your personal development quest I call
them the five abilities here’s the first
one develop the ability to absorb the
ability to soak it up like you’re doing
today be like a sponge don’t miss
anything and not just the words it’s
true don’t miss the words but don’t miss
the atmosphere don’t miss the color
don’t miss the scenario don’t miss
what’s going on most people are just
trying to get through the day here’s
what I want you to be committed to do
learn to get from the day don’t just get
through it get firm it learn from it let
the day teach you join the university of
life what a difference that will make in
your future commit yourself to learning
commit yourself to absorb it be like a
sponge get it don’t miss it
I’ve got a personal friend of mine who’s
so gifted in this area I think he has
soaked up and remembers everything
that’s ever happened to it
he can tell you what the teenager where
he was and what he did and what he said
mean what she said and how they felt in
the color of the sky and what was going
on that day and the reason is because he
gets it gets it gets it I’m telling you
it’s more exciting to have him go to
Acapulco come back and tell you about it
than it is to go yourself he’s
unbelievable he’s got this extraordinary
gift and why is it when he’s there he
doesn’t miss anything here’s a good
phrase for you to jump down wherever you
are be there be there to absorb it up be
there to soak it up take a picture if
you can but take pictures of your mind
let your soul and heart take pictures
get it capture it absorb it such an
important ability to develop the ability
to get it don’t miss it
don’t be casual than getting it keep
second
the ability to respond means let life
touch it don’t let it kill you but let
let’s add things make you sad let happy
things make you happy
I’m telling you give in to the emotion
let the emotion strike you not just the
words not just the image let the
feelings strike you let the emotion
strike here’s what’s important our
emotions need to be as educated as I’ve
implemented our emotions need to be
educated as well as our intimate it’s
important to know how to feel it’s
important to know how to respond it’s
important to let life in let it touch
you I’m the greatest guy in the world to
take to the movies I get into a good
movie I want a good movie make me laugh
make me cry scare me to death
teach me something take me high take me
low just don’t leave me as I was when I
picked up the newspaper in Australia the
advertisement says see dr. Zhivago on
the big screen I said my guy
I gotta go see it on the big screen I’d
seen it you know two or three times
before but the big screen I love the old
theaters right the balconies and the
chandeliers and the draperies and all
this stuff the big screen so I go one
more time see Doctor Zhivago and sure
enough I’m swept away one more time
story of the Russian Revolution dr.
Zhivago in that whole scenario I had
always missed the importance of the
ending of that movie until this time the
other times I missed it I’m telling you
this time my god Conrad general said
Tania how did you come to be lost after
he’d found her Wright said how did you
come to be lost and she said well I was
just lost
he said no how did you come to be lost
she said well we were you know the city
was on fire when we were running to
escape and I was lost he said no how did
you come to be lost and that’s what she
didn’t want to say she finally pressed
her again how did you come to be lost he
said what she said well while we were
running through the city and it was on
fire my father let go of my hand that’s
comrade general said Tania that’s what
I’ve been trying to tell you
she was not I’m kidding I’ve been
looking all over for you and I think I
failed you this man my relative dr.
Zhivago the poet I’m telling you he was
comrade general santoña I promise you
this if this man your real father
again you
the other time back
I’m asking you together
maybe you heard the story about the the
evangelists here in Texas way back in
the horse and buggy days used to put up
his tent and you know these various
Texas towns and hold hit revivals and he
put up his tent one of these towns
expected a big crowd becoming hearing
preach and he got their first night at
the tent revival and he walked inside
the tent
it was empty and he thought something
must be wrong he waited till 8 o’clock
nobody showed up he waited till 8:15
not a soul finally eight thirty one lone
cowboy wandered up on his horse tied his
horse up outside came in sat down on the
front bench big empty tent so the
preacher thought well least I better go
down and talk to the cowboy so it goes
down and talked to the cowboy and he
says cowboy I don’t know what to tell
you she said I’m the preacher and this
tent was supposed to be full of people
and he said something’s gone wrong I
really don’t know what to do I’m
embarrassed and he said I don’t know
what to do and the cowboy said well you
know I’m not a preacher I’m just a
cowboy so I can’t tell you what to do
but he said I know this if I will not to
feed my cattle and only one showed up
the preacher said hey the cowboy is
right if you’ve got a message to share
if there’s one person or a thousand
don’t let your ego get in the way you
know you should do the best you can so
he got kind of inspired by this
conversation with the cowboy jumped up
on the platform started preaching as if
the tent was full of people and he was
so inspired he just kept going kept
going went for an hour went for an hour
and 15 minutes hour-and-a-half finally
wound down and quit come down off the
platform talk to the cowboy again said
well cowboy what did you think of my
sermon the cowboy said well I’m not a
preacher so I can’t really tell I’m just
a cowboy but he said I know this if I
went out to feed my cattle and only one
showed up I’d feed it but I wouldn’t
oh if it seems like we’re dumping the
whole load here today I guess we really
are but you guys are working hard as
anybody have four pages of notes Oh
wonderful wonderful my job I’m getting
it done wonderful we should give a prize
fantastic I congratulate you you’re
working as hard as I am I appreciate
okay we got some more work to do so
let’s go to work everybody it’s okay say
I’m okay
all right I’d love to take you with me
as my traveling audience Wow we’ve
covered the first two abilities in the
personal development quest one is the
ability to absorb don’t miss anything
pay attention good watchword for the 90s
pay attention things are moving so fast
these days you got to pay attention pick
it up soak up the color soak up the
sound soak up what’s going on
second respond let life touch you let
the emotions affect you as well as the
sights now here’s the third ability
develop the ability to reflect reflect
means go back over study it again go
back over these notes that you’re taking
today go back through the cassettes one
more time read the text one more time
but there’s more to it than that go back
over your day I call it run the tapes
again so that the day locks in firmly
here’s some good times to reflect one at
the end of the day take a few minutes at
the end of the day go back over the day
who’d you see and what they say and what
happened how do you feel what went on so
that you capture that day and
a is a piece of the mosaic of your life
number one don’t treat it casual number
two get from the day and then number
three go back over the day so that it
locks in that experience the knowledge
the sights the sounds the panorama the
color motion picture of the day just
lock it in so that it will serve you for
the future having that day not missing
next take a few hours at the end of the
week call time to reflect go back over
your daytime or go back over your
calendar go back over your appointment
book where did you go and who did you
see and how did it feel and what went on
capture that week a week is a pretty
good chunk of time next take half a day
at the end of the month
call time to reflect and do the same
thing again go back over what you read
go back over what you heard go back over
what you saw go back over the feelings
to capture it so that it serves you next
take a weekend at the end of the year to
establish this year now firmly in your
consciousness firmly in your experience
bank so that you’ve got it so that it
never disappears good ability to acquire
the ability to reflect go back over
remember remember remember it’s so
valuable to be able to remember the
thought remember the idea remember the
experience remember the occasion
remember the day remember the weather
remember the emotion remember the
complexity remember the highs remember
the lows so valuable at the end of the
day lock that day in lock the month in
lock the weekend lock the year in Old
Testament says a unique scenario
unfolded according to the law that was
they worked nine years and the tenth
year was a sabbatical the tenth year
work nine take the tenth year and not
just to relax not just to replenish not
maybe just to get physically in shape
change a pace we call it in the modern
society but not just for that I’m sure
that in ancient days that sabbatical was
to go over the last nine years what went
right and what went wrong and what
worked well and what didn’t work well
and how did you grow and how did you
learn and how did you change and what
have you got now after nine years that
you didn’t have at the beginning of the
nine years see that’s so valuable a
sabbatical a sabbatical
time time there’s also something to be
said for solitude when you reflect
sometimes you can reflect with somebody
husband wife reflect on the past year
right parents reflect with their
children on the past year how did we do
it and how didn’t we do it and how could
we improve colleagues can reflect with
each other but now here’s one of the
most important you got to learn to
reflect with yourself there’s something
to be said for solitude there’s
something to be said for taking those
occasions to shut out the world and shut
out everything else for a while for a
while I’ve got a Motorhome that’s how I
do I’m a motorcycle on the back and I
head for the mountains and ride the jeep
trails or there’s very few human beings
on the Jeep trees or out on the desert
somewhere it’s called my time to get
away when you live a very public life
you treasure solitude a chance to
reflect go back over my life go back
over my skills go back over my
experiences alone alone there are some
things you need to do alone ponder think
wonder read studying absorb soak in see
if you can’t become better this year
than you were last year better the next
9 than you were the first 9
solitude there’s even a more modern
advice that says go to the closet for
time of meditation
time of prayer go to the closet closet
meaning what away and there’s even a
graphic description of the away said
enter into your closet than what got
some students here I’m sure what close
the door for what just to shut out
everything life is experience experience
experience intention and seeing and
looking and doing enacted and
disciplines and all the stuff but
sometimes this is where this reflecting
is so important that shut the door just
shut the door and wonder prayer
contemplation thinking and let things
move in to your consciousness and
awareness Lea no other way can it be
done right flying down the freeway I’m
telling ya it’s difficult to get through
so many things to do it’s difficult to
get through the times of solitude times
to replay so this is so valuable learn
to reflect now here’s why it’s important
to reflect to make the pass more
here’s what’s really powerful learning
to gather up the past and invested in
the future gather up today and invested
in tomorrow gather up this week and
invest it in the next week gather up
this year and invest it in the next year
see that’s so powerful rather than just
hanging on one more year hanging in
there what’s gonna happen learn study
this is part of the personal development
quest becoming better than you are more
valuable than you are not just in terms
of economics in terms of motherhood in
terms of fatherhood in terms of being a
better brother better colleague making a
better contribution to the family to
society to the community to the church
to the office to the commitment to the
partnership doesn’t matter what it is
that has value work on yourself then you
bring more value to the partnership to
the marriage to the franchise to the
corporation to the enterprise to the
community to the nation self-development
personal development the best
contribution you can make to someone
else’s self development not
self-sacrifice self sacrifice only earns
pity the mother who says I’m just gonna
give up my life for my children
self-sacrifice is not Noble self
investment is noble from self
development if I work on myself and
become more valuable think of what that
will do for our friendship I used to use
the old expression you take care of me
and I’ll take care of you I found out
how shallow and short ended that was and
I changed it to read like this I’ll take
care of me for you if you will please
take care of you for me this was part of
it the personal development that we work
harder on ourselves and we do on our job
now we bring that to the friendship now
we bring that to the marriage now we
bring that to the family relationship as
a father as a mother and we develop the
strength and we develop the power and it
takes I think this scenario of
disciplines these abilities to acquire
those gifts and those skills that value
so that we bring more now we bring more
to the next week we bring more to the
next month we bring more to the next
year if you follow this absorb respond
and reflect I said to my father when he
was about to turn 76 his 76th birthday I
said dear father of mine can you imagine
what its gonna be like to gather up the
last 75 years of your life and invest
them in your 76th year what a difference
in philosophy rather than just hanging
on one more year gather up 75 and invest
him in the next one gather up the last
six years and invested in the next year
see that so powerful in communication
which we’re gonna study soon so powerful
so consider this one the ability to
absorb second the ability to respond
here’s number four develop the ability
to act take action not hasty if it isn’t
required but don’t lose much time here’s
the time to act when the idea is hot and
the emotion is strong that’s the time to
act
you see mr. ona I’d like to have a
library like yours see if you feel
strong about that what you got to do is
get the first book and then get the
second book before the feeling passes
and before the idea gets dim action
pronto action the medium action as soon
as possible because if you don’t here’s
what happens we call it the law of
diminishing intent
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we intend to when the idea strikes us we
intend to when the emotion is high but
now if you don’t translate that into
action fairly soon now the intent starts
to diminish diminish diminished and a
month from now it’s cold year from now
can’t be found so act set up a
discipline when the emotions are high
and the idea is strong and clear and
powerful that’s the time to set up the
discipline somebody talks about good
health and you’re stirred right I need
to get a book on nutrition get the book
before the idea of passes and before the
emotion gets cold go for the book start
the library start the process fall on
the floor do some push-ups action gotta
take action otherwise the wisdom is
wasted otherwise the emotion soon passes
unless you put it into a disciplined
activity capturing disciplines is called
how to capture the emotion and how to
capture the wisdom and translate it into
equity disciplines now here’s what’s
important about disciplines all
in fact here’s a good philosophical
phrase everything affects everything
else nothing stands alone don’t be naive
and saying well this doesn’t matter I’m
telling you everything matters there are
some things that matter more than others
but there isn’t anything that doesn’t
matter okay we all pity the man who says
well this is the only place I let down
not true key to take home every let down
affects the rest of your performance
every let down affects the rest this was
part of the educational process on
personal development if you don’t take
the walk around the block you probably
won’t do the Apple a day if you don’t do
the Apple a day you probably won’t
consist you know start building your
library if you don’t build your library
you probably won’t keep a journal and
you won’t take pictures and you won’t do
this and won’t do wise things with your
money won’t do wise things with your
time won’t do wise things with your
possibilities and relationships and the
first thing you know six years of that
accumulated and we say you have messed
up so the whole key to reversing that
process now is to start picking up these
disciplines now here’s the positive side
every new discipline affects the rest of
your disciplines every new one affects
that’s why action is so important the
least action the smallest action take it
because when you start accomplishing and
the value starts to return from that one
action that’ll inspire you to do the
next one and the next one in the next
one you start walking around the block
it’ll just fire you to get an Apple you
get an Apple it’ll inspire you to get a
book get a book it’ll inspire you to get
a journal get a journal it’ll spire you
to grow develop some skills all
disciplines affect each other every Lac
affects the rest every new affects the
rest the key is to diminish the lack and
set up the new then you’ve started a
whole new life process also one more
thought on discipline here’s the
greatest value of discipline self-worth
we were teaching self-esteem these days
the least lack of discipline and it
starts to erode our psyche one of the
greatest temptations is to just ease up
a little bit the the slightest lack of
doing your best starts to erode the
psyche instead of doing your best doing
just a little less than your best sure
enough you say well it’s just gonna
affect my sales no it’s gonna affect
your consciousness it’s going to affect
your philosophy
now you’ve begun then in the slightest
way to affect your own philosophy here’s
the problem with the least neglect
neglect starts as an infection and if
you don’t take care of it it becomes a
disease and one neglect leads to another
and the worst of all when neglect starts
it diminishes our self-worth our
self-confidence our self value
you say well how can I get back my
self-respect I’m telling you don’t have
to go to 29 classes all you have to do
is start the smallest discipline that
now corresponds to your own philosophy
like I should and I could and I will no
longer will I let neglect stack up on me
so that I will have the sorry scenario
six years from now giving some excuse
instead of celebrating my progress
that’s the key to discipline okay let’s
get kids involved in the least of
disciplines one more and then one more
and then another one and then another
one and then some more and the first
thing you know you’re starting to weave
the tapestry of a disciplined life into
which you can pour more wisdom and more
attitude and more strong feeling more
faith and more courage now you’ve got
something a vessel in which to put it
and now the equity start to flow and the
early return I’m telling you if you’ll
start this process the early return will
have you so excited you’ll commit
yourself to this strategy for the rest
of your life you’ll never go back to the
old ways join a new crowd join a new
group
the disciplines to do take action
I recommended the last time I was here
the little book richest man in Babylon
and I said I’ve lectured now to over 3
million people in the last 33 years and
I’ve recommended this little book to
almost all of them I think guess how
many have actually gone and got this
little book answer very few my best
guess is 10% such an easy thing to do in
that last seminar right I suggested this
little book number one is easy to find
number two it’s easy to buy the most you
can pay for it six seven eight dollars
you can borrow that from your kids and
number three it’s easy to read it’s in
story form that’s why I use it for
teenager teaching them how to be rich by
forty thirty five if you’re extra bright
much sooner if you find a unique
opportunity but if it’s easy to find and
easy to buy and if it’s easy to read why
wouldn’t everybody go get it we don’t
know what do you know you don’t know I
don’t know nobody knows here’s how
profound it is some do and some don’t
ninety percent don’t or won’t we don’t
know the mystery of that and I’m telling
you ten years from now those numbers
will still be the same
ten percent well ninety percent won’t
the numbers don’t change only the faces
change you’re looking at one of the
faces I used to belong to the 90% who
guess how many people have a library
card wisdom of the world available
transform your life in any value amount
you want by the way how much is a
library card in Texas free here’s what
free is easy I mean it can’t be any
easier than free somebody says what
would you bring it by well no at least
you got to go get it
no wisdom of the world available
transform your life spiritually socially
personally economically in every other
way teach you how to be rich and
powerful and sophisticated and healthy
influential how many people have a
library card answer three percent ninety
five ninety seven percent couldn’t be
bothered guy specializes in happy hour
but it doesn’t have a card and now
readily and quickly blames the
government blames his company and blames
policy and blames the pay scale when if
he only knew if he joined the three
percent here’s my advice to you today
walk away from the ninety seven percent
don’t talk like they talk don’t act like
they act don’t go where they go don’t
specialize in what they specialize in
throw away the blame lists they cling to
start you a new life you say well as it
is simple it’s getting a library card
and join the three percent the answer is
of course of course that’s how easy this
stuff is this is so easy it’s so simple
it’s not complex you don’t need a two
thousand-year-old guru you don’t need
multitrack affirmations I’m telling you
don’t affirmation without discipline is
the beginning of delusion don’t let
somebody sweep you into some contrary
way to nature itself says unless you
labor the miracle of the seed and the
soil and the seasons and God and all the
other stuff that’s available sunshine or
rain that’s not available to you by
affirmation it is only available to you
so labor well learn well discipline
yourself well and you can have all the
treasures even the stuffs easy and
simple it’s not ocean wave receive oh
you don’t have to move to Sedona where
all the force fields come together in
let’s teach our kids the simple ways to
transform their health number one their
economics number two their ability to
communicate number three their life and
treasure and lifestyle number for
spirituality number five and the list
goes on and on let’s not leave out any
of the least of disciplines that
encourage us to do the next one to do
the next one to do the next one first
thing you know this whole scenario for
you is spinning up instead of out of
control on the negative side this is all
you got to do it’s as simple as this
it’s as simple as a start committing
yourself to life change and once you
start down this road I promise you
you’ll join the 10% in the 3% we’re
gonna talk financial independence in
just a little while guess how many
people can retire from the income of
their own personal resources when it
comes time to retire answer five percent
in the most independent country in the
world
ninety five percent are dependent five
percent are independent take charge of
your own retirement
I’m telling if you take charge of your
own retirement through personal
development and all these skills we’ve
taught today plus what’s coming up
financial independence I’m telling you
take charge of your own retirement you
can multiply it at least by five maybe
by ten maybe by twenty maybe by a
hundred let the gardener take care of it
some company take care of it you got to
divide by five take charge of your own
life take charge of your own day take
charge of your own conversation take
charge of your own family take charge of
your own possibilities and learn these
skills develop this kind of strategy and
I’m telling you life will open up for
you join the 3%
join the 10% join the 5% walk away from
the 95% in our leadership weekend we
teach find out what poor people read and
I’m telling you don’t talk like they
talk lend a helping hand but don’t fall
into the Dare poor philosophical
scenario don’t blame what they blame
don’t use the excuses they use it’s
called the language of the poor switch
years switch language switch ideas
switch strategy start with the simplest
of disciplines and don’t be mean any of
these disciplines the smallest of
discipline starts the process of life
change and if you’ll invest in this
thing called discipline you can have
whatever you wish it’s called the
beginning of a miracle now here’s the
last clue long discipline do the best
you can we covered earlier but here’s a
good scenario for the dude the best you
can
I’ve got a good question for you is the
best you can do all you can do and the
answer’s no
strangely enough if we all fell on the
floor right now and did as many pushups
as we possibly could and let’s say for
some reason and you haven’t been into
push-ups lately I can’t imagine why but
let’s say and let’s say the best you can
do is 5 and you look up at the rest of
us and say hey 5 is the best I can do we
can tell the look on your face that’s
probably true 5 is the best you can do
now he’s 5 all you can do the answer’s
no if you rest a little you can do 5
more and if you rest a little you can do
5 more and if you rest a little you can
do 15 more how did we get from 5 to 15
and if you recommend you can do 15 reps
little you can do 15 rest little you can
do 20
how did you get from 5 to 20 it’s a
miracle did you know you can keep doing
that do a little more rest little do a
little more rest a little and finally
get up to 50 pushups is it possible to
get up to 50 pushups how do you go from
5 to 50 it’s a miracle
how do you get a miracle going number
one do what you can the only about what
you can from writing a letter to your
mother in Florida start cleaning it all
up to doing the push-ups go from 5 to 50
it’s a miracle
number 1 do what you can number 2 do the
best you can here is number 3 rest very
little don’t rest too long why the weeds
take the garden kids have got that
figured out you can’t rest too long
here’s the clue make rest a necessity
not an objective the objective of life
is not the rest the objective of life is
to act think of more disciplines think
of more ways and means in which to use
your own wisdom and your own philosophy
and use your own attitude your own faith
your own courage your own commitment
your own desires your own excitement
invested invest it invest it invested in
discipline so that it’s not wasted the
smallest of discipline thereby transform
your life join the 5% join the 10% join
the 3%
guess when I went got this little book
richest man in Babylon the same day I
heard about it I went God someone says
well mr. own does that make you
different than most other people and the
answer’s yes somebody says well why is
that we don’t know we don’t know what do
you know you don’t know I don’t know
none of us knows some do and some don’t
the numbers don’t change only the faces
change from those who get in on a
seminar like this listen to a dynamic
sermon read a book listen to come some
cassettes take seriously the next
conversation of a friend who wants to
level with you and do something about it
and you can walk away from the ninety
seven percent not live there anymore
because if you don’t the next six years
of your life will be like the last six
mr. show said to me mister own six years
now you’ve been working I’m telling you
the next six years your life is gonna be
like the last six unless you take
advantage and start making these
personal changes I made the changes
totally revolutionize my life so take a
look at the next five years of your life
it’s gonna be like the last five unless
and last and last and last you change
and if you will change everything will
change
join the five percent ten years from now
the numbers are going to be the same
I’m telling you some faces in this
audience can change and start showing up
in the three-percent crowd in the 5%
crowd and the 10% crowd and thereby
dynamically affect your life
develop these students now here’s the
last ability develop the ability to
share pass along to someone else if
you’ve picked up a good idea today pass
it along
don’t let it stay pass it along a book
if you could take one of these little
books I’ve suggested home and it affects
you pass along say hey I found the book
really helped me I found a book got me
thinking I found the book changed my
health I found the book got me inspired
pass it alone pass it alone pass it
along here’s what’s exciting about
sherry if you share with ten different
people they get to hear at once you get
to hear at ten times so it’s probably
gonna do more for you now it is for them
but it’s called what everybody wins when
somebody shares
everybody wins share your ideas share
your experiences share your knowledge
you can have just as much pleasure – I
do I said giving this seminar this is
one of my Joy’s in life give a seminar
like this make the best investment I can
of words and spirit and heart and soul
and time energy I don’t have to work
this hard but I gladly work this hard
why I want the return your words touch
my life see that’s heavy weight stuff
you can’t buy it with money but I’m
telling you you can get the same thing
started by recommending a book somebody
will read that book and then they’ll
read another one and they’ll read
another one and they’ll come to you
someday and say you got me started that
book you recommended turned my lights on
turn my mind around got me thinking got
me pondering and I’ve been on track ever
since you can get just as much praise as
I do if you’ll share share with your
children share with your colleagues
share with everybody that comes within
your grasp share now here’s what
cheering does not only helps you helps
the person you share with here’s what
else it does makes you bigger than you
if I had a glass of water up here and it
was full question connect glass hold any
more water if it’s full it’s a glasses
full can it hold any more water the
answer is yes but for it to hold more
you got to pour out what’s already in
that’s what I’m asking you to do if
you’re full of ideas if you’re full of
good things I’m asking you to pour it
out pour it out pour it out why I’m
telling you more will be poured in pour
it in pour it in next when you do pour
out you become bigger it’s not like a
glass that stays the same human beings
have the ability to grow in
consciousness and awareness and capacity
it’s unlimited capacity
I found out kids don’t lack capacity in
Europe the kids speak what two three
four five six languages when I grew up
my father spoke German never taught me
my mother spoke French never taught me
they were trying to get away from all
the old world languages back then had no
concept how valuable languages were
gonna be in the future just didn’t know
so they abandoned the German abandoned
the fridge I could have learned all
my girls went to high school went to
school in the Beverly Hills
they’ve
turn that around in first great now in
Beverly Hills school system they offer
three languages besides English French
why because kids can learn two languages
just as easy question how many languages
can a child learn here’s how many as
many as you’ll take the time to teach
them they do not lack them passively
they only lack two teachers and I’m
telling you the same thing with you you
don’t lack capacity but here’s how you
expand your capacity that is to share
what you’ve got now you get bigger share
some more now you get bigger I’m here
for a very self-interest reason if I
share with you my consciousness grows if
I share with you I get to hear this
again somebody asked me not long ago
that mr. Ahn how are you doing with all
this stuff you get on everybody’s tastes
pretty hard how are you doing with all
this stuff you teach I said well the
best I can share with you is this listen
to me very carefully but don’t watch me
too close
this stuff’s easier to lecture on than
it is to do I understand that I’m
working on it just like you but hey pour
out what you’ve got so that your
capacity grows now why should you want
your capacity to grow very self-interest
reason here it is to hold more of the
next experience you mean to tell me that
sitting in this audience some people get
more out of it than others and the
answer is yes if you haven’t been into
expanding your own capacity lately you
might not get much from this seminar but
if you’ve been into expanding your
capacity you’ve been sharing and you’ve
been doing all this stuff I’m telling
you now tell me what all this could mean
to you today this chance to grow change
develop absorb take in I’m asking you to
expand and grow so you can hold more of
the next experience some people can’t be
very happy you could pour happiness out
on the whole world some people can’t be
very happy why they’re not big enough if
you’re small you don’t get much small
incomprehension small and the ability to
think in wonder
small and appreciation no matter how
much is poured out prosperity can be
poured out on the whole country some
people don’t get much why they’re too
small too small in their thinking
to small in their ability to share have
not expanded to their full capacity
now some people aren’t gonna get much
because they’ve got their cup turned
upside down you couldn’t put anything in
learn to share it’s a glorious glorious
[Music]
okay enough on personal development
let’s cover now setting goals let me
show you something to turn me every way
but loose I’ve never been the same since
I found out about it learning how to set
not long after I met mr. show we’re
having breakfast one morning mr. chef
said Mr on now that we’ve gotten the
clean edge we know each other fairly
well he said maybe the one of the best
ways I can help you he said let me see
your current list of goals let’s go over
I don’t have he said well mr. Owen if
you don’t have a list of your goals he
said I can guess your bank balance
within a few hundred dollars which he
did
and that got my attention I said you
mean my bank balance would change if I
had a list of goals he says drastically
so that day I became a student of
setting goals and I’ve used it to
dynamically affect my life I’ve taught
it to some of my business colleagues we
use it to do business around the world
setting goals it can turn out to be a
drama for your life here’s what goals
are your vision of the future your
vision of the future now there’s two
ways to face the future one with
apprehension
number two
guess how most people face the TV we’re
that prehension why makes a reason why
they don’t have it well design they’ve
left the design of their future to some
body health and if you don’t make plans
of your own guess what you’ll probably
fall into someone else’s plans guess
what someone else may have planned for
you not much you got to make a list of
this not much stuff I’m telling you
people all their lives count on this not
much list if all of your negative
relatives all turn positive what will
that do for your future not much if
prices come down a little what’ll that
do for your future not much if the
economy gets a little better what’ll I
do for your future if circumstances get
a little better what’ll I do not much if
the weather gets a little better over
the next few years that’ll do not much I
mean you can go write down this whole
scenario this most people all their
lives but their fingers crossed count on
this not much list
that’s why 10 years from now they’ll be
driving what they don’t want to drive
living where they don’t want to live
wearing what they don’t want to wear
doing what they don’t want to do having
what they don’t want to have maybe
become what they didn’t want to become
and it all starts by counting on
something that’s not gonna count much
you say well then how can my life
dramatically change you got to count on
yourself and here’s one of the things
you got to count on your ability to
design the future it’s called the
promise and the promise of the future if
you’ll design it well can have an
awesome effect on your life but if you
face the future with apprehension you’ll
take hesitant steps all day uncertain
steps all day and if you take uncertain
steps all day for six years you can
imagine how empty your life can be we’ve
got to help our kids with the promise of
the future now here’s what’s connected
to the promise the price
the price to pay but I’m telling you the
price is easy if the promise is clear
one of the better notes to make for
today the price is easy if the promise
is clear and powerful but the price
seems almost too much to pay too much to
get over too much to accomplish if the
promise isn’t clear if the promise isn’t
powerful
I’m telling you kids will pay the
disciplines if they can see the promise
one of our biggest challenges is parents
and the 90s is to help our kids see the
promise of the future that’s why I’m
teaching financial independence how to
become wealthy and powerful and
sophisticated and healthy unique all of
the stuff kids would hope to Goku it’s
all possible this is America that’s the
promise of the future the price a few
simple disciplines to practice every day
and I’m telling you the kids will pay
the price of the simple disciplines if
they can see the promise of the future
but if they can’t see they don’t
and the same is true of all we will pay
the most extraordinary discipline that
you can see the problems of the future
call setting goals so I’m asking you to
get a handle on the future I’m asking
you not to leave it to anyone else
not don’t leave it to the company
company’s got their own goals I’m asking
you to set your own goals your personal
goals income goals and financial goals
and health goals and spiritual goals and
where do you want to go and what do you
want to do and what do you want to see
and what do you want to be that’s it
promise of the future design your own
future it’s within your hands your capacity to do so