first one deciding if you just make a
decision it can be sometimes the day
that starts you on a brand new journey
now some decisions are incidental and
some are small and some you know are
part of a working day but sometimes
decision-making can be one of the most
important days of your life may be a
decision you have postponed and
postponed and now you understand the
penalty of postponing that decision
you’ve got to do something and finally
you come to the conclusion today is the
day I now decide and whether you decide
on a new direction whether you decide on
a refinement in philosophy whether you
decide to act when before you haven’t
acted you decide on a on a series of
things that you’re going to do you
decide deciding can be such an
incredibly important very exciting
inspirational day also deciding
sometimes starts the process of lifting
our self-esteem sometimes when you look
back on it the day that you decided was
just about as exciting as the day when
you finally accomplish the project that
when you finally made the decision you
finally got the monkey off your back as
we say in English you finally know got
through whatever barriers kept you from
making that decision and finally you
made a decision and now it seems like
the sky is blue and the air is clear and
your mind is ready and you know
the adrenaline starts to flow things
start to happen to you from that moment
of decision so that can be an incredible
source of inspiration now if you don’t
follow through it’s not gonna last all
that long if you decide and then you
know postpone and you decide and but you
don’t still don’t get to it for a week
or a month or a year you know soon all
that energy and that source of
inspiration is all dissipated so
deciding is inspiring but but not for
that long but once you decide it can be
a very powerful day but now of course
you know you must follow through but if
there’s some things you’ve been
postponing some decisions you have just
you know haven’t gotten to I would ask
you to just you know take out your
journal and just go through you know
what have I been postponing it’s not
gonna be better for my health it’s not
gonna be better for my future it’s not
going to enhance my finances maybe a
problem needs to be solved I got to
decide when I’m gonna do it and and how
I’m gonna proceed I need to get to it I
promise you if you’ll go through some of
that list and start making those
decisions your inspiration will start to
flow and those could be very critically
important exciting days indecision is
the thief of opportunity indecision
means the door is still closed
indecision means the opportunity waits
indecision means what could be is
postponed or may never be you know that
those are all the penalties of
indecision and sometimes we can’t make a
snap judgment we can’t decide
immediately on something so important
but after a while after a while we must
understand sometimes they have a penalty
of putting off our our decision-making
so one source of inspiration deciding
here’s the next one
planning now that you’ve decided and
you’ve started you start making plans
it’s in incredible what can happen as a
source of inspiration when finally
what’s in your head what’s in your
imagination now finally starts to take
shape on paper when I first heard about
network marketing I was 25 years old and
I heard some of the testimonials and I
heard that people have gotten rich and
I’ve heard that it’s changed people’s
lives and I’ve heard that you could
start with nothing and become something
but let me tell you what was exciting
when I finally made the decision yes I
was going to be part of the industry yes
I was going to make it part of my
marketing future what was really
exciting was when I sat down and started
making plans
I started committing imagination and
belief to paper I started writing it
down
I started started as we often do drawing
those circles you know what if I had
five what if I had ten and then when I
had a concept of what that could bring
for me then I said how can I reach the
first five how can I reach the first 10
what could I do starting to make those
plans I’m telling you I remember those
days as if they were yesterday they were
so exciting I had a concept of what I
wanted I had a dream of what could
happen for me if it could happen for
others maybe it could happen for me but
when I started putting it on paper and
started making the plans that was an
incredible source of inspiration for me
because the plan seemed to now start
making it real that what I had thought
about what I dreamed about now I’m
actually getting to it by making a plan
however
you can make all the plans in the world
and it is a source of inspiration for
only so long and you can make one plan
and then you can make another plan and
you can make some plans today and the
next day you can make some more plans
and the next day you can make some more
plans and it is a very exciting source
of inspiration but only for a while I’m
sure we would all agree that making
plans that inspiration wouldn’t last for
a week now that inspiration now must
drive you to do number three the first
source of inspiration is deciding second
source of inspiration is planning and
now here’s a big source of inspiration
beginning getting started actually
turning thought and the notes on the
paper the plans actually now committing
it to action getting started and
beginning can be an incredible source of
inspiration guess what you can say when
you begin a change in your diet when you
begin to take the Herbalife products
guess what you can say I’m on a new
track I have carved out for myself a new
beginning I’m on my way to the most
incredible health I will never be the
same again
I’m leaving the old undisciplined part
of me I’m leaving that behind I’m a new
person I’m taking my first shake I’m
swallowing the first tablets I made my
first you know walk around the block
that I thought about for slow long and
never did I finally did it
today I’ve started I have begun that is
an incredible source of inspiration and
that is to start to begin
you cannot believe what can happen to
your self-esteem and many of you have
already experienced it I’m just asking
you to begin something new in all the
areas of your life maybe you’ve always
thought about benevolence and you just
haven’t gotten started or you haven’t
made the plans or you haven’t made the
decision I’m asking you to start taking
that stuff now that’s in your head that
imagination which is very powerful and
it’s a great source of inspiration in
itself but then I’m asking you then to
decide use that inspiration then I’m
asking you to make plans begin to make
plans use that inspiration and then if
you take that first step it can be the
first step of an incredible journey and
when Mark had his first meeting when
mark recruited his first distributor
when Mark got his first customer his
grandmother using the product when Mark
got that first few yeses from people and
he started the process as simple as it
was you know from the trunk of his car
you know as crude as the literature
wasn’t the beginning it was a start and
so beginning can be an incredible source
of inspiration and beginning can be many
things a beginning a new commitment to
learning you say I’m gonna have a
library second-to-none and I bought the
first book of my new library today
I’m gonna be surrounded by information
and inspiration
the cassette tapes and the videos and
the books I’m gonna have a library
second to none I’ve thought about it it
wouldn’t it be wonderful and you know
I’ve started making plans you know I
provided some space in my room for my
expanded library but here’s what’s
exciting I got the first book today I’ve
gotten started this is just the first of
many many books this is the first of a
whole flow of information for me this is
the first time you want to learn a new
skill and you sign up for a class let’s
say you want to learn accounting or
something in you you sign up for the
class and you take the first class you
get started you thought about it you
made some plans for it you made some
time for it but there’s nothing like
sitting there in the class with the pen
in your hand and the pad ready to take
notes Here I am I’m starting on a new
journey of learning remember that
beginning is a fantastic source of
inspiration planning is an incredible
source of inspiration deciding is an
unbelievable source of inspiration but
now beginning only lasts so long if you
begin that first week and then you don’t
continue yes you’ll be inspired by
deciding and planning and beginning but
all of that now will start to fade away
if you don’t do number four one of the
great sources of inspiration is
progressing once you’ve gotten started
now you proceed you progress now you go
to class the second week you go to class
the third week
but it’s not only progressing in terms
of time it’s progressing in terms of
what you’re learning progressing in
terms of getting the information that
you hadn’t discovered before
now you’re excited about that progress
one of the greatest sources of
inspiration is progress when you start
jogging around the block and you know at
first it’s a little difficult and then
it’s two blocks and then you go around
four or five times but then you notice
notice you’re breathing easier you
notice when you go up a flight of stairs
you’re not out of breath and it suddenly
occurs to you in a fairly short period
of time you’re making progress with
these incredible Herbalife products when
people first start taking the products
and they’ve got some health challenges
and they discipline themselves they do
it the first day in the second day in
the first week in the second week but it
isn’t long if they need some to lose
some weight you know a pound or two four
or five pounds that is so incredibly
exciting you don’t have to wait for
fifty pounds you don’t have to wait for
a hundred pounds you know that first one
that first two or three making progress
having more oxygen in your lungs
you can tell within a short period of
time I’m making progress on my my oxygen
supply I’m making progress on losing
weight then when you start making
progress in your business your ability
to make contacts your ability to talk to
people
being so shy you decided one day hey
I’ve had enough with being too shy I’ve
made the decision I’m making some plans
I’m gonna begin talking to people and
you start and at first it’s difficult
but then very quickly and it doesn’t
take a year I’m telling you it doesn’t
take a month that doesn’t take a week I
promise you even though you’re a little
bit shy if you’ll just start to
introduce yourself if you’ll just start
to talk to someone you’ve never talked
to before just get started I promise you
in a fairly short period of time because
two things are happening one is deciding
to overcome a liability but also
understanding that with this new skill
now with this new ability and with my
progress no telling what I can
accomplish because if I can get over the
fear of talking to one I can get over
the fear of talking to number ten number
fifty number 100 and by the time I get
to number fifty and number 100 my
self-confidence is going to be so strong
my self-esteem is gonna be so high my
new skill is gonna show such incredible
progress that I will never look back on
the old ways
so what an incredible source of
inspiration progressing I jut AddThis
down happiness unhappiness is simply the
lack of progress toward a preset goal if
you’re not making progress see that’s
when unhappiness sets in but here’s
where happiness begins making
progressive progress you don’t have to
arrive all at once you don’t have to
have it immediately but as long as
you’re making progress as long as
progress is part of your experience now
it is a fantastic source of inspiration
now here’s the next source of
inspiration and that is achieving when
you finally have arrived at that goal
that you said I want to have this much
experience and be able to do this by 30
days from now 60 days from now six
months from now
and finally that six months passes and
there you are
finally the time passes and you haven’t
finally the time passes and the skill is
now beginning to be polished and it is
so unique and effective achieving is an
incredible source of inspiration but
here’s what we notice when you do
achieve put it whatever you set out in
the beginning where you decided and
planned and you got started and you
progressed when you finally achieve that
achievement is not much more inspiration
than when you decide it’s a different
kind of inspiration it’s a different
kind of feeling to having arrived
knowing that you’ve got many other
objectives to accomplish many other
places you want to go things you want to
do the person you want to become but at
least I’ve got this one you know I’ve
done this one
I remember what way back when I wanted
to do the training and I wanted to do
teaching I would like to do seminars
because I saw people that had such a
magnificent effect on their audience
they used the language to such an
unbelievable degree I could tell that
something was mixed from their heart and
their soul and their mind and their
vocabulary and this mixture of stuff
together presented to someone’s ears to
hear and a heart maybe to believe in a
mind to understand that the most
incredible magic could occur I thought
to myself if I couldn’t possibly do that
it would be the greatest feeling in the
world
later I’ve come to have one more goal
which I just probably won’t ever attain
and that is to be a singer to not only
speak the poetry to not only speak the
language but to sing it accompanied by
music in my opinion that’s probably the
most awesome impact you can have on any
person or any group or any audience is
the ability to communicate a message or
a poem or lyrics or what you feel or
what you know to communicate it by music
and my song to me it is the most
incredible impact that one human can
have on another or have on an audience
but next to that is to be able to feel
strong about some ideas and have the
ability to put it into words to put it
into language drive it by emotion have
it mixed with experience you know and
all the stuff that goes on in your head
and your heart and your soul and deliver
it to the best of your ability even as
I’m doing today to an unseen audience
but since I can visualize the audience
and where it goes from here and where it
may go beyond where it reaches even at
the moment that inspires me to do my
best to come up with ideas that will be
meaningful and helpful to me this this
is the most incredible experience you
know the song I will never get there
because you know I I don’t have that
particular powerful talent but next to
it I’m telling you you can have next to
that the most incredible effect on
someone else without a doubt you can
stir someone’s imagination you can reach
that achievement you can be there what
you’ve wished for and what you’ve
dreamed for if you will draw from the
source of deciding that inspiration and
the inspiration of planning the
inspiration of beginning and the
inspiration of progressing then you will
know this incredible inspiration
achieving of finally getting there
finally being the person finally
accomplishing the goal and here’s what’s
exciting about Herbalife we get to
practice all of these every day all of
this is working everyday simultaneously
and that simultaneous because some of
you right now are achieving and decided
and perhaps you have achieved and
decided the same day because what you
have achieved you have decided I’m going
to multiply it now by two by three by
five so it’s amazing how you can plan
and decide begin and decide on something
else you can be making progress in one
area and deciding on on starting another
all of this can happen especially in our
social and our business life combined
with our spiritual life and herbal life
all of this can be happening at the same
time you know it’s so amazing to go to
Salinas California a Salinas is called
the lettuce capital of the world the
soil is so rich it’s unbelievable
not far from there is Castroville and
Castroville is called the artichoke
capital of the world and within a few
miles of there is a place called Gilroy
and Gilroy is called the garlic capital
of the world
they now have a garlic festival every
year now over 300 thousand people come
from all over to Gilroy California to
get in on the Garlic Festival not far
from there is a place called Watsonville
and Watsonville California is known as
the strawberry capital of the world all
within a within a very short you you can
drive to all of these little towns
within a very short period of time it
only it doesn’t take half a day and yet
these are the capitals of the world in
terms of productivity and the reason is
because the soil is so unused
that in these areas you can grow to
three crops a year now as you know most
of the world is restricted to you know
one crop a year spring summer harvest
and then winter but in this area it’s
unbelievable when you drive through to
see them harvesting in one field and
planting in the field right next to it
harvesting and planting on the same day
that they’re harvesting they’re planting
it’s just it’s just a phenomenal place
but you know that’s true of herbalife
you can harvest and plant the same day
you can achieve and decide in a single
day you can be making progress in one
area and having achieved something in
another area all mixed in together all
happens happening simultaneously and at
the same time I wanted to call that to
your attention so that you would
appreciate it and how our lives are so
dramatically affected by the business we
do you know and our social life and our
religious life and our life of the
community but especially the opportunity
that Herbalife offers for all of this to
be working simultaneously deciding
planning beginning progressing achieving
here’s what’s exciting about Herbalife
we get inspiration by inspiring others
this is a two-way instantaneous
experience as we inspire we become
inspired now you it’s difficult to
fathom it you know with just our finite
mind but this thing called spirituality
and human emotion is so unbelievable
that the two things can happen
simultaneously at the same time as we
inspire we become inspired
we are being taught by teaching as we
teach we learn sometimes we learn what
not to say because you know it didn’t go
over very well and we just make a mental
note you know I’m gonna dispense with
that I thought it was a clever idea
turned out that it really wasn’t but we
learn and we learn simultaneously as we
teach it’s incredible we are becoming
wealthy ourselves by creating wealth as
we create wealth we become wealthy as we
give it out it comes to us as we
dispense it through our facilities of
speech language spirit emotion eyes
handshake contact as we do that from
incredible sources now it comes flowing
into our life and sometimes it flows
simultaneously we are becoming wealthy
by creating wealth you can’t have a much
more exciting experience than that next
I wrote down we are changing by creating
change by helping others to change we
change ourselves and sometimes we decide
to make some changes the very same day
we’re trying to help someone to change
with the better we’re trying to help
them change their mind we’re trying to
help them change their position we’re
trying to help them change their plan
refine it so that it works better and as
we do that we suddenly find ourselves
changing now making mental notes as we
go as I am now teaching as I’m helping
someone to change by the way I’m going
to start making the changes it is a
powerful experience we can have with all
of this happening simultaneously at the
same time next we progress by creating
progress
we create progress for others we get
them to grow and by helping them to grow
we grow by helping them to succeed we
succeed that’s what happens to Marcuse
immediately he started helping people
with their health immediately he started
helping people with their financial
future and as he helped them his came to
him he didn’t even have to concentrate
on what he was getting you know he
didn’t have to zero in on you know what
was how much was that for me today he
could forget that all he had to do was
invest in those early distributors
invest his time invest his energy invest
his ideas invest his emotion and it and
it just started coming as he gave it so
he received it that is the awesome
experience not just a verbal life I
understand this applies to all of our
other social personal religious gifts
and experiences but but it works so well
in what we’re doing in Herbalife next we
become happy by creating happiness when
we put a new pin on someone and it
creates this incredible joy for them
that they finally arrived they did the
meetings they did the classes they did
all the stuff now they’ve arrived we
create this happiness for them by
putting the pin on giving them a hug and
giving them our congratulations we
create happiness for them but it
simultaneously raises our level of
happiness to an incredible degree we
learn to see by creating sight in others
if we can help them to see weakens
we develop our vision by inspiring
vision we develop sight for someone we
develop a future for someone and our
future automatically then starts to
develop and starts to grow and starts to
expand as we develop vision for others
sources of inspiration I thought you would enjoy