There is no testimony without a trial. It is supposed to be hard. That rough process is necessary.
It's what makes you who you are. You've got to be flexible, you've got to be versatile, and you've got to be adaptable. You've got to deal with circumstances such as you find them.
Why? Because a lot of stuff is going to be thrown at you. Many times you're not going to have time to prepare.
Sometimes people will come out of nowhere with stuff. And you've got to stand up inside of yourself and handle it. You got to trust that you're going to be all right.
You have no evidence to support it. It doesn't make sense. You can't point anything to say, well, this is why.
There's no logic in it. There's no way in which you can logically and practically and realistically support it and prove it. That's why you got to have faith and you got to have trust.
Some how, some way you've got to have that, that you're going to come through. What is it that will make it worth it for you to face the rejections? When you want to give up and things are working against you.
What is it that will make it worth it for you to brainstorm and not be intimidated and say, I can do this? What is it that will make it worth it for you to raise the bar on yourself and say, I got some more stuff in me? What is it that will help you get back up again?
You better go inside. You still looking outside for the stuff that's already inside. You're still looking for someone to save you when you're already your superhero.
You looking for some information from somebody when you already got what you need in your head. It's just time for you to get up and be the best version of you. When you get your butt knocked out, the only way you can get back up is from the inside out.
I got what it takes. I got average skill, but I got phenomenal will. I can, I have the ability to do it.
I will, I have the willpower to make it happen. I must, somebody count on me. Arise.
Get your butt up. You don't belong at the bottom and it's time for you to get your butt from down there. It's time for you to stop being comfortable at the bottom.
Get your butt up and get to where you're supposed to be. This ain't time to be whining. This ain't time to be crying.
This is time to get focused. Once you start questioning yourself, you've already lost. Once you start questioning yourself, once you start going into a state of depression and you start being by yourself and you start thinking and wondering, once you start wondering, you already lost.
Even if you don't believe, believe. You have to believe in yourself. You have to believe in your product.
You have to believe in your service. And you have to sell you every day. The biggest sale that I make every day that Les Brown, you can do this.
I can beat this. If other people can do it, then it's possible that I can do it. You're going to break records.
You're going to do some things when you challenge yourself, when you work on yourself, because you don't get in life what you want, you get in life what you are. If you want to improve your income, you want to improve your circumstances, you want to improve your life, you got the first improve yourself. Spend more time on yourself than what you've been spending.
Working on yourself, talking to yourself. Overcoming the negative conversation, that inner dialogue that's going on all the time, all the time. It's very important.
You owe that to yourself. And so learning how to empower yourself. You've got to learn to make a conscious, deliberate, determined effort to stand up inside yourself.
Working on yourself, watching that inner dialogue, it will determine the quality of your life. Because you are creating your own production. You are the star of your show, you are the director, you are writing the script.
And you will determine whether your life is a smash office hit or flop. You begin to realize that your dream and your gifts have so much meaning and so much value for you, 'till your hunger for them will begin to push you past the fear. Your hunger to have them will give you a special drive.
You want to become a risk taker. You want to raise the bar on yourself. Most people won't do that.
Most people are going to think you're weird. They're going to think you're crazy. People are going to think you're crazy.
Get away from people in your life that's hating. Get away from your family members that ain't ever opened a business. Get away from your family members that ain't ever followed their dream.
Get away from them. Don't expect people to understand you. Don't expect it to make sense to anybody why you've got to do this.
There's some people that won't like you. "Who do you think you are? " "You're arrogant.
" "What do you think you can do? " "You think you can get away with that? " I'm fighting with folks who not even fighting, but they got something to say about how we fight.
You're not even fighting. You ain't doing nothing. And for those of us who get up and go out, you got something to say about how we do what we doing.
Stop talking to us who performing. Stop critiquing us. Stop telling us what to do and how to do it.
Build the kind of life that says, I told you so, without having to say a f*cking word. Every f*cking negative comment should trigger you into productive action. Every time somebody says something to you, you should go do whatever it is that is going to make them have to eat their words.
Right then, right now. I've had my haters. I've had people who've come against me, who try to sabotage me.
I'm like the lion. I'm not the gazelle. I don't need something external to motivate me.
I find something within. That's what lions do. Lions don't cry.
Lions don't give up. Lions don't quit. Lions hunt.
That's what we do for a living. I must be the greatest, not because I'm cocky, but I gotta tell myself I'm the best if I'm gonna be the best. I gotta believe in me before anybody else believe in me.
