the diseases of attitude it’s never that
pleasant to talk about the negative but
we got to talk about it because life is
part of negative these attitude diseases
are like weeds that grow in the garden
it’s a normal part of life here’s a good
phrase to note negative is normal it’s
not successful but it’s normal it’s part
of life and here’s the next key in my
opinion you must learn to handle the
negative don’t ignore it handle it now I
know some people teach the other way and
listen to them and listen to me and then
make up your own mind right don’t be a
follower be a student
but I say you got to handle the negative
you don’t have to live in it you don’t
have to dwell on it but you do have to
handle it my opinion I know some people
teach just turn your head real quick and
say there’s no way there’s no way
there’s no weeks they’ll take your guard
so you’ve got to handle the negative
here’s what part of it is it’s called
the great war between good and evil mr.
Reynolds and I are working on a new book
this year called the great war between
good and evil and there is a war on the
minute you were born you got involved in
the war between good and evil between
darkness and light between negative and
positive between evil and good between
tyranny and democracy between weeds and
human activity I mean the war is on if
democracy sleeps guess who never sleeps
tyranny in the absence of light guess
what’s automatic darkness if good does
not arouse itself and become active
guess what moves in evil it’s a war a
mental war a physical war a financial
war between enterprise and ease between
accomplishment and failure it’s a war
that’s why there’s an old testament
phrase that gives the best advice for
human activity when it says six days
labor one day rest now I’m sure we’ve
taken that to mean don’t work all seven
days take one off here’s what it also
means only take one Oh
or you’re liable to lose the war now
we’ve got it down to five and two and
maybe that’s not too dangerous I don’t
know if God would have thought a five
and two he might have made it five and
two I don’t know you can’t think of
everything but here’s what it does mean
enterprise is better than ease if you
rest too long the jungle overtakes the
village now here’s the good news about
the war between good and evil evil is no
match for good but good must be active
weeds are no match for human activity
but if you stand still how far in will
they come all the way they’ll grow right
up around your shoes but if you get busy
how far back can you take them as far as
you wish
they’re no match but you must be active
that’s why the six and one make sure
you’re not losing the war by taking off
to guess what the average years are
after retirement
six
six which means don’t retire your
chances are – okay the war between good
and evil the weeds you got to make sure
you recognize the negative handle let’s
deal with it and then go on let’s make a
list of the diseases of attitude that
can wreck all your chances to do with
one of the words that destroys
everything is called neglect neglect and
I found this out a week of neglect could
cost you a year of repair it isn’t worth
it so what to be on the lookout for
here’s the list if you were making it
you’d have the same list I’ve got right
we’re not covering anything new tonight
this is a reminding session not a
teaching session but it doesn’t hurt to
go over it again here’s the list
attitude diseases number one is
indifference the shrug of the shoulders
the guy’s not even concerned he’s just
drifting this is called the mild
approach to life
a disease known as mildness
the guy says well I can’t see getting
all that worked up well to be any kind
of winner you’ve got to get worked
there’s one problem with drift you
cannot drift to the top of the mountain
and the good Lord said in the closing
chapters of the Bible here’s the best
way to live one way or the other that’s
best pop and what’s next best cold is
next best the heart not the half-baked
middle lukewarm not too hot not too cold
what a sad way to live I think what it
means is pick a direction and go with
everything you’ve got just pick one and
go somebody says yeah but what if it’s
the wrong direction you’ll find out
quicker it won’t take you 25 years to
wake up and say oh no I’ve been walking
the wrong road I told my staff the other
day next best of prosperity is adversity
if one doesn’t get you pray for the
other we all do better from one of two
reasons inspiration or desperation and I
don’t wish anything bad on you tonight
but if you’re not inspired I hope a
wagon comes down you’re rut
whatever it takes to get you to try
harder read more set your goals and go
for it somebody asked me one time what
quality would I pick if I wanted to work
with somebody and you know what I picked
first number one strong feeling please
number one give me somebody that feels
strong about most anything I don’t even
care just so they believe it even if
they disagree with me
wonderful just so they disagree
vigorously I’m not saying it’s easy to
win those kind of people to your point
of view but I’d rather do that than to
try to resurrect people from the dead
pump them up every month Paul Vanara
pump them up I pass
the good Lord needs a leader for the
early Christians remember the early days
of the Christians not like today if you
were to stand up in the early days and
say I’m a Christian cut off your head
toss you and your wife in jail let you
rot I mean those were ugly days being a
Christian back then was not called
socially acceptable they didn’t have a
hundred and twenty five thousand in the
Los Angeles Coliseum to hear Billy
Graham on a Sunday afternoon not back in
those days back in those days when the
Christians got in the Coliseum it was a
different story I mean the word was stay
out of the Coliseum especially on Sunday
last Sunday was Lions 33 Christians
nothing see those were mean tough
struggle days for the Christians
now when the days are mean and tough and
struggling you got to have some kind of
leader do you know who the good Lord
picked for the leader when the days were
mean and ugly Saul from Tarsus that’s
who we picked Saul I’ll tell you what I
would have picked him you would have
picked him anybody would have picked
Saul Saul was one of those incredible
guys once he got into something look out
everybody in the community knew what
Saul was in because whatever he joined
he flipped on the switch is opened up
all the dials turn on all the faucets
and go like mad he was known as all out
Saul I mean he was something else now at
first it wasn’t working out well Saul
hated Christians which makes a poor
leader right I mean that won’t work
Sall got this bug somewhere about the
Christians he got to hate and Christians
and he hated him so bad every time
somebody would say Christian he’d fly
into a rage and I guess he decided one
life or one day it was his mission in
life to get rid of all the Christians he
was Saul anyhow it could do most
anything he wanted to so he got in these
letters of authority to go around to the
various communities and hunt down the
Christians they said do whatever you
want to with him Saul they’re unpopular
anyhow drag him in the streets whip him
Stone him torture him kill him you
mentioned the name Saul from Tarsus to
the early Christians I’ll tell you what
they would do they would run hide lock
the doors leave town dive underground
I’ve been in the catacombs of Rome where
they hid he was mean
I mean terribly mean but remember the
story one day Saul’s making the FIR
Damascus heard about some new Christians
flies into a rage takes off from
Damascus and the story said he was angry
there’s a little sentence in the story
that says on his way to Damascus he was
breathing out threatenings and slaughter
which meant he felt rather strong about
the idea right that’s strong that’s
strong but on this journey right
according to the story as Saul was
making his way to Damascus the good Lord
looks down out of heaven and says
there’s my man Saul he’s got to be
something else and according to the
story this great light shines out of
heaven Knox seemed flat right off his
horse grinds his face in the dirt and
blinds him for three days
the good Lord using recruiting tools we
can’t use this when your Lord right to
make a long story short Saul from Tarsus
becomes converted to Christianity
he becomes Paul the great leader the
Apostle and without a doubt the good
Lord got him a dandy one he didn’t have
to pump up every morning in one of his
later writings he said the things I once
hated I now loved the things I once
loved I now hate see that strong here’s
the key to the good life learn to put
everything you’ve got into everything
you do whatever you are doing pull it on
it will quickly open up into opportunity
or quickly to disclose to you that you
ought to be doing something else the
delusion is if I had a better job I’d
really pour it on see that’s delusion
wherever you are pour it on don’t give
somebody half a job for a day’s pay
pour it on see that’ll help change your
life get rid of this disease here’s the
next attitude disease indecision mental
paralysis the guy can’t make up his mind
and it becomes a disease pretty soon he
knows he’s got it the guy says well I
know I’m on the fence but he says what
if I get off on the wrong side listen
after a while it doesn’t matter just get
Oh any side will do a life full of
adventure is a life full of many
decisions the ones that turn out to be
wrong give you better experience to make
better decisions
so don’t see how many decisions you can
get out of see how many you can get into
that’s where the adventure is so shake
off this disease indecision the next one
is doubt
doubts like a plague and one of the
worst is self-doubt there are many but
that’s one of the worst the guide doubts
himsel doubts if it’ll last that long
for him doubts if he can do that well
doubts if he can make that much doubts
if he can accomplish all that a chronic
excellent self doubter you can imagine
what damage that does to your future so
here’s the key turn this coin over and
become a believer and there’s many
things to believe in one of the majors
is yourself the understanding of
self-worth is the beginning of progress
now folks we don’t get you this one will
worry that’s a devastating disease worry
worry causes health problems social
problems personal problems family
problems it’s devastating worry long
enough it’ll drop you to your knees
could reduce you to begging I know how
bad this one is I used to have it bad I
used to be known as a super warrior not
a super warrior no super warrior my
family wished I’d have been a warrior I
got those years to make up for it but
I’ll tell you what my advice to you is
do what I finally did on worry give it
up who needs it
I’m not saying it’s easy I’m saying it’s
worth
it took me almost one year to kick the
worried habit and it was not an easy
year it was one of the toughest tears I
ever spent but I finally got that monkey
off my back and I discovered you could
live the most incredible life free of
work not free of challenge not free of
difficulty free of worry I learned how
to do it and you can 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
approach to life 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 ace 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 you’re not gonna get out alive that’s
risky the Englishman says well if that’s
the way it’s gonna work out let’s give
it a go right that’s what it’s for 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 thirty 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 here’s the next attitude disease
we’re almost through with this monthly
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 I 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 sunset he sees
the specks on the wind
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 he needs one
he’s got 5 – the pessimist the glass is
always half-empty – the optimist the
glass is half-full why would the same
measure affect people two 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 we think they are affects us
most there’s a subject we don’t have
time to get into tonight called better
thinking habits one of the major things
shall taught me when I met him he said
poor thinking habits keeps most people
poor not poor working habits most people
work hard but they don’t think hard
and so 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 up words
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 that starts everything 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 one 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 two 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 okay here’s the
last disease and we’re through with this
list
in fact we’re almost through England 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 crying griping a
Bible word called murmuring see that
will 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 bone 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
years finally God said I’ve had it to
cancel or something like that
the story says they died in the desert
never got to the Promised One which i
think means two things indulging this
long enough you get your Futurecast and
I guess it also means even God Himself
can only take so much
pleasant to talk about the negative but
we got to talk about it because life is
part of negative these attitude diseases
are like weeds that grow in the garden
it’s a normal part of life here’s a good
phrase to note negative is normal it’s
not successful but it’s normal it’s part
of life and here’s the next key in my
opinion you must learn to handle the
negative don’t ignore it handle it now I
know some people teach the other way and
listen to them and listen to me and then
make up your own mind right don’t be a
follower be a student
but I say you got to handle the negative
you don’t have to live in it you don’t
have to dwell on it but you do have to
handle it my opinion I know some people
teach just turn your head real quick and
say there’s no way there’s no way
there’s no weeks they’ll take your guard
so you’ve got to handle the negative
here’s what part of it is it’s called
the great war between good and evil mr.
Reynolds and I are working on a new book
this year called the great war between
good and evil and there is a war on the
minute you were born you got involved in
the war between good and evil between
darkness and light between negative and
positive between evil and good between
tyranny and democracy between weeds and
human activity I mean the war is on if
democracy sleeps guess who never sleeps
tyranny in the absence of light guess
what’s automatic darkness if good does
not arouse itself and become active
guess what moves in evil it’s a war a
mental war a physical war a financial
war between enterprise and ease between
accomplishment and failure it’s a war
that’s why there’s an old testament
phrase that gives the best advice for
human activity when it says six days
labor one day rest now I’m sure we’ve
taken that to mean don’t work all seven
days take one off here’s what it also
means only take one Oh
or you’re liable to lose the war now
we’ve got it down to five and two and
maybe that’s not too dangerous I don’t
know if God would have thought a five
and two he might have made it five and
two I don’t know you can’t think of
everything but here’s what it does mean
enterprise is better than ease if you
rest too long the jungle overtakes the
village now here’s the good news about
the war between good and evil evil is no
match for good but good must be active
weeds are no match for human activity
but if you stand still how far in will
they come all the way they’ll grow right
up around your shoes but if you get busy
how far back can you take them as far as
you wish
they’re no match but you must be active
that’s why the six and one make sure
you’re not losing the war by taking off
to guess what the average years are
after retirement
six
six which means don’t retire your
chances are – okay the war between good
and evil the weeds you got to make sure
you recognize the negative handle let’s
deal with it and then go on let’s make a
list of the diseases of attitude that
can wreck all your chances to do with
one of the words that destroys
everything is called neglect neglect and
I found this out a week of neglect could
cost you a year of repair it isn’t worth
it so what to be on the lookout for
here’s the list if you were making it
you’d have the same list I’ve got right
we’re not covering anything new tonight
this is a reminding session not a
teaching session but it doesn’t hurt to
go over it again here’s the list
attitude diseases number one is
indifference the shrug of the shoulders
the guy’s not even concerned he’s just
drifting this is called the mild
approach to life
a disease known as mildness
the guy says well I can’t see getting
all that worked up well to be any kind
of winner you’ve got to get worked
there’s one problem with drift you
cannot drift to the top of the mountain
and the good Lord said in the closing
chapters of the Bible here’s the best
way to live one way or the other that’s
best pop and what’s next best cold is
next best the heart not the half-baked
middle lukewarm not too hot not too cold
what a sad way to live I think what it
means is pick a direction and go with
everything you’ve got just pick one and
go somebody says yeah but what if it’s
the wrong direction you’ll find out
quicker it won’t take you 25 years to
wake up and say oh no I’ve been walking
the wrong road I told my staff the other
day next best of prosperity is adversity
if one doesn’t get you pray for the
other we all do better from one of two
reasons inspiration or desperation and I
don’t wish anything bad on you tonight
but if you’re not inspired I hope a
wagon comes down you’re rut
whatever it takes to get you to try
harder read more set your goals and go
for it somebody asked me one time what
quality would I pick if I wanted to work
with somebody and you know what I picked
first number one strong feeling please
number one give me somebody that feels
strong about most anything I don’t even
care just so they believe it even if
they disagree with me
wonderful just so they disagree
vigorously I’m not saying it’s easy to
win those kind of people to your point
of view but I’d rather do that than to
try to resurrect people from the dead
pump them up every month Paul Vanara
pump them up I pass
the good Lord needs a leader for the
early Christians remember the early days
of the Christians not like today if you
were to stand up in the early days and
say I’m a Christian cut off your head
toss you and your wife in jail let you
rot I mean those were ugly days being a
Christian back then was not called
socially acceptable they didn’t have a
hundred and twenty five thousand in the
Los Angeles Coliseum to hear Billy
Graham on a Sunday afternoon not back in
those days back in those days when the
Christians got in the Coliseum it was a
different story I mean the word was stay
out of the Coliseum especially on Sunday
last Sunday was Lions 33 Christians
nothing see those were mean tough
struggle days for the Christians
now when the days are mean and tough and
struggling you got to have some kind of
leader do you know who the good Lord
picked for the leader when the days were
mean and ugly Saul from Tarsus that’s
who we picked Saul I’ll tell you what I
would have picked him you would have
picked him anybody would have picked
Saul Saul was one of those incredible
guys once he got into something look out
everybody in the community knew what
Saul was in because whatever he joined
he flipped on the switch is opened up
all the dials turn on all the faucets
and go like mad he was known as all out
Saul I mean he was something else now at
first it wasn’t working out well Saul
hated Christians which makes a poor
leader right I mean that won’t work
Sall got this bug somewhere about the
Christians he got to hate and Christians
and he hated him so bad every time
somebody would say Christian he’d fly
into a rage and I guess he decided one
life or one day it was his mission in
life to get rid of all the Christians he
was Saul anyhow it could do most
anything he wanted to so he got in these
letters of authority to go around to the
various communities and hunt down the
Christians they said do whatever you
want to with him Saul they’re unpopular
anyhow drag him in the streets whip him
Stone him torture him kill him you
mentioned the name Saul from Tarsus to
the early Christians I’ll tell you what
they would do they would run hide lock
the doors leave town dive underground
I’ve been in the catacombs of Rome where
they hid he was mean
I mean terribly mean but remember the
story one day Saul’s making the FIR
Damascus heard about some new Christians
flies into a rage takes off from
Damascus and the story said he was angry
there’s a little sentence in the story
that says on his way to Damascus he was
breathing out threatenings and slaughter
which meant he felt rather strong about
the idea right that’s strong that’s
strong but on this journey right
according to the story as Saul was
making his way to Damascus the good Lord
looks down out of heaven and says
there’s my man Saul he’s got to be
something else and according to the
story this great light shines out of
heaven Knox seemed flat right off his
horse grinds his face in the dirt and
blinds him for three days
the good Lord using recruiting tools we
can’t use this when your Lord right to
make a long story short Saul from Tarsus
becomes converted to Christianity
he becomes Paul the great leader the
Apostle and without a doubt the good
Lord got him a dandy one he didn’t have
to pump up every morning in one of his
later writings he said the things I once
hated I now loved the things I once
loved I now hate see that strong here’s
the key to the good life learn to put
everything you’ve got into everything
you do whatever you are doing pull it on
it will quickly open up into opportunity
or quickly to disclose to you that you
ought to be doing something else the
delusion is if I had a better job I’d
really pour it on see that’s delusion
wherever you are pour it on don’t give
somebody half a job for a day’s pay
pour it on see that’ll help change your
life get rid of this disease here’s the
next attitude disease indecision mental
paralysis the guy can’t make up his mind
and it becomes a disease pretty soon he
knows he’s got it the guy says well I
know I’m on the fence but he says what
if I get off on the wrong side listen
after a while it doesn’t matter just get
Oh any side will do a life full of
adventure is a life full of many
decisions the ones that turn out to be
wrong give you better experience to make
better decisions
so don’t see how many decisions you can
get out of see how many you can get into
that’s where the adventure is so shake
off this disease indecision the next one
is doubt
doubts like a plague and one of the
worst is self-doubt there are many but
that’s one of the worst the guide doubts
himsel doubts if it’ll last that long
for him doubts if he can do that well
doubts if he can make that much doubts
if he can accomplish all that a chronic
excellent self doubter you can imagine
what damage that does to your future so
here’s the key turn this coin over and
become a believer and there’s many
things to believe in one of the majors
is yourself the understanding of
self-worth is the beginning of progress
now folks we don’t get you this one will
worry that’s a devastating disease worry
worry causes health problems social
problems personal problems family
problems it’s devastating worry long
enough it’ll drop you to your knees
could reduce you to begging I know how
bad this one is I used to have it bad I
used to be known as a super warrior not
a super warrior no super warrior my
family wished I’d have been a warrior I
got those years to make up for it but
I’ll tell you what my advice to you is
do what I finally did on worry give it
up who needs it
I’m not saying it’s easy I’m saying it’s
worth
it took me almost one year to kick the
worried habit and it was not an easy
year it was one of the toughest tears I
ever spent but I finally got that monkey
off my back and I discovered you could
live the most incredible life free of
work not free of challenge not free of
difficulty free of worry I learned how
to do it and you can 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
approach to life 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 ace 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 you’re not gonna get out alive that’s
risky the Englishman says well if that’s
the way it’s gonna work out let’s give
it a go right that’s what it’s for 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 thirty 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 here’s the next attitude disease
we’re almost through with this monthly
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 I 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 sunset he sees
the specks on the wind
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 he needs one
he’s got 5 – the pessimist the glass is
always half-empty – the optimist the
glass is half-full why would the same
measure affect people two 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 we think they are affects us
most there’s a subject we don’t have
time to get into tonight called better
thinking habits one of the major things
shall taught me when I met him he said
poor thinking habits keeps most people
poor not poor working habits most people
work hard but they don’t think hard
and so 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 up words
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 that starts everything 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 one 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 two 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 okay here’s the
last disease and we’re through with this
list
in fact we’re almost through England 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 crying griping a
Bible word called murmuring see that
will 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 bone 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
years finally God said I’ve had it to
cancel or something like that
the story says they died in the desert
never got to the Promised One which i
think means two things indulging this
long enough you get your Futurecast and
I guess it also means even God Himself
can only take so much
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