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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1962 | Les Brown: “If You Do What is Easy, Your Life Will Be Hard.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

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

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Les Brown leads off the week discussing the HARD WORK required to build the life you want. If you’re not willing to take the hits, to be courageous, and to hear the rejections, your life will not change. You’ll just come up with more excuses.

Source: Take Charge of Your Life - Les Brown
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0:00.0

Yo, today's Q-O-D is if what you do is easy, your life will be hard.

0:07.0

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

0:36.0

Sean Croxton. We got Les Brown on the show leading off the week and today

0:40.9

less is gonna give us some very real talk. You know me I love

0:45.1

me some real talk and he's just being honest about how most people are not

0:51.7

willing to participate in their own rescue.

0:55.0

They say they want something, they say they want to create something, they say they want

0:58.2

this career, this job, this income, this relationship, but when it really comes down to it, they just don't want to do the work.

1:06.3

And you know if you just want to do what's easy, like he says, your life is going to be hard.

1:12.0

But if you're willing to do the hard stuff, your life is going to get a lot easier.

1:15.0

And a lot of us will just sabotage ourselves over and over and over again,

1:20.0

and we'll talk a good game, but we won't actually do anything.

1:25.2

And so, Les is just gonna give you some reality

1:28.5

that if you want to change your life,

1:30.0

you gotta be willing to take the hits

1:31.7

and keep moving forward. You have to be willing to take the hits and keep moving forward.

1:33.2

You have to be courageous. You have to be willing to hear the nose and willing to say no. You got to be

1:39.7

willing to deal with the rejection that comes along this journey of getting to where you want to go.

1:47.0

And if you're not down to deal with that stuff, your life will not change. You'll just keep making excuses.

1:56.0

Les Brown's coming up.

2:00.3

I didn't do this for years. I would go in the balcony of auditoriums and watch Jim Rowan and Dr. Dennis Waitley and Zig Ziggler and and my heart would beat so fast

2:25.0

Because I love helping people. How many people love helping people, raise your hands?

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