SELF LOVE – Positive Morning Motivation | Motivational Speech 2020
you can’t give away what you don’t have
now it sounds ridiculous okay but it’s
more than what meets the ear as you hear
this you can’t give away what you don’t
have people who are not good at giving
away love can’t give away love because
they don’t have it to give away if I
want to give you a dozen oranges I can’t
give you those dozen oranges unless I go
out and pick up 12 oranges someplace
otherwise all it is is just empty
rhetoric and the same thing is true of
virtually everything in your life you
can’t give away love for others if you
don’t have love in here to give away if
what you have in here is contempt if
what you have in here is anger if you
have in here is fear then these are the
things you’re going to be giving away in
your life loving yourself is the most
powerful thing we can do
then everything flows everything flows
beautifully I’m not talking about vanity
or arrogance because that is not love
that’s always fear I’m talking about
just really respecting and appreciating
this incredible magnificent
that we are you know little babies know
how to love themselves you were born in
pure love all of you
there’s not one little baby alive I that
I know of that ever criticizes its body
wherever says my hips are too big
they’re just thrilled and delighted that
they have a body they rejoice in it and
they love themselves they love their
toes they love everything about
themselves they absolutely adore that
they express their feelings you know I
mean a baby is happy you know it when a
baby is angry the whole neighborhood
knows it they’re never scared to let
people know how they feel they live in
the moment and they’re filled with
courage and they’re wonderful and we
were all like that gotta remember that
you were filled with courage and you
were full of love and you adored
yourself when you were very little have
a mind that is open to everything
and attached to nothing one of the
central principles of my life is that no
one knows enough to be a pessimist about
anything and that each and every one of
us when we close our mind to what is
possible for us or what is possible for
Humanity closes off the genius that
resides and lives in each and every one
of us having an open mind doesn’t
necessarily mean finding fault with all
of the things that you’ve been taught by
others it means opening yourself up to
the potentiality and the possibility
that anything and everything is possible
so having a mind that is open to
everything and attached to nothing
really means finding within ourselves
the ability to get rid of a trait that I
find so common in contemporary in the
contemporary world do you know that most
people that I meet spend their lives
looking for occasions
to be offended
they actually are app out there hoping
that they can find some reason to be
offended and there’s no shortage of
reasons they’re out there everywhere the
way this person dressed of what the
worst person said they turn on the TV
they hear the news they’re offended by
this
someone didn’t someone use language that
they didn’t like someone doesn’t share
the same customs at you and people all
day long in fact if you keep track
tomorrow you will find probably a
hundred reasons that you can go around
being offended but a mind that is open
to everything and attached to nothing is
a mind that says I’m never looking for
anything to be offended by
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you must find a way to serve Martin
Luther King said that not everybody can
be famous but everybody can be great
because greatness is determined by
service now we live in a world where
everybody wants to be famous and where
we admire people for just being things
we think being known brings us value the
truth is all of that will fade in time
in three years you won’t be able to name
the Housewives of Atlanta
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the real truth is that service and
significance service and the
significance that you bring to your
service is that which is lasting so to
be able to whatever your occupation or
job or talent or gift is our honorees
today getting doctoral degrees
– apparently opposite fields HIV and
AIDS and the spoken word but what they
have in common is service using the
spoken word in service to community in
the world using your knowledge and
information about HIV and AIDS and
medicine in service to the world and if
you look at all the most successful
people in the world whether they know it
or not they have that paradigm of
service everybody’s talking about Mark
Zuckerberg and I appeal
service jay-z wrapping service through
the word to people through song
for many years I was really just happy
to be on TV and people would stop and
say oh he won’t TV again on TV I like
being on TV it’s a nice job and it was
about the time that I received my
honorary Doctorate from Spelman around
1993 so I don’t know if that had
something to do that I thought of myself
as doctor then I went back and I took a
long look at what it was I was doing on
on TV and made a decision that I was no
longer going to just be on TV but I was
going to use TV as a platform as a force
for good and not be used by TV and I
will tell you
my decision to make that significant
change in the way I operated on
television using television as a service
changed my career exponentially service
medicine said service through art using
whatever it is you produce your product
as a way of giving back to the world
when you shift the paradigm whatever it
is you choose to do to service and you
bring significance to that success will
I promise you follow you service and
significance equals success it’s number
two number three it’s so simple but so
hard to do always do the right thing
always
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be excellent
people notice think of how you notice
you go to Taco Bell somebody gives you
extra napkin and some sauce
you notice you want to go back to that
person because even at Taco Bell
excellence shows itself be excellence
let excellence be your brand
everybody talks about building a brand I
never even knew what that was when
people say you’re a brand I would say no
I’m just Oprah what I recognized now is
that my choice to it every way
in every example in every experience to
do the right thing
and excellent thing is what has created
the brand
years ago I did an ad for Revlon for
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an ad they were doing called
unforgettable women what I know is that
when you are excellent
become unforgettable
people remember you you stand out we got
us of what it is you become an
unforgettable woman and that is what we
all want we want to be unforgettable and
not forgettable so doing the right thing
even
nobody knows you’re doing the right
thing we’ll always bring the right thing
to you but promise you that why because
the third law of motion is always at
work for every action there’s an equal
and opposite reaction that is so true in
all of our lives
that’s what Newton said sealian the
color purple said it everything you even
try to do to me already done to you
everything you even try to do to me
already done to you so you don’t have to
worry about revenge or getting back at
somebody making sure they pay
you just have to do the right thing and
the right thing will follow you even
when people don’t support it you do the
right thing even when other people think
it may not be and oftentimes when you
make a decision to do the right thing
immediately you’re faced with doubt is
that the right thing is that the right
decision
you always know it’s the right thing
when in the end there is peace you are
rewarded by peace and knowing that you
did the right thing the most important
thing I have come to know in doing the
right thing and making the right choices
is understanding
all of you leaving here have the
potential for enormous success there’s a
price that comes with that
people always like to and they’re not
always happy for you and what I know for
sure is that the biggest choices begin
and end with you
your internal big questions do I want to
be in
my relationship to Source Energy to all
that is God I’m not talking about what
you believe in God I’m talking about
your experience of that which is all
life which is divine and universal I’m
talking about the big deal being
connected and aligned with that when you
are tuned in and charged into that
whenever you feel empty and go inside
yourself and you connect to the source
and you know that all things are
possible
to know that
and to choose to do the right thing in
service and significance I promise you
you will create a vessel of service for
yourself first as you have to honor
yourself first give to yourself first
way
you will create a vessel for yourself
for your family
your community indicated storm is
passing out
you shall not be
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you
