if you keep on doing what you've been doing you're going to keep on getting what you've been getting you got to change performance now before you can change performance you got to change your thinking but before you can change your thinking you've got to change what goes into your mind I don't care how positive I got for example I could not whip a boxing champion or play basketball for an NBA basketball team or football for an NFL team positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking
will zig Ziggler was one of the world's most popular motivational speakers Ziggler was one of 12 children raised by a widowed mother during the Great Depression he wrote over 25 books including see you at the top and inspired millions of people around the world in this exclusive training Ziggler shares with us the power of positive thinking how to reprogram your mind and how to improve every aspect of your life special thanks to the Ziggler family for partnering with us to release this exclusive content on our YouTube channel enjoy yes life can be fun it certainly
can be exciting as a matter of fact I believe that you were born to win unfortunately too many people have been conditioned to lose the truth of the matter though is the fact that I believe you can be number one now that doesn't mean I believe that everybody can be the biggest and the fastest and the strongest and the smartest but I believe when you get up in the morning and look in that mirror and say today I'm going to do my very best and then that day you do your best and that evening you
look back in the mirror and say today I did my best I believe you are number one our basic problem in our society today is a tremendous amount of negative input in our minds you see the truth of the matter is you are are what you are and you're where you are because of what has gone into your mind and you can change what you are and change Where You Are by changing what goes into your mind the problem is as I indicated we have too much of the negative input for example we talk about
the terrible twos when in reality they're the terrific twos the tremendous threes the Fantastic Fours The Fabulous fives the super sixes The Sensational sevens actually you could take three babies one born in Chicago Illinois one born in Shanghai China the other born in the upper Amazon and you raise those babies there and the baby born in China because of the input will grow up to be a communist the baby born in the upper Amazon and raised there because of the input will believe in head hunters and Witchcraft and voodo and that sort of thing now
the baby born in Chicago and raised there is obviously going to grow up leaving in the Chicago Bears that's right that input does make such a tremendous difference but input too often as I said is negative I was in a cafeteria and a little girl in front of us was crying a grandmotherly type lady leaned down and said what's the matter honey and her Daddy spoke up and said she's mean that's what she just plain mean I was up in Nashville Tennesse on the way down to the gate to catch a plane passed a lady
and a little 5-year-old boy and as I was walking past the little guy was dragging his heels and the mother turned to him and said come on stupid we're going to miss the plane now what does that do to that child what does it do to the image of the child and the optimism and enthusiasm of the child I think you know the answer my friend Bill gas tells me that over 90% of the people in our prisons today and jails were repeatedly told by their parents one of these days you're going to grow up
and go to jail he was sharing with me that at one of their Association meetings or revivals actually there in a prison he and Jim glass the champion catcher for the world's champion Kansas City Royals were talking and as they were chatting uh Jim sunberg who had been told when he was three years old down in Stockton California by his dad one of these days son you're going to grow up and be a great major lead catcher he told him that over and over and Bill and Jim were talking and Jim just shared with Bill
you know I'm sure glad that when I was a child that my dad told me that when I grew up I was going to be a world's champion catcher because I am exactly where he said I was going to be and an incarcerated man standing close by quietly but rather sadly said well you know I'm exactly where my dad told me I was going to be you see that input does make a dramatic difference the good news is very simple you do have some of every single quality which we've identified but let me tell you
something to think about if you had a million dollars in the bank you would never write a check on it if you did not know the money was in the bank but the the moment you discovered it was there that's when the local economy would take a giant leap forward and I've discovered that everybody everywhere seems to want exactly the same thing everybody wants to be happy everybody wants to be healthy they want to be at least reasonably prosperous they want to be secure they want to have friends and they want to have peace of
mind now think with me on this please if those are the things that you want doesn't it make sense to take an inventory and see what you youve got and when you take that inventory and discover what you've got if you discover that it's short of what you want then surely it makes sense to you to discover and explore how you got what you got and what you're going to discover is this you've gotten the things you've gotten based on your performance now the possible exception to that is money occasionally someone inherits that and I
don't depend on it but it it can happen all of the other things are based on your performance so logically if you want to change what you've got does it it make sense that you've got to change your performance because you see in the simplest term posses if you keep on doing what you've been doing you going to keep on getting what you've been getting you got to change performance now before you can change performance you got to change your thinking because you see you're thinking regardless of what you do has a dramatic impact on
that performance but before you can change your thinking you've got to change what goes into your mind and now we're back where we started you're what you are and where you are because of what's going into your mind and you can change what you are you can change Where You Are by changing what goes into your mind now I have in my hands a most unusual coin here it is a piece of gold it's a gold coin therefore customade especially for me by a close friend as you can see on this side there's the ARA
going up see you at the tops what it's really saying if you'll also notice I have in my other hand another coin it's a dime now these two coins if they're placed at the bottom of the ocean have exactly the same value that is nothing because they're not being used when you bring them to the surface however this gold coin is worth several hundred whereas this one is still worth the dime now the difference really is what's in the coins but the fact that we've now brought them to the surface to use them in your
own life all of the qualities and values you have unless you bring them to the surface and use them they really won't have that value now on the other side of this custombuilt coin we have a rather unique uh little thing if you look very carefully you can read it says Tui T and since the coin itself is Round And since this is a to it this means this literally is a round to it many times I've had people say to me well I'm going to do something just as soon as I get a round
to it hey there it's Mark Tim with the Ziggler family and I sure hope you're enjoying the video from my mentor the legendary Zig Ziggler because you're part of Evan's audience we want to give you a special bonus it's a cool little book called the little book of big quotes packed with awesome content this book is free just for you check out the description below and it's yours all righty let's get you back to Zig Zig you've stressed the importance of input and it really makes sense but where do we get the right kind of
positive input well basically uh Jim we have a number of sources the associates the people we're with and around certainly have an input the people we work with our families uh all of these have inputs now the question is is it the correct input a lot of times unfortunately the answer to that is no so to compensate for the negative input we have to deliberately seek the positive input by that I mean we simply need to read the good books the optimistic positive thinking uh powerful uh inputs into our mind we need to listen to
those recordings as we are driving to and from the car can make a marvelous traveling educational institution we need to listen while we're washing dishes are weeding the flower bed we can do those things when we are well shaving or applying makeup that's where we need to have that positive input who are some of the people or kinds of people people that have used the input you're talking about well I once made the statement that I had never known a self-made millionaire in the world of selling who did not have and use motivational input and
have his own cassette recorder uh I'm certain that uh that might not be true today uh because of the chains in the economy but by and large successful people listen I know HL hunt for example example listen until after he was 80 years old U Mary Kay Ash told me that she never started her car until she first made certain that she had a motivational or educational recording in the car Alan Bean uh one of the astronauts who walked on the moon told me that the astronauts were listening to motivational recordings going back and forth
from the Moon and I'm obviously pleased to be able to say that at least some of the recordings they were listening to were fantastic Z I heard you relate a story that I thought was really fascinating about a man by the name of Tom Hartman why don't you tell us about Tom that's probably the most remarkable story in many ways because in every area of his life uh Tom needed help he was financially bankrupt he was spiritually bankrupt he was physically bankrupt he was socially bankrupt and that might sound like a harsh word uh but
when I say bankrupt I at least mean he was very in short supply Tom had a 63 and 1/2 in waistline weighed 406 lbs by his own admission uh kind of had to maneuver in order to get eating money each week he is coming off a devastating divorce had not been in church in a number of years educationally was uh stamed he was going to college part-time but it was just to fill his time he got involved in listening to my set of tapes and as Tom said he said Z I have listened to them
so many times particularly the one on self image that I can quote you verba them he said I bet I've listened to that one over 500 times and the other tapes over a hundred times well it didn't happen over night but repetition is the mother of learning and we need to be convinced that yes we can do these things so to kind of round up the story uh Tom Hartman today weighs in the vicinity of 200 pounds which is acceptable because he's over 6 feet tall he went back to college he got his degree in
Psychology graduated Magnum L and is working on his doctrate has his own business and is happier actually than I've ever seen Tom before he's teaching a Sunday school class his personal life his family life his business life his spiritual life they've all come together now I want to stress this was not an easy thing it involved many many months for Tom to do all of these things and I'll be the first to admit that this is an extreme example but we have literally hundreds even thousands of examples where when people changed the input in their
mind they dramatically altered all facets of their life Wow Zig that is really motivating but I guess the question that follows is is motivation permanent well the answer to that Jim is no uh motivation is not permanent but then neither is bathing but it is something which we should do very regularly for that matter eating is not permanent but it's something we've got to do every day now it'd be absurd to think that you could hear one positive speech or read one positive book and go through the rest of your life completely motivated it's something
you work at every day Zig some people say that it's easy I've heard speakers say that with a positive attitude you can do anything how do you respond to that I'd say right off the top of my head that's insane uh I don't care how positive I got for example I could not whip a boxing champion or play basketball for an NBA basketball team or football for an NFL team I don't care how positive I got I couldn't run General Motors with just positive thinking I couldn't even take your appendix out with just positive thinking
no positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will I'll tell you exactly what positive thinking will let you do it will let you use the Ability which you have and when you use what you've got my friend that is sufficient to improve dramatically every phase of your life now Zig you and the audience went on to list 27 success qualities but in the interest of time how about summarizing what you're getting at with that activity well what we were doing there is finding out from
them obviously what's necessary in their opinion to be successful and we then ask a question after we had listed all 27 of those qualities and that question was are these attitudes or are they skills and we discovered that all 27 of them actually involved attitude then I asked the question well how many of you had a course in school which taught you how to develop these attitudes and as is my custom all over the country when I ask that question less than 1% of them held up their hands and that kind of sounds like an
indictment on the educational system but I went ahead to point out to them that the average student in America Goes to School 5 days a week 180 days a year 6 hours a day that means they're in school 1,080 hours but they're 8,700 60 hours in a year so what that means is that they're at home a little over a th hours they're in uh what that really means then is that they're in school a little over a th000 hours they at home over 7,600 hours and Mom and Dad have had the child over 40,000
hours before the teachers ever see them then ask the audience if they didn't think that parents should accept just a little bit of the responsibility so I'm not inditing the educational system what I'm saying is we've got a societal problem and all of us therefore as part of society must accept our share of the responsibility and then I kind of ask him the question how many of you believe uh that if these qualities were taught at home and then reinforced uh in school that would' have a better America and you can well imagine they all
responded enthusiastically to that because you see when a child or an individual develops honesty car and integrity and faith and love and loyalty and dependability and enthusiasm and a positive mental attitude when they develop all of those including a trust and loyalty and what have you that individual will be accepted in any society anywhere they can get any school any college any job market will be open to them in other words here is a rare individual and the exciting part came when I pointed out that actually every single person has some of all of these
qualities to watch another amazing Zig Ziggler video check it out right there next to me I think you'll love it continue to believe and I'll see you there for 24 years of my adult life I weighed well over 200 lb I say by choice because you see I have never accidentally eaten anything
