Les Brown - IGNORING THE NAYSAYERS (Les Brown Motivation)Ethic Motivation: motivational quotes and speeches
talk to me about cancer you've had such
an upbeat attitude about it it's really
pretty extraordinary
was that your initial reaction did you
go through a trough of despair when you
first got diagnosed like how have you
framed that those three words you have
cancer three of the most feared words in
seven different languages I saw it as a
fight and and and from that time to this
time you know my PSA was 2400 that
central prostate specific antigen and
now it's below zero and metastasized in
seven areas of my body
I never was fearful that I was going to
die from it and and I think I read
something by dr. Norman Cousins he wrote
a book called the biology of hope and he
talked about the fact that when
something happens to you you don't deny
it you defy it and I was defiant that
I'm going to beat this I'm going to
handle this that they're people who many
times and something happens to them that
they embrace it from a place of fear and
it takes them out and LC Robinson said
thanks my helper to you and things would
happen around you but the most important
things the things that happen in you and
you have to stand up inside yourself and
deal with it and handle it
the fear has not been the biggest
challenge that I faced were the things
that I've been dealing with in terms of
my health the easiest thing I've done
was to get out from under the labels and
to live the life that I live the most
difficult thing I've ever done was to
believe that I can do it when you don't
know what's impacting you and it's it's
something that that's holding you down
and you're not aware of it so there are
things that you in my situation when you
live in a dominant culture that is
designed to destroy your sense of self
and your belief in yourself and and you
have to learn ways in which you can
begin
connect with this power that you have
within yourself to handle where you are
the key is to be constantly in a
perpetual process of discovering the
truth of who you are and fighting
constantly to look for ways in which you
can escape the inner conversation I
speak to audiences around the world an
hour and I train speakers as well and I
tell them that when you speak that
there's that there's an objective that
you want to achieve when you speak to an
audience because how people live their
lives as a result of the story they
believe about themselves so you as a
speaker when you speak in this program
when people see you what you do is
distract dispute and inspire you
distract people from their current story
with your guests and the questions that
you ask through the process of the
ongoing questioning and the way in which
they respond and the things they have
learned you dismantle their current
belief system and inspire them to create
a new chapter with their lives
and so but that's an ongoing process of
constantly interrupting that
conversation what psychologists call you
self explanatory style because life is
going to beat up on you in so many ways
and many things they come back you know
negative thoughts and and how you feel
about yourself they don't die they they
come back once you stop doing the
maintenance work on your mind listening
to motivational messages going to
seminars and workshops spending time
quietly to listening to the still small
voice within Who am I really
is this really me am i giving my best
am I just reflecting what's around me
because all of these various things
affect how we show up in life and so
having a strategy to continuously of
find ourselves reaching higher of Robert
Schuller had a book is not very popular
but I loved it it's called peak-to-peak
UPE a
to PE EK because you're constantly
reaching higher to find out and discover
your better self there's a real you that
richard wright said at best he said the
impulse to dream has slowly been beaten
out of me through the experiences of
life so when you live in a culture that
is designed to destroy your sense of
self to where you are marginalized where
you you have a feeling of being hopeless
and powerless and you're terrorized they
used to have signs on Miami Beach that
said Jews dogs and coloreds not allowed
and so now you have to operate within
the constraints of the dominant society
and the things that they have created
for you and it's a challenge to see
yourself beyond that and to work to get
outside of that even after those laws of
change because that has become so much a
part of you you are unconsciously
operate within the parameters of what
has been put in place like you go to
you're driving on the expressway the
four or five it and you'll get off on an
exit that you weren't going in that
direction but you unconsciously did it
because you've done it so many times
that many people because they're not
making a conscious deliberate determined
effort to think outside of what life has
thrown at them they end up doing the
same thing over and over and over again
Einstein said that thinking that has
brought me this far has created some
problems that this thinking can't solve
and so through relationships through
reading through studies through goals
and dreams beyond your comfort zone it
allows you to begin to live out of your
imagination as opposed to out of your
history in Disney's that the imagination
is a preview of what's to come
I'm here with you because of two women
one gave me life the other one gave me
love God took me out of my biological
mother's woman placed in the heart of my
adopted mother and because of her
example and my love for her and a
passion and that I felt in my heart I've
got to do something to to make her proud
I've got to do something to put myself
in position to be able to take care of
her
that drove me Nietzsche said if you know
the wife of living you can endure almost
any how we want to live a life that will
outlive us the work that you're doing
there are people that you will never
meet who's live that you transform that
you have you're living a life that will
out live you just think about the fact
that this program has given a lot of
people hope and there's hope in the
future and give you power in the present
every 40 seconds someone commits suicide
but because of something you say or some
guests that you've invited him and as
they share their story you interrupt
that story of being hopeless and
powerless and and not wanting to be here
anymore and because they took the time
to watch you create an experience all of
a window home said that once a man or
woman's mind has been expanded with an
idea concept or experience it could
never be satisfied - going back to where
it was and so at the end of the program
at the end of one of your presentations
there are people who because of you
their lives would be transformed and
they will become a pencil as mother
Teresa would say in the hand of God and
start writing a new chapter with their
lives
you get hungry by finding something
that's you I believe that all of us are
born unique but most of us die copies
you've got to find out what is it that
turns you on what resonates with you one
of the things that I realized and what
allowed me to become successful as a
speaker the speaking industry it's been
hijacked by people who speak to sell and
this it's okay to do that to make money
I speak to change lives because somebody
spoke (ethicdiscussion.com) and change my life so this is my
passion this is my drive this is
something that I feel in my heart and
and so the key to that hunger driven
life is a hard centered life I didn't do
what I'm doing for years because of my
programming because of the culture in
which I was raised dead I would see
other people with with degrees and PhDs
and and MBAs and credentials I don't
have and I convinced myself I couldn't
do it but mr. Washington on that day we
became friends and and he taught me not
only someone's opinion of you this does
not have to determine your reality he
said that you have to work on yourself
and you have to have an unstoppable
attitude and no excuse is acceptable and
you've got to do the make it a priority
are non-negotiable in your life and hold
of a constant (ethicdiscussion.com) vision of what it is you
want to achieve see it accomplished and
go all out find a way to win in spite of
the setbacks in spite of the
disappointments in spite of your
failures I tell people when I'm giving
presentations you will fail your way to
success I have a saying as life knocks
you down try and land on your back
because if you can look (ethicdiscussion.com) up you can get
up and so those experiences of of going
after goals that's beyond your comfort
zone and having relationships that will
challenge
and surrounding yourself with coaches
and mentors (ethicdiscussion.com) who can take you to a place
within yourself that you can't go by
yourself because you can't read the
label when you're locked in the box and
so those experiences they challenge you
to go to that next level and continue to
move forward in your life doing new and
exciting things that I has not seen ear
has not heard nor other than a heart of
mankind what God has in store for you
when you live a hard centered life
deciding that you're gonna live a life
that will outlive you you're going to
live a life that (ethicdiscussin.com) counts a life that will
build a legacy and change the planet you
know Horace Mann said we should be
ashamed to die until we've made some
major contribution to humankind and so
the things that we pick up and we think
that there are choices but they're the
choices that we've been programmed by
life to do when we leave our homes in
the morning we're bombarded with over
6,000 advertising hits through Facebook
through Twitter through Instagram
through television through our phones
and through our communities and through
the computers and so all of these things
are impacting us every day so if you
don't have a program for your mind then
your mind is going to be program and
you'll find yourself doing things that
you did not know and and that they
affected you that they through marketing
techniques and strategies that they will
create a thirst within you I came up in
an error that said if you built the best
mousetrap the world would beat a path to
your door but if you know marketing
people will sleep outside your store and
so many people never achieve their goals
because they have too many toxic
negative energy draining people in their
lives and you have to have goals outside
of your comfort zone that will challenge
you because in order to do something
you've never done you've got to become
someone you've never
then and you got to have a mentor who's
experienced who who's been there done
that and and as a result of that
relationship because you can't see the
picture when you're in the frame
Muhammad Ali said I'm the greatest but
you never want a championship without
Angelo Dundee and Michael Jordan ever
won a championship without Phil Jackson
so you've got to have someone that can
see something in you that you can't see
that that that can take you to a place
within yourself that you can't go by
yourself so I would teach them the value
of having a life code that life is an
adventure and it's going to be a
challenge and get ready because you're
gonna fail your way to success you will
get slapped around by life and don't
spend time complaining about it and
telling everybody
80% don't care and 20% glad is you focus
on the value of not only just changing
your mind but having a program to do
maintenance work on your mind because
those negative thoughts will come back
with a vengeance once you stop the
ritual or whatever you are doing that
will hold those negative thoughts in
check negative thoughts are like weeds
you can't kill weeds you can you can
hold them down for a minute but once you
stop doing the things to overpower those
negative thoughts because we've been
taught to to dislike ourselves that that
if I said to you Tom you can't do this
show you just don't have what it takes
you you have a face that only a mother
could love Tom you can't do this then
MIT did this study and somebody else has
come along say Tom don't pay any
attention you can do it Tom you can do
this don't listen to him
you can do this listen to me Linda you
can do this 17 times the neutralize at
one time and and so when we think about
him and his work and he did a lot of
profound work its its focused on how to
begin to get under those conscious
thoughts and impact that subconscious
mind
to create an ongoing process of renewing
how we see ourselves we've developed the
program called four steps to greatness
and it's a cyclic process one
self-awareness where you you you
constantly every day when I get up I
read I get up and there's a scripture I
love because all things work together
for good for those (ethicdiscussion. com) who love God and for
those who are called according to his
purpose
and so I meditate on that and I
visualized myself doing some good stuff
in the planet
the next self is not only self-awareness
but the next thing is is self approval
that you have to have a program that
will increase your sense of self reading
doing good work volunteering constantly
looking for ways in which you can
improve all the dimensions of your life
being a better father being a better
husband or wife or being a better person
because we want to have a holistic
approach to life because if your
achievements out grow your sense of self
you will unconsciously engage in
self-destructive behavior
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