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the one commodity that is most valuable
on this earth is time time to love time
to live from the moment the human body
is born
it begins dying I don’t think you you
quite caught that let me say it again
from the moment the human body is born
it begins dying some happen faster
some happen slower some of us help them
have to go faster and some of them
prevent it from happening sooner than
later coach high coming to you live on
the field of life how many seconds how
many minutes do we waste every day doing
things that are nowhere near the goals
and aspirations and passions that we
have inside how many times you go
through the course of a day and realize
did I do anything I set out to do today
write down those goals each and every
day no matter there’s two goals a day if
you can accomplish those then you’re
doing more than just making it through
the day you are living and achieving
your dreams
you know as inspirational speakers we
don’t want to just talk to you we want
to live that as well I’ve done that in
my life as well find time to better
yourself read explore research live life
do things you’ve never thought of doing
before that’s what it’s all about when
you’re born that’s their date that they
put on the left side of the tombstone
when you die they put another date on
the right side of the tombstone but that
– in the middle is the most important
thing on that tombstone that is a line
that throughout that entire time frame
you were able to impact and touch
other’s lives you were able to leave
your mark on this earth you were able to
build a legacy that nobody could change
you were able to have it to where people
remembered who you are no matter what
when you’re living for that – in the
middle you’re gonna remember your why
even your why why are you here not not –
why why did you do something you’re why
you’re your reason for getting up in the
morning your reason for pushing yourself
past the brink of exertion and giving up
your reason for moving on and getting
things done in life that – in the middle
that’s the thing that pushes you
just this stop for a second write down
your why what what are you doing this
for in life if your why doesn’t make you
cry that’s not your wife again if your
why doesn’t make you cry then that’s not
your why your why should be something so
big that it moves your family tree your
why should be something so big that it
changes the whole outlook on how things
are with you and your home your family
your religion your purpose think about
your passion think about your
opportunities and that’s how you find
your purpose OPP when ed y meets up with
your passion your opportunity your
purpose then you’ll find out the most
important day in your life is the day
I will explain to you how you can live
an easy life you know accomplishing
goals and be successful going out in the
world and that’s tough the only way to
live an easy life is to basically give
up on all your dreams and aspirations
and just sit around doing nothing
that is easy it’s not worth
accomplishing therefore a life that is
easy it’s not even worth living nothing
in this world is worth having or doing
unless it means effort pain and
difficulty don’t you listen to me using
to be good you are going to die all you
all your friends your family everyone
you know everyone you care about it’s
gonna die if you love life not waste
time because time is what life is made
of so if you respect and appreciate the
time that you’ve been given one you
aren’t there doing what you want to do
where you need to be telling yourself is
it’s been acceptable to be singing
around the procrastinating and I no
longer want to be a loser I no longer
want to be average I know what it is
that I want and I’m gonna work hard and
I’m gonna get it when you want to
succeed as bad as you want to breathe
then you’ll be successful something you
love sleep more than you love success
and I’m here to tell you today if you’re
going to be successful you’ve got to be
willing to give up sleep you got to be
willing to work off for three hours of
sleep two hours if you really want to be
successful some days you will have to
stay up three days in the road we don’t
need to if you don’t really want to how
badly a you wanting success
rather than actually working toward your
dreams a lot of you’re just thinking
about it
I have high hopes for everybody watching
this I want to remember your name
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it is not the things we do in life that
we regret on our deathbed it is the
things we do not because I assure you
I’ve done a lot of really stupid things
none of them bother me all the mistakes
and all the dopey things and all the
times I was embarrassed they don’t
matter
find your passion and in my experience
no matter what you do at work what you
do in official settings that passion
will be grounded in people and it will
be grounded in the relationships you
have with people and what they think of
you
in the teeth of these stupefying odds it
is you and I in our ordinariness that
but one thing I can tell you I think
every single day of my life is I trying
to find somebody else to change their
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I waited till 39 to get married because
I had to wait that long
to find someone where her happiness is
more important than mine and if nothing
else I hope that all of you can find
that kind of passion and that kind of
a journey of a thousand miles begins
with a single step it’s from an old
Chinese proverb most people have heard
it or have come across it at some point
and the meaning is pretty
straightforward right it advocates
having the courage to take that step
towards a goal and that’s huge they’re
making that decision to move forward
towards something you want but it’s what
happens immediately following that first
step that I’m interested in what happens
when the journeys begun and it’s you and
your goal and all of a sudden you
realize how long that road ahead really
is now this is a turning point for a lot
of people and those who can succeed are
able to take their daunting intimidating
goal or journey and see it for what it
really is
just a bunch of small manageable tasks
strung together you know when you look
at why people quit a lot of the time
it’s because they were overwhelmed by
their goals and ambitions let’s say you
have you know this wonderful plan in
your head to climb a mountain you’re
thinking about that feeling of being on
top looking down with pride every time
you think about it your heart starts
racing
so you pack your stuff you make your way
down on the base of the mountain and
then you look up different ballgame
right now the entire mountain is in
front of you and you realize that that’s
no small feat that is when people walk
away when they aren’t able to see it
challenges the some of tiny steps they
see it as a crazy impossible task it’s
like saying you want to be the next Tom
Brady or Kobe Bryant it’s a tall
mountain to climb like trying to hit a
target from a mile away but if you can
identify and map out what you need to
conquer in order to become a better
basketball player or football player and
begin taking those small steps improving
everyday that makes dreams real that’s
what gives goals life
the ability to see your objective not as
a marathon but as a series of little 400
meters stretches stepping stones you
know what your objective is today
tomorrow the end of the week and the end
of the year you’re completing them day
by day these little victories that’s
what gives your dream life it’s what
gives you momentum you feel good about
the process and by the way when things
blow up in your face which happens every
so often on this little place we call
Earth you’ll have that foundation in
that sense of accomplishment to stay
focused because your approach is
tangible and it’s realistic this applies
with everything losing a job a breakup
failing a test these things are
monumental if you allow them to be you
know they can turn into that unclimbed
bull mountain or they can roadmap a new
path for you and if you define what you
want you define success and begin
stepping towards it one hour one day at
a time you’ll get where you want to be
quicker than you thought what changes
our whole life is action why don’t we
take action fear what we gotta do to get
ourselves to do it we got to make sure
that we push ourselves through it by
making a decision the point in which
change happens is a decision every
change in your life that you want will
come from something simple a decision
if I persist if I continue to try if I
continue to charge forward I will
succeed I will persist until I succeed I
was not delivered unto this world in
defeat not as failure course in my veins
I am NOT a sheep waiting to be prodded
by my shepherd I am a lion and I refused
to talk to walk to sleep with the Sheep
don’t be a follower be a student take
advice but not orders take information
but don’t let somebody you know order
your life not to do what someone else
says take what someone else says process
it think about it ponder it it makes you
wonder makes you think that it’s
valuable then when you go take action
make sure that the action is not what
somebody tells you make sure the action
is the product of your owners include
but I’m exactly where I want to be
because I realize I got to commit my
very being to this thing and until you
get there
you’ll never be successful in life once
you get there i guarantee you the world
is yours stay out of the clutches of
mediocrity invent yourself and then
reinvent yourself change your tone and
shapes are often bets they can never
categorize you reinvigorate yourself and
accept what is be self taught and
reinvent your life because you must it
is your life and it’s history and the
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and positive vibes don’t wait on only
not weaker
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you have the power to allow others to be
told you feel not everybody that comes
in and out your life is put in place to
these
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replaced with most bubbly we wouldn’t
know how to gauge
Damon courage don’t be late
and to fly through no pain everybody is
put in place in your life for Jesus not
to fail you know I never want to be that
nine-to-five person that just lives my
entire life working a nine-to-five and
just be happy with a modest lifestyle
you know being secure a lot of people
that’s all they want they just want a
secure lifestyle you know own a house
you know and be able to retire and that
makes them happy you know and I just
believe that we should always be always
be pushing you know to achieve more it’s
become more you know and submit a job
the same job for 30 years is not
something I would ever choose to do in
the society you know we we are tied to
go to college and get a job that’s what
we’re taught if you become a doctor or a
lawyer you’re successful you know but
most of time you still have a boss you
still have someone you know Tony what to
do and you still have the schedule you
have to stick to you know so it’s not
much different than working at
McDonald’s I mean it’s just you’re
making more money but you’re still in
the same
situation and you know working at
McDonald’s is not something I was used
to do or same scenario a little more
money you know to me is that enjoy your
doing and you know to have the lifestyle
freedom
you know it’s the most impressive thing
a lot of people don’t understand it you
got to work hard or whatever you do
whether you’re working for someone else
are working for yourself and if you want
to put that in you know you’re gonna end
up being successful you can’t be
satisfied that’s what keeps us going you
know when you become content then life’s
over and in the mentality is what’s
gonna make things happen you know is
having that mentality to never give up
keep pushing forward and trying to
accomplish your goals and hopefully you
have more goals constantly trying to
move on to bigger and better things and
trying to improve ourselves in every
area you really have to believe what
you’re doing is working you know it’s
very important to believe you have to
believe to achieve if you’re doing
something you’re not forcing confidently
you’re going you’re gonna fail you know
someone who is doing something maybe not
a Harper said correctly but they truly
believe in their mind that they’re doing
the best they could possibly do and they
believe what they’re doing is the best
possible scenario I think they’re gonna
have a lot more success as someone that
is do it in a hard percent right but
aren’t positive in what they’re doing
you know the mind is the most powerful
tool we have in order to be a winner you
have to lose
you know that’s that’s that’s how you
learn you know one day I’m a is telling
me you better get out there and you’ll
start busting your ass you know going
forward and never stop don’t miss a day
you know one day missus they can’t get
back
always always look at the positive you
know the glass is always half full if
you think positive and you look at the
positive you know you’re you’re only
going to continue to get better and it’s
being positive in every area is the
secret you know it’s the secret to life
if you’re negative about anything you’re
gonna fail no matter what it is you’re
not happy you want to be better but
that’s what you want in every extra life
you want to better yourself in every way
possible
you know it all works hand in hand a lot
of people really help somebody else to
helping yourself but it feels good you
know and it just what comes around goes
around
the most important thing is life and
license to not give a what other
people think you know that’s the most
important thing and to have that kind of
an attitude of mentality is rare you
know people are always concerned about
what other people think oh no matter who
they are it really doesn’t matter what
you know it really doesn’t matter if you
can have that kind of mentality if
there’s so much further and he’s so much
happier in life people don’t like to
think they like to ask now they don’t
like to think and they don’t have enough
confidence in their decisions that they
make on their own when they get advice
from someone else that gives them more
confidence to believe that that’s gonna
work we should always be trying you know
to be better at every aspect in life I
mean you know are you a good husband are
you a good wife
are you a good son you know are you good
you know you know whatever it could be
you know there’s a million things in
life that we are we I think we should
constantly be trying to be better in
every area I kind of like to just you
know relax you know enjoy life and
that’s kind of what I do um and being
able to to not stress and do what I want
to do when I want to do it is just a
great feeling whatever it takes to get
you to try harder read more set your
goals and go for it
here’s the next attitude disease over
caution some people never will have much
they’re too cautious now you can also be
too reckless but you can also be too
cautious this is called the timid
and my caution was always the risk risk
used to drive me right up the wall
I used to say what if this happens it’s
called the language of the poor what if
this happens and on top of that if this
was to happen look at the fix I be and I
better not try I could always aced
myself out then I’ll tell you what
changed my whole life when I finally
discovered it’s all risky the minute you
were born it got risky if you think
trying is risky wait till they hand you
the bill for not trying if you think
investing is risky wait till you get the
tab for not investing see it’s all risky
get married is risky having children is
risky going into business is risky
investing your money is risky it’s all
risky I’ll tell you how risky life is
that’s risky the Englishman says well if
that’s the way it’s gonna work out let’s
give it a go
somebody says yeah but I’m looking for
safety and security
fine then huddle in a corner we’ll cover
you with a sheet bring you three meals a
day and we’ll protect you
feed you look after you care for you we
won’t let anything happen to you and
you’ll probably live to be 100 the guy
said well yeah I’d live to be 100 but
what a way to live right what a way to
live safe and secure don’t ask for
security ask for adventure better to
live 30 years full of adventure than 100
years safe in the corner and see it’s
not important how long you live what’s
important is how you live here’s the
next attitude disease we’re almost
through with this motley list in fact
we’re almost through hang on the next
one is pessimism pessimism the deadly
disease of always looking on the bad
side the problem side the difficult side
checking all the reasons why it can’t be
done
the poor pessimist leads an ugly life he
doesn’t try to figure out what’s right
he tries to figure out what’s wrong he
doesn’t look for virtue he looks for
faults and when he finds him he’s
delighted how this is the poor guy looks
through the window doesn’t see the
and this is the poor guy right who
rushes up take such leave of his senses
this guy rushes up and he says I’ve got
5 good reasons why it won’t work he’s so
dumb he doesn’t know all you needs
weren’t he’s got 5 – the pessimist the
– the optimist the glass is half-full
why would the same measure affect people
to different ways answer it all depends
on how you look at it our lives are
mostly affected by the way we think
things are not the way they are the way
there’s a subject we don’t have time to
get into tonight called better thinking
habits one of the major things Shope
taught me when I met him he said poor
thinking habits keeps most people poor
and not poor working habits most people
work hard but they don’t think hard and
Shope taught me that the mind is like a
factory a mental Factory and whatever
you think about all day long pours
ingredients into this mental Factory and
that’s what builds the economic social
financial fabric of your life he quoted
me a Bible phrase that says as you think
so you become how awesome when he talked
about poor thinking habits he had me I
used to start the day reading the
morning newspaper I mean you can believe
that or not I’d get a cup of coffee and
read the paper I’d load up on Wars and
riots and murders and stabbings and
killings and bank robberies and muggings
and car wrecks and tragedies I’d even
read the back pages I seem to like that
stuff for some weird reason I’ve laid
upon all that and then I start the day
you can imagine the kind of days I used
to have
you walk around on your financial knees
they call you economic peewee the guy
says I want to be a great leader
wonderful the first thing we do is
following to his house when we get there
we walk in and check his library number
one somebody says well why check his
library the reason is because what a man
reads pours massive ingredients into his
mental factory and the fabric of his
life is built from those ingredients you
would not believe what some people have
got in their house to read you would not
believe one of the best-dressed reports
I know for a lot of it is trash can you
imagine dumping a bale of trash into
this mental factory every day and coming
out with a rich dynamic positive life it
can’t be done you might as well try
making a cake with cement the kids back
in Danbury Connecticut high school
they’re asking me questions one day I’m
talking to the kids kids got good
questions these days one of them said to
me mr. Owen how do you build the good
life I said it’s simple it’s not easy
but it’s simple here’s how you build
anything select the right ingredients
keep out the wrong ingredients and it
starts with thought everything starts
with thought so you must be wise and
careful what you think about because
you gotta be wise and careful I asked
the kids what would happen if somebody
dropped sugar in my coffee they said
will you’d be okay I said what if
somebody dropped strychnine in my coffee
they said well you’d be dead I said
correct lesson 1 life is both sugar and
strychnine you gotta be careful I said
what if my worst enemy drops in the
sugar they said will you be okay I said
what if my best friend even by accident
drops in the strychnine they said well
you’d be dead I said correct lesson 2
watch your car you got to be careful see
it doesn’t matter who hands you the bad
stuff it doesn’t matter where you get
the bad stuff it’ll still do its damage
on your bank account wherever you get it
mr. shelf gave me one of the greatest
phrases when I first met him when he
said gym every day stand guard at the
door of your mind how important stand
guard at the door of your mind and you
decide what goes into your mental
factory don’t let anybody just dump
anything they want to in your mental
factory because you’ve got to live with
the results ok here’s the last disease
and we’re through with this list
in fact we’re almost through Pangolin
the last subject is very brief the last
disease but this one is deadly engage in
this one indulge in it even slightly and
you might as well forget the future
because it’s gonna forget you
complaining crying whining griping a
Bible word called murmuring see that’ll
ace your future spend five minutes
complaining and you have wasted five
and you may have begun what’s known as
economic cancer of the boom surely they
will soon haul you off into a financial
desert and there let you choke on the
dust of your own regret I hope I said
that well so you won’t forget it’s a
deadly disease if you don’t think it’s
bad ask the children of Israel of Old
Testament fame typical of us all their
story just happened to get in the book
story says children of Israel were
slaves God performed a series of
dazzling miracles and got him out and
now they’re heading for the promised
land remember the story
heading for the Promised Land tragedy of
the story they never got their reason
from day one they started to complain
they griped about the water they griped
about the weather
they whined and cried and griped about
the food they griped about the
leadership they’ve whined and cried
because it was too far too cold too hot
too difficult too miserable I mean they
widened wined and cried for years
finally God said I’ve had it
or something like that the story says
they died in the desert never got to the
promised Li which I think means two
things
indulge in this long enough you get your
future canceled and I guess it also
means even God Himself can only take so
much okay just be on the lookout of the
things that can destroy all the good you
start the war is on in this evening
tomorrow
mentally personally socially
economically you got to make sure you’re winning the war
the one commodity that is most valuable
on this earth is time time to love time
to live from the moment the human body
is born
it begins dying I don’t think you you
quite caught that let me say it again
from the moment the human body is born
it begins dying some happen faster
some happen slower some of us help them
have to go faster and some of them
prevent it from happening sooner than
later coach high coming to you live on
the field of life how many seconds how
many minutes do we waste every day doing
things that are nowhere near the goals
and aspirations and passions that we
have inside how many times you go
through the course of a day and realize
did I do anything I set out to do today
write down those goals each and every
day no matter there’s two goals a day if
you can accomplish those then you’re
doing more than just making it through
the day you are living and achieving
your dreams
you know as inspirational speakers we
don’t want to just talk to you we want
to live that as well I’ve done that in
my life as well find time to better
yourself read explore research live life
do things you’ve never thought of doing
before that’s what it’s all about when
you’re born that’s their date that they
put on the left side of the tombstone
when you die they put another date on
the right side of the tombstone but that
– in the middle is the most important
thing on that tombstone that is a line
that throughout that entire time frame
you were able to impact and touch
other’s lives you were able to leave
your mark on this earth you were able to
build a legacy that nobody could change
you were able to have it to where people
remembered who you are no matter what
when you’re living for that – in the
middle you’re gonna remember your why
even your why why are you here not not –
why why did you do something you’re why
you’re your reason for getting up in the
morning your reason for pushing yourself
past the brink of exertion and giving up
your reason for moving on and getting
things done in life that – in the middle
that’s the thing that pushes you
just this stop for a second write down
your why what what are you doing this
for in life if your why doesn’t make you
cry that’s not your wife again if your
why doesn’t make you cry then that’s not
your why your why should be something so
big that it moves your family tree your
why should be something so big that it
changes the whole outlook on how things
are with you and your home your family
your religion your purpose think about
your passion think about your
opportunities and that’s how you find
your purpose OPP when ed y meets up with
your passion your opportunity your
purpose then you’ll find out the most
important day in your life is the day
I will explain to you how you can live
an easy life you know accomplishing
goals and be successful going out in the
world and that’s tough the only way to
live an easy life is to basically give
up on all your dreams and aspirations
and just sit around doing nothing
that is easy it’s not worth
accomplishing therefore a life that is
easy it’s not even worth living nothing
in this world is worth having or doing
unless it means effort pain and
difficulty don’t you listen to me using
to be good you are going to die all you
all your friends your family everyone
you know everyone you care about it’s
gonna die if you love life not waste
time because time is what life is made
of so if you respect and appreciate the
time that you’ve been given one you
aren’t there doing what you want to do
where you need to be telling yourself is
it’s been acceptable to be singing
around the procrastinating and I no
longer want to be a loser I no longer
want to be average I know what it is
that I want and I’m gonna work hard and
I’m gonna get it when you want to
succeed as bad as you want to breathe
then you’ll be successful something you
love sleep more than you love success
and I’m here to tell you today if you’re
going to be successful you’ve got to be
willing to give up sleep you got to be
willing to work off for three hours of
sleep two hours if you really want to be
successful some days you will have to
stay up three days in the road we don’t
need to if you don’t really want to how
badly a you wanting success
rather than actually working toward your
dreams a lot of you’re just thinking
about it
I have high hopes for everybody watching
this I want to remember your name
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it is not the things we do in life that
we regret on our deathbed it is the
things we do not because I assure you
I’ve done a lot of really stupid things
none of them bother me all the mistakes
and all the dopey things and all the
times I was embarrassed they don’t
matter
find your passion and in my experience
no matter what you do at work what you
do in official settings that passion
will be grounded in people and it will
be grounded in the relationships you
have with people and what they think of
you
in the teeth of these stupefying odds it
is you and I in our ordinariness that
but one thing I can tell you I think
every single day of my life is I trying
to find somebody else to change their
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I waited till 39 to get married because
I had to wait that long
to find someone where her happiness is
more important than mine and if nothing
else I hope that all of you can find
that kind of passion and that kind of
a journey of a thousand miles begins
with a single step it’s from an old
Chinese proverb most people have heard
it or have come across it at some point
and the meaning is pretty
straightforward right it advocates
having the courage to take that step
towards a goal and that’s huge they’re
making that decision to move forward
towards something you want but it’s what
happens immediately following that first
step that I’m interested in what happens
when the journeys begun and it’s you and
your goal and all of a sudden you
realize how long that road ahead really
is now this is a turning point for a lot
of people and those who can succeed are
able to take their daunting intimidating
goal or journey and see it for what it
really is
just a bunch of small manageable tasks
strung together you know when you look
at why people quit a lot of the time
it’s because they were overwhelmed by
their goals and ambitions let’s say you
have you know this wonderful plan in
your head to climb a mountain you’re
thinking about that feeling of being on
top looking down with pride every time
you think about it your heart starts
racing
so you pack your stuff you make your way
down on the base of the mountain and
then you look up different ballgame
right now the entire mountain is in
front of you and you realize that that’s
no small feat that is when people walk
away when they aren’t able to see it
challenges the some of tiny steps they
see it as a crazy impossible task it’s
like saying you want to be the next Tom
Brady or Kobe Bryant it’s a tall
mountain to climb like trying to hit a
target from a mile away but if you can
identify and map out what you need to
conquer in order to become a better
basketball player or football player and
begin taking those small steps improving
everyday that makes dreams real that’s
what gives goals life
the ability to see your objective not as
a marathon but as a series of little 400
meters stretches stepping stones you
know what your objective is today
tomorrow the end of the week and the end
of the year you’re completing them day
by day these little victories that’s
what gives your dream life it’s what
gives you momentum you feel good about
the process and by the way when things
blow up in your face which happens every
so often on this little place we call
Earth you’ll have that foundation in
that sense of accomplishment to stay
focused because your approach is
tangible and it’s realistic this applies
with everything losing a job a breakup
failing a test these things are
monumental if you allow them to be you
know they can turn into that unclimbed
bull mountain or they can roadmap a new
path for you and if you define what you
want you define success and begin
stepping towards it one hour one day at
a time you’ll get where you want to be
quicker than you thought what changes
our whole life is action why don’t we
take action fear what we gotta do to get
ourselves to do it we got to make sure
that we push ourselves through it by
making a decision the point in which
change happens is a decision every
change in your life that you want will
come from something simple a decision
if I persist if I continue to try if I
continue to charge forward I will
succeed I will persist until I succeed I
was not delivered unto this world in
defeat not as failure course in my veins
I am NOT a sheep waiting to be prodded
by my shepherd I am a lion and I refused
to talk to walk to sleep with the Sheep
don’t be a follower be a student take
advice but not orders take information
but don’t let somebody you know order
your life not to do what someone else
says take what someone else says process
it think about it ponder it it makes you
wonder makes you think that it’s
valuable then when you go take action
make sure that the action is not what
somebody tells you make sure the action
is the product of your owners include
but I’m exactly where I want to be
because I realize I got to commit my
very being to this thing and until you
get there
you’ll never be successful in life once
you get there i guarantee you the world
is yours stay out of the clutches of
mediocrity invent yourself and then
reinvent yourself change your tone and
shapes are often bets they can never
categorize you reinvigorate yourself and
accept what is be self taught and
reinvent your life because you must it
is your life and it’s history and the
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you have the power to allow others to be
told you feel not everybody that comes
in and out your life is put in place to
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replaced with most bubbly we wouldn’t
know how to gauge
Damon courage don’t be late
and to fly through no pain everybody is
put in place in your life for Jesus not
to fail you know I never want to be that
nine-to-five person that just lives my
entire life working a nine-to-five and
just be happy with a modest lifestyle
you know being secure a lot of people
that’s all they want they just want a
secure lifestyle you know own a house
you know and be able to retire and that
makes them happy you know and I just
believe that we should always be always
be pushing you know to achieve more it’s
become more you know and submit a job
the same job for 30 years is not
something I would ever choose to do in
the society you know we we are tied to
go to college and get a job that’s what
we’re taught if you become a doctor or a
lawyer you’re successful you know but
most of time you still have a boss you
still have someone you know Tony what to
do and you still have the schedule you
have to stick to you know so it’s not
much different than working at
McDonald’s I mean it’s just you’re
making more money but you’re still in
the same
situation and you know working at
McDonald’s is not something I was used
to do or same scenario a little more
money you know to me is that enjoy your
doing and you know to have the lifestyle
freedom
you know it’s the most impressive thing
a lot of people don’t understand it you
got to work hard or whatever you do
whether you’re working for someone else
are working for yourself and if you want
to put that in you know you’re gonna end
up being successful you can’t be
satisfied that’s what keeps us going you
know when you become content then life’s
over and in the mentality is what’s
gonna make things happen you know is
having that mentality to never give up
keep pushing forward and trying to
accomplish your goals and hopefully you
have more goals constantly trying to
move on to bigger and better things and
trying to improve ourselves in every
area you really have to believe what
you’re doing is working you know it’s
very important to believe you have to
believe to achieve if you’re doing
something you’re not forcing confidently
you’re going you’re gonna fail you know
someone who is doing something maybe not
a Harper said correctly but they truly
believe in their mind that they’re doing
the best they could possibly do and they
believe what they’re doing is the best
possible scenario I think they’re gonna
have a lot more success as someone that
is do it in a hard percent right but
aren’t positive in what they’re doing
you know the mind is the most powerful
tool we have in order to be a winner you
have to lose
you know that’s that’s that’s how you
learn you know one day I’m a is telling
me you better get out there and you’ll
start busting your ass you know going
forward and never stop don’t miss a day
you know one day missus they can’t get
back
always always look at the positive you
know the glass is always half full if
you think positive and you look at the
positive you know you’re you’re only
going to continue to get better and it’s
being positive in every area is the
secret you know it’s the secret to life
if you’re negative about anything you’re
gonna fail no matter what it is you’re
not happy you want to be better but
that’s what you want in every extra life
you want to better yourself in every way
possible
you know it all works hand in hand a lot
of people really help somebody else to
helping yourself but it feels good you
know and it just what comes around goes
around
the most important thing is life and
license to not give a what other
people think you know that’s the most
important thing and to have that kind of
an attitude of mentality is rare you
know people are always concerned about
what other people think oh no matter who
they are it really doesn’t matter what
you know it really doesn’t matter if you
can have that kind of mentality if
there’s so much further and he’s so much
happier in life people don’t like to
think they like to ask now they don’t
like to think and they don’t have enough
confidence in their decisions that they
make on their own when they get advice
from someone else that gives them more
confidence to believe that that’s gonna
work we should always be trying you know
to be better at every aspect in life I
mean you know are you a good husband are
you a good wife
are you a good son you know are you good
you know you know whatever it could be
you know there’s a million things in
life that we are we I think we should
constantly be trying to be better in
every area I kind of like to just you
know relax you know enjoy life and
that’s kind of what I do um and being
able to to not stress and do what I want
to do when I want to do it is just a
great feeling whatever it takes to get
you to try harder read more set your
goals and go for it
here’s the next attitude disease over
caution some people never will have much
they’re too cautious now you can also be
too reckless but you can also be too
cautious this is called the timid
and my caution was always the risk risk
used to drive me right up the wall
I used to say what if this happens it’s
called the language of the poor what if
this happens and on top of that if this
was to happen look at the fix I be and I
better not try I could always aced
myself out then I’ll tell you what
changed my whole life when I finally
discovered it’s all risky the minute you
were born it got risky if you think
trying is risky wait till they hand you
the bill for not trying if you think
investing is risky wait till you get the
tab for not investing see it’s all risky
get married is risky having children is
risky going into business is risky
investing your money is risky it’s all
risky I’ll tell you how risky life is
that’s risky the Englishman says well if
that’s the way it’s gonna work out let’s
give it a go
somebody says yeah but I’m looking for
safety and security
fine then huddle in a corner we’ll cover
you with a sheet bring you three meals a
day and we’ll protect you
feed you look after you care for you we
won’t let anything happen to you and
you’ll probably live to be 100 the guy
said well yeah I’d live to be 100 but
what a way to live right what a way to
live safe and secure don’t ask for
security ask for adventure better to
live 30 years full of adventure than 100
years safe in the corner and see it’s
not important how long you live what’s
important is how you live here’s the
next attitude disease we’re almost
through with this motley list in fact
we’re almost through hang on the next
one is pessimism pessimism the deadly
disease of always looking on the bad
side the problem side the difficult side
checking all the reasons why it can’t be
done
the poor pessimist leads an ugly life he
doesn’t try to figure out what’s right
he tries to figure out what’s wrong he
doesn’t look for virtue he looks for
faults and when he finds him he’s
delighted how this is the poor guy looks
through the window doesn’t see the
and this is the poor guy right who
rushes up take such leave of his senses
this guy rushes up and he says I’ve got
5 good reasons why it won’t work he’s so
dumb he doesn’t know all you needs
weren’t he’s got 5 – the pessimist the
– the optimist the glass is half-full
why would the same measure affect people
to different ways answer it all depends
on how you look at it our lives are
mostly affected by the way we think
things are not the way they are the way
there’s a subject we don’t have time to
get into tonight called better thinking
habits one of the major things Shope
taught me when I met him he said poor
thinking habits keeps most people poor
and not poor working habits most people
work hard but they don’t think hard and
Shope taught me that the mind is like a
factory a mental Factory and whatever
you think about all day long pours
ingredients into this mental Factory and
that’s what builds the economic social
financial fabric of your life he quoted
me a Bible phrase that says as you think
so you become how awesome when he talked
about poor thinking habits he had me I
used to start the day reading the
morning newspaper I mean you can believe
that or not I’d get a cup of coffee and
read the paper I’d load up on Wars and
riots and murders and stabbings and
killings and bank robberies and muggings
and car wrecks and tragedies I’d even
read the back pages I seem to like that
stuff for some weird reason I’ve laid
upon all that and then I start the day
you can imagine the kind of days I used
to have
you walk around on your financial knees
they call you economic peewee the guy
says I want to be a great leader
wonderful the first thing we do is
following to his house when we get there
we walk in and check his library number
one somebody says well why check his
library the reason is because what a man
reads pours massive ingredients into his
mental factory and the fabric of his
life is built from those ingredients you
would not believe what some people have
got in their house to read you would not
believe one of the best-dressed reports
I know for a lot of it is trash can you
imagine dumping a bale of trash into
this mental factory every day and coming
out with a rich dynamic positive life it
can’t be done you might as well try
making a cake with cement the kids back
in Danbury Connecticut high school
they’re asking me questions one day I’m
talking to the kids kids got good
questions these days one of them said to
me mr. Owen how do you build the good
life I said it’s simple it’s not easy
but it’s simple here’s how you build
anything select the right ingredients
keep out the wrong ingredients and it
starts with thought everything starts
with thought so you must be wise and
careful what you think about because
you gotta be wise and careful I asked
the kids what would happen if somebody
dropped sugar in my coffee they said
will you’d be okay I said what if
somebody dropped strychnine in my coffee
they said well you’d be dead I said
correct lesson 1 life is both sugar and
strychnine you gotta be careful I said
what if my worst enemy drops in the
sugar they said will you be okay I said
what if my best friend even by accident
drops in the strychnine they said well
you’d be dead I said correct lesson 2
watch your car you got to be careful see
it doesn’t matter who hands you the bad
stuff it doesn’t matter where you get
the bad stuff it’ll still do its damage
on your bank account wherever you get it
mr. shelf gave me one of the greatest
phrases when I first met him when he
said gym every day stand guard at the
door of your mind how important stand
guard at the door of your mind and you
decide what goes into your mental
factory don’t let anybody just dump
anything they want to in your mental
factory because you’ve got to live with
the results ok here’s the last disease
and we’re through with this list
in fact we’re almost through Pangolin
the last subject is very brief the last
disease but this one is deadly engage in
this one indulge in it even slightly and
you might as well forget the future
because it’s gonna forget you
complaining crying whining griping a
Bible word called murmuring see that’ll
ace your future spend five minutes
complaining and you have wasted five
and you may have begun what’s known as
economic cancer of the boom surely they
will soon haul you off into a financial
desert and there let you choke on the
dust of your own regret I hope I said
that well so you won’t forget it’s a
deadly disease if you don’t think it’s
bad ask the children of Israel of Old
Testament fame typical of us all their
story just happened to get in the book
story says children of Israel were
slaves God performed a series of
dazzling miracles and got him out and
now they’re heading for the promised
land remember the story
heading for the Promised Land tragedy of
the story they never got their reason
from day one they started to complain
they griped about the water they griped
about the weather
they whined and cried and griped about
the food they griped about the
leadership they’ve whined and cried
because it was too far too cold too hot
too difficult too miserable I mean they
widened wined and cried for years
finally God said I’ve had it
or something like that the story says
they died in the desert never got to the
promised Li which I think means two
things
indulge in this long enough you get your
future canceled and I guess it also
means even God Himself can only take so
much okay just be on the lookout of the
things that can destroy all the good you
start the war is on in this evening
tomorrow
mentally personally socially
economically you got to make sure you’re winning the war
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