LES BROWN: 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 and as you continue to
work on yourself you will begin to
expand your vision of yourself you'll
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 the next thing is
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 call 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
you want to live life with energy and
passion you want to make a conscious
effort to be Lively you want to be happy
you got a lot to be thankful for
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
tied 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 there's an old African
proverb that says is there's no enemy
within the enemy outside can do us no
harm 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
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 it 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 talent 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 1 to 10 let's do
this for ourselves mentally how do you
rate yourself from 1 to 10 your mental
attitude about yourself how you feel
about you how you feel about life how do
you rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10
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 it 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 1 to
10 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 with their jobs are you
spending 8 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 they're
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 some
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 or 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 oppress 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 in 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 and have a special
meaning for you or read the same book
over again and you'll find some special
insight you said I can't believe I
didn't see that the first time so you
want to be involved and developing
yourself most people
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 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'll
begin to work towards self mastery and
you will begin to see and 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 settlement
have you made with your life many of us
settled for less than what we want out
of a 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 call 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 separates 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
slice to 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 sad
are you doing honey stay away from these
people just go away from them it affects
you 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 if 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 a contact you don't have
the money you don't know the right
people
you're gonna
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
and 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
tied 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 there's an old African
proverb that says is there's no enemy
within the enemy outside can do us no
harm
the next thing that it's 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 then
we'll 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 cause 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 dream
influence 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 and 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
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 your 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
like to introduce the bill I went in the
legislature walked round I had the
experience of it and when I ran and won
against overwhelming odds they were shy
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
has it 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
and it will 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 blind
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 lovely I got a standing ovation
and they were chanting we want the
motivator we want the motivator
I said listen we want to motivate
everyone do you hear she said yes
unless I need to talk to you I put one
item in you're talking about to tell I
was get down and I'll be also less I
heard a voice in the background
hurry up and tell her who's there let's
come you've been gone a lot in there's
somebody else what they came in let's
come on mr. motivator they want you back
out there wait a minute all of the Honan
why don't you say I'm sorry that someone
hasn't heard a voice say hang the phone
up clunk I say why don't I say hey hey
motivator come on they want you to catch
your ham cheer I said when you working
on a larger vision I say you you got a
really work on yourself good light will
catch on the Blind Side
I said you better be ready and 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 cut me off but I say you gotta
have a larger vision you make sure
grandpa you make sure you work on
yourself I said come on mr. Brown come
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
Shep shut up you want you're gonna know
we'll just go Donald light will wear you
out
you'll be saying no I can't I know how
wrong 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 so well I tell you that's why
you got to work on your stuff good life
we'll 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 women 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 to your
face many loans that you'll 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 denied and I'm gonna go
all-out I'm going to be ready lick 'less
I don't care how many nose I encounter I
like something Isaiah 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
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 that will always be a reason well
as soon as the children grow up as soon
as I pay my bills well as soon as I get
my divorce I don't 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
of the 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 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 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 as 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
one of the keys to stuff 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 television 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 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 around 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 in farming am i
motivated am i encouraged am i 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 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
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét