Les Brown – 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 – The Power To Change Your Life – Les Brown Motivational Speech
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most goal
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pro-life pretending pretending that we’re satisfied where we are
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pretending that everything is OK for 10 then that
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that we all have any special goals ambitions or desires
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when really deep down inside we do really want more find out what it is you
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walk
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and go after it is if your life depends on it
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why because it does times viewed
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look within yourself decide but I’m in charge in my destiny
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I’m in charge here
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after
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Les Brown believes that you have the power to change your life
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and he knows what he’s talking about because he’s done it lessened his twin
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brother grew up on the tough streets of Miami’s Liberty City
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after being adopted at the aged six weeks by Mamie Brown
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a single woman with a big heart less still calls himself
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Mimi’s boy she expected things of him so he graduated from high school
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although he’d been mistakenly labeled mentally retarded in grammar school
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and he built himself a successful career as a fast-talking disc jockey
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although he had no radio training and he became a community leader
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and was eventually elected to three full Terms in the ohio State Legislature
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along the way less developed a hunger for reading and self-improvement
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that led to his speaking career today
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he spends his time enjoying his family relaxing and being with his six children
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and giving about 200 speeches a year which focuses on helping people find
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ways
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to overcome the obstacles they face in their room
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comment if you thought about some things that you know that you deserve all you
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want out of life where you would like to enjoy
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experience and you found yourself blocking your separation have ever
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happened to me before
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all right very good here’s what I want to shake some eyes hand on you right in
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your lap and here’s what I want to say
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whatever you’re seeking
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it’s seeking you
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you can have it give yourselves roblox the
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memories are brought that up his ass riding with a friend the other day
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and II know this friend of mine who has been working on a job where
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she’s been miserable for a long time she was telling me about
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how she was miserable on the job and how
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how she was so unhappy so i sat if there’s if is that stressful
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and and it has caused you that much pain I say
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why don’t you just quit and do something else
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and she said something that really
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put her in a chorus line with a lot of other people she said I would but
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and then I started to thinking about this let me take a poll
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saw started talking to other people and I would ask them what they were doing
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and I said but is that your passion and they would say no I say that what’s your
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real passion and they would tell me what the real passion was
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but as they wouldn’t want you doing what you really want to know
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all I can’t do it but and they want continue on
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so this word you don’t but just kept on coming up
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and then it also has some friends like water and could sure
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up and one day I’m gonna have my own business
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all people talk about one day I’m gonna some be almost double what they are more
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people are
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raise their some you get up in the morning look in a mirror that person
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I just even I just the right also
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how is it that many times we block all cells
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and we use these words almost like we’re in a trance
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like was sleepwalking through life but we find ways to cancel out dreams
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I think that but is a dream killer
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that a lot of things that we want to do a lotta places we would like to go a lot
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of things we would like to experience
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and we just stop at but and we build a case in fact
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I was reading something the other day that that talked about but it says but
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is an argument for our limitations and when we
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argue for our limitations we get to keep them
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see but will cost you to procrastinate
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but will cost you too hot out behind fear
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but will cause you to come up with all types excuses
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that you can validate your can action and not acting on your tree
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and ride out more than ever people need to look for ways to live their dream
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people lead me to look for ways to make it on their own
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there is no such thing as job security there’s no such thing as a storm proved
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or tragic toll fly
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they’re not guarantees a day ladies and gentlemen pillow jim is gone there was a
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time when
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when we graduated from high school you’re told go to college get out
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and you go and work for cooperation for probably a forty years
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give your goal watchin you’ll retire special announcement that day is gone
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that day is gone never to return to
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so instead of people living in fear
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feeling stressed out feeling powerless feeling like victims I think it should
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be a time
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but which need to begin to look at ways set week in
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the comment active force in our own lives look into ways when
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we can decide to take charge up are all on
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destiny look at ways when we can decide to design a life of substance then
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began to truly live our dreams and it’s time for people aside I’m ready to get
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on with my life
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checks about his hand on your writing up a galley Bob may say the say don’t let
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nobody turn iraq do that right quick
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now you know a lot of people say
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I’m going to live my life one day when things get right
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what I get all my bills paid
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when I get my feet on a drought I say whatever you can watch it all
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%ah say there are no problem
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free moments guy named dimples at a record one time call
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if it ain’t one thing is another and I say my name
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one thing is 12 others always something there
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to build a case and why you can’t move on why you can’t go to the next level
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why you can’t begin to manifest your greatness why you can’t begin to live
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life on your terms
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always something there to block you to keep you where you are
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and keep you from beginning to develop your true greatness always something
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here
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how we handle it i’m saying that if you been hiding out behind but if you’ve
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been using the fact that you don’t have enough money or you don’t have the
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education
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take it head on don’t get the education %uh saying to a guy the other day
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who is saying he asked how old R uses 27 years old messages says to tell me
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but you can operate is that that’s right I said why
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well you know i i didn’t go to school
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skills how are you I’m 4747
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yes and you can’t read or write yes have you ever heard of adult
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stole adult education have you decided that
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you should learn how to read to begin to expand you know we’re all
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why are you using that as our racket why don’t you decide now that you can expand
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no more of that if
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other people can learn to yield headline Joe well it’s hard for me how you have
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you got himself a class ship have you signed up yet
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no I have a say a lot of people say no ladies and gentlemen to thank them they
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don’t even know what they’re saying no
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Joe everyone cellist himself yes even gone to senator class was a
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teach me are we Anstead has been museum
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for him a call for my feet rights tried to play a whole card game pretending he
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knows how to do something
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that he doesn’t know how to do and you know what most of us go through life
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like that
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most must go through life pretending
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pretending that we’re satisfied where we all
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pretending that everything is OK for attending that
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that we don’t have any special goals ambitions or desires
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when really deep down inside we do really want more but if you look at our
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behavior be judged based upon what we do
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I really will tell you some true stories about people cuz you have to judge the
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tree by the fruit it bears
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not the fruit that it talks about a lot of people pretend
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that they want more out of life but all you have to do is watch their
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actions that will tell you something so I used to pretend that I want to lose
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weight
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but how could you tell us pretending watch me when I have to have a piece a
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sweet potato pie
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left
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letting him walking distance of some peanuts in
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some potato chips now I was pretending
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but I don’t really want to lose weight all you do is watch what I that tell you
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what I absolutely
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committed to people tell you all here one day I wanna have a restaurant say
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they’re pretending
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they want to go into business for themselves not serious how can you tell
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us
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watch their actions watch what they’re doing
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the process a.m. the party so if you wanna do something if you thought about
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something you want to go take a wrong
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decide that you’re going to start looking at a start doing research on a
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stock tackling yet
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start becoming involved in whatever and where it might lead you to begin to
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explore
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the possibilities in that particular thing but you’re seeking
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summit you can begin to learn all you can about it decide that you gonna face
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it that whatever shortcomings you have but you gotta step in yourself there
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whatever training as required but you gotta go get that rainy
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but you gotta get started right now the George Washington Carver which they do
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what you can where you are and what you have
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never be satisfied yes people used to say I heard showed up to talk about
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always tried to be more than that which you are you don’t get satisfied with his
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cell
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always know that wherever you are you can enjoy more of a job this summer
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mall but most people you know they do most people go through life quietly and
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safely tiptoeing turn
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early great find out what it is you walk and go after it is if your life depends
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on it
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why because it does people they have found their passion
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people that found the things that they love people that have found the things
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but they can pour their lives into those people live longer hours in New York and
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I had to do a seminar
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at a special church in a guy by the name revenue johnnie youngblood and I said
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how is it that you were able to bill
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this big housing facility and got all the various community in religious group
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together to
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to have this dwelling for two thousand residents that were
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what once homeless how are you able to take on this responsibility
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was not overwhelming he said the car work I deal he said
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gives me. I’ve got to let him what’s
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gimme how I think that’s everybody’s designed my
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you got to live what’s you like this just to shot
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and unpredictable but wondered what do we say but
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but they’re always be tomorrow Ono
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no guarantees your gonna show up tomorrow
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people were here yesterday that they’re not here today
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there up more opportunities around yesterday they’re not here today
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or you can wait much whatever happens again said well good things
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might come to those it all away but all the things that have been left over by
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those who hustle
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%ah
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highlight let you have leftovers
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shooters are much more than that the leftovers a somebody has left you
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so take it head on begin to explore hear something else
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decide to do it now decide whatever you wanna do
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that you are now going to become actively involved right now
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exploring the possibilities for you that you were to look at it
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and I’ll just a little bit of it right now when I decided to become speaker
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I don’t just quit my job and is ran out and say I’m a motivational speaker go
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why did loss I decided to start looking at other people there were involved in
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the speaking professional volunteer to work with some speakers so that I could
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learn
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what do you want to get your feet wet gain some experience doing some
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volunteer work in the area and find out whether or not this thing you want to do
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will fit for you pretty much on the white have a restaurant they have you
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ever
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operate a restaurant before he said no I said we’re really you know you’re not
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you are
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I so what’s your expertise what do you bring to the table is that I can cook
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will go to sleep a lot about the management side
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what about the business part of the restaurant you not to be cooking all the
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time somebody’s got to receive the money
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who’s going to manage the personal he said you gotta write you got a point
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there
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so this guy got a job everest rock in the evening time on a part-time basis
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after doing that for a while he said you know I’m I think I just want to be a
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shelf
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the please read awarded to have people that show up to work in case it’s hard
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to find a hell
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report responsible they had against the government has given him problems day in
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and day out they were never satisfied is a dog that they got stick to cook
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I got what plants were you know
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because you might decide after you go up in an exam in an experience that
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and get some experience at the about on the wall you save: this is really
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not what I want this does not fit for me so decide that you’re going to do that
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now
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Johnny Johnson said something that’s very important he said there’s no
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defense
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against an excellence that meet suppressing
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publicly see whatever you decide to do look at it
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and find out what is it that I have that I could bring to the table
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that can begin to in enable me to ensure that I could be successful in this
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well as the hoping for you there’s room for you
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out here out here in the arena call life is wrong for you
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to come out and live your dream don’t allow
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but to keep you in the corner keep you up in the bleachers
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looking at like being a spectator not being a participant making a difference
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in life I believe that all of us came here with something almost showed up
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to give something and that nobody but nobody’s going to give that service that
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you have to give
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no one’s going to produce your product no one’s gonna write your book
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no one’s gonna open York Adami no one’s gonna begin to create your day care with
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a special curriculum
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to help to cultivate the high self-esteem and our children that your
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idea
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in a beautiful bring your ID out here when you die all of us will suffer
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because we have been deprived up your she yes because you allowed but to keep
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you
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in the bleachers and not pursuing your greatness you take it you break with you
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and that’s what most people do think that’s what the guy said that many
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people died at age 21
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and don’t get there to tell their 65 The Walking Dead
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you can tell ’em by the way they walk car to look in the face
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when they speak to I was giving a speech in this high school
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and a lady came after school she said mister brown I want to talk to you bob
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massey
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I say what is she say he is not motivated
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I said I wonder why
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%ah
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gotta have energy ladies and gentlemen you gotta have love you excited about
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what you’re doing
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even in the area selling people but because I’m logical reasoning
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people buy because I’ve your way up feeling all I could be out there people
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polio that dead bear today at the old I’ll keep away from the photograph you
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wanna hold you
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so the fact that that whatever you do you wanna be
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excited about you want to have the kind of excitement
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that is so contagious that people want to be around you because whatever you’re
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doing
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whatever you talk to people about this particular idea that you have
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they’re looking at you and they want to know do you believe
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and are you the kinda person they wanna be in business with
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and if you’re not positive if you’re not energetic
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if you’re not fired up about her how can you expect
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anybody else to be fired up about your idea my right
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our address repeat after me please I wanna be fired up about my dream
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I’m not going at it
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with everything I’ve got
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checked my cellulite 11 say you got what it takes
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a lot of people who say
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but I tried what’s or twice and it didn’t work out and so they use that
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as Nick skills not to ever come out again
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guy said Ahmed at first you don’t succeed
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you’re running about average in
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up soho so so if you have come out here with an idea
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and it didn’t work out two or three times
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well at all I you’re writing about average
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you know I heard something out a jarring question it says
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why is it that people prefer known hale’s
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to unknown happens you know why
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because it’s comfortable ladies and gentleman hey remember
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I was and arm a service wants
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and her doctor john a common give this example she talked about
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a man who had been captured behind the enemy lines in a war
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and was sentenced to to be killed
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or another option captain said to the guy listen
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he said tomorrow morning at six o’clock you can face to firing squad
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or you can go out this store over here
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and the guy said what up the dojo
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he said no one knows all we can tell you just
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unknown harrah’s he thought and the next morning he selected
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the firing squad after the shots rang out
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the captain’s secretary said
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what’s beyond that door and he said
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freedom but very few people
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what selected do it because
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its on now lot of people never do the things they want to do
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lot of people stay on jobs where they’re miserable I’m not a call
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here’s your job making you sick a lot of people
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some we all know but that already here sled-dog
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same and that’s all I lost bad quality time she said last night when I used to
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go to work she said when I stepped in the dock to lock
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a refrigerator dropped on my shoulders how many all understand that kinda thing
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they want miserable just paid to go after
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60 minutes on Sunday afternoon own all come Monday morning
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my head just up from home I just couldn’t
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did not go sometime just just what the heck a budget problem back
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%ah
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why I used to hate to go lower
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may have lost jewels and actor
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living death many also walking
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dead The Walking Dead that we’re not doing what we want to do
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many must stay in relationships where we’re dying together
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rather than growing and expanding and living together
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where measurable but because we don’t have the courage
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to see ourselves beyond that relationship that has turned toxic
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we got to live leving dead people
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and you can always tell couples that have been together for a little while
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got a restaurant once inside beside
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giggling and talking to each other feed each other with the Fox bowl
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they just got together for one week %ah
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yes Amina Carter said no I love each other organs more
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or even get about three days our but
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you see people’s in a restaurant to open it you’ll see a couple
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and this nigga from each other
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take so long for this model 10 min ago hurry up
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Lola matter what I
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know people in America for years living in 20 separate rooms
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sleeping until separate beds well it’s cheaper to keep not necessarily
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as a car to the price you wanna play
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see the price a piece of my the price of living the TRO
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a big honest with yourself and say wait a minute
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it’s gotta be more than yes so you got this I wait wait
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even if I I things don’t work out
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even if I experienced defeat a failure that does not make me a failure is a
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difference between
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welling and being a failure if you
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if things don’t work out your own produced a result you want that’s all
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but don’t confuse who you are with the results that you produce
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I used to be a state legislator in Columbus Ohio
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and I remember once I was going to introduce the legislation
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on the floor and after getting that legislation passed are a guy came up
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behind me
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and he had to legislation that I’ll post them on that and all but to stand up to
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debate this guide
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and got next message still don’t don’t be that guy why
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do you know who that is doesn’t know as well Caskey
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128 autumn bad deal he’s a lawyer less
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Mac and obey okay I’m less problems fastball the
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on this mister speaker he said the gentleman from the 29th House District
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so yes start to tell a German I like to take a more challenge him on this
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legislation
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he said will cause he said I would love in like to mister speaker
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thereby sayo I ask him some questions he responded
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I say I wonder why is that bad a question well because there won’t be
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I’ll
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I mean also a barrel I just never got to borrow a bike just
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however here’s what I’ve heard when you know when
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see if I went to bed I win because the 1i know
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when I luls I lose because what I don’t know
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so I had to check out what is it that I did not now
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I was unprepared I did not do enough research I did not do my homework so he
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held me like he wanted to
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so I came back again I we don’t allow the legislation did my homework
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when he was more than able to take me out again but pretty soon each time it
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would take him it would become a little bit more difficult
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and a little bit more difficult and the only guy say would you are going to
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happen at this legislation for Massachusetts not volunteer
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to do work in the legislative committees for the older guys I said
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absolutely and the more I did the better I became in bed people begin to start
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respecting me when I would ask a said missus piggle like to speak on that bill
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some gas let’s start traveling and stuff like 10 min
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or what what about youu
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you %ah
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but I wasn’t willing to be humiliated if I wasn’t willing to allow myself to be
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embarrassed if I wasn’t willing
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to be dim debated and defeated if I wasn’t willing
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to look at and say well I i’m just not good isn’t going to be
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you wanna miss a lot I what I want to be a what I’m gonna be but I gotta show in
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10 hours
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doesn’t make sense
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so you want to learn all you can and like you got to
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be willing to experiment you got to be willing
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to learn to dance with life you know larry the edges if you don’t learn to
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dance with live life pass you by and get another partner
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you i’m saying you don’t have to dance
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even if you don’t want to you’re going to have to dance with live so you might
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as well are you some steps
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but it’s going to drag you out on the floor of
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so you gotta get out and try to do the twist %ah
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sunlight is it lookin
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good luck to put some not so do here all
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are you come up and bridges as you’ll be fine everybody it’s at that lot
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as call i no one is immune just think
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just over a year ago care much about down
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troby was a dollar for the american dragon fulfill
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just over a year ago who has spent 20 years
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everything that people were bragging about this wealthy
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venerable American American thank you lock
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what has happened now ever but no one
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no one is exempt from that talking to a friend a man by the name Maria
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Maria who was diagnosed as having muscular dystrophy
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at age 15 and wheelchair-bound
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figured that another happened her she was somewhat immune she felt
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unconsciously for many more accidents or misfortunes and why
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wheelchair malfunction she fell out
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suffered a closed head injury almost went blind lost a memory
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and concentration for a long period of time she said
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on that day less I decided to leave us why she said life is about today
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she’s ok because what happened to me I was exempt somehow
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no now Leipold not on everybody’s door
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I don’t care how old you are care how much as you are
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what will come get you wide people will dislike you
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because you’re nice all she thinks she’s nice
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you to miss let’s get it tells you
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people just like you because you look better than they do
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because you have more than eight they do that yes and make up lies about you
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attack you PSW
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27 apoco no are you ask any questions
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that’s just the way it is that’s the way it is
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handle it and that’s what Maria said less
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I will let she’s an HR me I was gonna go blind as to what we can you imagine
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you’re on a shopping center in a wheelchair in a walking dog to
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called up she said I will see doc I’ve got till
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as you can see today that that will power that to terminate very positive
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upbeat person I say but dot dot
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sometimes you feel sorry for yourself and not you wish you had a capacity what
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other people though she said I don’t waste my time
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comparing my condition with other people one and she said people that suffer from
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a lack of motivation
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suffer mainly from a lack of self appreciation
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she said I know that I have value in the fact that I’m in a wheelchair
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doesn’t make me any less the human be who can contribute something to life
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i’m saying that there are all of us can began to
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affirm that that my life is worthwhile doesn’t matter what I’ve experienced
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doesn’t matter about what I don’t have does a mad about what I’ve gone through
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all
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what’s important yes but where I am right now
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that I love life and nights there is my life moli
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she said last before the accident I wasn’t living
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100 press person in my life so what we love it she said around
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20 percent an acid you know what hasset
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I know what that’s why save you go through life holding back
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and most of us do most of us that we ask ourselves
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have we done all we can do most of us will have to answer
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no we haven’t we’ve been holding back we have ideas that we don’t act on
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things we want to don’t be afraid to take chances we go through life trying
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to seek security not coming out at about comfort zone
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and we take most a bus stop what first to the grave
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and i’m saying that the fact that you’re still here
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but you’re still breathing you got some more work and you owe it to yourself
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you owe it to yourself so when you get up in the morning but you can look
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yourself in the face and say hey
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I’m living my life on my terms that’s important not to give up on your dream
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not to give up on yourself not other going to be some moments
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when you want to give up yes will there be some moments when
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it’s going to seem like it’s impossible the pain the tricks parenting
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the disappointment the checks parenting that you gonna say
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it’s not worth it yes that’s not gonna be right there for you
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get it’s gonna be in your face telling you to go back you gonna start listening
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to the box and
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and bus will have all can help and support from your family members and
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friends saying
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I don’t follow me you’re not as positive thinking stuff
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look at you now bet you wish you had that job now
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member I lost my job I is very controversial and
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and Columbus Ohio the broadcasting lost my job in
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and here’s what I learn but you got to immediately
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start using your energy positively the
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of what you said I don’t mind is the devil’s workshop AJL
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I mean when I don’t have anything to do mom and his aide
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you gotta go back to get your job to europe
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what you just said I’m always running amok walk walk walk walk why did you
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just call us
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you’ll be working right now broadcasting was all that I know
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and that was my lai I love talking to people
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and I love playing the wreckage us to come on a look out this is less proud
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how I’d get updates please raise your right hand
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him back put a better say I am somebody
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%ah
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the
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but has yet to discover when you real good at what you do a lot of people find
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be a threat
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they will hire you are they want people in that they can control a dominate
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so if you’re a high-powered person sometime that’d be a liability for you
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so it was difficult for me to get a job in broadcast did not get a job broadcast
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he had to take
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another route had to begin use my talents and abilities now the area
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wherever you are right now i’m saying to you you got at least three of four of
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five
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talent said you are not even aware of right now
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and you’ll never be aware of them unless you come outside your comfort zone
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and challenge yourself to develop your talents and abilities
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to see what it is that you might have a mat for that you haven’t discovered as
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yet
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seat most people never discover their true potential
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other other talents and abilities because they figure that they’re
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one-dimensional
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and they don’t try and stretch themselves and learn more
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guy say he will know it learns the most earns the most
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see just are learning more things and funding I’m experimenting with your life
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in finding out what aspects for you
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here’s what you discover that as you start working with it and the more you
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do it the more you realize
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other ideas coming to you the more creative you can become
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and then you say wait a minute limit that you know this comes much much more
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easily
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then I i realize I i’ve developing Makenna style for this see
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a guy said to me he said if you develop your kids you like to talk you like
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people I said yeah
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he said if you develop your kids he said your guests will take you a long ways in
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life and lays in German
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because I decide to use be a jack of all trades
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and mastering I tried yours I used to be a discharge state representative
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community activist used to do public relations work is to promote shows
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YouTube in MC in a nightclub used to own a nightclub
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the papers again in Columbus Ohio idea
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it takes all insurance you may even dark car salesman I did it all
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but finally I decided to focus
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my energy I’d look at all my talents and abilities
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as well I i’ve got just fine watched by one thing what’s Mikes clock aw
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what’s the one thing that I do better not do anything else that’s what I liked
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a lot of things
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I like to promote I like the MCI like to talk I like being at this jockey program
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director
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like being a community activist I enjoyed being a state legislator but I
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had to find once a day
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and I found that one day I decided has been developed myself as a speaker
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and I started following other speakers around I started doing research I would
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read about
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Marcus Garvey Frederick Douglass poverty washington wants to churchill
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the truth is incontrovertible malice may attack admits pay to ride it but at the
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end there it is
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call all truth crushed to earth shall rise again
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I would follow Dom doctor or small to read Word doc to model the case it is
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the greatest breach in iraq has to follow him
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of Josh Adams I dot com a lot of Detroit Michigan any great speakers I would
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follow that
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watchin up in the back just checking out used to watch Billy Graham on television
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turn to buy it now
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the watches hand movements because he so expressive with his hands
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I just became a stilted a bit area that I wanted to become involved in
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I would go to the motivational rally is joined the National Speakers Association
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and watching all these guys and then I would work in practice and other areas
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and developing my own style
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sometimes I would imitate other guys eventually what you’ll begin to do
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is that you emerging develop your own style as you do it and work with work
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with and work with and work with it and I say to you
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that is so exciting people that are working on their dreams in developing
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themselves
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they have a different kinda walk have different kind of energy you can tell in
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the temp or their conversation they walk differently
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they have a lot of energy they have a glow about them
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people that aren’t working on their dream see there
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there is out there you can tell in how they that their movement their body
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language
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good though the boys conversation
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their real slow hey I i just call I wouldn’t do in Antioch call you
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well don’t do that over here
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they look at a lot of television what so how long does look
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no now you gotta watch this you got you got
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you don’t want to be like that you’ll you want to actively
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be involved and creating life and making it exciting for you
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see if you watch the news all day and we’ve what’s happening in New think
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you’ll be skeptical mucho
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tomorrow you pissed
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same you’ve got till to keep the little boy I
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and the little girl alive here seem almost PeopleSmart
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you just now this this now
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attack you know yet even if the Holy you look good with just my
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some smaller home the first on the right left right quick the
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you look older than it already is valid you are a holder
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the to play I just made I’m glad to be alive and so
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hope you like it you know her Robert Elliott who’s ahead of the cali ology
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apartment at the University of Nebraska
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he suffered a massive heart attack he was in hospital for three months and
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while there he reflected on his lie
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after this near-death experience because his mother and father both of them had
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no history hockey above them live to be over 80
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and he wrote something in our live a long life me happy he said
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number one rule number one don’t sweat the small stuff
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rule number two it’s all small stuff
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ever %ah
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if you working on your drain sure there will be times you gonna want to give up
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shall there be times in life I’m not get out and catch on a plan to
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but to challenge us to hold on and if you haul alternations Lee
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I say the universe is on your side our way will come on now is someone will
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step forward and help you just a blessing who are you I don’t know but
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thank you for coming hey
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the
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to how bob difficult and challenging times to
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demoralize you I love to cope this guy charge udall
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he said at a life you will always be faced with this series of God ordained
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opportunities
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brilliantly disguised has problems and challenges
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and i’m saying in your hands
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you have ideas you have been given
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something to bring to the universe that was not here before you showed up
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see nobody lays in German is going to give less Brown’s speech
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this is my speech the elevator from detroit is must be compared to mine is
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no I
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to hospitals go GetJar
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speech you get a hit take my speech all
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so i’m saying to you about it take your good save that which is next for you
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has your name on it no one can take your good from you
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that you that what do you want but given that idea that you could get
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if you don’t come out here with that idea no one’s gonna bring you ID out
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here
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whatever you’re setting on whatever idea you working on
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whatever passion you gotta be like johnnie bloody said hey
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I’ve got to lose what’s me okay i’m happier than I’ve ever been in my
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why happy smile UK put a price tag on
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on pump gotta
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and I say to you the euro corps says calling you
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young lady wrote me a letter once after hearing me speak
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in Detroit and I had just finish working with some kids
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and it really with a short letter
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short letter but powerful and the letter read she said
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the boys of greatness has called me
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and I’m afraid to enhance all
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how help I know what it is not too hence
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just got could have been doing this for years ago but I was afraid to answer
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I had these box that I was hiding behind
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I get him I don’t come at me not me i’m not good enough I’m not we gotta get
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ready let me get ready you know you’ve seen those
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perpetual storms all over you let me get ready got a friend in Pelham endorsed or
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10 years tenure got all categories a doing nothing in life
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yeah I’m saying
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answer your call the universe is calling you
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hear something about light you can’t get out alive
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hello all you can’t get out alive for my
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lead now like Maria said live your dream
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now so other night I had a funeral and I don’t mind doing it again
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we buried but we said but you all have no place in our lives not more
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the dreams you been killin all butchery will kill no more dreams up
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thereby repeat at me but get outta my life
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I don’t need to know more don’t come back here
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shakes my hand on your right and left him say keeping away I
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the the
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%ah take a look at your life and decided that my life is beautiful
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that my life is meaningful to me
41:04
I’m not exactly sure what I wanna do
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but because my life means so much to me
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and there are no guarantees in life I’m going to live as much as I can
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each day other do what I can where I am right now
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and whatever I shared with you Harada right read a book call
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it lets if you watch it adjani Coleman said
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see if you don’t decide to act on your dream if you don’t decide to make a
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decision to live your life
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if you don’t decide to step into your fears
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if they don’t decide to say yes to you all I
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it will never work for you the time for just what she is
41:45
tax time for doing that’s the time right now
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time for acting on your tree hauling on coal religiously as
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once in Churchill said it not me enthusiasm
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time to face yourself and talk to yourself in the mirror
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time to look around and become creative and see what need a service that you can
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provide
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with high standards so that people
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talk about you being a master and what you do
42:14
because of the commitment up Trident X lips and high standards that you have
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set for yourself
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times viewed look within yourself
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and decide but I’m in charge in my destiny
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I’m in charge here and I’m not going to allow anybody to turn me around
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I am determined I’m going to make
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hear something ladies and gentlemen when you make it important
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it’s not a preference it’s not negotiable
42:43
get some must and when you decide I’m going to do it
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regardless of the opposition
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would to God must have the difficulties on going to make this happen because
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it’s important to me
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I’m saying the universe will heal to you
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life will never be the same again
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live your dream this is missus maybe Browns baby boy Leslie cabin brown
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saying
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it’s been a plum pleasing pleasure as well the privilege
