Denzel Washingtons Life Advice Will Leave You SPEECHLESS Best Life Advice

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to get something you never had you have

to do something you never did

les brown’s a motivational speaker he

made an analogy about this he says

imagine you’re on your deathbed and

standing around your deathbed are the

ghosts representing your unfulfilled

potential the ghost of the ideas you

never acted on the ghost of the talents

you didn’t use and they’re standing

around your bed angry disappointed and

upset

they say we we came to you because you

could have brought us to life they say

and now we have to go to the grave

together so i ask you today

how many ghosts are going to be around

your bed when your time comes

put

god

first

put god first in everything you do

everything that you think you see in me

everything that i’ve accomplished

everything that you think i have and i

have a few things

everything that i have is by the grace

of god

40 years ago march 27 1975 it was 40

years ago

uh just this past march

i was flunking out of college

i had a 1.7 grade point average

i was sitting in my mother’s beauty

pilot

and i’m looking in the mirror and i see

behind me this woman under the dryer

every time i looked up she was looking

at me just look at me in the eye i

didn’t know who she was and i said you

know

she said somebody give me a pen give me

a pencil i have a prophecy

march 27 1975 she said boy you are going

to travel the world

and speak to millions of people

now mind you all flunk out of college

i’m thinking about joining the army i

didn’t know what i was going to do and

she’s telling me i’m going to travel the

world

and speak to millions of people

well i have traveled the world

and i have spoke to millions of people

but that’s not the most important thing

the success that i had the most

important thing is that what she taught

me and what she told me that day has

stayed with me since

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i’ve been protected

i’ve been directed

i’ve been corrected

i’ve kept god in my life and has kept me

humble

i didn’t always stick with him but he

always stuck with me

so stick with him in everything you do

if you think you want to do what you

think i’ve done then do what i’ve done

and stick with god

fail

big

that’s right

fail big

today’s the beginning of the rest of

your life and it can be it’s going to be

very frightening it’s a new world out

there it’s a mean world out there and

you only live once

so do what you feel passionate about

passionate about

take chances

professionally

don’t be afraid to fail there’s an old

iq test was nine dots

and you had to draw five lines with a

pencil within these nine dots

without lifting the pencil

the only way to do it was to go outside

the box

so don’t be afraid to go outside the box

don’t be afraid to

think outside the box don’t be afraid to

fail

big to dream

big but remember

dreams

without goals

are just dreams

and they ultimately fuel

disappointment

so have dreams

but have goals

life goals yearly goals

monthly goals daily goals

i try to give myself a goal

every day

sometimes

just to not curse somebody out

simple goals but

have goals

and understand

that to achieve these goals

you must apply discipline

and consistency

in order to achieve your goals you must

apply discipline which you’ve already

done

and consistency every day not just on

tuesday and miss a few days you have to

work at it

every day you have to plan

every day you’ve heard the saying we

don’t

plan to fail

we fail to plan

hard work

works

working really hard

is what successful people do

and in this

text

twerk world that you’ve grown up in

remember just because you’re doing a lot

doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more

done

remember that just because you’re doing

a lot more

doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more

done

don’t confuse

movement

with progress

my mother told me yeah because you can

run in place all the time and never get

anywhere

so continue to strive continue to have

goals continue to

progress

you’ll never see a u-haul behind a

hearse

i’ll say it again

you’ll never see a u-haul

behind a hearse i don’t care how much

money you make you can’t take it with

you

the egyptians tried it

they got robbed

that’s all they got

you can’t take it with you with you

and it’s not how much you have

is what you do

with what you have

we all have different talents some of

you will be doctors some lawyers some

scientists some educators some nurses

the most selfish thing you can do in

this world

is help someone else

why is it selfish because the

gratification the goodness that comes to

you the good feeling the good feeling

that i get

from helping others nothing’s better

than that well one of two things but

nothing’s better than that not not

jewelry not big house i have not the

cars but the

it’s the joy that’s where the joy is in

helping others that’s where the success

in helping

others finally

i pray that

you put your slippers

way under the bed tonight

so that when you wake up in the morning

you have to get on your knees

to reach them

and why when while you’re down there

say thank you

for grace

thank you for mercy thank you for

understanding thank you for wisdom thank

you for parents thank you for love thank

you for kindness thank you for humility

thank you for peace thank you for

prosperity say thank you in advance for

what’s already

yours

it’s how i live my life that’s why i why

i am one of the reasons why i am today

say thank you in advance for what is

already yours true desire in the heart

for anything

good

is god’s proof to you sent beforehand to

indicate that it’s yours already

i’ll say it again

true desire in the heart that itch that

you have whatever it is you want to do

that thing that you want to do to help

others and to to grow and to make money

that desire that it’s that’s god’s proof

to you

sent beforehand already to indicate that

it’s yours

and anything you want

good

you can have

so claim it

work hard to get it

when you get it reach back

pull someone else up

each one

teach one

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don’t

just aspire to make a

living aspire to make a difference

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