Wake Up In Life And Work On Yourself | Les Brown | Motivational Compilation| Let's Become Successful

it's whatever it is that you want to do you want to do it massively have a friend who was telling me that his sales were down i said well how many phone calls you make a day he said 25 i said double them make 50 or 75 or 100. he said oh man that's just too much what do you mean too much you behind on your bills you talking about too much you know one way to get back on your feet real quick is to miss two car payments there's no competition out here decide that you're going to push yourself most people won't do that most people give up on themselves easily you know the human spirit is powerful there's nothing as powerful it's hard to kill the human spirit they asked benjamin's israeli a man who became the head of a country at a time when jews were not allowed out after 10 o'clock he said how did you do it how do you achieve against such great odds he said nothing can resist the will of a people that will stake even their existence on the extent of their purpose for good that when you have a made-up mind when you decide that you want to do something i was reading something the other day he said the power to hold on in spite of everything the power to endure this is the winner's quality the hunger the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up this is a winner's quality you have that quality within you when you're hungry you don't care about the facts you don't care about the odds there's greatness in you and you've got to learn how to tune out the critics outside and the critic inside and since i'm going to do this i'm going to harness my will and i'm not going to let anything stop me i deserve this i'm going to do it until and this friend i told him says start increasing your calls i said i make a hundred calls a day the other thing is that if you want something you have got to be relentless you've got to learn how to become resourceful you've got to learn how to become creative when crisis is striking your life and in the chinese language crisis mean danger but it also means opportunity and this is an opportunity for you to grow and you've got to be so relentless regardless of what comes down the pike that you're always looking for a way to get over always looking for a way that you can break and always looking for a way that you can strike a telling blow live your life with passion with some drive you've got to watch the the people the relationships that you develop how people of of of kindred mindsets if you around folk who are dead and negative all the time they will affect you you want people that around you that have smiles on their faces looking good so you've got to watch your continents watch your face have an uplifted expression watch your body posture all of these things affect you psychically you got to be the kind of person that you are fearless you are unstoppable and because you are unstoppable because you've got power that you haven't even began to use yet you ought to yourself to release your brakes how many of you had the experience of pulling out of your driveway and you're matched on the accelerator and the car was just going um you couldn't move and you mashed harder and it couldn't move and then you discovered you had your emergency brakes on and then you release those emergency brakes and it goes true have you ever had that experience before most of us go through life with our brakes on holding back not giving all that we have not sharing all of ourselves most of us go to our graves still holding on rather than releasing it what are some of those things that that keep us from releasing it because of past experiences past defeats past pain we look back well it didn't work out then it probably won't work out now many people get confused their performances with who they are that if my speech tonight doesn't work it doesn't mean that i'm a bad speaker it means that what i did didn't work tonight and i've got to separate what i do from who i am and i've got another shot see the last chapter to your life has not been written yet and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday it doesn't matter about the things that you've done that you feel guilty about if you wouldn't do it today you're convicting an innocent person something i'd like to share some ideas and thoughts with you i'm not asking that you believe anything that i say i'm not asking that you agree with me and if there's something that i say that can fit and work for you i say use it if not discard it and let it be one of the things i have realized and many of us have that if you want something out of life if you want to change yourself if you want to acquire something if there's some goal that you want to reach that is really not easy as some people will make us feel that living your dream changing your behaviors overcoming negative habits it's challenging it's hard that living alone is just very difficult and once we begin to come to grips with the fact that living is difficult life is very challenging i heard a song once by a guy named dimples call if it ain't one thing it's another you will never ever have a problem-free moment in life there's always something so how do we begin to nurture that hunger what are the characteristics of the qualities of people that are hungry what will it take for me to get some of the things that i want and being hungry for those things number one you've got to work on yourself it's very important that you engage in an ongoing process to develop you spend more time on yourself than what you've been spending it's very important you owe that to yourself i was reading a book by augmentino called the university of success read one line gave me a chill i didn't have to read anything else in the book he said many of us never realize our greatness because we become sidetracked by secondary activity we spread ourselves too thin don't know how to say no and we find ourselves doing all kinds of things and never ever have time to do those things that we need to do to work on ourselves and then there goes a second that goes another second there goes another second and we can't stop and whole time and before you know it you wake up one day and you're behind on your dreams and your bills so decide that you're going to take some time to work on you that you deserve that from yourself that your life deserves some prime time because you are creating your own production as michael todd would say you are the star of your show you are the director you are writing the script and you will determine whether your life is a smash office hit or flop you determine that working on yourself talking to yourself that's so very important overcoming the negative conversation that inner dialogue is going on all the time all the time even when you don't want it to be there you can't stop yourself right now from thinking you can't do it it's going on and so learning how to empower yourself part of doing that is standing up to yourself you've got to stand up inside yourself sometimes and say shut up you've got to do this i was going to give a presentation and this voice inside of me saying you can't do this you don't have everything it takes i shut up you'll get scared sometimes your mind will go blank on you some people you will allow to unnerve you and you wonder what's wrong with me i'm not crazy that's why you've got to learn to make a conscious deliberate determined effort to stand up inside yourself working on yourself watching that inner dialogue it will determine the quality of your life when you're working on something you want to achieve you have got to stand up to that voice you've got to sell yourself every day on your abilities on what you're doing on the goal that you want to reach you've got to sell yourself every day every day every day according to your level of belief it will manifest itself in what you're doing whatever we have right now whatever we're demonstrating in our lives is a result of what we believe subconsciously that we deserve and part of increasing that belief level is that you have got to convince yourself every day you've got to sell yourself i i do a lot of training for many corporations and i conduct sales seminars and i've heard all kind of guys doing techniques and training um people techniques of how to close sales and how to work with and and begin to control the sale and how to ask for the clothes let me share something with you you can learn all the techniques in the world if you don't believe in yourself it won't happen for you i learned all of it so that's why i do a training called focus on the seller you've got to focus on you and as you convince you as you sell yourself every day every day every day you will begin to see a difference in the things that you're doing selling yourself on your ability to perform a job to achieve a certain objective telling yourself every day here i go again and i got what it takes this is my day and nothing out here is going to stop me that brings me to the next thing it takes courage to act part of being hungry when you've been defeated it takes courage to start over again i used to do door-to-door sales and i was working with another friend of mine and door-to-door sales i mean it's punishing it's cruel and unusual punishment and i was a little boy knocking on the door hello would you like to buy a nice working television set no money down no bam they slam the door in your face and the friend of mine that was working with me they slammed the door in his face and i looked back and he was going to the car he said i can't do this and he sat down in the car and he said you go ahead i'll be here when you get back now he had a mother and father to take care of him my mother was ill i am adopted i was hungry i had to go on i learned something about myself that when you step into your fears somebody said it was winston churchill he said that courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm when you step into your fears and continue to push yourself to go on something happens for you when you when you have something you want to do if you don't develop the courage to do that which has been given you to do and you spent a lot of time going around trying to convince other people trying to get their approval what will happen is that you will lose your nerve and other people will convince you that what you're doing doesn't have any value and you'll give up on your dream it's an interesting thing about life i've also found that if you don't have the courage to act sometimes and particularly if you have something special to do life will move on you if if if it were not for life i would still be a disc jockey i didn't just leave voluntarily to go to the state legislature i was fired i was working on a job and i came home one day i was married at the time and i told my former wife i said that guy bird i work for is stupid she said if he's so stupid why does he sign you a paycheck that night i could not sleep well here was a guy that was controlling my life i was going through all kind of changes because this man controlled my paycheck and it was carlisle who said truth crushed to earth shall rise again winston churchill said the truth is incontrovertible malice may attack it ignorance may deride it but at the end there it is and we know scripture that says ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free and the truth that i had to come to grips with that i wasn't in charge of my destiny the truth was that i wasn't giving all that i had the truth was that there are some things that i wanted to do but i didn't have the courage to act on those things and the truth was that bird child was a blessing to me he made life so miserable for me i had to start looking at my life differently i started going to work earlier i started being the last one to leave there i started working harder than anybody else the other guys could not why would you work so hard les i said i'm not working for them i have been cheating bert i thought i've been cheating myself and my family wherever you are whatever you're doing do it with everything that you have develop the habit of giving more than what you're paid for develop the habit of setting standards that others will be measured by someone said do not go where the path may lead but go where there is no path and leave a trail before april 1954 [Music] the common belief the universal belief because it had been tried again and again and again and people have failed the belief was that man was not physically capable of breaking the four-minute barrier that he could not run a mile in less than four minutes that was the belief on the planet it had never been done [Music] but here's what happened ladies and gentlemen roger bannister came along and he broke the four-minute barrier now here's what's significant about that since that time up to this day over 20 000 people have done it including high school kids 20 000 people what changed here's what happened when they got on the track they knew it had been done and because they knew it had been done there was a new belief about this barrier about this goal that was unreachable and those 20 000 people got in a race believing knowing in their heart that someone had done it that it's possible that they could do it and i'm saying that if you know anybody that had some goal some dream something they wanted to do and they did it the nice saying that you know in your heart that if someone has done it then you can do it it's possible and that if someone can make that dream become a reality that it's it's possible that you can make your dream become reality and so as you begin to look at where you want to go beginning to embrace that it's possible i'm blessed and highly favored i've got a lot going for me i got some good stuff in me and it's possible that i can bring my greatness out here in the universe that i can do what i want to do it's possible i can write my own book i can have my own business i i can take the trip and travel around the world it's possible i can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life it's possible regardless of where i am the things can get better for me it's possible i'm thinking about two men right here in chicago who are fairly successful similar background educated they work for corporation for many years and they were among many people that were laid off two guys who were very good friends one went out looking for a job for several weeks along with the other one and they faced disappointment and rejection again and again and again they couldn't find any work which is the story of many people across this country one guy stopped he became discouraged he stopped going he stayed home looking at television became very argumentative and toxic with his wife drinking beer getting on the phone talking to his other negative unemployed friend and he just gave up the other guy kept looking for a job everywhere he could go every time he could get an opportunity kept asking people networking checking the newspapers every day kept going everywhere he could trying to find a job you have too much education you're overqualified you won't be here long enough he kept going he kept going he went to a place and said look i tell you what if you can't hire me and i know you can use my talents abilities and skills i don't want to sit home and do nothing just just let me do some volunteer work you don't have to give me anything all right i just want to work i want to be busy guy said okay it's on you now but don't don't expect me to give you anything it's okay this guy came in and worked he was the first one there the last one to leave was the best employee there about four weeks later one of the top managers quit they were looking for a replacement guess who they selected this other guy this guy who was volunteering his time he got the job what was the difference between the two men eyesight and mind sight eyesight is judging on what you see judging according to appearances but mindsight is how you interpret what you see one guy said it's not possible it's over i'm finished i can't do it i can't make it he's surrendered i've faced rejection again and again i'm not going anymore there are no jobs out there but this other guy he felt that in spite of the no's and rejections in spite of how bad the economy is in spite of what the newspapers are saying that it's possible that somebody somewhere will give me a job he just kept going thinking it was possible and guess what ladies and gentlemen that's what we have to do with our dreams because things happen to you in life that you can never ever anticipate and many times when those things happen you want to give up i remember when i was in broadcasting when i was a disc jockey i became very controversial not only being a disc jockey but i felt that radio was something that you not only entertain people with but you also empower them you educate them and i got fired i didn't just leave they fired me they took my microphone i thought that was who i was no no ladies and gentlemen it wasn't i had to do something else and i didn't know what else i could do see here's what i'm looking at what are the uses for your life right now that you haven't even reached for yet see i believe that when you don't have enough encouragement to act on your dreams or ideas or you're not enlightened enough that life will act on you some decisions are major decisions and also there are a lot of small decisions that we don't make that they tax our minds they drain our energy they create a lot of anxiety and nervousness and mental torment because we don't take care of it we decide not to decide which is a decision deciding to decide to act is a major major challenge for all of us at different points in different areas of our lives and there are things that happen to us along the way experiences that we have that prevent us from working through the mental block of acting of doing those things that we know we ought to do and so what i want you to think about is what is there that you know you need to do that you want to do this but for some reason or another you've been holding back for some reason or another you just have not been able to gather your nerves or be able to work through the procrastinating or putting it off or justifying or blaming some reason or another you just haven't done it and you know you ought to do this you really want to do this but you don't know why you haven't done it anybody know what i'm talking about raise your hand please okay then i've got company here this evening i'm not talking to myself now first of all we know that this is not easy because in order to begin to reinvent your life you've got to make a conscious deliberate determined effort that you really got to put all of yourself into it it's very challenging to act to do those things there are times when you're looking at it you say i know i need to do this but i don't feel like it i don't want to do it i know i need to do it yet leave me alone no i don't want to do it so what do we do what are those things that that cause us to do like that i think that among the things that prevent us from acting is the fear of failure and if you've already failed you don't want to fail again the pain of that the disappointment the fear of loss is another thing because many times when we do those things that we know we need to do we feel that we might lose somebody that we love very much and care about we don't want to hurt anybody many of us don't act because we want other people's approval we want everybody to like us and to accept us and that's not possible many of us don't do the things that we want to do and don't act because of lack of self-confidence we don't believe enough in ourselves i have a friend who's been working on a job where she's miserable talented want to go to another place that she can do what she wants to do and make the kind of money that she would like to make and had some offers but because of her fear and her lack of self-confidence of things might not work out she won't take a chance on herself so there she is spending eight hours a day five days a week and she's miserable she hates to go to work they're not paying her what she's worth she knows it but yet and still she won't do that which she knows she must do and it's wearing out that a lot of people that their jobs are making them sick because they won't act you check out the absenteeism and people that are depressed you see them coming to work angry how you doing i don't know just leave me alone it's not even nine o'clock yet you're talking about good morning there are days when you go to work you want to just keep drive past the job you know you don't want to stop because it's not in sync with who you are but you haven't acted have another friend this guy's brilliant he's a business consultant he helped a lot of people get their business started and people come to him because they know he's knowledgeable but this guy won't start his own business now he's very smart he can do it everybody believes in him except him and he's so smart he's talked himself out of well the numbers aren't right so there are many reasons why we don't act there are other things though that affect us is that not wanting to take personal responsibility we want somebody else to do it and we many times we pick up our inability to do certain things from people that we love people that we admire we identify with them and we live in the context of their ideas their opinions and their life patterns we buy into it unconsciously my mother is a pack rat she keeps everything she doesn't throw anything away and i have unconsciously picked that up now my mother never said let me show you how to keep everything less than just clutter things i unconsciously pick that up many times unconsciously we try to honor the people we love by being like them by the same token i realized something about myself when i had some major decisions to make and i found myself acting like my mother see my mother's the kind of person that when she has a problem with one of the other foster children that she adopted she won't confront them she will call me les why don't you tell linda to move she's lazy she won't go to work she runs the street all day and then she comes home and wants to sleep all day and i think she's doing drugs i said but mama why don't you tell linda that i bought the house for you i told you when she wanted to come home don't let a grown person come there and take care of them you lettering well after all she's my child mama then you handle that when i tell her to leave she say mama say i can say mama can i say and you tell her yes and then you call me and say she's still here why worry me with this so mama hasn't developed the courage to act on that some people won't act until there's a crisis situation when linda starts stealing from mama and took a social security check to get some drugs mama got some courage to say get out of here don't ever come back but she wouldn't do it until then and see we don't have to wait until a crisis situation i have a friend that has been having a challenge with losing weight bus has been dealing with that challenge and for the past 40 years he's always seemed like weighed over 235 pounds and so he said man i just can't lose weight i'm big boned it i say bud i've never seen any fat skeletons no you need to act on your health you can change this you don't have to go to your grave fat we're all digging early grades with our teeth we don't have to do this they need to have a support group around eminem peanuts you want a support group on something and throw snickers in there too but i can tell you about the help we need with that so what happened with bud though he became ill a few weeks ago see blood in the last few weeks has lost more weight than he's ever lost even when we were competing with each other betting a lot of money but what happened was bud became diabetic he went into an insulin shock he didn't know that he was diabetic his blood sugar became high and the doctor said to him you are diabetic you're gonna have to have insulin shots every day you're gonna have to change your diet and let me tell you what's gonna happen if you don't do what we tell you to do number one there's a possibility that you can become an amputee number two you can go blind three you can become impotent but say help me like those guys with paul when when paul broke out of jail those guys say tell me what i must do to be saved what what did we say i said bud you want him one of my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches no i said but i can't believe you're eating vegetables man you're exercising he said that's right a jogging in place too now he had the ability to do it before but there are some people it takes that kind of crisis to bring them into reality in order for them to act in their own best interest some people have to hit rock bottom in order to rise i don't know why you want to begin to look out on your life and what you want for you and i think that when we begin to focus in the area of what does it take for us to act i think we can say events can inspire us to act at that particular event in his life circumstances friend of mine he wanted to do something and and he just did not have the motivation and the drive and the confidence within himself but his circumstances change overnight through an acquisition of the company that he worked for he lost his job through the inspiration of desperation he had to act see life also things that can inspire us to act see we don't have the courage and that's what it takes courage it takes guts to do that which you know you need to do if you don't have the courage to act life many times will move on you and make you act whatever you do you want to develop technical mastery you want to be the best at what you do you want to master it see part of of self-motivation is you've got to find something that gives you a strong sense of competence well you become known for that you develop a reputation of being good at doing that you set some high personal standards for yourself you're not competing with anybody else you're just unfolding yourself to be the best person that you could be that you want to give the best quality service that you can give because that is a statement about who you are the other thing that's the key to self motivation is recognize the fact that you're going to get into some slumps recognize the fact that you're going to encounter a great deal of failure in life it goes with the territory but in the face of that you want to be relentless and when you want something you don't expect everybody to say oh oh you want this oh great we want to give this to you you're such a nice person you're doing it for your family aren't you great no no life isn't like that no many doors will be closed in your face many loans that you will want and they say no you don't have enough collateral you don't have enough credit and most people will give up but you've got to decide that i'm going to be fearless i refuse to be denied and i'm going to go all out i'm going to be relentless i don't care how many knows i encounter i like something isaiah's thomas said when he's getting ready for a basketball game he said i'm going to either shoot us in or shoot us out but i'm not going to not do anything that's the way to go you can't make a basket unless you shoot the ball you can't hit a home run unless you take a swing at it most people won't even take a swing well i probably won't make it anyhow that's the conversation within they probably won't give it to me anyhow if you want something you've got to be relentless you've got to decide i deserve this and i'm going to have it and you go all out to get it that drives you the next thing is that when you want something out of life you've got to be willing to go into action don't wait around for things to be just right don't wait for things to be perfect don't wait for the ideal situation it will never be ideal there will always be a reason well as soon as the children grow up as soon as i pay my bills as soon as i get my divorce okay as soon as i get enough money together do what you can where you are with what you have and never be satisfied a lot of people never take a chance in life they don't want to take any chances they want the situation to be ideal see that's not walking by faith that's walking by sight if i can see it i'll do it no no no no a lot of people say if i can see it i'll believe it no no if you believe it you can see it and don't be disturbed because no one else can see it that's not unusual that is ordinary but because you want some different kind of results in your life you've got to be willing to be unreasonable if you want unreasonable results in your life you've got to be willing to be unreasonable part of being unreasonable you don't judge according to appearances part of being unreasonable you can see it because you believe it that's part of being unreasonable part of being unreasonable you're like paul who said you must have the faith to call forth those things that be not as though they were that's part of being unreasonable most people won't do that most people say call me when you get it together the other thing is that one of the keys to self motivation that empowers you is that you want to find a cause larger than yourself find something that you can contribute to find something that you can make a difference because you can part of what feeds your larger vision part of what gives you a reason for being part of what gives you your life is being able to give something back so i can't afford to give anything you can't afford not to give give your time give your talent there's nothing just to go over and lick envelopes i don't know exactly what i'm going to do but i'm going over there is part of my tithing in the universe once you develop that that special sense of mission and that's what you develop when you're part of a larger cause than yourself it drives you you don't need an alarm clock to get up in the morning you have special power you go places and folk will like to be around you they will know there's something different about you you

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