GROW STRONG AND COURAGEOUS | Powerful Motivational Speech 2023 | Motivation Video

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1:01You need large amounts of self-discipline to deal courageously with all the fear-inducing events of your life. This is probably why Churchill said courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues for upon it all others depend. The fact is that everyone is afraid and usually of many things. This is normal and natural. Often, fear is necessary to preserve life, prevent injury, and guard against financial mistakes. So if everyone is afraid, what is the difference between the brave person and the coward? The only difference is that the brave person disciplines himself to confront deal with and act in spite of the fear. In contrast, the coward allows himself to be dominated and controlled by the fear. Someone once said that with regard to warfare, although it applies to any situation, the difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer. Fortunately, all fears are learned. No one is born with fears. Fears can therefore be unlearned by practicing self-discipline repeatedly with regard to fear until it goes away.

2:07The most common fears that we experience which often sabotage all hopes for success are the fears of failure, poverty, and loss of money. These fears cause people to avoid risk of any kind and to reject opportunity when it's presented to them. They're so afraid of failure that they're almost paralyzed when it comes to taking any chances at all. There are many other fears that interfere with our happiness. People fear the loss of love or the loss of their jobs and their financial security. People fear embarrassment, ridicule rejection, and criticism of any kind. People fear the loss of respect or esteem of others. These and many other fears hold us back throughout life. Fear paralyzes action. The most common reaction in a fear situation is the attitude of I can't. This is the fear of failure and loss that stops us from taking action. It is experienced physically starting in the solar plexus. When a person is really afraid, their mouth and throat go dry, their heart starts pounding,

3:13and sometimes they breathe, shallily, and their stomach turns. Often they feel like getting up and running to the bathroom. These are all physical manifestations of the inhibitive negative habit pattern which we all experience from time to time. Whatever a person is in the grip of fear, he feels like a deer caught in the headlights of a car. This fear paralyzes action. It often shuts down the brain and causes the individual to revert to the fight or flight reaction. Fear is a terrible emotion that undermines our happiness and can hold us back throughout our lives. On the opposite, Aristotle described courage as the golden mean between the extremes of cowardice and impetuousness. He taught that to develop a quality that you lack, act as if you already had that quality in every situation where it is called for. In modern terms, however, we say, fake it until you make it. You can actually change your behavior by affirming, visualizing, and acting as if you already have the quality you desire.

4:15By affirming, repeat the words I can do it emphatically whenever you feel afraid for any reason. You can cancel the feeling of, I can't. Every time you repeat the words, I can do it with conviction. You override your fear and increase your confidence. By repeating this affirmation over and over again, you can eventually build your courage and confidence to the point where you are unafraid. Visualize yourself performing with confidence and poise in an area where you are fearful. Your visual image will eventually be accepted by your subconscious mind as instructions for your performance. Your self image, the way you see yourself and think about yourself, is eventually altered by feeding your mind these positive mental pictures of yourself. Call us footballers back. So, Hilton called to me the superstition concierge to make your fan rituals a reality. Need a room to match your lucky number? We got you. Want to make sure our team doesn't wash your lucky jersey? Oho, that smells lucky. Hilton's unmatched hospitality can keep up with any superstition.

5:18Even a marching bandwink up call it 555 and 55 seconds. Hit it! When you need a team that will do whatever it takes on game day, it matters where you stay. Hilton, for this day. At your best. By using the act as if method, you walk, talk and carry yourself exactly as you would if you were completely unafraid in a particular situation. You stand up straight, smile, move quickly and confidently and in every respect act as if you already had the courage that you desire. The law of reversibility says that if you feel a certain way, you will act in a manner consistent with that feeling.

6:23But if you act in a manner consistent with that feeling, even if you don't feel it, the law of reversibility will create the feeling that is consistent with your action. This is one of the greatest breakthroughs in success psychology. You develop the courage you desire by disciplining yourself repeatedly to do the thing you fear until that fear eventually disappears. And it will blow away the fear. When I work with sales organizations, they often ask me how to help a salesperson break out of a sales slump, especially in a tough economy. I give them a simple formula that is guaranteed to work every single time. It is called the 100 call method. In practicing this method, I instruct the salesperson to go out and call on 100 prospects as fast as he can without carrying it all, whether or not he makes a sale. When the salesperson doesn't care if he makes a sale, his fear of rejection largely disappears. He stops carrying if the prospect he is speaking to is interested or not interested.

7:24He has a single focus. It is to make 100 calls as fast as he possibly can. One sales organization I work with has a daily prize for the first salesperson who gets rejected 10 times. Each morning at 8.30am, all the salespeople sit down at their desks and start making calls to try to win the prize. By the time the contest is over, usually by 10am, everyone's fears of rejection have been blown out of their systems. They are ready to call on prospects all day long, not carrying it all about the reactions they get. Learn to speak on your feet. In 1923, Toastmasters International was formed with the expressed purpose of taking people who were terrified of public speaking and helping them become confident and competent when speaking on their feet in front of an audience. According to the book of lists, 54% of adults rate the fear of public speaking ahead of the fear of death. A Toastmasters International had a solution. They created a system based on what psychologists call systematic desensitization.

8:28Once a week at a luncheon or dinner meeting, small groups of Toastmasters come together. Each person is required to stand up and give a short talk on a specific subject. In front of a group of their peers at the end of each talk, this speaker receives applause, positive input and comments from the other members. At the end of the evening, each person is given a grade on their talk, even if it was only for 30 or 60 seconds. After six months of attending Toastmasters meetings, the individual will have stood on their feet and spoken 26 times, receiving positive applause and feedback each time. Because of this continuous positive reinforcement, their confidence increases dramatically. As a result of this process, countless Toastmasters have gone on to become excellent public speakers and prominent individuals in their businesses, organizations and communities. Their fears of public speaking are gone forever. Psychologists have found that certain fears are bundled together in the subconscious mind, like wires on the same circuit.

9:29If you can overcome your fears in one of these areas, you will also eliminate other fears on the same circuit. The fear of rejection or call reluctance seems to be bundled together with the fear of public speaking. When you discipline yourself to join Toastmasters or to take a Dale Carnegie course to learn to speak confidently on your feet, your fears of rejection largely disappear as well. Your level of self-confidence in all your interactions with others increases dramatically. Your whole life changes in a positive way. Your ability. College football is back. So Hilton called to me the superstition concierge to make your fan rituals a reality. Need a room to match your lucky number? We got you. Want to make sure our team doesn't wash your lucky jersey? Oh, that smells lucky. Hilton's unmatched hospitality can keep up with any superstition. Even a marching bandwink up call it 555 and 55 seconds. Hit it! When you need a team that will do whatever it takes on game day, it matters where you stay. Hilton, for this day.

10:30This episode is brought to you by Nordstrom. For 125 years, Nordstrom has been part of your story. The stylist who found the perfect outfit for your big interview. The first pair of walking shoes for your one-year-old. The tomato soup you shared with your sister at the cafe. These are the moments that make Nordstrom. Nordstrom. Bigger a small. We're here for all of it. Celebrating 125 years with new moments still add. Discover it all in Nordstrom stores and at Nordstrom.com. Need a confront, deal with and act in spite of your fears is the key to happiness and success. One of the best exercises you can practice is to identify a person or situation in your life of which you are afraid and resolve to deal with that fear situation immediately. Do not allow it to make you unhappy for another minute. Resolve to confront the situation or person and put the fear behind you. A woman in one of my seminars told me that her boss was a very negative person. He was constantly criticizing and berating her about her work even though she was one of the highest rated employees in the organization.

11:36He was making her life miserable. He was making her life miserable. She didn't want to give up her job, but she was afraid of confronting him. She asked me what she should do. I gave her this advice which I subsequently gave to many other people. The only reason that one person bullies another is because they feel they can get away with it. The only way to deal with a bully is to confront him. Bullies are actually cowards at heart and they will flee from a confrontation. The next time your boss criticizes you for any reason, turn to him and say quite firmly, I would appreciate it if you not talk to me like that ever again. It hurts my feelings and stops me from doing my job the way you want. I told her to look him straight in the eye after she had finished making this statement. Well, she had tremendous courage. Rather than putting up with this situation any longer, the next time her boss began to berate her, she squared off with him and said those words, she wrote to me and told me what had happened. Just as I had predicted, he stopped dead in his tracks. He immediately apologized and mumbled, then quickly went back to his office.

12:43He never criticized her again. She told me that she could have ended his bad treatment of her many months before if she had only had the courage to confront him directly the first time it happened. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. When you identify a fear and discipline yourself to move toward it, it grows smaller and more manageable. What's more is your fears grow smaller, your confidence grows larger. Soon your fears lose their control over you. In contrast, when you back away from a fear-inducing situation or person, your fear grows larger and larger. Soon it dominates your thinking and feeling, preoccupies you during the day and often keeps you awake at night. In leadership, the most common quality is that of vision. Leaders have a clear vision of where they want to take their organizations. Leaders also have a clear vision of where they want to be sometime in the future in their personal lives.

13:45The second most common quality of leaders is that of courage. Leaders have the courage to do whatever is necessary to fulfill their vision. They lead from the front and dare to go forward. There are two types of courage that you need. First, you need the courage to launch, to take action, to take a leap of faith. You need the courage to go all in without any guarantee of success and with a high possibility of failure, at least in the short term. The major feeling that holds most people back is that, in spite of all their best intentions, they don't have the courage to take the first step. The second type of courage that you need is called courageous patience. This is the ability to hang in there and continue working and fighting after you've gone all in and before you have yet seen any results or rewards. Many people can muster up the courage to take action toward a new goal. But when they see no immediate result, they immediately lose heart and pull back to safety and security. They don't have staying power. The only way to deal with a fear is to address it head on.

14:50Remind yourself that denial is not a river in Egypt. The natural tendency of many people is to deny that they have a problem caused by a fear of some... Call us footballers back, so Hilton called to me the superstition concierge to make your fan rituals a reality. Need a room to match your lucky number? We got you. Want to make sure our team doesn't wash your lucky jersey? Oho, that smells lucky. Hilton's unmatched hospitality can keep up with any superstition. Even a marching bandwreck up call at 555 and 55 seconds. Hit it! When you need a team that will do whatever it takes on game day, it matters where you stay. Hilton, for this day.

15:58Find. They're afraid of confronting it. In turn, it becomes a major source of stress, unhappiness and psychosomatic illness. Deal with the situation or person directly, as Shakespeare said, take arms against the sea of troubles. And in so doing, end them whenever you're worried about something, fill out a disaster report on the situation. This will destroy your fear and worry almost instantly. This is often called the worry buster. The disaster report has four parts. First, define the worry situation clearly. What exactly are you worried about? Very often, when you take the time to be completely clear about the worry situation, a way to resolve that situation becomes immediately evident. Second, identify the worst possible thing that could happen if this worry situation were to take place. Would you lose your job? Would you lose your relationship? Would you lose your money? What's the worst thing that could possibly happen?

16:59Be clear about this. In many cases, you will see that should the worst occur. It would not ruin you. It might be inconvenient or uncomfortable, but you would eventually recover. You will find that it's probably not worth all the worry that you are devoting to it. The third step in the disaster report is to resolve to accept the worst possible outcome should it occur. Say to yourself, well, yeah, if that happens, it won't kill me. I'll find a way to get along. Most of the stress of worry comes from denial, from not being willing to face the worst possible thing that could happen. But once you resolve to accept the worst, should it occur all the worry and stress seem to disappear. Fourth, begin immediately to improve on the worst. Take every step that you possibly can to make sure that the worst possible outcome does not occur. Take action immediately. Do something. Get on with it. Act quickly. Get so busy making sure that the worst thing does not happen that you have no time to worry.

18:06In the final analysis, the only real cure for fear or worry is discipline, purposeful action in the direction of your goals. Get so busy working on your goals or the solutions to your problems that you have no time to be afraid or to worry about anything. When you practice the self-discipline of courage and force yourself to face any fear-inducing situation in your life, your self-esteem goes up, your self-respect increases and your sense of personal power grows. You eventually reach the point in life where you're not afraid of anything. This episode is brought to you by Born in Roma Fragrances by Valentino Beauty, the iconic fragrance duo. Donna Born in Roma Ode to Parfum is a feminine fragrance featuring juicy black current, central jasmine, woody cashmurin and warm vanilla. Its masculine counterpart, Womow Born in Roma Ode to Dualet, has notes of fresh violet leaf, aromatic sage, green vetiver, spicy ginger and mineral salt. Shop at Macy's.com.

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