Attitude, attitude, value field. First of all, we're affected by
what we know s were affected by how we feel about what we know.
The emotional part. Now this is a major part of the
five pieces, how I feel. Now, there's a lot of different
ways to feel. Here's one.
If this is all they pay, I'm not coming early and I'm not staying
late on the job. Right?
We call that one way to feel. Isn't that a selection process?
If this was all they pay? I'm not coming early.
And I'm not saying late. We call that your choice of
attitude. Now.
Do you think that attitude, if you kept it for the next five
years with greatly affect your fortunes, the answer is, of
course, you cannot escape the accumulated effect of the
selection of your attitude. You can't escape it.
So, one of the major things to check Check is, how do I feel
in? Am I on track or off track with
my attitude? Now attitudes, not that easy to
fix is not that easy to get information.
It's hard to look up attitude in the Yellow Pages.
If you could put your car in the shop and go next door and get
your attitude tuned, wouldn't that be nice?
Right? But where do you go?
How do we engage in the kind of philosophical thinking that will
refine our attitude to give us a chance for future Fortune rather
than what will be missing in the future.
So this is big attitude. Here's another attitude, no
matter what they pay. I always come early and I always
stay late to invest in my own future.
We call that another attitude about the same job.
Now, why would one person have one attitude?
Another person have another attitude?
We call that Mysteries of the mind, right?
I don't know. Everybody has to choose for
themselves. Everybody has to decide by
education. Now.
If you didn't know what the consequences were going to be.
It could be very easy to choose the wrong attitude and not
discipline yourself to the right attitude.
So a big portion of our life is affected by how we feel.
Let me give you just a quick list about the feelings that
affect our lives. Number one.
It's how you feel about the past.
Boy, it's easy to carry the past as a burden.
Instead of as a school. It's easy to let the past
overwhelm you. Instead of let the past instruct
you. How do you feel about the past
hurts in the past losses, in the past, difficulties, in the times
you failed, in the times of didn't work, the accumulation of
all of that. How you feel about?
That's going to greatly affect your future in your life.
One of the major things that affects your life is how you
feel about the future. Our life is affected by two
major things. One is price in the other
promise. And it's not that easy to pay
the price if you can't see the Promise.
I think kids are having problems these days trying to pay the
price because they can't see the Promise.
But all of us wouldn't mind paying the price if we could
have a clear view of Tomorrow. Next week, next month, next
year. If we had the high Assurance
with great probability of how it's going to work out.
You think we would hesitate to pay the answer's.
No, but everybody hesitates to pay if the future isn't clear.
So they help the kids these days.
We got to do two things, help them to see the Promise and help
them pay the price. But we can pay if we can see my
karate instructor said Mr. Own. You cannot believe the
incredible feeling of walking down any City street unafraid.
I said, let's get on with the classes, right?
Hey, I will sweat. I will put myself through the
paces, right? What would we do for an
extraordinary? Promise answer?
The most unbelievable things? Would you crack the books?
Would you burn the Midnight Oil? Would you engage in the extra
thoughts in the extra disciplines?
If the promise was? The answer is, of course, but
who wants to read? Who wants to burn the Midnight
Oil, who wants to put themselves through the paces?
If the promise isn't clear? Important price and promise.
Here's number three. It's how you feel about each
other. It's so important attitude about
Society, country state and city Community Family Enterprise.
Company Corporation division is so important to have a unique
understanding about other human beings, and what makes a good
life, what constitutes a good life?
How you feel about each other? I've got a good price for you.
You can't succeed by yourself. So to have unique refined sense
of appreciation. For each other is prerequisite.
It takes each other to build a society.
It takes all of us to build a country to build a nation.
It takes all of us to build a community key phrase, you can't
succeed by yourself. I gave a speech not long ago, to
the Rotary Club of Culver City, California, and I was unusually
affected by the pledge of allegiance that day, big strong
voices. It's a big strong.
It was going through my mind, the next few days, the Pledge of
Allegiance. And the more I thought about it,
the more I thought, what an important.
Key document. Write the Pledge of Allegiance.
And so I started writing and I wrote a discourse on the Pledge
of Allegiance. I took each keyword and did a
little summary for our tape of the Month Club.
Wow, the Pledge of Allegiance is unique.
It starts with i and ends with all.
The Pledge starts with i and ends with all.
It takes all of us to make any one of us successful, and to
Unique refined appreciation of the.
All of us is what makes the eye of us.
Do much better, that appreciation of society.
It takes all of us to make a market.
We need each other's ideas and inspiration.
And once you have that sense of appreciation of the all of us,
now you and your place, and your possibilities, and your
opportunities. Now start to release, or when
you understand how important it is within the framework of the
all of us. So, you can't succeed by
yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.
Now, here's the big biggie. It's how you feel about
yourself. That's n'ajjer.
Understanding self-worth. Is the beginning of progress.
How valuable are you? What could you do?
If you had all the skills, if you took the extra classes and
burn the Midnight Oil? What could you do?
What True Value? Could you become?
That is one of the better exercises?
What could I become in terms of value?
What could I really do in the marketplace and Enterprise
family home? Love experience.
Marriage friendship. How valuable could I become a my
valuable enough to work on? What all is still not
functioning in my life to full capacity?
The if I'm operating at 20%, what could I possibly do with
the other 80% and do I have it in knowledge and worth value and
experience? Once you start understanding
this part of you understanding, how valuable you are.
It is a whole new experience understanding self-worth.
So attitude plays big major part in how our life works out.
The diseases of attitude. It's never that Pleasant to talk
about the - but we got to talk about it because life is pardon
- these attitude diseases are like weeds that grow in the
garden. It's a normal part of life.
Here's a good phrase to note - is normal.
It's not successful, but it's normal.
It's part of life. And here's the next key.
In my opinion. You must learn to handle the -
don't ignore, it handle it. Now, I know some people teach
the other way. And listen to them and listen to
me and then make up your own mind, right?
Don't be a follower, be a student.
But I say you got to handle the negative.
You don't have to live in it. You don't have to dwell on it,
but you do have to handle it. My opinion.
I know some people teach, just turn your head real quick and
say, there's no, we just know, we just know, he's, they'll take
your guard. So, you've got to handle the
negative. Here's what part of it is.
It's called the Great war between Good and Evil.
Mr. Reynolds and I are working on a new book this year called
the Great war between Good and Evil.
And there is a war on the minute.
You were born. You got involved in the war
between good and evil between Darkness and Light between
negative and positive between evil and good between tyranny
and democracy between weeds and human activity.
I mean, the war is on It's democracy sleeps.
Guess who never sleeps tyranny. In the absence of light, guess
what's automatic Darkness? If good does not arouse itself
and become active. Guess what moves in evil?
It's a war, a mental War, a physical War, a financial war,
between Enterprise and he's between accomplishment and
failure. It's a war.
That's why there's an Old Testament phrase that gives the
best advice for human activity. When it says six days labor one
day, rest. Now, I'm sure we've taken that
to mean don't work. All seven days.
Take one off. Here's what it also means.
Only take 10. Or you're liable to lose the
war. Now we've got it down to five
and two and maybe that's not too dangerous.
I don't know. If God would have thought, if I
haven't we might have made it five and two.
I don't know. You can't think of everything.
But here's what it does mean, Enterprise is better than he's
if you rest too long, the jungle overtakes The Village.
Now here's the good news about the war between good and evil.
Evil is no match for good, but good must be active.
Weeds are no match for human activity.
But if you stand still, how far in will they come?
All the way they'll grow right up around your shoes.
But if you get busy, how far back can you take them?
As far as you wish. They're no match, but you must
be active. That's why the six and one.
Make sure you're not losing the war by taking off to guess what?
The average years are after retirement.
Six. Six.
Which means don't retire. Your chances are too Slim.
Okay, the war between good and evil the weeds, you got to make
sure you recognize the - handle it deal with it and then go on
let's make a list of the diseases of attitude that can
wreck all your chances to do well.
One of the words that destroys everything is called neglect.
Neglect. And I found this out a week of
neglect could cost you a year of repair isn't worth it.
So what to be on the lookout for, here's the list.
If you were making it, you'd have the same list.
I've got like, we're not covering anything new tonight.
This is a reminding session. Not a teaching session, but it
doesn't hurt to go over it again.
Here's the list, attitude diseases.
Number one is indifference. The shrug of the shoulder, the
guy's not even concerned. He's just drifting.
This is called the mild approach to life.
A disease known as mildness. The guy says well, I can't see
getting all that worked up. Well.
To be any kind of winner. You got to get worked up.
There's one problem with drift. You cannot drift to the top of
the mountain. And the good Lord said, in the
closing chapters of the Bible. Here's the best way to live one
way or the other. That's best hot or what's next
best cold is next. Best the heart.
Not the half-baked. Middle.
Lukewarm. Not too hot.
Not too cold. What a sad way to live.
I think what it means is. Pick a direction and go with
everything. You've got.
Just pick one and go. Somebody says, yeah, but what if
it's the wrong direction you'll find out quicker.
It won't take you 25 years to wake up and say, oh no, I've
been walking the wrong road. I told my staff the other day.
Next best of prosperity is adversity.
If one doesn't get you, pray for the other, we all do better from
one of two reasons, inspiration or desperation.
And I don't wish anything bad on you tonight.
But if you're not inspired, I hope a wagon comes down, your
rut. Whatever it takes to get you to
try harder, read more set your goals, and go for it.
Somebody asked me one time. What quality would I pick if I
wanted to work with somebody? And you know what I picked?
First number one, strong feeling.
Please. Number one.
Give me somebody that feel strong about most anything.
I don't even care. Just so they believe it.
Even if they disagree with me, wonderful, just so they disagree
vigorously. I'm not saying it's easy to win.
Those kind of people to your point of view.
But I'd rather do that than to try to resurrect people from the
dead. Pump them up every month pump
honor upon them up. I pass.
The good Lord needs a leader for the early Christians.
Remember the early days of the Christians, not like today, if
you were to stand up in the early days and say I'm a
Christian cut off your head, Tasha, you and your wife and
jail. Let you rot.
I mean, those are ugly days, being a Christian back, then was
not called socially acceptable. They didn't have 125,000 in the
Los Angeles. Coliseum to hear Billy Graham on
a Sunday afternoon. Not back in those days back in
those days when the Christians got in the Coliseum.
There was a different story. Right?
I mean, the word was stay out of the Coliseum, especially on
Sunday. Last Sunday was Lions, 33,
Christians nothing. See, those were mean tough
struggle days for the Christians.
Now, when the days are mean and tough and struggling, you got to
have some kind of leader. Do you know who the good Lord
picked for the leader? When the days were mean and
ugly? Fall.
From Tarsus. That's who we picked song.
I'll tell you what, I would have picked him.
You would have picked him. Anybody would have picked?
Saul Saul is one of those incredible guys, once he got
into something look out, everybody in the community knew
what Saul was in because whatever.
He joined you flip on. The switch is open up all the
doors turning all the faucets and go like mad.
He was known as all out Saul. I mean, he was something else
now at first it wasn't working out.
Well Saul hated Christians, which makes a poor.
Later, right. I mean, that won't work.
Saul got this bug somewhere about the Christians, he got to
hate and Christians and you hated him so bad.
Every time somebody would say Christian, he fly into a rage.
And I guess he decided one life or one day.
It was his mission in life to get rid of all the Christians.
He was Saul and he helped could do most anything he wanted to.
So he got in these letters of authority to go around to the
various communities and hunt down the Christians.
They said, do whatever you want with them solve their own
popular. Anyhow, drag him in the streets.
Whip him, Stoneham torture kill him.
You mention the name Saul from Tarsus to the early Christians.
I'll tell you what they would do.
They would run. Hide lock the doors.
Leave town dive underground. I've been in the catacombs of
Rome where they hid. He was me.
I mean, terribly me, but remember the story one day
stalls, making a Damascus heard about some new Christians flies
into a rage takes off her Damascus and the story is that
he was angry. There's a little sentence in the
story that says on his way to Damascus.
He was breathing out threatenings and Slaughter which
meant he felt rather strong about the idea, right?
That's strong. That's true.
But on this journey, right? According to the story as Saul
was making his way to Damascus, the good Lord looks down out of
heaven and says there's my man Saul.
He's got to be something else. And according to the story, this
great light shines Out of Heaven, knock seem flat right
off his horse, grinds his face in the dirt and blinds him for
three days. The good Lord using recruiting
tools. We can't use this.
When your lord, right? To make a long story.
Short, Saul from Tarsus becomes converted to Christianity.
He becomes Paul the great leader, the Apostle and without
a doubt, the good Lord. Got him a Dandy.
One, he didn't have to pump up, everybody.
In one of his later writings. He said, the things I once
hated, I now love the things, I once loved, I now hate, see that
strong. Here's the key to the good life.
Learn to put everything. You've got into everything you
do. Whatever you are doing, pour it
on, it will quickly open up into opportunity or quickly disclose
to you that you ought to be doing something else.
The delusion is, if I had a better job.
I'd really pour it on. See, that's delusion.
Wherever you are, poor it on, don't give somebody half a job
for a day's pay. Pour it on see that will help.
Change your life. Get rid of this disease.
Here's the next attitude disease in decision.
Mental paralysis, the guy can't make up his mind and it becomes
a disease. Pretty soon.
He knows he's got it. The guy says, well, I know I'm
on the fence. But he says, what if I get off
on the wrong side? Listen, after a while, it
doesn't matter just get all any side will do a life.
Full of Adventure is a life full of many decisions.
The ones that turn out to be wrong give you a better
experience to make better decisions.
So don't see how many decisions you can get out of see how many
you can get into. That's where the adventure is.
So shake off this disease in decision.
The next one is doubt. Doubts like a plague and one of
the worst is Self Doubt, there are many, but that's one of the
words. The guy doubts himself Delta P.
The last that long for him, doubts, if he can do that.
Well, that's if you can make that much doubt.
If he can accomplish all that, a chronic, excellent.
Self-doubt. ER, you can imagine what damage
that does to your future. So, here's the key turn this
coin over and become a believer. And there's many things to
believe in one of the majors is your self.
The understanding of self-worth is the beginning of progress.
Now, those three don't get you. This one will worried.
That's a devastating disease. Worry, worry, causes health
problems, social problems, personal problems, family
problems. It's devastating.
Worry long enough. It'll drop you to your knees.
Could reduce you to begging. I know how bad this one is.
I used to have it bad. I used to be known as a super
worrier. Not a super Warrior.
No, super Warrior, my family wished.
I'd have been a warrior. I got those years to make up
for. But I tell you what, my advice
to you is, do what I finally did on worry, Give It Up.
Who needs it? I'm not saying it's easy.
I'm saying. It's worth.
It took me almost one year to kick the worry habit, and it was
not an easy year. It was one of the toughest years
I ever spent, but I finally got that monkey off my back and I
discovered you could live the most incredible Life free of
work. Not free of challenge, not free
of difficulty, free of worry. I learned how to do it.
And you can't Here's the next attitude disease.
Over caution. Some people never will have much
there to cautious. Now, you can also be too
Reckless, but you can also be too cautious.
This is called the timid approach to life.
And my caution was always, the risk risk used to drive me right
up the wall. I used to say, what if this
happens? It's called the language of the
poor. What if this happens?
And on top of that, if this was to happen, look at the fix IB
and I better not try. I could always ask myself out.
Then I'll tell you what, changed my whole life.
When I finally discovered. It's all risky.
The minute you were born at got risky.
If you think trying is risky, wait till they hand you, the
bill for not trying. If you think investing is risky
wait till you get the tab for not investing.
See it's all risky. Getting married is risky.
Having children is risky going into.
Business is risky. Investing your money is risky.
It's all risky. I'll tell you how risky life is,
you're not going to get out alive.
That's risky. The Englishman says, well, if
that's the way it's going to work out.
Let's give it a go, right? That's what it's for.
Give it a go. Somebody says, yeah, but I'm
looking for Safety and Security fine.
Then huddle in a corner. We'll cover you with a sheet.
Bring you three meals a day and we'll protect you feed.
You look after you care for you. We won't let anything happen to
you and you'll probably live to be 100.
But I said, well, yeah, I live to be 100.
But what? A way to live, right?
What. A way to live safe and secure.
Don't ask for security, ask for adventure, better to live 30
years, full of Adventure than 100 years safe in the corner.
And see it's not important. How long you live what's
important is how you live. Here's the next attitude
disease. We're almost through with this
monthly list. In fact, we're almost through.
Hang on. The next one is pessimism.
Pessimism the deadly disease of always, looking on the bad side.
The problem side, the difficult side, checking all the reasons,
why it can't be done, the poor pessimist leads an ugly life.
He doesn't try to figure out what's right, he tries to figure
out what's wrong. He doesn't look for virtue.
He looks for faults. And when he finds him, he's
delighted How uh This is the poor guy looks through the
window doesn't see the sunset. He sees the specs on the Wind.
And this is the poor guy, right? Who rushes up?
Take such leave of his senses. This guy rushes up and he says,
I've got five. Good reasons why it won't work.
He's so dumb. He doesn't know.
All you needs one. He's got five.
To the pessimist. The glass is always half-empty.
To The Optimist, the glass is half full.
Why would the same measure affect people?
Two different ways, answer, it all.
Depends on how you look at it. Our lives are mostly affected by
the way. We think things are.
Not the way they are the way we think they are affects us.
Most. There's a subject, we don't have
time to get into tonight called better thinking habits.
One of the major things show of taught me when I met him.
He said, poor thinking habits keeps most people, poor not poor
working habits. Most people work hard, but they
don't think hard. And so taught me that the mind
is like a factory, our mental Factory, and whatever you think
about all day long, pours ingredients into this mental
Factory. And that's what bills the
economic social Financial fabric of your life.
He quoted me a Bible phrase that says, as you think, so you
become. When he talked about poor
thinking habits, he had me. I used to start the day reading
the morning newspaper. I mean, you can believe that or
not, I'd get a cup of coffee and read the paper.
I'd load up on Wars and riots and murders, and stabbings, and
killings and bank robberies and muggings car, wrecks and
tragedies. I'd even read the back pages.
I seem to like that stuff for some weird reason.
I'd load up on all that. And then I start the day.
You can imagine the kind of days.
I used to have you walk around on your financial knees, they
call you economic peewee. The guy says, I want to be a
great leader. Wonderful.
The first thing we do is follow him to his house.
When we get there. We walk in and check his
library. Number one.
Somebody says, well, why check his Library?
The reason is because what a man reads, pours, massive
ingredients into his mental Factory and the fabric of his
life is built from those ingredients.
You would not believe what some people have got in their house
to read. You would not believe one of the
best-dressed upwards. I know for a lot of it is trash.
Can you imagine dumping a bill of trash into this mental
Factory every day and coming out with a rich Dynamic positive
life. It can be done.
You might as well try making a cake with cement.
The kids back in Danbury, Connecticut High School.
They're asking me questions. One day.
I'm talking to the kids kids got good questions these days.
One of them said to me mr. Own.
How do you build the good life? I said it's simple.
It's not easy, but it's simple. Here's how you build.
Anything. Select the right ingredients.
Keep out the wrong ingredients and it starts with a thought.
Everything starts with thought. So you must be wise and careful
what you think about because that starts everything.
You got to be wise and careful. I asked the kids.
What would happen? If somebody drops sugar in my
coffee? They said, will you be okay?
I said, what if somebody drops strychnine in my coffee?
They said, well, you'd be dead. I said correct lesson.
One life is both sugar and strychnine.
You gotta be careful. I said what if my worst enemy
drops in the sugar? They said, will you be okay?
I said, what if my best friend even by accident drops in the
strychnine? They said, well, you'd be dead.
I said, correct lesson to watch your call.
You got to be careful. See, it doesn't matter who hands
you the bad stuff. It doesn't matter where you get
the bad stuff. It'll still do its damage on
your bank account wherever you get it.
Mr. Chef gave me one of the greatest phrases when I first
met him when he said gym, everyday, stand guard at the
door of your mind. How important stand guard at the
door of your mind. And you decide what goes into
your mental Factory? Don't let anybody just dump
anything. They want to in your mental
Factory because you've got to live with the results.
Okay, here's the last disease and we're through with this
list. Fact.
We're almost through. Hang on.
The last subject is very brief. The last disease but this one is
deadly engage in this one. Indulgent it even slightly and
you might as well forget the future because it's going to
forget you complaining. Crying whining, griping.
A Bible word called murmuring. See that allais, your future.
Spend five minutes complaining and you have wasted five and you
may have begun. What's known as economic cancer
of the boom. Surely.
They will soon hold you off into a financial desert and they're
let you choke on the dust of your own regret.
I hope I said that. Well so you won't forget.
It's a deadly disease. If you don't think it's bad, ask
the children of Israel of Old Testament pain.
Typical of us all their story. Just happened to get in the
book. Story says, children of Israel
were slaves. God performed a series of
dazzling Miracles and got him out.
And now they're heading for the promised land.
Remember, the story headin for the promised land tragedy of the
story. They never got there.
Reason. From day one, they started to
complain. They griped about the water.
They griped about the weather, they wind and cried and griped
about the food. They griped about the
leadership. They've wind and cried because
it was too far, too cold to hot too difficult to miserable.
I mean, they widen wind and cried for years.
Finally. God said, I've had it took
cancelled or something like that.
The story says, they died in the desert, never got to the
promised land. Which I think means two things,
indulging. This long enough, you get your
future case, and I guess it also means even God himself can only
take so much. Okay, just be on the lookout of
the things that can destroy all the good.
You start? The war is on.
And this evening tomorrow, mentally personally, socially
economically. You got to make sure you're
winning the war and this is part of it.
And this evening tomorrow, mentally personally, socially
economically. You got to make sure you're
winning the war and this is part of it.