Yo today's Q-O-D is give your best at all times.

Here we go. So, Welcome back to the Quarter the Day show. I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.

We got Les Brown on this show today and today Les is going to share a story about what he learned when his ego got the best of him,

and he failed in his commitment to do his very best. Les Brown's coming up.

Committing yourself to give your best at all times regardless

of the competition to do otherwise,

or the influences of negative people

that will tell you, hey, look here,

don't push yourself too much.

Now's the time to push yourself,

to always get in the habit of giving the best that you have to share.

Thinking about a situation where I had, I had to give a lecture out in Los Angeles, California

for Xerox Corporation.

Well, part of what I do when I, my profession is doing corporate training.

My passion is doing training with kids.

So when I go someplace, I always try and arrange for a community group to have a group of young people together for me to work with them on a volunteer basis in the evening.

So I decided to go into an area of Los Angeles to talk with someone about doing that and they suggested that I come to speak at a community center right outside Los Angeles at Carson Community Center.

And because of the gangs in Los Angeles, one of the young men that was coming there to organize it in his mother, he had a twin brother.

And he took an interest in me because I have a twin.

And his twin brother was the victim of a gang ritual.

They brought in a new member in a gang and he had to prove that he was really

with them and committed and his job was just to select anybody at random and

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