and it came what happened the conscious
mind sent that thought to the
subconscious mind and it pulled that
information up and gave it to you now
when you begin to hold the vision of
what it is you want to achieve you
stimulate what is called the reticular
activating system it’s a network like
group of cells in the base of the brain
let me share with you how it works have
them purchase a car no one goes
I call that has the same color that
everyone else has has that ever happened
to you before but then once you buy the
car you drive it off the lot you start
seeing it everywhere say hey where did
this come from
let me tell you what happened you made
an investment and because you made an
investment that piqued your awareness
that stimulated your reticular
activating system another case important
I was at a party with a friend of mine
and and we were dancing and music was
blasting she said wait a minute
my son is crying he’s at the door I said
you said that at the door
because even if you weren’t you wouldn’t
be able to hear him and she stopped went
to the door opened the door and there
her four-year-old son was at the door
how did she hear it and I didn’t hear it
in the other people dancing
it wasn’t our child it was her child her
reticular activating system picked up
his whimpering sound and I’m saying to
you that you have that in you when you
focus on your goals and dreams and you
visualize it complete it will stimulate
the reticular activating system and it
will lead you there following all the
other things that we suggested now not
only is it possible you can live your
dream it’s necessary that you change
relationships that you get a coach that
you meet with other like-minded people
that will hold you accountable that you
write your goals out and you have seven
steps that you do every day on your
goals to monitor to see where you are
but you’ve got to take full
responsibility and everything work out
for you fine if you have the money fine
if you can get the help and support of
friends and family members and your
spouse great but if you don’t all of
those things are minor things the major
key to your reaching your goals as you
nobody’s gonna work on your dream harder
than you trust me on that one you’ve got
to take responsibility to make it happen
if it happens when you come out the gate
fire but if you fail so what come back
again and again and again and again if
it’s something that you love if it’s
your passion until you do it George
Bernard Shaw said the people that make
it in this life they look around for the
circumstances that they want and if they
can’t find them they create them here’s
something else it’s hard when I bought
the first home for my mother and they
did and I didn’t do a title search and a
guy sued
and I had to move out from the big
beautiful home I bought it to a
roach-infested home I moved her out of
and the neighbors came out and said
maybe y’all back yes what happened my
boy lost the house he didn’t do a title
search and we had to get out of there
foreclosed on the house he didn’t have
the $50,000 to pay the guy who put a
lien on the property it was devastating
but let me tell you something it was
worth it because I came back 90 days
later I got a bigger and better house
ninety days later I stayed focused on
the goal and that’s the thing that you
want to do stay focus on your goal keep
the main thing the main thing you’re
going to have distractions that’s a part
of the process it’s not there to stop
you it’s only there to challenge you you
want to grow through it you know I think
it was Robert Schuller’s that tough
times never last but tough people do
keep the main thing the main thing you
going through hell don’t stop keep
moving keep on moving those have to talk
about it keep moving that’s the name of
the game keep on swinging one of my
favorite movies is Cool Hand Luke and
and and then Paul Newman I don’t know if
you’ve ever seen the movie but there’s a
scene where Cool Hand Luke is fighting a
guy God big dude just kept knocking him
down BAM that’s kept on knocking about
cool hammer get up he’d knock him down
BAM and pretty soon the guys the field
inside said stay down cool head stay
down cool head and Luke would get back
up again God knocking down barrel the
guys say stay down man stay down Cool
Hand would get back up again got
knocking down BAM
and after a while the guy got tired of
knocking Cool Hand down and cool hands
stood up everybody’d walk away and he
was still swinging in the wind Reagan
nobody was there but him that’s who I am
Cool Hand Luke that’s who you want to be
cool hand look you keep on swinging and
the universe will yield to you it will
dispatch angels to come rescue you and
say back off give him what he wants give
her what she wants
let’s go find a whip today that’s the
way life is it’s hard but it’s worth it
what it will make it worth it for you
Nietzsche said if you know the why for
living you can undo almost any how I
want you to take the time and write down
twelve reasons on why you won’t fail
because when the tough times come and
they’re going to come when life hits you
on the Blind Side and that’s going to
happen your children start going crazy
or someone you thought you’d be married
to for the rest of your life like I went
through and they decide they want a
divorce
call life what is it that can keep you
going your reasons will be your rod and
staff to comfort you to take you through
that process I can tell you it’s
possible you can live your dreams it’s
necessary that you surround yourself
with people you can learn from and grow
from that you write your goals up you
work on them every day that you have a
mate of mine I’m going to make it it’s
necessary that you constantly work on
yourself reading positive material
listing the positive material going to
seminars and workshops investing in
yourself getting a coach and it’s you
you’ve got to take personal
responsibility to make it happen don’t
see yourself as a victim and it’s hard
it’s hard changing your life is hard
getting up working when you’re in pain
is hard it’s hard it’s hard working when
you are trying to make something happen
for you and the family and you go home
and you’re facing a living hell where
you need to refuel and replenish
yourself mentally and emotionally and
spiritually and you got a battle in your
home base it’s hard to keep your spirit
up it’s hard and people don’t see the
vision they don’t believe in you they
say oh you can count on me and they’re
not there they just lied but only if
they’re when they need you it’s hard
I’ll tell you it’s worth it the
sacrifice that you have to make I can
tell you from my experience it’s worth
it so take the time to write down what
are those 12 reasons of why you won’t
give up what is it that will make it
worth it for you and once you find that
you will create some momentum in your
life and then it’s done it’s done stick
a fork in it it’s done here’s something
I want you to keep in mind life is a
fight for territory it’s a fight for
territory and once you stop fighting for
what you want what you don’t want
will automatically take over I want you
to read that I want you to memorize that
I want you to put it someplace where you
can see it I want you to keep that in
mind
life is a fight for territory and once
once you stop fighting for what you want
what you don’t want will automatically
take over once you stop fighting for
financial freedom I am cancer free I’m
debt free and I’m drama free I have the
faith to call forth those things that be
not as though they were I’m fighting for
my peace of mind I’m fighting for my
freedom I’m fighting for my children’s
children’s children I’m fighting to
create a brighter tomorrow I’m fighting
to make a difference in life I’m
fighting to make my print to leave my
mark on I refuse to die an unlived life
and that that’s what you are doing right
now you’re saying to yourself I refuse
to die an unlived life I want my life to
count I want my life to mean something I
want not to be a burden to anybody I
want to control my own future to write
my own check to control my own destiny
did you want to do to do what I want to
do when I want to do it not to answer to
anyone else but myself you have it like
that the only reason you’re watching me
is because we’re cut from the same cloth
we have branches of the same tree
I don’t reason you take the time to
invest in your time your money in your
energy just just stay here and focus
right now because you feel me in your
heart where your heart is there your
treasure is also as a man thinketh in
his heart so is he
and I say to you keep in mind what I
said life is a fight for territory once
you stop fighting for what you want what
you don’t want well automatically take
over Jim Rohn said something I love he
said when the end comes for you let it
find you conquering a new mountain not
sliding down a no one know life is too
short and unpredictable as as Helen
Keller would say eat the dessert first
don’t let it find you sliding down
same mount I don’t know what your goals
are I don’t know what your dreams are
here’s what I know about you you have
greatness within you here’s what I know
about you and I don’t even know you but
based upon my own experience you were
chosen on purpose for a purpose 1 out of
400 million sperm you have greatness
within you
but greatness is a choice it’s not your
destiny it’s a choice that you have to
make every day choose ye this day whom
ye shall serve the mediocre part of
yourself or the greatness that you were
chosen for this has been missus Mamie
Brown’s baby boy I hope you got into
value out of this it’s been a plum
pleasing pleasure as well as a privilege
god bless you god bless your dream and
God bless the greatness that is in you
the world needs you and we need you now
and so it is
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