You have something special. You have greatness in you. Hello, this is Les Brown. I want to ask you a question, and one that my mentor asked me when I laid out to him the goals that I

wanted to achieve in the game plan to achieving those goals. And in there, I had a list of

things I wanted to do for my mother, I wanted to do for my children, I wanted to do for

myself.

And then he asked me a question that surprised me. He asked me, what's your strategy for being here?

And I had to pause and think because I didn't have a strategy for being here.

And we worked on that, seeing a doctor, being on top of my health, having various examinations

to see that I'm in good shape and normalizing my blood pressure,

I'm keeping my blood sugar level at a normal level, things that I just not did not consider

because all the things I wrote down, he said, you can't do those things if you

don't have your health. And if you're not here, what's your strategy for being here? As we look

in the news and it says now in many cases that the coronavirus disproportionately impact the number of African Americans who catch it and die.

And the question is, why?

Because of type 2 diabetes, which is an issue that I'm dealing with right now, cancer, and high blood

pressure. We have to begin to be mindful and be deliberate and have a priority of taking better

care of our health. Being here, living longer, adding years to our lives

and life to our years is not a given. We have to be intentional about that. And so I ask you,

what's your strategy for being here, for taking better

care of yourself, for strengthening your immune system? What's your strategy for being here

by making better choices on how we eat, our diet, and an exercise program, what's your strategy for being here?

Our state of mind. The things that we listen to and how we conduct ourselves and how we

interact together, that if you look at our community and look at the activity in that community,

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