The Video That Will Change Your Future | Powerful Motivational Speech 2018
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
believed 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 it’s 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 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 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 on
happy with 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
it 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 formulate 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 and sometimes 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
of a will to do anything but sometimes
you act like you’re punch them you’re
just waiting for
like just doing time day in and day out
looking at non-discriminatory television
anything that’s all just looking and
depressed
feeling powerless feeling useless and
bored what do you do how do 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 discontent with 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 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 are 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 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’ve 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 in 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 settle for less than what we
want out of relationships because we
don’t have the
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
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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 except if it’s 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
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if I go tonight I want you to slip us
with rice and 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 her 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 the contacts 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
panic you stood up in your mind set down
don’t you remember I said yes and then I
said Jenna so you 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
it’s negative it will tell you you’re
tied when you really are not tight 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 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 or I
just want to be happy that’s too vague
what will make you happy how will you
know when you got it
zeroing 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 this
objective 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
emergent process you
to create some openings for yourself
you’re gonna get some ideas you gonna
feel your adrenalin flowing and you’re
gonna think about something some idea
you have 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 have
talked 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
stop thinking like a legislative 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 a bill I
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
this hill 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
because that mind will stay right Bob
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 are 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 store 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 black
side 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 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 lovely I got a standing ovation
and they were chanting we want to
motivate and 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 a little bit you’re
talking about to tell I will get down
and I’ll be also less I heard a voice in
background hurry up and tell me 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 don’t you say I’m sorry that
someone hasn’t heard a voice say hang
the phone up
come on I say why don’t they go say hey
hey motivator come on they want you
catch you have chair I say okay I said
when you working on a larger vision I
say you you gotta really work on
yourself the light will catch on the
black 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 lights they had to come
toward me or but I said you gotta have a
larger vision you make Joe Brinkman you
make sure you work for yourself I said
come on mr. Brown – 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
yep shut up you want your gold oh just
go Donald light will wear you out you’ll
be saying no I can’t do I want you
trying to read it can’t see done 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 but I think that’s why you got
to work on your seat good life we’ll
send you some curds
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 see part of 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 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 grey now don’t like this and like
that no many doors will be closed in
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
finished
I refuse to be denied 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 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 with him 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 heaven 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 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 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 saying if I could see it I
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’s part of being
unreasonable part of being unreasonable
you like Paulo said you must have the
faith to call for 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
what are 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 you
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 as
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
timing 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 it I have some
other friends who are just intellectual
friends they make me grow intellectually
they make me stretch
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 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 of
other 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
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 been doing 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’ll
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 are never met
and I said I’ll show
and I’m what energized me what motivated
me was something that Frank Sinatra said
he said the best revenge is massive
success
