5 Steps to Go From Average To Fortune (Jim Rohn Seminar) — Transcript

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1. 0:00I have a very interesting subject. I
2. 0:02call it five simple steps to go from
3. 0:04average to fortune.
4. 0:06I've been asked to give it in many
5. 0:07places for corporations and companies
6. 0:09and uh now I have the opportunity to
7. 0:12share it with you.
8. 0:13It's a pretty big subject for someone
9. 0:15like me.
10. 0:16For my life started out rather modestly
11. 0:19uh up in farm country in Idaho where I
12. 0:21was raised.
13. 0:22I found a very beautiful young lady and
14. 0:25persuaded her to marry me.
15. 0:27And uh kept making all of those grand
16. 0:29promises as we're inclined to do that
17. 0:32everything was going to work well and
18. 0:34that she had made a wise decision.
19. 0:36Well, two or three years after I'd
20. 0:38gotten married it didn't look like my
21. 0:40new bride had made such a wise decision.
22. 0:42Because I'm now starting to struggle.
23. 0:45I've got far too much month at the end
24. 0:46of the money if you've ever known what
25. 0:48that's like.
26. 0:50And I'm wondering what to do. I'm behind
27. 0:52on my bills.
28. 0:54I'm willing to work hard, that's not my
29. 0:55problem, but it isn't as going
30. 0:57as well as I had thought it would up
31. 0:59until that point. I'm struggling.
32. 1:02And I'm wondering what to do. Should I
33. 1:04go back to school and get some more
34. 1:05education?
35. 1:07Uh I didn't have any capital to start a
36. 1:09business. I met a very remarkable man.
37. 1:12His name was Mr. Shoff, Mr. Earl Shoff.
38. 1:15And he's the gentleman who gave me those
39. 1:17last final answers that I had been
40. 1:19looking for up until that time.
41. 1:21Mr. Shoff was a very unique gentleman.
42. 1:22He was a businessman, an entrepreneur.
43. 1:24He had several businesses.
44. 1:26And he took a liking to me and he hired
45. 1:28me and I went to work for him.
46. 1:30I spent the next five years working for
47. 1:33him.
48. 1:33And then unfortunately at the end of
49. 1:35that five years he died. But I did get
50. 1:37to spend five years with this remarkable
51. 1:39man and he's the gentleman who gave me
52. 1:42the answers.
53. 1:43He gave me the points and the ideas that
54. 1:45helped to really turn my life around.
55. 1:48And about 17 years ago I was living in
56. 1:50Beverly Hills.
57. 1:51And I was going through all the notes
58. 1:53that I'd gathered up during that
59. 1:55five-year period.
60. 1:57And uh the idea came to me, why not
61. 1:59share the these ideas with other people?
62. 2:02I've used them to change my life. Things
63. 2:04have worked out well for me. I wonder if
64. 2:05others might find them interesting.
65. 2:07So, I put all of the material together
66. 2:09and 5 years ago gave my first lecture,
67. 2:11my first seminar.
68. 2:13And ever since then, I've spent more and
69. 2:15more of my time lecturing and sharing
70. 2:17ideas on how to do better, how to make
71. 2:19your life personally, socially, and
72. 2:21economically work out better. Let me
73. 2:24give you this simple little talk, how to
74. 2:25go from average to fortune. There's five
75. 2:28simple steps.
76. 2:29You might like to make a note of them.
77. 2:31Here's the first one.
78. 2:32Get serious.
79. 2:34That's number one. I don't know any
80. 2:36substitute for that.
81. 2:38You've really got to get serious. You
82. 2:40don't have to be grim, but you must be
83. 2:42serious.
84. 2:44I know a guy that's got a half a dozen
85. 2:45jokes keeping him from becoming wealthy.
86. 2:48He's not known as rich. He's known as a
87. 2:51joker.
88. 2:52Which I guess is okay if that's the kind
89. 2:54of life you want to live.
90. 2:56But it really isn't the best way to
91. 2:57live. To go from average to fortune, you
92. 2:59must get serious.
93. 3:01And you must get serious about two very
94. 3:03important things. Number one is setting
95. 3:05your goals and where you want to go.
96. 3:07Designing the next five, the next 10
97. 3:10years is so vitally important.
98. 3:12What do you want to do economically?
99. 3:14Where do you want to go? What do you
100. 3:15want to be? What would you like to have?
101. 3:17What would you like to share? How much
102. 3:19would you like to earn? How far would
103. 3:21you like to go? Those are some major
104. 3:23questions to ask. And for that all to
105. 3:25work out like you want it to for the
106. 3:27next five or 10 years, in my personal
107. 3:29opinion, you've got to get serious.
108. 3:32Then you have to get serious about
109. 3:33another important subject.
110. 3:35And that important subject is called
111. 3:37personal development.
112. 3:40Personal development is striving hard to
113. 3:42become the kind of person that you want
114. 3:45to be.
115. 3:46And to become the kind of person you
116. 3:48want to be, you've got to work at it.
117. 3:5110 years from now, you will surely
118. 3:52become someone. The big question is,
119. 3:55who?
120. 3:57What are you becoming?
121. 3:58And if you go to work on it now, sure
122. 4:00enough, in a very short period of time,
123. 4:02you can take on a new direction to
124. 4:04become the kind of person you want to
125. 4:06be.
126. 4:08There's a very important question to
127. 4:09ask, and the question is, 10 years from
128. 4:11now, you will surely arrive.
129. 4:14And the question is, where?
130. 4:17So, to answer the question of where you
131. 4:18want to arrive and the kind of person
132. 4:20you want to be, you've got to get
133. 4:22serious.
134. 4:23So, that's point number one. To make
135. 4:25your life worthwhile and unique, to go
136. 4:27from average to fortune, you've got to
137. 4:29get serious.
138. 4:32Now, the second point is, get smart.
139. 4:36To make your life work out worthwhile,
140. 4:38you've got to have some ideas. You've
141. 4:40got to have the information. So, you've
142. 4:42got to be smart.
143. 4:43In fact, in this decade, you must be
144. 4:45much smarter than you were in the last
145. 4:47decade.
146. 4:48You've got to read the books. You've got
147. 4:49to come up with the information.
148. 4:51When I have a chance to talk to the high
149. 4:53school kids, that's the theme of my
150. 4:54talk, get smart. There's nothing worse
151. 4:57than being stupid.
152. 4:59And if you will read the books, learn
153. 5:00from your experiences, do all the things
154. 5:02that you possibly can to get the
155. 5:04information, sure enough, you'll be
156. 5:06wiser this year than you were last year.
157. 5:10And I've got a few techniques that I
158. 5:11teach in my seminar on how to get
159. 5:13smarter. Keeping a journal, going to the
160. 5:16lectures, going to the seminars,
161. 5:18listening to the sermons, picking up
162. 5:19ideas from other people.
163. 5:21You just must keep up the steady process
164. 5:23of learning. Never cease your quest for
165. 5:26knowledge.
166. 5:28And that's one of the key points to go
167. 5:29from average to fortune, get smart.
168. 5:33Now, here's number three.
169. 5:34You've got to get going.
170. 5:37All of the things that you've learned
171. 5:39will not do you that much good if you
172. 5:41don't put it into an action plan. You've
173. 5:43got to get going.
174. 5:45In my management and leadership seminar,
175. 5:47we teach game plans. How to put all the
176. 5:49good things that you've learned into
177. 5:51action.
178. 5:52Economic action, social action, personal
179. 5:55action. How to make the changes and how
180. 5:57to actually do the work. How to actually
181. 6:00function.
182. 6:02Get going, that's the key. Some people
183. 6:04are ever learning, but they don't put it
184. 6:05into action.
185. 6:07They don't really take the action. It's
186. 6:08like the man who keeps bringing
187. 6:09materials to the building site and never
188. 6:11builds anything.
189. 6:13He keeps bringing in the sand and the
190. 6:14gravel and the windows and the doors and
191. 6:16the roofing material and he just stacks
192. 6:19up all these supplies, but he never
193. 6:20builds anything.
194. 6:22See, if you do that long enough, fairly
195. 6:23soon they'll come and take you away.
196. 6:25You've got to do something with what
197. 6:27you've learned. You've got to take
198. 6:29action. You've got to get going.
199. 6:32So, that's one of the most important
200. 6:33things to learn. How to design your
201. 6:35days, how to design your weeks, how to
202. 6:37design the months so that you take the
203. 6:39proper action
204. 6:41to get the proper return that you're
205. 6:42looking for, whether it's economic or
206. 6:44personal.
207. 6:46Get going. It's a major key.
208. 6:49Now, here's number four.
209. 6:51You must get excited.
210. 6:53And not just the false enthusiasm of
211. 6:56just pure positive thinking. You've got
212. 6:58to get excited over some very basic
213. 6:59things. One is get excited over your
214. 7:02ability to make yourself do the
215. 7:04necessary things.
216. 7:06Because discipline is major step one
217. 7:08toward personal progress.
218. 7:11And anytime a person wishes to, they can
219. 7:13make major changes in their life,
220. 7:15personally and socially and financially.
221. 7:18It doesn't ever have to be the same
222. 7:20after today.
223. 7:22No telling what you could do today if
224. 7:23you really wished to.
225. 7:25The act of murder is a clear indication
226. 7:27that a person in one drastic act can
227. 7:31forever change the course of their life.
228. 7:33It just happens to be in the negative
229. 7:36direction.
230. 7:37What I would ask you to do, starting
231. 7:39today, is get excited about committing
232. 7:41an act.
233. 7:43An act that's positive, an act that's
234. 7:45constructive. To make the changes in
235. 7:47your life that you want made. And to go
236. 7:50the direction that you want to go. So,
237. 7:52that's number four.
238. 7:54Get excited. Get excited about your
239. 7:57potential.
240. 7:58Human capacity is usually never the
241. 8:00problem.
242. 8:02Little children can learn several
243. 8:03languages. We can learn to do the most
244. 8:06incredible things. All we need to do is
245. 8:08take the time to do it. So, it's not a
246. 8:10matter of capacity.
247. 8:12It's a matter of judgment, it's a matter
248. 8:14of excitement, it's a matter of will,
249. 8:16and it's a matter of wanting too bad
250. 8:18enough. So, it's pretty exciting to know
251. 8:20that any day you wish you can change
252. 8:23your life. Any day you pick out, you can
253. 8:25make major changes. It doesn't ever have
254. 8:28to be the same again. And that's
255. 8:30exciting. Knowing that intellectually
256. 8:32and personally you can actually do the
257. 8:35things that will make major changes in
258. 8:37your life.
259. 8:38That's number four.
260. 8:39Here's number five.
261. 8:42Number five is get away.
262. 8:44I have found especially in the last 15
263. 8:4720 years that there's an important thing
264. 8:49called life balance.
265. 8:51You've got to learn to get away. You
266. 8:53must learn to get away and be alone.
267. 8:55Learn to get away and reflect. Learn to
268. 8:58get away and learn how to live as well
269. 9:00as how to earn.
270. 9:01How sad it would be to learn how to earn
271. 9:03well, but not learn how to live well.
272. 9:06You must balance your life.
273. 9:09We teach something especially in my
274. 9:10staff, I teach it something called
275. 9:12lifestyle. Lifestyle is how you learn to
276. 9:16live your life.
277. 9:18Some people have money, but they don't
278. 9:19even know how to spend it. They have
279. 9:22time, but they don't know how to spend
280. 9:23it. Some people are successful, but they
281. 9:25don't know how to spend their success.
282. 9:27They don't know what to do with it. They
283. 9:30don't get joy from it, rather they get
284. 9:32animosity.
285. 9:33A father takes $5, crushes it, and
286. 9:36throws it at his son, and says if you
287. 9:37need it that bad take it.
288. 9:40Now it's the same $5,
289. 9:42but instead of dispensing it with joy,
290. 9:45he dispenses it with animosity.
291. 9:48That's the difference in not knowing how
292. 9:49to live. It's called lifestyle.
293. 9:52Then you've got to take time to
294. 9:54cultivate good friends. You've got to
295. 9:56take time to be with your family. You've
296. 9:59got to take time to be with the people
297. 10:01who are important to you. Designing your
298. 10:04life in those respects.
299. 10:07Get
300. 10:09away.
301. 10:10Take the time. Reflect on your life.
302. 10:14Recharge your batteries.
303. 10:16Do some growing away from your
304. 10:18enterprise. Then when you come back to
305. 10:21your enterprise after you have taken
306. 10:22this time to balance your life,
307. 10:24you will find that on the job, working
308. 10:26on your enterprise, things will really
309. 10:28go much better.
310. 10:30So those are the five simple steps to go
311. 10:32from average to fortune.
312. 10:35Get serious.
313. 10:36Get smart.
314. 10:38Get going.
315. 10:41Get excited.
316. 10:42And get away.
317. 10:45I hope those points will be valuable for
318. 10:46you as you consider them. Do not walk in
319. 10:48front of me.
320. 10:50I may not follow.
321. 10:52Do not walk behind me.
322. 10:54I may not lead.
323. 10:56But walk beside me
324. 10:58and be my friend.
325. 10:59Thank you for listening.