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2105 | Les Brown: “When We Argue for Our Limitations, We Get to Keep Them.”

2105 | Les Brown: “When We Argue for Our Limitations, We Get to Keep Them.”

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Today, Les Brown encourages you to get off your “but.” Find your passion, stop pretending, and decide to live your dreams. No buts about it!

Source: 2021 Motivational speaker: LES BROWN - The Power To Change (FULL) - how to change your mindset
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00:00:00

Sometimes, the most painful part of getting sick is the getting better part, waiting on hold for an appointment, sitting in crowded waiting rooms, standing in line at the pharmacy.

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Yo!

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Today's QOTS!

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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

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Here we go!

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[Music]

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Welcome back to the QOTS!

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I'm your host, Sean Crackson and Sean Crackson.com We got less brown on this show today.

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Today, less brown is going to encourage you to stop messing around.

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To get off your butt, your beauty, as well as your beauty, tea.

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Like you got to go out there, you got to do it.

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You got to stop making excuses and finding all the reasons it's not going to work and listening to people who tell you you can't do it and on and on and on.

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You have to go out there and do the dream.

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No one's going to do it for you.

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No one's going to give you permission to do it.

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It's on you to give yourself permission to believe in your ability to do it and then go out there and do it.

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Less brown's coming up.

00:01:49

Sometimes the most painful part of getting sick is the getting better part, waiting on hold for an appointment, sitting in crowded waiting rooms, standing in line at the pharmacy.

00:02:01

That's painful.

00:02:02

Amazon one medical and Amazon pharmacy remove these painful parts of getting better with things like 24/7 virtual visits and prescriptions delivered to your door.

00:02:13

Thanks to Amazon one medical and Amazon pharmacy, health care just got less painful.

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Here's what I want you to do.

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Shake somebody's hand on your right and your left, and here's what I want you to say.

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Whatever you're seeking, it's seeking you.

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You can have it.

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Give yourselves a round of applause, all right?

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Now the reason I brought that up is I was riding with a friend the other day and I know this friend of mine who has been working on a job where she's been miserable for a long time.

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She was telling me about how she was miserable on the job and how she was so unhappy.

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So I said, if it's that stressful and if it's causing you that much pain, I say, why don't you just quit and do something else?

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And she said something that really put her in the chorus line with a lot of other people.

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She said I would, but.

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And then I started to thinking about that.

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So let me take a poll.

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So I started talking to other people and I would ask them what they were doing and I said, but is that your passion?

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And they would say, no, I said, then what's your real passion?

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And they would tell me what their real passion was.

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Then I said, well, then why aren't you doing what you really want to do?

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Oh, I can do it, but.

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And they would continue on.

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So this word, you know, but just kept on coming up.

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And then it also has some friends like Wooder and coulder and shoulder.

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And one day, I'm going to have my own business.

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Old people who talk about one day, I'm going to some of y'all know some of those one day, I'm going to people rage your hands.

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Some of you get up in the morning, look at the mirror that person.

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I just sees it.

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I just see that right.

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So how is it that many times we block ourselves and we use these words almost like we're in a trance like with sleep walking through life that we find ways to cancel out our dreams that I think that but is a dream killer.

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And a lot of things that we want to do, a lot of places we would like to go, a lot of things we would like to experience.

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And we just stop at but and we build a case.

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In fact, I was reading something the other day that that talked about, but it says, but is an argument for our limitations.

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And when we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

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See, but we'll cause you to procrastinate.

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But we'll cause you to hide out behind fear.

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But we'll cause you to come up with all types of excuses that you can validate your inaction and not acting on your dream.

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And right now more than ever, people need to look for ways to live their dream.

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People need to look for ways to make it on their own.

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There is no such thing as job security.

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There's no such thing as a storm proof or tragic proof life.

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There are no guarantees today, ladies and gentlemen, the illusion is gone.

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That was a time when when we graduated from high school, you told go to college and get out and you go and work for cooperation for 30 or 40 years, that give your goal watching you retire.

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Special announcement that day is gone.

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That day is gone, never to return again.

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So instead of people living in fear, feeling stressed out, feeling powerless, feeling like victims, I think it should be a time that we need to begin to look at ways that we can become an active force in our own lives.

00:05:56

Look at ways when we can decide to take charge of our own destiny.

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Look at ways when we can decide to design a life of substance and begin to truly live our dreams and it's time for people to decide I'm ready to get on with my life.

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Shake some by this hand on your right hand up a guy named Bob Mason.

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Don't let nobody turn your off.

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Do that right quick.

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Now you're not.

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A lot of people say I'm going to live my life one day when things get right.

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When I get on my bills say, when I give my feet on a brow, I say, whatever you've been walking on.

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See there are no problem free moments.

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Guy named Dimples had a record one time call.

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If it ain't one thing, it's another.

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And I say if it ain't one thing is 12 others.

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Always something there.

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To build a case on why you can't move on, why you can't grow to the next level, why you can't begin to manifest your greatness, why you can't begin to live life on your terms.

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Always something there to block you to keep you where you are and keep you from beginning to develop your true greatness.

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Always some fear.

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How do we handle it?

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And I'm saying that if you've been hiding out behind, but if you've been using the fact that you don't have enough money or you don't have the education, take it, head on.

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Don't get the education.

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I'll say to a guy the other day who was saying he, I said, how old are you?

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He says 47 years old.

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I said, just just to tell me that you can't read.

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He said, that's right.

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I said, why?

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Well, you know, I didn't go to school.

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Excuse, how old are you?

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47.

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47?

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Yes.

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And you can't read or write yes.

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Have you ever heard of a adult school, a adult education?

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Have you decided that you should learn how to read to begin to expand your world?

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Why are you using that as a racket?

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Why don't you decide now that you're going to expand your world?

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That if other people can learn, you should learn too.

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Well, it's hard for me.

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How do you have you been in sitting in the class yet?

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Have you signed up yet?

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No, I haven't.

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See, a lot of people say no, ladies and gentlemen, to things and they don't even know what they're saying, no, too.

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They don't even share this themselves.

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He hasn't even gone to sit into a class and say, teach me how to read instead.

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It's been easier for him to go for life.

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He thinks trying to play a whole car in game, pretending he knows how to do something that he doesn't know how to do.

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And you know what?

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Most of us go through life like that.

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Most of us go through life pretending, pretending that we're satisfied where we are, pretending that everything is okay, pretending that that we don't have any special goals or ambitions or desires.

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When really deep down inside, we do really want more.

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But if you look at our behavior, if you judge based upon what we do, I really will tell you some true stories about people because you have to judge a tree by the fruit in theirs, not the fruit that it talks about.

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See, a lot of people pretend that they want more out of life.

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But all you have to do is watch their actions.

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That will tell you something.

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So I used to pretend that I want to lose weight.

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But how could you tell all of pretending?

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Watch me when I have a piece of sweet potato pie.

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Let me give a little walking distance of some peanuts.

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Some potato chips.

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So I was pretending.

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But I really wanted to lose weight.

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No, I used to watch what I eat.

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That's how you would I'm seriously committed to.

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People will tell you, oh yeah, one day I want to have a restaurant.

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See, they're pretending they want to go into business for them.

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They're not serious.

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How can you tell us?

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Watch their actions.

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Watch what they're doing.

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The proof is in the pudding.

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So if you want to do something, if you thought about something, you want to take it head on, decide that you're going to start looking at it, start doing.

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We search on it, start tackling it, start becoming involved in whatever and wherever it might lead you to begin to explore the possibilities and that particular thing that you're seeking.

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So that you can begin to learn all you can about it.

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Besides that you're going to face it, that whatever shortcomings you have, that you're going to strengthen yourself there.

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Whatever training is required, that you're going to go get that training, that you're going to get started right now.

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The George Washington Cover would say, do what you can, where you are and what you have, and never be satisfied.

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That's before I used to say it or you heard Joe Duck to talk about, always try to be more than that which you are.

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Yeah, don't get satisfied with yourself.

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Always feel that wherever you are, you can enjoy more that you deserve more.

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But those people, you know what they're doing.

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Most people go through life quietly and safely tiptoeing to an early grade.

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Find out what it is you want and go after it as if your life depends on it.

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Why?

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Because it does.

00:11:03

That was less brown.

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His website is less brown dot com.

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You can watch today's entire talk on the YouTube.

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It is called 2021 motivational speaker less brown.

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The power to change fall.

00:11:17

How to change your mindset.

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All right, my friend.

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We got one more to go on our rerun week.

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We got Jim Fowl Vano on the show tomorrow talking about how ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

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I'll see you then.

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Have a good one piece.

00:11:34

Sometimes the most painful part of getting sick is the getting better part.

00:11:55

Waiting on hold for an appointment, sitting in crowded waiting rooms, standing in line at the pharmacy.

00:12:01

That's painful.

00:12:03

Amazon one medical and Amazon pharmacy remove these painful parts of getting better with things like 24/7 virtual visits and prescriptions delivered to your door.

00:12:13

Thanks to Amazon one medical and Amazon pharmacy, healthcare just got less painful.

00:12:19

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00:12:26

2105 | Les Brown: “When We Argue for Our Limitations, We Get to Keep Them.”

2105 | Les Brown: “When We Argue for Our Limitations, We Get to Keep Them.”

Sean Croxton, Les Brown

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