10 Minutes to Start Your Day Right MORNING MOTIVATION Motivational Speech 2021
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i found that nothing in life
is worthwhile
unless you take risks
nothing
nelson mandela said there is no passion
to be found
playing small
in settling for a life that’s less
than the one you’re capable of living
now i’m sure in your experiences in
school and applying to college and
picking your major and deciding what you
want to do with life i’m sure people
have told you to make sure you have
something to fall back on make sure you
got something to fall back on honey
but i never understood that concept
having something to fall back on
if i’m going to fall
i don’t want to fall back on anything
except my faith
i want to fall forward
i figure at least this way i’ll see what
i’m going to hit
fall forward
this is what i mean
reggie jackson struck out 2600 times in
his career the most
in the history of baseball but you don’t
hear about the strikeouts people
remember the home runs
fall forward
thomas edison conducted one thousand
failed experiments did you know that i
didn’t know that
because the one thousand and first was
the light bulb
fall forward
every failed experiment is one step
closer to success
it’s good for you to go take your place
in the world have some ambition have
some have a vision have a goal have a
strategy try to try to be a good person
in not not because it’s your duty
precisely because that’s the proper way
to live we’re in danger of undermining
all of that and it’s not good for people
one of the things that i’ve really
learned for example recently is that
there’s a or learn to articulate better
is that there’s a very tight
relationship between aspiration and
responsibility so let’s say
well the first question might be do you
need to aspire to something and the
answer is well yes because you have to
do something okay if you just sit there
you’ll die you can’t just sit there you
have to go act out in the world okay so
act towards what well that’s whatever
your aspiration is you have to have a
name okay well what should the aim be
well it should be something worth doing
let’s say why do something that you
don’t feel is worth doing what do you
think’s worth doing well if you watch
other people and you judge when they’re
doing something worthwhile usually judge
them positively if you see that they’re
taking responsibility at least for
themselves but you want to be completely
useless so other people have to take
care of you that’s pretty pathetic and
maybe you could get your act together so
you’re taking care of yourself and your
family and maybe you could even do
better than that and take care of
yourself and your family and your
community
i know i’ve gone on stage in front of 10
000 people
and i thought i should have more
powerpoint i should have more reminders
and i just remember walking out and
saying
i’m here to help rise these people up to
give them capabilities to change their
life it’s my vision it’s my goal it’s my
obligation to use my unique ability to
just help these people and live from my
heart and all i can think about is
changing these people’s lives and when i
got out there i wasn’t perfect on stage
i wasn’t robotic and say the right
things and i didn’t have the crisp clear
powerpoint but when i spoke from the
heart it overcame all of that and i get
to be one of the best presenters
wherever i go because i speak from the
heart now you might be saying dean
that’s your unique ability and maybe
that is
but i know for you in life there are
circumstances where you have to prepare
you have to do a powerpoint you have to
do a presentation and i want to tell you
passion and from the heart
always
always
wins over over prepared and thinking
from the head well let me just ask you
something right now in the in the crazy
presidential race the the gop race you
know ben carson is probably the smartest
guy when it comes to book smart out of
the whole group
and i don’t watch the news a lot but i
just read a lot and somebody said this
the other day and it just
it just hit me someone said man ben
carson is probably the smartest guy in
that gop race that’s going on whatever
you think of it and i’m not going to
share my opinion but you know what the
guy said when he was done he’s like but
we all know the smartest guy never wins
and i was like wow
we all know that the smartest guy never
wins
and what does that mean and it’s kind of
what i’m sharing today i’m not saying
you shouldn’t be smart i’m sure and so
many of you are probably way smarter
than i am but what i want to tell you is
enthusiasm and passion and living from
your heart to me a hundred percent of
the time outweighs being over prepared
and robotic and trying to think what to
say i hope i’m getting the right message
across today i i’ve had this question
from so many people how are you so easy
to talk on camera on stage and i i never
have a good answer and i really thought
through it and that’s the answer i am
here right now doing this video for you
because each week i want to deliver you
a nugget that you could just place into
your life and make a tiny shift towards
a better life so i don’t need a
teleprompter i don’t need a script i
didn’t i i come here and just want to
deliver and it’s coming from my heart
now i have practice i’ve been on video
for 15 years i’ve been doing these for
seven eight years
and maybe that’s not what you do but
you’re still gonna have these
circumstances where you have to talk to
your children talk to your co-workers
talk to your employees and talk to your
employer and if you get stuck in your
head that’s when you get stressed that’s
when you get worried that’s when you try
to remember what to say and you leave
and go ah why did i say that or why
didn’t i say more
what if you can go in and say why am i
going in and live with passion and have
it come from your heart then that’s
truly you and you’re giving the answers
you’re supposed to from the real you not
the facade that sometimes life makes us
wear
one of the challenges i think many
people have is really the discernment of
information
it’s really difficult to know what’s the
truth anymore just because information
is so accessible and i used to say that
in an age of information ignorance is a
choice and and now we have to confront a
whole nother level and that is
the information that we’re getting uh is
it is it actually supporting us or is it
something that really is an incentive to
to cause us to make choices so um for me
i think the biggest challenge has been
just really an awakening to
what kind of information i want to
expose myself to and i think it’s now
more than ever a challenge for a lot of
people in the world
you don’t have to be perfect to inspire
others you can inspire people by how you
deal with your imperfections right don’t
feel that you have to have it all know
it all to make an impact you don’t you
just need a soul full of desire and
compassion right it was martin luther
king who said you don’t need a college
degree to serve you don’t need to know
how to fill a sentence to serve all you
need is a heart full of soul right and a
heart full of compassion that’s all
that’s needed that’s what we need to
focus on let’s
let’s not be limited by feeling we need
other resources apart from love and
compassion to make an impact because we
don’t right you actually don’t need them
we are going to
um
create
a baseline for ourselves that’s based on
intention this was around 1989 when i’d
read gary zhukov’s book called the seat
of the soul
and that book was life-changing for me
because in it he talked about the power
of intention
and that
cause and effect
what goes out comes back
is determined
by
your intention the energy of your
intention
is what determines your life
most people don’t think about their
intention they just think about what
they want to do
most people don’t think about why they
want to do it
but what’s going to come back to you the
energy that’s going to come back to you
is the real why
of why you did it
and so i then said to my producers we’re
not going to do any shows that are not
intentional so don’t bring me an idea
unless you have an intention for the
show that you want the outcome to be and
we’re going to strive to see if we can
live up to our intentions and so around
the late 80s we started a pre-show to
talk about what the intention was and
then a post-show after every single show
to say did we fulfill that intention and
that’s about the time i realized this is
bigger than me
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