don’t you sometimes wonder why so many
immigrants who come to America can build
a new life and a fortune while many of
the people who were born here are barely
surviving they have a dream a defined
goal ambition aside from the pioneers
that cross the prairies and the
mountains to reach their vision of hope
and future promises there are other
amazing examples of how ambition has
shaped America take Ben Franklin for
instance when most people think of Ben
Franklin they remember the kite and the
lightning bolts and the discovery of
electricity what a lot of people may not
know is that Ben Franklin was one of the
first riders to address self-making when
Franklin started Poor Richard’s Almanack
in 1732
he used the blank spaces between the
crop data and the weather information to
insert clever bits of moral and
practical advice I’m sure you’ve heard
the saying fish and company start to
stink in three days well that was one of
hundreds of Ben Franklin’s comments on
life another was diligence is the mother
of good luck you know it’s amazing how
hard-working smart
working people have all the luck we
sometimes hear of a brand-new musical
group and overnight success they must
have been in the right place at the
right time knew the right people
and a friend to help them out but if
you’ve ever watched an interview with
some of these folks you’ll probably hear
that their overnight success took
several years diligence is the mother of
good luck now in addition to these
witticisms Ben Franklin gave us three
principles of success and ambition that
have withstood the test of time
number one happiness doesn’t come from
big pieces of great success but from
small advantages hammered out day by day
what mr. Franklin is saying here is that
we must be happy with what we’ve got
when we’re in pursuit of what we want
too often we say oh I’ll be happy when I
just get that promotion I’ll be happy
when I just land that contract I’ll be
happy when I just have more money I’ll
be happy when I just just what you won’t
be any happier when you reach your goals
than you are right now it just doesn’t
work that way
Abraham Lincoln said it best he said
you’ll be as happy as you make up your
mind to be right now whether you’re on
your way
whether you’ve already gotten there
you’ll be as happy as you make up your
mind to be now right now being happy on
the way doesn’t mean you can’t aim for
great things after all look at
everything Franklin accomplished in his
lifetime it means that big achievements
come one small advantage at a time it
means that you’ve got to enjoy the
journey it means that you must enjoy and
take pride in your little accomplishment
it means enjoying who you are becoming
in pursuit of your eager desire every
day every single day Ben Franklin second
principle said that life is plastic
within each of us is the power to mold
mold ourselves and mold our environment
it is up to each of us to begin this
molding process with a final product in
mind and it is within our power to work
it and form it every minute every day
every month every year by using your
mind and your abilities and your
attitude to work a little each day on
molding your life you’ll soon see how
magnificent your power is to gain those
small advantages each day the little
steps it takes to build up to success
principle number three success is a
pleasure success is a pleasure if what
you are doing today isn’t satisfying
gratifying guess what
you’re really not successful if you are
not fulfilled with what you are doing
today you cannot possibly be successful
it doesn’t matter how many worldly
possessions you may have how many cars
how many toys how much money if you’re
not happy with your life as it is you
cannot be successful
now I know that success is a relative
term it means different things to
different people to a school kid success
may mean a star on top of his latest
test to a homemaker it probably means
that she has a well-run household and a
wonderful family to an outside
professional it’s most likely the thrill
of closing a major contract or the pride
in accepting a performance bonus or
being named the top producing
salesperson but the one thing you will
hear from everyone who is successful is
that they are happy with who they are
and what they are doing they are happy
content satisfied success is a pleasure
what have you done today that makes this
day successful think about it and write
it down if at the end of the day you can
jot down the things that have made it a
good day you will soon see patterns for
me this really is a good habit to get
into when you can see a pattern of
closure you’ll know you’re on the road
to success
so take note of mr. Franklin’s three
principles of success and ambition
number one big achievements come one
small advantage at a time one step at a
time one day at a time
number two you have the power to mold
your life to make it whatever you want
to shape it and reshape and number three
success is measured through pleasure
this is the key one success is measured
through pleasure you’ve got to be happy
along the way you’ve got to learn to
give yourself a pat on the back good job
you need to tell yourself I’m proud of
me today you’ve got to be happy you’ve
got to learn to enjoy the process these
are really common-sense ideas they’re
practical and William James agreed he’s
another American great one of the most
notable philosophers and psychologists
in our history and he founded a
philosophy called Prag
it is impractical to be practical to
test the validity of a concept by its
practical results to actually question
something and rate its usefulness by
what it can do for you to hear a method
of doing something and figuring out if
it’s even worth your while one of the
issues mr. James dealt with in his
lifetime was what does it mean to be a
success a significant person after years
of pondering this question William James
described success as a combination of
two things number one and inner ideal
which is followed persistently with
courage and number two outer achievement
related to that ideal let’s go back to
number one and inner ideal which is
followed persistently with courage I
take that to mean defining a goal and
having the resolve to complete it no
matter what I’ll do it or die promise
yourself you’ll read the books until
your skills change go to the seminars
until you get a handle on it do it until
it makes sense practice it until you’ve
got it right don’t give up until you get
where you want to be however long that
is step by step piece by piece
book by book seminar by seminar do it
until go for it until is a very
important word its magic it means that
you’ll never give up don’t miss the
chance to grow to pay the price until
you learn change grow you’ll discover
some of life’s great treasures when you
pay that price
William James second part to success
dealt with the outer achievement related
to that ideal you need both aspects to
really be a success but what dr. James
realized about his philosophy of success
was that the first part is indeed more
important than the second going for it
as long as you’re working toward your
inner goal your dream then success is
possible but once you give up your inner
vision then you can never become
successful you never will become
successful until doesn’t even matter
now maybe the person who’s been working
on a project for 10 years can be
successful in his own right if he’s
honestly working toward it doing
everything to make himself worthy of
reaching the dream really happy with
where he is according to the Christian
story the first couple Adam and Eve were
instructed to be fruitful fruitful
produce some results fruitful is kind of
an interesting word it sort of denotes
abundance here’s what I think fruitful
and abundance and productivity and I
think here’s what it means to go to work
on producing more than you need for
yourself go to work producing more than
you need for yourself and I think we
fulfill that command so long ago given
to be fruitful to be productive to
produce far more than you need for
yourself so that you could bless others
bless your community bless your nation
bless your enterprise produce more ideas
than you need for yourself that you can
share and give them all away produce
more in terms of substance and money and
treasure and all things valuable to
human beings far more than you need for
yourself
RG Letourneau story the man who built
the big earthmoving machines it was his
goal to someday give away 90% of zinc
giving away far more and anyone could
possibly imagine someone’s as Wow
90% is enough a lot to give away well
you should have seen the 10% it was left
I mean once abundance starts to come
once someone becomes incredibly
productive it’s amazing what the numbers
turn out to be amazing what it finally
so hopefully we’ll have guidelines for
you during this weekend so you can turn
the response you’ve created already by
being here then the response by
employing your mental activity and
taking notes putting all this through
your mental processes so that you can
create this kind of results when you
leave here next best way to make the
most out of this weekend is just a few
things number one be thankful for what
you already have this looks like a
pretty prosperous audience already so
we’re already doing well which is okay
but what if we could multiply the value
of our productivity by two by three by
five by ten would that be valuable the
answer is yes of course it would but
first of all to have the mechanism or
the inspiration or whatever it takes to
really do extremely well first you start
with Thanksgiving to be thankful for
what you already have we have already
solved the problem of necessity in this
room we’ve probably already solved the
problem of survival so we’re no longer
concerned with just necessity and
survival we’re perhaps beyond that but
now that we have gotten beyond that no
telling what else we can do but first of
all let’s be thankful for what we’ve
accomplished up until now the years that
have brought me here and the experiences
that brought me here
starting with my parents who raised me
and gave me an incredible foundation
that selected me all of these years and
the mentors that I have met along the
way absolutely changing and
revolutionizing my life my income my
bank account my future all of that
collectively has brought me here I’m so
grateful for the people the Association
for the idea for the chance to work in
labor produce myself all of that that
brought me to this place this weekend
I’m grateful for it for the countries we
represent where we have free
liberté make this note it’s one of the
best for the day these are extraordinary
times about eleven years ago the walls
came tumbling down in Germany and it
started a wave of democracy and freedom
like the world hasn’t ever seen before
it looked like communism was on the
march for so many years and the dark
shadow of that political philosophy fell
on so many countries that I visited even
back in those early early days and now
those shadows are beginning to flee away
and the light of democracy and freedom
and capitalism is now the order of the
day and there’s just a few old dictators
left and they will soon be gone here’s
the good news in our lifetime they will
all be gone that’s an incredible thought
to think the dictators of the past will
all be gone years and years ago when I
went to South America almost every
country had a dictator now they’re all
gone I mean in that whole hemisphere
there’s only one left and that’s Castro
and he will soon be gone and the
Qaddafi’s will soon be gone and that
that I’m Hussein will soon be gone and
they will all be gone because now once
this wave of capitalism and freedom and
free enterprise and spirituality now
sweeping the whole world once it started
all those years ago I’m telling you it
is such an incredible sight to see I now
have the opportunity to lecture in East
Germany in to lecture in Czechoslovakia
and Poland the last time I was in Poland
we had a bomb scare it was incredible
middle of the winter and they said you
know there’s a bomb in the place so we
all vacate it and went out in the winter
and stayed for about I don’t know 20 25
minutes while they brought in the
sniffing dogs to clear the place and no
one left everyone came back in middle of
the winter in Poland so that means
everything is changing Jim Rohn teaching
capitalism in Moscow and in Siberia
Novosibirsk
I’m one of the few that’s been sent to
Siberia that came back and now I’m going
again hoping I get back again incredible
these are extraordinary times
politically socially in every other way
there’s never been anything like it in
the history of the last 6,000 years of
the human race it’s extraordinary these
are extraordinary time politically with
freedom on the March socially
economically extraordinary times so make
this note Jim Ron’s view of the 21st
century unprecedented opportunity every
field you can imagine every endeavor you
want to try unprecedented opportunity of
course along with all the challenges
that we’ve faced
forever this is a new day this is a new
way this is a new scene nationally and
for each of us personally nothing like
it unprecedented opportunity now here’s
number two the 21st century keen
competition it’s called world
competition not just person to person
not company to company not industry to
industry what happens on the other side
of the world now greatly affects us on
this side of the world so it’s a world
game to play this is one of our chances
now to play the world game I travel all
over the world I mean it’s incredible I
leave Los Angeles 14 hours later I’m in
Tokyo five meals three movies and you’re
there I mean this is easy stuff I fly
the Concorde right
three hours London New York these are
extraordinary times in about ten days
I’ll be down in South America Argentina
Venezuela incredible the Jets fly
everywhere and then all night long the
Jets fly to our countries bringing us
you know goods and services and fruits
and vegetables from anywhere in the
world it’s unbelievable
these are extraordinary times
unprecedented opportunity between
competitions so here’s what you need now
to really be successful in the 21st
century number one is multiple skills
hopefully we’ll talk about some of those
skills this weekend don’t be caught now
in the 21st century with just one skill
if you want to flourish be fruitful if
you want to grow produce more than you
need for yourself learn more than one
skill this is also my perception now I’m
traveling around the world it would be
useful to know more than one language
learn more than one language my father
spoke German when I was a kid growing up
but he never taught me my mother was
English but she also spoke French but
she never taught me I could have learned
three languages at the same time these
extra languages are so useful I asked a
teacher one time how many languages can
a child learn here’s what you said as
many as you’ll teach them they don’t
lack capacity they don’t like
imagination they certainly don’t lack
curiosity they only lack a teacher so if
you think learning another language is
sort of passed you by make this note
give it as a gift to your children
another language and then another
language when I lecture in the
Scandinavian countries they all speak
several languages I do my seminars in
English because they can all understand
English in the Scandinavian countries
you’re required to learn four languages
during your educational process three
they assign and one you can choose so
when you finish the educational process
in the Scandinavian countries you now
know four language which if you live in
Europe is a great advantage but it’s a
great advantage anywhere learning that
extra language some of my business
colleagues that make Mega Millions every
year many of them speak more than one
language several languages Michael Cole
speaks what seven languages it’s so much
fun to travel around the world with
Michael because he can talk to anybody
buddy he knows all the languages it’s a
gift a gift to give to your tune okay
so anyway I said all have to say this or
one more learn all the disciplines that
make language and skills worthwhile the
disciplines of good health the
disciplines of staying vital we’ll talk
about that just a little bit later so
that’s your best advantage for the 21st
century so first of all be thankful
here’s an excellent now to make this
weekend really powerful for you be eager
to learn and I hesitate to say that
because you know you wouldn’t be here if
you weren’t eager to learn to pay the
price of time and money and it wasn’t
the money that was really the expensive
part for this weekend it was the time if
you haven’t made that note before make
it now time is more valuable than money
you can get more money but you can’t get
so to ask you for the price for the
seminar fairly modest but to ask you for
the price in time for the seminar
incredibly expensive to ask me for three
days I mean that the heavy weight cost
for me but it’s exactly the same for you
three days is a chunk of time and so the
biggest investment for this weekend is
not the money the biggest investment is
the time so here’s what I want to happen
I want this investment to pay off for
you multiplied many times over what will
lift seminar be worth not the price it
cost to get in and not the really the
price of time it may be worth a thousand
times or more than that what if I tried
to make the seminar worth just exactly
what you paid it would be difficult but
what if I tried to work make it worth a
thousand times more than you say I’m
generally that might be easier because
I’m inspired by ideas that have worked
miracles in my life and I want to share
it with you so I want you to be a lot
richer when you walk out than when you
walked in so be eager to learn take good
notes you know no matter how well you do
no matter no telling what else you can
do you know if you’re mega rich you
might become super mega rich right after
this weekend we in the Millionaire’s
Club often invite a billionaire to come
if as well you guys are doing okay but
so no matter how rich you are here’s
what’s possible it you can multiply it
by two by three by five by ten with the
right idea the right inspiration the
right collective Association here this
weekend is going to give you a good
chance now here’s the next one argue
later with all my stuff I wish we had
time to open it up so we could debate
all this stuff right on the spot debate
later with all of my ideas and the
things I’m going to share with you but
make this note now debate is important
that’s why we have at least two parties
in Congress to debate good ideas the
communism said no one party sufficient
but say lacking debate it’s easy to
become tyrannical power tends to corrupt
absolute power tends to corrupt
absolutely so without debate you know
something can gather far too much power
so it’s important and a lot of the
issues I’m going to raise this weekend a
lot of the stuff I’m going to share with
you is up for debate here’s why it’s up
for debate
I can only share with you my point of
view and there’s got to be more than one
point of view if I looked at something
from over here and I said here’s what it
looks like to me and you were standing
over there looking back this way at it
you would say no here’s what it looks
like to me now if I invited you back
over there to come up here and look at
it from where I am you might say guy
Shearer right mr. Allen I never looked
at it before from this vantage point so
that’s what I want to do and the
speakers we’ve got this weekend are
going to gather all of us up and share
ideas from our point of view but here’s
what you must remember there’s more than
one point of view so here’s what’s
important to be a student not a follower
and part of being a student is to debate
the ideas once you hear them you say
right or wrong could it work for me not
work for me is it that a little too
heavy or isn’t it sufficient enough now
sometimes it’s useful to debate with
each other I’m a good debater right if I
choose one side I don’t really care
which side to choose you know just pick
a side go for it I remember a great
debate I really heard someone in America
was debating someone in Canada that held
a little more liberal position and
American was very conservative and the
American said every man for himself
individual individualism rugged
individualism and on the other side the
Liberals said well yes every man for
himself said the elephant as he danced
among the chickens I thought hey that’s
a pretty good point so whether it’s
liberal or conservative we need both in
America the Declaration of Independence
is America’s great liberal document and
the Constitution of the United States is
America’s great conservative battery so
it takes a bit of boat but to debate the
idea now if you can’t debate with
someone here’s what you must learn to do
debate with yourself is it valuable or
isn’t it valuable is this idea I’ve
heard a bit off-track or is it on track
would it be useful or not be useful to
debate the merits of trying it to make
the merits of putting it into action so
debate is a way to refine a good idea
someone in Congress says I have an idea
for the country and the rest of them say
wonderful put it on the table so someone
asks three questions and this guy says
wow I never thought of those questions I
withdraw my great idea well it’s a good
thing we didn’t try it on the country so
here’s why we learn from multiple voices
but we don’t become followers we become
students and that is to refine ideas
that can change our health change our
income change
our future change everything for the
better make us more productive to
finally have far more in productivity
than we need for ourselves but eager to
learn exercise good debate now here’s
the last part to make this a valuable
weekend and that’s to be a good listener
and then no that’s not going to be easy
you know most of our life is going on
outside these four walls you know our
business is out there and our customers
are out there and you know the store we
run is out there and our children are
out there our family’s out there and our
friends are out there everything most of
the things that involve our life are out
there so sometimes when the big part of
our life that’s going on out there it’s
a little hard to sort of dismiss all of
that for a while put it in a place where
you can just push it aside for just a
little while and really listen intently
and gather up the information but I know you’re going to do your best
immigrants who come to America can build
a new life and a fortune while many of
the people who were born here are barely
surviving they have a dream a defined
goal ambition aside from the pioneers
that cross the prairies and the
mountains to reach their vision of hope
and future promises there are other
amazing examples of how ambition has
shaped America take Ben Franklin for
instance when most people think of Ben
Franklin they remember the kite and the
lightning bolts and the discovery of
electricity what a lot of people may not
know is that Ben Franklin was one of the
first riders to address self-making when
Franklin started Poor Richard’s Almanack
in 1732
he used the blank spaces between the
crop data and the weather information to
insert clever bits of moral and
practical advice I’m sure you’ve heard
the saying fish and company start to
stink in three days well that was one of
hundreds of Ben Franklin’s comments on
life another was diligence is the mother
of good luck you know it’s amazing how
hard-working smart
working people have all the luck we
sometimes hear of a brand-new musical
group and overnight success they must
have been in the right place at the
right time knew the right people
and a friend to help them out but if
you’ve ever watched an interview with
some of these folks you’ll probably hear
that their overnight success took
several years diligence is the mother of
good luck now in addition to these
witticisms Ben Franklin gave us three
principles of success and ambition that
have withstood the test of time
number one happiness doesn’t come from
big pieces of great success but from
small advantages hammered out day by day
what mr. Franklin is saying here is that
we must be happy with what we’ve got
when we’re in pursuit of what we want
too often we say oh I’ll be happy when I
just get that promotion I’ll be happy
when I just land that contract I’ll be
happy when I just have more money I’ll
be happy when I just just what you won’t
be any happier when you reach your goals
than you are right now it just doesn’t
work that way
Abraham Lincoln said it best he said
you’ll be as happy as you make up your
mind to be right now whether you’re on
your way
whether you’ve already gotten there
you’ll be as happy as you make up your
mind to be now right now being happy on
the way doesn’t mean you can’t aim for
great things after all look at
everything Franklin accomplished in his
lifetime it means that big achievements
come one small advantage at a time it
means that you’ve got to enjoy the
journey it means that you must enjoy and
take pride in your little accomplishment
it means enjoying who you are becoming
in pursuit of your eager desire every
day every single day Ben Franklin second
principle said that life is plastic
within each of us is the power to mold
mold ourselves and mold our environment
it is up to each of us to begin this
molding process with a final product in
mind and it is within our power to work
it and form it every minute every day
every month every year by using your
mind and your abilities and your
attitude to work a little each day on
molding your life you’ll soon see how
magnificent your power is to gain those
small advantages each day the little
steps it takes to build up to success
principle number three success is a
pleasure success is a pleasure if what
you are doing today isn’t satisfying
gratifying guess what
you’re really not successful if you are
not fulfilled with what you are doing
today you cannot possibly be successful
it doesn’t matter how many worldly
possessions you may have how many cars
how many toys how much money if you’re
not happy with your life as it is you
cannot be successful
now I know that success is a relative
term it means different things to
different people to a school kid success
may mean a star on top of his latest
test to a homemaker it probably means
that she has a well-run household and a
wonderful family to an outside
professional it’s most likely the thrill
of closing a major contract or the pride
in accepting a performance bonus or
being named the top producing
salesperson but the one thing you will
hear from everyone who is successful is
that they are happy with who they are
and what they are doing they are happy
content satisfied success is a pleasure
what have you done today that makes this
day successful think about it and write
it down if at the end of the day you can
jot down the things that have made it a
good day you will soon see patterns for
me this really is a good habit to get
into when you can see a pattern of
closure you’ll know you’re on the road
to success
so take note of mr. Franklin’s three
principles of success and ambition
number one big achievements come one
small advantage at a time one step at a
time one day at a time
number two you have the power to mold
your life to make it whatever you want
to shape it and reshape and number three
success is measured through pleasure
this is the key one success is measured
through pleasure you’ve got to be happy
along the way you’ve got to learn to
give yourself a pat on the back good job
you need to tell yourself I’m proud of
me today you’ve got to be happy you’ve
got to learn to enjoy the process these
are really common-sense ideas they’re
practical and William James agreed he’s
another American great one of the most
notable philosophers and psychologists
in our history and he founded a
philosophy called Prag
it is impractical to be practical to
test the validity of a concept by its
practical results to actually question
something and rate its usefulness by
what it can do for you to hear a method
of doing something and figuring out if
it’s even worth your while one of the
issues mr. James dealt with in his
lifetime was what does it mean to be a
success a significant person after years
of pondering this question William James
described success as a combination of
two things number one and inner ideal
which is followed persistently with
courage and number two outer achievement
related to that ideal let’s go back to
number one and inner ideal which is
followed persistently with courage I
take that to mean defining a goal and
having the resolve to complete it no
matter what I’ll do it or die promise
yourself you’ll read the books until
your skills change go to the seminars
until you get a handle on it do it until
it makes sense practice it until you’ve
got it right don’t give up until you get
where you want to be however long that
is step by step piece by piece
book by book seminar by seminar do it
until go for it until is a very
important word its magic it means that
you’ll never give up don’t miss the
chance to grow to pay the price until
you learn change grow you’ll discover
some of life’s great treasures when you
pay that price
William James second part to success
dealt with the outer achievement related
to that ideal you need both aspects to
really be a success but what dr. James
realized about his philosophy of success
was that the first part is indeed more
important than the second going for it
as long as you’re working toward your
inner goal your dream then success is
possible but once you give up your inner
vision then you can never become
successful you never will become
successful until doesn’t even matter
now maybe the person who’s been working
on a project for 10 years can be
successful in his own right if he’s
honestly working toward it doing
everything to make himself worthy of
reaching the dream really happy with
where he is according to the Christian
story the first couple Adam and Eve were
instructed to be fruitful fruitful
produce some results fruitful is kind of
an interesting word it sort of denotes
abundance here’s what I think fruitful
and abundance and productivity and I
think here’s what it means to go to work
on producing more than you need for
yourself go to work producing more than
you need for yourself and I think we
fulfill that command so long ago given
to be fruitful to be productive to
produce far more than you need for
yourself so that you could bless others
bless your community bless your nation
bless your enterprise produce more ideas
than you need for yourself that you can
share and give them all away produce
more in terms of substance and money and
treasure and all things valuable to
human beings far more than you need for
yourself
RG Letourneau story the man who built
the big earthmoving machines it was his
goal to someday give away 90% of zinc
giving away far more and anyone could
possibly imagine someone’s as Wow
90% is enough a lot to give away well
you should have seen the 10% it was left
I mean once abundance starts to come
once someone becomes incredibly
productive it’s amazing what the numbers
turn out to be amazing what it finally
so hopefully we’ll have guidelines for
you during this weekend so you can turn
the response you’ve created already by
being here then the response by
employing your mental activity and
taking notes putting all this through
your mental processes so that you can
create this kind of results when you
leave here next best way to make the
most out of this weekend is just a few
things number one be thankful for what
you already have this looks like a
pretty prosperous audience already so
we’re already doing well which is okay
but what if we could multiply the value
of our productivity by two by three by
five by ten would that be valuable the
answer is yes of course it would but
first of all to have the mechanism or
the inspiration or whatever it takes to
really do extremely well first you start
with Thanksgiving to be thankful for
what you already have we have already
solved the problem of necessity in this
room we’ve probably already solved the
problem of survival so we’re no longer
concerned with just necessity and
survival we’re perhaps beyond that but
now that we have gotten beyond that no
telling what else we can do but first of
all let’s be thankful for what we’ve
accomplished up until now the years that
have brought me here and the experiences
that brought me here
starting with my parents who raised me
and gave me an incredible foundation
that selected me all of these years and
the mentors that I have met along the
way absolutely changing and
revolutionizing my life my income my
bank account my future all of that
collectively has brought me here I’m so
grateful for the people the Association
for the idea for the chance to work in
labor produce myself all of that that
brought me to this place this weekend
I’m grateful for it for the countries we
represent where we have free
liberté make this note it’s one of the
best for the day these are extraordinary
times about eleven years ago the walls
came tumbling down in Germany and it
started a wave of democracy and freedom
like the world hasn’t ever seen before
it looked like communism was on the
march for so many years and the dark
shadow of that political philosophy fell
on so many countries that I visited even
back in those early early days and now
those shadows are beginning to flee away
and the light of democracy and freedom
and capitalism is now the order of the
day and there’s just a few old dictators
left and they will soon be gone here’s
the good news in our lifetime they will
all be gone that’s an incredible thought
to think the dictators of the past will
all be gone years and years ago when I
went to South America almost every
country had a dictator now they’re all
gone I mean in that whole hemisphere
there’s only one left and that’s Castro
and he will soon be gone and the
Qaddafi’s will soon be gone and that
that I’m Hussein will soon be gone and
they will all be gone because now once
this wave of capitalism and freedom and
free enterprise and spirituality now
sweeping the whole world once it started
all those years ago I’m telling you it
is such an incredible sight to see I now
have the opportunity to lecture in East
Germany in to lecture in Czechoslovakia
and Poland the last time I was in Poland
we had a bomb scare it was incredible
middle of the winter and they said you
know there’s a bomb in the place so we
all vacate it and went out in the winter
and stayed for about I don’t know 20 25
minutes while they brought in the
sniffing dogs to clear the place and no
one left everyone came back in middle of
the winter in Poland so that means
everything is changing Jim Rohn teaching
capitalism in Moscow and in Siberia
Novosibirsk
I’m one of the few that’s been sent to
Siberia that came back and now I’m going
again hoping I get back again incredible
these are extraordinary times
politically socially in every other way
there’s never been anything like it in
the history of the last 6,000 years of
the human race it’s extraordinary these
are extraordinary time politically with
freedom on the March socially
economically extraordinary times so make
this note Jim Ron’s view of the 21st
century unprecedented opportunity every
field you can imagine every endeavor you
want to try unprecedented opportunity of
course along with all the challenges
that we’ve faced
forever this is a new day this is a new
way this is a new scene nationally and
for each of us personally nothing like
it unprecedented opportunity now here’s
number two the 21st century keen
competition it’s called world
competition not just person to person
not company to company not industry to
industry what happens on the other side
of the world now greatly affects us on
this side of the world so it’s a world
game to play this is one of our chances
now to play the world game I travel all
over the world I mean it’s incredible I
leave Los Angeles 14 hours later I’m in
Tokyo five meals three movies and you’re
there I mean this is easy stuff I fly
the Concorde right
three hours London New York these are
extraordinary times in about ten days
I’ll be down in South America Argentina
Venezuela incredible the Jets fly
everywhere and then all night long the
Jets fly to our countries bringing us
you know goods and services and fruits
and vegetables from anywhere in the
world it’s unbelievable
these are extraordinary times
unprecedented opportunity between
competitions so here’s what you need now
to really be successful in the 21st
century number one is multiple skills
hopefully we’ll talk about some of those
skills this weekend don’t be caught now
in the 21st century with just one skill
if you want to flourish be fruitful if
you want to grow produce more than you
need for yourself learn more than one
skill this is also my perception now I’m
traveling around the world it would be
useful to know more than one language
learn more than one language my father
spoke German when I was a kid growing up
but he never taught me my mother was
English but she also spoke French but
she never taught me I could have learned
three languages at the same time these
extra languages are so useful I asked a
teacher one time how many languages can
a child learn here’s what you said as
many as you’ll teach them they don’t
lack capacity they don’t like
imagination they certainly don’t lack
curiosity they only lack a teacher so if
you think learning another language is
sort of passed you by make this note
give it as a gift to your children
another language and then another
language when I lecture in the
Scandinavian countries they all speak
several languages I do my seminars in
English because they can all understand
English in the Scandinavian countries
you’re required to learn four languages
during your educational process three
they assign and one you can choose so
when you finish the educational process
in the Scandinavian countries you now
know four language which if you live in
Europe is a great advantage but it’s a
great advantage anywhere learning that
extra language some of my business
colleagues that make Mega Millions every
year many of them speak more than one
language several languages Michael Cole
speaks what seven languages it’s so much
fun to travel around the world with
Michael because he can talk to anybody
buddy he knows all the languages it’s a
gift a gift to give to your tune okay
so anyway I said all have to say this or
one more learn all the disciplines that
make language and skills worthwhile the
disciplines of good health the
disciplines of staying vital we’ll talk
about that just a little bit later so
that’s your best advantage for the 21st
century so first of all be thankful
here’s an excellent now to make this
weekend really powerful for you be eager
to learn and I hesitate to say that
because you know you wouldn’t be here if
you weren’t eager to learn to pay the
price of time and money and it wasn’t
the money that was really the expensive
part for this weekend it was the time if
you haven’t made that note before make
it now time is more valuable than money
you can get more money but you can’t get
so to ask you for the price for the
seminar fairly modest but to ask you for
the price in time for the seminar
incredibly expensive to ask me for three
days I mean that the heavy weight cost
for me but it’s exactly the same for you
three days is a chunk of time and so the
biggest investment for this weekend is
not the money the biggest investment is
the time so here’s what I want to happen
I want this investment to pay off for
you multiplied many times over what will
lift seminar be worth not the price it
cost to get in and not the really the
price of time it may be worth a thousand
times or more than that what if I tried
to make the seminar worth just exactly
what you paid it would be difficult but
what if I tried to work make it worth a
thousand times more than you say I’m
generally that might be easier because
I’m inspired by ideas that have worked
miracles in my life and I want to share
it with you so I want you to be a lot
richer when you walk out than when you
walked in so be eager to learn take good
notes you know no matter how well you do
no matter no telling what else you can
do you know if you’re mega rich you
might become super mega rich right after
this weekend we in the Millionaire’s
Club often invite a billionaire to come
if as well you guys are doing okay but
so no matter how rich you are here’s
what’s possible it you can multiply it
by two by three by five by ten with the
right idea the right inspiration the
right collective Association here this
weekend is going to give you a good
chance now here’s the next one argue
later with all my stuff I wish we had
time to open it up so we could debate
all this stuff right on the spot debate
later with all of my ideas and the
things I’m going to share with you but
make this note now debate is important
that’s why we have at least two parties
in Congress to debate good ideas the
communism said no one party sufficient
but say lacking debate it’s easy to
become tyrannical power tends to corrupt
absolute power tends to corrupt
absolutely so without debate you know
something can gather far too much power
so it’s important and a lot of the
issues I’m going to raise this weekend a
lot of the stuff I’m going to share with
you is up for debate here’s why it’s up
for debate
I can only share with you my point of
view and there’s got to be more than one
point of view if I looked at something
from over here and I said here’s what it
looks like to me and you were standing
over there looking back this way at it
you would say no here’s what it looks
like to me now if I invited you back
over there to come up here and look at
it from where I am you might say guy
Shearer right mr. Allen I never looked
at it before from this vantage point so
that’s what I want to do and the
speakers we’ve got this weekend are
going to gather all of us up and share
ideas from our point of view but here’s
what you must remember there’s more than
one point of view so here’s what’s
important to be a student not a follower
and part of being a student is to debate
the ideas once you hear them you say
right or wrong could it work for me not
work for me is it that a little too
heavy or isn’t it sufficient enough now
sometimes it’s useful to debate with
each other I’m a good debater right if I
choose one side I don’t really care
which side to choose you know just pick
a side go for it I remember a great
debate I really heard someone in America
was debating someone in Canada that held
a little more liberal position and
American was very conservative and the
American said every man for himself
individual individualism rugged
individualism and on the other side the
Liberals said well yes every man for
himself said the elephant as he danced
among the chickens I thought hey that’s
a pretty good point so whether it’s
liberal or conservative we need both in
America the Declaration of Independence
is America’s great liberal document and
the Constitution of the United States is
America’s great conservative battery so
it takes a bit of boat but to debate the
idea now if you can’t debate with
someone here’s what you must learn to do
debate with yourself is it valuable or
isn’t it valuable is this idea I’ve
heard a bit off-track or is it on track
would it be useful or not be useful to
debate the merits of trying it to make
the merits of putting it into action so
debate is a way to refine a good idea
someone in Congress says I have an idea
for the country and the rest of them say
wonderful put it on the table so someone
asks three questions and this guy says
wow I never thought of those questions I
withdraw my great idea well it’s a good
thing we didn’t try it on the country so
here’s why we learn from multiple voices
but we don’t become followers we become
students and that is to refine ideas
that can change our health change our
income change
our future change everything for the
better make us more productive to
finally have far more in productivity
than we need for ourselves but eager to
learn exercise good debate now here’s
the last part to make this a valuable
weekend and that’s to be a good listener
and then no that’s not going to be easy
you know most of our life is going on
outside these four walls you know our
business is out there and our customers
are out there and you know the store we
run is out there and our children are
out there our family’s out there and our
friends are out there everything most of
the things that involve our life are out
there so sometimes when the big part of
our life that’s going on out there it’s
a little hard to sort of dismiss all of
that for a while put it in a place where
you can just push it aside for just a
little while and really listen intently
and gather up the information but I know you’re going to do your best
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