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(Greatness Monday) Les Brown - Live From Your Faith Not From Your Fear

Les Brown Greatness Radio

Les Brown Global

Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health, Entrepreneurship, Society & Culture

4.8736 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Les discusses how to use your faith to push ahead while defeating the fear that keeps you down.

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0:00.0

You have something special. You have greatness in you. Hello, I'm Les Brown. What is that you want to do with your life?

0:17.8

You know, most people go through life thinking about some things that they want to do,

0:22.3

but you know what they do? They take those gifts, those dreams, those abilities, and they go to their

0:30.0

graves, not even lifting one finger to achieve the things that they were brought here to achieve. I want you to think about what it is

0:38.7

you want to do, and I'm encouraging you to live from your faith, not from your fears. Zig Ziglar

0:46.3

appropriately called fear, false evidence appearing real. I call faith, finding answers in the

0:53.4

heart.

1:00.1

When you live a hard-driven life, when you do the things that's in your heart,

1:06.3

there's some incredible things that you can create for yourself, for your family, and for the world.

1:15.0

See, at the end of the day, all of us have the ability to do more, but you've got to push yourself.

1:17.6

You've got to live from your courage.

1:20.5

Courage is not the absence of fear.

1:30.1

Courage is the willingness to do what it is you are called to do in spite of the fear. You got to become a risk taker, as Viscott would say. He said, if you're not willing to risk, you cannot grow. And if you

1:35.9

cannot grow, you cannot become your best. And if you can't become your best, you can't be happy.

1:42.7

And if you can't be happy, then what else is there? I like what

1:48.6

Helen Keller said. She said, life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first. I agree with that.

1:58.7

But most people, most people, they go to their graves with a great deal of regrets.

2:08.2

Most people don't take chances. Most people don't face the reality that you can't get out of life alive.

2:18.8

Most people, they don't realize that we have an expiration date.

2:25.1

Most people say, one day I'm going, one day I'm going.

2:29.7

And then they look around and ask the question, where did the time go? Wow. Oh, if I had it to live all

2:42.7

over again. That's not you. That's why you're listening to my voice right now. And as much as you have chosen to listen

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