the winter of a divorce the winter of a death in the family the winter of a tragedy some things we can't understand but here's what we do know it's possible for us to get through the winter here's what's exciting about the passing of time it takes you through whatever you're experiencing at the moment that's what time will do take you through the winter now how do you handle the winters make this little note you can get better and you can get stronger and you can get wiser there's no winter that you can't overcome there's no
winter that you can't figure out how to survive a figuring out a way to get through it hang on make this note Winters don't last forever yes the tyranny of Communism lasted for 75 years but finally that Long Winter was passed so become wiser become stronger become better to handle the winters that are going to come in your life with self-esteem bursting out all over with the skills you're going to develop you're going to be able to handle whatever comes your way I promise you that sometimes the winter seems long the night seems like it'll
never pass but sure enough eventually the night has to give way to the day winter has to give way to the spring the difficult time has to give way to opportunity the recession has to give way finally to the progression to the expansion the long night has passed and opportunity is here spring always comes just hang in there when the night is long hang in there when it's dark hang in there when you can't figure it out and your spring will surely come from my teacher Mr sh who said to me we don't have to
change what's going on out there that's the wind that's blowing all we have to do is change what's going on in here and now there's several ways to do that on personal development here's the first one we must learn from personal experience pretty simple learn from what happens to you take a look back over the last few months did you make some mistakes how could you correct those for the future take a look back over the last year have you done it right or done it wrong let's correct it for the next year learn from
your personal experience Mr schop asked me when I first met him he said Mr on how are you doing you've been out there now 6 years and I said I'm not doing very well he said I suggest you not do that anymore what a simple Swift analysis to my situation he said if you keep doing it the next 6 years will be like the last six you don't want that to happen let's make the changes so learn from your personal experience now here's number two why I came to share this video experience with you today
and that I call it op other people's experiences that's me other people that's your teacher other people that's your friends and colleagues other people the people you meet that can pass along to you their experiences what's happened to them the mistakes they made how they corrected them how they changed their health and changed their bank account and change their income and change their future that's it other people here's a good phrase to note negative is normal it's not successful but it's normal it's part of life and here's the next key in my opinion you must
learn to handle the negative don't ignore it handle it you don't have to live in it you don't have to dwell on it but you do have to handle it my opinion I know some people teach just turn your head real quick and say there's no weeds there's no weeds there's no weeds they'll take your guard so you've got to handle the negative here's what part of it is it's called the Great war between good and evil the minute you were born you got involved in the war between good and evil between Darkness and Light
between negative and positive between evil and good between tyranny and democracy between weeds and human activity I mean the war is on in the absence of light guess what's automatic Darkness if good does not arouse itself and become active guess what moves in evil it's a war a mental War a physical War a financial war between Enterprise and ease between accomplishment and failure it's a war one of the words that destroys everything is called neglect neglect and I found this out a week of neglect could cost you a year of repair it isn't worth it
if the future gets clear the price gets easier because you got to remember for every promise there's a price to pay everybody's got to pay the price everybody's got to do the deal everybody's got to do the disciplines everybody has to pay but here's what I've discovered if the promise is clear here and Powerful the price is easy to pay the price is some classes the price is a few books the price is a few disciplines the price is finding something that'll make your life better make you grow make you change make you develop so
the first part of the key is to design the promise then what is the price to pay I'm telling you the price will be easy anybody in my audience can pay no matter where you are where you come from color doesn't matter religion doesn't matter where you grew up doesn't doesn't matter circumstances don't matter I'm telling you if you'll make the promise of the future clear for yourself the things you want the places you want to go the things you want to have the person you want to become the skills you want the homes you
want the future you want the friends you want all of the values of life that you could possibly want if you'll make that clear make those lists and be serious about it I promise you it's an easy price to pay anybody can pay it and the best advice I can give you is if I can do it you can do it Farm Boy from Idaho raised in obscurity I changed my life turned it upside down turned it all around found economics found future found promise and if I can do it you can do it if
you will change everything will change for you you'll never be the same you'll keep growing as you look back on a few months look back on a few years you won't believe the progress you can make economically your relationship with your family your friends and whether you're in sports or economics or what whatever I'm telling you that whole process of committing yourself for personal change personal value can really make your life unique and worthwhile a person who has purpose in their life they have something to go for some meaning one writer described it for some
people it becomes a Magnificent Obsession and for you and I maybe it doesn't need to be that dramatic as a Magnificent Obsession but it has to be something that does something to us something that pulls us especially into the future you know there are many influences on us one is the influence of the past some people are always pulled back back back by the past some people are always pulled aside by the distractions the distractions but here's what's powerful if you have a list of high purpose in your life it pulls you toward the future
and the more powerful the purpose is the stronger it pulls and here's the other great Advantage if you have purpose for the future it pulls you through all kinds of challenges and all kinds of difficulties if you don't have these strong purposes for the future it's easy to get swallowed by a bad day it's easy to be almost annihilated by a poor month and it's easy sometimes to almost disappear beneath the waves of a a year that goes backwards if you don't have something to pull you beyond that year so if you want something to
pull you through all kinds of challenges all kinds of difficulties and things that come at you you got to have something on out there Beyond Today Beyond next week Beyond next month Beyond this year that pulls you into the future and the clearer it is the stronger it pulls the more Dynamic it is the more it affects your life your spirit your heart your Soul it also creates imagination it gets your mind working on how to achieve that purpose and if your mind will work and if your heart works and if your spirit works and
if you have good input like good ideas I'm telling you there isn't anything you can't accomplish if you're willing to be the best in your field if you're willing to demand of yourself excellence in skills to be the best that you can possibly be in the training do the best you possibly can in doing a workshop do the best you possibly can developing the skills of using your personality developing the skills of language developing the skills of influence developing the skills of organizing if you're willing to be an expert in all of the skills and
not only make a handsome living not only make a lot of money but if you would so desire and if it would be your purpose a chance to make your Fortune here's why we don't really reach into the future we're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present so busy with the routine of the present we don't give much thought to designing the future or trapped by the past with regrets of past losses and past failures and past mistakes and we relive it over over and over again not to the
benefit of changing it for the future but just because you know we feel that our lives have been less than favorable simply because of all the things that's happened to us in the past but here's the real key is to spend some time and usually we don't do it until someone comes by and offers the suggestion that's why meeting the right person at the right time attending the right class list listening to the right sermon having a conversation with the right person sometimes can totally change the direction of your life and you're never the same
after that personal contact or sitting in that class or reading that book or coming face to face with someone who says hey you know our lives are not that good what could we do to change and that very conversation starts this whole process wow I'm AR arrived at a fairly poor Place how could I change all of that for the future and that is all [Music] possible here's the next key make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future not the pull of the past that keeps taking you back not
the pull of gravity like the present that just keeps you sort of stuck where you are but we want to make sure that the greatest influence and pull on us is the pull of the future if you have powerful goals well designed and plenty of them to stir your imagination here's what they will do goals become like a magnet and the bigger they are and the stronger they are and the longer the list and the more things you'd like to acquire during the course of your lifetime the stronger they [Music] pull and here's the other
advantage in setting goals so that these goals begin to pull you in that forward future Direction they you through all kinds of downtime all kinds of nighttime experiences all kinds of winters you can much more easily survive the next Crisis the next winter of your life if you have well set goals finely tuned places you want to go things you want to do people you want to meet skills you want to develop Fortune you want to make benevolence you want to engage in if all of that becomes powerful and clear and you're on your way
I promise you no matter what happens those goals will pull you through you won't be lost in the middle because you'll be able to see beyond where does self-confidence come from and this is the best advice I can give you on that not neglecting first of all the small daily disciplines self-confidence really comes from feeling good about yourself yourself and one of the best ways to feel good about yourself is at the end of the day to know that you poured it on you did your best if you conducted a meeting you did the best
you could if you made a phone call it was the best phone call you could possibly make if you wrote a letter it wasn't a casual letter it was your best letter at the end of those kind of days when you feel good about yourself self-confidence starts to rise you know that if you can have this kind of a good day you can have another one the next day and those days become the weeks the weeks become the months and the month becomes a powerful year self-confidence comes from the lack of neglect if you will
not neglect to do the small daily disciplines that's where self-confidence comes from part of good health is self-confidence I know I'm going to be healthy I eat the apple a day I walk around the block I do the jogging on the beach at the end of the day when you've really poured it on and you've done all the stuff self-confidence grows that self-confidence affects your health it affects your future it affects your psyche so this is true one of the great Powers is self-confidence self-confidence means willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve some people
say well I'll do it for a little while and see what happens you know I'll try a couple of things if that doesn't work I'm out of here and all of us know that that kind of person doesn't have much of a future but if you're willing to do whatever it takes if I have to learn a couple of things I will learn those things if I got to learn five or six things I'll learn all six if I have to take an extra class I'll take an extra class if I've got to read the
books I'll read the books if I have to consult with people who know more than I know I will do the necessary Consulting whatever it takes I will do that starts to develop unbelievable self-confidence self-confidence also comes from the ability to rise above your circumstances to rise above what happens the petty little things the discouraging things that would sink everyone else's ship except yours that would cause someone else to quit early in the day but you keep going that kind of willingness to overcome all circumstances whether it's the little challenges or the big challenges if
you're willing to do that I promise you this kind of power will work for you and in you the variable it'll make a difference now there's two kinds of people to learn from one is failures it's too bad failures don't give seminars right that would be valuable bring your notebook have them tell you how they lost it all and threw it all away threw their health away and threw their friendships away and things didn't work out well that would be valuable but now then we must also learn from positive people that have done well they've
got the health and so we asked them how did you become so healthy they've got the skill so we asked them how did you become this skillful they've got the income so we asked them how did you get here in such a short period of time so now here's what's important in personal development in learning from other people we learn number one by observation we learn what we see we watch people that are successful in what they do in sports we watch their disciplines in business we watch their disciplines by observation what we can see
the reason I created this video is something that you could see someone's experiences translated For You Second we learn by what we hear I've got some of my lectures on cassette tape so you know you can take them with you wherever you go and Learn by listening turn your car into a mobile classroom and listen and then listen to the sermon on Sunday morning listen to the lectures listen to the teacher listen to someone who's got something good to say and then number three is vitally important on personal development and that is read all the
books all the books you can possibly read in your lifetime Mr scha got me started on my library I've got one of the better libraries haven't read everything in it but I feel smarter just walking in it my library at least I was smart enough to buy it now I got to be smart enough to read it then of course I got to be smart enough to decide what's valuable and then do it but this one is very important become a good reader some books that helped change my life Mr scha recommended of course the
Bible and my parents made sure I was a pretty good scholar by the time I was 18 that's been so beneficial for me drawing from those illustrations uh reading about those stories people who made it and people who didn't make it and what the difference was and then other books that helped to really change my life one called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and then a book that helped me become financially independent by the time I was 31 and that book is called the richest man in Babylon by George clayon but I started
reading the books attending the classes uh making sure that I got in front of people that had something good to say and then I started keeping a journal one of the major things my teacher taught me was to keep a journal he said don't trust your memory if you hear something good just make a little note and write it it down now at first I took you know notes on pieces of paper and torn off corners and backs of old envelopes and it didn't serve me well you know thrown in a drawer then I learned
to keep a journal A bound copy of all my notes so I would suggest you do the same things that impress you a poem that impresses you when you attend a class some of the ideas that impressed you jot them down uh you read something in a magazine right some ideas take those out put them in your Journal keep a good journal the rest of your life this will serve you well my journals make up a significant portion of my own library and if you saw my library and saw my journals I tell you what
you'd have to say this is the library and these are the journals of a very serious student no wonder Mr ran is invited to lecture and speak on his experiences around the world so I want the same thing to happen to you value captured that you can resort to later go back over it and review it and let it that become valuable to you work harder on yourself than you do on your job develop the skills learn the lessons take the classes absorb all that is being taught to you these days and then later on
of course you can sort it out what's valuable to you and how to refine it for your business and for your life and for your future but the main thing is to get it and start this process of personal change personal development and let me say it one more time if you will change Everything Will Change for you you'll never be the same you'll keep growing as you look back on a few months look back on a few years you won't believe the progress you can make economically your relationship with your family your friends and
whether you're in sports or economics or whatever I'm telling you that whole process of committing yourself for personal change personal value can really make your life unique and worthwhile
