Excerpts from an inspirational speech by motivational speaker Les Brown about living the dream by making use of the ideas, abilities, and talents given to you by life.
As I looked at my life I asked myself a question, and I want to ask you a question...
How many of you know that if you had your life to live over again, you could have done more than what you’ve done thus far? Raise your hands please. (Many hands go up)
Now, that proves a point: what we do, what we accomplish, what we produce in life is only a tip of the iceberg of what’s possible for us.
WRITE IN YOUR JOURNAL
I want you think about a major goal that gives your life a sense of meaning right now:
Something that will give your life a sense of purpose and direction;
Some personal goal that you would like to achieve;
And some career goal;
Some financial goal that you’d like to achieve;
And your social contribution.
Horace Mann once said "that we should be ashamed to die until we have made some major contribution to human kind."
What’s your goal?
What’s your dream?
What is it you want to do with your life?
What would the world be like if everybody lived dream? How many die with the music still in them?
Imagine, if you will, being on your death bed and standing around your bed are the ghosts of the dreams, the ideas, the abilities, the talents given to you by life and that you
– for whatever reason – you never went after that dream;
You never acted on those ideas;
You never used those talents;
You never used those gifts.
And there they are standing around your bed looking at you with large angry eyes, saying...
“We came to you and only you could have given us life, and now we must die with you forever.”
Start on your journal after you listen to the the following video.
