YOUR ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING – Motivational Speech 2020
[Applause]
when you see someone who’s the best in
the world at what they do they’re being
rewarded in public for what they’ve
practiced millions of times in private
George Bernard Shaw said there are two
kinds of people in life you know he said
those that make things happen those that
watch things happen and those that don’t
know what happened see a lot of people
want to exempt themselves from taking
responsibility all they want to do is
talk about the problem every time you
see them they’ll tell you their story
over and over and over and over again
you want to take responsibility for your
life
I got me here I can get me out of this
and I’m getting out I’m not going to be
a volunteer victim take full
responsibility for your life except
where you are and the responsibility
that you want to take yourself where you
want to go
most of you won’t be successful because
when you’re studying and you get tired
you quit
I made a day today and you got it
somebody carry my all together they cry
I said look don’t cry to give up cry to
keep going don’t cry to quit you already
in pain you already hurt get a reward
puppies don’t go to sleep until you
sixteen listen to me I’m here to tell
you today you can come here you can jump
up you can do clear you can be excited
when we give away money but listen to me
you’ll never be successful so I’ll have
to give you a diamond to you
so far the beginning to get unstuck
you’ve got to decide that the behavior
pattern that you have adopted doesn’t
work for you you got to change your
strategies and changing your strategy
means reinventing your life we creating
you and you have the power to do that
you can decide that you want to change
that you’re not gonna be a weapon
you can decide but you’re going to stand
up to light you can decide that I’m
gonna live each day as if it were my
last you have the power to make that
decision
you can decide I’m gonna work for myself
and develop myself I’m going to empower
me and all of these things that are
happening to me right now
they’re just temporary inconveniences
Dennis
I’m in charge here
you have to tap in this suffering every
day of your life could be of so much
scarring that we have to clean up yet in
look as suffering as almost like I look
at failure to succeed you must fail
in failure and in suffering all the
answers are in there no matter what you
face no matter how bad it is going to be
when there is a challenge and by a
challenge I mean anything in life any
challenge anything that you’re facing
the only way to overcome the challenges
that you face is to start walking take
that step every day no matter what you
are facing get up and start walking
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
haven’t here is fear then these are the
things you’re going to be giving away in
your life
[Music]
there are many ways to get the things
that we want for ourselves in our lives
but basically it all begins with how we
choose to think as you think so shall
you be seven little words that I think
are perhaps the most important things
that we can learn and master in our
lives
this old proverb notion that I become
what I think about all day long and once
you know that what you think about is
what expands you start getting real
careful about what you think about you
don’t allow your thoughts to be on
anything that you don’t want or that you
wouldn’t want to have manifest or show
up for you in your life 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 each
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 and what this
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 and that
whatever anybody else out there has to
say my response to that is that’s an
interesting point of view
I’ve never considered that before
talking about past and future and
excessive emphasis on past and future in
your life yes of course you need to have
if there’s nothing wrong with having a
certain intention of what you want to
achieve take steps towards it it’s a
it’s part of living here in this
dimension you can’t just say I’m never
going to plan anything anymore just take
life as it comes
well some people try to do that but
they’re not that happy either after a
while so then your life will get very
diffused and so to have an intention to
have to make a plan perfectly fine
watching either a short-term plan like a
recur to meet you tomorrow in four
o’clock how would you ever meet anybody
if we didn’t have time and and future
and a practical level of course it’s
needed the question is whether future
takes over your mind being able to use
it for practical purposes is of course
great but I call it clock time is fine
but psychological time is when the
future takes over your mind and your
entire sort patterns are geared only
towards future and you treat the present
moment as either just a means to an end
because enables you to get to the next
one you’re always reaching out so to
speak internally to the next yet never
quite here or was looking for some
fulfillment there so you can never
embrace the fullness of now all you make
the now into even an enemy some people
are always unhappy
perhaps we all know some of one or two
people like that three we all who are
wherever they are they’re they’re
complaining is never quite right
wherever they are or whoever they are
ways after a little while they’re very
uncomfortable again there should be
somewhere else you know the bumper
sticker that you see in some cars in
Gila various versions of it says I’d
rather be golfing and then another one
says I’d rather be fishing I’d rather be
this I’d rather be there when I visited
to the spiritual teacher Ram Dass who
lives in Hawaii he has a bumper sticker
on about Ram Dass was the person who in
the 70s wrote the book be here now that
anyway he has a bumper sticker on his
car that says I’d rather be here now so
and and then you realize you can
actually you can still pass you whatever
an intense where you want to get to a
plan I called it it’s a bit like a
journey your life is a journey you’re
going you know you want to go from here
to there whether you’re going to get
there we don’t know maybe on the way
you’ll branch out to somewhere else but
at least you have a certain direction
it’s good to have some direction in your
life but while you are traveling if the
your destination takes up most of your
attention and you’re continuously
focusing on there you miss all the
journey really you can’t enjoy the
journey anymore and most of your life
is the journey the arriving is
relatively rare the wedding
[Music]
and a few more graduation huh but so
those moments are not that fine feel
between so the rest is the journey and
if you can’t enjoy the journey which
means the step you are taking at this
moment is really the most important
thing yes of course you know you’re
going that way but this step is still to
be enjoyed because it’s ultimately your
whole life consists of the step you are
taking at this moment there is never
anything else
