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December 2, 2024 • 87 mins
In this classic Les Brown gives the tools to take on any challenge. How to be prepared for whatever comes next, how to be Armed & Dangerous.

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You were listening to less brown Greatnessradio positive and motivational content curated by the
legendary less Brown said, Daddy,there's somebody you need to do. You
bad, daddy, but there's somebodyyou need to know. So she brought
the videos over and we were watchingthe videos. I was so awhelmed.

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I said to my son, JohnLesler, I said, this man has
got to be the greatest preacher,Sess Jesus. John Lesson looked at me.
He said, I can't say that. I said why. He said,
I never seen Jesus preach. Hesaid, I know Jesus as the
greatest healer, but up in here, preacher, he's got to earn his

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props now. But just meeting himpersonally, apart from being a great preacher
and a visionary and strategists and marketinggenius, but this man is just a
good person, just down home,corn bread good person. He's just a

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good man. I love that,Virue. He's just a good man and
we share the same passion. Iwant to ask you, how many of
you have some major goals you wantto achieve. Raise your hands please,
very good. I want to askyou another question, how many of you
know if you had your life tolive over again, you could do more

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than what you've done. Thus forraise your hands, very good. I
want you to shake somebody's hand onyour right and left, look him in
the eyes, and say you havesomething special. Do that quickly, please.

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I say that not to be kindto you, not to be courteous.
I said that because it's true youhave something special. You have greatness
within you. You have talents,abilities and skills that you don't even know
that you have. And in thelimited time that I have to share with

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you, I'm going to share someideas and concepts with you that I want
you to take some notes. Now, I want to make this clear.
Number one, Everything that I'm goingto say, you already know it.
It's a part of who you are. We're cut from the same claw.
You wouldn't be here. You wouldn'thave invested your money, your time,
and your energy to be in thisplace, to be a part of this

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Manpower conference if what we talk aboutwith you at this particular time did not
represent a part of who you are, your consciousness and your value system and
your philosophy of life. So I'mgoing to only confirm and validate that which
is a part out of you anyhow. That's number one. Everything i'm gonna
say, you already know this.It's common sense, but not common practice.

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Second thing is everything i'm gonna say. You've heard it before. Bishop
Jakes is not only a great preachingvisionary and lecturer, but he's a great
motivator, a great strategist. Heprovides concepts to help people to deal with
the whole person spiritually, mentally,economically, our communities, every area of

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our lives. Last night, whenI saw the ministry that was going on
in the prisons, thought about thestripture that says, the least that you
do unto these my children, youdo it also unto me. That kind
of vision, that kind of commitment, that kind of stand that he's taken
with his life in a historical context. One day, when historians look back
on this age, they will seethe imprint and the impact that he's made.

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The next thing is not only thatyou already know what I'm going to
share with you, and you've heardit before from Bishop Jakes and many other
great speakers. Everything I'm gonna say, I don't want you to agree with
me, and I don't want youto believe me, that's not important.
I'm gonna share with you some ideasand concepts that's made a difference in my
life. I want you to thinkabout something that you want to create in
your life. Experience right now.Some goal that you want, some spiritual

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goal that you'd like to achieve,some contribution you'd like to leave to humanity.
Harst Man said, we should beashamed to die until we've made some
major contribution to humankind. Once youthink about some major goal that you'd like
to achieve, think about it rightnow. Something that's important to you.
My first major goal was to buymy mother home. That's something I wanted
to do that was important to me. I'm one of seven children my mother

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adopted. I was born in apoor section of Miami, Flatterer called Liberty
City. I was born in anabandoned building on a floor with a twin
brother. When we were six weeksof age, we were adopted. When
I was in the fifth grade,I was identified as MR, labeled edecable,
mentally retarded, put back from thefifth grade and to the fourth grade.

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I fail again when I was inthe eighth grade. I don't have
any college training, but between mymother, and a high school teacher that
I met by the name of LeroyWashington made a dramatic difference in my life
and gave me a larger vision ofmyself. And so therefore my first major
goal was to take care of mymamma. I really identified with Dion Sanders

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last night. I feel like AbrahamLincoln who said all that I am and
all that ever hoped to be,I owe to my mother. And so
that's what I wanted to do.Buy my mother a home, let her
sit home, and I go towork and take care of her. That
was important to me, and Iachieved that goal. My mother passed three

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years ago from breast cancer. Mygoal now is to raise millions of dollars
for breast cancer research. My goalnow is to alert men over forty to
get their prostate examination. Last year, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer and
given a very limited prognosis. Oneof the things I strongly believe when we
gave you a handout indicating that doctorsshould never tell a person that they are

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terminally ill. What they should saymy knowledge of my ability has terminated.
Now you need to go someplace elseand get some help. They should determine
the diagnosis. God determines the prognosis. So every man here, if you're

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forty years old, go get yourprostate examination. Go get your PSA tests,
which is the blood test. Goget your digital rectal examination. I
assure you it is not a pleasantexperience. It's not something you look forward
to do it, but go dowhat you gotta do it. Yore,

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I was out a major medical conventionand they were giving free rectal exams.
Guys say, head less, comeon, man, let me give you
an examination. I said, no, you two motivated brother No way,
no, No, you can't comeup in here. No, no,
how do you get motivated to dothat? You know what I'm talking about?

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No, fifty eight percent of mendon't go get the test. Tell
you showing the symptoms. It isa number one killer of men. It's
serious, and so therefore I'm tellingyou part of my mission is to alert
you. I came up during thetime, and we believe what you don't
know can hurt you, what youdon't know can kill you. Go get

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your examination and encourage your brothers andyour uncles and your friends to do the
same thing, so we can reducethe number of men that will die from
prostate cancer over the next year offorty thousand. We can reduce that number
by early detection. Now, theother goal I have is training and developing

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speakers. I don't travel like Iused to since I've been given this health
opportunity. Remember something that that TDJake said. He said, if you
got a problem that man could solveyou, ain't got no problem, yea.
I mean true words could not havebeen spoken when I was diagnosing prostate
cancer. I'm telling you, Istarted talking to Jesus more than I ever

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talked before. I increased my tideby thirty percent. I will try to
cut a deal, I said,Lord, if you save me, let
me tell you think Paul worked foryou. Just save me and back.
I'll try to get him to movein someplace. I'll put it in my

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toe anywhere down here. Lord,Oh my good, I say, it's
amazing high spiriture. You could getit. If you think you're gonna die
way, I'll tell you truth.I used the praise of heart, I

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got shave. I went to somuch in nineteen ninety seven of unbelieve,
went through that and then also filefor divorce from someone that I loved very
much. I thought we were theperfect couple, and I thought we would
be together for the rest of ourlives. And so I learned a thing

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the two about life and the challengesof life. One of the things I
strongly believe that in life, youeither in a problem or just left one,
or hit it toward would So partof what I'm doing, it's training
and developing speakers. I have agift in that area, helpring a person
find their message and how to usetheir life example to craft an experience a

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special moment for an audience to transformtheir lives, and teaching methods and techniques
how to reinvent themselves. Training andduplicating myself through men and women and young
people because I believe that we livein the greatest country on the planet that
gives us an opportunity to make adifference in other people's lives. Not I

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don't know what your goal is,but I want you to visualize it right
now and repeat out to me withpower and conviction. Let us say together,
it's possible. Together. Please sayit again. Please see that's the
first step. I want you tothink about this goal that you want.
I want you to envision it andsee it in your mind's eye, and
every day say to yourself that it'spossible. See, most people are not

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accumulating wealth. Most people are livingin poverty. Most people are living far
below their potential. Not because theydon't have the capacity, not because they
have not been given authority and dominionover everything on the face of the earth.
But most people are living like they'reliving because of the fact that they
don't believe they can have any morethan what they now have. The book

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Call of Miseducation, in the NegroDoctorchology, Woodson said, if you can
determine what a man she'll think,you'll never have to concern yourself with what
he will do. If you canmake a man feel inferior, you never
have to compel him to seek aninferior status, for he will seek it
himself. And if you can makea man feel justly an outcasts, you
never have to order him to goto the back door. He'll go without

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being told. And if there's nodoor, his very nature will demand one.
That's why Scripture reminds us, beye not conformed to this world,
but be ye transformed by the renewingof your mind. So every day you
have to sell yourself and get outof your mind those old thoughts, that
old belief system. Every day,you've got to sell yourself on that it's

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possible, But you got to puta new mind in you. You got
to get out of your mind.You got to begin to restructure your thinking.
Every day. You've got to beginto recondition your mind. See,
many of us go through life makingchoices, thinking it's our choices and it's
not. What do you mean bythat? I reminded of the great anthropologist

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Margaret me She was in a restaurantin Europe and a waiter saw her and
said, oh, how are you. I'm so glad to see you.
He said, there are several otherAmericans here to night, And she said,
is that right? He said yes. She said, when you served
the dessert, let me know,and I'll tell you exactly how many are
here. He said, that's notpossible. She said, let me know

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after you served dessert. When heserved assert, he came back and he
told her. She got up,She walked around and she looked, and
she observed, and she said,you have exactly sixty five Americans here.
He checked the guest list and hewas amazed, He said, how did

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you know that? She said,because in Europe, when you eat a
slice of pie or cake, youeat it from the back toward the tip.
In America, when we eat aslice of pire cake, we eat
it from the tip toward the back. How many of you, when you
eat a slice of pile cake youeat it from the tip towards the back?

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Raise your hands please? Good?Now, what else is in your
mind? What else are you doingunconsciously that you don't even know? I'm
gonna say something, and I wantyou to answer it after it. I
want you to end it for me. Winston tastes good? Like what?
How many of you don't even smokeWinston? But no it? Raise your
hands please? Now that commercial beenoff the air for thirty years. Thirty

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years. See, let me sharesomething with you. The easiest thing I've
ever done was to earn a milliondollars. The most difficult thing I've ever
done was to believe it could happento me. That was the most difficult
pause to believe that, given mycircumstances, if my birth parents came down

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this our now, I would notknow either one. If my daddy came
up here, oh, my mothercame up here. Given the fact that
I was born an abandoned building ona floor, being labeled educable, mentally
retarded, not having any college trading, I used to feel all my life
that people who had college degrees weremore intelligent than me. I remember going

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to see the late doctor Norman VincentField, the author of the book The
Power Positive Thinking, and I usedto look at him up on stage and
I said, I could do that. I would love to talk to people.
I'd love to talk to people,and I said I could do that.
But then when I started going backto my car, my mental conditioning
activated itself and it said, lessfrown, you can't do that. You

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don't have a college education. Lessfrown, you can't do that. You
don't have the training. You've neverworked for a major corporation, you can
do that. What makes you thinkyou can earn five, ten, fifteen,
twenty thousand dollars in an hour.You don't earn that now working for
two or three months. What makesyou think that you can speak for at
and T, Procting, Gamble,McDonald's Corporation, General Electric. These are
clients I have now You've never evenworked for them. How many. Have

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you ever thought about something you wantedto do and you talk yourself out of
it? To raise your hand ifyou know what I'm talking about. That
inner conversation is what's gonna haunt you. After standing year and saying how can
do all things with Christ who strengthensme, after saying that again and again
we are more than conqueress, thatinner conversation will cause you, when you
lead here, to go back leadinga life of mediocrity, leading a life

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of unproductivity, leading a life ofpoverty. So I'm gonna share with you
how to break out of that.I want to share with you how to
reach your goals. I think theBible as great as motivational book ever been
written. Now I want you torepeat after me. Please. We got

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to recondition our minds first. Letus say together, good things that's supposed
to happen to me? Yeah,write that down. I want you to
say that to yourself every day.See, we live in a world where
we believe that bad things are supposedto happen to us. I remember the
point of my life, Bishop,when things are going good for me,
and I said, this is toogood to be true. Something is bound

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to happen. Guess what it did. Thou shall decree a thing that shall
be established under you, and shallaccomplicts that we're into it has been sent.
Watch your words and what you sayabout yourself, about your affairs.
Be conscious of that on a dailybasis. Why because your words are powerful.
In the beginning was the word lifeand death is in the tongue.

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Watch what you say. Never sayI'm broke, so I'm overcoming a cash
flow problem. Claim what you want, not what you don't want. So
affirm good things a supposed to happento me, and began to believe that,
began to expect that. Now.I was talking to my oldest son,

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Calvin. We're going for a walk, and I said, Calvin,
do you want to be successful?He said yes, her dad so okay.
We kept on walking. Then Istopped and I looked him in the
eyes. It's my namesake, myjunior, I said, Calvin, we're
looking at each other out eye.Now do you expect to be successful given

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the fact that you are a singleparent of two kids, Given the fact
that you decided not to go tocollege to further your education, given the
fact that you're very talented, butyou're behind on your dreams and your bills.
Do you expect based upon your performance, based upon what you produced at
this point in time in your life? Do you expect to be successful?

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And Calvin got quiet because see youask most people at the Manpower conference,
do you want to be successful?Do you want to live a life of
productivity? Do you want to livea life of contribution? Do you want
to be a better father? Doyou want to have your own business?
Other dreams you want? Everybody willsay yes. But seeing want shows up

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in conversation, expectation shows up inbehavior. See, I can tell what
you expect by what you do.That's why the Bible says, judge a
tree by the fruit it bears,not the fruit that it wants, not
the fruit that it talks about,not the fruit that it cleans. But

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by what you are doing. Seewhat you do when you leave here,
when the music stops, when theshouting dies down, Your behavior, how
you conduct yourself? Writing your goalsdown, deciding to enroll in school and
get a geed. Deciding to sitinto class with children you'll enough to be

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your grand children. Decide to findsome products, some idea of some service
that you can provide so that youcan begin to create some value for yourself,
so you can create well. Andlet me tell you something, ladies
and gentlemen, it's very important thatwe begin to learn how to create well.
I'm not talking about loving money.So I believe the lack of money
is the root of all evil.People are steal for money, people are

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killed for money, people go tojail for money. Every time the unemployment
goes up. In those areas wherethe unemployment is high, that's where you
have the highest incidents of crime andviolence. Whenever the unemployment goes up one
percent in our community, ten thousandchildren and women are better one Money makes
a difference in your life. Inever wanted to be rich. All I've

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ever wanted to do was to becomfortable behind me. Of you ever want
to be comfortable, to raise yourhands, then I realize and ought to
be comfortable, you gotta be rich. An old, a friend of mine's
executive, say, people say moneywon't make you happy, but everybody want
to find out for themselves. RidaDavenport say, money and important, but

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it's right up there with oxygen.And let me tell you something, fellas,
even if you as homeless. Iam. If you got some money,
women will find something cute on you. He got in looad like Denzel
Honey. Money makes a difference.I used to be something broke. When

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creditors would call a house, mychildren would answer them for to say,
my daddy, say here whole.I was broke at one time in my
life. I walked by bank andtripped the alarm. I'll tell you poverty

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sucks you. Hear me. Feedafter me. Please, I'll never be
broke again. Yes, write thatdown. I affirm that I'll never be
broke again. Never, never willI ever be broke again. Let me

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tell you what money does. Numberone, It gives you control over your
life. Write that down. Numbertwo, it gives you options. Three,
It allows you to live a lifeof contribution, to contribute to things
that you feel strongly about, likethis ministry and the work of Project two

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thousand will be doing the change thelives of young people. Bishop Jake's vision
is, and we can have littleleague football teams and baseball teams and basketball
teams, then we can have alittle league dermatologists and cardiologists and endocrinologists.
So he is now establishing an institutionProject two thousand to get about young people
the methods and the techniques to reinventthemselves as we go into the next millennium

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and this era that Peter Drucker callsthe era of the free seas accelerated change,
overwhelming complexity, and tremendous competition.So here's the first step to accumulating
wealth. If you expected to it, write this down. You must be
willing to do the things today otherswon't do in order to have the things
tomorrow others won't have. That's whythe Book of Life said the road to

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life is straight and narrow, andfew there be that find it, because
fuel there be that are willing todo the things today others won't do in
order to have the things tomorrow otherswon't have. What are the things that
others won't do? Number one,make discipline a major force in your life.

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How many of you know if you'dhave been more discipline, you'd be
further long to reach your goals.Right now, Socrates said, the undisciplined
life is an instin life. Theroad life is straight and narrow, because
if you there be that are willingto discipline themselves. Here's something else that
most people won't do. Make itokay to fail. A lot of people,

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eighty five percent of people allow theirfear of failure to outweigh their desire
to succeed. Repeat out to mepleased. Anything is worth doing is worth
doing badly? Yeah, see,anything is worth doing, is worth doing
right, as we have been taught, if you know how to do it.

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But if you don't know how todo it, it's worth doing badly
until you get it right. Ibet you, and I wasn't there.
I bet you that when Bishop T. D. Jakes first stood up to
preach, when he gave his trialsermon, he did not have the command.

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He did not have the mastery.He did not have the confidence,
He did not have the depth.He did not have the capacity to translate
and milk scripture like he did lastnight when he first started out. Now
write this down. You don't haveto be great to get started, but
you have to get started to begreat. The first time I set up

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to speak, I stood up andmy mind sat down. I looked at
the audience and I panic. Ihad to introduce a play at school.
Oh we'll poked him. We're aboutto start him ran off. Mister Washington.

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Mister Brown, where are you goingon, mister Washington. I I
can't think so, I don't know. Did you rehearse? Yes? I
did? Well? What's wrong?Why did you say your line? I
don't. I don't know, Sir. I got up. Then I looked
at him and everything left me.Let me do it another day, please,
sir, no, go back outthere. It's if I'm mister Washington.

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I'll mess up, please, sir, don't, don't, don't,
don't send me out. Didn't now, I'll mess up, mister Brown.
If you run now, you willalways be running. Anything that's worth doing,
it's worth doing badly until you getit right. Why are you moving?
My guy? I gotta go tothe bathroom, sir, mister Brown,
go back out there, yes,sir, well ba to start a

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pleae called twelve Angry Men, directedby mister Leroy Washington, and I ran
off. The next day, Hey, hal fat fout heys? How are
you? They dogged me out?They talked about me so bad. The

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next time, another event came up. Mister Washington, mister Brown, you're
up. I said no, misterWashington. Everybody says no, not him.
I said, they're right, misterWashington, not me. He said,
mister Brown, you are up,yes, sir. And I went
out, and pretty soon when peoplelaughed at me, didn't bother me.
They would throw paper and I cancatch it without losing my concentration. And

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then one day I came out anda hush went across the audience because it
must have been something about me thatindicated that I had come to myself,
and mister Washington had been practicing withme to give a presentation. And I
looked at the audience and I said, I choose not to be a common
man. It's my right to beuncommon if I can. I seek opportunity,

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not security. I do not wishto be I kept citizen, humbled
and dull by having a state lookafter me. I want to take the
calculated risk to dream and to billto failing to succeed. I refused to
live from hand to mouth. Iprefer the challenge of life to the guaranteed
existence, but thriller fulfillment to thestale calm of your tofia. I will
never coller before any master, norbeen to any threat. It's my heritage

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to stand direct, proud and andafraid to face the world boldly and say
this I have done. Girls stoodup saying that's my boyfriend Hardy. I
like me. Some left brave then, But I didn't start off like that.
You have something special. You havetalents and abilities in you that you

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don't even know. So how dowe begin to create wealth? Let me
give you some ideas. Number one, write this down. Knowledge? What
knowledge that you have in this economy? Part of what we need that people
are willing to pay you for.That. Next is talent? What talent

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Dion's talents playing football? I didn'thave that as a talent. My talent
is talking to me, said,my definition of success is doing what you
love to do and find somebody topay you to do it. So I
find people to pay me to talk. I talk. I bought a game
to this to this country called beardWhist that I invented. And as I

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talk, I shoot pool. Isignify. I make you tear up your
cards, break your pew stick becauseI talk a lot of trash. I
throw you off. You've never beento Boston, I'll take you there.
So I learned how to signify andtalk trash, all right, So I
make a living talking trash to aT and T. I make more on
one hour than ninety percent of theAmerican public earned working for a whole year

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doing what I love to do.That I've developed my talent. You want
to master your talent. Find outwhat it is that you love to do.
I love to talk. Scripture isanother key that says to us and
what we need to do to beginto develop ourselves Luke twelve thirty four.
Where your treasure is, there,will your heart be also? So what

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do you love to do? Andthen explore ways in which you can earn
a living doing that, Cooking,writing, painting, working with numbers,
working with people. The other thingis not only must you have knowledge,
talent, some skill, but theother thing that's important faith to act on

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whatever your dream is. See ifyou don't believe in yourself. How many
people you know that have a lotof talent, a lot of abilities,
but they don't believe in themselves?Raise your hands. See our faith is
very important. So the faith toact on those dreams, those desires.
Here's scripture that I like very much. Proverse sixteen sixteen, chapter third verse

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Commit thy works unto the Lord,and thy thoughts shall be established. Commit
means to carry into action, deliberatelycommit means to make it happen. No
matter what commitment. The difference betweennext time you have bigger and eggs.
The chicken was involved, the pigwas committed. He had to give it

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all up. That's going to takea minute to sink in. No,
all right, See, when youmake a commitment, I'm going to become
wealthy. When you make it important, when you decide, I'm gonna do
it no matter what life changes foryou. See, most people don't keep
their commitments to their commitments. That'swhy they lead lives of poverty, lives

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of misery, lives of unhappiness.Socrates said, the uncommitted life isn't worth
living. So part of what youmust do, whatever commitment and whatever covenant
you make with God while you're here, to go back to be a better
father, to go back to makea difference in the community, to go
back to change your life, todecide not to ever to use drugs or
alcohol again, to decide to betthat you're going to begin to recreate yourself,

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that you're going to be reborn toa new state of consciousness. Whatever
commitment that you make, keep yourcommitment to your commitment, no matter what.
If it's hard, then do ithard, or keep your commitment to
your commitment. And then it saysthy works. See now most people look

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at that, commit thy works.Most people look at activity that one engages
in to achieve a predetermined objective.But works, commit thy works. It
pluralize as an S. There learnedthis from Bishop. You got to watch
these things in scripture. Just can'tgo on the surface. There's an S.
Then say commit thy work, whatevertask, whatever talent, whatever skill,

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whatever knowledge you have, and beginto make money doing that, making
a difference, impacting people's life.But commit thy work. So there's two
kinds of work. There's external work, activity that you're engaged in, and
there is internal work. Now whyis that important? Pharisees said to Jesus,
When shall the Kingdom of God come? The Kingdom of God coming up

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vib they they shall say, it'sneither low there a low hill. Behold
the Kingdom of God within you.It's within you. Seek you first a
kingdom, and all these things willbe added unto you, wealth, good
relationship, peace of mind, goodhealth, better community, whatever you want
to desire, a more powerful ministry. So the work is internal as well

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as external. So therefore number oneis first step is you got to live
your calling. You got to decidewhat is it you love. Second thing
is you've got to work on yourself. Write this down on the work on
yourself. You don't get in lifewhat you want. You get in life
what you are. You have aministry and you have three hundred people,

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that's a reflection of you. Youhave two thousand, that's a reflection of
you. You have a job,you're generating twelve hundred dollars a year,
or two thousand dollars or five hundredthousand dollars. Whatever you earn, whatever
you put using in your life isa reflection of you. That's why I

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says, judge a tree by thefruit it bears. I can look at
what you're producing, and I cantell you a lot about who you are.
And if you look at people whoare living below the potential and sinning
and sending and the airmeg language meansfalling short of the mark. I asked
the question earlier, how many ofyou have goals the raise your hands?

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How many of you know if youhad your life to live over again,
you can do more than what you'vedone. The majority of us raise our
hands. Then that was an indication, that was testimony to reflect the fact
that you operate, operating below yourpotential. Not to send here and my
father glorified that yeat bear much fruit, then just say fruit much fruit.

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See, when you leave here,you've got to make a commitment to be
more fruitful for me to be moreproductive, to make greater impact. So
what will allow you to do that? You got to spend time working on
yourself in order to do write thisdown. In order to do something you've
never done, you've got to besomeone you've never been. In order to

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do something you've never done, you'vegot to be someone you've never been.
That's why scripture says you must beborn again. You've got to die as
you are now. You've got tobe willing to give up who you are
now for what you can become.Certain things will no longer fit into your

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life, there's no place for it. In order to do something you've never
done, you've got to be someoneyou've never been. So you've got to
spend serious time reading, writing yourgoals down, reading scripture, anchoring yourself
spiritually to handle the storms of life. Because they're gonna come. You've got

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to read things that will help todevelop your mind, your consciousness, your
attitude. This man my life,mister Lewright Washington. I was in his
class one day and I was waitingon another student. He came in.
He said, young man, goto the board and work this problem out
for me. I said, Ican't do that, sir, And he
said, why not. I'm notgoing to be students, sir. He

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said, it doesn't matter. Goto the board and work the problem out
anyhow. I can't do what you'reasking me to do, sir. Why
not because I'm intricable mentally retaught it, sir. And all the kids laughed
because they knew I was in specialeducation. And then he came from behind
his desk and he looked at me. He said, don't you ever say

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that again. Someone's opinion of youdoes not have to become your reality.
Most of us live within the contextof somebody else's opinion of us. I
saw a movie a few weeks agocall The Truman Show with Jim Carrey.

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Not a very popular movie, butthere was one line in there that made
it worth the movie for me.This young man was born under the camera
that somebody said up a gigantic studioand created the life of a real person
to act out in the context ofa soap opera. Everybody knew but him.

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All of it was created, wasfabricated. And then when he discovered
it, he was trying to escapeand the guy said, he won't get
out. And the guy said why, he said, he won't leave.
The guy said, why would yousay that? He said, because most
people accept the reality that they havebeen given to hear that. See,
most people are not creating wealthwire becausethey were born in poverty and they go

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through life unconscious. They don't knowthat they can have more. They don't
know that they can be more.They say the words, I can do
all things of Christal strength with me. We're more than conquerors. But subconsciously.
And that's how you judge if aperson really knows. If you know
it, you're doing it. Ifyou know it, you're living it.
If you know it, you're manifestingit, you're producing it. And so

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therefore, as you look at yourself, you've got to have this vision of
yourself beyond your circumstances. You've gotto see yourself every day. I can
do this I can make this happen. I'm blessed and highly favored. Good
things as supposed to happen to me. You've got to see yourself every day

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working on your goals. Here's howI want you to go and want you
get a three by five card,and here's a scripture I want you to
put on the back of the card. Matthew seventh chapter and the seventh first,
ask and it shall be given.You seek, and ye shall find,
knock, and it shall be openunto you for everyone that ask it,
receive it, he that seek itfind it, and to him that

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knock it it shall be open.Now put that on on one side of
the card, and on the flipside, write your goal down and read
that three times a day, whateverthat goal is. My goal was about
my mother home. I read thatthree times a day, asking, and
shall be given, seeking, yeshall fine, not going to shall be
open every day. I have agoal right now, my goals on this

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card. I read it three timesa day. Sometimes more I read that
scripture than I read my goal.To put that in my subconscious mind.
Why our thoughts have magnetic power?Demonstration? How many of you ever thought
about somebody they call you out ofthe blue. Rach your hands please,
you said, I was just thinkingabout you. You are on my mind.

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See, thoughts have power. Wethink, according to psychologists, forty
to fifty thousand thoughts a day.So when now you want to begin to
horn in on your thoughts? Keepfine? I single. You want to
focus, You want to begin todiscipline yourself to control your thinking. Most
people never achieve their goal because theyallow themselves to be sidetracked by secondary activities,

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the distractions of life. Peter willstill be walking on the water had
he not allowed himself to be distracted. People are all concerned about the scandal
that's going on in the White House, obsessed with it, going out buying
newspapers and books to read about it. They should be obsessed by their own
lives. What's it to these?You should be so fucking so busy on

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your own life, keeping the mainthing the main thing, until you oblivious
as to what's going on around you. You don't have time. People ask
me, do you think he didit? I don't know, and I
don't care. It's not putting anymoney in my pocket. And if I

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was advising him when I'd went intothat grand jury, all I would have
done it, just started speaking interms that I'd have fixed them. Chevaletta,
Yeahhhh, what would Kim Star say? Then Cross examined that they wouldn't

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have been able to get him onperjury. Head Lines were read the next
day the President's spoke in toms mylow. I gotta pray for y'all.
Y'allself beils of it. All.Right, here's the other thing. You

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gotta become a risk taker. Writethe down. Viscot said. If you're
not willing to risk, you can'tgrow. And if you can't grow,
you can become your best. Andif you can't become your best, you
can't be happy. And if youcan't be happy, then what else is?

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Then? You know what I sawdoctor Norman Vincent Peel twenty three years
ago, But for thirteen years Iwouldn't take the chance. For thirteen years,
I was living in my comfort zone. For thirteen years. I kept
saying, less Brown, you can'tdo that, Less Brown, you can't
have that kind of audience, LessBrown. You don't have the artical skills,

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you don't have the knowledge, youdon't have the money. I kept
saying, I can't do that.There's an old African proverb that says,
if there's no enemy within, theenemy outside can do us no harm.
Bishop talks about the enemy in me. If there's no enemy within, how

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many of you know that you've beenyour own worst enemy? Raise your hands.
So you gotta be willing to getoutside your comfort zone. And no
one could have told me that.The willingness to get outside of my comfort
zone, the willingness to fail,the willingness to try to experiment, the

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willingness to take some chances, thewillingness to do something. I'd never done
that in the last twelve years.For thirteen years, I didn't do it.
I convinced himself I couldn't do it. Then the last twelve years,
I've earned an excess of fourteen milliondollars. Let me tell you some fourteen
million dollars, A good garden anda healthy hauld and you can make it

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through the winter and Birmingham, Alabama. Do you hear me? I no
one could have told me. Ihave two books, Live your dreams,
and it's not over until you Whenno one could have told me born an
abandoned billing on the floor labeled edecableMichler retaught it no college training. No
one could have told me I wouldhave produced five specials for public television that

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I'd had three years ago, thehighest rated, fastest canceled talk show in
the history of television because I wouldn'tdo those conflict and controversy shows. No
one could have told me I hadno idea that I could do what I'm
doing right now. Let me tellyou what I know about you, and
I don't know you. You gotgreatness within you want to doctor Doctor King's

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mentors, Doctor Howard Thurman said somethingone night. I was reading and I
couldn't sleep. He said, theideals situation for a man a woman to
die, it's a half family membersstanding around their bed praying with them as
they cross over. He said,But imagine, if you will, being

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on your death bed and standing aroundyou are the ideas, the dreams that
have been given to you by life, the talents, the gifts that you've
never nurtured, that you never develop, the skills that you never did anything
with, standing around your bed,looking at you with large, angry eyes,

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saying we came to you only youcould have given us life, and
now we must die with you foreverand The question is if you died,
now, what dreams, what Idid? What talents, what abilities,
what skills, what books, whatsermons, what seminars? What businesses?

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Will die with you? Miles Monroesaid, the wealth is place, and
the planet is not in the FarEasts where they have oil in the ground,
is not in South Africa where theyhave diamond minds. He said.
The wealth is place on the planetis the cemetery, because there you'll find
dreams not pursued. It's never written, songs, never song, sermons never

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delivered. Business is never erected,talents never nurtured, skills never developed.
You survived line out of forty millionfirms. You were born to win.
God wants you to be rich andwealthy and successful and to live the abundant

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life. You must affirm that foryourself every day says you look at yourself,
and you look at your life,and you look at your circumstances as
you work on your goals and yourdreams. Here's some things I want to
give you. Write this down.Hold yourself to high standards. See what

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if Bishop T. D. Jakeshad decided when he first received the idea
of a manpower conference that it couldnot be What if it allowed that idea
to die, we would not behere. See many of you here,
you are pregnant with some ideas.I'm telling you what I know. I

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will leave here this afternoon tonight inone hour doing what I'm doing now.
In one hour, I earned anaccess for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
I had no idea that I hadthe capacity to do what I'm doing
right down. You've got genius inyou. You made an electus, an
image of God. You've got greatnessin you. You have some special stuck

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in you. You showed up withHim. So as you look at your
life and you decided to become arisk taken, make it okay to failed
experiment, trial and arrow. Repeatout to me, Please, no tests,
no testimony. Yeah, you're gonnaface some hard times when you decide

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that you want to commit your lifeto Christ. You are going to at
that time go through unadulterated hell.What's the first thing they say when you
get an airplane before they take allfasten your seat belt. Why because you
will experience some turbulence before you reacha comfortable altitude. Life was testing me

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when the man looked at me andsaid, you have prostate cancer. You're
too is too large to have thesurgery. We're gonna give you radiation,
seat and plants. The most anybody'sever gotten was ninety. They gave me
two hundred and thirty eight. Iwent back three weeks ago. They checked

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my PSA level, which indicate thepresence of cancer. Your prostate area one
to four is normal. Beyond thatis that you have cancer and it's fretting.
When I first went a year ago, it was six point one.
When I went three weeks ago atHoward University, high fool of gave me
an m I I it was tenpoint five. The guy said, I'm

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sorry to tell you this is so. What do you mean You're in the
same situation that you were in whenyou came here. Here's something I heard
at Christ Universal Temple Church at ina restaurant. Bishop TD Jakes was praying
for a lady in a wheelchair andit's odd how things come to you.

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When he finished praying for the lady, I'm sure there were some questions or
asked that weren't verbal, that ifthe prayer work, why didn't she get
up and walk? And what hesaid as he was walking away. Healing
takes first place first, he said, healing takes placed first in the spirit.

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It did not about his numbers.It did not about their diagnosis.
Judge, not according to appearances.You must have a faith to call forth
those things that be not as thoughthey were. No, do you really
believe. See, it's one thingto believe when you got money in your

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pocket. There's one thing to believewhen your marriage is working out and you
got your health and your children actinglike they got good sense. Oh,
it's good to show the Lord isblessing in. It's easier to believe then.
Or But when you get dot diagnosis, say you ain't gonna be here
long, When you lose your job, when someone you thought you'd be with

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for the rest of your life sayingno, we can't do this no more,
that's when and you have to stand. That's when you have to begin
to live this faith and that's noton you. That's when you got to
call on something hither you let thatmind be in you. You got to

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be out of your mind to believein spite of these numbers, you can
still make it. In spite ofthe pain you're feeling. You can still
come back again. You gotta beout of your mind. I tried it.
I'm in that Christ's mind. Ibelieve it, and not when things
are just favorable, not fair weatherfaith and you've got to believe that when

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you're going out here with your ideas, with your products, with your services,
and part of being successfully is yougot to hold yourself to high standards.
I use Bishop Jakes as a model. His people take care of you.
He's thorough. Hold yourself to highstandards whatever you do. There's no
saying do not go where the pathmay lead, but go where there's no
path and leave a trail. Treatpeople with respect, Treat them the way

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that you want to be treated.Tony, who's with me, who's been
assigned to me? Courteous, respectfulcalls several times? Is there anything I
can do for you? Can Ihelp you out as first class service?
If you decide to provide first classservice. Johnny's Johnson book called Making Against

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the Odds. He said, there'sno defense against an excellence that meets at
pressing public deed. When I decidedto become involved in the motivational industry,
I didn't have the money of adoctor Norman, Vincent Peel of zig Ziggler,
of Tony Robbins, and all theother giants out there. I had
the gift of gab. So whatI did was I trained myself. I

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disciplined myself to read three to fourbooks a week. First I signed out
a month. Now I've increased itwith a reading system that I have.
Mister WASHINGTONID, mister Brown, Yes, sir, do you want to make
it? Yes, sir. First, you've got to develop up your mind,
young man, because you don't getin life what you want. You
get in life what you are.Next, you've got to develop your communication

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skills. Once you open your mouth, you tell the world who you are.
They said about Jesus, who obviouslywas an effective communicator. Never spec
a man. The reason that you'rehere is because no one can milk scripture
and deliver a sermon that can transformyour life and have you jumping up and

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die like you crazy like T.D. Jakes. I'm home one day
looking at this video. My daughtergave me call. He called me,
son, let me tell you somethingby the end of that video, and
I've never seen my father. Whenthat video got to the end, I'm
going to the television said daddy,Daddy, come by day. I push

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reverse it, back it up,and said, daddy, let me tell
you so he just brought me downof my bad lot all by myself.
I'm looking around, see if anybodysee me here? That madcraft and that

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message you hit me. I'm cryinglike about a funeral. I want my
daddy see that's a gift. Youhear me here, that's a gift.
You people use his word annoying.It did the only place I've ever seen
it applicable. Is it his case? That's the only thing. How need

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to tell you that. I thinkI'm a good speaker, but this is
this is a bad boy we gotup in here. Words cannot encomfort the
sympholism of what we have the chanceto see up in here. And yet
he's down to earth, I meandown to earth. Were all these little
funny outfit he has I mean toknocks me out. Hey, let me

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tell you what my daughter said tome. My daughter, my oldest daughter.
It is on his advanced team.She said, you know what,
I was listening to Dion last nightand I think I'm gonna call him Bishop
Jake's daddy too. I said,I wish you would. I mean you,
I will throw you out here rightnow and break his legs about calling
him daddy. Now here's I wantyou to write this down, right down.

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Take responsibility for your life. Takeresponsibility for your life. Now,
that's very important. Remember what whatwhat bishop said last night about Adam Adam
when God asking what happened, Adamdid not want to take responsibility for what

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he had done. Men have alwaystried to escape that. Now you know
that we believe a lot in marches. Let me tell you something. Here's
a march I like to enroll youon. I want a million men to
march to a mailbox to give supportpayments. Just drop some support payments in
the mailbox to children that you havehelped to create, that you have been

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irresponsible and you're not taking care of. Don't get that money to the airlines
or the bus stations of the hotels. Send that money to those mothers that
are still there dealing with and raisingthose children. On your stuff. Kim
here on them? Where's my daughter? Keimer on them? I got a

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call five years ago from this personhere. I happened to be at the
office late at night, So Ibelieve in being open and being honest with
you. And the card was tellthem what you said to me. I
said, if you had a childin this world that you were unaware of,

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a descendant in this world that youwere unaware of, would you or
would you not want to know?What? Did I say? You said,
yes, I would want to know. So I told I wanted to
know him, and I said,send me some pictures. She sent me
some pictures overnight. I saw thisby home. I say, that's send

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one of my sons to pick herup. He drove her from Columbus to
Detroit. He came in first andDaddy, my sisters right behind him.
And we've been together ever since.And I'm not ashamed of her. I
can't unscramble. These Asians don't wantto. But I have to take responsibility

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that this is my daughter, andI take care of my daughter. Ain't
she gardis? I'm trying to fatdr up. She got a little meg.
I'm trying to find a hoofand whilewe're here, got legs so small
you can sue them for non support. That's why she weam pants. Well,

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okay, thank you baby, giveher out of applause, all right
now So the reason I'm telling youthat we got to start owning our stuff
as men don't make a big deal. Can you imagine what will happen if

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for a million men decide to goto the mailbox and just unexpectedly drop just
what you can. Don't have tohave a you know, return address in
case they're looking for you. Youdon't have to put that all there.

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If you real, then you understandwhat I'm talking about. I just had
to be no fool. Now.Not the only reason I can put a
return address on this because I havean NBA. Somebody says I got y'all
don't say you don't have a collegedegree. I don't. NBA stands for

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Mega Banker College. So anyhow joinme man, don't tell me well I
don't like her, she got anold man, or she don't need my
money, or the children don't looklike me. I went to court and
the paternity suit with a friend ofmine named Ronnie Edie went to the judge

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justice, why don't your pan child'sapport? He said that babies don't look
like me and just say would feedhim? Tell they do? But as

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men, see, we can't teachour sons to be responsible. If they
don't see us being responsible, ifthey don't feel that we care, so
they don't say, well I don'thave it, get it. That doesn't
let you off the hook right downthe next r. And that is not

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only responsibility, but be resouceful.A lot of men I don't have I
had it, I'll give it.If the women had that kind of attitude,
the children was stopped to death.The reason that they eat, the
reason that they have someplace to stayand to lay their heads and have clothes
on their backs. Because the womendecide, I'm gonna make it happen no

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matter what. And they're resouceful.My mama raised seven without a man.
She cooked, she cleaned houses.Here's something else that will cause you to
reach your goals when you leave here. Write this down reasons, compelling reasons

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while you here, when you makethis covenant with God, when you decide
to live like a conqueror, whenyou decide to become more successful, to
create wealth, to be a changeAsian in your community. What is it
that can keep you on a straightand narrow that will cause you to keep

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your commitment to your commitment. Iused to do door to door sales with
a man named Sam Axrod. Samax Rod was intrigued by me because when
he came to pick me up,he didn't have to blow his horn.
I was downstairs waiting for Sam whenhe came around the corner. And unlike

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the men that work with him andother young people, when it got dark
and Sam blow the horn, everybodyran to the station wagon and they would
do a head counter and they saywho's here? Say, everybody's here except
Less, and they say, hey, let's come on now. I'm not
coming saying why haven't sold anything?No one sold anything Less. It's a

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long run from Liberty City to Overtower. You gotta pass the twentieth Street Sharks
in the fourteenth Street Game. Theagendis will stop running soon. I can't
stop Sam until I sell something.See my reason for going door to door
different than everybody else. Most peopleout there trying to make some extra money

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to party on the weekend, orto buy a new outfit or a new
bicycle. The reason that I wasworking was to take care of my mama.
The reason that I was working isbecause I was working on Miami Beach
with my mother, and she's workingfor a family called the Saderski family.
And one day when I was outsideraking the yard, I came in and

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my mother was on the floor onher knees, cleaning up some grease spots
that missus Zaderski had spilt some grease. My mother was fifty six at the
time. She adopted us when shewas forty, and I came in.
My mother had arthritis in her kneesand I could hear him moaning at different
times when she moved on her knees, and it's hard lenolan floor. And

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I said, missus Zadisky, canI do that for my mother and you
can have her do something else.She said, if it's all right with
Mamie. And my mother said,no, son, that's all right.
I said, no, Mama,it's not all right. I don't want
you and your knees. Mama,please let me do it, baby,
And I helped my mother up,and missus Zadisky said, Mamie, go
in the other room and find outhat I was looking for earlier. And
my mother went in the other roomand I heard her clapping her hands.

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I said, Mamma, she saidwhat boy? I said, baby,
why are you clapping your hands?She said, don't worry, just keep
on doing what you're doing. Thenafter a while, missus Saddersky said,
Mami, maybe it's in the otherroom. Go look in there. Mamma
went in the other room, andsure enough she started clapping her hands again.

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Bishop, I said, mamma,while you clapping your hands, she
said, didn't I tell you topay attention to what you're doing. Then
at that moment, missus Siderski cameover. She said, I can tell
you why she's clapping her hands.I said why, ma'am. She said,
because when I have domestic work islooking for something and they're out of

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my view, I make them claptheir hands to make sure that they're not
stealing. I put the scrub brushdown and I stood up as excuse me,
missus said Durski, I don't meanany disrespect, ma'am. My mother
raised us to say yes, ma'amand no, ma'am. But my mother's

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a Christian. She would never stealfrom you or anyone. When my mamma
talked about your children, when shetalks to her friends, she say my
children, the Sadirsky children. Sheloves you and your husband and your children.
She would never steal from you,and she just walked away. Later

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that evening, when we were ridingacross the Venetian Causeway, I was very
quiet and my mother noticed it.I was not my bubbly self. She
said, what's wrong, son,I said, Mama, I wish I
was a man. She said,boy, you're sixteen years old. You'll
be a man soon enough. Isaid, no, Mama, I want

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to be a man now, becauseif I was a man right now,
we would never have to wear somebodyelse's hand me down clothes that their children
no longer wore. I'll be ableto buy clothes for my brothers and sisters
and you. If I was aman, we would never have to eat
anybody's left over food that you cookedfor because I'll be able to buy us

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roseries if I was a man.If I was a man, mamma,
no one would ever have you onyour knees cleaning up grease that they still
and nobody, nobody would ever evermake you clap your hands because they think
that you're stealing. If I wasa man, mamma, I'll take care

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of you, she said, missusSiderski told you that, didn't she?
I said, yes, down,So I was a man. You would
never cook for anybody in but me. My mama used to fix a kind
of sleeper tati pie that you couldn'teat with your shoes on. You had

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to take your shoes off so youcan wiggle your toes. And when we
would go do the door, sometimesas late as ten o'clock at night,
I would knock on the door.Who's that would you like to buy a
nice working television setting? Nobody down? Boy? Are you crazy? Yes?
I am crazy. I'm crazy aboutmy mama and I'm gonna take care

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of her and I'm gonna sell atelevision set tonight and invitified you. And
after a while somebody said, comeon in the boy, and that'd better
be a good set. One ofthe reasons, write down while you're here
at this man power conference, writedown five compelling reasons and why you're gonna

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keep your commitment to change your life. Keep your commitment never to go back
to the life that you once lived. Keep your commitment to creating wealth for
yourself, to taking care of yourchildren, to be more responsible, to
manifest Chris in you in your life, in your community. Keep your commitment
to live a life of contribution tokeep your commitment to be a conqueror and

(01:06:54):
to act like it, and tohave a third in dominion of everything in
your life. One are those reasonsI got on one of my tapes.
If life knocked your down, tryand land on your back, because if
you can look up, you canget up. Your reasons will help you
to get back up again. There'llbe your rod and staff to comfort you
to So you got to write downfive reasons and everything that bishop is saying,

(01:07:18):
and Bishop Merrit and all the differentspeakers and the relationships them at all
that Brother Lewis greet Up will do. How you will incorporate the principles from
this man Power conference in your lifeand live them and manifest them and support
them. Now here's one second tothe last thing. Let us say together.

(01:07:41):
You gotta be hungry. Hold missus, why, said mister Brown,
What do you want to do?Well said, I'd like to be a
disc jockey. Mister Brown, Ifyou want to be a disc jockey,
you gotta be hungry. What doyou mean by that? Sir? You've
got to be willing to do thethings that they others won't you in order
to have the thing tomorrow. Otherswon't have. He said, you gotta

(01:08:03):
work on yourself, develop yourself,develop your mind. You don't get in
life what you want. You getin life what you are. Always Start
to get on top in life,because it's the bottom that's overcrowded. You
gotta be hungry. I said,yes, sir, I'm hungry. I
want to be a disc jockey.Sir, he said, is that right?
I said yes, sir. Hesaid, start listening to Paul Hobby,

(01:08:23):
Start listening to people who are effectivecommunicators. Be conscious of what you're
saying and how you're saying it,because how you express yourself. Once you
open your mouth, you tell theworld who you are. See yourself as
a radio disc jockey. Start workingto get sponsorship, Start creating the radio
format that you want, Start developingyour personality. I say, wait a

(01:08:44):
minute, sir, I said,I want to be a disc jockey.
I don't have a job yet.And then he quoted Whitney Young. He
said, it's better to be preparedfor an opportunity and not have one than
to have an opportunity and not beprepared. You gotta be hungry. Sauce
started working to develop myself and developingmy communication. Skills. I expected to

(01:09:04):
have a radio program. So Icreated my formats. I started learning how
to write commercials and do jangles.And then I came to him one day.
I said, okay, mister Washington. He said, okay, mister
Brown. Remember you've got to behungry. You don't have a college degree,
you have no journalism, you haveno broadcasting. This is a very
crowded field. It's very very competitive, mister Brown. You're gonna face No

(01:09:28):
One rejection every day. But ifyou're hongry enough, the world will make
a place for you. So Iwent to apply for a job on Miami
Beach to Milton Butterball Smith, theprogram director. Hello, mister Budleball,
how are you, sir? Myname is Les From Sir, I like
to be a disc jockey. Youhave any journalism in your background? No,
sir. You have any kind ofbroadcasting experience? No, sir,

(01:09:49):
but I've been training myself. Sir, Let me addition for you. Let
me show you how good I am. He's I'm sorry, we don't have
any job for you. How isthis scourage? I went back and I
told mister Washington. I said,to Washington, they said no. He
said, don't take it personally.Most people are so negative they have to
say no seven times before they sayyes. He said, you gotta be

(01:10:09):
hungry, go back again? Isaid, yes, sir, Hello,
Mi suboutaball. How are you,sir? My name is less from sir.
I like to be a disc jockey. Weren't you here yesterday? Yes,
sir? Didn't I tell you noyesterday? Yes? Sir? Then
why are you back to day?Well? Sir? I didn't know where
the not somebody was laid off orsomebody was fired, Sir, No one
was laid off, no one wasfired. I came back the next day.

(01:10:31):
Hello, mis subout the ball?How are you, sir? My
name is less from, Sir.I like to be a disc jockey.
I know what your name is.Weren't you here the last three days?
Yes, sir? Didn't I tellyou no the lasterday's? Yes, sir?
Then why are you back to day? Well? Sir? I didn't
know where. Someone got sick orsomeone died, Sir, No one got
sick, no one died, Noone was laid off or fired. Now

(01:10:53):
don't you come back here again?I came back the next day, talking
loud, looking happy like I've seenyou for the first time. Hello is
to vot the ball? How areyou? He looked at me and rage.
He says, go get me somecoffee. I said, yes,
sah. Sometimes you have to stoopbefore your conquer. You got to sacrifice

(01:11:21):
before you reign. So I becamethe errand bar for the disc jockeys.
I'll go get their lunch in theirdinner, and I stand in the control
room and I would not leave untilthey would ask me to. Then,
pretty soon they trusted me to pickup entertainers that came to town, entertainers
like Dinah Ross and the Freedes andthe Four Tops and Gladys Night. I
used to drive them all over MiamiBeach and the disc jockets, big long

(01:11:44):
catillacs. I didn't have any driverlicense, but I'll drive in like a
hat char Then one day I wasat the radio station and the disc jockey
by the name of Rock and Rogerwas drinking. He was on the air,
he was learning his words. Itwas obvious he was so inebriate and

(01:12:04):
he couldn't complete his show. Andthere I was looking at him through the
control room window, walking back andforth, young, ready and hungry.
I was saying drank Rondy, drankdrank Ronk. I'd a gonna get him

(01:12:27):
some more if you'd asked me too. Then pretty soon the phone rang.
It was a general manager and Ianswered the phone and said hello. He
said, young boy, this ismister Klein. I said, I know.
He said A rock can't finish hisprogram. I said I know.
He said, would you call oneof the other DJs in I said yes,
sir. I hung the phone up. I said, now he must
be thinking I'm crazy. I calledmy mom and my girlfriend Kassando said y'all

(01:12:53):
come out on the front porch andturn up the radio. I'm about to
come on now. I waited forabout twenty minutes, and I calling back.
I said, mister Klein, Ican't find nobody. He's a young
boy. You're not a word ofcontrols. I said, yes, sir.

(01:13:14):
He said, going there, seguethe records and don't say nothing here.
I said, yes, suh.I couldn't waiting to get behind that
turntable. I put on a fastrecord. I said, look out,
this is me LB Triple P.Let's find your platu plan Papa. There
will nothing before me, and therewill be none after me. Therefore,
that makes me the one and onlyyoung and singman loved the man, go

(01:13:36):
certified butonafied, and do be qualifiedto bring you satisfaction and a whole lot
of action. Look out, baby, I'm your lot man. I was
hungry. I was hungry. Checksome boy the town on your right and

(01:13:57):
left and say you gotta be hungry. They are people who come to this
country who can't speak the language andthey hit the ground running because they're hungry.

(01:14:25):
The people that are hungry are willingto do the things that they others
won't do in order to have thething tomorrow others won't have. The people
that are hungry are willing to makeit okay to fail. They are risk
takers. The people that are hungryare willing to reinvent themselves to develop themselves.
They know you don't get in lifewhat you want. You get in

(01:14:45):
life what you are. The peoplethat are hungry have goals and practical steps
that they engage in day in andday out. And here's the second to
the last principle. Write this down, repeat out to me, oh QP,
only quality people. Yes, Iwant you to connect with the least

(01:15:10):
ten men before you leave here,get their names, addresses, and phone
numbers. Ten men who are dreamers. Ten men who want to do something
with their lives. Ten men thatyou can get together and make a covenant
where two or three are gathered inmy name, I will be among you.
Get together with ten men who wantto develop themselves, who want to

(01:15:31):
grow, who want more out oflife, who see themselves in the future
doing better than they have right now. Ten men who decided that the man
power experience will not just be anemotional catharsis, but they're gonna go out
and live the message that they've heardtreat from this fulkfit up there. Ten
men who've decided to get serious abouttheir lives, to make a commitment to

(01:15:54):
commit themselves and their ways and theirbehaviors and their habits to achieve a better
life for themselves, their families andthe communities and the people that they care
about. Touch yourself with ten men. Why that gives you hope When there's
hope in the future, that givesyou pile in the present. Let me
tell you what happened. Scientists didan experiment with rats, and they dropped
them in water, and they watchedthem, and they timed him, and

(01:16:16):
these rats swam for about forty fiveminutes and drown And then they put in
another group of rats, and theywatched them, and just before they drowned,
they took them out and they letthem rest. Then they put in
another group of rats, including theones that had been in before and were
saved, and the ones that wereput in the second time swam an hour

(01:16:41):
and a half longer than the groupthat had been put in there for the
first time, with the hope andthe expectation that they might be saved.
Listen to me, to power ofassembly, to power of relationships. One
goose can fly seventy five percent furtherin formation with other geese then it can

(01:17:04):
ever fly by themselves. It's importantyou find some men here who are serious.
Though there are people who just camejust to see. But there's some
men here who are serious, whosaid, I'm gonna change, I'll never
be the same again. I wantGod to use me in a special kind

(01:17:27):
of way. You want to findthose men. See, there are two
types of relationships. They're nourishing relationshipsand their toxic relationships. Most people,
when you leave here and you facethe world and all of your negative toxic
family members and friends. It willknock the wind out of you. That's
why you gotta have ten men tostay in your ear so when you break

(01:17:50):
down, and you're gonna break down, when you go back to the fiery
furnaces of this world and you'll forgeteverything you heard here. These men can
stand with you when you have yourmoments in the godden of Dissemine and you
need someone to tarry with you.These men will pray with you when you

(01:18:11):
find yourself getting weak and losing control. You need someone to get your anchored
again. And these ten men makethis the greatest man power conference ever because
of the relationship that you're going todevelop with ten men who share your vision
for a better future. Can Iget your commitment on that and let me

(01:18:39):
share something. There's nothing as powerfulas a made up mind to human will.
For Nelson Mandela, and you lookat your dream and think they're against
the odds. A man being incostratedfor twenty six years, with every major
government in the world earl supporting hisgovernment and his suppression of his people in

(01:19:04):
prison. Even Joseph's accomplishment is palein comparison to Nelson Mandela and to go
from prisoner to president. I say, there's a Nelson Mandela and everyone here
in this room. And he didn'tdo it by himself. Jesus didn't do

(01:19:27):
it by himself. He had twelvemen who shared his vision. The power
of the human will, Kimmer,John Leslie. The power of the human
will, said John liston the humanwill, that force unseen, the offspring

(01:19:56):
of a deathless soul. Can youaway into any goal, though walls of
brained intervene. You will be whatyou will to be. Let fail.
You're fine. It's false content ofthat poor, poor word environment. But

(01:20:19):
spirit scorns it, and it's free. It masters time, and it conquer
space. It cows that boastful tricksterchance and bids the tiring circumstance. It
uncrowns and feels a servant's place.There is no chance, no destiny,

(01:20:41):
and no fate that can circumvent orhinder or control. The firm resolve of
a determined soul gifts count as nothingwill alone is great. All things give
way before it too soon or toolate. What obstacle can stay the mighty

(01:21:04):
force of the sea seeking river inits course, or can cause the orb
of day to wait while each wellborn soul knows it gets what it deserves.
Let the fools prate of blood.The fortunate is he whose earnest purpose
never swerves, whose slightest action orinaction always serves that one great end,

(01:21:33):
while even death himself stands still andwaits an hour sometimes for such a will.
Thank you the human will God Lesli. How many of you have children?

(01:21:56):
Raise your hands. I've got tosanitate. You have a limited number
at my table called choosing your future. Call It's possible, it's necessary,
it's hard, it's worth it,It's done. These tapes will help you
to create wealth. And I'm sharingwith you what I've learned that enabled me
in the last twelve years to createa multimillion dollar corporation, but most importantly,

(01:22:17):
to learn some practical steps on howto begin to move myself from poverty
to where I'm right now. Seemany of us, if we knew better,
we would do better. Most peopleare failing, not because they don't
have the talent, but most peopledon't know that they don't know, and
they think they know, and consequentlythey're not open to any new information.

(01:22:39):
So we will be at our table, and i will assign these tapes,
but use them with your children.I have seven children, and all my
children listen to takes. Why becausewe just can't leave our children's mind out
here to a lot of this filthand garbage they call rap music. Listening
to profanity day in and day out. Words are very powerful. That's saying

(01:23:00):
evil prevails when good men and womendo nothing. So we've got to give
out children some other options. Anddon't tell your children just listen to the
tape. That won't work. No, don't give these taps of people that
you care about and say listen tothis. They won't do it. Why
because of ego. Ego means edgingGod out. No, here's what to
do. Get your children in thecar, get on the expressway, and

(01:23:21):
put the tape in. See Ican say the same thing you say,
but because they don't know me,they're here differently, the hardest people to
each other, people that are closestto you. And then put the tape
in. Don't say listen to it, Just put the tape in. And
then after that and it runs out, flip it over and for the second
side on and then pretty soon they'llstarted listing themselves a lady saw me in

(01:23:41):
the hotel. She said, misterBrown, if I'd known you already here,
my god, she said, Iwould have brought more people. She
said, let me tell you something. I did what you said. My
son was on drugs, dropped outof school. He started listening to the
tapes. He got off drugs,he got back in school, came home
one day, he got a decenthaircut, took his hair ring out,
pulled up his pants and took abab She said. And I know you're

(01:24:04):
going to be in town. Ihave brought my husband here. So I
don't know what your goals are,but we will have this. And also
those of you that are involved insales, we have settates called selling your
way to Great this and other tapsout there that as you listen to these
taps, I guarantee you they havechanged your life. And I'll be at
the table and I'm looking forward toshaking your hands. In addition, those

(01:24:25):
of you that are interested in motivationalspeaking, let me be your mentor.
Let me help you learn how todevelop your communication skills. Because I thought
what I have as a gift,I gave you a health for them to
fill that out and get that backto us. But those of you that
have not had your prostate examination,I want your commitment to protect yourself and
your family by getting your examination.And I like to thank Bishop T.

(01:24:46):
D. Jakes for giving me thisopportunity to spend this time with you,
and I want to share this withyou and saying that this has been an
incredible experience for me. Last nighthe said to me, he said,
I want the people, don't nobodyelse want. I said, that's my
life. That's why I wasn't bornjust to teach those who have how to
get more. I know what itis to feel inferior. I don't have

(01:25:11):
any college training. And I said, Lord, give me, and I'm
here. I said, if youhelp me get this home for my mother,
if you will help me change mylife, I said, I'll help
others like me. I'm not wearingany crown. I'm still growing. I'm
still developing what I'm like the womanwho said, Lord, I ain't what
I want to be, ain't whatI'm gonna be. And thank God,

(01:25:31):
I show ain't what it was.So I like to lead this with you
that I'm known by that my motherused to love to hear me say it,
and I dedicate this to you intothe Viship says simply this, if
you want to think bad enough togo out and fight for it, to
work day and night for it,to give up your time, your peace,
and you'll sleep for it. Ifall but your dream and scheme is

(01:25:53):
about it, and life seems uselessand worthless without it. And if you're
glad me sweat for it and fretfor it, and plan for it,
and lose all your terror of theopposition for it. And if you simply
go after that thing that you wantwith all of your capacity synth and sagacity,
faith, hope, and confidence andstern pertinacity. If neither cold,

(01:26:15):
poverty, famish of gold, sinknessof pain of body and brain can keep
your way from the thing that youwant. If dogged and grim you besiege
and besheaded, with the help ofGod, you'll get it. This has
been missus, Mamie Brown's baby boy. Let's think Kevin Brown saying, go
to the top because you are anddangerous. Thank you very much. You

(01:26:39):
are listening to Less Brown Greatness radio, positive and motivational content curated by the
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