you know some time ago John canary gave
me a little piece of literature about
getting out of the comfort zone that was
written by Bob Gregg’s in southern
Florida and there’s some excellent
information in here many of us are
pretty comfortable in our life we’ve got
a reasonably good income the more you
just paid there’s feud in the fridge
we’ve got a nice warm bed to sleep in
and everything seems to be floating
along just fine and you know a person in
that position could very easily think
why would I want to do anything to
change this well we have found as your
life is not going in one direction yet
absolutely by law must be moving in
another direction and Riggs is talking
about that here he said many of us have
established a comfort zone in our lives
we’re just coasting along taking the
line of least resistance just getting by
now you said this is a very common and
understandable attitude we’ve all worked
hard to get to where we are and it may
seem a very good place to be the problem
with this is that once we stop reaching
stretching seeking and risking we
actually stop growing
now Riggs goes on to say that the
comfort zone frame of mind you’re
settling for what we are today that may
be fine today but without continued
growth and I believe this is the key
line coming up we are now all we are
ever going to be now for me that would
be a fairly disturbing fund you went on
to say if you’re in a comfort zone
beware the danger of a comfort zone is
that it doesn’t hurt and it might even
feel good many take that to mean it’s a
good place to be but it’s not a comfort
zone maybe what is holding you back from
real growth real accomplishment and
you’re potentially exciting and
rewarding future now I’ve mentioned if
we’re not going in one
direction we must by law be going in
another direction you’re either creating
or you’re disintegrating whenever we
hear a person say I like it just the way
it is
we know that person is advertising their
ignorance of a very basic law of life
because absolutely nothing stays the way
it is now if you’ll take a look at the
top of page two there is a concept there
by Sidney Herbert Wood and it’s the test
of an educated person I think many of us
have had a false concept programmed into
our mind with respect to education
we I think have been raised to believe
that education is going to school for a
certain number of years and be able to
correctly answer a series of questions
but you know many people will go to
school all their life and be able to
correctly answer the questions but then
when it comes to getting out into the
marketplace and really making it happen
they just don’t know how to compete many
are withdrawn they they don’t even feel
comfortable meeting or greeting a
stranger well would said the test of an
educated person is can I entertain a new
idea now I think you know and I know
that if we’re going to improve we have
to have a very open mind I once heard
that an open mind was being prepared to
throw away some of our most cherished
beliefs when a better idea comes along
now you’ll find that the vast majority
of people seems to back into the future
dragging all of the old experience with
them when they’re confronted with a new
idea they asked does it fit if it
doesn’t then they say it’s wrong now
what we want to do is ask ourselves with
this new idea improve the quality of my
life or what it gets me going in the
other direction can I entertain a new
idea today and tomorrow you’re going to
be asked to entertain many new ideas but
every one of the ideas that we’re going
to share with you are going to be
positive they’re going to be career
native they’re going to be constructive
and they’ll definitely improve the
quality of your land then we see the
second one can I entertain another
person now there’s many people that
would feel totally uncomfortable walking
up to a stranger and just saying hi how
are you today
pleased to meet you Jen now you know
some people when it comes to meeting a
person their head is down their hand is
wet they’re shaking inside their heart
is pounding and they only do it because
they really have to they would just
assume pull away from a new person now
that individual has not learned very
much with anything about themself
because we should feel totally
comfortable meeting anyone anywhere at
any time and they ask can I entertain
myself well you know many people are not
able to entertain themselves I spent
half my life not being able to entertain
myself I always had to be around someone
else
it was always come on let’s have a party
I absolutely hated being alone and that
was because I really didn’t like myself
now I have found through studying the
ideas that we’re going to cover here
over the next couple of days we can
develop into very interesting and
reasoning companions most of the time
that we live we do spend with their self
and you’re going to find it some of the
very best conversations you ever have
are going to be with yourself I get so
excited about some of mine I talk right
out loud that draws you know strange
look from people from time to time but
you get such great ideas going in your
mind that you just can’t help it now
here in the first paragraph we say that
this program you were born rich is based
on the premise that you have rich
resources lying dormant within you I
have heard many people laugh when they
take a look at our program or take a
look at the title of the book board
wrench
you see they think that means that
you’ve been born into great wealth some
people are but some people are not
but everyone without exception has been
born with tremendous resources lying
within it we’ve got
reservoirs of talent and ability and
through following right rules and
natural laws we’re going to find we can
draw that potential to the surface and
we can bring it to bear and it will
cause the manifestation of prosperity in
our material world now in almost all the
seminars that either John or myself does
we take and we put an R here in the
morgue now what I would like to suggest
you do is you let that R represent the
results that you’re getting in your life
now there’s three areas that we’re going
to suggest that you focus on one is
happiness one is health and another one
is material wealth now when I first
started to study this material I was not
happy
I was not healthy and I definitely was
not well I had a chapter sit down with
me and he saw something in me that I
obviously wasn’t capable of seeing in
myself
his name was Raymond Stanford Raymond
Douglas Stanford in fact I named my son
after him Raymond Douglas Proctor and
Ray looked at me and he said Bob let
these lists here represent results that
you’re getting in your life then he
asked me if I thought he was a happy
person and I said yes not he was he said
have you ever seen me sick and I had to
admit ahead and he said have you ever
seen me when I was broke and I gained I
had Dedmon ahead well he proceeded to
tell me that he thought I was one of the
most miserable people he had ever met
and you know it was true I was an
unhappy human being he said you’re
always sick now I didn’t have a terminal
illness now he’s had a headache or a
cold or a backache or something and he
pointed an area of money
he said you’re always broke he said your
Everett trying to hit somebody up for a
couple of dollars for death now if I was
to put this in proper perspective for
you I was earning $4,000 a year at the
time and I owed safe so do you see I was
really interested in being happy or
healthy at the time I figured if I could
just get this money problem straightened
out everything was going to be great he
proceeded to tell me that there were
certain laws governing happiness and if
you follow them you can just keep
getting happier and happier that sounded
a little foreign to Maine but that was
his
and he pointed out that you and I have
an ingenious system built within us to
keep our body in excellent working order
and then when he talked about the area
of money he said you know he said
there’s exact laws governing wealth and
he pointed out he said this stuff cannot
talk but it can here and he said if you
call it it will come well I can assure
you I was ready to yell at the top of my
lungs I mean if there is n and I wanted
it was some money I figured it would
take the heat off for a little while ray
suggested that I quote and buy this book
it’s napoleon hill’s book Think and Grow
Rich and you know he said there’s a
secret in this book and he said if you
can find a secret in the book you can
have anything you seriously want now you
take a person that’s unhappy not very
healthy is in debt you’d have a
difficult time accepting that I was 26
and I just couldn’t accept the idea but
is Ray said your ways not working why
don’t you try him and this one I’d like
to suggest to you today if you’re not
getting the results you want your way
obviously isn’t working why don’t you
try ours now I also mentioned that John
and I’ve got license to brag about every
idea we use because none of them are
acts we don’t claim that we’ve
originated these ideas in fact we openly
admit we haven’t we’ve just gathered
them from books here and seminars there
and great teachers all over the world
and what we’ve done is put them together
in an organized coherent manner so if
your way is not giving you the results
you want I would suggest that you take a
real serious look at these ideas now I
look for the secret and I couldn’t find
it but I found in one place here he said
a peculiar thing about this secret is
that those who once acquired and use it
find themselves literally swept on the
success with but little effort and they
never again submit to failure what a
marvelous promise he said if you doubt
this study the names of those who have
used it wherever they’ve been mentioned
check their records for yourself and
you’ll be convinced now he live
upwards of a hundred names here he’s got
Henry Ford William Wrigley James J Hill
George Eastman theater Roosevelt he goes
on here john d rockefeller thomas edison
luther burbank
woodrow wilson how could i relate any of
those people i couldn’t relate to them
but to see in that first part he said
check their names or check their records
wherever they’ve been mentioned I did
that and I got a bucks on Edison and I
got bucks on rockefeller and I got what
so it looks on Woodrow Wilson and all
the great people that he had mentioned
here and you know what I found I found
they were no different than you they
were no different than me many of them
had very little formal education which
made me feel fairly comfortable because
I didn’t either
many of them had very very rough roads
to start on but I found out we’re
essentially all the same you know what
was different the results they were
getting and as I studied on here further
when his chapter on persistence and and
he mentioned that persistence the
quality to the character of the human
being is like what carbon is to feel he
said the only thing that he could find
he had Edison or Ford that he never
found in everyone else was persistent
let’s get a hold of an idea and they
stick with that idea now look that’s in
my own life I never did that I try
something a couple of times it was rough
I quit I bet people say it all Bob why
don’t you just give it up I’d say yeah
you’re right and I would love to see the
people I was mixing with they were
losing to I never stuck it in so I made
up my mind if I ever found this secret
I’d work it right till I died now I did
find to see it was in a hundred
different places in the book and it was
simply sit down beside what you want
write it on a card Gary the card in your
pocket and read it as often as possible
every day now keep in mind I was earning
4,000 ios6 I was sitting in the fire
hall tea time and I wrote on the card
that I was going to have my possession
by New Year’s Day of 1970
$25,000 I wrote that on the card in 1960
you know the idea of having $25,000 it
was it was sort of a fantasy I don’t
think it was $25,000 in the whole fire
hall at the time now I wrote that the
card 1960 keep in mind I gave myself a
decade to pull this viola I really
didn’t believe it was going to happen
but I found that a couple of things I
found if you write a lie on a card and
you read it often enough you’re going to
start to believe it and you know William
ringer
William James background the turn of the
century he said believe and your belief
will actually create the fact well I did
what he suggested I read this card every
day I carry it around I just keep
reading it and one day one of the guys
in the fire hall got a hold of it and
they pulled the card away and they
passed all around everybody started
laughing to get rich I had a chaplain
seminar the other day that he said the
same thing had happened to him he was in
a seminar then and he got one of these
gold cards and they pass it around
working said everybody laughed at me but
he said I’m winning now I didn’t read
the card in front of anyone any longer
but I kept reading it I go to the
bathroom I’d sit before I lost the door
and I’m read the card where I’d be
driving down there yet I’d be driving
down the street and come to a traffic
light and I’d haul a card out and I’d
meet it now something very funny
happened to me one year later I was
earning one hundred and seventy five
thousand dollars a year now that’s an
enormous change and it went well beyond
a million in a year now that was not
supposed to happen see everything I had
been taught since I was a little boy
indicated that if you don’t go to school
you can’t win if you don’t have business
experience you can’t win I have not gone
to school my second month in high school
they asked me to leave
I’ll never forget how happy I was when
they made that decision and
as I look back they were probably much
happier than I was when they made that
decision but here I was I I was 16 I had
very little knowledge I had absolutely
no skills and at the very best my
attitude was poor
what camps that I have I really didn’t
have any but I didn’t know that and so I
just bummed around from job to job in
another Navy and not a factories in
another bar it’s mostly another part
until I was 26 here I was at 26 one ray
sat down with me I had very little
knowledge absolutely no skills and my
attitude had not improved greatly but he
introduced me to this idea and I found
that it doesn’t matter what happened in
the past you may not have a colorful
background and maybe you have you may
not have a lot of formal education and
maybe a have but it really doesn’t
matter if you’ve got a goal and you are
willing to stick to it and study the
laws you’re going to find out that you
can win now
that was like an emotional impact now I
had to find out what happened to me and
so I made up my mind that someone had
either written in a book where they were
read they were talking about it and I
made up my mind I’d meet every book that
was ever written if I had to and I’m
going to tell you I have one of the
finest libraries on personal development
psychology the areas in mind that you’re
going to find anywhere and I don’t just
mean library of books I mean library of
tapes and records and I would travel
anywhere in the world that I heard of a
good seminar to find out more about
myself I know more about you find out
what makes us tick you know a strange
thing I found as I studied me I
understood you better because we are
essentially all the things and that’s
just sort of the way it works this
seminar is nothing but the culmination
of all that study but it wasn’t just
study there was a lot of practice a lot
of painstaking studies and an awful lot
of experience and John and I have seen
great changes take place in our own life
but better still we’ve taken see
phenomenal changes take place in the
lives of the thousands and countless
thousands of people that have studied
these seminars we’ve done these seminars
as far away as hakufu de New Zealand
we’ve done them all over the United
States every state in the United States
and we’ve done them all across Canada
people in England they’re studying this
right now as a matter of fact this what
born rich is being read in Russia right
now that’s a fair distance away from
here and it’s a lot different philosophy
than most people in that country are
used to now we point out here that
material wealth is a normal and a
natural state viewed live in
intellectual comprehension come down to
the third paragraph on page two it’s
vitally important the intellectual
comprehension of this program is not
difficult get a relatively short period
of time you will be prepared to
correctly answer a battery of questions
about this board enriched program if you
read it memorize it you could answer
almost any question in it but that
doesn’t mean that you’re going to win
you could very quickly say I know
someone mentioned something say I know I
know somebody that says that all the
time no matter what you say to it
Varys says I know all right now knowing
and doing our poles apart and I point
out in two or three places in the book
that reading and memorizing are not
going to make it successful it’s the
understanding and then the application
of white pops attempt you must
understand the idea and you must go out
and act on the idea regardless of how
much rule program wants to hold you back
you’ve got to bust out of that she’ll
and do the thing that you’ve got to do
john ruskin here gives us an excellent
concept in education he said education
does not mean teaching people what they
do not know that means teaching them
showing them leading them to behave as
they do not behave now the compensation
that you’re going to receive for
following the ideas that you’re going to
be studying for the next couple of days
is absolutely incredible I could do
nothing but keep expressing great ideas
when I talk about the good that can come
to you you can do anything you want you
can heaven
you want by following these ideas now I
choose to believe that every one of you
wants something way down deep inside of
you is a dream and every now and then
that dream floats to the surface of your
conscious mind as when it dies you
quickly push it out and you say I can’t
do that now the truth is you can you
just don’t know how and if you can get
that straight in your mind I’m going to
tell you you’re busted oh now burden
Howard one time pointed out in a
magnificent book mystic posture cosmic
power you could not escape from prison
if you don’t know you’re in one you
cannot escape my prison if you don’t
know you’re in one well I think we’re
all in one some degree but that dream
you run that comes to your mind I would
suggest you look at it real carefully I
was given a cassette case by a gentleman
in a seminar that we were conducting a
couple of years ago and it was copy of a
speech made by a minister out of
Minneapolis and there was a couple lines
in that case that were absolutely
incredible he said the saddest thing
when he’s officiating at a funeral he is
not the best of the body but the death
of all the dreamers
that’s that host you were going to build
and never done may be that car you were
going to get never got the trick you’re
going to take and never touch the
business you are going to start build
but never did well
the saddest thing is not the death of
the body but it is the death of all the
dreams we’ve got to do what’s inside of
us
let’s not go to the grave with the music
still in now as we go through this
seminar John’s coming on in a minute to
lead you through the part about proper
use of the seminar but as we go through
it understand this if you do not direct
all of the information you’re going to
hear towards a specific end the
information will probably be rendered
useless so what I would suggest you do
as John’s coming up here just jot down
in shorthand in your book anywhere in a
blank space that’s something that you
want and look at the folks on
bottom of page two well Frodo Emerson
said do the thing and you’ll get the
energy to do the things here’s the thing
and you’ll get the energy to do the
things just wait start right now whether
you’re ready or not just say I’m going
after it I’m going to get it and your
present circumstance has got nothing to
do with where you’re going later on in
the book here you’re going to find that
there’s a quote by a magnificent author
he said your circumstances may be
uncongenial right now but they will not
loan remain so if you perceive an ideal
and strive to reach it now think of that
you may not have much money your social
life may be in a bit of a chaotic state
making your business isn’t going the way
it really wanted to go he said your
circumstances may be uncongenial but
they will not long remain so if you
perceive an ideal and strive to reach
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me a little piece of literature about
getting out of the comfort zone that was
written by Bob Gregg’s in southern
Florida and there’s some excellent
information in here many of us are
pretty comfortable in our life we’ve got
a reasonably good income the more you
just paid there’s feud in the fridge
we’ve got a nice warm bed to sleep in
and everything seems to be floating
along just fine and you know a person in
that position could very easily think
why would I want to do anything to
change this well we have found as your
life is not going in one direction yet
absolutely by law must be moving in
another direction and Riggs is talking
about that here he said many of us have
established a comfort zone in our lives
we’re just coasting along taking the
line of least resistance just getting by
now you said this is a very common and
understandable attitude we’ve all worked
hard to get to where we are and it may
seem a very good place to be the problem
with this is that once we stop reaching
stretching seeking and risking we
actually stop growing
now Riggs goes on to say that the
comfort zone frame of mind you’re
settling for what we are today that may
be fine today but without continued
growth and I believe this is the key
line coming up we are now all we are
ever going to be now for me that would
be a fairly disturbing fund you went on
to say if you’re in a comfort zone
beware the danger of a comfort zone is
that it doesn’t hurt and it might even
feel good many take that to mean it’s a
good place to be but it’s not a comfort
zone maybe what is holding you back from
real growth real accomplishment and
you’re potentially exciting and
rewarding future now I’ve mentioned if
we’re not going in one
direction we must by law be going in
another direction you’re either creating
or you’re disintegrating whenever we
hear a person say I like it just the way
it is
we know that person is advertising their
ignorance of a very basic law of life
because absolutely nothing stays the way
it is now if you’ll take a look at the
top of page two there is a concept there
by Sidney Herbert Wood and it’s the test
of an educated person I think many of us
have had a false concept programmed into
our mind with respect to education
we I think have been raised to believe
that education is going to school for a
certain number of years and be able to
correctly answer a series of questions
but you know many people will go to
school all their life and be able to
correctly answer the questions but then
when it comes to getting out into the
marketplace and really making it happen
they just don’t know how to compete many
are withdrawn they they don’t even feel
comfortable meeting or greeting a
stranger well would said the test of an
educated person is can I entertain a new
idea now I think you know and I know
that if we’re going to improve we have
to have a very open mind I once heard
that an open mind was being prepared to
throw away some of our most cherished
beliefs when a better idea comes along
now you’ll find that the vast majority
of people seems to back into the future
dragging all of the old experience with
them when they’re confronted with a new
idea they asked does it fit if it
doesn’t then they say it’s wrong now
what we want to do is ask ourselves with
this new idea improve the quality of my
life or what it gets me going in the
other direction can I entertain a new
idea today and tomorrow you’re going to
be asked to entertain many new ideas but
every one of the ideas that we’re going
to share with you are going to be
positive they’re going to be career
native they’re going to be constructive
and they’ll definitely improve the
quality of your land then we see the
second one can I entertain another
person now there’s many people that
would feel totally uncomfortable walking
up to a stranger and just saying hi how
are you today
pleased to meet you Jen now you know
some people when it comes to meeting a
person their head is down their hand is
wet they’re shaking inside their heart
is pounding and they only do it because
they really have to they would just
assume pull away from a new person now
that individual has not learned very
much with anything about themself
because we should feel totally
comfortable meeting anyone anywhere at
any time and they ask can I entertain
myself well you know many people are not
able to entertain themselves I spent
half my life not being able to entertain
myself I always had to be around someone
else
it was always come on let’s have a party
I absolutely hated being alone and that
was because I really didn’t like myself
now I have found through studying the
ideas that we’re going to cover here
over the next couple of days we can
develop into very interesting and
reasoning companions most of the time
that we live we do spend with their self
and you’re going to find it some of the
very best conversations you ever have
are going to be with yourself I get so
excited about some of mine I talk right
out loud that draws you know strange
look from people from time to time but
you get such great ideas going in your
mind that you just can’t help it now
here in the first paragraph we say that
this program you were born rich is based
on the premise that you have rich
resources lying dormant within you I
have heard many people laugh when they
take a look at our program or take a
look at the title of the book board
wrench
you see they think that means that
you’ve been born into great wealth some
people are but some people are not
but everyone without exception has been
born with tremendous resources lying
within it we’ve got
reservoirs of talent and ability and
through following right rules and
natural laws we’re going to find we can
draw that potential to the surface and
we can bring it to bear and it will
cause the manifestation of prosperity in
our material world now in almost all the
seminars that either John or myself does
we take and we put an R here in the
morgue now what I would like to suggest
you do is you let that R represent the
results that you’re getting in your life
now there’s three areas that we’re going
to suggest that you focus on one is
happiness one is health and another one
is material wealth now when I first
started to study this material I was not
happy
I was not healthy and I definitely was
not well I had a chapter sit down with
me and he saw something in me that I
obviously wasn’t capable of seeing in
myself
his name was Raymond Stanford Raymond
Douglas Stanford in fact I named my son
after him Raymond Douglas Proctor and
Ray looked at me and he said Bob let
these lists here represent results that
you’re getting in your life then he
asked me if I thought he was a happy
person and I said yes not he was he said
have you ever seen me sick and I had to
admit ahead and he said have you ever
seen me when I was broke and I gained I
had Dedmon ahead well he proceeded to
tell me that he thought I was one of the
most miserable people he had ever met
and you know it was true I was an
unhappy human being he said you’re
always sick now I didn’t have a terminal
illness now he’s had a headache or a
cold or a backache or something and he
pointed an area of money
he said you’re always broke he said your
Everett trying to hit somebody up for a
couple of dollars for death now if I was
to put this in proper perspective for
you I was earning $4,000 a year at the
time and I owed safe so do you see I was
really interested in being happy or
healthy at the time I figured if I could
just get this money problem straightened
out everything was going to be great he
proceeded to tell me that there were
certain laws governing happiness and if
you follow them you can just keep
getting happier and happier that sounded
a little foreign to Maine but that was
his
and he pointed out that you and I have
an ingenious system built within us to
keep our body in excellent working order
and then when he talked about the area
of money he said you know he said
there’s exact laws governing wealth and
he pointed out he said this stuff cannot
talk but it can here and he said if you
call it it will come well I can assure
you I was ready to yell at the top of my
lungs I mean if there is n and I wanted
it was some money I figured it would
take the heat off for a little while ray
suggested that I quote and buy this book
it’s napoleon hill’s book Think and Grow
Rich and you know he said there’s a
secret in this book and he said if you
can find a secret in the book you can
have anything you seriously want now you
take a person that’s unhappy not very
healthy is in debt you’d have a
difficult time accepting that I was 26
and I just couldn’t accept the idea but
is Ray said your ways not working why
don’t you try him and this one I’d like
to suggest to you today if you’re not
getting the results you want your way
obviously isn’t working why don’t you
try ours now I also mentioned that John
and I’ve got license to brag about every
idea we use because none of them are
acts we don’t claim that we’ve
originated these ideas in fact we openly
admit we haven’t we’ve just gathered
them from books here and seminars there
and great teachers all over the world
and what we’ve done is put them together
in an organized coherent manner so if
your way is not giving you the results
you want I would suggest that you take a
real serious look at these ideas now I
look for the secret and I couldn’t find
it but I found in one place here he said
a peculiar thing about this secret is
that those who once acquired and use it
find themselves literally swept on the
success with but little effort and they
never again submit to failure what a
marvelous promise he said if you doubt
this study the names of those who have
used it wherever they’ve been mentioned
check their records for yourself and
you’ll be convinced now he live
upwards of a hundred names here he’s got
Henry Ford William Wrigley James J Hill
George Eastman theater Roosevelt he goes
on here john d rockefeller thomas edison
luther burbank
woodrow wilson how could i relate any of
those people i couldn’t relate to them
but to see in that first part he said
check their names or check their records
wherever they’ve been mentioned I did
that and I got a bucks on Edison and I
got bucks on rockefeller and I got what
so it looks on Woodrow Wilson and all
the great people that he had mentioned
here and you know what I found I found
they were no different than you they
were no different than me many of them
had very little formal education which
made me feel fairly comfortable because
I didn’t either
many of them had very very rough roads
to start on but I found out we’re
essentially all the same you know what
was different the results they were
getting and as I studied on here further
when his chapter on persistence and and
he mentioned that persistence the
quality to the character of the human
being is like what carbon is to feel he
said the only thing that he could find
he had Edison or Ford that he never
found in everyone else was persistent
let’s get a hold of an idea and they
stick with that idea now look that’s in
my own life I never did that I try
something a couple of times it was rough
I quit I bet people say it all Bob why
don’t you just give it up I’d say yeah
you’re right and I would love to see the
people I was mixing with they were
losing to I never stuck it in so I made
up my mind if I ever found this secret
I’d work it right till I died now I did
find to see it was in a hundred
different places in the book and it was
simply sit down beside what you want
write it on a card Gary the card in your
pocket and read it as often as possible
every day now keep in mind I was earning
4,000 ios6 I was sitting in the fire
hall tea time and I wrote on the card
that I was going to have my possession
by New Year’s Day of 1970
$25,000 I wrote that on the card in 1960
you know the idea of having $25,000 it
was it was sort of a fantasy I don’t
think it was $25,000 in the whole fire
hall at the time now I wrote that the
card 1960 keep in mind I gave myself a
decade to pull this viola I really
didn’t believe it was going to happen
but I found that a couple of things I
found if you write a lie on a card and
you read it often enough you’re going to
start to believe it and you know William
ringer
William James background the turn of the
century he said believe and your belief
will actually create the fact well I did
what he suggested I read this card every
day I carry it around I just keep
reading it and one day one of the guys
in the fire hall got a hold of it and
they pulled the card away and they
passed all around everybody started
laughing to get rich I had a chaplain
seminar the other day that he said the
same thing had happened to him he was in
a seminar then and he got one of these
gold cards and they pass it around
working said everybody laughed at me but
he said I’m winning now I didn’t read
the card in front of anyone any longer
but I kept reading it I go to the
bathroom I’d sit before I lost the door
and I’m read the card where I’d be
driving down there yet I’d be driving
down the street and come to a traffic
light and I’d haul a card out and I’d
meet it now something very funny
happened to me one year later I was
earning one hundred and seventy five
thousand dollars a year now that’s an
enormous change and it went well beyond
a million in a year now that was not
supposed to happen see everything I had
been taught since I was a little boy
indicated that if you don’t go to school
you can’t win if you don’t have business
experience you can’t win I have not gone
to school my second month in high school
they asked me to leave
I’ll never forget how happy I was when
they made that decision and
as I look back they were probably much
happier than I was when they made that
decision but here I was I I was 16 I had
very little knowledge I had absolutely
no skills and at the very best my
attitude was poor
what camps that I have I really didn’t
have any but I didn’t know that and so I
just bummed around from job to job in
another Navy and not a factories in
another bar it’s mostly another part
until I was 26 here I was at 26 one ray
sat down with me I had very little
knowledge absolutely no skills and my
attitude had not improved greatly but he
introduced me to this idea and I found
that it doesn’t matter what happened in
the past you may not have a colorful
background and maybe you have you may
not have a lot of formal education and
maybe a have but it really doesn’t
matter if you’ve got a goal and you are
willing to stick to it and study the
laws you’re going to find out that you
can win now
that was like an emotional impact now I
had to find out what happened to me and
so I made up my mind that someone had
either written in a book where they were
read they were talking about it and I
made up my mind I’d meet every book that
was ever written if I had to and I’m
going to tell you I have one of the
finest libraries on personal development
psychology the areas in mind that you’re
going to find anywhere and I don’t just
mean library of books I mean library of
tapes and records and I would travel
anywhere in the world that I heard of a
good seminar to find out more about
myself I know more about you find out
what makes us tick you know a strange
thing I found as I studied me I
understood you better because we are
essentially all the things and that’s
just sort of the way it works this
seminar is nothing but the culmination
of all that study but it wasn’t just
study there was a lot of practice a lot
of painstaking studies and an awful lot
of experience and John and I have seen
great changes take place in our own life
but better still we’ve taken see
phenomenal changes take place in the
lives of the thousands and countless
thousands of people that have studied
these seminars we’ve done these seminars
as far away as hakufu de New Zealand
we’ve done them all over the United
States every state in the United States
and we’ve done them all across Canada
people in England they’re studying this
right now as a matter of fact this what
born rich is being read in Russia right
now that’s a fair distance away from
here and it’s a lot different philosophy
than most people in that country are
used to now we point out here that
material wealth is a normal and a
natural state viewed live in
intellectual comprehension come down to
the third paragraph on page two it’s
vitally important the intellectual
comprehension of this program is not
difficult get a relatively short period
of time you will be prepared to
correctly answer a battery of questions
about this board enriched program if you
read it memorize it you could answer
almost any question in it but that
doesn’t mean that you’re going to win
you could very quickly say I know
someone mentioned something say I know I
know somebody that says that all the
time no matter what you say to it
Varys says I know all right now knowing
and doing our poles apart and I point
out in two or three places in the book
that reading and memorizing are not
going to make it successful it’s the
understanding and then the application
of white pops attempt you must
understand the idea and you must go out
and act on the idea regardless of how
much rule program wants to hold you back
you’ve got to bust out of that she’ll
and do the thing that you’ve got to do
john ruskin here gives us an excellent
concept in education he said education
does not mean teaching people what they
do not know that means teaching them
showing them leading them to behave as
they do not behave now the compensation
that you’re going to receive for
following the ideas that you’re going to
be studying for the next couple of days
is absolutely incredible I could do
nothing but keep expressing great ideas
when I talk about the good that can come
to you you can do anything you want you
can heaven
you want by following these ideas now I
choose to believe that every one of you
wants something way down deep inside of
you is a dream and every now and then
that dream floats to the surface of your
conscious mind as when it dies you
quickly push it out and you say I can’t
do that now the truth is you can you
just don’t know how and if you can get
that straight in your mind I’m going to
tell you you’re busted oh now burden
Howard one time pointed out in a
magnificent book mystic posture cosmic
power you could not escape from prison
if you don’t know you’re in one you
cannot escape my prison if you don’t
know you’re in one well I think we’re
all in one some degree but that dream
you run that comes to your mind I would
suggest you look at it real carefully I
was given a cassette case by a gentleman
in a seminar that we were conducting a
couple of years ago and it was copy of a
speech made by a minister out of
Minneapolis and there was a couple lines
in that case that were absolutely
incredible he said the saddest thing
when he’s officiating at a funeral he is
not the best of the body but the death
of all the dreamers
that’s that host you were going to build
and never done may be that car you were
going to get never got the trick you’re
going to take and never touch the
business you are going to start build
but never did well
the saddest thing is not the death of
the body but it is the death of all the
dreams we’ve got to do what’s inside of
us
let’s not go to the grave with the music
still in now as we go through this
seminar John’s coming on in a minute to
lead you through the part about proper
use of the seminar but as we go through
it understand this if you do not direct
all of the information you’re going to
hear towards a specific end the
information will probably be rendered
useless so what I would suggest you do
as John’s coming up here just jot down
in shorthand in your book anywhere in a
blank space that’s something that you
want and look at the folks on
bottom of page two well Frodo Emerson
said do the thing and you’ll get the
energy to do the things here’s the thing
and you’ll get the energy to do the
things just wait start right now whether
you’re ready or not just say I’m going
after it I’m going to get it and your
present circumstance has got nothing to
do with where you’re going later on in
the book here you’re going to find that
there’s a quote by a magnificent author
he said your circumstances may be
uncongenial right now but they will not
loan remain so if you perceive an ideal
and strive to reach it now think of that
you may not have much money your social
life may be in a bit of a chaotic state
making your business isn’t going the way
it really wanted to go he said your
circumstances may be uncongenial but
they will not long remain so if you
perceive an ideal and strive to reach
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