As one of the world’s most renowned motivational speakers, Les Brown is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in business and professional circles for Fortune 500 CEOs, small business owners, non-profit and community leaders from all sectors of society looking to expand opportunity. For three decades he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by interviewing hundreds of successful business leaders and collaborating with them in the boardroom translating theory into bottom-line results for his clients.
As a premier Keynote Speaker and leading authority on achievement for audiences as large as 80,000—Les Brown energizes people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skillfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. The thread is forever strengthened, touting why you can’t afford to be complacent and to aim high, achieve and actively make an impact on the world.
Les Brown never tires of using his energies to transform the world, well-beyond the podium and public appearances, meshing traditional and social media to empower his audiences. Hundreds of thousands are watching him on YouTube and tens of thousands interact with him regularly on Facebook. He has a keen way of turning what he touches into gold. Over 20 years ago, he won a Chicago-area Emmy® for his unsurpassed fundraising pledge drive for the Public Broadcasting System. Followed by several bestselling books and hosting popular national talk shows on television and radio.
Addressing audiences from Denmark to Dubai, Canada to the Caribbean, Les Brown is invited back again and again for his powerful message and the ability to connect deeply with people from all walks of life. It isn’t just his great smile and his way with words that motivates people to take action like never before; when people face roadblocks or adversity it is the depth of his knowledge on achievement that creates lasting results.
Les Brown’s straight-from-the-heart, passion and high-energy, motivates audiences to step beyond their limitations and into their greatness in many ways. Over the past decade, Les has expanded his role from keynote speaker to Master Trainer, creating the kind of workshop learning experience that got him committed to personal-and-professional development many years earlier. His charisma, warmth and humor have transformed ordinary people into extraordinary achievers by using his own life, and his in-depth study of others’ challenges, to build an understanding of what works, what doesn’t work, and why.
Les Brown – Somewhere within you is GREATNESS! – Les Brown Motivational Speech
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better life media America’s leading source for life improvement presents
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les brown
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step into your great d
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for
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went through hello how are you
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a movie house a major goes you’d like to cheer a chance please
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very good I know you do I
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as I you showed up I like to ask people where the doubt they have goals and
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they’re like to achieve it and hopefully there goes that
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a really a worthy of your efforts in your talents I want to shake someone’s
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hand right now on your right and left
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look him in the eyes and say you have something special I like to ask whether
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not you have goals but i wanna ask another question
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how many you know that if you had your life to live over again
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you could do more than what you’ve done that’s for a chance please
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now that proves a point the what we do and what we accomplish in life
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is only a tip of the iceberg what’s possible for us
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so what you think about some goes it you like to achieve and I like you too
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lets a break them up in three categories: number 10 much think about
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some personal goal you’d like to G
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and I likely to think about some career goal
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some business goal that you like to G and
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what you think about some social contribution
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some impact you like to make with your life that was harsh man who’s that we
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should be ashamed to die
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until we’ve made some major contribution to human Chi
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I believe we live in the greatest country in the world that gives us an
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opportunity to leave our mock
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to make a statement with our lives and as you think about these goals
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whatever those goals are I wanted to dramatically
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increase those goals and want to warn you I don’t you think about
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how are you going to do it how is none of your business
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the most important thing is just two
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increase those goals dramatically I found that most people fail in life
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not because they aimed too high and miss most people fail in life
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because they aim to Lowell
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and hit a and many don’t aim at all
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so raise the bar yourself and don’t ask how you do it how you going to do it
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I’ll never forget when I decided that I wanted to become
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a motivational speaker I saw the the late doctor norman vincent peale and and
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my heart said I can do that but my mind
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ask the question how and for over 14 years
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for fourteen years I would go see zig ziglar and doctor norman vincent peale
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and you’re on a different speakers now would be in the audience and
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and my heart would pounce insane you can do that you can do that less and then
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when I would leave I would be going to the parking lot and my mind to know how
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you’re going to do it and
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I spent so many years trying to figure out how
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I wasted fourteen years how many cover
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procrastinate or a chance please yessss also as you begin to think about your
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goals
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the most important thing is to write this down commit yourself
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say once you commit yourself the Howell com
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the way will come once you commit yourself you will vents
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figured out if you’re going in the wrong direction all you have to try to run to
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go the other direction
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you will figure it out you wanna began to just challenge yourself you wanna
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structure sup because you really don’t know what you can’t do
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I never forget the first day that I met this to Washington
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I was born in a poor section of miami florida call Liberty City
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I was born an abandoned building on a floor
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where the twin brother and when we were six weeks the page
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we were adopted and when I was in the fifth grade I was identified as mr.
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labeled edge ago mentally-retarded
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put back for the fifth straight into the fourth grade I feel again when I was the
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eighth grade
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I don’t have any college education but because a by mother and I feel like
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abraham Lincoln’s that all that I am
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and all that ever hope to be I owe to my mother
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as a sign once it said the got took me from my biological mother’s womb
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and placement haha to my adopted mother so my first major goal was to buy my
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mother home
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to take care bye mother and I did that to care for until she passed today D
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eight
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but I’ll never forget when I met mister Washington house in a class with one
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another student and and he came and he said young man gotta bored at work this
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problem of course
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a Salsero I can’t do that is that why I said I’m not gonna be student is a look
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at me as a decir
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go to the border work the problem on anyhow has its Sarah
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can’t do what you asked me to do he said why sir because I’m
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I’m eligible mentally-retarded sir and as a student erupted in laughter
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he came from behind his desk you look at me said don’t you ever say that again
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someone’s opinion a view does not have to become your reality
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and houses turning point in my life on one hand I was humiliated
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but on the other hand I was liberated
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because he looked at me with the eyes a girl who’s that look at him and the way
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that the years
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he only becomes worse but look at him as if you were with it could be
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then it becomes what he should be and so mister Washington he challenged me
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and I want to challenge you right now about raising your goals and
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and I want to shake someone’s hand on your right and left look him in the eyes
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and say stretch yourself
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yes a see I think that that you really have to stretch yourself
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to discover your arse stuff I think that we have to really begin to
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experiment with life not said that you have something special
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I didn’t say that just to be kind and courteous you do
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say I think that there are not many people that come the seminars workshops
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or watch a program at this nature why
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I just think that most people just satisfied to where they are
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I’m reminded them at one day was walking down the street the passes sportswear
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some people on the porch talking there was a dog moaning and groaning
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and he was curious whether dog was moaning and groaning and he
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he went back and he said I’m skews be asked the owner watchdog moaning and
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groaning
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guy said because is laying on a male is
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all I want to get off is that it’s not hurting bad enough work to get off
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this hurting bad elf to moan and groan
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how can you know people who should be here Asia has fleas
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how many you know people all they do is bordered role rather up
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morning rolled up I’m not making enough money a boring grownup
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I’m unhappy with my job eighty-seven percent of people go to jobs that pay
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and in addition to Matt you know that as we know that that we have the dubious
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distinction this country there are
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on Monday morning the heart attack rate increases over 35 percent
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on Monday morning between six o’clock and no I
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people going to jobs at bay hey the hard to did not tell you I don’t wanna go and
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attack them
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someone you don’t want to go to work thanks buddy just
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so they is this so you want to find out what resonates with you
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what is it you really want to do you want to experiment with no I
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and find out what fits me you you have something special you have greatness
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within you
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you have the ability to do more than you can ever began
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to imagine side believe that anybody through observation
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and practice can’t perform at the level
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are excellence but when you’re pursuing your greatness
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this is worth writing down you don’t know what your limits of
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and you act like you don’t have any so I say to you you have something special
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you have great this within you and in I wanna make four things clear number one
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everything that I’m going to say you already know it
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if what I share the message that that I’m going to express right down share
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with you if it wasn’t a part of who you already
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you wouldn’t be in the audience that’s number one that’s not that’s very
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important it’s already
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in you I’m gonna only confirm and validate that which is a potom you any
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harm
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the second-biggest everything I want to say to you you heard before
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from people with college degrees and credentials I can hold a candle to
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is common sense but not common practice third thing is I don’t want you to agree
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with me
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and I don’t want you to believe me I just want you to be open to
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some things right now I want you to think beyond that which is commonly
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all-out dante when I’m up to I want to think about your goals
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and I wanna tell you what I’m going to do right now my whole goal is to get
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past your mind I smile hold
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challenging there’s nothing you can do about it I would do that
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to your sign it was to show up miles simon is to get past your mind and get
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into your hot want to think about the goals you want to achieve
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and i were really want to challenge you to make up your mind but you’re gonna
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make
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that happen for yourself and I hope that at some goal that
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that really resonates with who you are when I was a little boy
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my goal was to to just buy groceries for family
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my mother worked on my maybe she was a domestic worker and
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and my goal was to to really be able to go to the grocery store and purchase
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groceries ourselves
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the families know that my mother had adopted seven children and soul
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they said maybe when our reporters left over after we
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you can take that home to the children they were very kind very very
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considered people the mother my mother who when she worked on Miami Beach the
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people were very kind
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how was appreciative have the generosity but as a lowboy
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has mama one day when I become a big boy homer be able
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buy groceries for us my goal as a little boy
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was by close my brothers and sisters we want to hand me down clothes for the
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children that Bama babysat for wenge
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she went over in miami beach and if the calls were too small she would let the
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mountains if they’re too large boba
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its own take a mop and I’ll never forget I’m David Tudor ski his father was very
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wealthy mama work for the day with my buddy
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and so his father gave him two gifts for his birthday
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gave him a brand new boat but he also gave you
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some motivational tapes ProGuide Ingelheim I’ll never forget so
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he said David me and let me tell you something when when I die
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you going to get everything I want you listen to these tapes in
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and when his father left to rue David through those states in the wastebasket
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I said today because I have those tapes ECS
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civilian father said if you listen to these you can get more than do more than
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what he’s done is a lookout get there they get how
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go it a go I
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about to about children I’m not leaving them anything you know
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if I had according to what i was gonna die I’ll swallow it
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write this down is not what you leave for your children is what you leave
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and then I would you leave for them what you leave em it now
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absolutely not today so the girls happen I don’t forget mama came home one day
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and say leslie David sent you
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nuclear issues his father got for has had oh mama
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thank you so much Ikea where David shoes why
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well you tell my buddy that people I wear size in at 9am
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he wears size nine she is that boy shut up sit down and put those shoes on
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she’s a bar and go get some vastly
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she came in there my sister star Trevor the best little about me
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she said runs on water in the bathtub and she’s not go on and
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and put your piano shoes and don’t match the heel down
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has said Mahmoud don’t get shut up boy don’t match the heel down
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and then she had me to get in the bed does mom a shoes hurt she said can now
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walk around
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in the water I’m walk around a bathtub issue try to distract me and which is a
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how you do it school today I did good the beginning the fights no ma’am
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you know you want somebody well only if three people today
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yeah and and them after washing how you do it as well they heard do they hurt as
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bad as they were before
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no ma’am they feel that the better keep on walkin keep on walkin
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and then after a while when the leather soak up the water
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the leather begin tests Dratch
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job perfect nine-and-a-half you think
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Fortune 500 companies started talking about doing more with less
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my mother been doing that followed
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it’s amazing what you can do well who’d a thought
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anybody looking in on this kid and these seven children
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who woulda thought now look at you and say you have greatness within you
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you have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine
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no one could convince me that I would be doing what I’m doing right now
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you know the easiest thing I do every year
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its go into a sales organization dramatically increase their sales 0
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going to a prison in and enable prisoners to see themselves differently
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and teach them the methods and techniques on how to plug into the
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system
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or motivate young people to begin to to see how they can have a vision of
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themselves the future
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and fit as the easiest thing I do did or trainer speaker
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to help them do leverage their experience as a speaker to look speaking
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to projection of who you are
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not who you think you ought to be and come with power
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from a platform as the easiest thing I’ve ever done her share with you the
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most difficult thing I’ve ever done
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the most difficult thing I’ve ever done was to believe
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that of I can do
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what I’m now doing no one could have convinced me
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just given my circumstances are in millions of dollars every year
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no one could have convinced me if they’re both my parents came up here
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right now
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I would not know either one no one could have convents me being labeled edge
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about mental retard a
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born abandoned building a ploy in Liberty City poor section of miami
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florida
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failing twice in school not college training never work for a major
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corporation
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I did not know all pocket and do what I’m doing right now I’ll never forget
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Mike Williams my mentor
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one I think a lot of people fail in life because the fact that they need to
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mentoring many some coaching
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repeat out to be placed you need you need
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some coaching the city see
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you can see the picture when you’re in the fray
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I’m number might unless you can do this biker
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Mike home and wait a minute Mike up how much how much
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amount going to be able to to to to charge my
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less on YouTube well he could sign out a thousand dollars now
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of %uh Mike I don’t make that working for two weeks
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come on my couch money man I i appreciate your belief in me Mike
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look mike work for the Miami sanitation problem that up
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I’ve been a garbage collector ok you know Rob
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Utah obtained door-to-door sales that was great in
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you know how I’m here is a disc jockey has good night but
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Micah how think I can’t do that
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less you can
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but Mike I don’t have any credentials are never have never written a book
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anything man I’m
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I’m not richer how committed somebody to do something I’ve never done
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but less why don’t you just test yourself lunches stretch less
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come on man my car
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I don’t know and here’s something I realize right this out sometimes
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you have to believe in somebody’s belief in you
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until your belief kicks in
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I respect Mike Williams hear this young man he
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he saw something in me that I didn’t see it in and
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strong analytical mind I looked at him always respect is thank you
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and he looked at me made me feel special and I said
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okay Mike and I just kept holding on
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to what might said to me I just kept holding on
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to what miss to Washington said to me I kept holding on to my mother saying
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you special leslie when they said reg about mentally retarded mama didn’t know
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what that meant shown at a third-grade education
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so she said he’ll be alright already hard hit because of the higher you be
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fired
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up but she said you’re special baby
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your special and they kept saying that over and over again faith comes by
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hearing and hearing and hearing
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and so here’s what I want to let us say together to think about your goals you
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dream
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let’s stay together its possible together please
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say like a minute I thank you write that down see
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say most people never achieve their goals because most people suffer
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from possibility blindness they look about
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they look around trying to think about the things that they don’t have a good
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Robert route young man
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who wrote a book about success principles are the three little pigs
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he said is not what you don’t have
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is what you think you need that keeps you from being successful
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or happy in life it’s not what you don’t have the almost focus or
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what I didn’t have not have a college degree don’t have any credentials
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never worked for major corporations I was focused on the negative bigoted
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negative things are the things that you see when you’re not focused on your goal
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what do you come with
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what is it that you have within you
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that you showed up to bring hey lets you don’t know but not my dream
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is a long shot longshot from my Dexter Yager said when the dream is big enough
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the odds
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don’t matter I’m reminded the great man
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nouns reading time magazine talking about some other great mind at the last
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century
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did mention his name Dhaka Howard Thurman one of the men to Doc Martin
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Luther King junior
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also an adviser to Mahatma Gandhi in now but sweitzer
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and he said the ideal situation
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from man to woman to die is have family members standing around their bid
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praying with them as they cross over
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but imagine if you will being on your
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deathbed and standing around your bed
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the dreams given to you by life
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the ideas that you never acted on
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the talents that gives the abilities that you never used
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and there they are standing around your beer
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looking at you would lodge angry eyes saying we came to you
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and only you could have given us life and no
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we must die with you forever
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and the question is if you died
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this very moment what will die with you
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what dreams what ideas
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what talents what leadership potential
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what great news that you showed up to bring
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a chill out fear oppressed nation to hold you
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back perhaps that’s why Henry David Thoreau wrote the word all got to reach
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the point to death only to realize
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that you’ve never led only to realize that you’ve never scraped the surface
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up your potential repeat after me please with power feeling and conviction
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I refuse to die
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and on live life
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yes shake someone’s hand on your right and left and say live your dream the
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we yeah
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I think we should all resolve I refuse to die
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and on live like don’t worry about the art you survive one out of forty million
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sperms
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you will never have a lot to get you’ll be tall sought to you can win anything
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hear something I’ll stop most people
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know what is failure let’s stay together I will fail my way to success
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yes write that down
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I will fill my way to success it out to ten million years have been financially
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bankrupt
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eighty-five percent of people allow their fear of failure to outweigh their
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desire to succeed
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and I believe that the reason that most people oMG also for life and stop maya
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angelou
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said it best she she wrote a poem she said that most people go so far in life
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and then they POC they pull off the highway of life
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especially when they get some hits especially when they’ve been
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rejected especially if they have an illness especially if they lose
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something
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they big paw and and I take it further there even turn on their merchants the
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lights
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is not because up that that they are broken down
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they don’t worry about it stops the hey look here I’ve gotten jumper cables in
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my truck you need
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you need a job Evercare there’s a service station ahead by three or four
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miles I have a cam
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I can take you out there get some gasoline oh no
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I’m just one I had a talk show what’s an
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high is rated faeces Council talk show on history television
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well as a hair while but
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and and I was excited at the Dove you know one time I came in the television
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I’m years ago it was televisions based upon conflict and controversy
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sauce I want a solution-oriented talk show
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first concept at that time higher apes
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and the senate kate is so you just got lucky come on let’s do these other time
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for sure you can be
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a cherished friend all know that’s not what came here
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no I believe that we live in the greatest country where we should a whole
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ourselves a certain standards are
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I’m not going to come here and sell out on who I am I’m not going to compromise
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I’m not gonna lower my standards for you no that’s all I showed up
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and so they fired that the security walking out as an ideologue by myself
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but let me tell you what happen
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I took a yet and I popped
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it was then that I don’t have the ability to do more
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at my concept was good but what happened when I took the hit with a counselor
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show
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I can’t help myself one is said the show
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is going to be taken off television it won’t lock
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I tell myself bless you can succeed in television and I part you know what I do
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I went back to my comfort zone as a motivational speaker delays are
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on doing better than most people that’s nothing to compare yourself the worst
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that other people
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doing in that make yourself feel better know I’ve heart
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I don’t have my merges the lights on I don’t wanna shop on the radar
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iPod a home on our part our part put ten years
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do you hear me now I’m like Regis Philbin
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when his shows were canceled he kept going he kept going and kept our
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and he got other shows up budget somebody didn’t push some I said hey you
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deff
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I don’t even make that an option for me I’ve got off the highway
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I’ve looked back to my comfort zone and I pop
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the show fail I identified myself
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as of failure and get something happen wondered just flipping the channels
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looking at PBS it so when do I my friend Wayne Dyer
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and wash away we’re both in our 60’s
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when is still doing it while the law here he has its brain still
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her I said hey
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I’ve got some more stuff in the I’ve got another PBS special in the
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I i’ve got some other ideas you know who open field that tore my stuff
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maybe I need to come back out here %ah and I went back inside calling PBS in
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and FB percent less what happened to you has said well mom
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I don’t know where the not anybody would be interested in me because the show was
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canceled 0
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no you had some good ideas and when they said you will love to do a show with you
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message you want he said yes and when I went into the studio
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and and people that work with ten years ago they were still there
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I said guys you know do you guys still haven’t so we have a do you have it
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I say I think so she and I did the show and I wasn’t as good as I was 10 years
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ago because out of the highway at Garden
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off the highway applied by I’ve been part for so long is taking me some time
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to get my strength back to find my power
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to get my confidence back but at least I’m back
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out there end the game determined to dry
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empty the
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tri-city yields the only a tried millionaire to millionaires in training
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is go get that in a minute you have something special
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you have great tits within you and the only reason you’re here you’re my
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assignment you can feel me some love you feel me right here in your heart of
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hearts
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my goal and is to get Pasha Mon and into your heart so
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it’s necessary that you you have the mindset that
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I can do this you got to begin to believe
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and to fortify that belief and feed that belief by listening to tapes
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going to seminars and workshops by challenging yourself
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by stretching yourself it was oswald who said unless you attempt to do something
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beyond that
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which you’ve already amassed it you will never grow and an issue began to
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challenge is up you discover some things about yourself
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that you don’t know right now the other thing is you begin to look at yourself
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look at your dreams that and BB and gin to experiment and stepping into to your
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greatest
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what are the things is very important whatever goals and dreams that you have
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repeat after me please
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make your move before you’re ready
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your price: prejudice have a great great
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motivator and trainer said make your move before you’re ready
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wherein instructed in at in life to walk by faith in
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not by say to you want to really begin to strut your stuff you want to become a
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risk taker
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you want to raise the bar on yourself most people won’t do that
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say most people engage in low-life living
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lower-risk living this got it if you’re not willing to risk
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you cannot grow and if you cannot grow you cannot become your best
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and if you cannot become your best you can’t be happy
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and if you can’t be happy then what
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hale’s is there I like what Helen Keller said life is short and unpredictable
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eat the dessert first and so
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you wanna began to take some chance you wanna began to challenge yourself and
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make it okay to feel
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and learn from your failures tall allow fear
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a failure and the
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do I’ll or the attractiveness to playing it safe in life
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to draw you in you can’t get outta life a lot you got dat da to leave here
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other thing is you look at yourself look at your dreams
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detoxify your life write that down see I think that most people
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never achieve their true goals in life because they’re surrounded
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with too many toxic negative
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energy draining people you got to look at the people in your life and ask
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yourself the question
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what is this relationship doing to me how is it impacting my life I’m a better
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person
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said report he wrote a book called the measure a man
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and its powerful but I encourage you to get the tapes
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I love his voice and any set something and there he said when you go for a walk
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with someone
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something happens unconsciously it’s not spoken
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either you adjust to their pace or they’re just
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to your pace call States
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have you adjusted to see you want to surround yourself mild up my daughter or
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brown was a speaker and coach
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she says call forth your tea but make sure these are people that you can learn
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from
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and never forget I’m on a special board with the Bishop TD Jakes in WI
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went into up board meeting he looked at everybody
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before opening the meeting he said as soon as I know as much as you do
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you’re fired and with that the meeting is now
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open everybody continue to learn on their porch trust it that
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a friend a minor Dennis Kimbro motivational speaker to the latter he
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said if you’re the smartest one in your group
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you need to get a new group so
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as you look at yourself and look into the future call for Cutie
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up George Frazier says your network determines your net worth
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for you allowed to be in your here what kinda relationships are you developing
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other than asset to you all be a liability do they elevate your spirits
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or do they tear you down we get two types of people
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nursing people and toxic people urging people they bring the best I love you
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then church youth inspire you they hold you accountable toxic people there
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critical people always tell you what you can’t do
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always measuring your possibilities based upon their failures
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my mother said never let anybody tell you what you can’t do Sun
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especially if they haven’t done it I don’t know what’s possible for you
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so you began to look at yourself began to identify the relationships that you
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communicate with most
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and say hey is this relationship helpful to me
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and then think about some people that you need to bring into your life that
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you can learn from the gym girl from I joined the National Speakers Association
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when I decided that I wanted to speak I wanted to to be around the people that
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were doing what I wanted to do I’ll never forgive but I saw
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doctor norman vincent peale you
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you have something special to have greatness within you
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and you could do more than you can ever began
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to imagine and Carolina
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in the audience on my could I read the power positive thinking 17 times
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my hero and I saw him backstage in
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has a doctor appeal hi my name is less brown I’ve listened
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to your tapes and I have read your books they gave them to us in special
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education sir
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one day I would love to be on stage with you he looked at me and said
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it’s possible young man it’s possible
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but this mad when he spoke he gave me goose pimples
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deep baritone voice stopped spoke from his daughter for a you have something
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special
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you have greatness within you he override the in our conversations and my
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mind
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I’ll never forget up a gentleman what a brilliant man a Harvard graduate
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I’m doctor carter G what to the said you can determine when a man sure fake
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you never have to concern yourself with what he will do you can make a man feel
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in theory another compelling to seek an inferior status
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for he will seek it himself and if you can make a man feel justly and
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outcast about ought to have to go to the back door go without being told
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and if this node or his very nature will demand want to we live in a world where
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we’re told more about
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I limitations rather than are potential how many have been told that you
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couldn’t do something great chance please
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your MIT did a study that have I say to you
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you cannot do that that sixteen people have to come along and say
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you can do that you can do that you can do that to neutralize that
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and a seventeenth statement that you hear you can do it
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will be the one that will finally stick
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so you have to watch you speaking to you
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you’ve got to began to monitor your mind
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and and you got to begin to literally be proactive
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and programming yourself to success be not conformed to this world
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be a transport by the renewing of your mind you got to take responsibility to
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make that happen
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and as you begin to do that you’ll begin to see some incredible changes you live
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understand now
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when Earl Nightingale said all of us a self-made
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but only the successful will admit
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as you begin to look at your dreams a look at your goals right this doubt make
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know your vitamin
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say most people stopped short of their dreams and parking get off the highway
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apply
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because at the rejections of life you will always be rejected
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it’s no big deal I can feel said rejection
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is a myth is not like was my says no and then they slap you
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knows just you know what to maybe make no Europe item
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get excited about the know why because every time someone says no
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at brings you another step to our yes
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you getting closer trust me you will when
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if you don’t quit you will when if you don’t quit even a broken clock is right
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twice a day
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the other thing is as you look at yourself and look at you goes look at
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your dreams
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assess yourself what is stress
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what are your weaknesses what do you bring to the table when I looked at
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becoming
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a motivational speaker I look at all the speakers I notice that
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they were pretty much scripted so as to what is it that can make me stand out
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I don’t have any college education I I don’t have any credentials are never
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work for major corporations
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what is that I can do to offset my weaknesses
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and then something so well last and this is very important
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missed washington mister brown yes there will be 12 July 2012 become successful
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good
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he said you must be willing to do the things the day others won’t do
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in order to have the things tomorrow others wall have
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as well you said you have something special see very few people go to
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seminars and workshop to go to a concert
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but showing up to get something that could spend their minds and help them to
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begin to see the lives differently to give them a larger vision of himself
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now be too busy office a while how much does it cost well
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ever measured cost but it pays for itself
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here’s the other thing is ladies and gentlemen let’s say it’s be
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yessi its it’s possible you can live your dream it’s necessary that you have
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a mindset that
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the I’m going to do this but you got take ownership you got inside
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hey I’m going to do that you wanna you got take responsibility for your life
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George Bernard Shaw said the people that make it in this life
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they look around for the circumstances that they want and if they can’t find
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them
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bakery 8 them you got the sack it’s me
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you got to say and say this with with conviction I expect to win
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yes I think it’s important we say that you know if you ask most people
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do you want to become successful they will say yes
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took my oldest son for a walk my namesake
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you know we always expect our children to do far more than what we do
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said Calvin he wants is on identities Leslie Calvin brown junior
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Stockton look him in the eyes said
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do you want to be successful surn he said yes are there
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very good that’s what’s up walk further
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stop them again as a Calvin
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look me in the eyes and yessir to
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you expect to be successful Sun he said then he looked at me his eyes got classy
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he say let’s walk
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and the reason that he said let’s walk because my son is very bright
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have all my children is perhaps the smallness 1 but Calvin now
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over 30 Calvin now single-parent up two daughters
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good father Calvin now this stage in his life
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he’s behind on his dreams how to tell a lot of abilities
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very conservative what are those people
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great mind but Jess just
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hasn’t developed that 0 you know things that we want kids have that
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i wont how cow you got to kick it up a notch Sun
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you never thought you’d be in your thirties you gotta kick it up a notch
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uganda’s increase your energy in order to
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to live your dreams you can be casual about agrees Bill Bailey said a few
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casual about your dream
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you end up a casualty check someone’s having a ride 11 take kick it up a notch
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yes us
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you gotta kick it up a notch what is it you brian whatever you braying
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you got to kick it up a notch what is your signature
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as you look at where you want to go and what it is you want to do as you look at
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your product to your services
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repeat after me please provide more services and you get paid for
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yes if that becomes your signature when you look at your goals and look at where
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you wanna go
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but your products at your service is at your industry you want to set some high
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standards
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for yourself I had like what Henry David Thoreau’s it do not go where the path
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may lead
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but over there is no path and leave a trail how is it that you industry will
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be done differently
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five years from now ten years from now what is your reputation in your industry
36:43
when you come into room when you leave what’s the scuttlebutt about you do
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people say hey
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that ok go to pursue that a person if the last time to do that job
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you talk about the job being done there will be done extremely well
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are you known for that person that that stand out with what you do
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that stand out with your quality of service with your standards
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always looking for ways to bury a bass are you one of those people they believe
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whatever they broke topics a Japanese believe a date
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perfect keep working on it are you willing to keep working on are you well
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are you willing to realize it you have not done your best stuff yet that you
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get better Europe
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best you got to take responsibility
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for that and now let’s go to the next up not only
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is it possible that you can live your dream is it necessary that you call for
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30 min surround yourself
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with people that you can learn from ing groep from but you must work on yourself
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a monitor yourself it and train yourself
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but you’ve got to begin to take total responsibility
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for the outcomes that you want to produce your life let’s stay together
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with power and conviction
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it’s hot yes ladies and gentlemen
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living a dream change in your life
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is hot it’s hot when you lose all your money when you
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you you’ve given it the best that you have when you have
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some major setback his heart when a doctor looked at me and said 23 horrible
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words
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no one wants to hear you have cancer
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it was hot to mobilize my mind
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and spirit to listen to tapes that music can read scripture
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and be around other people in seeking out other prostate cancer conquerors
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to believe that I could do this it was hawk
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never get my son said daddy are you going to die
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why you ask me that you’re not going up much
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you not the bubbly personality that I know you to be you not talking much
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is spending a lot of time in the room by yourself death
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are you in a surrender a are you giving up
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are you going to let that that doctor’s opinion become your reality
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well not that it’s any graduate
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yes yes yes
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yes I’m a fight no not I don’t think it’s my time yet
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I wanna see you graduate but more than that I’ve got some other things that i’m
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gonna do with my life
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and I thank you for asking me that on but i must tell you
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and I’m scared scare
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and noms I’ve never been in this situation before
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it’s been easy for me to talk to people and encourage people
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when they’ve had challenges in their lives on but
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it’s me and I don’t feel less than a man and let in
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in admitting this to you yes I’m scare and
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I need some help repeat after me please ask for help
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not because you a week but because you want to remain strong
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and ask for help
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don’t stop until you get it girls yes see
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see life is hard and and there are some moments in life when you’re going to
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need some help
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you’re gonna need somebody to speak to you you’re gonna need somebody to say
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something to you
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I have a friend I’m on Willie Jolie is a motivational speaker it said a setback
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at the setup for a comeback
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I had to listen to willies tapes I have another friend Kevin braces a
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the speakers said less come on man you can do this you can make this happen
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you can hit a home run it’s a done deal you’re less brow
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at Kansas got to get out of your body I said talk to be kept the talk to me
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that’s what I need to hear I needed to hear goals what
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I’ll kill you all many people want to allow
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themselves to ask for help because a a pride pride comes before a fall
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because I V go your maiden edging got no ask for help not because you week
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but because you want to remain strong and as for help
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and don’t stop until you get on here because a lot of people
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help me I’m here because a lot of people believed in me
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at a time when I was struggling to believe and myself
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the other thing is let’s stay together it’s worth it
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yes a i think im ride this out you gotta find five reasons that will make it
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worth it
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for you five reasons well make it worth it for you
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on what I want to take care my mother-in-law’s I wanna do something
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with my light what will make it worth it
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for you minus I want to leave a legacy my desire it feels to dot
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and on live life what will make it worth for you
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repeat after me please you gotta be hungry miss washington mister on what he
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want to do what you like this error
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I want to become a disc jockey is that right yes sir
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good it’s around you gotta be hungry it so watcha listener Paul Harvey is the
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world’s greatest communicate always find a coach or mentor
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someone is doing what it is you want to do watch them listen to how does
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the rest of the story listen to his voice mister brown
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develop your mind and develop your communication skills because once you
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open your mouth young man
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you tell the world who you are and don’t forget mister brown
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you gotta be hungry take the time to develop yourself
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just a trainee working on myself then pretty soon I came to a massive sir
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have been working on myself I’ve done the things that you told me to do
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I listen to Earl Nightingale all the time and say get cabron reading doctor
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norman Vincent pills Book It and I’m ready hi
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I practice every day two in three hours sir is that right yes sir
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very good miss brown got to be hungry I said what are you continued say that so
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you
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people go hungry unstoppable mister brown people go hungry
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no excuses acceptable lot in phase two music Amanda don’t forget
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stay home re make know your vitamin went to
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apply for a job on miami beach Milton bottle Paul Smith was a program director
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palomas what about how are you sir my name is less ranch are like to beat this
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jack
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is a young man you have in journalism your background no SAR don’t have
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experience in broadcasting
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no star don’t he said I’m sorry we don’t have any job for you
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I went back in a I told mister Washington I was deficit estimates to
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Washington
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they said no that they went even at allow me to to audition for them sir
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mister brown don’t take it personally I told you make no your vitamin most
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people are so negative they have to say no seven times
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before they say yes be unstoppable mister brown
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you gotta be hungry go back again yes sir
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hello mister but about how are you sir
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my name is less prancer I like to get this jack young man weren’t you here
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yesterday
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yes our what’s did not tell you know yesterday yes are you did then why you
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back today
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well sir how didn’t know the weather not too many was laid off as somebody was
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fired sure
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nobody was laid off or fired I get on outta here
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I came back the next day hello miss a vote Obama why is there
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my name is that sponsor I like to be a disc jockey I know what your name is
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what you have the last two days yes our was did not tell you mean all the last
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two days
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yes are you did then why you back today well sir I didn’t know whether not
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someone got sector someone died sir
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no one got sick I got no one was laid off if I don’t you come back here again
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I came back the dates they talk about looking happen like a CD for the first
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time how all this the bottom wall how are you
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he looked at me with rage he said go get me some coffee I said yes
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%uh sa became the air and boy
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for the disc jockeys are go get the luncheon at dinner now stand in the
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control room
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memorizing their hand movements on the control board in all the instruments
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learning everything that I could
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because I expected to be hired to be behind
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that microphone then one day it was a Saturday afternoon
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and a disc jockey by the name but rock and roger was drinking while he was on
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the air
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Roger Roger got so drunk he started slurring his words
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he’s about to fall off to Cherry obviously could not complete his program
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and now was looking at him through the control room window
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Saturday after no I was the only one there young
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ready and hungry
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walking back and forth same drank rock track
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drag rock gotta go and get him some of you to ask me to
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then pretty soon the phone rang it was general manager unanswered phone I said
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hello
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is that young boy this is this a client i said i kno
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is a rock and finishes program I said I know
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is it would you call one of the other DJ’s and I said yes sir
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a hunger four of us it out you will be back up crazy
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I I call Bob Bob about government decide residual come out on the front porch to
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turn up the radio
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I’m bout to come on air
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I waited for about 20 minutes and I called him back
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atomistic on a can’t find nobody if that young boy you know how to work the
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controls I said yes sir
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his they got mad segue the records but don’t say nothin here
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I said yes there I could wait to get all rock out away
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I put on a fast record I said look up this is me lb trouble P less prone to
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plan to play in popup
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now a number for me and there will be turned out to be there for that makes me
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the one and only
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young and single upcoming the certified bona fide BB qualified
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to bring your satisfaction at a whole lot abacha look up baby on your lap bad
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the people that want to step into their greatness are hungry
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check someone’s hand on your right and left and say you gotta be hungry
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what is your legacy what will your statement be
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resolve every day read it every day I refuse to die and on live life I like to
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leave this with you the mom used to love to hear me say she say boys say that
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thing for me
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and I dedicate this to you to the greatness that’s within you
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because this there this is simply this: if you wanna thing bad enough to go out
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and fight for
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to work day and night for to give up your time your peace and sleep for
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revolver to dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless
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without it
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and if you climb a sweat 14 fret foreign plan for
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and lose all your tele up the opposition for and if you simply go up to that
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thing that you want
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if neither Co poverty famine to go sickness a pain a body and brain can
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the targeting grim you besiege and beset with the help of got your
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