STAY HUNGRY | LES BROWN MOTIVATION

if you do what is easy your life will be

hard but if you do what is

hard your life will be

easy if you do what is easy complain

about your situation your circumstances

if you do what is easy stand around and

be a volunteer victim like everybody

else if you do what is easy surrendering

give up on your dreams become depressed

and bitter and

angry anybody can do that if you do what

is easy your life will be

hard but if you do what is hard keep

coming back again and again and again if

you do what is hard approaching

strangers talking to people in shopping

malls get up dressed every day going out

prospecting knowing some way somehow

with a spirit of expectation somebody

body's out here looking for an

opportunity you can go outside right now

and see some pigeons but you're out

hunting for eagles and they're not

common and if you do that over and over

and over again somebody's going to show

up just acknowledge what's going on is

called life and keep on working on your

dream continue to keep on knocking keep

on knocking because this is your life

this is what you love this is your

passion step back don't judge it if you

judge it judge not yet unless you be

judged why because when you judge it you

invest emotion in it and that Mo emotion

could be anger and guess what that hurts

you that doesn't hurt anybody else one

doctor said the man who anger me kth me

and then he allowed someone to egg him

into an argument on the floor of the

national medical convention and suffered

a massive heart attack when you're in a

state of anger you have so much acid in

your blood if they withdrew some blood

from you and insert it into a pig it

would die from the acid

it so what do you want to take yourself

out early for by internalizing things

Shakespeare said nothing is neither good

nor bad but thinking makes it

so so judge not according to your

appearances but write judgment and feel

that everything is going to work out for

you because you're patient you're

persistent and you're going to be

positive no matter what don't allow

other things or people or circumstances

to determine what your reaction is going

to be I was out to dinner with some

people and we had a waitress that was

quite discourteous and

rude and the people around me took a an

attitude about it I learned how to

observe life I think that in order to

overcome life you've got to learn how to

observe it just stand back and watch

what's going on and choose not to buy

into

it so don't allow people to determine

how you are going to resp respond to

them or circumstances learn to look at

it a friend of mine Tom

Perkins handsome articulate man in his

mid-50s he had a tremendous business and

at the height of his success someone was

killed in his business he was sued and

lost

$750,000 lost his business lost his

family lost his home everything he was

devast stated ladies and

gentlemen he start living in his car he

would wash up in a

McDonald's across from Howard University

on Georgia Avenue in Washington

DC he said Les I was so depressed he

said I had everything and then one day I

lost it

all he said I didn't want to live

anymore he got some sleeping pills and

he took over 35 sleeping pills and he

laid down fold His Hands Across his

chest and he said he went to sleep to

Die 2 Days Later much to his amazement

he woke up I said what happened then Tom

he said an incredible thing happened he

said he was laying there for a moment he

said and a voice said to him inside his

mind it wasn't your life to

take that was one thing he said since

that day when I get any major challenges

I don't take it on myself personally I

feel that I've got somebody with me he

said I'll never leave you nor forsake

you see whatever you worried about if

someone called call you right now and

say listen you got two days to live I'm

telling you you won't be worried about

your bills ladies and

gentlemen so put things in perspective

you here something else Tommy said that

I think is

important he said that the voice also

said to

him if you change your ways I'll give

you far more than you ever

lost look at your life right now if you

want to keep on getting what you're

getting keep on doing what you're doing

you've got to be willing to change your

ways your life is working if if you

don't like what you have produced you a

director you are the star you wrote this

script you produce this whatever it is

if it's a hit you produced it if it's a

flop you produced it take ownership of

it and decide to go back to the drawing

board and rewrite the script that you

are the star up you have the power to do

that on this day you can declare that

I'm going to change as you look back on

your life you can decide that I don't

like what I produced here and I want

Higher

Ground I want to begin to experience

more love I want to have more Adventure

in my life I want something that gives

my life a sense of meaning ladies and

gentlemen I've been selected to head up

a program called Project Life in Chicago

training thousands of kids and I had the

experience this we had our second

session this past

Monday and to see these young people

when they came in and to see the young

people and the parents and the community

volunteers when they went out one young

man from the Cabrini Green House

projects who didn't want to be there who

came up and said I want you to know I'm

so glad to be here and he

said I'll never be the same again he

said Thank you Mr Brown he said I just

got to go now but thank you sir I'll

never be the same

again a letter I got from a young man

who was in The Cook County Jail where I

work on Monday morning

and this young man will not be out of

jail for at least 50 years at least 50

years they gave him a 100 years this guy

has shot at least 60 people that we know

of and killed 10 at

least and this letter he wrote he said

since listening to your

tapes he said I have not changed but I

feel a different person in me

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over 70% of these young men are in there

for murder we wanted to have a two-

prone attack where we would train people

on the outside and train those that are

in the jails because I believe if you

cage them like animals and treat them

like animals and they're out on the

streets every 22 months they're going to

get out and act like animals and go back

in like animals so we said let's take an

approach this gives me my life this now

this might be insane

but I felt so good I believe ladies and

gentlemen if we can accept the

possibility of that this is the decade

of

Consciousness that's what I believe that

this is the decade of Consciousness a

time where we can begin to create in

folks Minds the idea the

possibility that we can create a more

Humane Society the possibility that we

can create more love communication and

understanding in relationships the

possibility that we can create the kind

of respect for diversity and difference

in our Multicultural Society the

possibility that we can begin to develop

the mindset to bring out the best in

people to encourage them to achieve

their greatness and support them in

their dreams that if we can in this

decade of Consciousness to begin to see

and envision that happening and that we

all can play a role that we were born

for such a time as this that we showed

up for this that we survived one out of

9 million sperms and we have been chosen

for this great

work here's something else to recognize

wherever you are on the ladder of life

and I was reading in Dr Norman Vincent

Field's latest book called The Power of

Positive living which I think is his

greatest work and he has something in

there a section called comeback power

wherever you are in life ladies and

gentlemen you've got comeback power

I don't care how low you are I don't

care what you have done I don't care

what you have experienced I don't care

how devastated your life might appear to

be the shambles it might be in there's a

power in you that can enable you to be

stronger and better than anything that's

out here one man who came to the

training he was not a kid and I knew he

had a drinking problem and he was

looking at me and I can smell alcohol on

him I said excuse me come here come here

come here he said what is it I said let

me tell you something I want you to know

you've got something in you that's

stronger than that poison you're putting

in your

body do you understand me and he was

looking he was backing up he said he

said

no no no he said I I don't know man I

said it is I said that's why you're here

something drew you here and that which

caused you to come you said you want

some help and you need to be around some

people that can help you get in touch

with your power because you know that

your life deserves this see I think that

the reason that we abuse ourselves with

drugs and alcohol is that we're trying

to numb something in us that's that's

aching us that's that's urging us that's

nagging us to do something bigger and

better it can't be because it tastes so

good that when we are diluting ourselves

or polluting our minds it numbs us where

we don't have to face

reality because we don't know what we've

got going for us see once you discover

who you are the truth of knowing who you

are will set you free from ever wanting

alcohol from ever wanting any kind of

drug that's going to destroy Who You Are