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Sometimes from a delightful experience or a tragic
experience, it can be the day that changes everything.
For me, it was the Girl Scout that knocked on my door when I
was 25 years old and gave me the big presentation about Girl
Scout cookies and I wanted to buy, she said.
It's only $2.00, several flavors and with a big smile.
She politely asked me to buy and I wanted to.
Big problem. I didn't have $2.00 in my
pocket. So I didn't want to tell her
that, right? I'm a grown man, I'm 25 years
old. I've been to one year of
college. I've got a little family going.
So I decided next best to lie to her.
I said, look, I've already got lots of Girl Scout cookies.
I've bought some and we still haven't eaten all of them.
They're in the house. She said, oh, that's wonderful,
thank you very much. And she leaves.
When she leaves, I say to myself, I don't want to live
like this anymore. I mean, how low can you get,
right? Lying to a Girl Scout, that's
about as low as it gets. So I promised myself that day it
would never happen again. And that was a life changing day
for me. Recognizing that I was not in a
good position, I must start making my search.
A guy climbs the stairs and there's about 40 stairs to
climb. And he finally gets to the top,
sits down and he's out of breath.
And he says, wow, this is not good.
I've got to do something about my health so it can be something
that simple. So he starts a little research
program and decides to get his health in order, develop a good
nutritional program, whatever. And from that day on, he says,
I'm not going to be out of breath anymore.
Yesterday, I quoted the saying, there's nothing so powerful as
an idea whose time has come. Then I quoted it another way.
There's nothing so powerful as an idea that comes at the right
time. So I said a little prayer before
I left my hotel room today. And my prayer was, I hope today
is one of those right times for many in my audience.
And you never know when for someone it's the first time or
you're the first voice that sort of awakens a search for a better
life, meaning, skills, disciplines.
Or you're 1 of many voices, or they've heard many before and
now yours sort of comes on a day when the lights go on.
They're never the same again. One of my friends woke up one
day, David, and he said sitting at the Yacht Club, having a
drink, sitting sort of in a fog, something spoke to him and said,
what could you really have done if you hadn't have been in this
condition the last 1520 years of your life?
You know, he wasn't like an out and out alcoholic, but he just,
you know, he drank too much. And he started thinking about
that. What could I have really
accomplished? You know, we live in a world
where opposites are in conflict and we're in the middle.
There's the pull to do good and the pull to do evil, to do
what's right, and the pull to cross the line.
That bit of warfare goes on even in our own head, our own
consciousness. When I was a little kid growing
up, I remember this cartoon of a little boy, and it showed this
little boy with a little devil on one shoulder and a little
Angel on the other shoulder. The little devil said to the
little boy, go ahead and do it, it'll be OK, it'll be fine, go
ahead, go ahead. Little Angel saying no, no, no,
don't do it, don't do it. Little devil said yes, go ahead.
Little Angel voice. No, no.
And I guess that's part of our life experience.
It's part of the adventure. The old prophet said love good
and hate evil. And if we become educated in
that way, knowing when the voice of temptation is not the right
road to take, we make some better choices.
When I got up this morning, a little voice said you really
don't have to do your exercises today.
You could skip today. You've got some work to do.
And I got in at about 1:00 this morning on my airline flight
from Colorado Springs. But as recently as this morning,
the little boy said you don't have to do them this morning.
But I well know that if I postpone a day, sure enough,
I've got to make up for it somewhere, maybe do a modified
version if I don't have quite enough time, but don't let it
just go. But we all have that, you know,
that's fairly constant. What voice to listen to.
I guess part of the answer here is not to become a victim of
yourself. Beware of the thief on the
street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in
your mind that's after your promise.
The little thief in your head that says you're too tall,
you're too short, you've never done it before.
It's not going to happen for you.
Others can find this book. You can't find it.
If you found it, you probably wouldn't read it.
If you read it, you probably wouldn't understand it.
This is a constant bit of warfare going on inside of our
head. So we all have to deal with
that. But what I call that in these
experiences is the great adventure Lady said to me that I
met once in New York. She was vice president of this
company. She made big money.
I don't think she finished her high school education.
She was still young with a young family.
And I said to her, how did you get here?
This is a tough business. You make big money.
You didn't graduate from high school.
What happened? And she said, well, let me tell
you part of the story. She said, years ago one day I
asked my husband for $10, and he said, what for?
She said by the end of that day I had promised myself that I
would never, ever ask for money again.
And she said, yes, I am vice president, yes, I do make big
money, yes, I am young, yes, I did not graduate from high
school. But she said, I promise you Mr.
Rowan, from that day until this, I have never asked for money
again. She said, I started searching
for opportunity, found it, started taking some classes,
learned the skills, totally changed my life.
I'm sure she would say that was one of the days that turned her
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