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here's the big challenge of life you can have more than you've got because you can become more than you are

that's the challenge and of course the other side of the coin reads unless you change how you are

you'll always have what you got I have found in my experience that income does not far exceed personal

development now sometimes income takes a lucky jump but sure enough unless you grow out

where it is it'll usually come back where you are life has strange ways if somebody hands you a million dollars

best you become a millionaire quickly so you get to keep the money otherwise sure enough it'll disappear

somebody once said if you took all the money in the world divided it up equally among everybody it would soon all be

back in the same pockets incredible success is something you attract not

something you pursue success is looking for a good place to stay

so instead of going after it you work on yourself personal development see the major question to ask on the job

is not what are you getting the major question to ask on the job is what are you becoming

so the big question is not what am I getting paid here the big question is what am I becoming

here because true happiness is not contained in what you get happiness is contained

and what you become so that's our major subject for tonight personal development of all the

assignments Mr shelf gave me at age 25 this was probably the most difficult in fact I'm still working on this one I

think it's an unending challenge to see what you can become the next subject is called basic laws

and it's good to study the basics and I call these Basics primarily because they come from the Bible

now I'm not a theologian or a minister and that'll be apparent but Mr shelf taught me that the Bible

was a good textbook for ideas and stories and success equations how to live the better life I

found out that was true he also taught me that the Bible is as practical as it is spiritual and I found

out that's true if you look at your bank account and your income and you're not happy there's

several places in the Bible to check to see what the heck's wrong so you can make the changes and we're going to

cover some of those tonight called basics okay the next subject is my favorite

setting goals the Shelf taught me how to set goals what a favor that was

one morning at breakfast shortly after I met him he said Jim let me see your current list

of goals and let's go over them and talk about him he said maybe that's the best way I can help you get a better

Direction started and I said I don't have a list

he said well is it out in the car or home somewhere I said no sir I don't have a list

anywhere he said well young man that's where we got to start

he said I can tell you right now if you don't have a list of your goals with you 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 said drastically

that day I became a willing student how to set goals and sure enough learning how to set

goals changed my life and I often wondered why no one had ever taught me how to set goals up until age 25.

I went to high school but if they offered it I missed it I went to college for a year never heard

it I work for Sears really and to my knowledge Sears never

taught it right how to set goals so here I am age 25 married my family starting I've been to college I'm working and I

still don't know how to set goals but fortunately when I was 25 I met the man who taught me how and it revolutionized

my whole life economically socially personally it's incredible so I want to share with you

tonight what Mr shove shared with me how to set goals it can be a life changer okay

the next subject is the negative part of the seminar life is part negative so we got to talk

about the negative and this subject is called diseases of

attitude diseases of attitude there's a lot of things that can wreck

your chances to do well we live in a rather dangerous world so you got to be not only wise you've got to be careful

now attitude diseases are just as bad as physical diseases right high blood pressure heart trouble I mean a lot of

things lace your chances to do well so you've got to be careful and attitude diseases are deadly I mean they'll

destroy all the good things you start okay so we'll go through those attitude diseases how to spot them how to look

for them what they are and and the Cure and I'm a pro on these because I've had them all so I can give you excellent

advice on these now the last subject we're going to consider tonight is called

the day that turns your life around the day that turns your life around and under this subject we're going to

talk about the emotions that can change your life human beings are emotional creatures

and emotions are powerful for life change now of course emotions are so powerful

they can go either way on you emotions can either build or destroy so you really have to employ emotions

properly we call civilization the intelligent management of human emotions if you can intelligently apply your

emotions in the right direction no telling what can happen could turn your life around one day would be sufficient

so we'll talk about those okay now that's a lot to cover in one evening but we'll keep at it here

and see if we can't get it all done I'd like to have you now jot down the theme of the seminar

every seminar should have a theme I guess we've got one it's on some of our literature if you

happen to notice it but if you didn't for your notes here it is the theme of the seminar

goes like this the major key to your better future

[Music] is you

that's the theme of our seminar tonight the major key to your better future is you and I'd like to have you underline

two words just to give it some added punch underline the word major and the word you

so that it reads the major key to your better future is you now my first suggestion is

transfer this to a card or something where you can put it up where you can see it every day

preferably put it up where you can see it at the beginning of the day before you go off to put the day together this

is a good phrase just to glance at to keep in mind as you're putting the day together it's called The Silent seminar

if you'll just let this talk to you during the day I found it to be tremendously helpful the major key to

your better future is you for a big share of my life now I didn't have uh

this one quite figured out among a lot of things I didn't have quite figured out

many things used to puzzle me back in those early days I used to wonder why two people could

work for the same company one make twice as much money now see that used to puzzle me and maybe

they were the same age graduated from the same school live in the same Community work for the same company with

the same products and the same services they've got the same traffic the same problems

and one makes a thousand a month the other one makes two thousand a month now that was my puzzling question why

would this long list be the same and the money twice as much I asked what's the difference between a

thousand a month and two thousand a month and I don't mean a thousand a month

right I can figure that out but what what makes the difference why would one person do twice as well three

times as well speaking economically now I know there's more than one way to do well I

understand that but in this little narrow area called compensation what's the difference

well back then with my faulty thinking I'm trying to reason it out I thought well maybe time makes some of

the difference right some people do better because they have more time I used to say Harold ought to be able to

do well he's got a lot of time if I had all of Harold's time I could do well

now that's got to be dumb right number one you can't get somebody else's time

a guy says to me one time he says you know if I had some extra time I could make some extra money I said then forget

it there isn't any extra time hey when the clock strikes 12 midnight that about wraps it up right I mean you

can look around the gongs there for a little more but it's over you say to the guy what are you doing he

said I'm looking for extra time see they'll come and take you away right there isn't any more time

now if you can't get more time which you can't what could you get more of that would make a difference in economic

results and here's the key word make it a part of your notes we're going to consider it tonight the word is value

and I have a little phrase for your notes value makes the difference in results

value makes the difference you can't get more time but you can create more value

now here's the first lesson of Economics everybody should learn it from the time they're old enough to understand what a

dollar means how to earn one how to get one how to keep one what to do with it first lesson of Economics we primarily

get paid for value that's lesson one bringing value to the marketplace that's

how you get paid you don't get paid for the time I know it takes time to bring value to the

marketplace but you get paid for the value not the time now since that's true here's one of the

key questions of the evening is it possible to become twice as valuable

at the marketplace and make twice as much money in the same time could you become three times as valuable

make three times as much money in the same time is that possible the answer is yes if

and it's always if right life is known as the big if Harry Truman once said life is iffy

how true and here's the big gift we're going to consider it tonight it's possible to do

much better at the marketplace if you go to work primarily on yourself and that's the theme of our seminar

tonight learning to work primarily on yourself people have asked me for the last 24

years how do you develop an above average income and the answer is become an above average person

develop an above average handshake some people want to be successful they don't even work on their handshake as easy as

that would be to start on they let it slide they don't understand develop an above average smile develop

an above average excitement develop an above average interest in other people develop an above average intensity to

win see that'll change everything probably one of the most frustrating experiences in life is looking for an

above average job with above average pay without becoming an above average person it's called frustration

and Mr shelf gave me probably the greatest clue he gave me when I first met him he said Jim if you want to be

wealthy and happy the rest of your life just learn this lesson well he said

learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job then Mr shelf gave me probably

one of the most important Clues among so many things he taught me but this was in those early days

Mr shelf is very kind but he was also very abrupt and he had these interesting questions

to ask I'm giving him a little run day rundown one day on how things hadn't worked out

for me he said Mr Owen I've got the answer for you if you will listen carefully

and listen carefully I did that day and for the next five years if somebody's wealthy and happy you've

gotta listen he said Jim I've only known you a short time

but he said it's already my honest opinion that for things to change for you

you've got to change that wasn't quite the answer I was looking for

but that's the answer he gave me and I pass it along to you on this warm summer evening in Anaheim California

1981 four things to change for you you've got to change

otherwise it isn't going to change before I met Mr shelf I used to say I sure hope things will change

right that seemed to be my only hope if it isn't going to change I'm in serious trouble and then I discovered it

isn't going to change so I'm in serious trouble [Music]

see I can tell you what the 80s are going to be like you have dropped into the right place

I did a seminar one time for Standard Oil Executives and management in Honolulu

and we're having a conference one day on this big conference table and one of them said to me Mr Roan you know some

fairly important people halfway around the world what do you think the 80s are going to be like

I said gentlemen I do know the right people I can tell you

so they all listen very carefully and I said gentlemen based on my wide experience I can really honestly say to

you in my opinion in the 80s it's going to be about like it's always been aren't you glad you came that's inside I

don't pass that around just everywhere now of course I said that to make a point but I also said it because it's

accurate it's going to be about like it's always been it isn't going to change

the tide comes in and then what it goes out for six and a half thousand years that we know of recorded history

and probably long before that so it is not gonna change it gets light and then what

it turns dark six and a half thousand years see it's not likely to change and we're not to be startled by that

and if the sun goes down the guy says what's happening what's happened it means he hasn't been here long I guess

right it always goes down about this time the guy says well I don't like that

Arrangement well you got to talk to somebody besides me right it gets light then it turns dark

in rotation the next season after fall is what winter pray tell how often does winter

follow fall every year regularly for the last six and a half thousand that we know of see

it is not going to change now some Winters are long and some are short and some are hard and some are

easy but they always come right after Falls it isn't Gonna Change sometimes you can figure it out

sometimes there's no way to figure it out sometimes it goes well sometimes it gets

in a knot sometimes it sails along sometimes it gets in Reverse see that's not going to

change the last six thousand years reads like this opportunity mixed with difficulty

that's how it reads it isn't going to change the man says well if it isn't going to

change how will my life ever change answer when you change and whether I'm talking to high school

kids or business Executives my message is always the same and it goes like this the only way it gets better for you is

when you get better let me give you the four major lessons in life to learn here's four majors

it's good to study the majors in our weekend seminar we teach some people don't do well because they major

in minor things you've got to be on the lookout at the end of every weekend of every month you

got to check make sure you're not spending major time on minor things we go through that whole series majors and

minors yeah now let me give you two phrases before

we get to the four majors this will set it up and you'll see where I'm going two key phrases for your notes

here's the first one life and business is life the changing seasons

that's the first phrase life and business is like the changing seasons one of the best ways to describe life

it's like the seasons Frank Sinatra sings Life is Like the seasons

now here's the second phrase very important you cannot change the seasons but you can change yourself

you can't change the seasons but you can change yourself and see that's how life gets better for

you not by chance but by change now here's the four major lessons in

life to learn I've got my first book finished came out a couple of weeks ago this is in it the

four major lessons in life to learn here they are number one learn how to handle the winters

that's lesson one they come right after Falls with

regularity Summer Long and some are short and some are hard and some are easy but they keep

coming you must learn to handle the knights they come right after days you must

learn to handle difficulty it comes right after opportunity you must learn to handle recessions they

always follow progressions for the last six thousand see it isn't going to change the lesson

you must learn is how to handle it and there's all kinds of winters right the winter when you can't figure it out

the winter when it all goes smash the winter when it turns Belly Up the winter when it won't work when

you've run out of money and you've got a broken heart see those are winter times there's all kinds economic Winters

social Winters personal Winters when your heart is smashed in a thousand pieces and the nights are unusually long

your prayers seem to go no higher than your head it's winter time Barbra Streisand sings

it used to be so natural to talk about forever but used to bees don't count anymore

they just lay on the floor until we sweep them away you don't sing me love songs and you

don't say you need me and you don't bring me flowers anymore a song of winter

but see the disappointments Come Those are normal that's part of life but the question is how do you handle it

how do you handle the coming Winters and the disappointments and the down times well

you can't get rid of January by tearing it off the calendar but here's what you can do you can get

stronger you can get wiser and you can get better the winters won't change but you can

and that's how life changes for you see before I understood when it was Winter I used to wish it was summer

I didn't understand when it was hard I used to wish it was easy I didn't know and then Mr shelf

gave me a part of his very unique philosophy when he said don't wish it was easier wish you were

better see that triggered my whole life change don't wish for Less Problems wish for

more skills don't wish for Less challenge wish for more wisdom

that's the key so that's lesson one learn how to handle the winters

here's lesson two learn how to take advantage of the spring

that's the second one spring is called opportunity and spring follows winter what a great

place for it if you were going to put it somewhere that'd be the place to put it right after winter

and pray tell how often does spring follow winter every year with regularity six thousand

you can almost count on it see opportunity always comes days follow nights isn't that terrific

opportunity follows difficulty but here's what you must learn to do underline these two words in that key

phrase take advantage underline those two you must learn to take advantage of the

spring see just because spring rolls around is no sign you're going to look good come

fall you gotta do something with it in fact you have to get good at one of two things in life planting in the

spring or begging in the fall or get somebody to do it for you see those are about the only alternatives

now here's what else you must do take advantage of the Springs quickly because there's only a few just a handful of

Springs have been handed to each of us they don't come forever life is fairly brief so you got to read every book you

can get your hands on and what to do with your Springs while they're here and take advantage they soon run out

The Beatles wrote life is so short and for John Lennon it was extra short but life is brief Elton John sings She

lived her life like a Candle in the Wind it's brief so whatever you're going to do with your

life you got to get at it don't just let the Springs pass pass here's the third major lesson in life to

learn how to protect your crops all summer you got to take care of what you start

sure enough as soon as you've planted your garden in the spring the busy bugs and the noxious weeds are

out to take it and here's the next bit of Truth they will take it

unless you prevent it and that's the third major skill to learn you've got to learn to prevent the

Intruder from taking all the good you start it's one of the challenges

here's two key phrases on the number three first one

all good will be attacked on this planet maybe not the next one we get to but on this one all good will be

attacked every Garden will be invaded not to think so is naive

and here's the second phrase all values must be defended political values social values Community

Values Family Values marriage values friendship values business values every Garden must be tended all summer

third major lesson now here's number four fourth major lesson in life to learn

learn how to reap in the fall without complaint learn the reap come Harvest Time

without complaint take full responsibility for what happens to you

it's one of the highest forms of human maturity accepting full responsibility it's the day you know you've passed from

childhood to adulthood the day you accept full responsibility in another note learn to reap in the

fall without apology without apology if you do well and without complaint if you don't

that's maturity I used to have that long list of reasons why I wasn't doing well

to explain you got to explain right otherwise you're going to look bad

I used to have this funny list called reasons for not looking good I used to blame the government

I mean you can believe that or not it was at the top of my list I had a lecture Second To None the government

that was on my list I used to blame taxes look what you got left after they take everything

and they expect you to do well that was on my list there prices that one's easy right you walk

into the supermarket with twenty dollars come out with a little half bag so I had that on my list I used to blame

the weather I blame the traffic I used to blame my car

I blame the manufacturers I used to blame the company I blamed company policy

I used to blame the training program I blame my negative relatives they were always putting me down

I blame my cynical neighbors they're just selfish looking out for themselves won't loan you money they were on my

list oh I used to blame the economy

I blame the community that's a pretty good list for not doing well isn't it I thought it was good

I'll never forget one day Mr shelf is very kind but he was also very blunt

and this was no exception and I'm glad he was blunt there's a lot of things I'd have missed if he hadn't been blunt

one day was sort of a curious look on his face he said Jim just out of curiosity tell me how come you haven't

done well up until now excellent question I thought well so I won't look too bad

I'll go through my list and this list I just gave you I put that on him

and he was very patient he let me go through the whole thing the government the weather I went through this whole

thing when I finished he looked my list over very carefully he said Mr own big

problem with your list you ain't on it how brilliant when I went to work for him a few months

later I learned very quickly to tear up my list reasons for not doing well and I threw it away and I got me a fresh piece

of paper and I put one word on it me foreign

there's a black Heritage spiritual that says it's not my mother nor my father nor my brother Norma sister but it's me

O Lord standing in the need of prayer see I used to blame everything outside and then let me give you a little

philosophy that helped turn my life around for your notes here it is

it's not what happens

that determines the quality or the quantity of your life it's not what happens

and the reason is because what happens happens to about everybody no different the sun went down on all of us last

night a common event a happening and I found out that the same things can

happen to two different people one gets rich and one stays poor why is that it's because it's not what happens but

rather it's what you do that changes everything

so that's a key phrase It's not what happens it's what you do what happens is about the same you might

put that in parenthesis here same what people do that's what's different anything can happen right everything can

happen I've heard all the stories I've been one of the stories hey we could all tell stories all night

long right happenings Anything Can Happen have you heard of Murphy's laws anybody here heard of

Murphy's laws okay most of you have Murph had these laws one of them was if anything can go wrong

it will that's one of Murphy's laws he was not one of the great positive

speakers of the day but anyway it's still true though right anything can go wrong everything can go wrong for sure

I've fallen out of the sky so many times once to the tune of a couple of million devastating took me a while to survive

that one now it wasn't all that much but it was all I had right I mean that's when it's

much right when it's all you got if you got three to go you got one left you ain't looking that bad but when it

all goes has anybody been there when it all went anybody come on Rescue Liars

hey we've all been there right when it all went of course it used to be a long time ago

right when you ran out of money got to zero you were all through heck now you can whistle right on by zero right

they will bury you that's what they will do but see those are the happenings right

everything can happen anything can happen but it's not the happenings it's what

you do about it somebody says yeah but you don't understand the disappointments I've had

come on everybody's had their share disappointments are not special gifts

reserved for the poor everybody has them the difference is what you do about them

it's not the weather I used to blame the weather and I discovered it rains on the rich

so see that won't help two men wake up one morning there's a rainstorm on one of them looks at his

window sees the rainstorm and he says wow what a storm with weather like this they can't expect you to go out and make

sales he stays home same morning the other guy looks out his window sees the same storm says wow what

a storm but he says you know what with weather like this what a great day to go out and

make sales most everybody will probably be home especially the salesman

see that's the difference in how your life works out it's not what happens it's what you do so here's one of the

key questions of the evening starting tomorrow what are you going to do that'll make a change in your life's

Direction good question what are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a

difference now see if you don't do something starting tomorrow that'll make a

difference guess what it's gonna be the same and see that way you can guess what the

next five years are going to be like look at the last five because the next five are going to be

like the last five or less you major key tomorrow change it all or change a little or change something

or don't change it's Choice time you can do whatever you want but it's nice to know any day you wish

you can change your whole life what can you do starting to Fritz

good question what can you do with economic chaos massive disappointment

what can you do with a broken heart what can you do and it won't work good question

so if I had a word with you tonight one on one just you and me

I think my personal advice to you would be this year 1981 reached down inside of

you and come up with some more of those remarkable human gifts

they're there waiting to be utilized and then change anything for you you want to change

and I challenge you to do that because you can change if you don't like how it is for you

change it if it doesn't suit you change it if it doesn't please you change it if it isn't enough change it and I

challenge you to do that because you can change see you don't ever have to be the same again after tonight only by choice

if you don't like your present address change it you're not a tree [Music]

now let me give you three steps to personal development let's get down to the nitty-gritty what does it take to

really make the changes starting tomorrow it takes more than philosophical

pronouncement I know that it also takes more than enthusiasm I know we're hearing a lot about

enthusiasm these days but see that just won't do the job we're still here on the old cliches of

the 30s right to be enthusiastic you must act enthusiastic see that's not going to help after you

have leaped about there are some things you got to do or it isn't going to change

[Music] see you can get all excited about lifting 200 pounds till you get to the

gym and then you need a new excitement and the new excitement is called

discipline major step to human progress discipline [Music]

if there's one thing to get excited over that's it get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things

did you make yourself do starting tomorrow that would change it all no telling

now see that's exciting on any given day you can massively change the direction of your life

murder is a clear example that any one person on any given day can forever alter the course of their life it just

happens to be a negative act but just as sure as you can commit a negative act you can also commit a

positive act and forever alter your life whenever you wish now that's exciting and whatever that act might be that

changes your life the guy finally takes a shotgun to his car

and blows out every window destroys every Tire puts a hundred rounds in this shabby old thing and he says I have

driven this embarrassing thing for the last time and not only will I never drive it again

nobody else will ever drive it again foreign and he lets that shuddering thing stand

there for a while as a monument to the day he said today my life changes now who can do that anybody when can you do

it whatever day you pick [Music] up

now here's the key to discipline start with the little disciplines get excited over the little disciplines

and get right on those because those will lead to the big ones you can't handle the big challenges in life unless

you take on the little ones make a list of all the things you can do get right on those discipline yourself for those

both for the results and for the muscle and for the practice so when life hands you some big challenges you'll be ready

you'll have the muscle but see if you don't handle the small ones

you can't take care of the big ones okay here's what else it takes for life change self-motivation

key phrase self-motivation I don't know why we call it self-motivation it's really the only

kind there is you've got to motivate yourself because I found out you can't change

people they can change themselves but you can't change them Lord know some I've tried

but see it won't work people have to change themselves I learned some of those lessons early I

built a little sales organization way back in those early days I'm 25. and I had some nice people

I said I'm going to make these people successful if it kills me I almost died I mean you can't do that

see I've discovered this good people are not trained they're found you find good people you don't make them

good you find them good training really is for the purpose of finding good people you don't need much

instruction for a good person but too much training probably means you got the wrong peep

so you got to find the right people that's the key to getting a good job done one of the major things we learn in

management management lesson one don't send your ducks to Eagle School [Laughter]

[Music] because it won't help I mean I'm telling you it won't help no matter how good

your school is and the little Eagle badge and little Eagle hat I'm telling you it won't help

it won't help you can tell whether your school's done any good right is when it's over right

the duck goes for his first rabbit and makes him a friend you say no no no no no

anyway so it takes self-motivation to really alter your life

and you don't want to give self-motivation away to somebody else and make it somebody else motivating you

the guy says boy if somebody just come by and turn me on what if they don't show up right see you got to have a

better plan for your life okay now if you're excited and you're ready to change let me give

you three steps to start life change that can change your life your personality your lifestyle everything

can change here's the steps number one find out how

things work the first key to doing better is find

out to change your life really you need ideas there isn't anything an idea can't

change and shelf taught me the major problem is lack of an idea not a problem

at first I didn't have any money I said to Mr shelf I don't have any money he said that's not a problem now see up

until then I always thought it was right I was confused he said no no the problem is lack of an

idea on how to create money and wealth it isn't lack of money it's lack of ideas so if you get the idea so you can

change anything now to get ideas you need a constant study of finding out now shof also said when you find out

something that works put the information in your Journal don't use your head for a filing cabinet

put it in your Journal so that you can do the next best thing repetition repetition repetition go over it

and if you repeat it go over it sure enough someday some mysterious day the idea takes Roots starts to grow and

shows up in your bank account and your dress and your personality and your lifestyle

but capture the ideas in your Journal find out how things work shelf gave me this word for my life

change he said study great word if you wish to be successful study

success if you wish to be happy study happiness if you wish to be wealthy study wealth

don't leave it to chance make it a study some people just go through the day with

their fingers crossed see that won't do it you've got to study the things that can

change your economic social spiritual personal life now here's a qualifying phrase and we'll

have several of these qualifying phrases throughout the seminar here's the first one you may not be able

to do all you find out I understand that you may not be able to do all you find out but you should find

out all you can do see you don't want to wind up at the end of your life and discover that you've

lived only one tenth of it and the other nine tenths went down the drain

not for lack of opportunity for lack of information so that's number one find out how things

work now here's the best human virtue for finding out curiosity make a note of

that Curiosity be curious you might add a word to it that'll help childish curiosity

what will kids do if they want to know something bad enough bug you that's the phrase

they can ask a thousand questions you think they're through they got another thousand they'll drive you to the brink

it's a virtue when you gotta know be like a child

in fact Jesus the master teacher said unless you can become like little children you might as well forget it you

don't have a prayer excellent advice you got to be like children four ways in my opinion to be like a child number one is

curiosity number two is excitement get excited like a child over your ability to make yourself do anything for change

third is Faith have faith like a child adults are too skeptical and fourth is Trust

trust is a childish virtue but the rewards are incredible so be like a child

now if you're curious let me give you three ways to find out how to change anything

[Music] any life Direction any Dimension here's three ways to find out how to change

anything number one is to read become a good reader

all of the successful people I know and work with around the world they're all good readers

curiosity drives them to read they gotta know they just read read read read read read

become a good reader now that's my opinion listen to the other lecturers and listen to me and

make up your own mind don't be a follower be a student okay I say really for life change you

gotta read one way to learn is from your own experiences but another way to learn is

from other people's experiences see one book might save you five years if you read it

did you know there's books on how to be stronger more decisive be a speaker be a leader have a better effect on other

people develop your personality did you know there's books on that and people don't read them

how would you explain that and they can read did you know that hundreds of successful

people have written their stories in books and they wrote down how they did it and people don't read it how would

you explain that the guy's busy I guess you know you get tied up

the guy says well yeah you work where I work but the time you struggle home it's late you got to buy the separate watch

little TV get to bed you can't sit up half the night reading reading reading reading and the guys behind on his car

payment good worker hard worker sincere but you got to be better than sincere

and work hard otherwise at the end of your life you'll wind up cold Stony broke you've got to

be better than a good worker you got to be a good reader the whole world is governed by laws the

universe in fact laws we call it the law of electricity we call it the law of gravity there's mathematical laws

there's physical laws speed and velocity laws agricultural laws there's all kinds of laws

now that we find ourselves on the spinning Planet you just have to learn what I call the setup

learn the setup life's setup now we didn't set it up but

we're here so you got to learn it and we should learn the setup for two basic reasons number one to keep from

getting hurt it's one of the major reasons for learning so you won't get hurt

it's the economically socially personally you can get hurt just not knowing

ignorance is not Bliss ignorance is poverty ignorance is tragedy you gotta know or you're gonna

get hurt it's good to know not to walk out the 10-story window that's excellent

information now what if a guy didn't know and he walks out now he's dead at the bottom

somebody says well the poor guy didn't know you gotta know

or you're going to get hurt okay now here's a parenthesis

you don't have to like the setup I don't ask you to like how it is that's not what's important but it is

important to learn how it is okay so you don't have to like it but you should learn it

that's what I tell the kids right make sure you get the information what you think about it that's up to you

what you're going to do with it that'll soon be up to you but make sure you get it

see there's nothing worse than being stupid nothing I mean being broke is bad

but being stupid is awful and what's really bad is being broken stupid right that's about the end of the

world I mean there is anything much worse than that unless you're sick broken stupid I mean that is it right

there's nowhere else to go so make sure you get the information it's key

you don't have to like it but learn it if this big Monster's thing lifts up in the sky hangs there for a little while

Cuts loose comes crashing down boom shakes the ground for five miles and then this big monsters thing

lifts back up in the sky hangs there for a little while Cuts loose again comes crashing down boom shakes the ground for

five months it just keeps doing that this big monstrous thing lifting up and then crashing down boom

now you might come along one day and say that's got to be a stupid arrangement which is okay you're entitled to your

opinion but the first thing you should learn to do is get out from under it right that's number one

you might have a great moral argument you might want to shake your finger at the sky but do it from over there right

so you don't get smashed it's called your basic smart so number one learn so you won't get

hurt whether you like it or not learn now here's the second reason for learning the setup to benefit

it's called the plus of life and that's what life is Right both minus and plus

the minus is tragedy heartache misery failure unhappiness but life is also happiness Prosperity

good feelings so here's the key learn to get on the good side of the way things work

now here's two of the basic laws and we'll take our break shof taught me these

they come from the Bible now again I'm an amateur okay when it comes to the Bible I'm not a pro so

you'll sort of have to take my way of putting it but here they are the first one is the law of use

the law of use and it goes something like this whatever you don't use you lose

lack of use causes loss on this planet maybe not the next one but on this one

if you tie your arm to your body leave it there long enough you'll never use it again

it's over for the arm now may not be over but it's over for the arm the only way to keep

the use of this arm is what keep using it if you quit you lose automatically

they don't bring it up for a vote you lose automatically when you quit now the same thing that goes for your arm

goes for your brain mentality the same thing goes for all the human virtues ambition unused declines

strong feelings unused diminish it doesn't grow it diminishes Faith unused decreases

it's a law Vitality unused diminishes energy unused decreases

the guy says well I'm going to save up my energy you can't do that that's like trying to save today put it

on the end of the year see you can't do that they'll come take you away if you don't use today what

it's lost the guy says well I work twice as our tomorrow to make up for it see that's

foolish you could have done that anyway today unused is lost a talent unused is lost and ability

unused is lost so here's one of the key expressions of the evening take a new inventory of yourself

starting tomorrow new project take a new inventory and make sure that all of your talent

and ability and mentality and Ingenuity and vitality and strong feelings Faith courage make sure that all you've

got is being used otherwise you lose now one of the best illustrations of the law of use is a Bible story called the

parable of the talents the talent story interesting story if you haven't read it in a while just

review it it's a good story an ancient story it says there was a Master with three servants he got them together one

day and he said to the three I've got these talents and in those ancient days the talent was

a measure of gold and he said to the three servants take these talents and see what you can do

with them while I'm gone he said I'm taking a journey and I'll be gone for a while when I come back we'll get

together go over the book see how you did he said here's five of these talents for

you five here's two of them for you two

and here's one for you one the master said take those talents see

what you can do with them when I come back we'll get together we'll go over it all

the servant said okay Master takes off according to the ancient story The Master comes back from his trip when he

gets back he gets the three servants together and as he said he would he asks how did

it go with those talents you're five what happened that servant said well I took the five

talents you gave me and I put him to work a little shaky at first but he said

things finally got rolling and he said I poured it on and he said my talents grew to 7 8 9 10.

he said I doubled my talents from five to ten books will show Master said one heck of a job

or something like that he said I gave you two talents what happened that servant said about the

same thing happened to me I put those two talents to work poured it on they grew to three and then to four he said I

doubled my talents from two to four books will show Master said well done

he said I gave you one Talent what happened that servant said well I took the talents you gave me and I

carefully wrecked it and I dug a hole and buried it and camouflaged it I suppose right so

nobody would steal it and he said fortunately nobody got it

and he said I knew you were going to be here today so I dug it up here it is safely wrapped I did not lose it

while you were gone according to the ancient story The Master said

take that Talent away from him and give it to the man that's got 10. now you might say well I don't like that

arrangement the poor guys only got one Talent he's already got 10.

it ought to be more Eve remember I didn't ask you to like it

but this one I would ask you to learn because it simply means whatever you do not employ you forfeit

it's a law so learn well the law of use now here's the second one and we're

going to take our break second law from the Bible this one we've heard since we were small

I'm sure it's called The Law of sowing and reaping

in fact we probably heard it so often we could quote it it says whatever you sow what

you shall reap fairly blunt hopefully clear here's my first suggestion on the law of

sewing and reaping don't try to beat it you might as well try sitting on the sun in the morning keep it from coming up

you'll have better luck whatever you sow you reap now for a fair share of my life I'm a

bit mixed up on how all this applies among a lot of things I was mixed up on I knew I wasn't reaping too good that I

understood my problem was I was confused about what was causing it

remember me with a funny list I thought those are the reasons why it isn't working out well

and then Mr shelf gave me the clue that helped me figure it all out he said Mr Owen I have another answer

for you there's another way to quote this law that'll show you where the problem is so

you can go to work on it right away all you need to know is where the problem is then you can go to work on it

so he quoted me the law another way and I found out what my problem was here's the way you quote the law

whatever you reap is what you've sown now I knew what my problem was whatever you reap is what you've sown

if you don't like the crop who do you look up answer whoever planted it and where do you find who planted your

crop answer in the mirror what I finally learned to do come fall was to go to the mirror that's where you

go and if necessary you say a few skinny carrots

I got to be unimpressed where were you last spring asleep didn't you read the books

did you break your hole yeah let me give you seven key points to the

law of sewing and reefing let's tick right down through the list of seven and it'll be break time

seven points to sewing and reaping here's part of the philosophy that really helped me to make some changes in

life Direction number one the law of sowing and reefing is negative

that's number one which simply means if you're so bad you reap bad now this is kind of third grade but it

doesn't hurt to go over the basics if you plant thistle seeds you don't get pumpkins

honest no use looking for pumpkins John says how come no pumpkins come on John the law is negative that's

outcome now here's number two the law is positive

which simply means if you're so good you reap good if you plant pumpkin seeds you don't get

thistles not from pumpkin seeds Mother Nature won't pull tricks on you

or in the corner Snicker and push new thistles new plant and pumpkin seeds she won't do that you will get pumpkins from

pumpkin seeds and the reason is because the law is positive now here's number three

I got excited when I found out the full dimension of this see you do not reap what you sow

but rather you always reap much more than what you sow

so the third key word is more you don't get back what you put out you get back much more

than what you put out and it works both positive and negative on the negative side it said if you sow

to the wind you reap the Whirlwind so you've got to get ready for that or you will be naive

see anybody can whether you will or not see that's the question and here's a good question to ask

we are all buying somebody's plan the question is who's who's got you talked in to do and what

you're doing who's got you talked into your present plan

see 10 years from now you will surely arrive the question is where but see anybody if you want to can go

searching for a good plan pick it and start working it and sure enough as the time passes as it surely will five years

from now 10 years from now then you'll be winding up wearing what you want to wear driving what you want to drive

living where you want to live become what you want to become but now is the time to fix

the next 10 years and who can anybody here's number six

the sixth key to sewing and reaping this is leveling with you now as we promise to do

there's one thing better than the truth and that's the whole truth and here's part of the whole truth of

the law of sowing and reaping number six is you could lose there are times when you just lose no

matter what you do it's that kind of planet you reap what you sow yes but

what does that mean yes but well the farmer plants his crop in the spring takes care of it all summer loves his

family Works 10 12 hours a day six seven days a week is an honorable man come fall he's got a beautiful crop and

he deserves every bit of it but the day before he sins the combines into the field a hail storm comes along

and beats it all in the ground which means you lose

somebody says well what did he do wrong answer nothing it's just that kind of planet

sometimes it's going to hail on your crop and rain on your parade so you got to get ready for that or you will be

naive that's just part of the life arrangement and don't press me why

I was not in on some of the original decisions here so I don't know how it got set up

but there's just time sometimes you lose that's part of life but now here's number seven

the seventh key to sewing and reaping and it goes like this it's just another way to quote the same law and it goes

like this if you

don't so that's just another way to quote the law

if you don't so but you don't reap you don't even have a chance

so if you looked at your game plan tomorrow you might come to the quick conclusion I got to get some sewing

going how true get you some soul and going

and remember you've got plenty of time you've got all the time there is some people spend enough TV time to make

a fortune the latest article on television watching in this country according to

the latest article the average television is on in this country and every household seven hours a day

called the big seven I asked a guy one time what is TV cost he said about 450 I said you forgot to

look at the price tag he said what do you mean I knew he was a TV watcher

I said that television costs you in my opinion at least twelve thousand dollars a year

to watch it not to own it ornaments cheap watching it is what's

expensive and I said hey 12 000 a year is too much to pay to watch TV that's too much pay a little but not twelve

thousand and he's the guy that said I hope pay TV Never Comes

okay we're trying to cover an awful lot tonight I realize that

but my time schedule is such that we just have to sort of give it all to you and let you uh

sort the rest out I wish we had plenty of time for questions and answers in that whole thing but our time is just

limited but we are trying to go through an awful lot I realize that

but looks like everybody's getting it it's about the note taking this crowd I've seen in a long time

incredible does anybody have five pages yet anybody oh fantastic

incredible okay maybe you heard the story about the

preacher down in Texas southern part of the country um

he was an evangelist back in the horse and buggy days and he was very good

at being an evangelist and a lot of people used to come in here and preach and one day he put up his tent in one of

these Texas towns and expected a big crowd as usual come here and preach and he got there first night of the Tent

Revival walked in 7 30 time to start and to his surprise the tent was empty