Jim Rohn - Time To Get Serious - Best Motivational Speech Video

take full responsibility for what happens to you it's one of the highest forms of human maturity accepting full responsibility it's the day you know you've passed from childhood to adulthood the day you accept full responsibility and another note learn to reap in the fall without apology without apology if you do well and without complaint if you don't that's maturity I used to have that long list of reasons why I wasn't doing well to explain you got to explain right otherwise you're going to look bad I used to have this funny list called reasons for not

looking good I used to blame the government I mean you can believe that or not it was at the top of my list I had a lecture Second To None the government that was on my list I used to blame taxes look what you got left after they take everything and they expect you to do well that was on my list there prices that one's easy right you walk into the supermarket with $20 come out with a little half bag so I had that on my list I used to blame the weather I blame the

traffic I used to blame my car I blame the manufacturers I used to blame the company I blamed company policy I used to blame the training program I blame my negative relatives they were always putting me down I blame my cynical neighbors they're just selfish looking out for themselves won't loan you money they were on my list I used to blame the economy I blame the community that's a pretty good list for not doing well isn't it I thought it was good I'll never forget one day Mr scha was very kind but he was also

very blunt and this was no exception and I'm glad he was blunt there's a lot of things I'd have missed if he hadn't been blunt one day with sort of a curious look on his face he said Jim just out of curiosity tell me how come you haven't done well up until now excellent question I thought well so I won't look too bad I'll go through my list and this list I just gave you I put that on him and he was very patient he let me go through the whole thing the government the weather

I went through this whole thing when I finished he looked my list over very carefully he said Mr own big problem with your list you ain't on it how brilant when I went to work for him a few months later I learned very quickly to tear up my list reasons for not doing well and I threw it away and I got me a fresh piece of paper and I put one word on it me there's a black heritage spiritual that says it's not my mother nor my father nor my brother nor my sister but it's

me oh Lord standing in the need of prayer see I used to blame everything outside and then let me give you a little philosophy that helped turn my life around for your notes here it is it's not what happens that determines the quality or the quantity of your life it's not what happens and the reason is because what happens happens to about everybody no different the sun went down on all of us last night a common event a happening and I found out that the same things can happen to two different people one gets rich

and one stays poor why is that it's because it's not what happens but rather it's what you do that changes everything so that's a key phrase It's not what happens it's what you do what happens is about the same you might put that in parenthesis here same what people do that's what's different anything can happen right everything can happen I've heard all the stories I've been one of the stories hey we could all tell stories all night long right happenings Anything Can Happen have you heard of Murphy's laws anybody here heard of Murphy's laws okay

most of you have murf had these laws one of them was if anything can go wrong it will that's one of Murphy's laws he was not one of the great positive speakers of the day but anyway it's still true though right anything can go wrong everything can go wrong for sure I've fallen out of the sky so many times once to the tune of a couple of million devastating took me a while to survive that one now it wasn't all that much but it was all ahead I mean that's when it's much right when it's

all you got if you got three two go you got one left you ain't looking that bad but when it all goes has anybody been there when it all went anybody come on the rest of you Liars go ahead what hey we've all been there right when it all went of course it used to be a long time ago right when you ran out of money got to zero you were all through heck now you can whistle right on by zero right I mean they will bury you that's what they will do but see those

are the happenings right everything can happen anything can happen but it's not the happenings it's what you do about it somebody says yeah but you don't understand the disappointments I've had come on everybody's had their share disappointments are not special gifts reserved for the poor everybody has them the difference is what you do about them it's not the weather I used to blame the weather and I discovered it rains on the rich so see that won't help two men wake up one morning there's a rainstorm on one of them looks out his window sees the

rainstorm and he says wow what a storm with weather like this they can't expect you to go out and make sales he stays home same morning the other guy looks out his window sees the same storm says wow what a storm but he says you know what with weather like this what a great day to go out and make sales most everybody will probably be home especially the salesman see that's the difference in how your life works out it's not what happens it's what you do so here's one of the key questions of the evening

starting tomorrow what are you going to do that'll make a change in your life's Direction good question what are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference now see if you don't do something starting tomorrow that'll make a difference guess what it's going to be the same and see that way you can guess what the next five years are going to be like look at the last five cuz the next five are going to be like the last five unless you major key tomorrow change it all or change a little or change something

or don't change it's Choice time you can do whatever you want but it's nice to know any day you wish you can change your whole life what can you do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference good question what can you do with economic chaos massive disappointment what can you do with a broken heart what can you do and it won't work good question so if I had a word with you tonight one onone just you and me I think my personal advice to you would be this year 1981 reach down inside of you and come

up with some more of those remarkable human gifts they're there waiting to be utilized and then change anything for you you want to change and I challenge you to do that because you can change if you don't like how it is for you change it if it doesn't suit you change it if it doesn't please you change it if it isn't enough change it and I challenge you to do that because you can change change see you don't ever have to be the same again after tonight only by choice if you don't like your present

address change it you're not a [Music] tree now let me give you three steps to personal development let's get down to the nitty-gritty what does it take to really make the changes starting tomorrow it takes more than philosophical pronouncement I know that it also takes more than enthusiasm I know we're hearing a lot about enthusiasm these days but see that just won't do the job we're still here in the old cliches of the 30s right to be enthusiastic you must act enthusiastic but see that's not going to help after you have leaped about there are

some things you got to do or it isn't going to change see you can get all excited about lifting 200 lb till you get to the gym and then you need a new excitement and the new excitement is called discipline major step to human progress discipline if there's one thing to get excited over that's it get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things what could you make yourself do starting tomorrow that would change it all no tell it now see that's exciting on any given day you can massively change the direction

of your life murder is a clear example that any one person on any given day can forever alter the course of their life it just happens to be a negative act but just as sure as you can commit a negative act you can also commit a positive act and forever alter your life whenever you wish now that's exciting and whatever that act might be that changes your life the guy finally takes a shotgun to his car and blows out every window destroys every Tire puts 100 rounds in this shabby old thing and he says I

have driven this embarrassing thing for the last time and not only will I never drive it again nobody else will ever drive it again and he lets that shuddering thing stand there for a while as a monument to the day he said today my life changes now who can do that anybody when can you do it whatever day you [Music] pick now here's the key to discipline start with the little disciplines get excited over the little disciplines and get right on those because those will lead to the big ones you can't handle the big challenges

in life unless you take on the little ones make a list of all the things you can do get right on those discipline yourself for those both for the results and for the muscle and for the practice so that when life hands you some big challenges you'll be ready you'll have the muscle but see if you don't handle the small ones you can't take care of the big ones okay here's what else it takes for life change self motivation key phrase self- motivation I don't know why we call it self motivation it's really the only

kind there is you got to motivate yourself cuz I found out you can't change people they can change themselves but you can't change them Lord knows some I've tried but see it won't work people have to change themselves elves I learned some of those lessons early I built a little sales organization way back in those early days I'm 25 and I had some nice people I said I'm going to make these people successful if it kills me I almost died I mean you can't do [Applause] that see I discovered this good people are not trained

they're found you find good people you don't make them good you find them good training really is for the purpose of finding good people you don't need much instruction for a good person but too much training probably means you got the wrong people so you got to find the right people that's the key to getting a good job done one of the major things we learn in man management lesson one don't send your ducks to Eagle School [Music] cuz it won't help I mean I'm telling you it won't help no matter how good your school

is and the little Eagle badge and the little Eagle hat I'm telling you it won't help it won't help you can tell whether your school's done any good right is when it's over right the duck goes for his first rabbit and makes him a friend you say no no no anyway so it takes self motivation to really alter your life and you don't want to give self motivation away to somebody else and make it somebody else motivating you the guy says boy if somebody just come by and turn me on what if they don't show

up right see you got to have a better plan for your life okay now if you're excited and you're ready to change let me give you three steps to start life change that can change your life your personality your lifestyle everything can change here's the steps number one find out how things work the first key to doing better is find out to change your life really you need ideas there isn't anything an idea can't change and schul taught me the major problem is lack of an idea not a problem at first I didn't have any

money I said to Mr SCH I don't have any money he said that's not a problem now see up until then I always thought it was right I was confused he said no no the problem is lack of an idea on how to create money and wealth it isn't lack of money it's lack of ideas so if you get the ideas see you can change anything now to get ideas you need a constant study of finding out now scha also said when you find out something that works put the information in your Journal don't use

your head for a filing cabinet put it in your Journal so that you can do the next best thing repetition repetition repetition go over it and if you repeat it go over it sure enough someday some mysterious day the idea takes root starts to grow and shows up in your bank account and your dress and your personality and your lifestyle but capture the ideas in your Journal find out how things work scha gave me this word for my life change he said study great word if you wish to be successful study success if you wish

to be happy study happiness if you wish to be wealthy study wealth don't leave it to chance make it a study some people just go through the day with their fingers crossed see that won't do it you've got to study the things that can change your economic social spiritual personal life now here's a qualifying phrase and we'll have several of these qualifying phrases throughout the seminar here's the first one you may not be able to do all you find out I understand that you may not be able to do all you find out but you

should find out all you can do see you don't want to wind up at the endend of your life and discover that you've lived only one tenth of it and the other nine10 went down the drain not for lack of opportunity for lack of information so that's number one find out how things work now here's the best human virtue for finding out curiosity make a note of that Curiosity be curious you might add a word to it that'll help childish curiosity what will kids do if they want to know something bad enough bug you that's

the phrase they can ask a thousand questions you think they're through they got another thousand they'll drive you to the brink it's a virtue when you got to know be like a child in fact Jesus the master teacher said unless you can become like little children you might as well forget it you don't have a prayer excellent advice you got to be like children four ways in my opinion to be like a child number one's curiosity number two is excitement get excited like a child over your ability to make yourself do anything for change third

is Faith have faith like a child adults are too skeptical and fourth is trust trust is a childish virtue but the rewards are incredible so be like a child now if you're curious let me give you three ways to find out how to change anything any life Direction any Dimension here's three ways to find out how to change anything number one is to read become a good reader all of the successful people I know and work with around the world world they're all good readers curiosity drives them to read they got to know they just

read read read read read read read read read become a good reader now that's my opinion listen to the other lecturers and listen to me and make up your own mind don't be a follower be a student okay I say really for life change you got to read one way to learn is from your own experiences but another way to learn is from other people's experiences see one book might save you five years if you read it did you know there's books on how to be stronger more decisive be a speaker be a leader have

a better effect on other people develop your personality did you know there's books on that and people don't read them how would you explain that and they can read did you know that hundreds of successful people have written their stories in books and they wrote down how they did it and people don't read it how would you explain that the guy's busy I guess you know you get tied up the guy says well yeah you work where I work but the time you struggle home it's late you got to eat bite a supper watch little

TV get to bed you can't sit up half the night reading reading reading reading and the guy's behind on his car payment good worker hard worker sincere but you got to be better than sincere and work hard otherwise at the end of your life you'll wind up cold Stony broke you got to be better than a good worker you got to be a good reader the whole world is governed by laws the universe in fact laws we call it the law of electricity we call it the law of gravity there's mathematical laws there's physical laws

speed and velocity laws agricultural laws there's all kinds of laws now that we find ourselves on the spinning Planet you just have to learn what I call the setup learn the setup life's setup now we didn't set it up but we're here so you got to learn it and we should learn the setup for two basic reasons number one to keep from getting hurt it's one of the major reasons for learning so you won't get hurt see economically socially personally you can get hurt just not knowing ignorance is not Bliss ignorance is poverty ignorance is

tragedy you got to know or you're you're going to get hurt it's good to know not to walk out the 10-story window that's excellent information now what if a guy didn't know and he walks out now he's dead at the bottom somebody says well the poor guy didn't know you got to know or you're going to get hurt okay now here's a parenthesis you don't have to like the setup I don't ask you to like how it is that's not what's important but it is important to learn how it is okay so you don't have

to like it but you should learn it that's what I tell the kids right make sure you get the information what you think about it that's up to you what you're going to do with it that'll soon be up to you but make sure you get it see there's nothing worse than being stupid nothing I mean being broke is bad but being stupid is awful and what's really bad is being broken stupid right that's about the end of the world I mean there isn't anything much worse than that unless you're sick sick broken stupid I

mean that is it right there's nowhere else to go so make sure you get the information it's key you don't have to like it but learn it if this big monstrous thing lifts up in the sky hangs there for a little while Cuts loose comes crashing down boom shakes the ground for five miles and then this big monstrous thing lifts back up in the sky hangs there for a little while Cuts loose again comes crashing down boom shakes the ground for five miles it just keeps doing that this big monstrous thing lifting up and then

crashing down boom now you might come along one day and say that's got to be a stupid arrangement which is okay you're entitled to your opinion but the first thing you should learn to do is get out from under it right that's number one you might have a great moral argument you might want to shake your finger at the sky but do it from over there right so you don't get smashed it's called your basic smart the fundamental process of knowing what information you need and Gathering it is one of the keys to living the

good life some of the best advice Mr schof gave me in those early years was why and how to study that's a key word for life change study if you wish to be successful study success if you wish to be happy study happiness happiness is not an accident it is first a study and then a practice if you wish to be wealthy study wealth would you like to guess how many people make wealth a study right very few surely since wealth and happiness and success are all values to cultivate you would naturally assume that most

people would make a careful study of them why they do not is yet another example of those aspects of life that fall into the category of mysteries of the Mind remember major keys to your better future are going to be ideas and information if we have any lack it is not because we lack money or opport Unity or resources it is because we lack ideas that have taken form from information many years ago I learned that some of the best advice ever given comes from the Bible there's a phrase in that amazing book that says

if you search you will find so that is the way to discover ideas and life-changing information search in order to find you must search you must go to the seminars and to the training classes you must listen to the cassette programs that can give you breakthrough ideas you must go and engage in conversations with people of substance you must go looking go searching rarely does a good idea interrupt you and as you make a diligent search you will find just the ideas you need now here is the next key word in the process of seeking

information that can change your life and that word is capture when you find a good idea capture it don't trust your memory capture everything write it down record it this is one of the reasons why we have put this program on cassette tapes to capture the ideas as a serious student of wealth and happiness I would encourage you to make use of a journal as a gathering place for all the ideas that come your way I consider personal journals to be one of the three Treasures a wise person will leave behind here are those three

Treasures one is your photographs take a lot of pictures being able to capture the event in a fraction of a second is a phenomenon of the 20th century and how easy it is to take phenomena for granted I've gone to Taiwan to lecture three times in the last three years on my last trip there were about a thousand people in attendance for a weekend seminar now if there were 1,000 people in the room guess how many cameras were also in the room right 1,000 everyone brings a camera to capture all the events and the people

new friends new experiences I spend a big part of my time having my picture taken with everyone have you ever looked at the pictures a couple of generations back unfortunately there are only a handful but wouldn't it be great if there were hundreds of pictures to tell the whole story so make sure you leave behind your whole story in your treasure of pictures the next treasure to leave behind is your library all the books you have chosen books well read well underlined with notes and observations and Reflections you have written in the margins the books

that have helped shape your philosophy and the values of your life that is a treasure your library and your Listening Library too all these terrific cassettes they are a treasure the third treasure to leave behind is perhaps the most important and that is your journals containing all the ideas you have captured in your lifetime business ideas social ideas culture ideas investment ideas lifestyle ideas can you imagine the value these journals would have they will certainly be more valuable to leave behind to your children than your couch so get serious about your search for information and

ideas and about leaving that information behind for future Generations here is the next key word for expanding your life for the better that word is review go back over all your life experiences learn a skill called reflection pondering life's events with the intent of learning that is so important I call it running the tapes again the events of your life are some of the best sources of information don't merely go through your days get from your days be aware of what's going on around you so that you will drive the grooves in the record of

that day deep into your Consciousness here are some good times to reflect first at the end of the day take a few minutes and go back over your day where you went and what you did and what you said what worked and what didn't what do you want to do again what do you want to correct the colors the sights The Sounds the conversations the experiences you see experience can become commodity currency coin an incredible source of value but only if you take time to reflect on the experience and turn it into something of value

as we mentioned in our First Fundamental it's not what happens that makes the difference in how your life works out but rather what you do about what happens and part of doing something about what happens is this process of reflection studying any event in order to glean valuable information from it another time to reflect is at the end of the week take a few hours take a half a day at the end of the month take a weekend at the end of the year reason to make the past more valuable sophisticated people have learned how

to gather up the past and invested in the future when my father was about to celebrate his 76th birthday I said to him father can you imagine what it's going to be like to gather up the last 75 years and invest them in your 76th that's how life can become productive and exciting not just living one more year but Gathering up the years and investing them in the next one by reflecting you can gather up all the conversations you have ever had and invest all that you have learned and all that you have felt in

the next conversation gather all your experiences and invest all that you have learned and felt in your next experience and the more value the more substance the more information the more wisdom you can gather from all of your yesterdays the more exciting your future becomes probably all of us already know all that we need to know in order to make our lives turn out the way we want except for one thing how to gather what we've learned in order to invest it in what we want to become so start a new discipline that can lead

to wealth and happiness find out how things work never let it be said you didn't find out now let me give you a qualifying phrase you may not be able to do all you find out but make sure you find out all you can do you don't want to wind up at the end of your life and find out that you lived only one tenth of it and the other 9/10 went down the drain not for lack of opportunity but for lack of information [Music] let me share with you two of the best sources of

information available first as we have mentioned learn from your own experiences become a good student of your own life it's the information you are most familiar with and feel the strongest about so make your own life one of your most important studies and in in studying your own life be sure to study the negative as well as the positive your failures as well as your successes our so-called failures serve us well when they teach us valuable information they're frequently better teachers than our successes one of the ways we learn how to do something right is

simply by doing it wrong doing it wrong is a great school for learning now I would suggest that you not take too long if you've done it wrong for 10 years I wouldn't suggest just another 10 but what a close at hand and emotionally impactful way to learn from your own experiences when I met Mr scha I had been working 6 years I started when I was 19 and when I met him I was 25 he said to me Mr ran you have been working now for 6 years how are you doing I said not

very well he said then I suggest you not do that anymore 6 years is long enough enough to operate the wrong plan next he asked how much money have you saved in the last 6 years I said not any he said Who Sold you on that plan 6 years ago what a fantastic question where did I get my present plan that wasn't working well hey everyone has bought someone's plan the question is whose whose plan have you bought now those initial confrontations as you come to grips with your own past experiences may be a little

painful at first especially if you have made as many errors as I did but think of the progress you can make when you have finally confronted those Errors By becoming a better student of your own life now the next way to learn is from other people's experiences and remember you can learn from other people whether they have done it right or wrong you can learn from negative as well as positive the the Bible is such a great book because it is a collection of human stories on both sides of the Ledger one list of human

stories is called examples do what these people did and the other list of human stories is called warnings don't do what these claws did what a wealth of information what to do and what not to do I think it also means however that if your story ever gets in somebody's book make sure they use it as an example not a warning there are three ways to learn from other people the first is to listen to the cassettes and read the books by and about people who've accomplished great things all the successful people I know and

work with around the world are good readers they just read read read they are so curious that they are driven to read because they just have to know it is one of the things they all have in common here's a good phrase all leaders are readers and they use cassette programs too especially while they're in the car or during other times when they can't read cassettes can help all of us easily pick up new ideas and new skills did you know there are cassettes and books on how to be stronger more decisive a better speaker

a more effective leader have a better effect on other people become more loving develop personality get rich develop influence become sophisticated and people don't use them how would you explain that did you know that hundreds of successful people have written their stories in books and told how they did it on cassettes like this and people don't want to listen how would you explain that the guy's busy I guess he says well yeah if you worked where I work by the time you struggle home it's late you've got to have a bite to eat watch a

little TV and get to bed you can't stay up half the night and read read read and this is the guy that's behind on his bills he's a good worker hard worker sincere but remember you can be sincere and work hard all your life and wind up broke confused and embarrassed you've got to be better than a good worker you've got to be a good reader a good listener at least he could hear a good cassette on the way home right now you don't have to read or listen to educational cassettes half the night although

if you're broke it's a good place to start but here is all I ask just 30 minutes a day that's all stretch it to an hour if you can but at least 30 minutes half Rich isn't bad 30 minutes hear or read something challenging something instructional at least 30 minutes a day and here's the next key every day don't miss miss a meal but not your 30 minutes hey you can get along without some meals but you can't get along without some ideas examples and inspiration there's a Bible phrase that says humans cannot live on

bread alone or food alone it says the next most important thing to bread is words words nourish the Mind words nourish the soul humans have to have food and words to be healthy and prosperous make sure you have a good diet of words every day I told my staff one day some people read so little they have rickets of the Mind and also remember to properly feed the mind you must have good balance don't just read or listen to the easy stuff you can't live on mental candy here is a thought why not call good

books and cassettes tapping The Treasure of ideas that's it tapping The Treasure of ideas like you're doing with this program and if somebody's got a good excuse for not tapping The Treasure of ideas for at least 30 minutes every day or spending the money in getting the books and cassettes I'd like to hear it some excuses you wouldn't believe I say John I've got this gold mind I've got so much gold I don't know what to do with it all come on over and dig John says I don't have a shovel I say will John

get you one he says do you know what they want for shovels hey invest the money get the cassettes and books the best money you can spend is money invested in your self-education don't short Change yourself when it comes to investing in your own better future Mr scha got me started on my library when I first met him he said to me become self-educated standard education will get you standard results check those numbers and see if that's what you want and if it isn't if you want something better than standard you must become self-educated so

I went to work on my library and and I now have one of the best scha recommended a couple of books in particular to get me started now I had a Bible That's 66 books so that was a pretty good start and my parents saw to it that I had a good study of the Bible but the first book Mr scha told me to get was the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill if you don't already have it it's a great one to add to your library Earl Nightingale has put it on cassette

the title should intrig You Think and Grow Rich I read it several dozen times scha said repetition is the mother of skill and if you could have seen my bank account at the time you would have known I needed lots of that kind of repetition some of the ideas in that book made major changes in my life as I look back now the book was worth thousands and I bought it for pennies I learned a very valuable lesson there can be a great deal of difference between cost and value before I met Mr scha I

used to ask how much does it cost after I met him however I soon learned to ask how much is it worth I started basing my life on worth instead of cost and everything changed so that was one book he recommended Think and Grow Rich the next book he recommended I get was a book on nutrition scha said study nutrition Vitality plays an important part in doing well some people don't do well because they don't feel well it's not that they're not intelligent it's that they're ill they don't have the fire and the Vitality to

do well so he really got on me about nutrition now some of those Health books are a bit weird but you can separate out the weird stuff there are cassettes on nutrition too remember don't be a follower be a student someone says I read this book should I follow and the answer is no read at least two books and make up your own mind don't be a follower be a student so take care of yourself there's a Bible phrase that says many times the spirit is willing but the body's weak so you have to work

on both you wake up in the morning and the mind says let's go get them and the body says I can't even get out of bed so work on your health a person's library of books and cassettes reveals his or her most dominant desires it's interesting to walk into someone's house and browse through the library what does your library say about you so read all the books now here's good news you don't have to read them all at once try this two books a week in 10 years is a thousand books if you read a

th000 books in the next 10 years do you think they would greatly influence all the dimensions of your life the answer is of course well here's what's exciting it's only two books a week however I would suggest if you haven't read two books a week for the last 10 years you are about a thousand books behind can you imagine the incredible disadvantage it will be 10 years from now to stride into the marketplace a thousand books behind for some rations you won't be a match and for some opportunities your knowledge will be too lacking for

some values your philosophy will be too shallow missing skills missing knowledge missing insights missing values missing lifestyle it could happen if you don't read the books remember the book you don't read won't help you can't read too many books but you can read too few now the next way to learn from others is to listen become a great listener get around successful people and listen listen to what they say and listen to how they say it there is something to be said for style as well as content and never has listening to successful people been

easier or less costly than it is today with cassettes like the one you're listening to now you can own cassette programs by and about the most successful people in any field and you can listen to their ideas is while you do something else while driving your car exercising getting dressed in the morning anytime listen over and over again until their ideas become your ideas their inspiration your inspiration a lot of the books you're anxious to read such as Think and Grow Rich have been condensed and narrated on cassette your cassette library of great authors and

ideas can be the investment with the greatest return of all great cassettes will do more than teach you great ideas they'll also remind you of the important things you already know but sometimes forget they'll lift your spirit they'll keep your mind on what's important on your goal and how you can achieve it and what a modest investment for the seeds of Fortune ideas well written well spoken well received well learned and well invested can be your driving life force for wealth and happiness here's another way to succeed by listening choose a really successful person and

take him or her out to dinner and listen ask questions and listen if a man is poor he can really help himself by taking a rich person out to dinner and listening spend 50 60 80 or $100 go for the full nine courses start with the ures ask questions the salad takes 15 minutes keep the cont conversation going the biggest steak in town takes 45 minutes keep it rolling ask more questions pour on the dessert stretch the meal about 2 hours see if you get someone successful to eat and talk for 2 hours he or

she may drop ideas in your lap that could change your life multiply your income by two by three by five but you're right poor people don't usually take rich people out to dinner that's the problem the man says if Rich let him buy his own dinner I'm not coming up with any money and besides if you worked where I work but the time you struggle home it's late you've got to have a bite to eat watch a little TV and get to bed you can't spend all that time trying to find a rich man to

feed and this man's behind on his installment payments behind he's a good worker hard worker sincere but remember you can work hard and be sincere all your life and wind up up broke and unhappy you've got to be better than a good worker you've got to be a good listener the third way to learn from others is to observe watch what successful people do here's why success leaves Clues watch how the man shakes hands people who do well do certain things over and over and over and if you're clever you can pick them up don't

miss anything that could help you change your life for the better be a careful [Music] Observer we have covered a lot of ideas in this part but what a major fundamental to wealth and happiness the consistent disciplined purposeful constant search for knowledge it's where the life-changing ideas are pursue it with high expectations spend the money and time and the effort they're all Investments time effort and money but the payoff is so great it's hard to compare the cost to the reward first is the money and it does take some money I have a great suggestion

for the cassettes and the books and the lectures the seminars and the videos you need for a constant flow of ideas and inspiration set up an educational fund take a portion of your income each month and set it aside to invest in all the means of the search for knowledge remember the best money spent is the money spent to cultivate The Genius of your own mind and spirit make sure you don't spend more for accommodation than you do for Education the money small price the promise unlimited potential next is the time that is a valuable

expenditure I understand that to ask people for their money that's one thing but to ask them for their time that's a major request but I don't know any shortcuts to this it takes time precious time the time you spend is that much less time you have to spend you can get more money but you can't get more time however life has a unique way of rewarding High investment with high return this major investment you're making now listening could be that small fine tuning you need for major accomplishment and last the investment in effort there is

a great deal of difference in casual listening and serious listening listening to know listening to learn listening that opens up the whole mental and spiritual processes truly an investment in effort bringing heavy attention to bear that takes effort a mental rifle shot to strike the idea Target that takes a great deal of concentrated effort however this effort high gear mental Machinery is the effort investment that opens the floodgates where ideas can work their magic for you in the marketplace so I do not hesitate to ask you to spend in deliberate consistent fashion the money and

the time and the effort it's an investment that turns on the lights opens the windows sharpens the focus and starts turning wishes into pride and Pro cond wealth and happiness