Economics we're going to study that when we come back from our break economics we're going to cover especially for the kids today how to become financially independent going to let the adults listen I've been teaching kids for the last 18 19 years how to be rich by 40 35 if you're extra bright most kids think they're extra bright they go for 35 or much sooner if you find a unique Opportunity we're going to get into that be a student of Economics next culture sophistic ation don't leave that out of your life culture sophistication culture is
part of the fabric of the nation culture is what makes us different than dogs and animals culture is what makes us different from The Barbarians culture sophistication be a student of the dance and the art and the music and all the Rest of those extraordinary human values that are possible for us all to participate in as well as to to enjoy be a student of culture and the last one is spirituality study it from the Bible and all the related books about spirituality if you're a Believer study and practice let your library show you're a
serious student next keep a journal sh said Mr O not only be a Student but the good ideas that you develop from the books keep a separate Journal write all this stuff down here's what he said don't trust your memory if you're serious about becoming wealthy and powerful and sophisticated and healthy influential cultured unique keep a journal don't trust your memory if you listen to something valuable write it down if you come across something important write it down Write it down now I used to take notes on pieces of paper and torn off corners and
backs of old envelopes and restaurant place mats and long sheets and narrow sheets and little sheets and pieces thrown in a drawer found out best way keep a journal I've been keeping these journals now since age 25 it makes up a valuable part of my own learning and it's a valuable part of my library my own journals now form a good portion of my own Library the stuff I'm trying to get kids to do like I do be a buyer of empty books kids find it interesting I'd buy an empty book especially at my status
in life what did I pay for this one $26 kids say $26 for an empty book why would you do that well the reason I paid $26 is to press me to see if I can't find something worth $26 to put in here and I'm telling you all my journals are Private but if you got a hold of one of my journals you wouldn't have to look very far until you would say this is worth more than $26 I must admit if you got a glimpse of Mr Ron's journals you'd have to say he is
a serious student not just committed to his craft but committed to life committed to skills committed to learning to see what I can do with seed and soil and sunshine and rain and Miracle and possibilities and turn it into I ities of life and treasure family relationships Enterprise Sales Management gifts Galore everything you want all available especially in America I'm asking you keep a journal I call it one of the three Treasures to leave behind let me give you that one of the three Treasures to leave behind number one is your pictures take a lot
of pictures you ever look back right two or Three generations just a handful of photograph gra s way back there wouldn't it be something if there was album after album thousands of pictures to help tell the story a picture's word a thousand words don't be lazy in capturing the event how long does it take to capture the event a fraction of a second how long does it take to miss the event a fraction of a second errors in judgment or disciplines take lots of pictures help tell the Story click click got it click click got
it key I go to Taiwan to lecture Taipei Taiwan Grand Hotel neat place to do a weekend seminar I got a thousand students guess how many cameras 1,000 cameras they all bring their cameras they wouldn't miss the event take pictures takes me more time to take pictures than it does to do the lectures here's my new American friend here's my New American friend click click save it got it thousand words each one what a scenario don't miss the pictures when you're gone one of the things to leave behind the treasure in picture as well as
in words ke next your library the library that you gathered that taught you that instructed you that helped you to defend your ideals that Helped you to develop a philosophy that helped you to become wealthy and powerful and healthy and sophisticated and unique the library that helped you conquer some disease the library that helped you to conquer poverty the library that caused you to walk away from the ghetto the library the books that instructed you fed your mind and fed your soul leave your library behind one of the greatest gifts you can leave behind Is
your library Stepping Stones Out Of The Darkness into the light your library so leave leave your books behind your books will be more valuable than your couch your books your books your books and third is your journals the ideas that you picked up the note you took at seminars like this wherever you found an occasion to gather something valuable and put it in here so you could go back over it and go back over it repetition is the mother of Skill read it one more time learn it one more time see if you can just
it one more time let it coach you one more time let it teach you one more time let it inspire you one more time words are inspirational the lyrics of a song and not just read it once that's why we put our stuff on cassettes so you can go through it again and again and again if you hear a beautiful song that does something to you you don't say well that's enough don't need to hear that Again no wouldn't you want to hear it again hear it again hear it again let it instruct you let
it feel lead you let it teach you take you on wings of emotional Journeys wouldn't you want to do that again the answer is yes that's what's so important and here's what's important one of the things to leave behind that's your journals all the stuff you took the meticulous time to gather one of the greatest proofs that you're a serious student taking pictures that's pretty Easy buying a book at a bookstore that's pretty easy here's one that's a little more challenging be student enough of your own life and your own future and your own Destiny
be student enough to take the time to keep the notes and keep the journal you'll be so glad you did what a treasure to leave behind when you go your journals wow I wouldn't be without mine now I'm in Caril California one of my favorite places it's where I wrote my First book called seasons of life I went to this little church one Sunday morning first time I'd been there little small church I don't know 150 people classic sermon that morning classic sermon one of the best I've ever heard in all of my life I
happened to be there and I had my journal while this sermon is going on I can't believe it was so precise it was so unique it was so powerful and I've Got my journal and I'm taking notes taking notes of this classic sermon uh guess how many other people were taking notes approximately guess how many do you suppose it looked like best as I could tell I'm the only one taking notes of this classic sermon now since I'm a stranger there and it's the first time I've been there and I'm taking these notes people started
looking who is he and what's he Doing I started feeling just a little bit uncomfortable I'm still writing now I'm feeling kind of like a spy right I could hear some of them say he's going to get out of here with some of this stuff and I did I did I'm the guy that walked away with the stuff I'm asking you to be no less sincere and be no less committed to the advancement of your philosophy the set of the sale talk About have your best year ever this year and then get ready for next
year your very best year ever and they'll start being the best the best the best year after year if you'll commit yourself to some of this simp stuff called personal development start with a walk around the block start with the refinement of your philosophy start with the teaching of your own fabulous mind where all the answers are I can only give you a few answers from my own experience the rest Of all the magical answers are within the confines of your own mind but it takes the books takes the cassettes takes the videos personal conversation
sermons lyrics from songs dialogue from the movie let your heart be stirred by words find ways to capture part of your personal development Quest now here's the last subject on personal development just before we take Our break isn't this good stuff I'm telling you this stuff changed my life turned me Every Way but Loose I've never been the same since teacher gave me some of this simple instruction how to go from where you are to where you want to go how to go from what you are to what you want to become how to go
from pennies to treasure how to go from nothing to Fortune it's all within the confines of this stuff that I've been trying to Share with you labor ing best I can words are clumsy when you try in your your exper but I'm doing my best today and I'm excited about it appreciate you taking all these good notes I'm good students today I appreciate [Music] that develop these five five abilities as part of your personal development Quest I call them the five abilities here's the first one develop The ability to absorb the ability to soak it
up like you're doing today be like a sponge don't miss anything and not just the words it's true don't miss the words but don't miss the atmosphere don't miss the color don't miss the scenario don't miss what's going on most people are just trying to get through the Day here's what I want you to be committed to do learn to get from the day don't just get through it get from it learn from it let the day teach you join the University of Life what a difference that'll make in your future commit yourself to learning
commit yourself to absorbing be like a sponge get it don't miss it I've got a personal friend of mine who's so gifted in this Area I think he has soaked up and remembers everything that's ever happened to him he can tell you as a teenager where he was and what he did and what he said and what she said and how they felt and the color of the sky and what was going on that day and the reason is because he gets it he gets it he gets it I'm telling you it's more exciting to
have him go to Acapulco come back and tell you about it than it is to go Yourself he's unbelievable he's got this extraordinary gift and why is it when he's there he doesn't miss anything here's a good phrase for you to jot down wherever you are be there be there to absorb it up be there to soak it up take a picture if you can but take pictures of your mind let your soul and heart take pictures Get It capture it absorb it that's such an Important ability ility to develop the ability to get it
don't miss it don't be casual in getting it key phrase casualness leads to casualties second learn to respond the ability to respond means let Life Touch you don't let it kill you but let it touch you let sad things make you sad let happy things make you Happy I'm telling you give in to the emotion let the emotion strike you not just the words not just the image let the feeling strike you let the emotions strike you here's what's important our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect our emotions need to be educated
as well as our intellect it's important to know how to feel it's important to know how to respond it's it's important to let life in let it touch You I'm the greatest guy in the world to take to the movies I get into a good movie I want a good movie make me laugh make me cry scare me to death teach me something take me high take me low just don't leave me as I was when I came in touch me do something to me wow I picked up the newspaper in Australia the advertisement says
see Dr jaago on the big Screen I said my gosh I got to go see it on the big screen I'd seen it you know two or three times before but the big screen I love the old theaters right the balconies and the chandeliers and the draperies and all the stuff the big screen so I go one more time see Dr Dr zivago and sure enough I'm swept away one more time story of the Russian Revolution Dr zivago and that whole scenario I had always missed the Importance of the ending of that movie until this
time the other times I missed it I'm telling you this time I got it comrade General said Tanya how did you come to be lost after he'd found her right said how did you come to be lost and she said well I was just lost he said no how did you come to be lost she said well we were you know the city was on fire when we were running to escape and and I was lost he said no how did you come to be lost and that's what she Didn't want to say he finally
pressed her again how did you come to be lost and he said well she said well while we were running through the city and it was on fire my father let go of my hand and I was lost that's what she didn't want to say comrade General said tell you that's what I've been trying to tell you karowski was not your real father he was not I'm telling you I've been looking all over for you and I Think I found you this man my relative Dr zfo the poet I'm telling you he was your father
and comrade General said Tanya I promise you this if this man your real father had been there I promise you he would never have let go of your hand and I got it this time I got it the other times I'm eating popcorn waiting for the movie to finish I mean this time I got it I got I'm asking you to get It absorb and respond maybe you heard the story about the the Evangelist here in Texas way back in the horse and buggy days used to put up his uh tent and you know these
various Texas towns and hold tent revivals and he put up his tent one of these towns expected a big crowd to come and hear him preach and he got there first night at the Tent Revival and he walked Inside the tent it was empty and he thought something must be wrong he waited till 8:00 nobody showed up he waited till 8:15 not a soul finally 8:30 one lone cowboy wandered up on his horse tied his horse up outside came in sat down on the front bench Big Empty tent so the preacher thought well at least
I better go down and talk to the Cowboy so he goes down and talks to the Cowboy and he says Cowboy I don't know what to tell you he said I'm the preacher and this tent was supposed to be full of people and he said something's gone wrong I really don't know what to do I'm embarrassed and he said I don't know what to do and the cowboy said well you know I'm not a preacher I'm just a cowboy so I can't tell you what to do but he said I know this if I went
out to feed my cattle and only one showed up I'd at least feed it so uh the preacher said hey the cowboy is right if you've got a message to share if there's one person or a thousand don't let your ego get in the way you know you should do the best you can so he got kind of inspired by this conversation with the cowboy jumped up on the platform started preaching as if the tent was full of people and he was so inspired he just kept going kept Going went for an hour went for
an hour and 15 minutes hour and a half finally wound down and quit come down off the platform talked to the Cowboy again and said well Cowboy what did you think of my sermon the cowboy said well I'm not a preacher so I can't really tell I'm just a cowboy but he said I know this if I went out to feed my cattle and only one showed up I'd feed it but I wouldn't dump the whole load on it So if it seems like we're dumping the whole load here today I guess we really are
but you guys are working hard does anybody have four pages of notes oh wonderful wonderful my job I'm getting it done wonderful we should give a prize one of these days for the most notes fantastic I congratulate you you're working as hard as I am I appreciate that okay we got some more work to do so Let's go to work everybody's okay say I'm okay I'm all right I'd love to take you with me as my traveling audience wow we've covered the first two abilities in the personal development quest one is the ability to absorb
don't miss anything pay attention good watch word for the '90s pay attention things are moving so fast these days you got to pay attention pick It up soak up the colors soak up the sounds soak up what's going on second respond let Life Touch you let the emotions affect you as well as the sights now here's the third ability develop the ability to reflect reflect means go back over study it again go back over these notes that you're taking today go back through the cassettes one more time read the text One more time but there's
more to it than that go back over your day I call it run the tapes again so that the day locks in firmly here's some good times to reflect one at the end of the day take a few minutes at the end of the day go back over the day who' you see and what they say and what happened how'd you feel what went on so that you capture that day a day is a piece of the Mosaic of your life Number one don't treat it casual number two get from the day and then number
three go back over the day so that it locks in that experience the knowledge the sights The Sounds the Panorama the color emotion picture of the day just lock it in so that it will serve you for the future have having that day not missing next take a few hours at the end of the week call time to Reflect go back over your daytime or go back over your calendar go back over your appointment book where did you go and who did you see and how did it feel and what went on capture that week
a week is a pretty good chunk of time next take half a day at the end of the month called time to reflect and do the same thing again go Back over what you read go back over what you heard go back over what you saw go back over the feelings to capture it so that it serves you next take a weekend at the end of the year to establish this year now firmly in your Consciousness firmly in your experience bank so that you've got it so that it never disappears good ability to acquire the
Ability to reflect go back over remember remember remember it's so valuable to be able to remember the thought remember the idea remember the experience remember the occasion remember the day remember the weather remember the emotion remember the complexity remember the eyes remember the lows so valuable at the end of the day lock that day in lock the month in lock the week in lock the year in Old Testament Says a unique scenario unfolded according to the law and that was they worked nine years and the 10th year was a sabatical the 10th year work nine
take the 10th year and not just to relax not just to replenish not maybe just to get physically in shape change of pace we call it in the modern society but not just for that I'm sure that in ancient days that sabatical was to go over the Last nine years what went right and what went wrong and what worked well and what didn't work well and how did you grow and how did you learn and how did you change and what have you got now after 9 years that you didn't have at the beginning of
the nine years see that's so valuable a sabatical a sabatical some time some time there's also something to be said for Solitude when you reflect sometimes you can reflect with somebody husband And wife reflect on the past year right parents reflect with their children on the past year how did we do it and how didn't we do it and how could we improve colleagues can reflect with each other but now here's one of the most important you got to learn to reflect with with yourself there's something to be said for Solitude there's something to be
said for taking those occasions to shut out The world and shut out everything else for a while for a while I've got a motor home it's how I do it with my motorcycle on the back and I head for the mountains and ride the Jeep trails where there's very few human beings on the Jeep trails or out in in the desert somewhere it's called my time to get away when you live a very public life You treasure Solitude a chance to reflect go back over my life go back over my skills go back over my
experiences alone alone there are some things you need to do alone Ponder think Wonder read study absorb soak in see if you can't become better this year than you were last year better the next nine than you were the first nine Solitude there's even a more modern advice that Says go to the closet for time of meditation time of prayer go to the closet closet meaning what away and there's even a graphic description of the away said enter into your closet and what got some students here I'm sure what close the door for what just
to shut out everything life is experience experience experience and touching and seeing and looking and doing and acting and Disciplines and all the stuff but sometimes this is where this reflecting is so important to shut the door to shut the door and wonder prayer contemplation thinking and let things move in to your Consciousness and awareness that no other way can it be done right flying down the freeway I'm telling you it's difficult to get through so many things to do it's difficult to get through but times of solitude times to reflect so This is so
valuable learn to reflect now here's why it's important to reflect to make the past more valuable to serve you for the future here's what's really powerful learning to gather up the past and invest it in the future gather up today and invest it in tomorrow gather up this week and invest it in the next week gather up this year and invest it in the next year see that's so powerful rather than just Hanging on one more year hanging in there seeing what's going to happen learn study this is part of the personal development Quest becoming
better than you are more valuable than you are not just in terms of economics in terms of motherhood in terms of fatherhood in terms of being a better brother better colleague making a better contribution to the family to society to the community to the church to the office to the commitment to the partnership Doesn't matter what it is that has value work on yourself then you bring more value to the partnership to the marriage to the franchise to the corporation to the Enterprise to the community to the nation self-development personal development the best contribution you
can make to someone else is self-development not self-sacrifice self-sacrifice only earns contempt self-development earns respect pity the mother who says I'm Just going to give up my life for my children self-sacrifice is not Noble self-investment is Noble from self-development if I work on myself and become more valuable think of what that'll do for our friendship I used to use the old expression you take care of me and I'll take care of you I found out how shallow and short-ended that was and I changed it to read like this I'll take care of me for You
if you will please take care of you for me and this is part of it the personal development that we work harder on ourselves than we do on our job now we bring that to the friendship now we bring that to the marriage now we bring that to the family relationship as a father as a mother and we develop the strength and we develop the power that's key and it takes I think this scenario of disciplines these Abilities to acquire those gifts and those skills that value so that we bring more now we bring more
to the next week we bring more to the next month we bring more to the next year if you follow this absorb respond and reflect I said to my father when he was about to turn 76 his 76th birthday I said dear father of mine can you imagine what it's going to be like to gather up the last 75 years of your life and invest them in your 76th Year what a different of philosophy rather than just hanging on one more year gather up 75 and invest them in the next one gather up the last
6 years and invested in the next year see that's so powerful in communication which we're going to study soon so powerful so consider this one the ability to absorb second the ability to respond third the ability to reflect here's number four develop the ability to act take action Not Hasty if it isn't required but don't lose much time here's the time to act when the idea is hot and the emotion is strong that's the time to act you say Mr R I'd like to have a library like yours see if you feel strong about that
what you got to do is get the first book and then get the second book before the feeling passes and before the idea gets dim action Pronto action immediate action as soon As possible cuz if you don't here's what happens we call it the law of diminishing intent we intend to when the idea strikes us we intend to when the emotion is high but now if you don't translate that into action fairly soon now the intent starts to diminish diminish diminish and a month from now it's cold year from now can't be found so act
set up a discipline when The emotions are high and the idea is strong and clear and Powerful full that's the time to set up the discipline somebody talks about good health and you're stirred says right I need to get a book on nutrition get the book before the idea passes and before before the emotion gets cold go for the book start the library start the process fall on the floor do some push-ups action got to take action otherwise the wisdom is wasted Otherwise the emotion soon passes unless you put it into a disciplined activity capture
it disciplines is called how to capture the emotion and how to capture the wisdom and translate into Equity disciplines now here's what's important about disciplines all disciplines affect each other in fact here's a good philosophical phrase everything affects everything else nothing stands Alone don't be naive and saying well this doesn't matter I'm telling you everything matters there are some things that matter more than others but there isn't anything that doesn't matter okay we all pity the man who says well this is the only place I let down not true key to take home every let
down affects the rest of your Performance every let down affects the rest this is part of the educational process on personal development if you don't take the walk around the block you probably won't do the apple a day if you don't do the apple a day you probably won't consist you know start building your library if you don't build your library you probably won't keep a journal and you won't take pictures and you won't do this you won't do wise Things with your money won't do wise things with your time won't do wise things with
your possibilities and relationships and the first thing you know six years of that accumulated and we say you have messed up so the whole key to reversing that process now is to start picking up these disciplines now here's the positive side every new discipline affects the rest of your disciplines every new one affects the Rest that's why action is so important the least action the smallest action take it because when you start accomplishing and the value starts to return from that one action it'll inspire you to do the next one and the next one and
the next one you start walking around the block it'll inspire you to get an Apple get an Apple it'll inspire you to get a book get a book it'll inspire you to get a journal get a journal it'll inspire you to grow Develop some skills all disciplines affect each other every lack affects the rest every new affects the rest the key is to diminish the lack and set up the new and You' started a whole new life process key also one more thought on discipline here's the greatest value of discipline self-worth self-esteem people are teaching
self-esteem these days but they don't connect connected to Disciplines the least lack of discipline and it starts to erode our psyche one of the greatest Temptations is to just ease up a little bit right the the the slightest lack of doing your best starts to erode the psyche instead of doing your best doing just a little less than your best sure enough you say well it's just going to affect my sales no it's going to affect your Consciousness it's going to affect Your philosophy now you've begun in the slightest way to affect your own philosophy
here's the problem with the least neglect neglect starts as an infection and if you don't take care of it it becomes a disease and one neglect leads to another and the worst of all when neglect starts it diminishes our self-worth our self-confidence our self value you say well how can I get get back my Self-respect I'm telling you you don't have to go to 29 classes all you have to do is start the smallest discipline that now corresponds to your own philosophy like I should and I could and I will no longer will I let
neglect stack up on me so that I will have the sorry scenario six years from now giving some excuse instead of celebrating my progress that's the key to discipline okay let's get kids involved in the least of disciplines one more and Then one more and then another one and then another one and then some more and the first thing you know you're starting to weave the tapestry of a disciplined life into which you can pour more wisdom and more attitude and more strong feeling more faith and more courage now you've got something a vessel in
which to put it and now the equity start to flow and the early return I'm telling you if you'll start this process the early return will have you so excited You'll commit yourself to this strategy for the rest of your life you'll never go back to the old world ways join a new crowd join a new group The disciplines to do it take action I recommended the last time I was here the little book richest man in Babylon and I said I've lectured now to over 3 million people in the last 33 years and I've
recommended this little book to almost all of them I think guess how many have actually gone and got this Little book answer very few my best guess is 10% such an easy thing to do in that last seminar right I suggested this little book number one is easy to find number two it's easy to buy the most you can pay for it $678 you can borrow that from your kids and number three it's easy to read it's in story form that's why I use it for teenager teaching them how to be Rich by 40 35
if you're extra bright much sooner if you find a unique opportunity but if it's easy to find and easy to buy and if it's easy to read why wouldn't everybody go get it we don't know what do you know you don't know I don't know nobody knows here's how profound it is some do and some don't now here's the numbers about 10% do 90% don't or Won't and we don't know the mystery of that and I'm telling you 10 years from now those numers will still be the same 10% will 90% won't the numbers don't
change only the faces change you're looking at one of the faces I used to belong to the 90% who couldn't be bothered even if it was easy guess how many people have a library card wisdom of the world available transform your life in any value amount You want by the way how much is a library card in Texas free here's what free is easy I mean it can't be any easier than free somebody says well would you bring it by well no at least you got to go get it no wisdom of the world available
transform your life spiritually socially personally economically in every other way teach you how to be rich and Powerful and sophisticated and healthy influential how many people have a library card answer 3% 95 97% couldn't be bothered guy specializes in happy hour but he doesn't have a card and now readily and quickly blames the government and blames his company and blames policy and blames the pay scale when if he only knew if he joined the 3% here's my advice to you today walk away from the 97% don't talk like they talk don't act like they act
don't go where they go don't specialize in what they specialize in throw away the blame list they cling to start You a New Life you say well is it as simple as getting a library card and joining the 3% and the answer is of course of course that's how easy this stuff is this is so easy it's so simple it's not complex you don't need a 2,000 year old Guru you don't need multi-track Affirmations I'm telling you don't affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion key don't let somebody sweep you into some contrary way
to Nature itself says unless you labor the miracle of the seed and the soil and the seasons and God and all the other stuff that's available sunshine and rain that's not available to you by affirmation it is only available to you by labor so labor Well okay learn well discipline yourself well and you can have all the treasures you want this stuff's easy and simple simple it's not ocean waves and seagulls you don't have to move to Sedona where all the force fields come together in Arizona Let's teach our kids the simple ways to transform
their health number one their economics number two their ability to communicate number three their life and treasure and lifestyle number four spirituality number five and The list goes on and on let's not leave out any of the least of disciplines that encourage us to do the next one to do the next one to do the next one first thing you know this whole scenario for you is spinning up instead of out of control on the negative side this is all you got to do it's as simple as this it's as simple as a start committing
yourself to life change and once you start down this road I promise you you'll join the 10% and the 3% we're going to talk Financial Independence in just a little while guess how many people can retire from the income of their own personal resources when it comes time to retire answer 5% in the most independent country in the world 95% are dependent 5% are independent take charge of your own retirement I'm telling you if you take charge of your own retirement through personal development and all these Skills we've taught today plus what's coming up Financial
Independence I'm telling you take charge of your own retirement you can multiply it at least by five maybe by 10 maybe by 20 maybe by 100 let the government take care of it some company take care of it you got to divide by five take charge of your own life take charge of your own day take charge of your own conversation take charge of your own family take charge of your own Possibilities and learn these skills develop this kind of strategy and I'm telling you life will open up for you join the 3% join the
10% join the 5% walk away from the 95% in our leadership weekend we teach find out what poor people read and don't don't read it I'm telling you don't talk like they talk lend a helping hand but don't fall into the their poor philosophical scenario don't blame what they blame Don't use the excuses they use it's called the language of the poor switch gears switch language switch ideas switch strategy start with the simplest of disciplines and don't be mean any of these disciplin the smallest of disciplines starts the process of life change and if you'll
invest in this thing called discipline you can have whatever you wish it's called the beginning of a miracle now here's the last clue on Discipline do the best you can we covered earlier but here's a good scenario for the do the best you can I've got a good question for you is the best you can do all you can do the answer is no strangely enough if we all fell on the floor right now now and did as many push-ups as we possibly could and let's say for some reason you haven't been into push-ups lately
I can't imagine why but let's Say and let's say the best you can do is five and you look up at the rest of us and say hey five is the best I can do we can tell but a look on your face that's probably true five is the best you can do now is five all you can do the answer is no if you rest a little you can do five more wow and if you rest a little you can do five more and if you rest a little you can do 15 more how
did we get from 5 to 15 it's a miracle and if you rest a little you can do 15 rest a little you can do 15 rest a little you can do 20 how did you get from 5 to 20 it's a miracle did you know you can keep doing that do a little more rest a little do a little more rest a little and finally get up to 50 push-ups is it possible to get up to 50 push-ups of Course how do you go from 5 to 50 it's a miracle how do you get
a miracle going number one do what you can don't leave out what you can from writing a letter to your mother in Florida start cleaning it all up two doing the push-ups go from 5 to 50 it's a miracle number one do what you can number two do the best you can here's number three best very little don't rest too long why the weeds take the garden kids have got that figured out you can't rest too Long here's the clue make rest a necessity not an objective the objective of life is not to rest the
objective of life is to act think of more disciplines think of more ways and means in which to use your own wisdom and your own philosophy and use your own attitude your own own faith your own courage Your Own commitment your own desires your own excitement invest it invest it invest it invest it in discipline so that it's not wasted the smallest of Discipline thereby transform your life join the 5% join the 10% join the 3% guess when I went and got this little book richest man in Babylon the same day I heard about it
I went and got it somebody says well Mr own does that make you different than most other people the answer is yes somebody says well why is that we don't know we don't know what do you know you don't know I don't know none of Us knows some do and some don't the numbers don't change only the faces change from those who get in on a seminar like this listen to a dynamic sermon read a book listen to some cassettes take seriously the next conversation of a friend who wants to level with you and do
something about it and you can walk away from the 97% not live there anymore because if you don't the next six years of your life will be Like the last six Mr SCH said to me Mr ran six years now you've been working I'm telling you the next six years your life is going to be like the last six unless you take advantage and start making these personal changes I made the changes totally revolutionize my life so take a look at the next 5 years of your life it's going to be like the last five
unless unless unless unless you change and if you will change everything will change join the 5% 10 years from now the numbers are going to be the same but I'm telling you some faces in this audience can change and start showing up in the 3% crowd and the 5% crowd in the 10% crowd and thereby dynamically affect your life and your future develop these strengths now here's the last ability develop the ability to share pass along to someone else if you've picked up a good idea today pass it along don't let it stay pass it
Along a book if you take one of these little books I've suggested home and it affects you pass along say hey I found a book really helped me I found a book got me thinking I found a book changed my health I found a book got me inspired pass it along pass it along pass it along here's what's exciting about sharing if you share with 10 different people they get to hear it once you get to hear it 10 times so it's probably going to do more For you than it is for them but it's
called what everybody wins when somebody shares everybody wins wow share your ideas share your experiences share your knowledge you can have just as much pleasure as I do I said giving this seminar this is one of my joys in life give a seminar like this make the best investment I can of words and spirit and heart and soul and time energy I don't have to work this hard but I gladly work this hard why I want the return your words touch my life see that's heavyweight stuff you can't buy it with money but I'm telling
you you can get the same thing started by recommending a book somebody will read that book and then they'll read another one and they'll read another one and they'll come to you someday and say you got me started that book you recommended turned my lights on turned my mind around got me thinking got me pondering and I've been on track ever Since you can get just as much praise as I do if you'll share share with your children share with your colleagues share with everybody that comes within your grasp share now here's what sharing does
not only helps you helps the person you share with here's what else it does makes you bigger than you are if I had a glass of water up here and it was full question can that glass hold any More water if it's full if the glass is full can it hold any more water the answer is yes but for it to hold more you got to pour out let's already in that's what I'm asking you to do if you're full of ideas if you're full of good things I'm asking you to pour it out pour
it out pour it out why I'm telling you more will be poured in poured in poured in next when you do pour out you become Bigger it's not like a glass that stays the same human beings have the ability to grow and Consciousness and awareness and capacity it's unlimited capacity I found out kids don't lack capacity in Europe the kids speak what 2 3 four five six languages when I grew up my father spoke German never taught me my mother spoke French never taught me they were trying to get away from all the old world
languages back then had no concept how Valuable languages were going to be in the future just didn't know so they abandoned the German abandoned the French I could have learned all three languages instead of just English my girls went to high went to school in Beverly Hills they' turn that around in first grade now in Beverly Hill School System they offer three languages besides English French and German Spanish why because kids can learn two languages just as easy as one question how many languages can a child learn here's how many as many as you'll take
the time to teach it they do not lack capacity they only lack teachers wow and I'm telling you the same thing is with you you don't lack capacity but here's how you expand your capacity and that is to share what you've got now you get bigger share some more and now you get bigger I'm here for A very self-interest reason if I share with you my Consciousness grows if I share with you I get to hear this again somebody asked me not long ago said Mr how are you doing with all this stuff you get
on everybody's case pretty hard how are you doing with all this stuff you teach I said well best I can share with you is this listen to me very carefully but don't watch me too close this stuff's easier to lecture on than it is to do I understand that I'm Working on it just like you but hey pour out what you've got so that your capacity grows now why should you want your capacity to grow very self-interest reason here it is to hold more of the next experience you mean to tell me that sitting in
this audience some people will get more out of it than others the answer is yes if you haven't been into expanding your own capacity lately you might not get much from this seminar but if you've Been into expanding Your Capacity you've been sharing and you've been doing all this stuff I'm telling you no telling what all this could mean to you today this chance to grow change develop absorb take in I'm asking you to expand and grow so you can hold more of the next experience some people can't be very happy you could pour happiness
out on the whole world some people can't be very happy why they're not big Enough if you're small you don't get much small in comprehension small in the ability to think and wonder small in appreciation no matter how much is poured out Prosperity can be poured out on the whole country some people don't get much WI too small too small in their thinking too small in their ability to share have not expanded to their full capacity don't be like that now some people aren't going to get much CU they've got their cup turned Upside down
you couldn't put anything in learn to share it's a glorious glorious experience okay enough on personal development let's cover Now setting goals let me show you something to turn me Way but Loose I've never been the same since I found out about it learning how to set goals not long after I met Mr scha we're having breakfast one Morning Mr SCH said Mr R now that we've gotten acquainted we know each other fairly well he said maybe one of the best ways I can help you he said let me see your current list of goals
let's go over them and talk about them and I said what I don't have a list he said well Mr ran if you don't have a list of your goals he said I can guess your bank balance within a few hundred which he did and that got my Attention I said you mean my bank balance would change if I had a list of goals he said drastically so that day I became a student of setting goals and I've used it to Dynam dynamically affect my life I've taught it to some of my business colleagues we
use it to do business around the world setting goals it can turn out to be a drama for your life here's what goals Are your vision of the future your vision of the future now there's two ways to face the future one with apprehension number two with anticipation guess how most people face the future with apprehension why major reason why they don't have it welld designed they've left the design of Their future to somebody else and if you don't make plans of your own guess what you'll probably fall into someone else's plans guess what someone
else may have planned for you not much you got to make a list of this not much stuff I'm telling you people all their lives count on this not much list if all of your negative relatives all turn positive what will that do for your Future not much if prices come down a little what'll that do for your future not much if the economy gets a little better what will that do for your future not much if circumstances get a little better what will that do not much if the weather gets a little better over
the next few years that'll do not much I mean you can go right down this whole scenario list most people all Their lives with their fingers crossed count on this not much list that's why 10 years from now they'll be driving what they don't want to drive living where they don't want to live wearing what they don't want to wear doing what they don't want to do having what they don't want to have maybe become what they didn't want to become and it all starts by counting on something that's not going to count much you
say well then how can my life Dramatically change you got to count on yourself and here's one of the things you got to count on your ability to design the future it's called the promise and the promise of the future if you'll design it well can have an awesome effect on your life but if you face the future with apprehension you'll take hesitant steps all day uncertain steps all day and if you take uncertain steps all day for six Years you can imagine how empty your life can be we got to help our kids with
the promise of the future now here's what's connected to the promise the price the price to pay but I'm telling you the price is easy if the promise is clear one of the better notes to make for today the price is easy if the promise is clear and Powerful but the price seems almost too much to pay too much to get over too Much to accomplish if the promise isn't clear if the promise promise isn't powerful I'm telling you kids will pay the disciplines if they can see the Promise one of our biggest challenges as
parents in the 90s is to help our kids see the promise of the future that's why I'm teaching Financial Independence how to become wealthy and powerful and sophisticated and healthy and unique all of the stuff kids would hope to go for it's all possible this is America that's the promise of the future the price a few simple disciplines practiced every day and I'm telling you the kids will pay the price of the simple disciplines if they can see the promise of the future but if they can't see they don't want to pay and the same
is true of all of us we will pay the most extraordinary disciplines if we can see the promise of the future called setting goals so I'm Asking you to get a handle on the future I'm asking you not to leave it to anyone else not don't leave it to the company company's got their own goals I'm asking you to set your own goals your personal goals income goals and financial goals and health goals and spiritual goals and where do you want to go and what do you want to do and what do you want to
see and what do you want to be that's it promise of the future design your own future it's within your hands Your Capacity to do so here's how simple Now goal setting is it's not mysterious you don't have to Anchor you don't have to focus you don't have to visualize none of that stuff here's how a simple goal setting is change my life decide what you want and write it down I mean that's how profound this stuff is decide what you want and write it down make a list where do you want to go what
do you want to do what do you want to See what do you want to be what do you want to have what do you want to share what projects would you like to support what would you like to be known for what skills would you like to learn some extraordinary things you'd like to do ordinary things you'd like to do right silly little things you'd like to do very important things you'd like to do decide decide on all that stuff and write it down write it down write it down that's how simple as stuff
is and It's your own private list if it's really private you know on your list put some stuff in code where nobody can understand it if this list fell into unfriendly hands and simple things whatever foolish things doesn't matter it's your list I had a little revenge on my first list Budget Finance who used to harass me I got two or three payments behind this one guy called incessantly said We're going to come get your car drag it rear end up down the street in front of your neighbors put me down something fierce when I
met scha got my life straightened out one of the first things on one of my lists was Budget Finance and when I finally got the money I needed a little drama in my life finally got the money to pay him off I put it in small bills in a big briefcase Walked into the Budget Finance office on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles the guy who harassed me so often his desk was about three back I opened the door walked in right up to his desk stood right in front of him never said a word he
said well what are you doing here didn't say a word I opened up this briefcase dumped this pile of money all over his desk I said count it it's all there I'll never be back turned around walked out slammed the Door now that might be not be Noble but you got to try it at least one time pay off with a little [Applause] drama got to check them off my list keep your list with you I keep my list in my journal so that I can go back five years ago here was my list and
I'm a little embarrassed here's what I thought was so important now how My Philosophy has changed from 10 years ago 5 years ago 3 years ago here's my old List here's my new list here's what's valuable to me now here's what I want my life to be now here's where I want to go what I want to do what I want to see keep your lists of goals so that it shows your growth shows your ability to change and grow your philosophy grows and expands what's valuable setting goals it doesn't matter how small foolish it
is put it on your list my Japanese friend Toro ikada put on his first list a Caucasian Gardener good morning thought that was good I like that have you got this profound thing now on setting goals here's how profound it is decide what you want and write it down get together with your wife decide get together with your kids decide get together with your business colleagues decide write it down make make a list okay that's how easy it is
