Develop Yourself Day In And Day Out - Les Brown | Motivation

all of us have motivation of some sort i define motivation as the desire to achieve that which you believe 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 believe to be worthwhile to challenge them i heard a poem once that said many a flower has bloomed unceasingly and wasted 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 one to ten let's do this for ourselves mentally how do you rate yourself from one to ten your mental attitude about yourself how you feel about you how you feel about life how do you rate yourself on a scale of

one to ten 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 one to ten is it what you want it to be do you find it desirable are you satisfied the job of career that you're involved in someone said that 85 of the american public unhappy 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 it 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 there 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 formulating 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 run low 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 or the will to do anything that sometimes you act like you're punched drunk you're just wading through like just doing time day in and day out looking at non-discriminatory television anything that's on just looking and depressed feeling powerless feeling useless and born 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 and 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 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're too busy you're 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 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 decided to take something less than what you originally wanted to get had you gone into court and the reason that you settled 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 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 courage to change them 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 see 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 called 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 what are the things that you fear

that's been keeping you from living your dream that's been keeping you from doing some things that you would like to do just think about those things and how do we begin to handle that abraham maslow said that the life is about growth and he said you could either go back to your comfort zone and there you won't find any growth or you must willing be willing to go forward and face your fears again and again and again because you're never going to have a fear-free existence i mean some fear is acceptable and legitimate there are

some things that you you really should be afraid of now you shouldn't allow it to immobilize you you acknowledge it you take it into account and you carry yourself accordingly there are times that we should proceed with caution but it's the difference between being stopped by fear is the difference between having a fear and the fear having you so what do we do one acknowledge it and knowing that it's okay don't condemn yourself for being afraid it's perfectly fine to have some fears you acknowledge your fears you embrace those fears and then you move on

you act on whatever it is that you fear because once you embrace it see what you resist will persist what you resist will persist so one of the most important things is is to begin to embrace your fear and i used to have a tremendous inferiority complex about speaking before people that i felt who had more going for them than i did because i'm not college trained i used to feel that college people were the most intelligent people on the planet and there was nothing i had to say for them and what would i what

will they listen to me for that's the way i felt and so i had to to visualize myself speaking before them speaking before various audiences that had more going for them than i did and realize and appreciate my own value and that i was a worthwhile person even though i didn't have all going for me i didn't have the money i didn't have the education that they had so part of the process is seeing yourself being worthy being capable having what you need to make you a worthwhile person and that you're more than able and

that you deserve to be listened to or you deserve to have that dream and that passion and whatever it is that you see and envision there you've got to see it in your mind's eye and know that you've got what it takes fears am i holding on to what fears that i'm allowing to imprison me that's keeping me from breaking out that's keeping me from living up to my true potential that's keeping me from really being happy that's keeping me from having a sense of adventure and excitement in my life what's what's keeping me from

controlling my destiny what fears that i'm giving that permission to notice what i said that we must give our permission to fear to immobilize us because whatever discomfort you experience whatever challenges a difficulty that it is you got to handle it you've got to go up in there and wrestle with it will it be easy no will it be challenging yes friend of mine who's going into recovery he's been addicted to crack cocaine for years and alcohol he was talking about how challenging it was and why he was dreading going on going into cold turkey

i said what do you want me to tell you that it's going to be a picnic no it's not it's going to kick your butt yes it is are you going to want to die yes yes that's a part of it but that's just what you must go through in order to get where you want to go and guess what you are strong enough to do it you're strong enough and your life is worth whatever you have to go through to get past this addiction whatever you have to do this dream you got whatever you

want to do will it be easy to just run out there and do it no will it happen overnight no would it be a struggle yes will there be times when you can't make ends meet yes that's a part of it will there be times you won't know what to do yes that's a part of it 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 a friend of mine told me this evening and

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 a conversation say oh 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 inner 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 inner conversation that stops 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 there and your mind's gonna go blank forget all that you remember that time you got up before some people and you panic you stood up and your mind sat down don't you remember and i said yes and then i said shut up so you've got to learn to stand up to yourself inside yourself and short circuit override that conversation that's always going on 85 percent

of what that conversation will tell you is negative it's negative it will tell you you're tired when you really are not tired 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 going to 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 is an old african proverb

that says 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 i 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 zero 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 that will 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 the subjective 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 cost 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 immersion process you're going to create some openings for yourself you're going to get some ideas you're going to feel your adrenaline flowing and you're going to think about something some idea you had you said i want to go back and i'm going to 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're

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 unless 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 sit 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 start thinking like a legislator 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'd like to introduce a bill i went in the legislature walk around i had the experience of it and when i ran and won against overwhelming odds they were shocked i won the election even before it was hell because i was living it in my mind you want to see yourself beyond your circumstances you got to challenge see yourself beyond your challenge see yourself with the challenge already resolved [Music] [Music] you