Commit Yourself - Les Brown Best Motivational Speech 2023

see whatever you're doing however you spend your time that tells you who you are so think about what it is you like to create in your life experience once I look at how you commit your time once I do an evaluation on how you spend your time I can tell you exactly what you're committed to people that say they have dreams that want to open a business or want to do something differently than what they're now doing they don't like their jobs they're unhappy they're unfulfilled people say they want to improve their income level look at how they spend their time how they spend their time the commitment of their time how they use that that will really tell the truth people who said I'd like to do better but you don't find them in vocational or no technical schools upgrading their skills and their knowledge how they spend their time that will tell you what's going on people who say they want to normalize their weight they want to be healthy but every time you see them they're eating that will tell you that they're committed to being obese for the rest of their lives people tell you they want to stop smoking and they're lighting up at that time folks say I want to stop drinking and every time you're in their face they're reeking with alcohol that will tell you what's going on don't have to listen to what they say just watch what they do commitment shows up in your life in what you do on the other hand you can make the commitment to your life but you don't like the results that you have and that you're going to do something about it see that power is available to all of us people who look at life and decide I want something different for myself Carol Hatfield Carol who lives in Detroit single mother decided that she wanted to go into her own business did not have enough money to do it she wanted to have a health food store she sold her car and use the money to start in a little store Front a little hole in the wall she wrote to work on a bicycle and then when she got enough money she she bought a motor scooter and did that for a long time she's now very successful person she now has three health food stores she said it was harder to struggle less she said but I did it she said I made the commitment to do it and I did it why is it that people are frightened by commitment because when you say the word commitment that intimidates a lot of people why because it means you have to deliver see most people you ask him hey look here I'd like you to do this they'll say I'll try our tribe means that is my Escape Clause when I don't come through it's really a polite no I don't have the courage to tell you no so I'll tell you I tried hey look here I need you to come to this meeting I try I said what do you mean you're going to lean toward the meeting try and sit down you either do or you don't try and take this pencil out of my hand you either do or you don't there's no such thing as try so most people like to use that language they don't want to commit themselves because commitment means among many things no excuse is acceptable that's what it means no excuse that if you decided that you want to do this if it becomes hard then do it hard difficult so what if it's inconvenient so what see a lot of people made a commitment to come here tonight but they looked outside and said it's raining the temperature dropped it's cold outside and they decide to give up on their commitment and that's how people do about their dreams they don't honor their commitment to themselves let me tell you what happens when you when you don't keep your commitment number one it begins to deplete your your self-esteem and it erodes your self-image it weakens your faith in yourself you don't feel good when you don't keep your commitments the other thing is that you begin to develop weak relationships with people people begin to realize they can't depend upon you they can't rely on you because you won't keep your word you can establish that kind of reputation just think what would your life be like if you decided to keep your commitments what will all of our Lives be like if we decided to keep our commitments but we decided to do the things that we said that we were going to do that we wouldn't even speak it unless we were going to do it if we decided just for a week just see what you like and be like just let's do it for a commitment to make make it a seven day commitment that I won't say I will do anything unless I'm going to do it and find out what your life will be like let me tell you what if you follow it through if you keep your commitment to the commitment at the end of the seven days you'll feel strong and powerful because by honoring your commitment each time that you do that empowers you whatever discipline that is required whatever it is that you must do so I'm suggesting number one commit yourself to live in the present I saw the movie um the dear Port Society Robin Williams and had Alanya seized the moment many of us are not able to move forward and develop and manifest our greatness because we spend so much time looking back or worrying about the future seize the moment see you cannot go into the future and manifest your greatness when you have various things in your life that's blocking you let's look at how we can begin keep our commitments remembering what Dr Robert Anthony said about results when you keep your commitments you're able to produce some different kinds of results in your life so how can we keep our and do we keep all commitments no we don't you will not be at 100 however you will have a greater percentage rate of maintaining your commitments to yourself whatever those things might be is going into business if it's if it's changing a habit that you know that works against you if it's overcoming self-destructive Behavior if it's retraining your thinking if it's Reinventing yourself if it's trying to begin to design your relationship differently all of us have a possibility by focusing and really harnessing our attention and concentrating on it we really have available to us the power to honor our commitments in those particular areas so number one make it Priority see no one would go get on an airplane if you thought your chances of getting there to your destination were as good as your luggage am I correct [Music] see and I say the reason that you will reach your destination more times than your luggage will is because the airline and I'm glad that they do has made it a priority to move the human beings from one point to the other safely not send you off to Boston or someplace with your luggage so I'm not really upset when my luggage doesn't show up I'm glad they delivered me because they've made me a priority see they have made delivering you to your destination important so if you want to honor your commitment whatever you decide that you're going to do make sure you make it important make sure it is priority keep it before you the other thing is whatever that you want to do whatever you want to begin to create and beginning to manifest your greatness and and strengthening your level of commitment and it's it's really exercising your will find something that you want to do on your goal one action step but make sure it stretches you that it challenges you but it's doable that you can do it this year I decided that I was going to exercise so I started out doing just 10 setups and 10 push-ups I know I can do that and not get upset about it I can do that without thinking so I start out small now I'm up to 50 but if I try to do 50 starting out I wouldn't still be doing it so I started doing it in manageable segments do that and that that strengthens your will so my commitment now is strength and fortified by the activity of actually doing it so now I can expand and build from there when I decided to begin to manage my money differently and I started saving five percent of my money then I increased it to ten percent then to 15 so now I have disciplined myself to live off 75 of my income I took discipline to do that but I started watching how I was spending my money I started keeping the law and following myself so you want to begin to find something that is manageable that you know that you can do the next thing in beginning to to keep your commitments to yourself have some friends that will hold you accountable that won't let you off the hook that won't tolerate anything less than the best from you people that will support you in this new way of being in this new State of Consciousness the other thing is that important is have a contingency plan see many times when you make a commitment to do something there are some other variables that will happen that you can't control or you perhaps did not think about so you want to have some other plans going on you want to become creative see most people don't keep their commitments because when something goes wrong they just stop they don't have a contingency plan so they don't know what to do next stop being creative if you challenge yourself many times I say I don't know what to do and I always ask myself but if you didn't know what to do less what will it be that activates another part of my mind I start thinking about the possibilities and just experimenting but many many of us just stopped hitting our tracks I don't know what to do you do know what to do you've got genius in you challenge yourself push yourself make yourself come up with something use your imagination and what you will find is that you know more than you realize that you know that you're more creative and more resourceful than you realize that you are and as you do that the more you do it the easier it will become at first it's going to be a struggle and after you get into a certain level of Consciousness you will ask yourself how is it that I didn't see this this the level that I'm managing my business now they say Consciousness is what we are I literally look at myself and say how is it that I didn't do this before why is it that I couldn't see this before and the reason that I didn't see it before because I didn't challenge myself I didn't put myself out here see the reason that most of us go through life never discovering our true grade is literally walking breathing corpses the uncommitted life isn't worth living why because it doesn't produce anything see you only make things happen your life only counts you only make a difference when you are committed when you make a commitment with your life that's the people that make a commitment with their lives the people that make a commitment to their customers the people that make a commitment to their families to their relationships are the people that make the greatest impact in life what is commitment commitment is the salesman who says look here I'm going to make a thousand dollars today and I'm not going home you can turn the lights off the janitors could be here running the vacuum cleaner I'm not leaving here till I do it I used to be a daughter to ourselves but I had X number of TVs I had a minimum amount that I knew I had to sell every day in order to provide for my mother who was Ill at the time who had lost their job at the m m cafeteria because of arthritis and I said I'm going to go door-to-door and sometimes I would not know him until one o'clock at night knocking on people door people closing what do you want would you like to buy a nice working months television set no money down no what about an Emerson TV no thank you very much do you know anybody else that would be interested no thank you very kindly knock on another hello would you like to buy a nice working television set no money doubt no get away from our door thank you very kindly do you know anybody else would be yeah my cousin he lives two doors down thank you very kindly I tell him you sent me when I had your cousin told me that you wanted to buy a television said told me to come here and talk to you got a special discount for you yes come in I'm interested I would just keep right on I would not go home until I did it it's an interesting thing ladies and gentlemen that when we put ourselves in a situation where we say we're going to do it it puts you in another Zone where the universe responds to you when you have that kind of Consciousness see the universe responds to the man or woman that refuses to be denied because that is your commitment that business that you want that book you want to write that dream that you have of controlling your destiny that is yours that power to create there and to manifest that that is yours that's available to you but you've got to be willing to stand there and face disappointment not have support be lonely doubt yourself sometimes be rejected again and again and again become bankrupt if necessary again and again and again and refuse to turn around until life gives it up [Music] nothing can resist the person that has that kind of commitment the people that have made a difference on the planet when a John F Kennedy said we will go to the Moon and the next decade he spoke it that was a commitment and people share that vision people bought into that we've had all kinds of examples in history where people have made declarations who have committed their lives to bring about a difference they're people who are taking a stand today against hunger I guarantee you it will be a part of our past at some point in time someone took a stand against polio it no longer plagues us as it once did because someone said it is my commitment to eradicate it from the face of the Earth someone made the commitment the reason that we're here and enjoying the Democracy that we have someone made a commitment that whatever is required if it means that I died and that's all you must be commitment means standing up for your life it means honoring yourself it means it means beginning to say and to to see and recognize your alignment and Oneness with the universe and that your channel for life to express through and we short-circuited with anger we short-circuit it with fear we short-circuited with with Envy we shut circuited by being lazy or apathetic or giving up easily why why why it's always too hard it's too hard we don't challenge our spirit ladies and gentlemen there's nothing as powerful as the human Spirit you can't destroy it you can pervert it but you can't destroy I was reading Man's Search for meaning a Victor Frank what a powerful book I'm reading it now for the seventh time and he gives so many graphic examples of of the power of the human spirit and so what are some of the things that can can fortify us and and give us the kind of inner strength that will allow us to forward ourselves into the future by manifesting our commitments number one commitment means in some cases going back to school getting some training sitting up in classes with people younger than you putting yourself in a position where you don't know and that is awkward and uncomfortable but because of your commitment to develop yourself or to go back to school to get a high school diploma to get a college degree that it doesn't matter feeling dumb and saying what am I doing here setting up in some boring class commitment can mean a lot of things it could mean that you begin to go back you got to back up sometimes it means to back up and not give up to regroup back up and regroup and come back again because life is way lager because you got knocked down I know when when I was working on my dream there were times I lost my house at one point I lost my car I was broke my credit was bad I was sleeping at different friends houses on their couch or on the floor there were times months that I slept on the floor of my office and got up early and dressed before my staff got there to give them the impression that I got there early before they did and we all pretend not to know what we knew that the boss was staying in office so we never talked about it but I refuse I refuse to give up on my dream and what happens they say you know in the prosperous years you put it in your pocket in the lean years you put it in your heart it makes me appreciate it even more even more I I wouldn't trade it I wouldn't trade it for anything the disappointment the pain that I've gone through by keeping the commitment keeping the commitments that you have might mean taking a stand that's that's unpopular something was said one time when you take a position it says cowardice asked the question is it safe politics asks the question is it popular conscience or commitment ask the question if it's right and see most people rather operate from the first two is it safe for me to take this position I remember when I was a state legislator I saw guys and and women who believed in legislation very strongly but because the Speaker of the House said we won't go with that they backed down [Music] and they felt bad about it they wouldn't take the position because they didn't want the speaker of the house to be angry at them they wanted to be all right with all of the rest of our colleagues see it takes a great deal of strong courage and commitment on your part to step out a line to you know with Henry David Thoreau said the man doesn't keep Pace with his companions perhaps he's listening to the beat of a different drama let him dance to the music that he hears I ever measured or far apart when you are committed you're dancing to the beat of a different drama don't expect people to understand you don't expect it to make sense to anybody why you've got to do this why you have got to go why you leave this is a good job I'm going they pay you well I'm gone you just a few years for retirement I'm going why I don't understand you don't have to I'm going for me because I've made a different kind of commitment with my life this is something I have got to do commitment it means taking a stand taking a stand for you it means delivering it means coming through what if you don't keep your commitment less what if you give it everything you have and you come up short or if you don't give it everything you have what if you're getting weaks along the way and you're throwing a towel on yourself you're surrendered to your emotions what what what then a lot of people become discouraged they become frustrated and they say oh what the heck and they go back to doing what they were doing before saying it doesn't work here's what I suggest number one if that does happen so take total responsibility for it just own it don't make any excuses on why you gave in or why you didn't come through just own it and face to Flack whatever it is stand up inside yourself next thing is assess the situation how did you get in here what happened that you broke down that you had a breakdown and you surrendered what happened what was going on see when I used to go on a diet and I no longer do that I've made a commitment to a healthy lifestyle I used to eat up until 12 midnight on Sunday anything that wasn't moving and on Monday I would I would get up and and eat a fruit breakfast and and I would um fix some boiled chicken and meticulously peel the skin off and eat the chicken and then eat the skin [Music] do five setups look in the mirror and become discouraged because my stomach doesn't look like a washboard or one of the Evan Haley dances what to use and then I go to refrigerator and eat food cold standing right then a refrigerator so when I evaluated where I broke down I realized I can't have junk food in the house so I had to remove that then I realized there's certain streets I couldn't drive down so I changed my route I stopped taking people to lunch or to dinner because I couldn't sit there and watch them eat when I had to go someplace and speaking they were eating I said call me downstairs when it's time for me to speak because if I sat at the table looking at them the food's going to call my name and I know this so I had to begin to make sure that I wasn't putting myself in a position where I would give up on my commitment am I making sense to you so I began to strategize around avoiding situations where I knew that I was going to become weak another thing I do when I don't keep my commitment I either deny myself something or I do a trade-off if a glazed donut takes advantage of me then I require myself to do an extra 25 setups or I walk for an extra 15 or 20 minutes because I got a hammerlock on my head and say come on over here so you might have to deny yourself something or do a trade-off do something that will offset it the other thing is start again so what you felt flat on your face so what start again learn from experience and start again don't count yourself out don't sentence yourself to a lifetime of being miserable a lifetime of being broke a lifetime of being unhealthy a lifetime of being in a relationship that is no longer fulfilling to you a lifetime of live working on a job that that does not bring you satisfaction that's not giving you the creative urge that you need and and that got to have in your life that stimulates you don't sin is your stuff like that you are a human being don't volunteer your life that way your life has too much value to the universe you've got something to contribute you've got something to give and so what if you make a commitment and you're not able to do it like a pro that you're not good as everybody else live in the moment I like what this says look to this day for it is life the very life of life in its brief course lie all the realities and verities of existence the Bliss of growth the Splendor of action the glory of power for yesterday's but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision for today today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of Hope look well therefore to this day see if we just start enjoying where we are if we make that kind of commitment to enjoy where we are to experience the experience of life where we are to do all we can right now where we are forget about the mistakes yesterday forget about all your failures yesterday forget about what you don't have that's not important only thing that we have is right now right now right now and I say that life is calling on you to call forth on that The Optimist which I think one of the most positive groups in in the world they have something called The Optimist Creed and I like that says promise yourself I changed it to commit yourself because I think that commitment has more power than promise it says commit yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind to talk health happiness and prosperity to every person you meet to make all your friends feel that there is something in them to look at the Sunny Side of everything and make your optimism come true to think only of the best to work only for the best and expect only the best to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future to where cheerful continents at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile to give so much time to the Improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others to be too large for worry too Noble for anger to strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble commit yourself to these things is that powerful what a commitment to make with your life commit yourself to stretch to get outside of your comfort zone and not be concerned about what people think about you because they're thinking it anyhow [Music] don't worry about what they will say they already saying it so what do you care decide that that your life has so much meaning to the planet decide that you have something to give that's why you're here so you didn't just show up you brought something here you're on a journey you have a destination mission to achieve to do to implement to perform to experience decide to commit yourself to be an adventurer in life look out on life around you look within yourself and say where is it in my life that I need to make a commitment right now where is it that it might be for your health it might be to be a happier person it might be to make a difference in your community it might be that where is it I say that commitment shows up in the man or woman who has some idea some some dream that they've been nurturing within themselves and no one believed it no one saw it for them that they weren't Masters at it they weren't experts at it no one would Bill a statue and ever call their name and recognize them that never made it to the front page of the newspaper but they had something that was there something that that was their baby something that they loved and they believed in and they just did what they could with what God gave them with their dream commitment shows up and people that are willing to give themselves a chance who look at their lives look within themselves and say I know I know that that this just cannot be it for my life I know that there's there's something I'm supposed to do I don't know right now or maybe you do know what you do know and you've talked yourself out of it and I understand that because I I'm I'm late I've no no no everything happens as it should I I got the courage to step out to to become committed I was I was seriously not serious before and I decided it took me some time to build up the courage to become committed because it frightened me so I understand wrestling with I wish I can tell you I've been doing this for 20 years I haven't I haven't I haven't I'm just glad that that I decided to become committed before I left here and wherever you are decide that you're going to commit your life now and let it show up in your contribution let it show up in what you have to share and whatever commitment that you make honor your commitment as yourself honor your word as yourself whatever you put out there do it what you've got I want to thank you very much for your Consciousness this is Mrs Mamie Brown's baby boy Leslie Calvin Brown saying it's been a plum pleasing pleasure as well as a privilege thank you all you know

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Length: 29min 53sec (1793 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 28 2023