A Positive Attitude: Does it matter?

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Speaker 1 (00:05):

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Do you feel like its time to begin a new period of productivity, growth and success in your life? It happens and we just need the right motivation and the right teacher. Welcome to the TheBeaz Presents Epoch Visionary no matter where you are in life, if you've made it or on the way up the ladder, this is for you. We're here to enlighten, discuss, inform, and question established points of view so that we can begin a period of new discovery and to achieve those life altering amazing results. This is the TheBeaz Presents Epoch Visionary.

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Charles Beasley (00:50):

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Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to another episode of TheBeaz Presents Epoch Visionary. This episode is going to be a positive attitude, does it matter? A positive attitude does it matter? So along with this journey today, we'll be Mr. Positivity, Mr. Timothy Brown. He's going to help us on this journey before we get there. Again, I am Charles, TheBeaz Beasley and your host, and you know that everyone in the world has heard of me and those that are yet to come, will hear of me because everybody has told the story about who the birds and who TheBeaz and that is me. So remember that as we move through this journey and we listen to the clues that are left here by Mr. Positivity, the get down is what we want to take away and the get down is that part of a person's journey, a story that if we take the time to listen to, and figure out the success form of, then we can repeat that success formula over and over and over again in our mind.

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Charles Beasley (01:54):

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And then we can play that at any time. That's the sweet, sweet part of the music. Just remember that let's look for that and then play that over and over again in your mind when you need to, and you can possibly take another step. Also remember, that in order to connect the dots, we must first collect the dots. So Mr. Timothy Brown, Mr. Positivity will leave some dots for us to pick up. Let's collect those. Now, let me tell you a little bit about my guest or our guest shall I say. Mr. Brown wears a whole lot of hats and has many, many titles. So let's talk about a few of those. The first title that I'm going to talk about is Dr. Timothy Brown, he is a doctor of optometry at Insight Family Eyecare. He and his wife own that place. She is the one that started and he came along a little later.

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Charles Beasley (02:45):

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So Ms. Brown runs the whole shop. He helps her out and they've been working together for a long time. Obviously they're married. So they probably know each other pretty well. It would be my guess. So another title that I'm going to talk about here is the Avon man. He is known as the Avon man. So as I was looking this up, he is listed here as a team consistency leader. Now, when I picked out that word, consistency goes so much in the terms of what we do and what he does because a lot of people fail to be consistent. So that's a word that stood out to me. As I looked at some information for this young man. He is a sales consultant as well, and a motivational speaker with Avon. If I'm not mistaken, I believe he started this journey around 15 years of age, based on what I saw.

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Charles Beasley (03:37):

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And he might correct me if I'm wrong there but I do know this. He has to be a phenomenal leader because he flies and goes all over the place. And he has a whole lot of people following him too. To what extent that organization is. I don't know, but I know he's got to be what you call humongous. So if I'm not mistaken, he is going on a photo shoot, I believe next week to kind of inspire some people and put them out there so they can follow them but he's also, again, like I said, known as the Avon man. So I'm going to go to another title. Don't go to sleep on me, don't get tired of me because he's got a lot of them. So what we got to talk about right now is he's the coauthor of a book called Letters To Our Brothers.

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Charles Beasley (04:23):

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Now he was fortunate enough or I was fortunate enough to get a signed copy. You could be jealous on that deal, but nonetheless, I got a signed copy from him. I believe it was published in 2019 and something is very interesting to me. He is a coauthor along with several other guys if I'm not mistaken it's 43 guys that he collaborated with, and we're going to dig down into that just a little bit deeper as well. I've got some questions about that, that I want to have answered. I'm just curious, and another title that he has is deacon. He's deacon at Tabernacle Baptist Church. Our pastor there is Pastor Reverend Dr. Charles E. Goodman, Jr. He has a few more titles in there as well, but I just talked about being a deacon there and nonetheless, a couple other titles that I want to talk about, not talk about, but I'm going to mention he's a husband, he's a father and a friend. So that's many, many titles that he has to juggle and deal with and that's a good, good thing. I want to thank him for coming on the show and dealing with TheBeaz nation as we move forward, and I want to again, welcome you for coming on and sharing with us again. Thank you, Mr. Positivity.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (05:40):

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Thank you so much. It is an honor to be here with TheBeaz nation and thank you Mr. Charles Beasley for giving me this opportunity and I look forward to talking to you on this awesome podcast.

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Charles Beasley (05:52):

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All right. Well get excited, get excited. Can't you feel it? Can you hear it in his voice. He's just always Mr. Positivity. I like that thing. So let me ask you a question. How did you come to get that at manticore, that name? Where does Mr. Positivity come from?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (06:10):

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Mr. Positivity started a few years back, somewhere around 2004. When I hit a roadblock, I hit a roadblock and that roadblock helped me to realize that I have more work to do and I decided to do more, to spread positive vibes, to smile more, to share love more because I realized I could have been dead when I hit that roadblock there, I could have been dead sleeping in my grave, but the good Lord spared my life and he revived me to be the man that I am today. And I do believe that he revived me because he knew that I had more work to do. He knew that I had more people to impact the lives of those people and that people needed to be surrounded by me because I had some positive words to put into their ears there. So I'm very thankful to have this opportunity. I'm very thankful to have the platform that I have under the banner, Mr. Positivity there on social media.

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Charles Beasley (07:08):

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Okay, cool. So what year was that again? What was that again?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (07:15):

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2004. My last year in undergrad at Lander University.

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Charles Beasley (07:19):

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Oh, okay. That's right up the road from my hometown. I'm from Lawrence. I know Lander is in Greenwood. So that's where they call right down the street. So to speak. Well, good. I'm glad that that has worked out for you. So if I'm hearing you, were you always as positive as you are now or that event, if you don't mind, I don't know if you could share with it, but what was it about that event that change right there? You said were you as positive before you just kind of had the re-look at something?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (07:47):

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Well, people often told me that I smiled a lot and then I was kind, but I don't think I had the level of positivity back then that I do now. Back in 2004, February 19th, I had to be rushed to the hospital because I had a severe pain that I was going through and they ended up having to do exploratory surgery and I had to have several operations because I had an abdominal issue there, hernia, and my blood circulation was cut off there. So I was in a hospital for 40 days,[crosstalk 00:08:26] I got the opportunity to graduate that last semester of 2004, but I did not let that stop me. It [inaudible 00:08:35] that I had to work through and I was able to go back after recovering and graduated December 2004 from Lander University with my biology degree.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (08:45):

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So I was not naturally gifted with being positive. I would like to think it was a natural positive that I was a natural positive person, but in reality being positive as a daily task that I find myself having to work on. It's a choice that I have to make each day when I wake up in the morning there and it's a process to train the mind, to stay on the positive train, to not fall off the tracks and realize that along this journey I've realized that everyone won't be so accepting to the positivity that you're trying to introduce to them or bring it to their life there but I still hear it anyway. That's my journey starting the positivity train there.

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Charles Beasley (09:35):

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Okay. So now you mentioned the fact that you have to work at it every day. And I agree, actually, the podcast, the prior week is about optimism and how you can generate that. So I'm curious how, if you were going to teach somebody to be positive, I see you and your son and I can tell that you engage with them a whole lot. So I can imagine you teaching him and some other people, but you mentor a whole lot of people and motivate a lot of people. So if you had to teach somebody how to be positive, what would you say?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (10:09):

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Thank you for the question there. I love spending time with my children. I want to say first there and they know that they're like dead, "oh, here we go again, it's a positive message coming from dad" but I want to put that into them so that they say what's in, you will soon come out. So I walked down to have those tools there are later in life that they can use and teaching someone to be positive, kind of follows the principles that I like to share with people is declare, define and devote. So I always tell people, if you want to be positive, declare it, say I want to be positive. That's the first step declaring that you want to do it and then if you want to be positive, define it, set, set out a plan, lay out a plan and action steps that will allow you to live a more positive life there and if you want to be positive, devote to it.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (11:01):

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Stay the course, stay committed to live in a more positive life. And I always tell people when I teach them how to be more positive first, surround yourself with positive people. [crosstalk 00:11:13]People go, you may have to break away from some crowds that you used to hang around, but some of us can remember the advice from older adults. They would say, they would tell us to watch the company that you keep. It's all because they were warning us that if you associate yourself with people who speak or act in a certain way, there's a tendency for you to follow in those same steps. So they were just trying to warn us to surround yourself with good company there. So that's the first step, surround yourself with positive people. Second step, be determined daily and speak positive words over yourself, your life, your future, your family.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (11:48):

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It's not enough for us to just think about it. We need to start speaking these things into existence. There is power in our words, and that's why I tell people this. And I always tell people to be careful what you say, make sure you think before you speak, because once those words are released, they can either lift someone or they can tear someone down and we want to make sure that we're being people who are lifting others to the next level there. So, and then the third thing is to make sure that when I'm teaching them, I always remind them to block negativity, try to block it as much as you can, because negativity is just going to naturally come at you from the left to the right, from the front to the back and you got to block it. You may have to block negative people. You may have to stop giving people access to your life, stop giving people all your time and attention and make sure that you're starting to stop yourself from dwelling on negative thoughts there.

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Charles Beasley (12:44):

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Okay. So you got to manifest it and then practice it and work at it. It's a lot of work cause I know it can be stressful or not stressful. I don't know. It just kind of wears on you to be positive all the time, but it's a mindset. Now, something that I noticed and something I talk about is you mentioned words, but body language plays a big role in that as well, based on what I see anyway and sometimes when I see you, when we were at the men's retreat and all those things, you always have what I call a posture of optimism. When you look at you, then you just feel it even without necessarily saying a word. How much emphasis do you put on that? Or do you notice that? Or do you teach that as well?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (13:29):

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It's very important that we try to be optimistic there. People have told me all along with my smile, that I am very optimistic. If they're feeling down, they may give me a call or send me a text because they need a different perspective and that's something that you kind of learn. And one of the books that I've read in the past from Dale Carnegie, trying to see things or How to Win Friends and Influence others, seeing things from a different perspective. So that's what I also try to teach people. Your view of something may not necessarily be that way and you may need to try to see it from a different angle before take action upon that.

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Charles Beasley (14:12):

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Right. So you've got to observe what's going on around you and take in different areas of a response and then you can kind of make up your own mind. So that is very, very good. So now, we talked about different personalities and you mentioned something about hanging around like minded people or cutting some people off that you have to. So that leads me into Letters To Our Brothers. So how did that come about? And I think it's 40, 44 of you guys, right? So explain it to us? How did that happen?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (14:50):

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Letters To Our Brothers is a powerful book. It's an awesome book that 44 men were pooled together by the visionary, who is my friend, my college roommate. When we went to Lander University, Jason Mahoney is from Sumter, South Carolina, and Jason tried to pull 50 men together to get this book organized and it only settled with 44 and I told Jason that I thought that number was very significant because it kind of ties back to our 44th president as well, our president Barack Obama. So I was very happy that it stopped at 44 and I feel that was God's plan for that to happen and the goal was for us to get together stories, get together words that we could leave behind, put in a book and leave behind for men and women to read that will encourage them. That will inspire them to don't give up. To realize that other people have gone through challenging situations, but they did not give up.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (15:54):

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They pushed through those challenging situations. They were able to overcome them and they are professional men today and we wanted to make sure that people know that they could do it as well. So we try to put as many positive words, encouraging words as we're sharing our journey in that book there as well and we actually had a book release back in October 10th of 2019, right before the pandemic hit in one of the communities in Raleigh, North Carolina and the building was packed the community showed love and we did a lot of book signing there, as well there, so.

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Charles Beasley (16:32):

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Okay, well, awesome. So now you said there was supposed to be 50 and you worked with 44 now, typically when you got a whole lot of people going on, people have differing ideas and all those things, I'm sure you guys had a lot of schedules to kind of mash together. During that time was there anything that happened or a situation where you had to really dig deep down and get that positivity to keep it up? Or were you guys pretty much on the same level and nothing really came about with that?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (17:05):

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Well, for the most part, the organization was smooth because some of us took the step to lead the project, to be the forces on the meetings that we were having. We did a lot of our meetings virtual in order to organize things. We worked with Brain Publishing. They were very helpful in getting the information that was needed to get the book together. Getting all of the stories from everyone. It was a process but we got through. And what helped us was regular scheduled meetings with everyone gathering ideas from other ones, updating people about the process that we were going through and also just prayer. When we get on those meetings, we say prayers. We pray together and we just have to make sure that we're speaking positive words about the success of the book and the book was on Amazon. and it was a number one seller there on Amazon as well, bestseller there. So we were very, very happy about that.

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Charles Beasley (18:12):

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Well good, because I admire people that can sit down and write the book. I don't know what all that entails but I've known some people that write them. I'm like, yeah, that's pretty cool. I don know how much time and I'll send it, but I think it requires a lot of attention to detail would be my thought anyway. So that was pretty, pretty amazing. Now, each one of you had a chapter, right?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (18:36):

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That's right-

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Charles Beasley (18:37):

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And what was the title of your chapter? What was it?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (18:42):

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So, in the book on page 13, I had the opportunity to be on page 13 and they had, despite the challenges keep a positive mindset.

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Charles Beasley (18:52):

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I figured it had something to do with some positivity. I remember that and just little hinges, swing, big doors. It's kind of crazy. My favorite number is 13, so that's good. [crosstalk 00:19:06] Yup. That little tidbit is kind of, I don't know. It's interesting, but my favorite numbers 13 as well. So now, so you went to school, then you told me about those things and it appears that you've had a lot of success and you're going to continue to have some. So what I found in some cases, a lot of times when people get to a certain plateau and they tend to drift backwards for whatever reason do you ever look at a point where you're tired and not necessarily because you're falling backwards, you just got so much going on. How do you keep that positive energy and strive to do even more?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (19:47):

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People always ask sometimes, Tim is your life always smooth and positive. Everything to always flow as smoothly for you and I want you all to know the answer is no, but that's why I keep pushing forward. Despite the fact that every day is not always positive, I still put my best foot forward and try to make it a positive day because I realize that it's a choice. It's a choice that we have to make there and I still choose positivity and the reason why is because I've learned over the years, that positivity wins, positivity converts others, positivity transforms situations, positivity attracts other positive people and being positive is a choice that I'm glad that I made. The same choice about being happy. Happiness is a choice and we got to choose happiness every day. And when we do that, when we choose happiness, when we choose positivity, life is so much better because we make good choices.

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Charles Beasley (20:56):

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Exactly. So something that I've found is they say, well, the outside is a reflection of the inside, right? So if you see somebody that has a frown or on their face, then guess how they feel on the inside something ain't right. They sad but if they are angry, they kind of look angry on the outside and that means that angry on the inside. Now, what I do find though, is what's on the outside is a reflection of the inside. So if you change the inside, which you said, make a choice to think positive and happy thoughts, then guess what happens to you outside?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (21:31):

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It does a wonder to your appearance to others. It doesn't matter how much you change other people, how much you help other people smile because they see a smile on your face.

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Charles Beasley (21:45):

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Right. Well good. Make sure you guys are picking up those dots. That's a big dot right there. He keeps dropping them all over the place. So make sure that you keep collecting them bad boys and putting them up and then we will see about connecting them a little bit later on. So let's go to, when did you decide that you wanted to be a doctor? Or how did that come about? Was that from a childhood standpoint or how did that work out?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (22:11):

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It started about seventh grade, seventh grade. I wanted to be a doctor. Wasn't sure what doctor I wanted to be. I also wanted to be a motivational speaker and I went with my mom to her eye exam in our hometown of Loris there. And I was observing what they were doing and I was like, Hmm, this is nice. Helping people see better, helping people find out what may be causing them to have vision disturbances and problems. And she got her first pair of glasses. They took her through the optical and she tried them on. They look good on her and she saw better and I was like, wow, it would be nice to do this. So I started doing research and whenever we had the opportunity in high school and even in college to select a topic that we could give a presentation on in front of the class.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (23:02):

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I did it on optometry and therefore my knowledge group, my interest group, I would shadow the local optometrist there in my hometown in Loris. I shadowed optometrists that worked in commercial settings like Walmart and I've now had the opportunity to work with probably over 20 different optometrists there, throughout my career here. And it's been wonderful and I'm glad that I made that decision. `At first thought I wanted to be a teacher, but my mom kind of gave me a different perspective on that. So I journey back over into the doctor laying there and there I am. I graduated 2010 from Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University and I was president of my optometry class for four years and I had the opportunity to schedule a vision screenings where we screen adults and children all throughout the city of Philadelphia. And I worked with our National Optometric Association and our student association there and gave vision screenings with the students there. Organized those things and I still work with the National Optometric Association today as one of the board members on the National Optometric Foundation.

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Charles Beasley (24:18):

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Okay, awesome. So at seven years old, you knew you wanted to be a doctor and you saw something that kind of triggered and stuck with you. Okay. So, and that's always interesting to me is, and after we can come back to that has been an epic, that's something that happens in our life, whatever that is, that can spark us in a different direction. So that's pretty cool. I'm glad I asked that question. That's all right. I like that.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (24:45):

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Thank you. You have a lot of great questions, so thank you for asking the questions.

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Charles Beasley (24:47):

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All right. We got a few more to go hang with me, Mr. Positivity, hang with me.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (24:51):

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I'm hear to stay.

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Charles Beasley (24:53):

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All right. So let's talk about the Avon man because as we know, I know that you say you've been in it since you were about 15 and I've read some of the stuff and I actually saw I guess, an old YouTube of you when you went to the I guess it was a Chick-fil-A, that was I think at 15 or something like that. But you go in there, you talk about how you can make money or how you can go in here and just, it doesn't cost you a whole lot of money just costs you some time. You didn't do nothing special. You just went in and kind of talked to somebody and spread the word in terms of what you do. So how did that come about? How did you get, first of all, to be in Avon?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (25:37):

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People know me as the Avon man. They know me as Skin So Soft king, because I always have Skin So Soft products ready for my customers when they called and needed on the spot there as well but I, I'm also the leader of team consistency, which you mentioned earlier there, and I'm also a mentor to over 3000 other representatives who are not on my direct team, but they followed me in my group to learn and to grow from the things that I do at my business. I share in the group and they take those things and they grow as well and I started selling Avon when I was 15. My father was an Avon representative and there are other men in the Avon business. A lot of people do not realize that Avon was founded in 1886 by David H. McConnell, who is also a man. So I started-

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Charles Beasley (26:27):

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I didn't know that.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (26:29):

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Yes, founded by a man. So I started my journey with my father and I told my father that I wanted to sell some of his products so that I could become more independent. I wanted to buy my own car and I wanted to pay my car insurance and then eventually I made enough money where I was able to handle my own personal items that I needed throughout high school there. So my dad was very surprised at the amount of Avon products that I was able to sell from his inventory and I made profit that way and I bought my first car Pontiac Grand Am T03.

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Charles Beasley (27:06):

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You remember that I see that's right. I bet she was smiling from ear to ear, wasn't she?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (27:13):

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I was very proud because, that gave me the intro to a business that I had no idea that I would still have a part of today, but my father passed away in 2009. I made the decision to start my own Avon business in memory of my dad. So I did that in 2011, and I celebrated this year, 10 years as an Avon representative and team leader.

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Charles Beasley (27:42):

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Okay, awesome. 3000 people that kind of follow you 10 years. That is a wonderful, wonderful thing and obviously you got to be good at it or you wouldn't be doing it. And so that's a wonderful thing. So let's come to, I know that you're a deacon in the church and you do a whole lot of things in there. Was that something that you always kind of aspired to be, or was that something somebody brought you into? How did you get there?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (28:10):

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Being a deacon in the church was not something that I always wanted to be, that's my confession, but I am happy to say that before the pandemic hit I was called to this position and I accepted, and I went through training even during the pandemic. We called ourselves the super six. Six of us going through training as deacons and this year, at the beginning of this year in January, we were ordained by Reverend Dr. Charles E. Goodman at Tabernacle Baptist Church and it's another opportunity to serve. It's an opportunity to be able to help take care of the members in the church, the community, and to support the vision of pastor Goodman there at Tabernacle there. So I'm very grateful. I'm honored to have this opportunity and I'm looking forward to the journey as well there as deacon at Tabernacle.

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Charles Beasley (29:03):

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Okay. So out of these roles that you have, is it difficult to keep them all? Is one more difficult than the other? Do they kind of play off of each other? Or how does that work out? Do they all pretty much are the same or takes a different skillset for where you are?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (29:20):

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There is a challenging part and that challenging part is time. It takes time to fulfill these roles and it takes time and commitment to fulfill these roles in the proper way there. So it's the commitment that is most challenging with all of these roles here. The commitment to the time, committing the time, committing the energy and actually doing the work to make things happen there. So I always say some people dream, others hope, but I know that it takes work to make things happen there and it takes consistent work for you to make it happen and do it well there and that's something that I teach also in my business and also for a relationship is to be consistent. Be consistent to achieve greater success with your business and also your relationships there, and your habits, good habits consistently having good habits will produce good results there.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (30:19):

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If you consistently have bad habits, bad things are going to follow those bad habits there. So I encourage people who may be listening another nugget that I put out there be consistent. Consistently work towards what you want, the success that you want out of your business, the relationship that you want to have there. People know, I want people to know that struggles are real.

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Charles Beasley (30:44):

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Right, yes.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (30:45):

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I want people to understand that challenges, they're going to be there, but I want them to understand that it's possible to succeed if you commit to the plan and stay the course and that's what I want people to take away tonight, to make sure that you have goals, make sure that you create a plan and write down the action steps that you are going to take to help you reach and exceed your goals.

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Charles Beasley (31:08):

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Okay, awesome. So let me ask you a question. I think I know the answer to this question, but I'm not sure it's I think it may be a pretty simple one, but on a scale, let's say the positivity scale, but on a scale of one to ten, how positive would you say you are?

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Mr. Timothy Brown (31:24):

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I am committed on a daily basis, a hundred percent committed to being ten. Let me tap on it. Mic here. I am committed to a ten. The world is filled with negativity and the reason why I'm committed to that is because the world is filled with negativity and I refuse to join that negative crowd there each day. I'm committed to spreading positivity in my personal space, spreading positivity on the social media platforms, as you mentioned there and I'm also committed to speaking positivity over my life and my family and my friends. So if you're connected to me, I'm praying for you and I'm speaking positive words over your life as well there. So make sure you connect with me and we'll talk about that later on, on the project.

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Okay. Now I think what's really cool about what you said is, first of all, it begins with you. You have to be positive and if you are positive, then you can throw it out to everybody else. So a lot of what you got to do is recognize that it's in you first you don't have to absorb it, but if you are positive, it makes it easier to be positive and pull some people I'm going to drop this dot, I call that the tsunami effect, right? You just got to, just bring everybody with you because you're so positive, but they just can't help, but just follow you. Right. You know what I mean? This is the tsunami effect. Cool.

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Charles Beasley (32:47):

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Right? And you take care of you before you try to take care of someone else. So work on getting yourself together, work on getting your mind together, work on getting your life in a more positive state, then reach out to help another brother and sister along the way.

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Okay. let me ask you this. So what would, when we talk about the get down, if you could kind of break it down and to some bits and pieces that are, that we can kind of put together, what would your get down be? What are the key components that we can kind of sum up based on your journey, based on what you've been through that they can kind of latch on to, and just get that sweet music playing over and over in their mind when they got to pull it out, what would that be?

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Charles Beasley (33:32):

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I love that title to get down and I want to say that for my get down, I follow the P, P approach. That's positivity and push approach and I always encourage people to let positivity lead your life, live in a more positive life. I want them to understand it's a process. It's not something you wake up and then boom, you're a more positive person. You're smiling all the time, get some process and you have to work on it. You have to work on yourself. As we mentioned earlier, and you begin a cycle of positivity from morning to noon to midnight, making sure that you practice letting positive words, flow from your mouth. Words as simple as good morning, smart guy or hello beautiful. Head and not the tail, or I got this day or nothing can stop me. Those positive words on a daily basis and all throughout the day, if you do it and you consistently do it, it will help transform your mind into a more positive state.

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Charles Beasley (34:30):

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And when you first start focus on you, as we mentioned earlier, think about what you have, think about who you are and what you mean to others and when you find the routine and lead into positive words, flow, speaking, positive words about yourself, then transition over to speaking positive words about others. Positivity doesn't always have to be about you, but first starting that cycle, let it be about you and then you can help someone else along the way. The other approach is the other P is push and always tell people push yourself.

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We need to be more dependent on self versus others and so I encourage people to push yourself when you're stuck and not [inaudible 00:35:14]it, push yourself when you're down and depressed, push yourself when you have tasks to complete and you want to throw in the towel, push yourself when nobody is watching, that's most important when you don't have the cheers and you don't have people going, rah-rah good job. Keep pushing yourself there. Don't depend on someone else to be there to push you when you slip, when you're struggling or when you stop. Push yourself through it all bounce back and win my friends.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (35:41):

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Okay. That's some dots right there makes you get them. I love it. I'm getting excited over here, myself. I just don't know how to contain it, but I will. Let me get it back together. I'm sorry. Calm back down. So now let's talk about, this is the epoch that we're talking about. I said epoch, not epic. So I'm going to define this real quick. An epoch is a period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics. So what epoch did you discover and what brought that on?

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Charles Beasley (36:19):

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So one of the things that I was mentioning earlier, we kind of talked about it early was 2004. I hit that roadblock. February 19th there, I saw a different side of life. I saw a side of life where I didn't know if I was going to be able to be the person that I was before.[inaudible 00:36:41] People always told me that you can do it. You can make it but really I was really low. I was at a low point. My life has changed. My appearance had changed. I was in the hospital for those 40 days there. I did not graduate from Lander University but I had to snap out of it because the doctor was suggesting that maybe I need anti-depression pills and the doctor was suggesting that I needed those things because you have plans of becoming a doctor.

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Charles Beasley (37:13):

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You had plans of graduating, and now those have been stopped. And I said, Dr. listen, I don't need the depression pills. Anti-Depression pills. What I need to do is to recover enough, so that you can release me from this hospital and I guarantee you that I'll bounce back. So I had that commitment that if I did well enough to get released from the hospital, that I could bounce back and I made that declaration and after making that declaration, it all happened.

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Charles Beasley (37:45):

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I was released about in April right before my birthday and it took me probably about a year to get normal functioning back in my body and everything but I survived and I look at it that story of my life as being delayed, but not denied. I was able to go back, I graduated with my biology degree at Lander University. Later on got married. I'm a father of two beautiful children. I'm an Avon leader, deacon in the church, as you mentioned optometrists and the list continues because I was determined not to just lay there and give up on life. I had to fight back. So I want to encourage people.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (38:26):

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Wow, yes.

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Charles Beasley (38:27):

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Make sure you fight back. Since that time I made that decision. My life have been more positive because I realized that my life could have been shorter if I didn't have grace and mercy on my side [crosstalk 00:38:39] everything.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (38:40):

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Awesome Beaz nation. We have got a whole lot going on there. The question that we talked about or the title of the podcast was a positive attitude, does it matter? Well, I'm going to answer that question for you? Obviously it does matter. It matters a whole lot. So I wrote this a positive attitude does matter, find one. So go figure out how to find your own positive attitude and apply it over and over and over again and I really, really appreciate, and thank you for being so open about your life and sharing with us because everybody's has a story and if we just kind of tap into it and again, success leaves clues, but we can learn from other people's experiences and then we can apply them. So everybody has that within us and hopefully you remember the get down that we have here P, P and remember the epoch that he talked about and what was it in his life at that time. So again, I really, really appreciate that. Mr. Positivity, do you have any final thoughts?

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Charles Beasley (39:48):

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I just want to thank you for giving me this opportunity. I want to thank Beaz nation for listening in, and I hope that the words shared will inspire and motivate someone to keep on keeping on.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (40:01):

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Keep on keeping on. So with all the stuff that you've got going on, how can the listeners reach you or contact you for eye care or prayer or Skin So Soft or whatever that is that you might want to put out there for them? How can they contact you? What's the best way for them to reach you?

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Charles Beasley (40:20):

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Thank you. I have several ways on my Facebook page. I have Timothy Brown, Mr. Positivity. I also have a Facebook page called Avon man, Timothy Brown. We also have a Facebook page called Insight Family Eyecare, and you can send us a private message there as well. You can schedule your eye exam. We do welcome all new patients. We have patients traveling from multiple states to allow us to help take care of their eye care needs there. So I'm happy to have another patient in the office and I'm on Instagram as Timothy Brown. Mr. Positivity. I'm on YouTube as a Timothy Brown. Mr. Positivity. I'm even on TikTok-

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Mr. Timothy Brown (40:58):

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Wow. Oh really? Okay. I got to get caught up.

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Charles Beasley (41:04):

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I'm on Pinterest and also I'm on LinkedIn as well there on those platforms. So feel free to follow me and share in with me on this positive journey in life.

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Mr. Timothy Brown (41:16):

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Okay. Awesome. So again, this is the episode the TheBeaz Presents and we again have Dr. Timothy Brown, Mr. Positivity, along here for the ride. Well, the TheBeaz Presents is available every Friday. You should be able to find on all areas that you can find the podcast and also you can go to beaznetwork.com. B-E-A-Z network.com all one word and you can pick up on this episode and many more as we move forward out here. So again, thank you. I look forward to seeing you on or listing or talking with you on Friday every Friday. Thank you again and we will talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1 (41:59):

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You've been listening to the TheBeaz Presents Epoch Visionary. TheBeaz is an executive manager that runs two successful automobile franchises. Having been in the business since 1995, he's hired trained and mentored other successful executive managers who run and lead sales teams and now he sits down with people from all walks of life to reveal how they were able to see the need for change in their way of thinking and begin a new period of productivity, growth and success in their life. We hope you've gotten some useful and practical information from the show. Make sure to like rate and review. We'll be back soon in the meantime, hookup with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at Beaz network till next time.