Live a Courageous Life & Be Fearless | Les Brown Motivational Message 2024

and today I want to talk about something else that you want to Live Like a Warrior and die a legend what do you mean by that well one of the first qualities of a warrior is courage you want to live your life from now on with courage that most people take their talents abilities and skills to the Grave with them because of of lack of courage and courage is not the the lack of fear courage is the willingness to do what it is you need to do what you are called to do in spite of the fear you don't want to live a a fear-driven life because you're depriving yourself your family and the world that you came here to do something that's why we're told constantly in The Book of Life be of good courage because there's stuff that's going to happen that requires that you have courage that you stand up inside yourself and face it and handle it most people in a fearful situation they forget everything and run but there are few that in a fearful situation they face everything and rise with courage and that's who you are that's why you're listening to me now because there's something you want to do and when you going outside out of your comfort zone it takes courage most people the majority of people die within their comfort zone they're not Risk Takers they go through life trying to play it safe let me share something with you there's no safe position in life if we don't know anything else if we have not learned anything else from the Corona virus there's no safe position in life you can't get out of life alive you got to die to leave here and so this is a time that you don't you want to to to live your life full and do the things that you think about sure you want to keep social distancing from people and from particularly toxic negative energy draining people you want to keep social distance from them why because people rub off on you but you're here to do the greater work you're here to do something you you've got to live life like you mean it when I decided to speak I I I went at it hard because I didn't want to be just a speaker I wanted to be a a speaker that stood out that made a a national and Global impact and you can do that too that's why you're listening to me you have some talent you have some knowledge you have some experiences you've seen some stuff and there's some things in you you don't want to take to your grave with you so when you Live Like a Warrior you live courageously you're Fearless here's something else when you Live Like a Warrior you honor your commitment commitment is Major see when you decide that you're going to do something when you commit yourself to to live a life that's different than the life that you lived in 20 20 you hold yourself to a higher standard you you are you're seeking something you pushing the envelope you are challenging yourself you you are are willing to walk by faith and not by sight and you know as a warrior that there's a dramatic difference between being a warrior and being a worrior anybody can worry and a lot of people people a word right now oh the new virus coming and it's even more lethal and spreads easier okay got that all right and you got to eat you got to pay the rent you got to pay the mortgage got to pay the car not I learned a long time ago the best way to get back on your feet is to miss three car payments come on yeah but you don't want to be Reckless you don't want to die for a job no no somebody ask you hey sign here in in the event you get sick you going sewers do I look like Mr kumbo no create something else life is saying no don't put your life on the line saying oh I got to eat I could either starve to death or I signed this and and risk dying and leaving my family so they can starve without me no no you can create something else you have other options don't be limited in your thinking I did that for years for years because I I knew radio I did it extremely well and when I was fired I was dumbfounded what am I going to do now guess what learn something new that's what if you're willing to learn see most people aren't willing to learn that's why I say well if if I don't sign this agreement my family will die they'll just starve to death are you kidding me come on now no don't sign anything that says that if some if you get sick they're not liable because they know that there's a high risk that you might get sick and they want you you to be on your own if if you don't learn anything else remember the name Herman Kain who was sitting on the front row at a rally proud proud no mask he got back to Atlanta he had to go to the hospital he said no big deal and now he's out of here five days later didn't he even mention his name you talking about proud and and invol on radio every day promoting the right they don't mention his name as if he did not exist come on come on this life is challenging challenging Us in life when you don't have enough courage or Insight intelligence expanded Vision that you have outgrown a situation and it's time to move on life moves on you at our grown radio and now I can come on anytime I want and you can see me too so you got to put your foot down you got to get an attitude because see we all basically the same we're all basically the same the only thing that separates us are our habits I wanted something different for myself I wanted something different for my mother I did not want my mother working once I turned 18 so I made a commitment that I was going to generate enough money with my voice with my story in radio and then in speaking to take care of my mother you've got some Talent you've got something in you there's a reason that God chose you out of 400 million sperm you think you're just here to work on a job pay the bills keep a roof over your head a car note and then die come on give me a break no no you're here to do the greater work you know it's true you you can deny it if you want to I don't know how low your Consciousness is I I know some people no matter what I say they're not going to hear me the the State of Consciousness therein this message is not for everybody that's why Jesus said he who has ear let him hear Let Her hear and the people that can hear me if you can hear me in your heart not in your ear I'm not challenging you and your your hearing aid no I'm saying what's in your heart where your heart is there your treasure is also when when you Live Like a Warrior you are Vigilant you're are courageous you you you take initiative you ambitious you have an expanded vision of yourself you're going to take some chances on you you're going to bet on you you don't settle for any and everything when you're a warrior and you got to be in F fight mode you got to be ready to fight life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want what you don't want will automatically take over I'm talking to you right now I have some challenging pain in my body but I had the fight to rise above that to come in here and talk to you now I'm not going to let that stop [Music] me I'm supposed to speak I'm supposed to motivate and inspire people at a time that we needed now more than ever in the history of this country since we've been alive and so courage work on it raise the bar on yourself challenge yourself decide you're not going to be the same person in 2021 that you were in 2020 and and the other thing is and this is Major consistency when I decided to be a speaker I disciplined myself to memorize a minimum of three to five quotes every day I didn't have any speaking engagements the phone was not ringing to hey we like to book Les Brown I Was preparing myself I want you as as we in this second day of of 2021 just expect things to be great for you expect them be great because you're going to show up differently you're going to be consistent you're going to do the things that you need to do that other people won't do you want to be a Perpetual Optimist that that let's get it on life you caught me by surprise in 2020 but that ain't going to happen in 2021 oh the Euphoria is gone you've shown yourself oh no I'm not going to get caught up in the hoop law no this is a fight you've taken something from me we've been stripped we've been stripped of Personal Touch we've been stripped of spending personal intimate time with loved ones and family members and friends we've been stripped of of gathering together we've been stripped of of of a sense of assurance and and and Faith you've stripped us no no no and and so when we we look at this we we we have to embrace the newness of this life reason I cut my hair I want to remind myself when I look in the mirror this this is not the L Brown that was in 2020 no no no this is one this is this is the one that's going to fight like a warrior and die a legend I I I want you to have the mindset that you're going to make a greater impact I want you to have the mindset that you're going to to bring your family together I want you to have the mindset that you're going to work on yourself I want you to have the mindset that you're going to improve your health I want you to have the mindset that you're going to create wealth I want you to have the mindset that you're going to live an expanded vision of yourself and you're going to go all in all you can do is all you can do and all you can do is enough but make sure you do all you can do a Williams come on now got to get fired up as you do it a football game or a basketball game or you start doing a little dance in church when they start strumming the organ yeah no no no no you want to be fired up thinking and being creative that's how you want to get your shout on and creating more wealth to protect yourself and to insulate yourself from the ugliness and from the poverty and from the pain that so many people are [Music] expressing this is your time and it can only be your time when you are willing as you look in the mirror when you get up in the morning Lord whatever I face today together you and I can handle it all things work together for good for those who love God and for those who are called according to his purpose when you get up in the morning and you decide to live a courageous life every day get up in the morning and you decide to make a commitment to live your greatest life get up in the morning and a spirit of gratitude and say Lord thank you for bringing me here thank you for dragging me into 2021 thank you for protecting me and those I love thank you for the courage to go on keep it moving for those that that did not make it for for my family members and friends that did not survive I will live a life that will fill in the blanks for them because I'm here because of your grace and mercy I don't take it for granted that I'm still here and as aurin Hudson would say the best day of my [Music] life we're here we're not taking a dirt nap we're here there some people no big deal it's a big deal we're here don't look past this this life is to be lived life Is For Living For for being happy for for being productive here in my father glorified that ye bear much fruit much fruit not a a life of being average or being meaty ochre much fruit you've been chosen are you feeling me here you've been chosen you you have been chosen for the greater work and time to step it up people who operate in darkness they are relentless they never stop they don't take no [Music] breaks they they're they're always doing something you get up in the morning looking at your phone and say what happened now look at the news and say oh my goodness what's next people who are spreading confusion and darkness and hate that they make it their fulltime job to do [Music] that and we have to make it our full-time job to fight back we have to make it our full-time job if they run over here they will limp back we have to make it our full-time job to fight for a future for our children to live a life that will outlive [Music] us sometimes you you you got to be like Jesus was when he went in there and and the disciples were drinking and playing bid whis what y'all about to make me cuss up and get out of here come on oh yeah and and and so many people it's easy to get relaxed once after all the celebration it's easy to get relaxed [Music] no there's work to do see you've experienced some setbacks in order see when a car's driving if the back wheels go the same rate as the front wheels it will never catch up so in order to catch up with the front wheels you got to speed up you can't be average you you got you got to put the foot to the floor that's where we [Music] are see when you have lost your job I don't know if you've experienced it but I have when you get two or three months behind on your bills it takes more than two or three months to catch [Music] up you looking at somebody I used to be so broke I'd walk past the bank and trip the alarm oh Behave yeah yeah you you you want to Live Like a Warrior you when a warrior you in fight [Music] mode you you are are willing to to do whatever it takes for you to discipline yourself to dedicate yourself to take the initiative to embrace the newness of your life you're God's instrument when you embrace the newness of your life new habits new choices new Behavior new friends you set yourself up for miracles Miracles are things that God does for you through you as you and you know it's not you the only thing you can say when those Miracles show up look at God come on now come on yes thank you Father thank you Father this is your time this is your time and it requires courage it requires commitment it requires collaboration with likeminded people not only is it possible and necessary and it's you to Live Your Dream to make this this greatness that you have within you become a reality but what I've come to appreciate when you're working on changing your life changing some bad habit getting out of addictive situations or relationships or working to build a dream or making a difference in our society or learning something that's very challenging here's what I I realize ladies and gentlemen and develop a great deal of respect for it's hard easy is not an option it's hard living life is hard see it's hard when when you are 49 years old been working on a job for 17 years and they come in and tell you you're finish and give you one week severance pay and you got to start all over again it's hard when you are married and raising children and your children are crawling and your husband dies unexpectedly it's hard handling just the tragedies of life it's hard when you're working on something and and you put everything you have in it and it doesn't work out you lose your money and other people's money it's hard it was rough when I lost my job and I could not find a job it was humiliating and embarrassing borrowing money and then I couldn't pay the money back when I told them I would that's rough how people look at you how they respond to you it's very hard it's humilia here's what I discovered that happens to you in life that you will will go through things and while you're going through them you can't understand why it's happening to you but after you go through it and you get back and you look at it and you say oh now I understand why I needed that lesson have you ever happened to you raise your hand has ever happened to you that that I did I couldn't understand it there but after I got through it then I saw that that was preparing me for bigger and better things [Music] that as you go through the challenges of life and you look at it and embrace whatever comes to you don't run from it step toward it don't try and duck it like most people do see most people want it easy see easy come easy what easy go see but when you go at what you're going to deal with and you deal with the difficults of difficulties of it when you handle those hard things close at hand making those hard decisions right now that you don't want to make learning those things that you don't like to do but you know that in order for you to get where you want to go this is one of the Hoops that you have to flip through and I'm saying to you whatever you got to do do it because if you don't life is going to whoop you until you surrender and say okay all right all right all right all right I cooperate okay I learned okay it hadn't wear me out in a long time so if it's hard then do it hard now what do you how do you hang in there during the hard difficult times lest you must have faith you've got to believe in yourself you've got to believe in your abilities You Got to Believe In Your Service your company your ideas unquestionably you got to have faith and that Faith giv gives you patience that is not going to happen as quickly as you want it to happen a lot of things are going to happen that will catch you off guard and so therefore you've got to deal with and handle it as it comes and not only that but that faith and patience drives you into action you got to keep moving and keep plugging away I can see people coming out talking to a god out there watering and fertilizing the ground that's not showing anything hey what you doing you've been out here a long time man and the conversation in the neighborhood is you growing a Chinese bamboo tree is that right yeah that's right well uh even Ray CH and Steven Wonder can see ain't nothing showing you know that's how people going to do you so how long you been working on this how long if you've been working on your dream and you have nothing to show this is all you got to show people going to do that to you and some people ladies and gentlemen they stop because they don't see instant results it doesn't happen quickly they stop oh no no no no you got to keep on Watering your dream and when it began to happen they stopped laughing they said look whoa look look here it's look how hey man you know I know you could do it look here you got a job here see during those hard times we didn't know how you're going to make payroll during those times when you fail and and and things didn't work out they were they were nowhere to be found but you know what I discovered when you working at your dream somebody said the heart of the battle the sweet of the victory oh it's sweet to you it's good to you why see when you when it's hard and there's a struggle see what you become in the process is more important than the dream that's far more important the kind of person you become the character that you build the courage that you develop the faith that you're manifesting oh it's it's it's something that you get up in the morning you look yourself in the mirror you're a different kind of person you walk with a different kind of spirit and people know that you know what life is that you have embraced life you know it was hard but you did it [Music] hard now it takes us to the next level if it's hard why don't people do it you ask people who do things why do they go it people who climb mountains just for the sake of it nobody paying them do just do it somebody said I'm going to run around the world he said what why would somebody want to do that I'm going to willm the Atlantic Channel why why did people do that I wondered why why would a Nelson Mandela give up 26 years of his life why do people do that here's what I discovered in high school high school I decided I wanted to go out for football never forget this and I discovered why people do things you know why ladies and Gentlemen even though it's hard it's worth it it's worth it see one day we had coach alen heer had this plaque down there and um this wood on the floor on on the ground he said Brown come over here had my suit on I said yes sir he said I'm going to have old Larry Littles down there old big Larry yes sir big fat sorry Larry yes sir Brown I want you to get down bull neck yes sir he said I want you run in Larry I want you to put your helmet right in his pit right up in h his chest and knock him off that board you hear me Brown you can do that yes sir can you do that yes sir I say hubba hubba said hubba hubba he said Brown I want you to knock him off you going to make the team I know you can get him all right look at him how sorry he is knees knocking and everything I said yes sir then he went down to Larry Larry Littles who played 12 years for the Miami Dolphins All Pro for 12 years this is a bad big dude 250 lbs strength agile and all muscle he said Larry he said man you know Brown down there he's down there talking about your mom and everything [Applause] he talk about how fat and sorry you are and how he's going to knock you off this boy Larry now Spitting Fire and growling and forming at the mouth and I'm looking at Larry say h hubba hubba he said look at that fool down there growling he told me he's going to scare you that you going to leave are you going to leave no coach I ain't going to leave go down there and knock him out the park boy coach got back he winked at me go get him Brown I went I ran into lar with my helmet lar say boom I don't know where I landed when they woke me up I said can y'all take this helmet off me for a minute I said y'all got any more positions out here they said like where I said don't y'all need an announcer I said Bri where you God I was crying they said man some girls over I said I don't care man I'm hurt said that fool almost killed me man he said bro you quit man I said yeah I said what I said it ain't worth it man no it ain't worth it y'all goad y'all crazy I'll be your announcer man I'll was calling the game I was up there in the boo call good games too because the pain wasn't worth it to me and I'm saying to you you know why people do what they do the people who go after that stuff what makes it worth it it's got to be your passion you got to love it ladies and gentlemen you got to love it it's got to be what you are supposed to do you want to sing and even though they want to invite you to Carter gar you going to sing to anybody that listened to you including singing to yourself I used to talk to my plants when nobody else would listen to me you got to write even if no one published your book right because that was given to you to do you do what it is you supposed to you supposed to build something you're supposed to create something I don't know how to do it learn do whatever is required just go out there it's possible you can get what you want it's necessary if you want it you got to go into action you got to be willing to experiment you got to be willing to fail and to succeed you got to be willing to form and develop new relationships it's you it's on you you got to make that happen nobody's going to bring it to you on a civil platter and said here's your dream manifested no it's hard yes it's hard it's difficult yes light and it's worth [Music] it people ask hey man you know it's you know these kids man it's rough dealing with them that's right that's right you think peer pressure happened overnight we went through peer pressure I remember as a kid some guys say hey Les me and another fellow named low where we were going home hey man we're going down to goo man and knock off a grocery store say look here I don't want no part of that I'll see y'all later say y'all chicken I said that's all right you say whatever you want low stop I'm not chicken man don't call me chicken and why don't you come we didn't even ask you to come in the place man all you do just drive the car that's all I'm don't know how to drive that good well we're trying to get ler come he's chicken hey I'm not driving nothing all right Willie don't care about what they say man leave him alone you want to go do it you find somebody else to drive or you drive yourself come on Willie man pull him he stopped I ain't chicken all I got to do is drive yeah I said will that sounds simple man don't go man he went and the next day we read the newspaper where when they robbed the store robber came when they came out running to a car the merchant the man who owned the store came out just shooting wildly and he hit the driver in the head so peer pressure didn't just start in the '90s or the ' 80s it's difficult it is challenging for kids right now and it's going to take um some easy simple methods to help bring them out of this madness this Insanity no is it hard yes let's look at what we've been doing what has worked what has not worked let's look at where we want to go what is it that we want to produce what is it that we want to create for our young people and as we think about that start experimenting with different methods and techniques to create and to produce that and begin to believe that it's possible through our commitment through our vision through our determination our relentlessness because of our belief it's possible that we can reduce the teenage homicide rate the teenage pregnancy rate the dropout rate that it's possible looking at what kind of world are they going to be in as we look at the global economy that as we begin to use our Collective will and genius and resources it's possible that we can create an educational system that not only will test their minds with with information and facts and figures but we teach them how to think and be creative and what does it mean to be a human being and to Value human life and how do you make relationships work how do you bounce back from adversity it's possible that we can give them a curriculum that will give their lives a sense of purpose and Direction and and meaning and teach them how to begin to know and operate on a higher level of being where they become assets to our society rather than liabilities what if we leave here with that kind of Consciousness that it's possible as opposed to saying we have to write this generation off that it's possible that we were born for such a time as this and that that maybe someone here has the idea or the method or some plan of action or an approach that can resolve many of the problems that we're facing with young people today whatever we have to do to save our children it's worth it how would you respond when someone's back is up against the wall they're facing failure failure time and time again let me just share a little quick story years ago I worked with Tony Robbins in 1999 I was working with Tony Robbins I thought model one of the best it was either you Stephen cubby or it was Tony Robins and at the time mik I had a little connection into Tony Robins so I went with Tony Robin yes and I got so pumped after a year of working there I gave over 240 presentations what a great training opportunity as I traveled the country and just was able to present so many times and finally he sat on stage talking about living your dreams he said when would now be a good time he told the 5,000 people audience and I remember I nudged my wife and I said said that's my that's my calling man I I I'm making an excuse for myself it's time for me to go live my dream anyway long story short I left the Tony Robbins organization I called my parents I said Mom Dad can we and the kids stay at your home for just a couple months as I do my first seminar our other home our home was actually rented out at the time because we were traveling so much so I couldn't go there and Mom and Dad said absolutely well those two months turned into five years in the basement of their house and I thought oh my gosh and in my darkest moment I my wife says you should go get a job I said but my I hear Les Brown in me right my calling is to do this there's got to be a way I can't just give up on the 10 yard line or whatever and she said well what are you going to do and I said honey I'm gonna go write a book and she said you're gonna do what you're gonna do you have you even read a book anyway I said I'm going to go write a book and we had a car repossessed so we ended up with one card and I decided I can't write where the kids are so I drove down to the grocery store parking lot and I started to type and two months later if you think you can was P was written and I'm telling you it was published about three months later and from then my world in 2005 turned overnight that book became an international bestseller back in 2005 and we just came out with the with the 15th version it's coming out next week and so it's it's just unbelievable is I have always told audiences believe in yourself believe in your dreams figure out the right strategy but never never give up I don't know how how do you counsel people to respond to those kinds of challenges without giving up well first of all we always have a choice there's something in US TJ as you know that's greater than anything that we Face even though we have no evidence to point to to prove it like as I'm speaking to you now that's right I had to prepare myself mentally because I'm in pain as I speak to you a cancer is it eaten 40% of my T1 vertebrae and metastasized to the t2 to T3 and to the C7 and I I just spoke to an audience this morning and I said a doctor looked at me and and and he said three words that no one ever wants to hear he he said you have cancer and the audience got quiet and I said sir can you give me a second opinion he said yes and you're ugly too that's good said no he didn't I said I got issues I got issues here's here here's the thing life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you are what you don't want will automatically take over so I could have said and I even now I could say this pain is just too great but my affirmation to myself whenever I'm going through a tough time and I'm a 27y year cancer conqueror no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets I'm going to make it and I think that people who make it through the storms of life and we're always going to have storms for gum said life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get my book of life says that think not strange that you'll face the fiery furnaces of this world you will not you might you will have tribulations it's called life and so what's key is to visualize and see yourself on the other side and and hold that Vision he said I'll give you all your eyes can see hold that vision and say to yourself wow that came out great I made it through I learned some things every day for 27 years I've been saying I thank God I'm cancer free and people say wait a minute you've been saying that for 27 years I mean obviously it's not GNA happen I said no that's not true number one I'm still here agino say persist until you succeed well just think 27 years look when will a baby walk it will walk when it walks when will it talk it will talk when it talks and some talk sooner than others and so many times we give up out of frustration and like of patience and to me the people that make it through have a series of of of perseverance persistence and patience and they show up with that every day until they get the desired results that they want I know there's not I don't believe I know that I'm going to be free of cancer that this is not unto death there's something that I have to align myself with because cancer is cells gone crazy and so as I'm working on myself and working on the goals and dreams and other areas of my my life that I have not resolved yet that I'm just persistent and I'll keep coming back again and again and again and as I told my children even a broke clock is right twice a day time our brothers go to break through that that is so awesome despite your the cancer challenge if you call it a challenge or not um you're still because you get to know things about yourself that you don't know yeah right that it introduces you to a part of yourself that you're not familiar with that it helps you to begin to prioritize things and determine what's important what's not important there things that I would get angry about that I just let pass for instance I was coming down the sidewalk yesterday when I arrived here in New Jersey in Philadelphia and a guy had his luggage on the sidewalk and he saw me coming all he had to do is just pull his luggage back so that I can come by he refused to move it he's standing there with his wife and so which meant that I had to move my luggage and carried it into the streets and then back on the sidewalk and so he said good I'm glad you did that and I said Thank you and I got into the the car that was waiting for me and I said to my friend I said you know what there was a time that I have whooped his ass know I wanted to look at him at one time I said you about to make me lose my mind up in here up in here I took my stuff on the sidewalk and that wasn't enough you wanted to taunt me you wanted to tease me you want to act like you PP me out and I said but at 74 no because every emotion I mean I laugh a lot why one minute of laughter boost your immune system for over 24 hours think about that one minute of laughter boost your immune system for over 24 hours so people are watching us now after we get through they will get sick for 20 years [Music] of laugh of of anger weakens your immune system for four to five hours so I deliberately don't get angry I choose not anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind I study psychon neuroimmunology I know that the the thoughts that we have they create Gene Expressions I know it creates a certain type of chemistry in our body that's toxic and so I can't afford as as as a cancer conqueror to get angry I choose not to go there and and we always have a choice and I believe that the type of program that you have it give people the mental and emotional and and and psychological and spiritual muscle to have a Clarity of mind to stand back and say you know what I'm not going to go there I I'm not going to let this get to me I'm better than this and rise above it and move on with their lives wow that's powerful thank you for sharing all that I uh you said you you put a little nugget in there I like which I want to draw attention to which you just said some people give up on their goals because they lack patience and that made me think of the law of the Harvest which has three laws right you reap what you sow yes increased returns you get more than you sow right and then the third thing is delayed gratifications and so sometimes we give up on our goals um because we haven't given time for those seeds to to nourish and bear fruit right we give up a little bit too early and I anyway any thoughts on that yes well there are some things that you're pursuing I I see that we grow from people and from projects I'll be a better person at the end of this program because of our communication we grow from people and projects and so when we have projects they challenge us why because we always if we want to grow and we're serious choose projects that's beyond our comfort zone because in order to do something you've never done you've got to become someone you've never been that's good so there are experiences that you going to have in the process some things will happen to you and some things will happen for you and so I believe that those things that happen for us that sometimes we're aware of but most of the time we're not that's what psychologist called Yas your blind spots right that a lady she's an intuitive and she she wrote me a note when she found out that I was a 27y year cancer cochr and she says this is not unto death to you she said search your heart and find out what's there because and she was one of the people that gave me a book years ago that I read called who's the matter with me me and what I realized TJ and this is the first time i' ever talked about this publicly that somewhere in me that I had not consciously recognized that I had anger at my birth mother and father how could you bring someone in this world who didn't choose to be here and walk away and even though we are told forgetting those things which are behind reaching forth unto those things with you before I woke up in the middle of the night and sometimes you can get a message from a movie right and it movie with Tom Cruz it's called Magnolia and I never saw the whole movie but the there was a quote that woke me up around 3:15 and I never forget and the quote was we might be through with our past but our past is not through with us and so I have unresolved stuff in me because for a period of time I saw myself as being have been given away but there's been a shift in my Consciousness now I look at my life and I realize I was chosen with love that God took me out of my biological mother's womb and placed me in the heart of my adopted mother and that's why I know now that I've come to grips with now that someone I had to get some help and I believe ask for help not because you're weak but because you want to remain strong and ask for help and don't stop until you get it and I said you said this is not unto death for me search my heart and I said can you help me go there and she did because sometimes somebody can take you to a place within yourself that you can't go by yourself and in that session I realized that anger and and the hatred that I had for two people that I I I don't even have faces for I've never seen my birth mother a birth father and and so I had to resolve that I had to forgive myself first and then forgive them and that's when the healing takes place because cancer of cells gone crazy yeah and so now as I move to a place of love God is love and he who dwelleth in love dwelleth in God God in them as I move to a place of love for them that that now I'm in Harmony and in Integrity who with who I am as a person and I have forgiven myself I forgiven them and I'm living this mission of making the world a better place than how I found it of being a source of light and hope and inspiration for people and you're doing an awesome job there is no long-term benefit for being a grudge holder um holding resentment toward people I always tell people people say well do things bug you well things bug me but listen I don't I don't live there and I always tell people I let things roll off my back you can criticize me all day long and you know what I'm not going to internalize that right because I know who I am and I'm thankful for who I am anyway yes and and that is real because the stuff we take on it's they said hating someone is like drinking poison and and say okay now you're going to die no it's not going to happen like that yes no we all need coaching on how to let some things go one of the things that I teach is let go of be dragged that there are certain things that you know that you need to let go of or otherwise it's going to compromise your power and it's going to drag you down and you got it takes time to do that it does it does so in your book I remember this story yeah such a great book anyway um you walked in I think it was to a junior higher an elementary school and you said there's greatness in this room if you're here would you please stand yes and you had to say it over that's over and then one one young person didn't they stand up and they said here I am here I am and that young man I'm working with him today oh you're kidding no he's been with me since that time he he is an attorney and he also worked with you we go to prisons and juvenile centers together yes and he's truly manifesting his greatness and I'm proud to say I'm one of his mentees because it's a seesaw relationship ship at first I start out being his mentor but he has Inc incredible skills with the Millennials and with technology that I don't have and so he's teaching me how to connect with them and how to use technology to further the work that I have that I'm doing and to create non-performance income so this thing called life I believe that you you're never too old to learn and you're never too young to teach and he's teaching me and I I'm proud of it that's awesome [Music]