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| Success is Possible |
I found that most people fail in life not because they aim
too high and miss most people fail in life because they did just like I did for
so many years they aim too low and hit they didn't believe in themselves so I
want you right now as we begin to think about the lessons and all the things
that you've experienced and all of the comments and stories and strategies and
lessons that you've had I think it's time to revisit and look at your goals and
dreams and let's raise the bar I remember as a kid we would be in the backyard
and we would play jumpin somebody will get on one side and stick my sister and
then my brother we will run away jump over it and then they say raise it up a
little bit higher we have to back up and we write a wig jump over to get it and
then we say raise it up a little higher and the higher it got we have to begin
to change our approach and how are we going to get over the bar and that's the
same thing in life and so right now I want you to think about your goals and
dreams as you begin to raise them a little higher and I want you to stay with
me it's possible it's possible you know the easiest thing that I do is speak
and trade people how to speak go into prisons and juvenile detention centers
into high schools and colleges speak before thousands of people I can do that
in my sleep let me share with you that the most difficult thing I've ever done
in my life it took me years to do and that was to believe that it was possible
to believe that I can do it given my circumstances born and abandoned building
on a floor being adopted being labeled educable mentally retarded failing twice
in school no college training never worked for a major corporation to believe
that I had something of value to say that somebody would want to listen to me
to believe that that somebody would pay me to talk to them have you ever
thought about something you wanted to do and you talked yourself out of it I
remember going to see Zig Ziglar who I considered the number one motivational
speaker in the planet and dr. norman vincent peale when he was alive in robert
schuller i to see them and i would be so pumped up and inspired after hearing
Jim Ron who recently passed one of the great motivational speakers of all time
and and Charlie tremendous Jones it and I would go to my car pumped up saying
yes yes yes I can and then after a while my mental conditioning would kick in
no say less fun you can't do that you don't have a college education that's
wrong you can't do that who you know your parents are that's wrong you can't do
that you fail twice in school never thought about something you wanted to do
and you talked yourself out of it there's a proverb that says if there's no
enemy within the enemy outside can do us no harm that's why it's important that
you make it a point every day to review these lessons to to get them deep not
only in the conscious mind but the subconscious mind and get them in your
spirit well how often should I do it do it until you are producing the results
that's how often you should do it and and you never stop because once you stop
that's when those negative thoughts will come back once you stop that's when
you will begin to doubt yourself once you stop I'm telling you what I know yes
every day it's a selling job on you it's possible
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| Success is Possible |
I can do this I can make this
happen no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets it's possible even when you
have no evidence to point to say to yourself it's possible there's nothing as
powerful as a maid it's a struggle some time to do that especially when you
have people around you telling you that it's not possible that you can't do it
and they're constantly pointing out your failures of the past constantly
reminding you of all of the things that you don't have going for you I'm
reminded of the story of the two little boys that were playing them on timaeus
during the winter and and and as they got further out on this ice one fell
through the the thin ice and and so the little fellow that was still on top of
the ice he was trying to save his little buddy and he couldn't reach him he was
trying to pull him he could see him through the thin ice as he got further away
from him struggling and and he couldn't reach him and is trying to break the
ice and he couldn't do it he looked around and he saw a tree in the distance
and he ran and then he got up on the tree and and he pulled and broke down an
enormous size branch and came back and and savagely begin to beat that ice and
broke it and miraculously he saved his friend and when the paramedics came
and they were able to revive this little boy they were scratching their heads
they're trying to figure this out said how could this little pruning fellow go
up in a tree and break off a branch this size and then come back and beat and
break the ice and save his friend they thought it was just miraculous baffling
and an old guy who was there said I can tell you how he did it and it said how
how did he do it and he said there was no one here to tell him whoa what could
you do what could I do what could all of us do if we did not have the naysayers
in our lives that that we believed naively like that little boy that it was
possible what would you do if if failure was not on the table do you realize
that 87% of people allow the fear of failure to outweigh their desire to
succeed because they've been convinced by the evidence by being practical by
being illogical by being realistic I did that Leslie yes you're gonna speak for
corporations yes
Leslie do they have a college education yes do you Wesley you
know that I don't have a college education Leslie are these people experienced
yes are there people with PhDs and MBAs that they could choose rather than
choose you yes so you don't have a college education you have no experience you
talked about becoming a speaker and they're going to reach over people with
PhDs and MBAs and years of experience and choose you are you being realistic
come on Leslie come on Leslie you can't do this my brother if he is he's a
wonderful person and and and he constantly reminded me that I I couldn't do
what I'm doing now and but that really wasn't a bad part real bad part was I
convinced myself that I couldn't do it not only because of those things that he
pointed out being practical and realistic but also that within myself I didn't
believe what Mike Williams my mentor said was possible for me have you ever had
somebody who believed and saw something for you that you didn't see for
yourself and here's how I escaped that I discovered that sometimes you have to
believe in somebody's belief in you until your belief kicks in so here's what I
am believing for you the goals that you right now have the things that you have
envisioned for yourself this is a reflection what you've done thus far and what
you are engaged in doing it's what's possible for you right now but there's
even more you don't even know what's in the future
I has not seen ear has not
heard if you believe in yourself and you constantly remind yourself after every
defeat after every setback every time you get knocked down I've got a saying if
life knocks you down try and land on your back because if you can look up you
can get up see success it doesn't matter how many times you fail it doesn't
matter how many times people tell you that you can't do it it doesn't matter if
you don't have a dime in them bank you will fail your way to success what's
very important is you you're believing in yourself you're constantly saying
somehow some way I'm going to make it our number lady out of Detroit Michigan
they call her Martha Jean McQueen and she had a motivational message he gave
all the time on the radio and the question she would ask was do you really want
to win do you really and she said if you really want to win in life you've got
to believe in yourself when no one else does you've got to believe in yourself
see it's easy to believe in yourself. if the children are acting like they have
good sis if you go to a doctor they say oh you do a real good I'll see you next
year it's easy to have faith then let me tell you when when it's really tough
to have faith when you lose your job when you lose your retirement when you go
to the doctor and they look at you and say you have cancer cancer it's the most
feared word in seven different languages that's when it's tough to have faith
here and that's when you need to call on your faith then they said faith is the
oil that that takes the friction off of living that's when you need to believe
in yourself then and judge not according to appearances and say to yourself
it's possible it's possible I can make it it's possible I'm going to get
through this it's possible I'm not going to allow this to get the best of me
yeah I don't know what you're up against I don't know what you are...
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