Les Brown

Understand that nobody's going to take care of your business better than you.

So we all have some stuff that we've been given.

I don't think that it's optional for us to sit on what we have.

See, if you're sitting on what you have, what you've been given, I think everybody's been given something to bring to the planet, that only you can do that, only you can perform that, only you can initiate that activity.

And if you don't do that, if you're not filling in your life with your life work or your mission, then there are gaps in your life.

And what we do when we're not living out our true identity, we begin to fill the gaps, we fill the holes with garbage.

alcohol, drugs, worry, self-destructive behavior.

So when you begin to look at your life and you know that you're not doing what you can do because you have allowed yourself to be held captive by your fears.

Now, when you don't have a true appreciation and acceptance for who you are,

and you allow yourself to be immobilized by fear, what happens in the process is that you begin to abuse yourself.

You begin to sabotage your life, you begin to sabotage your dreams, you begin to unconsciously work against yourself.

You become your own worst enemy.

So, what do you do about that?

There are few people who have decided within themselves, I'm going to make it.

Some people aren't waiting to be cut.

Some people are moving on their own because they feel within themselves, I've got what it takes to make it.

They're not afraid about tomorrow.

because of how they see themselves, because of what they feel that they deserve, because of what they feel that they can create for themselves, because these people have decided as they look at the future, as they look at themselves, there's a way.

Where there's a will, there's a way for me to begin to create a way out of no way.

And when you have that kind of consciousness, when you have that kind of spirit, nothing can stop you.