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simply some keys to self motivation and
all of us have motivation of some sort i
define motivation as the desire to
achieve that which you'd believed to be
worthwhile and many people go through
life never getting in touch with their
greatness because of the lack of
motivation to push themselves or because
they have not found something that they
believe to be worthwhile to challenge
them I heard a poem once that said many
a flower has bloomed unceasingly and
waste its sweetness upon the cold desert
air as translated that means simply that
many are talented persons have gone
unnoticed and the world never had a
chance to be exposed to their talents
because that person did not take the
time to begin to express or to
demonstrate or to motivate themselves in
the direction to bring that which they
came into the universe to bring how can
you measure your motivation how can you
evaluate where you are on a scale of one
to ten let's do this for ourselves
mentally how do you rate yourself from
one to ten your mental attitude about
yourself how you feel about you how you
feel about life how do you rate yourself
on a scale of one to ten in terms of
your physical appearance in terms of
your health do you take care of yourself
are you allowing yourself to get
overweight and out of shape are you
conscious of your health are you
watching the food that you take into
your body do you make a deliberate
effort to exercise you know it was
George Burns he said we cannot help
getting older but we don't have to get
old and many of us get old before our
time because we don't take time to take
care of ourselves your environment is a
very good indicator on a scale of one to
ten is it what you want it to be do you
find it desirable are you satisfied the
job a career that you are involved in
someone said that 85% of the American
public
unhappy
their jobs are you spending eight hours
a day just doing time doing something
that you don't find challenging that
does not make you stretch mentally that
does not stimulate you that does not
inspire you something that you don't
find a sense of fulfillment in it if
you're doing that day in and day out it
has to affect how you feel about
yourself your level of motivation your
relationships what kind of impact is
that having on your life is that
nourishing or is it a toxic relationship
does it drain you or does it build you
up ask yourself that how motivated are
you to do something about it
your contribution your actions what are
you giving many people will leave the
universe without a trace no one will
know they were here and in fact under
their name we could put under their not
used up will anybody know that you came
this way what contribution are you
giving what will you leave what will be
different because you came this way
someone once said that life is our gift
to us that God has given us and how we
live our lives is our gift to God what
kind of gift
are you formulating is this a gift that
you like to take back and do something
else before you turn it in think about
that what can we do what are some of the
keys that we can begin to use to
motivate ourselves when our batteries
were unload because I don't care who you
are I don't care what you do at some
time you are going to get tired at the
same time you're going to get in a rut
seem like nothing you do works out right
and sometimes it just seems like you
just don't have the wherewithal all the
will to do anything that sometimes you
act like you're punch-drunk you're just
wading through like just doing time day
in and day out
looking at nondiscriminatory television
anything that's all just looking
and depress feeling powerless feeling
useless and bored what do you do how did
you get yourself out of a rut how do you
when you know you can do more than what
you've been doing and you're not doing
it and you're discontented where you are
you get angry at yourself how do you get
out of that rut how do you motivate
yourself one of the things that we must
do is that we must be involved in
working on achieving self mastery you
must work on yourself continuously never
be satisfied with yourself always know
that as you invest the effort and time
on you that's the greatest ability that
human beings have above animals see a
dog can't be anything but a dog tree
can't be anything but a tree human being
you've got unlimited potential you can
put effort on you and by concentrating
on you and developing you you can
transform your life wherever you are
right now so you want to work on
yourself you want to read books that
inspire you and motivate you you want to
listen to tapes over and over and over
again and I suggest that you listen to
tapes when you first get up in the
morning you want to control the spirit
of your day when you first wake up in
the morning your mind is operating at
10.5 wave cycles per second that's when
the subconscious mind is most
impressionable whatever you hear in the
first 20 minutes when you wake up that
will affect the spirit of your day when
you listen to tapes listen with relaxed
belief believing that this can happen
for you and by listening to them listen
to them over and over and over again
and you will get a breakthrough you can
listen to the same tape for months and
all of a sudden you hear something you
never heard before it have a special
meaning for you or read the same book
over again and you find some special
insight you said I can't believe I
didn't see that the first time so you
want to be involved in developing
yourself most people won't do that most
people won't take that kind of effort
and invest that kind of energy in
themselves because they will fall prey
to that conversation within oh don't do
that you don't have time
you're too busy you're too caught up in
the rat race most people won't do that
well they won't take time to go to
lectures they won't take time to go to
seminars they won't take time to go to
classes to improve themselves and as you
continue to work on yourself you will
begin to expand your vision of yourself
you begin to work towards self mastery
and you will begin to see it reflect
itself in all the dimensions of your
life your mental life your physical life
your social life in your relationships
your monetary life so concentrate on
developing yourself because if you don't
I guarantee you that you will make a
settlement and most people have and most
of us already have what kind of
settlement have you made with your life
you know when we make settlements
out-of-court settlements you've heard
them that means that you decided to take
something less than what you originally
wanted to get had you gone into court
and the reason that you settle outside
of court is because you didn't believe
that you can get it so you made an
out-of-court settlement many of us are
making in life settlement we're settling
for less than what we actually deserve
we don't feel good about it
but we make it work at our minds we'll
come up with some kind of excuse to make
it all right
what kind of settle that have you made
with your life many of us settled for
less than what we want out of
relationships because we don't have the
courage to change them
I had a seminar used to do call are you
living together or dying together many
people are just dying together Gladys
Knight used to have a song that says
neither one of us want to be the first
to say goodbye
the next thing is in order to begin to
find some keys to self motivation to
drive yourself in addition to working on
yourself and as you work on yourself you
feel good about yourself and as you feel
better about yourself you treat yourself
differently develop a health plan so you
can't feel well and do well if you don't
have good health you can't perform if
you don't have your health your health
is valuable develop a health plan a plan
that you will follow because this is the
only vehicle that you have to carry you
through this experience called life and
you want to take good care of it because
you love you enough you care enough
about you and that's not easy it is not
easy having a health plan and sticking
to it but you're worth it doing it again
and again and again I have lost 22
pounds several times seven it's I always
do it I love potato chips people who
know me know I love M&M peanuts I love
peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I
love my mother's sweet potato pie I love
this it's not always on my health plan
but I put it on there sometimes I said
life is too short to go without sweet
potato pie if I go tonight I want you to
slip a surprise the sweet potato pie of
my casket yeah and watch the smile of my
face next thing is as you take care of
yourself the next key is keys to
motivation to self motivation you want
to live life with energy and passion you
want to make a conscious effort to be
Lively
see in life you either say hello or
goodbye you either on the way or in the
way leave that people alone some folks
just walking around looking saying how
are you doing honey
stay away from these people just go away
from them it affects you
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you want to smile you want to be happy
you got a lot to be thankful for but you
watch some of the faces around you every
day
and I tell you some of these faces they
will put you in a depressed state of
mind so you want to avoid these kind of
faces when you see them coming turn your
head next thing is that you want to
monitor your inner conversations the
things that you say to yourself you want
to watch them and in watching them you
want to take charge friend of mine told
me this evening as she did it
excellently she said I didn't want to
come tonight I was feeling so depressed
and I said I'm going anyhow see that was
the conversation so you really don't
feel like it
you really don't need to do it you don't
really need to read anything forget all
that that's that in a conversation oh
you don't need to worry about trying to
go into your own business forget that
you can't do that what did you lose
everything you've got that in a
conversation that stopped you from doing
the things you want to do less don't do
that how can you possibly think about
being a motivational speaker you don't
have the contact you don't have the
money you don't know the right people
you're gonna get up in your minds gonna
go blink forget all that you remember
that time you got up before some people
and you panicked you stood up in your
mind set down don't you remember
I said yes and then I said shut up so
you've got to learn to stand up to
yourself inside yourself and
short-circuit override that conversation
that's always going on 85% of what that
conversation will tell you is negative
its negative it will tell you you're
tired when you really are not tired it
will tell you you can't do it it will
fill you with fear so you've got to
watch that conversation and when you
find it going on you've got to stand up
to it and say I'm gonna do this anyhow
I'm afraid but I'm afraid not to do it
and I'm not going to let you stop me the
biggest challenge that you will have in
life is you as an old African proverb
that says is there's no enemy within the
enemy outside can do us no harm
the next thing that is a key to self
motivation is that you've got to ask
yourself what do I want out of life what
do you want out of life what do you want
out of a job what do you want out of
career what do you want out of a
relationship what do you want what gives
you your life what how will you know
when you got it what will make you happy
you need to know you need to start
asking yourself some questions what do I
really really truly want you need to be
exact about that don't be vague oh I
just want to be happy that's too vague
what will make you happy how will you
know when you got it zero in on it be
exact be specific and as you do that
that will stimulate that super conscious
mind or the reticular activating system
of your mind that will begin to find
those things to identify with it and
once you begin to determine that which
you want take the time to write it down
don't just think about it write it down
that is a subjective process that
engages the subconscious mind write it
down
once you write it down read it three
times a day morning noon and night why
is that important because what it will
do it will cause you to focus it will
cost you to concentrate when that other
conversation is going on telling you
what you cannot do telling you all of
the impossibilities and all of the
obstacles you're concentrating will
begin to create a larger vision within
yourself and you start looking for and
seeing some new opportunities you start
creating some openings for yourself as
you begin to read that every day every
day day in and day out that will make
you focus that will discipline your
thinking and you'll get all kind of
creative ideas as I talk to you right
now being involved in this immersion
process you're going to create some
openings for yourself you're gonna get
some ideas you're gonna feel your
adrenalin flowing and you're gonna think
about something some idea you had you
said I want to go back and I'm gonna
look at that again from a different
vantage point not from the level of the
problem of the obstacles that I
encountered but from a higher vantage
point because what you will begin to see
them to know as I talk to the higher
consciousness within you that you are
powerful that you are a miracle worker
and that inner conversation has
conditioned you to believe that you're
not and as you begin to discover the
truth of who you are whatever challenge
that you're facing in life and if you're
living you're facing some challenge
you'll begin to know that you are
powerful and that you're America maker
so as you begin to write down exactly
what it is that you want read it every
day the next thing is see yourself there
how will you feel once you get there
what will the experience be like for you
what will be different what kind of
person do you have to become in order to
get there visualize yourself there
living the experience I remember when I
ran for state representative in Columbus
Ohio and I had a lot of people telling
me and you got to watch not only the
conversation within but the conversation
without
telling me less you can't possibly win
you can't do that
and I went down to the legislature and I
saw myself I knew what I wanted I saw
myself in the chair I pointed out the
chair that I wanted I used to go and set
up in the galleries and watch the
legislative process I used to go to the
committee meetings and listen to
legislation being introduced I learned
how to write legislation how to amend
legislation
I stopped thinking like a legislator got
up every day dressing thinking like that
selling myself on it seeing myself in
the legislature mr. speaker I'm the
gentleman from the 29th House District
I'd like to introduce the bill I went in
the legislature walk around I have the
experience of it and when I ran and won
against overwhelming odds they were
shocked I won the election even before
it was held because I was living it in
my mind you want to see yourself beyond
your circumstances you got a challenge
see yourself beyond your challenge see
yourself with the challenge already
resolved and knowing that all as well
seeing yourself in control and in charge
of your destiny being healthy and happy
the next thing is it is important in the
area of motivating yourself it's
important to know why you're doing it
because that mind will say why bother
why go through all this this is too hard
no throw in the towel it's not worth it
it hasn't ever said that to you before
here's how you can handle that here's
how you override that write down five
reasons why you deserve it why do you
deserve what you want why you why do you
deserve it what meaning and value will
it bring to your life what's so
different about you that you deserve
your goal of this goal and when you
write down those five reasons when you
have some down moments and you're going
to have them when that conversation
start talking to you and it's going to
talk to you what you will do is you can
pull that out and read it
we'll build you up it will be your rod
and your staff to comfort you through
some challenging moments because you're
gonna have some life will knock you
between the eyes
it will catch you on the blindside come
out of nowhere stuff you can't
anticipate that will knock the wind out
of you you want to give up that's why
it's important for you to work on
yourself listening to tapes building
yourself up talking to yourself with
power feeling and conviction building
yourself up day in and day out because
it's coming I guarantee you
life is just waiting oh he's doing good
now huh very good I've never had an
experience I was pursuing my dream and
that's why you have to work on yourself
you don't know what's gonna happen and I
was telling people I had this big rally
I had to do was 5,000 people there and I
said you must work on yourself if you
want a larger vision you've got to
empower yourself continuously because
life will catch you on the blindside and
after I finished my speech I got a
rousing standing ovation and I wouldn't
call the young lady that I was dating at
the time I said hey guess what I said
they'd love me I got a standing ovation
and they were chanting we want the
motivator we want the motivator I said
listen we want to motivate we want do
you hear
she said yes unless I need to talk to
you
I put wait a minute you're talking about
to tell I was ghetto and I'll be also
less I heard a voice in background hurry
up and tell him who's that
last time you've been gone a lot in
there's somebody else what they came in
less come on mr. motivator they want you
back out there wait a minute all of the
holder why'd you say I'm sorry that
someone hasn't heard a voice say hang
the phone up
come on I say what are they gonna say
hey hey motivator come on they want you
catch your hair chair
okay I said I said when you working on a
larger vision I say you you got a really
work good yourself good light will catch
you the Blind Side
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I say you better be ready you better
make sure you want it cuz it'll make you
cry and somebody said the spirit is on
him thank you thank you thank you thank
you
I was talking to tell it's not blinking
the light they had to come toward me ah
but I say you gotta have a larger vision
you make sure you make sure you work on
yourself I said come over surround - oh
yeah I went back to my hotel room and
loneliness and heartbreak was sitting on
the bed said are you coming in now do
you have your larger vision now how's
your positive attitude say get on in
here are you still breathing
shut up you want your go no we'll just
go Donald light will wear you out you'll
be saying no I can't into our you try to
read it can't see that through the tears
I went running through the drawers in
this hotel trying to find a Gideon Bible
anything you know I said somebody
anybody help me Yahweh Yahoo anybody boy
I tell you that's why you got to work on
yourself good life will send you some
curves
you cannot anticipate the next thing is
that 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 self motivation is you've
got to find something that gives you a
strong sense of competence will 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 when you want
something you can don't expect everybody
to say oh come on it we've been 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 now don't like this and like that
no many doors will be closed in your
face many loans that you will want 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 tonight and I'm gonna go
all out I'm going to be relentless I
don't care how many nose I encounter I
like something I see as Thomas said when
it's getting ready for a basketball game
he said I'm gonna either shoot us in or
shoot us out but I'm not going to not do
anything and that's the way to go
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you can't make a basket unless you shoot
the ball you can't hit a homerun 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 well
soon as I get my divorce ok 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 glass a lot
of people say if I could see it I
believe it no no if you believe it you
can see it
and don't be despaired 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 weren't 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 like Paulo 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 then I'll support you the other
thing is that what are 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 is nothing just to go
and lick envelopes I don't know exactly
what I'm going to do but I'm going over
there it's 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'll go places and folk
will like to be around you they will
know there's something different about
you
when you go in they say hey that's
somebody important I want to know who
you are I just want to be near you that
energy that you have that consciousness
that you will embody will affect
everybody
on you the next thing is is that you
want to create a home court advantage
for yourself you've got to be aware of
who you have around you so you want to
be selective have friends that will
enable you to grow I have friends that
help me to grow spiritually these are my
spiritual friends I talk spiritual stuff
with them I have some other friends who
are just intellectual friends they make
me grow intellectually they make me
stretch I have some professional friends
I'm a member of the National Speakers
Association I get together with other
speakers and we learn from each other
and we grow from each other I have other
friends suggest social friends all we do
is just socialize together we look at a
basketball game together or go out
dancing but that's all we can do we
don't talk anything serious nothing
spiritual nothing intellectual that's
not that kind of relationship nothing
heavy up in here have other friends we
walk together that's all we can do walk
together talk about if we're gonna lose
weight one day bye and bye for good all
right that's all we do nothing else so
according to the relationships that you
develop we grow from people and projects
and the relationships that you develop
can enhance and can enrich your life or
they can drain you I know many talented
people who had a great deal of potential
but because they didn't surround
themselves with other people that will
inspire them to transcend themselves
they never realize their greatness and
they will end up going to their grave
with all their good stuff still in them
so you want to look at your
relationships the people that you're
involved with the people that you
communicate with almost often and you
want to ask yourself the question what
am i becoming because of this
relationship desert inspire mean am i
motivated am i encouraged emma driven to
develop myself am i seeking my own
greatness what kind of person am i
becoming because of this relationship am
i becoming more cynical and negative
about life
ask yourself that the next thing is
you've got to say yes to your life
you've got to say yes yes to my dreams
yes to me yes I can make it yes I can
doesn't matter how many failures I've
made doesn't matter how many mistakes
I've endured doesn't matter about my
defeats doesn't matter about what I've
done
yes yes I don't care about the fact I'm
in a hole now doesn't matter about where
I am yes
the last chapter to my life has not been
written yet if you judge me now you
judge me prematurely
I haven't exposed all my stuff yet I'm
still in the process of transforming my
life I'm still in the process of
becoming yes I have somebody in my life
at one time told me you'll never make
and I said I'll show and I don't know
what energized me what motivated me was
something that Frank Sinatra said he
said the best revenge is massive success
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I'll show you you just watched my smoke
as old folks used to say
so say yes stand up for your dreams
stand up for what you want in your life
decide that your life is so meaningful
to you that you love you and you love
life so much that you're going to stand
up for something you want I used to have
a saying when I was on the radio stand
up for what you believe in because you
can fall for anything so what I say to
you this evening that you are powerful
you have miracle-working power in your
life right now but you got to work on
yourself you've got to develop yourself
you've got to talk to yourself day in
and day out selling yourself on you and
on your potentials and you've got to
know that that you are worth all of your
effort
and that the key to your motivation as
you get a larger vision of yourself is
to know that you have something to give
is to know that you have a reason for
being in the universe at this point in
time I want you to stand up for your
life right now anybody want to stand up
for your life stand up your dream
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you
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