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0:01[Music]
0:06better life media America's leading
0:09source for Life Improvement
0:12presents Jim
0:14Rose living an exceptional
0:17[Music]
0:25life hey thank
0:28you how's everybody
0:31nice to see you thanks for coming today
0:34I appreciate it very much and uh I'm
0:36just delighted to be here how many of
0:38you have never seen me before this your
0:40first time wow
0:43everybody I keep thinking I'm famous but
0:46I guess you know that settles that
0:47anyway nice to see you I've got some
0:50interesting ideas to share with you if
0:51you're ready say I'm
0:53ready and if you'll take some good notes
0:55I got some lists for you to make that
0:58you can take home with you and Ponder
1:00at later times some of the things I want
1:03to share with you I was raised in
1:05Southwest Idaho my parents gave me an
1:09incredibly excellent start in my life
1:12which I appreciated very much but I quit
1:15school at age
1:1719
1:20unfortunately my reasoning was I'm smart
1:23enough to get a job how much smarter do
1:26you need to
1:27be and with that shallow thinking I quit
1:30school age 19 and got a job went to work
1:34little while later got married started a
1:37little
1:38family and I'm struggling and you know
1:40trying to do my best but it seems like
1:43each year I'm falling just a little bit
1:45further
1:47behind finally age
1:5025 the climax of my sort of you know
1:55weariness with where I was not doing as
1:57well as I thought I should I hear a
2:01knock on my door and I happen to be home
2:04alone when I opened the door there was a
2:06little girl scout about this tall
2:08selling Girl Scout
2:10cookies and she gave me the finest sales
2:13presentation I've ever heard Girl Scouts
2:15around the world no better
2:18organization and we've got these cookies
2:21only $2 several flavors and with a big
2:26smile she very politely asked me to buy
2:30no problem I wanted to buy big problem I
2:35haven't got $2 in my
2:38pocket now I'm a grown man I live in
2:42America I've been to one year of college
2:44I'm married I've got a family and I
2:47don't have $2 in my
2:50pocket and I didn't want to tell her
2:52that so I did what I thought was next
2:54best I lied to her I said hey look I've
2:58already bought lots of girls Girl Scout
3:00cookies I've still got plenty in the
3:02house that we haven't eaten yet and she
3:04said oh that's wonderful thank you very
3:07much and she leaves when she leaves I
3:10say to myself I don't want to live like
3:14this
3:15anymore I mean how low can you get lying
3:18to a Girl Scout I mean that's about as
3:22low as you can go but I promised myself
3:24that day I was going to start my search
3:27of finding opportunity finding somebody
3:30who could teach me and Coach me on doing
3:32much better for myself and for my family
3:34and for my future and shortly after that
3:37I met a most extraordinary man very
3:41wealthy but um a friend of mine said you
3:45got to meet this man he's rich but he's
3:48easy to talk to he's got a unique
3:50philosophy of business and life and the
3:53more he told me about this man the more
3:55I said I've got to meet this guy and
3:58shortly after that I had a chance to
3:59meet him sure
4:01enough uh when I met him I was impressed
4:04obviously he was rich but he was
4:07friendly and easy to talk to and I said
4:09to myself if I could just get around
4:12someone like him and if he would coach
4:15me I would be willing to learn anything
4:17I'd love to be like him well my good
4:20fortune was he invited me to join his
4:23company and over the next 5 years my
4:25dream came true he coached me and taught
4:28me how to turn my life from pennies to
4:31Fortune and he's not alive anymore but
4:34uh I'd like to pay tribute to him one
4:36more time Mr Earl cha for the dramatic
4:40impact he had on my life especially
4:43during that five-year period And so my
4:46whole life turned around I made my
4:48fortune by the time I was 32 starting at
4:51age
4:5225 and um some of the ideas that I want
4:55to share with you today came from that
4:57five-year experience
5:00then from there I got into lecturing and
5:02giving seminars and I've written a few
5:04books and uh my career now spans about
5:0741 years but I'll never forget the
5:10impact this gentleman had on my life
5:13with a few simple
5:15Concepts that totally changed my life
5:17changed my future and changed everything
5:20Jim Ron's view of the 21st century
5:22here's number one
5:24unprecedented
5:27opportunity we not only have begun a New
5:30Century Century 21 it's a new
5:34millennium a millennium is a
5:36Thousand-Year period we've had six so
5:38far this is the beginning of the seventh
5:41Millennium and some Scholars tell us
5:44that this could very well be an
5:45extraordinary time for the human race
5:48this seventh
5:50Millennium and there's probably a lot of
5:52good reason that that is probably
5:55true unprecedented opportunity uh We've
5:58now got the technology
6:00uh we pick up a telephone now and talk
6:01to somebody on the other side of the
6:03world Transportation now is so easy I
6:07get on an airplane in Los Angeles and uh
6:1013 hours later I'm in
6:12Tokyo five meals three movies and you're
6:15there I mean you know it's a simple deal
6:18anyway we've got technology we've got
6:19Transportation we've got all the rest
6:21right so this is going to be a time of
6:23unprecedented opportunity in every field
6:26you can imagine every industry every
6:29every country it's going to be the
6:31greatest period of opportunity time in
6:35the history of the human race the 21st
6:37century especially these opening years
6:39of the 21st century so that's number one
6:42unprecedented opportunity now here's the
6:44second note to take now also Keen
6:48competition because we now play the
6:50world game and it's not just competition
6:53across the street and Company to company
6:55and you know division to division and uh
6:58you know company to company now it's
7:00worldwide
7:02competition a job now becomes available
7:04does it go to someone in Minnesota or
7:06someone in
7:08India worldwide competition so now
7:12you've got to be ready to cash in on the
7:14opportunity but you've also got to be
7:16ready for the competition so I've got
7:20some interesting ideas on how to be
7:21prepared for both opportunity and
7:25competition in these opening years of
7:27the 21st century here's some of my best
7:30advice number one you've got to have
7:33more than one
7:36skill it's okay to have one skill but
7:38I'm telling you if you want economic
7:40safety for the future especially this
7:42Century my personal opinion you need
7:45more than one
7:47skill we've seen people ride the last 15
7:5020 years that only had one skill work
7:53for this company for a long time the
7:54division the guy worked for got chopped
7:56eliminated now he loses his job now
7:59tells us he's in economic distress why
8:03would that be simple answer he only
8:06had one skill so for economic safety for
8:10the future my personal advice you got to
8:14have more than one
8:15skill in fact it led me to my first
8:19fortune and that was learning more than
8:21one skill I started learning these extra
8:24skills in Idaho where I grew up I knew
8:28how to milk cows but it didn't pay very
8:31well then someone gave me this
8:34incredible advice if you want to lay the
8:36foundation for a future Fortune you've
8:39got to learn more than one skill and I
8:41started that process age
8:4425 here's the first one and I started
8:46part-time a little
8:48sales job that I got a product that I
8:51believed in learned how to present it
8:53well enough for somebody to say yes gave
8:55excellent service so that that would
8:57lead to multiple sales and this this
8:59little extra part-time job in
9:02sales absolutely started multiplying my
9:07income from milk and cows now I've got
9:10this ability now to start getting
9:13customers keep them serviced and make
9:16some money in this extra skill so now
9:18I've got two skills milking cows and
9:21finding
9:22customers here's the next skill I
9:23learned just to give you a quick list
9:26next was Finding good
9:28people if you've got a little Enterprise
9:30going and you need some people you have
9:31to just go look for
9:33them and when I learned this skill
9:36finding good people for my little
9:40Enterprise I couldn't believe how it
9:42drastically changed my
9:45income my income now starts to multiply
9:49not just
9:50increase so now I've got what three
9:53skills milking cows getting customers
9:56finding good people I'm on my way here's
9:59the next one that paid me big money in
10:01case you're interested and that's
10:05organizing organizing simply means
10:07getting people to work
10:09together big challenge but if you learn
10:12the skill getting people to work
10:14together they
10:15pay
10:17extraordinary money here's the next one
10:20that really increased my income
10:22substantially and that's promotion and
10:25recognition rewarding people for small
10:28steps of progress
10:29I mastered this
10:32one and here's the philosophy behind it
10:35be so busy giving other people
10:37recognition you really don't need it for
10:41yourself I mastered this guess what it
10:45pays big
10:48money let me just give you one more and
10:50it's in three parts and that's
10:52communication learning to affect other
10:54people with your
10:56language of all the things not to be
10:58lazy about its language because words
11:01can work
11:03miracles and communication I found in
11:06three parts here's number one training
11:07showing somebody how the job
11:10Works showing somebody how the business
11:12works we call that training I got good
11:15at that paid big money here was the next
11:18one
11:19teaching teaching people how life Works
11:22teaching people how to set
11:24goals teaching how to become a leader
11:27manager
11:30entrepreneur stepping up to the higher
11:32opportunity and better
11:36challenge this one paid
11:38me extraordinary
11:40money but this one paid the best
11:43learning to
11:45inspire helping people to see themselves
11:48better than they are so I've got how
11:51many skills right a big long list so
11:55safety economic safety for the future
11:58especially the opening years of the 21st
12:00century learn
12:02more than one skill here's number two it
12:06would be good to learn more than one
12:11language some of my business colleagues
12:14who uh speak three or four languages
12:16earn three4 million a
12:20year one of my friends Leon Weis Bine
12:22from Russia I remember when he was
12:24making $3 million a year he spoke three
12:27languages here's what he said I think
12:29learn another language make another
12:30million
12:32dollars those extra languages are so
12:35valuable when I travel the world I got
12:36to find somebody that knows more than
12:38one language or I'm in deep trouble if
12:40you think the time has passed you by to
12:42learn that second third language make
12:45this note you heard it from Jim ran give
12:48it as a gift to your
12:50children the second language maybe
12:53that'll Inspire him to learn the third
12:55language and then no telling where it
12:58might go from there
13:00I asked a school teacher one time how
13:01many languages can a child learn here's
13:03what she said as many as you will teach
13:07them they don't lack capacity they don't
13:10lack intelligence they certainly don't
13:11lack curiosity they only
13:14lack a
13:16teacher so you got my good advice now
13:19more than one skill more than one
13:22language here's the rest learn the
13:25simple
13:27economic formula that works for
13:31everybody and I can give it to you in
13:33just a couple of sentences a simple
13:35economic formula kids can understand it
13:38anybody can understand it anybody that
13:40wants to get paid here's the language
13:42for your
13:43notes we get paid for bringing value to
13:47the
13:49marketplace that's as simple as you can
13:51put economics anybody that wants to get
13:52paid you get paid for bringing value to
13:56the marketplace the marketplace is the
13:58people
14:01now the value we bring is one part of
14:04it a product or a service but here's the
14:07other part the value you
14:09become so just off to the side put the
14:12value is two parts the value you bring
14:14like a product if you manufactured it
14:16you might keep improving the product if
14:18someone else manufactured it and you're
14:19out selling it they probably keep
14:21improving the product but this is the
14:24one you have to work on yourself the
14:26value you
14:27become like an
14:29entrepreneur a leader a
14:33teacher supervisor
14:36manager what you become also pays much
14:40more than what you
14:42bring once I understood
14:46that then here's what my mentor said go
14:49to work on yourself harder than you work
14:52on your
14:55job if you work hard on your job you can
14:57make a living then and he said if you
14:59work hard on yourself you could make a
15:04fortune so I worked hard on my job and
15:06made a living but I learned starting
15:09with those extra hours per week learning
15:11these extra skills I started working on
15:15myself and here's a philosophical phrase
15:17everybody should take home here it is
15:19success is something you
15:22attract by becoming an attractive
15:27person Success is Not something you
15:30pursue it's what you attract by becoming
15:34attractive by becoming attractive to the
15:36marketplace what would do that multiple
15:40skills multiple
15:42languages and then some of the things
15:44I'm going to talk
15:46about the rest of the
15:49seminar so now what else would help you
15:52to be attractive to the marketplace
15:54besides more than one skill and more
15:57than one languages
15:59I've divided it into five five simple
16:03basic fundamentals of ideas to ponder
16:06and think about that will increase your
16:09value to the marketplace could perhaps
16:12like it did for me multiply your income
16:14by two and then multiply it by three and
16:18then multiply your income by four and
16:21then by five and once you get there it's
16:25not that difficult to multiply it by 10
16:30because all you have to do is make sure
16:31you become more valuable and more
16:34valuable and more valuable you don't
16:36have to work on the economy because
16:39here's the first
16:40note each person's income is determined
16:43primarily by their
16:45philosophy not by the
16:48economy once I understood that then I
16:50said well I don't have to go to work on
16:52the economy and the answer was no you
16:54only have to go to
16:55work on yourself
16:59to make yourself more
17:02valuable so now here's five things I
17:04want to share with you and the first one
17:06is your personal
17:07philosophy what could get you more
17:09prepared and ready for cashing in on the
17:12opportunity of the 21st century and
17:15here's the first one personal philosophy
17:17your personal philosophy is like a
17:19guidance system that helps you make
17:21decisions what to do what not to do from
17:24the information you get and what you
17:25learn and what you know we decide
17:28maybe your philosophy would have been 5
17:30years ago never to attend seminars like
17:33this you just didn't go now 5 years
17:35later here you are something happened
17:37along the way to change your mindset
17:39saying hey for the money and the time if
17:42I just get one good idea and walk away
17:45it certainly is worth the money in the
17:47time so now that little amendment in
17:49your philosophy you now say I'm going to
17:52regularly go because it doesn't take but
17:55a few ideas to make a great difference
17:57in your income personal life social life
17:59and all the rest so now you know that's
18:03valuable a change of mind a change of
18:06idea so that's what personal philosophy
18:09is all about the more we learn the more
18:11we know the better we're able to make
18:13better decisions about two major things
18:16your philosophical guidance system does
18:18two
18:19things for your notes number one helps
18:22you to see the dangers on one
18:24side so you can avoid
18:27those but here here's what else your
18:29guidance system does personal philosophy
18:32helps you to see the opportunities on
18:34the other side so that you can expand
18:38those maximize those and here's what
18:41that's called The Game of Life is to
18:44minimize the dangers and maximize the
18:47opportunities and the more we know and
18:49the more we learn the more experience We
18:51Gather in sessions like this from the
18:54sermon on Sunday morning to the books we
18:57read and all the rest helps us to keep
19:00continually adjusting our philosophical
19:03guidance system so that we minimize more
19:06dangers maximize more opportunities
19:09that's really the game of life I
19:11couldn't put it much more simply so
19:14number one we're affected by what we
19:17know now how do we know more things and
19:19learn more things that'll help us
19:21readjust our thinking so we can avoid
19:24the dangers maximize the
19:26opportunities here's number one learn
19:28learn from personal
19:31experience one way to learn do to do
19:33something right is what first do it
19:36wrong right mess up and then you say wow
19:39that was costly I'm never going to do
19:41that again so one way to learn to do it
19:43right first do it
19:45wrong sometimes a negative experience
19:47turns out finally to be
19:50positive they say if you survive your
19:52first heart attack you may now live to
19:55be a very old person
19:58why is that well that first heart attack
20:01if you survived it is called a wakeup
20:06call and maybe the doctor said one more
20:09of these in your history and you said
20:14wow and you make it for the health food
20:18store and you start reading every book
20:20you can find on good nutrition how to
20:24avoid another one of these heart attacks
20:26and you start jogging and start walking
20:28and doing all of the stuff and this
20:31total change of Lifestyle could now save
20:34your life and cause you to live to be a
20:37very old
20:38person here's what my mentor said that
20:40some of the best advice I ever got he
20:42said Mr ran if you will change
20:45everything will change for you if you'll
20:48start making personal changes your
20:50income will change your health will
20:51change your future will change
20:53everything will change if you're willing
20:55to start making the changes so sometimes
20:57a negative experience experience now
20:59causes us to really make a sudden shift
21:03in our philosophical guidance system
21:06that says hey I'm never going to let
21:07this happen to me again
21:10fantastic now here's the next way to
21:12learn and that is to learn from other
21:14people's
21:15experiences whether they are negative or
21:20positive it's too bad failures don't
21:22give seminars like
21:26this wouldn't that be good information
21:29now we don't want to pay them so they
21:31don't lecture so but their information
21:34would be
21:35valuable if you know a guy that's messed
21:37up his life for 40 years you have to say
21:39John would you spend a day with
21:41me and I will bring my notebook and take
21:45good notes a good-look guy like you
21:48beautiful family every reason to do well
21:50threw it all away teach me how for the
21:53last 40 years you messed it all
21:56up and he tells you and you take good
22:01notes learning from the negative side of
22:04someone's experience if somebody tells
22:06me these eggs are rotten I'm not going
22:08to make an omelet and try it right I'm
22:10just going to take their advice and
22:13their knowhow so learn number one from
22:16your own experiences learn number two
22:18from other people's experiences and my
22:20mentor taught me to always keep a
22:22journal here's what he said don't trust
22:25your memory if you want to live a
22:28Dynamic life multiplying your income
22:30multiplying your future be a good
22:33student if a good idea Comes Your Way
22:35write it down then ponder it then
22:38perhaps go do it okay
22:41now your philosophy comes from what you
22:44learn comes from what you know comes
22:46from other people's experiences three
22:49ways now to learn from other people
22:51here's number one learn from what you
22:53see one of the great watchwords of these
22:56early years of the 21st century pay pay
23:00attention if you just watch you can pick
23:02up Clues success leaves Clues and if
23:05you'll be a better
23:07Observer of the winners and the losers
23:10those that are doing well and those that
23:11are falling behind and just take mental
23:14notes and good notes and say I'm going
23:16to adjust what I'm doing based on what I
23:18see here's number two we learn so much
23:21from other people based on what we hear
23:24here's good advice on that be a
23:25selective listener
23:28listen to voices of value that have
23:31experience ideas reputation something
23:33valuable to
23:35share now here's number three read all
23:38the
23:40books now there's millions of books so
23:43you can't read all the books but make
23:45this note read all the books you need to
23:48read to make you as wealthy as you want
23:51to be as healthy as you want to be as
23:54prosperous as productive as unique a
23:56human being as you want to E to be read
23:59all of those books don't leave those
24:01books go
24:04unread my mentor got me started on my
24:06library when I was 25 I got one of the
24:08best if you saw my library you would be
24:13impressed I haven't read everything in
24:15it but I feel smarter just walking in it
24:17right my
24:19library I was smart enough to buy it all
24:22now I got to be smart enough to read it
24:25all now jot this down when you do read
24:27you have to sort through what you read
24:29and decide which is valuable to
24:32try that's part of the process of
24:35learning gathering information and
24:37sorting through it one the information
24:40that would apply to you and what you
24:42think would be valuable based on your
24:44current philosophical
24:47opinion so read all the
24:50books our lives are greatly affected by
24:53what we learn and what we
24:55know now here's number two of these very
24:57basic five things I want to share with
25:00you first your personal philosophy
25:02here's number two your
25:05attitude first we're affected by what we
25:08know when I talk to the kids in high
25:10school classes college classes that's
25:12the first thing I tell them get the
25:13information while you're here right
25:15nothing worse than being stupid when you
25:16get out of school so get the information
25:19being broke is bad
25:21but being stupid is what's really bad
25:25and what's really really bad is being
25:27broke and stupid
25:30nothing much worse than that unless
25:31you're
25:32sick right sick brok and stupid that's
25:37about as far as you can fall unless
25:38you're ugly
25:40right but surely that would be the
25:42ultimate right the ultimate negative
25:44life ugly sick broke and
25:48stupid so learn all you can we're life
25:51we're affected by what we know so get
25:53the information don't be lazy in
25:55learning don't be lazy in going through
25:57the books building your Library coming
25:58to classes like this consistently
26:00consistently some of them will be so
26:02dramatic your life will never be the
26:04same maybe this is one of those
26:06today next we're affected by how we feel
26:10attitude this is the emotional part we
26:13need the intellectual part to set sail
26:16so as the winds blow we can still get
26:18where we want to
26:19go redefine keep strengthening our
26:23psychological and philosophical guidance
26:26system but now we're also affected by
26:28the emotions that's the power and jot
26:31these notes down as I hurry along now
26:33four things to consider on attitude and
26:36how you feel here's number one it's how
26:39you feel about the
26:41past it's important to make the past
26:44useful past experience even past losses
26:48past failures as well as
26:50successes to review it and go back over
26:53it see where you went wrong correct that
26:55invest that now in the future don't live
26:58in the past and don't carry the past
27:01around like a burden but simply use your
27:04past as one of your
27:06mentors to help refine mistakes make
27:09some changes that you can invest now in
27:11the
27:12future here's the second attitude it's
27:15how you feel about the
27:17future we look back for
27:20experience but number two we look
27:23forward for
27:25inspiration now where does the
27:27inspiration come from looking forward
27:28here it is learning to set goals number
27:31one decide what you want takes more than
27:35five minutes take some time and decide
27:37what you want where do you want to go
27:39what do you want to do the next 10 years
27:4120 years what would you like to become
27:43how many skills would you like to learn
27:45what are the books you want to read how
27:47about the people you want to meet the
27:48cities you want to visit experiences
27:50you'd like to have over this next period
27:53of Time start thinking about all of that
27:56here's the next key write it all then
27:59building a life is like building a house
28:02you wouldn't start building the house
28:04until you had it
28:06finished wouldn't you look foolish
28:09starting to build the house if it wasn't
28:11finished
28:12first what if you were laying bricks and
28:14somebody came by and said what are you
28:16building here and you said I have no
28:18idea see they would take you away to a
28:20safe
28:22place so building a life is a lot more
28:25important than building a house and yet
28:27people trade it treat it so carelessly
28:29and so casually about planning and
28:32making plans for what they want their
28:34life to work out to be so I'm asking you
28:37not to be casual anymore start designing
28:39the future for yourself for your family
28:41for your business for your future okay
28:44decide what you want okay so from the
28:47past we get experience from the future
28:49we get
28:51excitement inspiration by setting
28:54goals now here's the next advice put
28:57everything on your list of goals little
28:59things insignificant to someone else but
29:01important to you a goal list is
29:03important you don't have to publish it
29:04in the local newspaper my Japanese
29:08friend Toro eada San Jose California put
29:11on his first list a Caucasian Gardener I
29:15said
29:17gotoro back then everybody had a
29:19Japanese Gardener he said no I'm
29:21Japanese I want a Caucasian gardeners I
29:23like that so set goals set the goals
29:28goals that'll turn you on goals that'll
29:29get you excited put everything on your
29:33list now here's the next attitude it's
29:37very important how you feel about
29:39everybody if you want to be a leader
29:42extraordinaire here's what you learn
29:44each of us need all of
29:46us one person doesn't make an economy
29:49one person doesn't make a symphony
29:51orchestra it takes all of us for each of
29:54us to be
29:56successful each of us need all of us us
29:58and all of us need each of us each gift
30:01is
30:02important as we bring it to the table as
30:05we bring it to the country as we bring
30:07it to the community learn to appreciate
30:09that each of us need all of us now
30:12here's the last one on attitude it's how
30:14you feel about yourself nothing more
30:17powerful than self-confidence to start
30:19multiplying your income by two by three
30:20by five by 10 and where does that come
30:23from make the note it comes from
30:26self-esteem doing the things you know
30:28you should do and at the end of the day
30:30your self-esteem is soaring and high
30:34you've met the people you said you'd
30:35meet you made the calls you said you
30:37would make you did the things that you
30:40required of yourself to do and at the
30:42end of the day you feel great about
30:45yourself that is one of the greatest
30:47motivating factors for the future
30:49self-esteem feeling good about yourself
30:53now let me give you the miracle piece of
30:54this formula if you're ready say I'm
30:56ready
30:58here it is number three is
31:01activity we're affected by what we
31:05do now we've gotten to the formula of
31:08how to turn ideas into reality how to
31:11turn imagination into
31:13substance it's called number three
31:16activity so add these notes to it now
31:18activity is the
31:21work activity is the
31:26labor you might add had labor
31:31pains I'm short on personal experience
31:33here but the mothers in the room would
31:35tell us we know what that's all about
31:36labor pains why would an upcoming
31:39potential mother be willing to put
31:41herself through maybe a rather painful
31:42experience she said that's an easy
31:45answer and it's for your notes it
31:47produces New
31:50Life why wouldn't she put herself to the
31:54labor now comes the miracle of New Life
31:58and whether it's new career life or new
32:00business life or new friendship life or
32:02new married life or New Life of any kind
32:05it has to come from the work it comes
32:07from the
32:09labor in fact labor was so important
32:12here was the original formula for labor
32:14if you have forgotten it remind yourself
32:17for your notes six days of Labor and
32:22what one day of rest now it's important
32:26not to get those numbers mixed up why is
32:30that here's
32:32why why not 52 I don't know maybe five
32:34and two would be okay if God would have
32:36thought of five and two he might have
32:37made it five- two but you can't think of
32:39everything when you're putting one of
32:40these
32:43together but maybe one of the reasons
32:45for 61 jot this down now if you rest too
32:49long the weeds take the
32:52garden not to think so is
32:55naive as soon as you've planted
32:58the busy bugs and the noxious weeds are
33:00out to take it so you can't linger too
33:02long in the rest mode you got to go back
33:05to work six days of work then rest and
33:09spirituality and friendship and change
33:11of
33:12pace and then go back over the last six
33:15days what did I do what did I miss who
33:17did I miss what happened so that I can
33:19invest those Corrections in the next six
33:20days of higher productivity have you got
33:23that now six days of work one day of
33:27rest don't get the numbers mixed up
33:30activity Now activity finishes the
33:35miracle good question for your notes how
33:37did this convention center get
33:42here let me give you the steps number
33:44one somebody saw it while the property
33:49was
33:50vacant you say well how could you see a
33:52Convention Center if it isn't here it's
33:54the only way it will be here and
33:57somebody has to it so clearly they can
33:58draw a picture of it saying this is the
34:02convention center you say no it isn't
34:05there they say yes this is the
34:07convention
34:09center the artist rendering shows you a
34:12picture of what isn't there that's the
34:15beginning of imagination so to turn
34:17nothing into something here's what you
34:18do imagine the
34:20possibilities that's why we recommend
34:22testimonials for someone to say hey I
34:24started with pennies and I made a
34:26fortune and when they finished sometimes
34:28they say something like this if I can do
34:29it what you can do it and we start
34:32Imagining the possibilities here's
34:34number two have faith to believe that
34:36some of them are possible for
34:39you and both imagination and Faith are
34:42powerful forces but we still don't have
34:45a hotel we still don't have a
34:49house even though those are powerful
34:52forces it is the beginning now
34:54imagination and Faith must be deposited
34:57in inactivity or it is
35:02wasted but the Finishing Touch of the
35:04miracle process is now go to
35:08work go to work and build a better
35:10career go to work and build good health
35:13you can't have good health without the
35:15work when did we start hearing that
35:16phrase no pain what no gain you got to
35:19do the work you can read all the books
35:22until you're wise you can have faith and
35:24believe until it is extraordinary but
35:27now you must
35:28go to work and if you'll learn to
35:31appreciate the work that produces the
35:33miracle of good health the miracle of a
35:36career the miracle of a relationship the
35:38miracle of a fortune only humans Now can
35:41do
35:42this the birds of the field can't do it
35:45no other life form can imagine and
35:47create something from
35:50nothing have faith and then build it and
35:52make it real only
35:55humans it's an extraordinary gift
35:57depends on how often you use
35:59it so number one of the ideas I wanted
36:02to share with you to make this an
36:03extraordinary opening year Century for
36:06you is philosophy we're affected by what
36:08we know second is attitude we're
36:10affected by how we feel third is
36:12activity we're affected by what we do
36:14now here's the final two
36:17pieces number four learn to measure
36:21progress once you've set up a project
36:24now you want to turn nothing into
36:25something now you must measure your PR
36:27press how are you
36:31doing here's how we teach it to our
36:33children life expects us to make
36:35measurable progress in reasonable
36:39time measurable progress in reasonable
36:42time that is The Game of Life so part of
36:46it is not just to set up the proposed
36:49project but as we start working on it we
36:52start measuring how we're
36:54doing now first what is reasonable time
36:58you can't ask someone every five minutes
37:00how are you doing now see that's too
37:03soon guy says I haven't left the
37:05building yet give me a break now we
37:07can't wait 5 years that's too
37:11long so there's reasonable time so make
37:13this note now what is reasonable time
37:15one at the end of the
37:17day a conversation a father should have
37:20with his daughter today because the
37:21magic is there if he waits till tomorrow
37:23the magic may be
37:25gone today next is a week make that
37:31note usually we get paid by the
37:35week somebody adds up our value to the
37:37marketplace out comes the check the next
37:40week somebody adds up our value to the
37:42marketplace out comes the
37:44check what I learned to do is to change
37:46my value to the marketplace so the check
37:48kept getting bigger and bigger and
37:50bigger I didn't have to change the
37:52economy I only had to change
37:55myself measure your your own
37:59progress success is a numbers
38:05game we demanded of our children how
38:08many years do you want your child to
38:09spend in fourth grade
38:12approximately about one year right you
38:14say well if they're nice kids would you
38:16give them three or four years you say no
38:19this is not a nice game this is getting
38:22ready for the future this is getting
38:24ready for the challenges and the
38:25opportunities you can't linger in one
38:28grade more than one
38:30year now make this note the same should
38:33go for us as
38:35adults don't linger more than one year
38:38in one grade of
38:40learning adult management
38:44entrepreneurship leaderships of all
38:47kind keep up the pace of
38:50learning okay the
38:54numbers measure count
38:58now here's the key face the truth if
39:01you're only making this much progress
39:03you know there's no use trying to kid
39:05the world no you're trying to kid
39:06anybody else and especially don't kid
39:09yourself if in a period of time you've
39:11only made so much progress you just got
39:13to swallow hard and say this is the
39:18truth I've got to face it now what could
39:20I do to start increasing my progress and
39:24make my health better make my income
39:26better make my investments better make
39:29my value to the marketplace much better
39:32get busy learning the second skill and
39:34the third skill and the next language
39:37and the next language to increase my
39:39value I got to get busy and do that see
39:41if you will do that I promise you one of
39:44the greatest motivating factors in the
39:46world is
39:49progress and if you'll measure it you'll
39:51get
39:54excited now here's number five of the
39:56five major things I wanted to share with
39:58you to make these opening years of the
40:0121st century really pay off for
40:05you and here's the word
40:09lifestyle learning to live well because
40:12the ultimate essence of life is not a
40:14Ferrari the ultimate Essence Is Not a
40:16Home the ultimate Essence is not a bank
40:18account it's not a million dollars it's
40:21not a fortune here it is the ultimate
40:24essence of life is learning to live a
40:28good life that's the key whether you
40:32have modest resources or whether you
40:35have Mega Millions either way the real
40:39key is learning to live a good
40:42life and so in my closing five minutes
40:44let me give you what I think is a good
40:47list now this is the short list in other
40:49presentations I cover a longer list but
40:50this is called Jim Ron's short list for
40:54living the good life here it is number
40:58one
40:59productivity you really won't be that
41:02happy if you don't produce and here's
41:04the next bit of advice on that produce
41:07to the
41:08max if you possibly can to produce a
41:11little is okay to produce enough is okay
41:15to produce some to get by is all right
41:18but why not try productivity to the
41:24max Andrew Carnegie who built the steel
41:28industry back in the 30s here's what
41:29Andrew
41:30said I'm going to spend the first half
41:33of my life accumulating money I'm going
41:35to spend the last half of my life giving
41:38it all
41:43away he got so inspired by that goal
41:47that the first half of his life he
41:49accumulated 400 million doll which back
41:53in the 30s was a lot of money
41:57a mega Fortune guess what he did the
42:01last half of his
42:02life he gave it
42:05all
42:08away I got a good question for for you
42:11as we close here's the question what's
42:14got you turned
42:16on what's got you up early what's got
42:21you eager to face the
42:23day what's got you inspired
42:28to learn the extra skill put in the
42:29extra time go the extra mile learn how
42:33to work with people guarantee your
42:35future good question here's number two
42:38good friends you got to have good
42:41friends the best support system in the
42:43world is good
42:45friends collect and nourish those as
42:50Priceless good friends are those
42:52wonderful people who know all about you
42:54and still like
42:56you those are good
42:58friends here's number three your
43:02heritage what's made America so unique
43:04among all the nations of the world and
43:06the greatest experiment in the history
43:09of the
43:10world and that is the depository of
43:13gifts that have come to America over the
43:15last 3 or 400
43:17years the Heritage from all walks of
43:20life all over the world now the key to
43:23keeping America vital and powerful and
43:25unique for Generations to come is to
43:27keep alive these heritages the music the
43:31dance the costume the Customs the
43:33literature the poetry and all the rest
43:36combin together making us an
43:38extraordinary unusual Nation among
43:41nations keep your heritage
43:44alive here's number four your
43:50spirituality whatever you believe in
43:52terms of
43:55spirituality that's important and I've
43:57got three words for you to consider here
43:58they
43:59are study practice and teach whatever
44:02you believe in terms of spirituality
44:05study practice and
44:07teach don't leave your spirituality
44:09unstudied don't leave it unpracticed and
44:11don't leave it
44:13untaught it's one of the major
44:15components of a good
44:17life and now to close for your notes
44:22take special care of the Inner
44:25Circle family close
44:28friends nourish them they will nourish
44:30you inspire them they will inspire
44:34you and take care of the details the
44:37little things that makes it special for
44:39family and
44:41friends when my father was still alive
44:44after my mother died my father lived
44:45about another 7even eight
44:48years when I used to travel I would try
44:51to call him while he was having
44:52breakfast with the farmers Southwest
44:55Idaho make his special day if I'm in
44:57Israel I got to get up in the middle of
44:59the night but I call in the middle of
45:00the night Papa I'm in Israel and they
45:02would bring him the phone in this little
45:04cafe called the decoy
45:06in and papa would say Israel son how are
45:09things in Israel and he'd talk real loud
45:11so everybody could hear right say papa
45:14they gave me a reception last night on
45:15the rooftop overlooking the
45:17Mediterranean he say overlooking the
45:21Mediterranean now he's got a story to
45:23tell for the rest of the day my son
45:25called me this morning while I was was
45:27having breakfast with the farmers I know
45:29he had to get up in the middle of the
45:31night special
45:33days one more Scene I thought about my
45:37father walking down the lane on the farm
45:39to the mailbox opening it up and this is
45:42for your
45:43notes make sure the mailbox is not
45:48empty my father lived to be
45:5193 what kind of an experience would that
45:53be for a day age 93 open the mailbox and
45:57it's empty even if it's just a
46:02postcard make sure the mailbox is not
46:07empty the details the Inner
46:11Circle and now here's the last maybe
46:13just maybe some of the things I've
46:14shared with you have been seeds that
46:17have fallen on your Consciousness at the
46:19right time and then if it turns into
46:22something valuable for you in the future
46:24that will be well worth my coming being
46:27away from my grandchildren and my
46:29children for a little while to come and
46:31deposit the best of my experience with
46:33all of you today thank you very much God
46:35[Music]
46:36[Applause]
46:38bless we hope you've enjoyed this
46:40special presentation of Jim Ron's living
46:43an exceptional life if you'd like to own
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