here's something else it's possible you
can live your dream if I can see it I
believe it no no no if you believe it
you can see it
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you might never fail on the scale I did
but some failure in life is inevitable
it is impossible to live without failing
at something unless you live so
cautiously where you might as well not
have lived at all in which case you fail
by default
you've got to be willing to go into
action
don't wait around for things to be just
right don't wait for things to be
perfect don't wait for the ideal
situation it will never be ideal
if they could resist no no it's simple
but it's not easy
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it's possible you can live your dream
it's necessary that you have goals that
you write them down that you surround
yourself with a support team that you
are creative it's you that you must take
their personal responsibility to make it
happen George Bernard Shaw said the
people that make it in this world look
around for the circumstances and they
want and if they can't find them they
create them it's hard no easy is not an
option
however ladies and gentlemen what you
will discover is that it's worth it it's
worth
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you must work on yourself continuously
never be satisfied with yourself always
know that as you invest the effort and
time on you that's the greatest ability
that human beings now above animals said
dog can't be anything but a dog tree
can't be anything but a tree human being
you've got unlimited potential
you can put effort on you and by
concentrating on you and developing you
you can transform your life wherever you
are right now but you got to put a new
mind in you you got to get out of your
mind you got to begin to restructure
your thinking every day you've got to
begin to recondition your mind see many
of us go through life making choices
thinking it's our choices and it's not
you got to die as you are now
you got to be willing to give up who you
are now for what you can't become
certain things will no longer fit into
your life
and so therefore as you look at yourself
you've got to have this vision of
yourself beyond your circumstances
you want to live life with energy and
passion you're gonna get some ideas
you're gonna feel your trip up north and
you're gonna think about something some
idea you had you said I want to go back
and I'm gonna look at that again
kind of creative ideas
so every day you have to sell yourself
and get out of your mind those old
thoughts that old belief system every
day you've got to sell yourself on that
it's possible but you have the feature
to never get that you become a green
keep coming back again and again and
again and then accuse that you got to
take personal responsibility to make it
it's not over until I win no matter how
bad it is I'll bet it gets
I'm going to make it
say that to yourself everyday
the diseases of attitude it's never that
pleasant to talk about the negative but
we got to talk about it because life is
part negative these attitude diseases
are like weeds that grow in the garden
it's a normal part of life here's a good
phrase to note negative is normal it's
not successful but it's normal it's part
of life
and here's the next key in my opinion
you must learn to handle the negative
don't ignore it handle it now I know
some people teach the other way and
listen to them and listen to me and then
make up your own mind right don't be a
follower be a student but I say you got
to handle the negative you don't have to
live in it you don't have to dwell on it
but you do have to handle it my opinion
I know some people teach just turn your
head real quick and say there's no way
just no wait there's no weeds they'll
take your garden so you've got to handle
the negative here's what part of it is
it's called the great war between good
and evil mr. Reynolds and I are working
on a new book this year called the great
war between good and evil and there is a
war on the minute you were born you got
involved in the war between good and
evil between darkness and light between
negative and positive between evil and
good between tyranny and democracy
between weeds and human activity I mean
the war is on if democracy sleeps guess
who never sleeps tyranny in the absence
of light yes what's automatic darkness
if good does not arouse itself and
become active guess what moves in evil
it's a war a mental war a physical war a
financial war between enterprise and
ease between accomplishment and failure
it's a war that's why there's an Old
Testament phrase that gives the best
advice for human activity when it says
six days labor one day
now I'm sure we've taken that to mean
don't work all seven days take one off
here's what it also means only take one
Oh or you're liable to lose the war now
we've got it down to five and two and
maybe that's not too dangerous I don't
know if God would have thought of five
him - he might have made it five in - I
don't know you can't think of everything
but here's what it does mean enterprise
is better than ease if you rest too long
the jungle overtakes the village now
here's the good news about the war
between good and evil evil is no match
for good but good must be active weeds
are no match for human activity but if
you stand still how far in will they
come all the way they'll grow right up
around your shoes but if you get busy
how far back can you take them
as far as you wish they're no match but
you must be active that's why the six
and one make sure you're not losing the
war by taking off to guess what the
average years are after retirement six
six
which means don't retire your chances
are too
okay the war between good and evil the
weeds you got to make sure you recognize
the negative handle it deal with it and
then go on let's make a list of the
diseases of attitude that can wreck all
your chances to do well one of the words
that destroys everything is called
neglect neglect
and I found this out a week of neglect
could cost you a year of repair it isn't
worth it so what to be on the lookout
for here's the list if you were making
it you'd have the same list I've got
right we're not covering anything new
tonight this is a reminding session not
a teaching session but it doesn't hurt
to go over it again here's the list
attitude diseases number one is
indifference the shrug of the shoulders
the guy's not even concerned he's just
drifting this is called the mild
approach to life a disease known as
mildness the guy says well I can't see
getting all that worked up well to be
any kind of winner you've got to get
worked up there's one problem with drift
you cannot drift to the top of the
mountain and the good Lord said in the
closing chapters of the Bible here's the
best way to live one way or the other
that's best hot or what's next best cold
is next best the heart not the
half-baked middle lukewarm not too hot
not too cold what a sad way to live I
think what it means is pick a direction
and go with everything you've got just
pick one and go somebody says yeah but
what if it's the wrong direction you'll
find out quicker
it won't take you 25 years to wake up
and say oh no I've been walking the
wrong road I told my staff the other day
next best of prosperity is adversity if
one doesn't get you pray for the other
we all do better from one of two reasons
inspiration or desperation and I don't
wish anything bad on you tonight but if
you're not inspired I hope a wagon comes
down your rut
whatever it takes to get you to try
harder
read more set your goals and go for it
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somebody asked me one time what quality
would I pick if I wanted to work with
somebody and you know what I picked
first number one strong feeling please
number one give me somebody that feels
strong about most anything I don't even
care just so they believe it even if
they disagree with me
wonderful just so they disagree
vigorously I'm not saying it's easy to
win those kind of people to your point
of view but I'd rather do that than to
try to resurrect people from the dead
pump them up every month pump Amara pump
them up I pass
the good Lord needs a leader for the
early Christians remember the early days
of the Christians not like today if you
were to stand up in the early days and
say I'm a Christian cut off your head
toss you and your wife in jail let you
rot I mean those were ugly days being a
Christian back then was not called
socially acceptable they didn't have a
hundred and twenty five thousand in the
Los Angeles Coliseum to hear Billy
Graham on a Sunday afternoon not back in
those days back in those days when the
Christians got in the Coliseum there was
a different story
I mean the word was stay out of the
Coliseum especially on Sunday last
Sunday was Lions 33 Christians nothing
see those were mean tough struggle days
for the Christians now when the days are
mean and tough and struggling you got to
have some kind of leader do you know who
the good Lord picked for the leader when
the days were mean and ugly Saul from
Tarsus that's who he picked Saul I'll
tell you what I would have picked him
you would have picked him anybody would
have picked Saul Saul was one of those
incredible guys once he got into
something look out everybody in the
community knew what Saul was in because
whatever he joined you flipped all the
switches open up all the dials turn on
all the faucets and go like mad he was
known as all-out Saul I mean he was
something else now at first it wasn't
working out well Saul hated Christians
which makes a poor leader right I mean
that won't work
Saul got this bug somewhere about the
Christians he got to hate in Christians
and he hated him so bad every time
somebody would say Christian he'd fly
into a rage and I guess he decided one
life who are one day it was his mission
in life to get rid of all the Christians
he was Saul anyhow could do most
anything he wanted to so he got in these
letters of authority to go around to the
various communities and hunt down the
Christians they said do whatever you
want to with them Saul there unpopular
drag him in the streets whippin Stoneham
torture kill him you mentioned the name
Saul from Tarsus to the early Christians
I'll tell you what they would do they
would burn hide lock the doors leave
town dive underground I've been in the
catacombs of Rome where they hid he was
me I mean terribly mean but remember the
story one day Saul's making the fir
Damascus heard about some new Christians
flies into a rage takes off for Damascus
and the story said he was angry there's
a little sentence in the story that says
on his way to Damascus he was breathing
out threatenings and slaughter which
meant he felt rather strong about the
idea right that's strong that's strong
but on this journey right according to
the story as Saul was making his way to
Damascus the good Lord looks down out of
heaven and says there's my man Saul he's
got to be something else and according
to the story this great light shines out
of heaven Knox seemed flat right off his
horse grinds his face in the dirt and
blinds him for three days
the good Lord using recruiting tools we
can't use this when your lord right
to make a long story short solved from
Tarsus becomes converted to Christianity
he becomes Paul the great leader the
Apostle and without a doubt the good
Lord got him a dandy one he didn't have
to pump up every morning in one of his
later writings he said the things I once
hated I now love the things I once loved
I now hate see that strong here's the
key to the good life learn to put
everything you've got into everything
you do whatever you are doing pull it on
it will quickly open up into opportunity
or quickly that's disclosed to you that
you ought to be doing something else the
delusion is if I had a better job I'd
really pour it on see that's a delusion
wherever you are pour it on don't give
somebody half a job for a day's pay
pour it on see that'll help change your
life get rid of this disease here's the
next attitude disease indecision mental
paralysis the guy can't make up his mind
and it becomes a disease pretty soon he
knows he's got it the guy says well I
know I'm on the fence but he says what
if I get off on the wrong side listen
after a while it doesn't matter just get
Oh any side will do a life full of
adventure is a life full of many
decisions the ones that turn out to be
wrong give you better experience to make
better decisions so don't see how many
decisions you can get out of see how
many you can get into that's where the
adventure is so shake off this disease
indecision the next one is doubt doubts
like a plague and one of the worst is
self-doubt there are many but that's one
of the words the guide doubts himself
doubts if it'll last that long for him
doubts if he can do that well doubts if
he can make that much doubts if he can
accomplish all that a chronic excellent
self doubter you can imagine what damage
that does to your future so here's the
key turn this coin over and become a
believer and there's many things to
believe in one of the majors is yourself
the understanding of self-worth is the
beginning of progress now those three
don't get you this one will worry
that's a devastating disease worry worry
causes health problems social problems
personal problems family problems it's
devastating worry long enough it'll drop
you to your knees could reduce it to
begging I know how bad this one is I
used to have it bad I used to be known
as a super warrior not a super warrior
no super warrior my family wished I'd
have been a warrior I got those years to
make up for but I'll tell you what my
advice to you is do what I finally did
on worry
give it up who needs it
I'm not saying it's easy I'm saying it's
worth it took me almost one year to kick
the worried habit and it was not an easy
year it was one of the toughest years I
ever spent but I finally got that monkey
off my back
and I discovered you could live the most
incredible life free of work not free of
challenge not free of difficulty free of
worry I learned how to do it and you can
here's the next attitude disease over
caution
some people never will have much they're
too cautious now you can also be too
reckless but you can also be too
cautious this is called the timid
approach to life and my caution was
always the risk risk used to drive me
right up the wall
I used to say what if this happens it's
called the language of the poor what if
this happens and on top of that if this
was to happen look at the fix I be and I
better not try
I could always ace my self out then I'll
tell you what changed my whole life when
I finally discovered it's all risky the
minute you were born it got risky if you
think trying is risky wait till they
hand you the bill for not trying if you
think investing is risky wait till you
get the tab for not investing see it's
all risky get married is risky having
children is risky going into business is
risky investing your money is risky it's
all risky
I'll tell you how risky life is you're
not gonna get out alive
that's risky the Englishman says well if
that's the way it's gonna work out let's
give it a go right that's what it's for
give it a go somebody says yeah but I'm
looking for safety and security
fine then huddle in a corner who will
cover you with a sheet bring you three
meals a day and we'll protect you
feed you look after you care for you
we won't let anything happen to you and
you'll probably live to be 100 the guy
said well yeah I'd live to be 100
but what a way to live right what a way
to live safe and secure don't ask for
security ask for adventure better to
live 30 years full of adventure than 100
years safe in the cornered and sea it's
not important how long you live what's
important is how you
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here's the next attitude disease we're
almost through with this monthly list in
fact we're almost through hang on the
next one is pessimism
pessimism the deadly disease of always
looking on the bad side the problem side
the difficult side checking all the
reason so I can't be done the poor
pessimist leads an ugly life he doesn't
try to figure out what's right he tries
to figure out what's wrong he doesn't
look for virtue he looks for faults and
when he finds him he's delighted how
this is the poor guy looks through the
window doesn't see the sunset he sees
the specks on the wind
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and this is the poor guy right who
rushes up take such leave of his senses
this guy rushes up and he says I've got
5 good reasons why it won't work he's so
dumb he doesn't know all he needs one
he's got 5 - the pessimist the glass is
always half-empty - the optimist the
glasses half-full
why would the same measure affect people
to different ways answer it all depends
on how you look at it
our lives are mostly affected by the way
we think things are not the way they are
the way we think they are affects us
most there's a subject we don't have
time to get into tonight called better
thinking habits one of the major things
shall taught me when I met him he said
poor thinking habits keeps most people
poor not poor working habits most people
work hard but they don't think hard and
show taught me that the mind is like a
factory a mental Factory and whatever
you think about all day long pours
ingredients into this mental Factory and
that's what builds the economic social
financial fabric of your life he quoted
me a Bible phrase that says as you think
so you'd become how awesome
when he talked about poor thinking
habits he had me I used to start the day
reading the morning newspaper I mean you
can leave that or not I'd get a cup of
coffee and read the paper I'd load up on
Wars and riots and murders and stabbings
and killings and bank robberies and
muggings and car wrecks and tragedies
I'd even read the back pages I seem to
like that stuff for some weird reason
I'd load up on all that and then I start
the day you can imagine the kind of days
I used to have you walk around on your
financial knees they call you economic
peewee the guy says I want to be a great
leader wonderful the first thing we do
is following to his house when we get
there we walk in and check his library
number one somebody says well why check
his library the reason is because what a
man reads pours massive ingredients into
his mental factory and the fabric of his
life is built from those ingredients you
would not believe what some people have
got in their house to read you would not
believe one of the best-dressed reports
I know for a lot of it is trash can you
imagine dumping a bale of trash into
this mental factory every day and coming
out with a rich dynamic positive life it
can't be done you might as well try
making a cake with cement
the kids back in Danbury Connecticut
high school they're asking me questions
one day I'm talking to the kids kids got
good questions these days one of them
said to me mr. Owen how do you build the
good life I said it's simple it's not
easy but it's simple here's how you
build anything select the right
ingredients keep out the wrong
ingredients and it starts with thought
everything starts with thought so you
must be wise and careful what you think
about because that starts everything you
gotta be wise and careful I asked the
kids what would happen if somebody
dropped sugar in my coffee they said
well you'd be okay I said what if
somebody dropped strychnine in my coffee
they said well you'd be dead
I said correct lesson 1 life is both
sugar and strychnine you gotta be
careful I said what if my worst enemy
drops in the sugar they said will you be
okay I said what if my best friend even
by accident drops in the strychnine they
said well you'd be dead I said correct
lesson to watch your car
you got to be careful see it doesn't
matter who hands you the bad stuff it
doesn't matter who you get the bad stuff
it'll still do its damage on your bank
account wherever you get it
mr. shelf gave me one of the greatest
phrases when I first met him when he
said gym every day stand guard at the
door of your mind how important stand
guard at the door of your mind and you
decide what goes into your mental
factory don't let anybody just dump
anything they want to in your mental
factory because you've got to live with
the results okay here's the last disease
and we're through with this list
in fact we're almost through hang on the
last subject is very brief the last
disease but this one is deadly engage in
this one indulge in it even slightly and
you might as well forget the future
because it's gonna forget you
complaining
crying crying griping a Bible word
called murmuring see that will ace your
future spend five minutes complaining
and you have wasted five and you may
have begun what's known as economic
cancer of the bone surely they will soon
haul you off into a financial desert and
there let you choke on the dust of your
own regret I hope I said that well so
you won't forget it's a deadly disease
if you don't think it's bad ask the
children of Israel of Old Testament fame
typical of us all their story just
happened to get in the book story says
children of Israel were slaves God
performed a series of dazzling miracles
and got him out and now they're heading
for the promised land
remember the story heading for the
Promised Land tragedy of the story they
never got their reason from day one they
started to complain they griped about
the water they griped about the weather
they whined and cried and griped about
the food they griped about the
leadership they've whined and cried
because it was too far too cold too hot
too difficult too miserable I mean they
widened wined and cried for years
finally God said I've had it canceled or
something like that the story says they
died in the desert never got to the
promised land which I think means two
things
indulge in this long enough you get your
future canceled and I guess it also
means even God Himself can only take so
much
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