Les Brown – PUSH YOURSELF TODAY (Les Brown Motivational video)
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 I haven’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 are why are 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 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 who 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 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 tonight and I’m gonna go
all out I’m going to be ridiculous 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 going to 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 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 glass a lot of
people say if I can see it I’ll believe
it no no no if you believe it you can
see it
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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 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 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 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 going to
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 me
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’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’re never making
and I said how sure and I’m 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
there’s old folks useless thing
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’ve 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 lifestyle dream
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