[Music] thank you thank you very much did you hear what the cow said to the farmer on a cold winter morning thanks for a warm hand anyway it's going to get better so don't panic on me I start small nice to see all of you how many of you have never seen me before this your First time oh wow most of you okay I keep thinking for sure I'm more famous than that but uh you know that is the truth I'm delighted to be here been looking forward to it for a long time and it's
nice to be back you know you know I was here not too long ago it's nice to be invited back it says something when you're invited back doesn't say everything but says something maybe it says let's give him one more chance right see if he can get It right this time but I'm delighted to have all of you here we're going to spend the day together I feel two major responsibilities and I'm sure you can guess what those are number one is to make sure you get your money's worth right when you shell out your
cash especially these days you want to make sure you get full value for the money you spent and I know the tab for the seminar was not that much pretty modest fee to get in most of you your tips for The week right so it wasn't that much but I want you to be able to say when you walk out of here today it was worth my money but my biggest responsibility is to make sure you get your time's worth and the reason I say that is because time is more valuable than money in fact
you might start your notes with that time is more valuable than money you can get more money but unfortunately you can't get more time if somebody ask you to spend your Money that's pretty easy right we live in America we're wealthy so the money is not the problem but what if somebody asked you to spend a day right you got to think that over carefully and I know you did I wouldn't waste one of my days not for anybody not for anything once I understood how valuable they were I don't waste any but uh to
make an investment like today of your money and your time I appreciate that today is Going to be costly for me it's going to cost me one of my days to be here right and some money of course but you know I don't need the money I take the money but I I don't I don't need the money but guess what I do need the time so I'm here not to just joke with you I'm here not to just tell some funny stories and give a performance and walk away I'm here to give you some
value and I want to make it worth your time uh I'm going to invest a day you're going to Invest a day let's get the most out of it and see what we can walk away with today anyway for you that have not seen me before just very briefly let me just tell you my story I grew up in Idaho Farm country southwest corner of Idaho in fact my father still lives on the Old Homestead where I grew up uh he'll be 89 his next birthday still hasn't retired I'm of my dad he's never been
ill he's really something I'm trying to get him to retire this year 88 I'm telling my father what a good year to retire when you're 88 and he says hey talk to me in 10 years right I might be ready but anyway I went to high school I graduated I went to college one year halfway through my second year of college I decided I was smart enough so I quit one of my major mistakes I should have stayed in school uh but I thought heck you know I'm smart enough to get a job that's What
life's all about right get a job pay your bills work hard stay out of trouble keep your fingers crossed hope for the best and I figured I was at least prepared to do that so I quit college and uh went to work little while later got married got my little family going and I'm out there doing what I thought was the best I could but about age 25 I'm starting to struggle I've purchased a little more than I can conveniently pay for on Time and the creditors are starting to call saying hey you told us
the check was in the mail what's the deal and I'm getting embarrassed by that I'm also embarrassed Big Mouth me with all the fancy promises I made to get married I'm way behind on those promises and I'm getting discouraged wondering what to do and I thought well maybe I should go back to school right one year of college pretty short on an application but uh you know tough to go Back to school right especially when you got your family going time to stay is when you're there uh so I discounted that I thought well if
I you know had my own business that would be the way to go but you know I'm short on money too much month at the end of the money if you've ever been there that's where I was age 25 so I had to Discount that and I'm discouraged wondering where do I go from here and then the miracle happened for Me good fortune came my way and who can explain Good Fortune I don't know remarkable things that happen to you at a particular time sometimes it's just unexplainable how those things happen one of my friends
says well hey things don't just happen things happen just another good note for your notes things don't just happen things happen just and maybe that's it I don't know I'm an Amateur on life I guess like most of us are trying to figure it out how to make it valuable but I was ready and my good fortune was at age 25 I met a very wealthy man his name was Mr cha Mr Earl cha a friend of mine had gone to work for him and he started telling me about this man he said you got
to meet this man I've gone to work for he's wealthy but he's easy to talk to uh and he's got a unique philosophy Of life and the more he kept talking about this man I thought well I've got to meet this man so sure enough shortly after that I had a chance to meet this remarkable wealthy man and I was impressed he was wealthy sure enough he was easy to talk to I was so intrigued within a few minutes I said to myself if I could be like him Farm Boy from Idaho if I could
be like him I'd give anything and then I thought if I could just get around somebody like him and if he would Teach me what to do I would be willing to learn I'm I'm coachable and that was my good fortune a few months later this wealthy man that I met Mr scha took a liking to me hired me gave me a job I went to work for him and I spent the next 5 years in his employee and then unfortunately he died at the end of that period at age 49 his last 5 years
but the first five years of my new life I got to spend with this remarkable man and my dream came True he coached me he taught me he taught me the books to read he taught me the disciplines he taught me the changes to make in my language and personality and the things he shared with me during that 5 years literally changed my life turned my life around changed my income changed my bank account changed my future changed everything I've never been the same since that unique experience and I wish he was still alive today
Mr cha I'm sure if he was alive Today especially after this seminar Idaho Farm Boy makes it to Dallas Fort Worth Full House ending room only uh pretty awesome I'm sure if he was alive I'd be calling him today saying you won't believe what's happening to me I've had a chance now to share with other people what you shared with me but anyway how I got here uh 30 plus years ago I was living in Beverly Hills California and one day A friend of mine Businessman friend said Jim would you I'd like to have you
come and share your story with my service club that I belong to the Rotary Club he said I know your story Idaho Farm Boy makes it to Beverly Hills but he said I think my club members would love to hear your story he said if I arranged one of our breakfast meetings would you come tell your story just share a few thoughts I said okay uh so I agreed to go give this breakfast talk and guess what they liked it and my Telephone rang I got another call got another call saying we heard uh you've
given your story and shared some ideas would you come talk to our club talk to our club first thing I know I'm starting to devote a piece of my business time to giving these talks and then one day uh businessman who had heard my talk I think two or three times approached me and said would you come and share that story and some thoughts with my management and salese Said I got this little company going and he said if you'd come tell your story to my organization he said I'd be happy to pay you and
I thought wow wouldn't that be something so I agreed to go do it and I got paid little did I know another Fortune was waiting for me to translate my ideas into talks and speeches and seminars now I've written some books it's on cassette tape and now I get to travel around the world last year I was in Japan and Israel Spain uh Mexico Australia New Zealand France and Germany Canada and now Dallas forward so Idaho farm boy gets to travel around the world and share his story and here I am today anyway it's almost
too much for me to comprehend from where I started raised in obscurity uh in a little small farm community and now to be here today is pretty awesome for me so anyway that's just a little bit about my story my Story is probably more intriguing for me than it is for you but I wanted to hear it again so I thought I would just you know bore you with it anyway I don't ask you to be impressed today I'm the one that's impressed from where I came from to have a chance but that's the American
dream right come true chance to start from scratch start from obscurity start with pennies start with nothing and have a chance to transform your life change your life set Your goals and see what you can accomplish so anyway that's how I got here and I'm just delighted that this day has arrived and I truly want to make it valuable for you let's go to work here's what I hope hope you'll find out of this seminar today for your notes here's what I hope you'll find number one sincerity above all else today I hope you'll find
me sincere best place for people to start To communicate is sincerity on both sides I'm sure you're sincere or you wouldn't be here today right to spend this kind of money to spend this kind of time roll up your sleeves today go to work like I am and get this message uh you've got to be sincere so I assume you're sincere now I want you to see me sincere but I've got a good note for you to make sincerity is not a test of Truth important note to make sincerity is not a test of Truth
we must not make the mistake of saying he must be right he's so sincere that would be a mistake and here's why it's possible to be sincerely wrong so we don't mistake sincerity for truth right sincerity is only a test of sincerity truth has to yet be tested by truth okay but hopefully you will find me sincere and truthful next a combination of things I hope you'll find here today ideas plus Inspiration ideas plus inspiration ideas business ideas and social ideas and personal ideas we all need ideas right how to have a good day ideas
how to have a good year ideas how to have your best year ever ideas good health ideas personal relationship ideas how to deal with your family ideas Sales Management ideas Financial Freedom for the future ideas we all need good ideas so today I Hope you gather up by notes and by what you can remember a lot of ideas I want to share as many with you as I possibly can in the time constraint we have today is going to go very rapidly I used to think a day like this was a long day found out
it's pretty short day but I'm going to go as fast as I can share with you as many ideas as I possibly can and here's why ideas can be lifechanging ideas can be lifechanging and sometimes all you need is just one More in a series of good ideas it's like dialing the numbers into the lock right you got five or six numbers dialed into the lock the lock still won't come open but you don't need five or six more numbers maybe you just need one more and maybe a seminar like this could do it a
sermon could do it the lyrics from a song could do it the dialogue from a movie could do it conversation with a friend might do it that one last piece you need number dial It into the lock that's it the lock comes open there's the door for you to walk through and maybe this seminar today could furnish that for you one more idea I know you've come with a lot already sometimes we get the impression I used to have that that I only had this much going for me and I needed this much usually not
true and I'm sure not true of this audience where I find you today as well-dressed as you look today you Know as fine as you are sitting here today it isn't that you know you've got this much going for you and you need this much I would assume you've got this much going for you and maybe all you need is just a few more thoughts ideas uh to furnish you some ways and means to turn your life into the dream you want it to be so ideas the seminar is going to be loaded with ideas
I want you to take good notes but here's what else I hope you'll find here today and that is Inspiration and who knows the mystery of inspiration why some people are inspired and some are not you were inspired to get here some were not who knows the mystery of that I don't know how come you made it the rest of them didn't make it we don't know what that mystery is some people turned it down some people said it cost too much some people said it's going to take too much time some people are too
busy right a lot of different excuses why some are inspired To take advantage of something that comes to town others pass it up we don't know the mystery to that here's what I call it Mysteries of the mind and I just leave it at that some things I don't try to figure out I take the simple approach now right some people do and some people don't I mean that's about as profound as My Philosophy is some buy and some don't buy some go for it and some don't some change and some don't and if you've
been around for a while you can usually work Out the numbers right out of 10 you know three do seven don't whatever business you're involved in pretty soon you got this ratio going the ones that do the ones that don't you say well why don't the ones that don't how come they don't we don't know I just leave it as a mystery I used to try to understand all that I just take the simple approach now the guy says this happens to me this happens to me this goes wrong for me and all this stuff
goes wrong for me for me How come all this stuff happens to me I say I don't know beats me the best I've been able to figure out is those kind of things always happen to people like you I mean right that's the best I got I don't know I'm an amateur on this stuff what do I know so just take the simple approach right that's how it is who knows interesting story says the day the Christian church was started now I'm an amateur on the Bible but best account I can remember remember The day
the Christian church was started a magnificent sermon was preached great presentation and if you're a student of all at all of good communication it was one of the classic presentations of all times the sermon the first day the Christian church was started and it said this sermon this presentation was given to a multitude meaning a lot of people but it was interesting as the account gives us the Record it says when the sermon was finished there was a variety of reactions to the same sermon isn't that fascinating I find it fascinating it said some that
heard this presentation were perplexed and I read the presentation sounded pretty straightforward to me said why would somebody be perplexed with a good sincere straightforward presentation best answer I've got they are the perplexed I mean you know what Other explanation is there it doesn't matter who's preaching right it said some that heard this presentation mocked and laughed made fun of the presentation I thought hey this looks pretty sincere to me if you give a sincere honest presentation why would somebody Mock and laugh easy explanation they are the mockers and the laughers what else would you
expect them to do right I used to try to straighten all that out say well they shouldn't do That I don't do that anymore you know I've got peace of mind now I can sleep like a baby not try to straighten all this stuff out I used to be so naive I used to say well liar shouldn't lie see how naive Eve can you be of course they're supposed to lie that's why we call them Liars they lie they lie I don't straighten this stuff out anymore anyway it said some that heard this magnificent presentation
didn't know what was going on and they're Usually easy to spot they're usually saying what's going on right I mean they don't know what's going on but interesting right a variety of reaction to the same sincere honest presentation now it also says in wrapping it up some that heard the presentation believed and I think that's who the speaker was looking for the Believers interesting now it said the number of Believers was about 3,000 so a pretty good first day 3,000 I've had Some first days but I never had 3,000 but anyway 3,000 were Believers and
that's the speaker was looking for the Believers out of this multitude and that's about as close as we can come to understanding the mystery some believe and some Mock and some laugh and some are perplexed and some don't know what's going on and you just have to leave it that way why cuz that's the way it's going to be the way to be brilliant is to find out how it's going to be and Then say here's how it should be I mean that's how you become brilliant so anyway who knows the mystery I call it
Mysteries of the mind we don't understand but I don't try to change it anymore on this particular story as far as we know they didn't have classes after the presentation to try to De perplex the perplexed I mean as far as we no they left them perplexed they left the mockers mocking they let the laughers laugh I mean they didn't come Back and try to straighten all this out you say well how can you build a church well make another presentation you'll get some Believers and some mockers and some laughers and some who don't know
what's going on so that's about the best we can do so but I'm glad I've got the Believers here today you believed enough to Shell out your cash and part with your time and some of your effort and energy and I appreciate that so hopefully you'll find some inspiration Here today all right to get the most out of today couple more notes number one be thankful that's a good way to capture the most of a day like this be thankful for what you already have that shouldn't be any problem in America being thankful everything we
need is available in America everybody wants to come here right the last time I was here that little presentation I gave everybody wants to come here America people have plotted in scheme The last 40 years saying if I could just get to Poland everything would be okay no everybody wants to come to America why everything's available here all the books you need all the sermons you need all the churches you need all the schools you need all the instruction you need all the inspiration you need all the capital you need all the markets you need
all the challenge you need all the information you need all the seminars you need everything's available Here this is America so number one let's be thankful for what we already have Thanksgiving does this opens up the doors opens up the windows opens up the channels Thanksgiving for what you already have I did a seminar one weekend up at the ranch up at Clear Lake got a lodge up there nice setting High Valley High Serenity Ranch for the weekend Friday evening Saturday Sunday people drove in from around California I got there late Friday afternoon everybody had
pretty well already got there I couldn't believe the parking lot Continentals and El Dorados and Mercedes and Cadillacs and unbelievable Ferrari one rollsroyce unbelievable I Walked In good-look Crowd about like this sitting there ready for the weekend seminar my opening remarks were ladies and gentlemen I think the rest of the world would find it strange that we have all come here this weekend to try to Figure out how to do better right I think the rest of the world would say I don't understand guy these Rolls-Royce and I got to get to the seminar find
out how to get another one of these rolls-royces unbelievable anyway let's be thankful here's what locks up the doors and the channels to receive more cynicism that locks you away that prevents you from learning more being a cynic about the past and the future a cynic about the marketplace cynical About the people cynical about the institution cynical about the setup cynical about yourself cynical about your chances see that locks away all the chance for stuff to flow your way so good advice I think today start off be thankful here's number two listen well and that's
going to be a challenge today I understand that seems like most of you know our life is still going on outside these four walls right most of our life seems Like it's all you know continuing out there family and business and Associates and market and economy and whatever else is happening in the midst of your life and to sort of you know pull your attention from what's going on out there and put it in here for just a few hours I know is a challenge but do the best you can listen well and here's the
last one take good notes be a good student today take some good notes I've not come to entertain You as you can tell by my opening joke right I would not make it in Las Vegas so we don't have a dog and pony show today no entertainment but I do have some ideas take some good notes somebody showed me the other day notes that they took about 21 years ago attending one of my seminars out in Los Angeles he said I still use these notes I took 21 years ago to help me in my business
relationship with my family so I'd like to have these notes that you take today Become that valuable for you then it would be worth me making the investment to come and spend a portion of my life my time my energy here and I want this investment I'm making here today to pay off and one of the ways it can pay off for me is for you to take good notes and then go away and use whatever makes sense cuz what I Feast on coming back around is the stories out of this audience today sure enough
six weeks from now 6 months from now six years From now somebody's going to by phone by letter by personal contact walk up to me and say the things you shared that day got me thinking and I started making some changes and let me tell you what's happened to my business let me tell you what's happened to my sales career let me tell you what's happened to my relationship with my family see that'll make it worth it for me not the money the return something you can't buy with money if somebody says thank you for
Touching my life and taking the time to make the investment and that's what I'm all about so if you'll become a good student today and here's the last note don't be a follower be a student You' be happy to know to today we haven't come seeking disciples we've got no movement for you to join I'm just here to share some of my experiences good ideas best I can but I think that's good advice don't Be a follower be a student right take advice but not orders take information but don't let somebody you know order your
life make sure what you do is the product of your own conclusion excellent note to make make sure what you do is the product of your own conclusion not to do what someone else says take what someone else says process it think about it ponder it if it makes you wonder if it makes you think then It's valuable then when you go take action make sure that the action is not what somebody told you to do make sure the action is the product of your own conclusion if you'll follow just a little bit of those
simple guidelines telling you the learning process can be Speedy Swift powerful your learning curve can go up and then applying it to your business your life your family conversations equities of all kinds you'll find some progress like I did That first five years when I met a teacher willing to share with me turned my life around progress I couldn't believe happened for me okay let's get started I want to review I was here last time and we talked about the five major pieces to the life puzzle and I just want to review those because it
lays such a good foundation for all the rest that I want to share with you Today we got a lot of subjects to cover so we're going to go rather swiftly okay put on your mental track shoes here and run with me today because I'm going to deal mostly in Concepts expect you to you know fill in a lot of the details because I got a lot to share I want to get through it all but let's lay this Foundation again of the five major pieces happens to be the title of my latest book but
I think it is so valuable in laying a Foundation it's Some of the things I learned between ages 25 and 30 the teacher who taught me taught me so well he dealt in these fundamentals we call these fundamentals we call these Basics basics for sports fundamentals for sports fundamentals for your business fundamentals for the way you deal with your family a few simple things few basic things that if you practice every day can make all the difference in the world how it works Works out I boiled it down to five major pieces to the life
puzzle let's just review those number one is philos philosophy philosophy as I taught the last time I was here philosophy in my personal opinion is the major determining factor in how your life works out philosophy the major determining factor in how your life works out philosophy to form our philosophy you got to think got to use your mind Got to process ideas and this whole process over a lifetime starting way back here when we were children schools that we've attended our parents our experiences all this stuff that we've processed by the thinking process helps to
develop our philosophy and in my opinion each person's personal philosophy is the major factor in how your life works out here's what I called it in that last presentation when I was here it's called The set of the sale each person's personal philosophy is like the set of the sale now I used to think it was circumstances that ordered my life if someone would have asked me at age 25 Mr ran how come you're not doing well pennies in your pocket creditors calling nothing in the bank behind on your promises to your family you live
in America 25 years old got a beautiful family every reason to do well and Things are not going that well for you what is wrong wrong here it would not have occurred to me to blame My Philosophy I mean it would not have occurred to me saying well I got this lousy philosophy and that's how come I got pennies in my pocket and nothing in the bank and things aren't working well that would not have occurred to me I found it much easier to blame the government much easier to blame the tax problem I used
to say taxes are Too high top tax rate when I first started paying taxes 91% back then when your income reached a certain level all your income over that 91% so I used to say that's too high now the tax top tax rates about 33% but people are still saying what taxes are too see but you can't use that anymore if it's gone from 91 to 33 how could it be too high come on I threw all that old excuse stuff away some people found it though And they're using it these days my old list
I used to blame the traffic the weather used to blame circumstances right people say I'm Too Too Tall I'm too short I'm too old I was raised in obscurity raised on a farm parents of modest means all the stuff if you would ask me how come you find yourself here Mr rone age 25 Living in America land of abundance and opportunity pennies zero in the bank not doing well creditors calling it would Not have occurred to me to blame My Philosophy I found it easier to blame the company company policy I used to say if
this is all they pay how do they expect you to do well so I figured that you know my future was going to be tied to what everybody else was arranging the economy and right interest rates I used to say things cost too much that was my whole explanation Not My Philosophy until my teacher taught me better that this is Where the problem was my own personal philosophy here's what's exciting about each person's personal philosophy that's what makes us different than dogs and animals and birds and cats and spiders and alligators that's what makes us
different than all other life forms the ability to think the ability to use your mind the ability to process ideas and not just operate by Instinct in the winter I'm telling you The goose can only fly south what if South doesn't look too good tough luck it can only fly south but see human beings are not like a goose can only fly south I mean you can turn around go north you can go east you can go west you can order the entire process of your own life and we do that by the way we
think we do that by exercising our mind we do that by processing ideas and come Up with a better philosophy a better strategy for our life goals for the Future Okay plans to achieve those goals all this comes from developing our philosophy philosophy helps us to process what's available well when we get here we got seed and we got soil and we got some rain and we've got some what sunshine and we've got some seasons and what the Miracle of Life Now the key is what do you do with all this stuff how do you
turn all this stuff That's available here into equity and promise and lifestyle and dreams and future possibilities all of this that's possible now with human beings how do you take all this stuff and turn it into this equities and values well it starts with philosophy what is the seed what is the soil what is the sunshine what is the rain is it possible to take some of each Of all the stuff that's available and turn it into food and turn it into value and turn it into nourishment turn it into something spectacular and unique that
no other life form can do and the answer is yes but you cannot deal with all this stuff and what to do with it unless you start refining your philosophy think use your mind come up with ideas and strengthen your philosophy so the seed and the soil and the rain and the sunshine this is called You know the economy and the banks and the money and the schools and uh everything that's available out there processing information what to do with all that and turn it into equity and value that is the major challenge of life
my personal opinion so each person's personal philosophy now is going to determine what you're going to do with seed and soil and sunshine and Rain Miracle the change of seasons that's it my personal opinion each Person's personal philosophy is like the set of the sale that's what this seminar is for today help you to trim a better sale you don't need a better economy you don't need better seed and soil in fact when it comes to seed and soil and rain and sunshine and seasons and the Miracle of Life that's all you got now what
if you blame this stuff then you're blaming all you got if you blame the economy and you blame the schools and you blame the Teachers and you blame the sermons and the preachers and and you blame uh you know the marketplace and you blame the company and company policy what else is there when some people get through with their blame list there isn't nothing else that's all there is and if you blame the only thing you've got to work with I'm telling you it's called mistake colossal and not understanding that that's all you've got to
work with and If this is all you've got to work with then you don't change the seed and you don't change the soil and you don't change the rain and you don't change the sunshine you don't change the seasons right guys says I'll take three Springs four Summers nine Falls no Winters no you can't fool with this stuff you got to take it like it comes then what do you change to make your life work well you got to start with your philosophy guess what I had to do at age 25 in order to change
my own future I had to change my mind I had to change my thinking I had to change my philosophy I was messed up on what was causing my problem and once I got that straight out that all the stuff I blame the government and taxes and the marketplace and the economy and things cost too much negative relatives cical neighbors once I got rid of that and started going for where the real problem was which was me I'm telling you my life exploded into Change my bank account changed immediately my income changed immediately my whole
life took on a whole new look and color immediately and the early results I got from making these philosophical changes tasted so good I've never stopped the pr process from that day until this and I'm telling you with a little consideration of the refinement of your sale by setting a better sale refining your philosophy your whole life can start to change from Today on you don't have to wait till tomorrow you don't have to wait till next month you don't have to wait till spring don't have to wait till 93 you can start this whole
process immediately I recommend it now some people do so little thinking they don't even have their sale up I mean you can imagine where they're going to wind up at the end of this week week at the end of this month at the end of this year now's the chance to change process All this information so number one is philosophy okay and we dealt with all that where we get ideas from personal experience from other people's experiences I don't want to get into all those details because we covered that the last time I was here
but philosophy that's number one my personal opinion each person's personal philosophy here's the definition of success and failure just make this note here's failure a few errors in Judgment repeated every day now you can automatically assume Mr R I say I can understand that a few errors in judgment repeated every day for six years I'm with my father I think I told the story the last time I was here my father 88 years old he's never been ill still hasn't retired not long ago midnight we're getting ready to go to bed we've drilled A new
well got some extra water got some more Acres going he's all excited at midnight we're getting ready to go to bed my father's eating what he calls his midnight snack a little bite to eat before you go to bed don't have to go to bed hungry and I'm watching him eat this midnight snack guess what he had an apple few graham crackers and a glass of grapefruit juice I said no wonder my father's so healthy my mom taught us all Those good health practices taught me when I'm growing up right I'm an only child I've
never been ill passed the Big 5 some time ago my two daughters 32 33 never been ill my grandkids never been ill I'm telling you the Legacy lingers on as I watch my father have this midnight snack suddenly occurred to me I know that's part of it an apple what a day that's gotten into Dallas Fort Worth right an apple an apple A day keeps the doctor away good question for this intelligent audience what if that's true you say Well Mr R if that's true that would be easy to do then what's the problem it's
easy not to do it's easy not to adopt it as your own personal philosophy or the guy messed up to say guy says a Hershey bar a day say no no you've been watching too much television Vision it is not Hershey bar you got to Be smarter in philosophy than to fall for the Hershey bar a day when it's an apple a day you got to be smarter than that and if you make that kind of an error in judgment every day for six years I'm telling you it'll accumulate into disaster sometimes the first year
you say well you know I'm so healthy now what difference is it going to make you got to be smart than that just because disaster doesn't fall On us at the end of the first day doesn't mean disaster isn't coming you got to be so smart that you look down the road and say will the errors in my present Judgment of philosophy what's that going to cost me in one year 6 years one month 6 months I'm telling you the money cost and the health cost and the success cost is too gigantic if you'll look
down the road a little ways and say are there errors in my current judgment like an apple versus a Hershey Bar is that just a good illustration of some of the rest of my errors in judgment if it is that's where I found myself at age 25 I started working when I was 19 I met my teacher who helped turn my life around when I was 25 that's six years at the end of the first six years of my economic life I've got pennies in my pocket I've got nothing in the bank the creditors are
calling saying hey you told us the check was in the mail I'm Embarrassed I'm behind on my promises I live in America I'm 25-year-old American male I got a nice family every reason to do well and I'm messed up now what's messed up I used to think it was the community that was messed up and the country was messed up and the government was messed up if those Democrats ever get in the White House that'll really mess things up if the Republicans stay imp power that'll really mess things up the economy was messed up interest
rates Are messed up I thought all the Stu stuff was messed up then I found out that's not what was messed up I was criticizing the only thing I had to work with what was really messed up was my own personal philosophy my own errors in judgment in my own personal philosophy brought me in six years to pennies in my pocket nothing in the bank and trying to explain why I wasn't doing well Living in America 25-year-old American male got a family every reason to do well now Once I understood this here's the formula for
failure errors in judgment being LAX about developing your own personal philosophy I'm telling you it's called accumulated disaster it doesn't matter whether it's your health or your bank account guys got an empty bank account probably has high cholesterol why over the last six years he never paid attention to either one and it doesn't matter whether it's a Dollar whether it's your money or whether it's your cholesterol count all you got to do is commit the errors and just because disaster doesn't fall on you at the end of the first day that you don't eat an
apple you say well I didn't eat an apple today and tonight I'm not ill well you got to be brighter than that someday you got to leave first grade the reason we make those first grade desks so small so they won't fit at age 25 I mean right you don't belong Here anymore come on now let me give you the secret to success the formula for failure a few errors in judgment repeated every day for one month starts the weakness starts the disaster process you can imagine what happens in six years now here's the formula
for Success a few simple disciplines Practiced every day and you've started a whole new process called a whole new life a few simple disciplines practiced every day and if you decide today to go for the Apple instead of the Hershey bar I'm telling you you have begun the process of turning your life around and if you keep up that process not only with your health habits but with your money habits and with your communication habits with your sales habits and management habits And every other habit that you've got if you'll start that process eliminate the
errors and replace it with disciplines practiced I'm telling you you can start this process of life change immediately after today you don't ever have to be the same again only by choice you don't have to walk out of here the same as you walked in today only by choice you can start a whole new process and you say Well Mr Own is it that simple yes it's that simple where else would you start but with an apple you don't have to start with something staggering what if you should be walking around the block for your
good health and you don't what'll that do in six years I'm telling you the word is disaster you could and you should and you don't here's an even stronger word you won't I mean don't might mean you're Careless won't probably means you're stubborn and nether one's called disaster could should don't I'm telling you that's why at the end of five years I six years I found myself with pennies in my pocket nothing in the bank creditors calling could should won't could should don't is called disaster now how do you change all that the next six
years I got rich the next Six years I became a millionaire by the time I'm 31 I'm a millionaire how about that you say Well Mr Ron what happened well strangely enough during that second six years of my economic life the government was about the [Music] same I'm telling you taxes were about the same my negative relatives were were the same I'm telling you the economy was about the same and prices Were about the same and everything else was about the same circumstances were about the same then how come I got rich how come I
totally changed my life I was not the same someone says well what did you go to work on to do all that I started with My Philosophy I started amending my Errors By doing some better thinking changing my mind coming up with ideas that I didn't have before I met my teacher and once that whole process Started for me I'm telling you I changed my whole life within a six-year period I was never the same and I've kept up that process all these years one of the reasons why I'm here is to continue my craft
I don't want the day to come someday somebody says you should have heard Jim ran 10 years ago when he was really terrific guess what I want people to say I heard him 10 years ago but you should hear him now I'm telling you the man Works on his craft I'm telling you the man's done some extra reading I'm telling you the man doesn't miss a trick I'm telling you he's worked hard on himself that's why he's able to deliver like he does the same thing can happen for you as a teenager it can happen
to you as a mother as a father as a business person as a salesperson running a business doesn't matter management wherever you find yourself this is the process called personal change and what I say to start with is start with your own philosophy your philosophy is going to determine whether or not you go for the disciplines or continue the errors that called potential disaster and everybody has it within their power well it was so happy for me to find out at ag25 Mr SCH said Mr ran you don't have to change countries but you do
have to change philosophy and if you'll change philosophy not country you can turn Around your income you can turn around your bank account you can turn around your skills you can become capable powerful sophisticated healthy influential all the other equities that you could possibly want out out of your life using the only stuff there is and not trying to change any of this stuff appreciate all of this stuff with all of its ups and downs with all of its mystery of why it works and sometimes it doesn't work don't challenge this you Don't have to
ask for another planet you don't have to ask for another country just ask for another book ask for another seminar ask for another idea and you can start this whole process of life change now I could spend the whole day on philosophy because that's where it is if I could get you intrigued with that enough to study it enough to ponder it to where You' pick up the commitment like I did and say hey as simple as an apple a day as simple as A walk around the block Why not start right there if you
don't start there where else are you going to start might as well start where it's easy and then go to the more complicated disciplines because if you can't handle the complicated the simple disciplines how can you handle the complicated ones okay key philosophy here's number two I got to give these now very quickly because I got too much to cover here to linger too Long number one we're affected by philosophy first major of the five major pieces number two is attitude we're affected by how we feel first we're affected by what we know and the
decisions we and the decisions we make second we're affected by attitude how we feel and I gave that quick list let me give it to you it's how you feel about the past you got to have a good attitude About the past use it as a school not a club don't beat yourself to death with your past faults failures losses let the past be a school harsh school maybe what else is new let the past be a school Master to teach you not to threaten you but to teach you okay next to how you feel
about the future set your goals we'll talk a little bit about that before we finish today goal setting the Promise of the future is an awesome Force to affect your life every day without a future well-designed we take hesitant steps and all you have to have is hesitant steps for six years you'll be timid driven into a corner not boldly willing to go and take your portion take your share okay next it's how you feel about everybody else got to have a good attitude about everybody else cuz it takes everybody else to make a market
One person doesn't make a family one person doesn't make a business one person doesn't make a corporation one person doesn't make a community one person doesn't make a nation it takes all of us to make a dyamic economy a nation Second To None it takes all of us to make the churches and make the economy run takes all of us to make the possibilities all the gifts that have flowed in here the last 200 years unprecedented in six and A half thousand years of recorded history there's been nothing like it the ethnic streams that have
flowed in here brought their gifts brought their talent brought their skills brought their inventions brought their work ethic all of it mixed together it's called America been nothing like it in 6 and a half thousand years and to miss the value of it by some you know warped attitude about it I'm telling you you've missed it all and if you have an appreciation For it all you'll draw from it and if you draw from all the gifts that have been Blended together here for 200 years now for your value and benefit think of what you
can do for your days for your business for your conversation for your equities you can transform it to an incredible degree and here's the last one it's how you feel about yourself understanding selfworth is the beginning of progress selfworth should be Easy if one of us can do it all of us can do it if anybody can think it we all can think it I can read you can read I can understand you can understand from where I came from the few simple things I did and try revolutionized my life in 5 years there isn't
anybody here that can't do it change from pennies to Fortune change from nothing to something change from broke to rich anybody in this room can do it if any of us can do it we all can do it that's the kind of Value you should place on yourself if jimr can understand it I can understand it if he can read I can read if he can find it I can find it if he can change I can change if he can get it done I can get it done that's the attitude about yourself so valuable
okay now in Transforming Our Lives we don't start with attitude we don't start with the inspiration here we start with education somebody says well I expected you just come get motivated today well That probably won't do it somebody says by now we should be standing on the chairs waving a flag singing the old gry Mar get going here no that's not where you start life change does not start with inspiration life change starts with education you got to be educated to the point of where you might have messed stop my teacher put it in Blunt
simple language he only went to the ninth grade in school so he put it in simple language I could understand he said Mr R After 6 years Living in America healthy American male 25 years old been working six years one year of college pennies in your pocket nothing in the bank behind on your promises CH said I just got one simple explanation for that you've messed up now I could understand that kind of language substitute of Mery bar for an apple means you've messed up should walk around the block could walk around the block won't
walk around The block you have messed up and all you got to go is write down through the list don't need some teacher to come by and tell you be your own best teacher saying hey let me make a list of some places I've messed up CU if I let this down let this down that probably affects the rest and the answer is that's true so we don't start with inspiration start with education somebody says well just motivate this guy he'll be all right just motivate him get him turned On probably not if a guy's
an idiot you motivate him now you got to motivated idiot no it won't be all right so we start with education what's the first education if it isn't going well and you live in America you have messed up you don't need to change countries you say well the country's messed up that's like cursing the soil and cursing the seed and the Sunshine and the rain which is all you got don't curse all you Got when you get your own Planet you can rearrange this whole deal but this one you got to take like it comes
so number two was attitude here was number three activity this is the work part the labor part taking action and the activity is the miracle working piece a miracle being something we don't quite understand how it works doesn't mean it doesn't work it means we just Don't quite understand how it works miracles work God says now I'm an amateur on God but here's my best analysis God says if you'll plant the seed I'll make the tree now that's a good arrangement number one gives God the tough end of the deal what if you had to
make the tree that'd keep you up late night trying to figure out how do you make a Tree say no I'm telling you the mystery and the Miracle of this stuff has already been set up God says I got the miracle going I got the seasons going I got some sunshine and some rain and I'm God but the way I've arranged that I just need somebody to plant the seed not chant in California they're trying to chant to get this stuff done forget this California stuff you don't have to rub a crystal and sleep under
a pyramid this stuff's too Easy getting rich is too easy changing your life is too easy forget all that right massive bombard affirmation forget all that my opinion ocean waves and seag gulls come on this stuff's too simple just simple easy stuff but if you neglect it that's how it piles up year after year but if you're willing to straighten it out and here's one of the keys it's called activity it's called disciplines Turning wisdom from your philosophy and inspiration the strengthening of attitude and faith and courage commitment and all this stuff that comes from
attitude if you're willing to take these two qualities philosophy and attitude and invest it into activity you can have a miracle anything short of that no Miracle wisdom doesn't perform a miracle attitude doesn't perform a miracle the only thing that performs a miracle Miracle of increase Called Equity is called putting wisdom and attitude into discipline into labor and this labor now can perform a miracle and here's the two parts to the labor one do what you can number two do the best you can can't give you better advice than that number one do what you
can you just got to go home and make a list after today and here's the question to ask as you make this personal list what am I not doing that be easy to Do that could greatly change my health my wealth what am I not doing I'm neglecting that would be easy to do just go home and answer that question personally you don't have to put the answers on a public bulletin board this is just all personal stuff from the walk around the block to the Apple to what to do with your money which we're
going to covered today what does the child do with a dollar we're Going to cover that today errors in judgment disaster few simple disciplines Wealth Beyond imagination and if you'll pick up the Activity Part the miracle working part plant the seed part take care of your part the soil will take care of its part and the seed will take care of its part the seasons will take care of their part the miracle will take care of its part if you'll take care of your part called putting it into activity Action works miracles 2,000 years ago
on April 13th one of Jesus disciples now again I'm an amateur on the Bible but best as I can remember it one of Jesus disciples said to Jesus it's time to pay our taxes and we don't have any money that's how come I know it was about April 13th to this statement by his disciple Jesus said best as I can read the record Jesus said no problem now why could he say no problem well word has it word has it he was a miracle worker word has it if you're a good student of History word
as it he was a miracle worker if you handed a problem to a miracle worker what would he be inclined to say no problem you got to hang out with folks like that I belong to a small group of like that we do business around the world you Hand these guys a problem they say no problem what how many books would they read to solve it many as it takes how early would they get up early as it takes how much information would they get much as they needed so it's what no problem you got
to hang out with folks like that Jesus said this will be no problem the tax thing he said to his disciple it's simple go fishing wow Now that was easy for this particular disciple his name was Peter and Peter was a fisherman how clever how clever but here's the real problem if you should fish and you could fish and you don't fish you got no Miracle you could change you should change you won't change that's called accumulated disaster in 6 years you'll be explaining instead of Celea having some ragged list like I had reasons for
not doing well pennies in my pocket could should don't disaster and if you'll just start the process of change could should and will you can start this whole process and if you will then put it into action action the miracle belongs to you Jesus said to his disciple it'll be simple go fishing and the first fish you catch look in his mouth Peter said okay he was used to strange things happening in this Relationship Peter goes fishing catches the first fish looks in his mouth guess what's in the fish's mouth coins Peter says wow coins
starts counting the value of these coins and when he adds it up guess how much it added up to exactly enough money to pay his taxes and Jesus taxes which gives you jesus' position on taxes okay now we call that what a miracle only because we don't quite understand how it works it doesn't mean It doesn't work it simply means we don't quite understand how it works
