You Have to Commit to Your Dreams TB

You Have to Commit to Your Dreams TB

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What's up guys? Today on the Daily Mastermind. Welcome back, by the way. I wanna give you some straight fire. I had a lot of things going on with meetings. It's about 10 o'clock, but I wanted to give you something tomorrow morning that I thought could really fire you up. You might be getting home after long days.

You might be. Working long hours at work, you might be overwhelmed and having all kinds of things happen in your life. But I wanna share some information from you today.

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Les Brown: The Epitome of Inspiration

A short message from one of my all time favorite mentors, Les Brown. This guy is flat fire. I've had the opportunity to work with Les many times over the years.

We've spent time at dinner, private dinners, just man, this guy is just. The epitome of inspiration and motivation, and so I want to ask you just what is your commitment level to your dreams, to your best life, to your best self? What is your commitment right now? What is your commitment to your absolute best life?

I. You gotta put yourself, Leslie gonna talk to you about how you put yourself in a position where you are committing to your dreams and you refuse to give up until it happens. You've gotta declare your intentions to the universe and you've gotta make it happen regardless of fear, hard, the obstacles and things that you've gotta deal with.

But I'm telling you, Les Brown can bring the energy. This guy. He just absolutely shares some golden nuggets. So take some time, go back to this episode if you need to to get yourself pumped up. So without any further ado, here's my mentor, Les Brown.

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Les Brown on Commitment

What is commitment? Commitment is the salesman who says, look here. I'm going to make a thousand dollars today, and I'm not going home. You can turn the lights out. The janitors could be here running the vacuum cleaner. I'm not leaving here till I do it.

I used to be a door-to-door salesman. I had X number of TVs.

I had a minimum amount that I knew I had to sell every day. In order to provide for my mother who was ill at the time, who had lost her job at the Eminem cafeteria because of arthritis, and I said, I'm going to go door to door, and sometimes I would not come home until one o'clock at night. I. Knocking on people door.

People closing. What do you want? Would you like to buy a nice working months television set? No money. No money down? No. What about an Emerson tv? No. Thank you very much. Do you know anybody else that would be interested? No. Thank you very kindly. Knock on another. Hello. Would you like to buy a nice working television set?

No money down. No. Get away from our door. Thank you very kindly. Do you know anybody else would be? Yeah, my cousin. He lives two doors down. Thank you very kindly. I tell him, you sent me, when I had, your cousin told me that you wanted to buy a television set, told me to come here and talk to you. You got a special discount for you.

Yes. Come in. I'm interested. I would just keep right on. I would not go home until I did it. It's an interesting thing, ladies and gentlemen, that when we put ourselves in a situation, I. Where we say we're going to do it, it puts you in another zone where the universe responds to you. When you have that kind of consciousness, see, the universe responds to the man or woman that refuses to be denied because that is your commitment.

That business that you want, that book you wanna write, that dream that you have of controlling your destiny, that is yours. That power to create there and to manifest that, that is yours, that's available to you, but you've got to be willing to stand there and face disappointment, not have support. Feel lonely.

Doubt yourself. Sometimes be rejected again and again. Become bankrupt if necessary again and again, and refuse to turn around until life gives it up.

Nothing can resist a person that has that kind of commitment. The people that have made a difference on the planet. When a John F. Kennedy said, we will go to the moon in the next decade. He spoke it. That was a commitment, and people shared that vision. People bought into that. We've had all kind of examples in history where people have made declarations, who have committed their lives to bring about a difference.

There are people who are taking a stand today against hunger. I guarantee you it will be a part of our past. At some point in time, someone took a stand against polio. It no longer plagues us as it once did because someone said. It is my commitment to eradicate it from the face of the Earth. Someone made the commitment, the reason that we are here and enjoying the democracy that we have.

Someone made a commitment that whatever's required. If it means that I die, I remember Paul Robeson here. I stand for, I can do no other. And that's how you must be. Commitment means standing up for your life. It means honoring yourself. It means beginning to say and to see and recognize your alignment and oneness with the universe, and that you are channel for life to express through.

And we short circuited with anger. We short circuited with fear. We short circuited with envy. We short circuit it by being lazy or apathetic or giving up easily. Why? Why? Why? We say, oh, it's too hard. It's too hard. We don't challenge our spirit.

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The Power of the Human Spirit

Ladies and gentlemen, there's nothing as powerful as the human spirit.

You can't destroy it. You can pervert it, but you can't destroy it. I, as Reading Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl. What a powerful book. I'm reading it now for the seventh time. And he gives so many graphic examples of the power of the human spirit. And so what are some of the things that can fortify us and give us the kind of inner strength that will allow us to forward ourselves into the future by manifesting our commitments.

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Commitment in Action

Number one commitment means, in some cases, going back to school, getting some training, sitting up in classes with people younger than you. Putting yourself in a position where you don't know, and that is awkward and uncomfortable, but because of your commitment to develop yourself or to go back to school, to get a high school diploma, to get a college degree, that it doesn't matter.

Feeling dumb and saying, what am I doing here? Setting up in some boring class. Commitment could mean a lot of things. It could mean that you begin to go back, you gotta back up. Sometimes it means to back up and not give up to regroup, back up, and regroup and come back again because life has waylaid you because you got knocked down.

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Facing Adversity and Staying Committed

See I know when I was working on my dream, there were times I lost my house at one point. I lost my car. I. I was broke. My credit was bad. I was sleeping at different friends' houses on their couch or on the floor. There were times monks that I slept on the floor of my office and got up early and dressed.

Before my staff got there to give them the impression that I got there early before they did.

And we all pretend not to know what we knew that the boss was staying in the office, so we never talked about it. But I refuse to give up on my dream. And what happens? They say, in the. In the prosperous years, you put it in your pocket. In the lean years, you put it in your heart.

It makes me appreciate it even more. Even more. I wouldn't trade it. I wouldn't trade it for anything. The disappointment, the pain that I've gone through. By keeping the commitment, keeping the commitments that you have might mean taking a stand that's unpopular.

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Courage and Commitment

I was, something was said one time when you take a position, it says, coward is asked the question, is it safe politics?

Ask the question, is it popular? But conscience or commitment asks the question, is it right? And see, most people rather operate from the first two. Is it safe for me to take this position? I remember when I was a state legislator, I saw guys. And women who believed in legislation very strongly, but because the Speaker of the house said, we won't go with that.

They backed down and they felt bad about it. They wouldn't take the position because they didn't want the speaker of the house to be angry at them. They wanted to be all right with all of the rest of our colleagues. See, it takes a great deal of strong courage and commitment on your part to step out.

Aligned to, Henry David Thoreau says, A man doesn't keep pace with his companions. Perhaps he is listening to the beat of a different drummer. Let him dance to the music that he hears, however, measured or fall apart. When you are committed, you're dancing to the beat of a different drama. Don't expect people to understand you.

Don't expect it to make sense to anybody. Why you've got to do this, why you have got to go, why you leave. This is a good job. I'm going, they pay you well, I'm going you just a few years from retirement. I'm going, why? I don't understand. You don't have to. I'm going for me.

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Final Words and Motivation

Because I've made a different kind of commitment with my life.

This is something I have got to do. Somebody said to me out in the hall today, she said, thank you. She said, this is my time. Repeat after me please. This is my time to my, I'm commit my life. I give my life to living my dream, to living my dream. Check somebody's hand on your right and left and say, this is your time too.

Do that quickly.

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