How To Get Ahead of 99% of People in Life | Jim Rohn — Transcript

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1. 0:00Mr. Shoaff taught me that the Bible was
2. 0:02a good book
3. 0:04for ideas and stories and success
4. 0:05equations, how to live the better life.
5. 0:07I found out that was true.
6. 0:10If you look at your bank account and
7. 0:11your income and you're not happy,
8. 0:13there's several places in the Bible to
9. 0:14check [music] to see what the heck's
10. 0:16wrong so you can make the changes.
11. 0:19He also taught me that the Bible is as
12. 0:20practical as it is spiritual, and I
13. 0:22found [music] out that's true.
14. 0:25He said, "Jim, if you want to be wealthy
15. 0:26and happy the rest of your life, just
16. 0:29learn this lesson well. Basic laws."
17. 0:37And I call these basics primarily
18. 0:38because they come from the Bible.
19. 0:41Now, here's two of the basic laws.
20. 0:43Shoaff taught [music] me these.
21. 0:45The first one is the law of use.
22. 0:48The law of use.
23. 0:51And it goes something like this.
24. 0:53Whatever you don't use, you lose.
25. 0:57Lack of use causes loss.
26. 1:00If you don't use today, what?
27. 1:03It's lost.
28. 1:05The guy says, "Well, I'll work twice as
29. 1:06hard tomorrow to make up for it." See,
30. 1:07that's foolish. You could have done that
31. 1:08anyway. Today unused is lost. A talent
32. 1:12unused is lost. An ability unused is
33. 1:14lost.
34. 1:16It's a law.
35. 1:18If you tie your arm to your body, leave
36. 1:19it there long enough, you'll never use
37. 1:21it again.
38. 1:23It's [music] over.
39. 1:25The only way to keep the use of this arm
40. 1:26is what?
41. 1:28Keep using it. If you quit, you lose.
42. 1:31Automatically.
43. 1:33They don't bring it up for a vote.
44. 1:36You lose automatically when you quit.
45. 1:38>> [music]
46. 1:38>> Ambition unused declines.
47. 1:43It's a law.
48. 1:45Vitality unused diminishes. [music]
49. 1:48Energy unused decreases.
50. 1:52The guy says, "Well, I'm going to save
51. 1:53up my energy." You can't do that.
52. 1:58Strong feelings unused
53. 2:01diminish.
54. 2:04It doesn't grow, it diminishes. [music]
55. 2:06Faith unused decreases.
56. 2:11An ancient story says there was a master
57. 2:13with three servants.
58. 2:15He got them together one day and he said
59. 2:17to the three,
60. 2:18>> [music]
61. 2:19>> "Take these talents and see what you can
62. 2:20do with them while I'm gone." He said,
63. 2:22"I'm taking a journey and I'll be gone
64. 2:23for a while.
65. 2:24>> [music]
66. 2:24>> When I come back, we'll get together, go
67. 2:25over the books, see how you did."
68. 2:27And in those ancient days, a talent was
69. 2:29a measure of gold. He said, "Here's five
70. 2:33of these talents for you.
71. 2:35Here's two of them [music] for you.
72. 2:37And here's one for you."
73. 2:40The master said, "Take those talents,
74. 2:42see what you can do with them. When I
75. 2:43come back, we'll get together, we'll go
76. 2:44over it all."
77. 2:45The servant [music] said, "Okay." Master
78. 2:47takes off. According to the ancient
79. 2:49story, the master comes back from his
80. 2:51trip. When he gets back, he gets the
81. 2:54three servants together. [music]
82. 2:56And as he said he would, he asks,
83. 2:59"You were five, [music] what happened?"
84. 3:01That servant said, "Well,
85. 3:03I took the five talents you gave me and
86. 3:05I put them to work.
87. 3:07A little shaky at first, but [music] he
88. 3:08said things finally got rolling. And he
89. 3:10said I poured it on.
90. 3:11And he said my talents grew to seven,
91. 3:13eight, [music] nine, 10."
92. 3:15He said, "I doubled my talents from five
93. 3:17to 10. Books will show." Master said,
94. 3:23"One heck of a [music] job."
95. 3:26He said, "I gave you two talents, what
96. 3:27happened?" That servant said about the
97. 3:29same thing happened to me.
98. 3:31"I put those two talents to work, poured
99. 3:32it on, [music] they grew to three and
100. 3:33then to four." He said, "I doubled my
101. 3:35talents from two to four. Books will
102. 3:37show." Master [music] said,
103. 3:40"Well done."
104. 3:42He said, "I gave you [music] one talent,
105. 3:44what happened?"
106. 3:45That servant said, "Well,
107. 3:47I took the talents you gave me and I
108. 3:49carefully [music]
109. 3:50wrapped it
110. 3:51and I dug a hole and buried it.
111. 3:54Right? So, nobody would steal [music]
112. 3:55it.
113. 3:56And he said, "Fortunately,
114. 3:58nobody got it."
115. 4:00And he said, "I knew you were going to
116. 4:01be here today, so I dug it up. Here it
117. 4:03is, safely wrapped. I did not lose it."
118. 4:07According to the ancient [music] story,
119. 4:10the master said,
120. 4:12"Take that [music] talent away from him
121. 4:17and give it
122. 4:18>> [music]
123. 4:18>> to the man that's got 10."
124. 4:22See, there's nothing worse than being
125. 4:24stupid. Nothing.
126. 4:25>> [music]
127. 4:28>> I mean, being broke is bad,
128. 4:30but being [music] stupid is awful.
129. 4:34Remember, I didn't ask you to like it.
130. 4:37But this one I would ask you to learn
131. 4:39because it simply means whatever you do
132. 4:42not employ, you forfeit.
133. 4:48It's a law.
134. 4:50Ignorance is not bliss.
135. 4:53Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance [music]
136. 4:55is tragedy. So, here's one of the key
137. 4:57expressions of the evening. Take a new
138. 4:59inventory of yourself.
139. 5:03And make sure that all of your talent
140. 5:04and ability and mentality and ingenuity
141. 5:06and vitality and strong feelings,
142. 5:09faith, courage, [music] make sure that
143. 5:11all you've got is being used. Otherwise,
144. 5:13you lose.
145. 5:17It's a law.
146. 5:19Second law from the Bible.
147. 5:22It's called the law of sowing
148. 5:25and
149. 5:26reaping.
150. 5:27>> [music]
151. 5:31>> Now, for a fair share of my life, I'm a
152. 5:33bit mixed up on how all this applies,
153. 5:35among a lot of things I was mixed up on.
154. 5:38I knew I wasn't reaping too good. That I
155. 5:41[music] understood.
156. 5:43My problem was I was confused about what
157. 5:45was causing it.
158. 5:47And then Mr. Shoaff gave me the clue
159. 5:49[music] that helped me figure it all
160. 5:50out.
161. 5:51He said, "Mr. Rohn, I have another
162. 5:52answer for you. There's another way to
163. 5:54quote this law
164. 5:56>> [music]
165. 5:56>> that will show you where the problem is
166. 5:58so you can go to work on it right away."
167. 6:00So he quoted me the law another way and
168. 6:02I found out what my problem was. Here's
169. 6:04the way you quote the law.
170. 6:06Whatever you reap [music] is what you've
171. 6:09sown.
172. 6:13Now I knew what my problem was.
173. 6:17If you don't like the crop, who do you
174. 6:18look up? Answer, whoever planted it.
175. 6:24And where do you find who planted your
176. 6:25crop? Answer, [music] in the mirror.
177. 6:31Let me give you seven key points to the
178. 6:33law [music] of sowing and reaping.
179. 6:34Seven points to sowing and reaping.
180. 6:36Here's part of the philosophy that
181. 6:37really helped me to make some changes in
182. 6:39life direction.
183. 6:40Number one, the law of sowing and
184. 6:42reaping is negative.
185. 6:46That's number one. Which simply means,
186. 6:48if you sow bad, you reap bad.
187. 6:53Fairly blunt, hopefully clear.
188. 6:57Now here's number two.
189. 6:59The law [music] is positive.
190. 7:02Which simply means, if you sow good, you
191. 7:03reap good.
192. 7:05Now here's number three.
193. 7:08I got excited when I found out the full
194. 7:09dimension of this.
195. 7:11See, you do not reap what you sow.
196. 7:15But rather,
197. 7:17you always reap much more than what you
198. 7:20[music] sow.
199. 7:23So the third key word is more.
200. 7:28You don't get back what you put out. You
201. 7:30get back much more
202. 7:34than what you [music] put out.
203. 7:36And it works both positive and negative.
204. 7:42Here's number [music] four.
205. 7:45Fourth key to sowing and reaping.
206. 7:47There are many ways to sow and reap.
207. 7:51There's many ways to change your life.
208. 7:53There's many ways to get promoted.
209. 7:55There's many ways to move up. There's
210. 7:56many ways for financial [music]
211. 7:58independence.
212. 8:00There's so many ways to do well,
213. 8:02especially in this country.
214. 8:04Here's the fourth
215. 8:06key
216. 8:07to sowing and reaping or five.
217. 8:10And that keyword [music] is anyone.
218. 8:12Anyone can sow and reap. That's what's
219. 8:14exciting.
220. 8:16Anyone can.
221. 8:19Now, the question is whether or not you
222. 8:20will.
223. 8:23But can is [music] not the question.
224. 8:27Will is the question.
225. 8:29Anyone can. [music]
226. 8:31See, 10 years from now you will surely
227. 8:32arrive. The question is, where?
228. 8:38But now is the time to fix
229. 8:40the next 10 years.
230. 8:42And who can?
231. 8:45Any
232. 8:46body.
233. 8:49Here's number [music] six.
234. 8:52The sixth key to sowing and reaping.
235. 8:54There's one thing better than the truth.
236. 8:56And that's [music] the whole truth.
237. 8:59And here's part of the whole truth of
238. 9:00the law of sowing and reaping. Number
239. 9:02six is, you could lose.
240. 9:08There are times when you just lose, no
241. 9:10matter what you do.
242. 9:10>> [music]
243. 9:10>> It's that kind of planet.
244. 9:14So, you got to get ready for that or you
245. 9:15will be naive.
246. 9:16>> [music]
247. 9:17>> That's just part of the life
248. 9:18arrangement.
249. 9:20The last 6,000 years reads like this,
250. 9:22opportunity mixed with difficulty.
251. 9:25>> [music]
252. 9:25>> That's how it reads. It isn't going to
253. 9:27change.
254. 9:29But there's just time, sometimes you
255. 9:30lose. That's part of life. But now
256. 9:32here's number seven.
257. 9:34The seventh key to sowing [music] and
258. 9:36reaping.
259. 9:37And it goes like this. It's just another
260. 9:39way to quote the same law.
261. 9:40And it goes like this.
262. 9:42If you don't sow, what?
263. 9:45You don't reap. You don't even have a
264. 9:48chance.
265. 9:53Here's my first suggestion on the law of
266. 9:55sowing and reaping.
267. 9:56Don't try to beat [music] it.
268. 10:00You might as well try sitting on the sun
269. 10:02in the morning. Keep it from coming up.
270. 10:03You'll have better luck.
271. 10:04>> [music]
272. 10:06>> So, if you look at your game plan
273. 10:07tomorrow, you might come to the quick
274. 10:08conclusion. I got to get some sowing
275. 10:10going.
276. 10:11How true.
277. 10:13Get you some sowing going.
278. 10:16And remember, life is so short.
279. 10:22It's brief.
280. 10:23So, whatever you're going to do with
281. 10:24your life, you got to get at it. Don't
282. 10:26just let the springs pass, [music] pass,
283. 10:28pass.