I’VE HAD IT – Jim Rohn ft Les Brown | Powerful Motivational Speech 2020 | Les Brown Motivation
i was talking to a friend of mine named rosie and i said rosie how you doing and she said let me tell you something life is a mess i said girl what are you talking about she said my life is a mess she said you know what i just was sitting up here thinking i haven’t lived i haven’t lived she said i’ve been working hard all my life paying bills and taking care of my children and my children are gone and i just been thinking i haven’t done anything she said when i die i don’t want when people view my body i don’t want them to say oh she had a funny expression on her face i said what do you mean by that i don’t want to have an expression that i’m mad because if i died right now i would be mad i said why what are some of the things you’d like to do she said travel i would love to travel i like to see the pyramids i’ve never been to paris i want to go to paris i’ve never been there there are things that i want to see things i want to do she mentioned a variety of things and i remember a story about a lady who went to the doctor and she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and she came home and she was sitting at a table and and she was drinking some coffee and all of a sudden she just looked up and she said i refuse to die and unlive life i refuse to die and unlive life and she decided that she was going to live that up to that point her life was for her family for her children for her husband but she she had left herself out of the equation have you ever done that i remember at a period of my life i was going to work and i was working on a job that i hated and at the same time i was praying that i wouldn’t get fired i was praying that i wasn’t laid off i was miserable nobody was holding a gun to my head but i showed up every day and i used a flimsy excuse well i gotta pay the bills i’ve got a car payment i have to pay i have a family i have children i have a car note and i have a mortgage note i have to pay i’ve got to survive i was showing up for a paycheck ladies and gentlemen that’s not living and a friend of mine said you know when people change and i said no he said when they get to the point when they say i’ve had it i’ve had it see that could be the day the day you can say i’ve had it and whether you’ve had it with something small or something major the day you can say i’ve had it may not be the day it ends but the day it begins powerful day the man’s finally had it with mediocrity he’s had it with being a loser he’s finally had it with those awful sick feelings inside knowing his wife is at the grocery store looking at two cans of beans one mark 37 cents one mark 39 cents and the guy sick inside knows his wife’s gonna buy the 37 cent can and she doesn’t even like the brand do you know why she’s gonna buy the 37 cent can to save to sin the guy sick inside finally says i’ve had it being on my knees in the dust looking for pennies we’re not living like this any moment could be the day that turns your life around the day you can say i’ve had it not only have you said i’ve had it but you said also in your heart of hearts i can do better than this and let me share something with you you can because if anybody told me and i’m not i’m gonna share some things with you that i’ve done not for the purpose to impress you but to impress upon you what the possibilities are when you work on your mind and have mindset development because i found that how people live their lives is a result of their state of mind it has been said you don’t get in life what you want you get in life what you are so part of the process number one is expose yourself to positive messages see what i’m doing right now i’m distracting the story that’s going on in your head right now how you live your life how i live my life how all of us live our lives is a result of the story we believe about ourselves and most of us are born into stories i was born into a story where we were poor but we didn’t know it i didn’t know we were poor until i got on a bus with my mother going to do domestic work on miami beach and when we crossed the venetian causeway and i saw those big beautiful hotels and i was in the homes with my mother making a bed and cleaning and we ate the food left over from the families that she cooked for and we wore the hand-me-down clothes of the children that she kept and i kept saying mama what is it boy as we got ready to pack up to go back home into overtown and liberty city and all the poverty and filth and the violence there i said why can’t we stay here why can’t we stay here she said lester we can’t why because we can’t why mama why can’t we she said it’s just the way it is now shut up and i kept saying to myself why is that the way that it is and i guess that was okay for wesley and margaret and leonard and angelo and sharon and linda but it wasn’t okay for me i was curious i wanted to live like mr sudersky i wanted the big car that he had i wanted that big home that he had we lived in a two-bedroom apartment it was seven of us plus mama he had a big mansion just three of them ten thousand square feet said mama what is it leslie one day i want to buy you something just like this my brothers and sisters when we were on the bus going back they were just engaged in playful things i was thinking and dreaming mama didn’t understand why i was thinking like that because i’ve been exposed to positive messages i had to take care of mrs sadersky he had to shine his shoes and clean his office and every day when he was listening to motivational messages i was hearing those things too earl nightingale we become what we think about all of us are self-made but only the successful will admit it in order to be successful you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have your mind is a machine you must program yourself for success wow when i heard those words i said wait a minute i could program my mind for success i can program my mind for wealth you can too trust me anybody told me that i would be doing what i’m doing right now i spoke recently in sweden they paid me 40 000 euro for an hour speech i had no idea that this les brown that you now see have the ability to do that i used to work for the miami sanitation department as a garbage collector i used to be a janitor i used to do door-to-door sales they used to work for sears i had no idea this last round that you now see had the ability one day to give lectures at harvard or yellow darth martin university i had no idea that this les brown existed i don’t tell you that to impress you but to impress upon you there’s more in you than you have been expressing and i say to you there’s more in you right now that’s represented in your bank account there’s more in you right now that’s being reflected by your life right now your life is not a true reflection of your potential you have greatness within you you have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine there’s a reason that my favorite book says as a man think it’s so is he and as he continues to think so he remains in order for us to begin to break into that level of greatness that we have within ourselves you have to make a conscious choice every day to expose your mind to positive messages so i put myself on a regimen i do this every day and i suggest that you do it write this down number one listen to motivational messages every day i guarantee you if you do what i’m sharing with you right now for six straight months every day your life will never be the same again i guarantee it 100 you listen every day for one hour to creating your greatest life any of those messages because faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing what it will begin to do is interrupt the story in your mind it will override the story that you believe about yourself it will distract all the negative thoughts that you have that’s holding you back that held me back for 14 years when i used to go see the number one motivational speaker on the planet zig ziglar and tony robbins and and my heart said i can do that i love to help people i’m just like my mother and then my mind would ask how’d i went from my heart to my mind and my mind would say les brown you don’t have a college education les brown you’ve never worked for a major corporation less round you are labeled educable mental retarded have you ever thought about something you wanted to do and you convinced yourself that you couldn’t do it see sometimes we need to have some external voices and so by listening to motivational messages that begin to override the negative thoughts that i had about myself in my mind and it gave me a new story and empowered me and gave me a vision of myself beyond my circumstances and mental conditioning and started me to writing a new chapter in my life and so now money will never be another issue for me and that was an issue for most of my life because i didn’t know what i did know and i thought i knew so one you have to do is that you have to have a mindset development strategy where you are deliberately taking an hour every day listening to a motivational message every day here’s something else read 10 to 15 pages of something positive every day why and read it with conviction and and stay focused 10 to 15 pages every day this is seven days a week absolutely absolutely every day mcdonald’s know that you know where they are burger king know that you know where they are but every day they have some advertising they have billboards they have radio they have television why because by exposing you to those messages that will begin to impact your behavior it will drive you into the place to purchase what they’re advertising now you advertising for your greatness and faith comes by hearing and hearing and hearing and hearing so you want to listen to positive messages every day you do this i’m telling you your life will never be the same again i read two to three books a week why because i have goals and dreams of things i want to achieve i want my life to count i want to make a greater impact and as i begin to look at myself in order to achieve more to do more i know i have to work more in my mind then here this is the next thing i want you to do i want you to look at your relationships and i want you to upgrade your relationships see mit did a study this study indicated that you earned within two to three thousand dollars of your closest friends not only did i start reading books every day and listening to positive messages but i separated myself from my friends who did not have goals and who did not have dreams why because people rub off on you it’s called a mind virus you earn within two to three thousand dollars of your closest friends so when you upgrade your relationships you got to ask yourself the question who is it that i need to associate with that i can learn from that i can grow mentally emotionally spiritually and financially by aligning myself with another person that i can learn from and dr dennis kimbrough said if you’re the smartest one in your group you need to get a new group you
