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384: Les Brown - How To Unleash The Excellence Within You To Win

Duration
1h 14m
Broadcast on
20 Sep 2020
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other

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The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk

#384: Les Brown - You've Got To Be Hungry

Notes:

  • "If you want to be successful in life, do these three things..."
    • Change your mindset - "You don't get in life what you want, you get in life what you are."
    • Practice OQP - "Only Quality People"
    • Develop your communication skills - "Once you open your mouth, you tell the world who you are.
  • Sidney Poitier wrote a book called The Measure of a Man and she said, "When you go for a walk with someone, something happens without being spoken. He said, "either you adjust to their pace or they adjust to your pace." Think "Whose pace have you adjusted to?
  • Les needed to disrupt the vision he had of himself in order to change...
    • Distract
    • Dispute
    • Inspire
      • Expand the vision of what's possible for life
  • Mike Williams -- "The Road To Your Best Stuff"
    • Keys to growth: Hire a coach
  • Use your story to create an experience for your audience
    • "Be transformed by the renewing of their minds."
    • "You can't fit a big dream into a small mind."
  • "We are here to live a life that will out live us."
  • "The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain
  • Les has battled cancer for 27 years...
  • The beginning: When Les's mom worked for a white family, they would make her clap her hands regularly when she was alone in a different room to ensure she wasn't stealing anything. When Les learned why his mom always had to clap her hands together, he made it his mission to ensure that he would buy her a house one day... And eventually that's exactly what he did.
  • Negative thoughts are like weeds. They'll keep coming back. You have to keep at it and have a positive mind.
  • Every morning, Les takes the following action:
    • Has a verbal (positive) affirmation
    • Writes seven things he wants to do that day
    • Reads 20-30 pages
  • "There is power in pursuit... Set goals beyond your comfort zone."
  • Have a perpetual plan of action
    • "You're never too old to learn"
    • "You're never too young to teach"
  • "Don't ever stop raising the bar on yourself."
  • There are three kinds of people: Millionaires, Billionaires, and Witnesses
    • "You gotta be hungry."
  • Thoreau - "Go where there's no path and leave a trail."
  • What does Les think immediately before going on stage with 80,000 people in the crowd?
    • "More of THE, less of ME."
  • "When you wax a floor, you need to strip it first. The same is true with coaching."
  • "Cancer Conquerors" -- "I don't have time to die, I've got too much work to do."
  • Excellence: Durable, sustainable advantage. "I will not fail." All accomplishments happen in the mind first... And then in practice.
When you have goals beyond your comfort zone, it introduces you to a part of yourself that you don't know right now, and when you have a coach, somebody that can take you to a place within yourself that you can't go by yourself, you discover your abilities to do things that you don't know that you can do right now. [MUSIC] Welcome to the Learning Leaders Show presented by Rixie and Meyer. I am Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. Text learners to 442-22. In order to join tens of thousands of learning leaders from all over the world, receive mindful Monday updates, what I'm reading, writing, watching, thinking about also give you more details about how my book, Welcome to Management will help you become a more effective leader. Text learners to 442-22. Now on to tonight's featured leader, the great Les Brown, known as one of the world's most renowned motivational speakers Les has been on stages all over the world for more than 50 years. Also a best-selling author of multiple books, including his latest titled You've Got to Be Hungry, The Greatness Within to Win. A few of the topics we discussed, Les shared a new goal setting technique as well as why so many people do not reach their goals. And one simple tweak to your process will help you exceed your goals more effectively. And then he met a mentor early in his life and Les shared the intricacies of that meeting and the three key pieces of advice that he learned to help him in his life. You'll love both the story as well as the practical application from those pieces of advice. And then for all of us who are in leadership positions, it is critical that we develop our communication skills. And this is what Les does for a living, help others become better communicators. So he shared a number of great tips on how to be a better public speaker, to be a better writer, to be an overall better communicator. I know you'll get a lot out of that. And then at the end, I'm trying something new. I've received a number of emails from you, the loyal listeners of the show, about a specific topic in one's career. And so I am experimenting with answering questions that I receive from you. And I will add them on to the end of episodes. And you could let me know if you'd like it or not. And if you'd like to be a part of future episodes, don't hesitate to send me an email, [email protected]. All right, let's get to this episode with the great Les Brown. [MUSIC] Les Brown, and what a joy to have this opportunity to record with you here on The Learning Leaders Show. Welcome, man. I feel very blessed and very privileged and honored to be able to be here on your birthday. God's about the world that he chose this day to bring you here. Well, I always blessed because of that.

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