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# 2022-03-10 - How To Get Unstuck by Les Brown | |
Sometimes we have to ask ourselves "What's using my life?" We to a | |
great extent behave, think, [and] react because of some previous | |
experience that we've had. | |
One of the things that we know about life is that it is always | |
changing. Sometimes you're up sometimes you're down. Sometimes | |
things go real well and sometimes they don't. Sometimes you're happy | |
and sometimes you're sad. Now that's that thing called life. When | |
we begin to understand and know that, accepting [the] reality that we | |
will never have things just on an even keel all the time. You're | |
gonna have some ups, and you're gonna have some downs. | |
During those down moments, that's where the growth takes place. The | |
real challenge, the real challenge of growth, mentally, emotionally, | |
and spiritually comes when you get knocked down. Somebody said that | |
adversity introduces a man to himself, or woman. | |
When you're facing a challenge [and] you want to get unstuck, | |
evaluate where you are. Look at it assess yourself. Assess yourself | |
and assess the situation. What brought you there? What role did you | |
play? | |
Earl Nightingale had a saying I like. He said, "All of us are | |
self-made but only the successful will admit it." | |
What has brought you to this point? What did you learn from it? Are | |
you learning anything? Are you doing it over, and over, and over | |
again? Somebody said that insanity is doing the same thing in the | |
same way, expecting a different outcome. | |
Life isn't fair. Life just is. It's not fair that birds eat worms, | |
and they do. If you want to begin to move you've got to clear | |
your[self] of all the unnecessary luggage and baggage that's weighing | |
us down. I say to you, you're gonna have people do things to you. | |
Things are going to happen to you. The most important thing to do is | |
to harness your will and let it go. Move so you can grow, so you can | |
get on with your life. It doesn't matter about what happens to you. | |
What matters is what are you going to do about it. What are you | |
going to do now Les? | |
How long do you want to tell everybody at the bus stop? Anybody who | |
would stand and listen to you? How long you'll repeat the same thing | |
over, and over, and over, and over, and over again? How many times | |
do we have to hear that? Don't go around telling people what your | |
story is. Everybody has a story: 80% don't care and 20% [are] glad | |
it's you. | |
All of us have experienced some tragedy and if we haven't, we will. | |
You can either let it destroy your life or you can build upon it. | |
You can permit it to hold you down or you can decide "I'm not going | |
to let that happen to me! I'm bigger than this!" Make a declaration | |
to yourself. Declare all-out war that you're going to get out of | |
this rut. | |
I don't care how good you are, how talented you are, how much you | |
work on yourself: there [are] times when things aren't going to go | |
right. They just are not going to go right. There are times when | |
anything that can happen will happen. Murphy's Law will be knocking | |
at your door. Why? I don't know why. That's called life and you | |
have to deal with it. | |
Sometimes your life will be in a slump. Just like sports some of the | |
best shooters can't hit baskets. Different times and games they get | |
in a slump. Do they sit on the sidelines and say your digestion hit | |
a basket today? No, they continue to execute. I suggest to you that | |
if you are facing a challenge don't stop. Stay busy. Work your | |
plan. Continue to do those things that you know work for you. After | |
you have evaluated yourself in the situation, continue to move. Stay | |
busy, stay busy, stay busy. | |
Repeat after me: help somebody and help yourself, because what you | |
give is what you get. Find somebody that you can help so you can | |
forget about you for a moment. See sometimes the best thing to do is | |
to be. Sometimes you have to just back up and go within yourself. A | |
bow and arrow: you can't take a bow and just push it out. You just | |
can't push the arrow out. You have to pull it back and then release | |
it. Sometimes you have to back up, go within, pray, meditate, and | |
recharge your batteries. Go away. Clear your head and then come | |
back and look at it from a different vantage point. Don't operate | |
while you are under the spell or the effect of what's going on. | |
Next thing is that you've got to activate the thinker in you. Don't | |
allow your emotions to control you. We are emotional, but you want | |
to begin to discipline your emotion. If you don't discipline and | |
contain your emotions, they will use you. Your mind goes on | |
automatic just like a garden. | |
You know I loved reading the book called As A Man Thinketh by James | |
Allen. He uses the analogy of the mind being like a garden. You | |
know weeds don't have to have any encouragement to grow. You don't | |
have to water them. They don't have to get sunshine. They don't | |
have to have fertile ground. They will grow through the cracks of a | |
sidewalk. Am i right? But if you want to grow orchids or roses or | |
any kind of exotic flowers, there are special processes and | |
procedures you must go through. Well, by the same token you don't | |
have to fuss yourself or motivate yourself to think negatively, to be | |
depressed, to hate somebody, to want revenge. You want to get back | |
at somebody, to beat yourself up over the head, to feel loaded with | |
guilt, [then] you don't have to make any effort to do that. Your | |
mind is on automatic it will do that by itself. | |
But if you want to begin to move into your own personal greatness, if | |
you want to begin to really enjoy a happy, successful, healthy life, | |
[then] you've got to be willing to go against the tide. You've got | |
to be willing to harness your will and say "In spite of this, I'm in | |
control here. I'm not gonna let this get me down. I'm not gonna let | |
this destroy me. I'm coming back and I'll be stronger and better | |
because of it." You have got to make a declaration that this is what | |
you stand for. You're standing up for your dreams. You're standing | |
up for peace of mind. You're standing up for health. You want it | |
and you're gonna go all out to have it. | |
It's not going to be easy when you want to change. It's not easy. | |
If it were in fact easy, everybody [would] do it. But if you're | |
serious, you'll go all out. Yes! I'm going to turn this situation | |
around. I'm not gonna sit back and moan and cry over what happened | |
and what went wrong and who did what. I'm going to do something | |
about this situation. Expect things to get better for you because | |
they say life is cyclic. | |
What is it? Whatever experience you're having right now, it has not | |
come to stay. It has come to pass. Not to stay, just to pass. It's | |
just going through. The biggest challenge is to know what's | |
happening. This is a part of this thing we call life. This too | |
shall pass. Maintaining perspective. Putting it in perspective. | |
When you come up with a permanent solution for a temporary problem, | |
that's game over. See a lot of us, because of our limited vision of | |
ourselves, a lot of us begin to focus on problems and enable them to | |
overwhelm us. We begin to think that we have no options. We begin | |
to believe that there's no way out. Repeat after me, "There's always | |
a way." Where there's a will there's a way. | |
Shake somebody's hand on your right. Say "I'm unstoppable." You've | |
got to make those kind of declarations to yourself. "I'm | |
unstoppable, this will not get me down." | |
tags: inspiration,self-help,spirit | |
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