Now I want to get busy on the first couple of subjects for
today. Everybody, that's OK, Say I'm
OK. Here's the first subject that
I've I've found so interesting, I want to share it with you.
Then I want to talk about personal development of the
subject that I started listening to age 25 that revolutionized my
whole life from my mentor, Mr. Earl Schoaf.
Here's an interesting subject. Just jot it down.
It's called enlightened self-interest.
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Don't just listen, act on it. Enlightened self-interest.
It's a fascinating study to study the idea of self-interest,
but just make this note. All of us, you know, have
self-interest. The key is it for it to be
enlightened so that everybody wins and no one loses.
Our first interest is to survive.
What does it take to survive? Our second interest is to
succeed. What does it take to succeed?
What does it take for me personally to survive and to
succeed? Can I legitimately be interested
enough in the things that helped me both succeed and survive?
And here's what I discovered. The answer is yes.
It's possible to exercise self-interest, but to do it in
such a way that no one loses everyone benefits.
Key phrase Life was not designed to give us what we need.
Life was designed to give us what we deserve.
We did not reap a harvest in the fall because we need it.
We reap a harvest in the fall because we deserve it.
Not necessarily from a moral standpoint.
Of course, there are some moral laws as well, spiritual and
moral laws, but just the basic laws that simply say if you wish
to reap, you must plant. So jot this down.
Reaping is reserved for the planters, and the reason they
reap is because they deserve it. They're the planters.
They deserve to reap. Interesting Bible phrase.
It says if if you keep knocking, you'll find open doors.
Good phrase to jot down. If you keep knocking, you'll
find open doors. Doors of opportunity.
Doors of a chance to meet someone.
Doors open for association. Doors open to find someone
special. Doors open to find a a unique
business colleague. If you keep knocking the door,
the phrase says, doors of opportunity are open to those
who continually knock. So we don't find open doors of
opportunity because we need them.
We find them because we deserve them.
Only those who knock deserve to find an open door.
But the promise is if you continually knock, you'll find
doors of opportunity. It's as if you search, you will
find, so make the note it's good finding is reserved for the
searchers because they deserve it now.
At first they may have needed it, but they now know that just
needing it is not sufficient. But if they need it now, they
must qualify for it. The reason why you're going to
be blessed with good ideas this weekend is because you've come
searching. You've gotten on an airplane to
come searching, got on your automobile to come searching.
You got here searching. Now you're ready to receive.
And for those who search, they will find answers.
They will find plans, imagination to stir yourself
into action for future benefit. So if you search to find a good
idea, you must go looking and searching.
You've got to go to church, you've got to go to class,
you've got to go to the seminar, you've got to go to the library,
you've got to go to the books if you wish to find.
Rarely does a good idea interrupt you.
Rarely. But if you will search, you will
find. So we get not what we need, but
we get what we deserve. It's just if you ask, someone
has an answer. If you keep asking, the answers
belong to you, because by virtue of asking you to have qualified.
So we don't get what we need, we get what we deserve.
The mother on welfare should be taught in some small manner that
hopefully she can begin deserving the welfare check, not
getting it because she needs it, but now starting to get it
because she deserves it. If the welfare worker says to
Mary, Mary, I've brought a bucket of paint and a
paintbrush, and the next time I come, if the door is painted and
the fence here in front is painted, I give you the check
for $450, not the painting the door and painting the fence is
worth $450. It's not worth that much, but it
is the beginning of the process. So make that note.
I want to begin the process of deserving.
What would that be? What process should I begin
engaging in To deserve good health, To deserve a good
relationship, To deserve prosperity, To deserve an
enterprise, to deserve the opportunity to build a city?
What must I do to begin the process of deserve?
So now the welfare worker comes back and the door is painted and
the fence is painted, and now Mary gets the $450 to help take
care of her children, not because she needs it, but
because she's beginning to deserve it.
Then the welfare worker thinks of some other project.
She said, Mary, if these weeds are gone and this little garden
is cultivated, when I come back, now that the door is painted and
the fence is painted, if the weeds are gone and this little
garden is cultivated, you get the $450.
And step by step, a new life is emerging, learning the process
of deserving it. Not just needed.
We teach our children at home, right?
Child says I need $10.00. So that language doesn't work
here. There's plenty of money here and
the vaults are full. But to say I need $10 is not how
you open the vault. So the child says what?
Wow, how can I get that $10 that I need?
So here's what they learned to say.
How could I earn $10? Now the vault opens up.
Now the money starts to flow. How could I earn $10?
What could I do to earn the money?
Not to get the money because you need it.
Maybe you need the money. That's all of us have needs.
But here the key is to figure out how to open the vault, how
to open the bank, how to open this unbelievable flow of
resources to come our way. And here's the key to deserve
it, not to need it. You can't walk out to the field
and say to the field, I need a crop.
Here's what the field says, here's what the ground says.
Who is this clown that brings me his need but brings me no seeds?
So jot that down. Take your seed to the
marketplace, not your need. Don't disclose your need to the
marketplace, only your willingness.
We'll talk about that a little later today because the
marketplace is not interested in your need, but they are
interested in your seed. They're interested in your
willingness to work. They're interested in your
disciplines. They're interested in your
eagerness. They're interested in your
vitality and your work ethic. That's what the marketplace is
interested in. Not your need, but your seed.
OK, we get what we deserve. Old Testament, God says if
you'll move toward me, I'll move toward you.
See, that's that's how you get those occasions to meet God, you
must make the move. God could say you don't move, I
don't move. You say, well, that's arbitrary.
Well, when you're God, you can make it that way.
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Link in the show notes. So the law says if you wish to
receive. Now let's talk about enlightened
self-interest. If you wish to receive, and we
would call the wish to receive self-interest.
But if it's enlightened self-interest, here's what it
says. I understand that in order to
receive, I must give. Receiving is reserved for those
who give. Receiving is not reserved for
those who need it. It's reserved for those who
deserve it. We deserve the receiving by
giving. In fact, there's an
extraordinary phrase in this little context, and here's what
it says. It's better to give than it is
to receive. Now, the uneducated person would
find that difficult to ponder. Why would it be better to give
than it is to receive? So let me give you one of the
better phrases for the day. Here it is.
Giving starts the receiving process, so of course it's
better to give than it is to receive.
How much receiving do you wish? You must start the giving
process for me to receive my additional fortunes for the
future, not necessarily for the money, because I don't need the
money. I take the money, but I don't.
I don't need the money. But here's what I do need for
someone to say a year from now, five years from now.
Mr. Owen, that seminar helped to change my life.
And for whatever reason, I was brought here to this place for
this time. And later someone says that,
see, to receive that kind of thanks, it's unbelievable.
Here's what you cannot buy that kind of thanks.
You can't buy it with money. You have to earn it.