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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