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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

042 | Les Brown: “Leap and Grow Your Wings on the Way Down.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

On today’s QOD episode, Les Brown encourages you to have the spirit of gratitude, to shift your focus from the negative to the positive, from the outside to inside. And to be coachable.

Today’s clip comes from Mr. Brown’s audio program The Greatness Within You available on Audible.


 



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0:00.0

leap and grow your wings on the way down and that is the quote of the day.

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and of

0:37.1

Sean Crox and dot com. Hope you had an amazing weekend full of all kind of

0:41.3

awesome things. It's Monday. So you know what time it is. It's time to get

0:45.5

fired up so you can crush your week. Today's feature speaker is less brown.

0:50.2

Less has two tips for you that you can use right now to discover your

0:55.6

greatness. Here's less.

1:00.0

So here's what I know about you. What you've done is only a tip of the iceberg

1:12.8

of what's possible for you. That you you have so much in you that that you're

1:18.4

not even aware of. Everybody repeat after me please. Le and grow your wings on the

1:24.6

way down. See the reason I believe that most people never discover their

1:30.8

greatness is that most people go through life playing it safe. Fred Smith, a

1:36.2

FedEx said if you are 38 you haven't made some major failure in your life. You

1:40.6

haven't done anything. Eight out of 10 millionaires have been financially bankrupt.

1:46.0

Most people never discover their greatness because they don't want to fail.

1:49.3

They don't want to make any mistakes. They don't want to look stupid. That was me.

1:54.0

I didn't believe in myself and I didn't feel I was good enough because I don't

1:57.7

have a college education because I never worked for major corporation. I'd never

2:01.8

done that before. And so I didn't believe that that was available to me. And I'm

2:06.6

saying to you that I has not seen. Here has not heard. Nor is it a heart of mankind

2:11.6

what God has in store for you. If you're willing to be a risk take of this God said

2:16.1

if you're not willing to risk you can't grow. And if you can't grow you can't

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