Daily Motivations - DO IT FOR YOU

Episode Date: April 9, 2022

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Please play responsibly. If you have questions or concerns about gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BidMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Welcome to Daily Motivation, where you get motivated and inspired. Life changes every day. Sometimes things will be going your way. Sometimes things work well for you. Sometimes it won't work so well.

Sometimes you have your health, you're feeling good and energetic, have a yes, I can attitude. And there's some things that can happen to you in life that can take all of that from you. All of that can go. Sometimes you might be financially secure and a sickness, one sickness can wipe out an illness. Life always change, but you can choose, you can choose in the midst of all of this that's going on to be happy in spite of it. In the good times and in the bad times, you can make a choice. Viktor Frankl, he talks about that. He said, the last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Douglas Matlock has a poem I love entitled It's Fine Today. Is it sure this world is full of trouble? I ain't saying it ain't. Lord,

I've had enough and double reason for complaint. Rain and storm have come to fret me. Skies are often gray. Thorns and brambles have beset me on the road, but say, ain't it fine today? What's the use of always weeping, making trouble last? What's the use of always keeping thinking of the past? Each must have his tribulation, water with his wine. Life, it ain't no celebration. Trouble, I've had mine, but today is fine. It's today that I'm living, not a month ago. Having, losing, taking, giving, as time wills it so. Yesterday, a cloud of sorrow fell across the way. It may rain again tomorrow.

It may rain, but say, ain't it fine today? If a cloud of sorrow comes over here, ain't it fine today? Living in the moment, getting everything we can out of where we are in the moment where we are right now. Living in the present. The other thing is willingness to let people and things go. Want to live a life of fulfillment. You've got to be willing to let certain people go in your life. Especially if they want to go. When they're no longer good for you, just let them go. Just to hold on tenaciously really doesn't make really

good sense, all right? Just many times we do it because we don't realize that we might desire it, but we don't need it. And ladies and gentlemen, you've got to be willing to risk. If you're not willing to risk, you can't grow in life. Life has no power when you're not willing to risk. If you're not willing to risk, you can't grow in life. Life has no power when you're not willing to risk. Somebody wrote this and it was given to me. It said, to laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying.

To hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, and live. Chained by their certitudes, they are a slave. They have forfeited their freedom.

Only a person who risks is free. The next thing is face the truth about life and deal with it. And a lot of people, when someone in their life that they love very much dies, they allow it to take such a toll on them, they make themselves miserable, and they literally will themselves to die early because they feel without this person, they have nothing to look forward to. And no, no life has other opportunities, other relationships, other experiences for us. And the

people that we love really want us to go on other thing is things are going to happen to you here in order to have a fulfilling life knowing that that things are going to happen expect the unexpected whatever happens to you use everything for your upliftment learning and growth everything that happens use it for your upliftment, learning and growth. In the midst of it, ask, what can I learn from this? What can I get from this? How did I end up here? What's the blessing in this for me? Ask yourself that whatever it is and don't let it go until you get your blessing out of it because Because there's a blessing there.

There's a lesson there. There's something for you in everything that happens to you. For you to learn from that experience. Look at it. Examine it. Analyze it. Dissect it. Take it apart.

Until it reveals itself to you. And then get what you need from that. And move on. The next thing is live each day with integrity don't try and get over in life don't try and cheat see a lot of people like to try and cheat I was with a friend of mine and we were went into a service station to get some gas they gave me back too much change I discovered it down the road and I was with a friend of mine and we were went into a service station to get some gas. They gave me back too much change I discovered it down the road and I was turning around going back. I said you're a fool Hey, man, what when they don't give people enough change you think they flag the people down? I said i'm not responsible for them

I'm responsible for me. I went back and I told the guy excuse me sir you gave me a $20 bill too much I gave it to the guy guy just took and walked away didn't say thank you the guy in the car laughs and I told you you fool I'd have kept that I said I'm not responsible for his attitude I don't care knowing that he would not say thank you I would still give it back to him because my image of myself says hey you don't take something that doesn't belong to you that's the way my mother raised me don't try and cheat say well you know this little bit won't count everything counts I like what Whitaker said what you think about me is none of my spiritual business so when you're keeping integrity with yourself,

you know that's going to bring you under a lot of pressure. See, most people stop short of their dreams and park and get off the highway of life because of the rejections of life. You will always be rejected. It's no big deal. I can feel said rejection is a myth. It's not like when somebody says no and then they slap you. No, it's just, you know, to me, make know your vitamin. Get excited about the no. Why? Because every time someone says no,

that brings you another step to a yes. You're getting closer. Trust me, you will win if you don't quit. You will win if you don't quit. Even a broke clock is right twice a day. The other thing is, as you look at yourself and look at your goals and look at your dreams assess yourself what are your strengths what are your weaknesses what do you bring to the table when I looked at becoming a motivational speaker I looked at all the speakers I noticed that they were pretty much scripted so I

said what is it that can make me stand out I don't have any college education I don't have any credentials I never worked for I said, what is it that can make me stand out? I don't have any college education. I don't have any credentials. I never worked for a major corporation. What is it I can do to offset my weaknesses? And then something said, well, Les, and this is very important. Mr. Washington, Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. What do you want to do with your life? I want to become successful. Good. He said, you must be willing to do the things today others won't do in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have. That to have the things tomorrow others won't have that's why you said you have something special see very few people go to seminars and workshops they'll go to a concert but showing up to get something that can expand their minds

and help them to begin to see their lives differently to give them a larger vision of themselves they'll be too busy or they say well how much does it cost well information costs but it pays for itself here's the other thing is ladies and gentlemen let's say it's me yeah see it's it's possible you can live your dream it's necessary that you have the mindset that that i'm going to do this but you've got to take ownership you've got to decide hey i'm going to do this you're going to you've got to take responsibility for your life george bernard shaw said the people that make it in this life, they look around for the circumstances that they want, and if they can't find them, they create them. You've got to decide. It's me. You've got to say,

and say this with conviction, I expect to win. Thanks for listening. Kindly support the movement of this podcast by supporting us or subscribing to our premium content for more exclusive stuff. When you do so, you also get a shout out in our next episode. Thank you.