Let's talk now about setting goals of all the things that
really helped transform my life. When I was 25 years old and met
my mentor that original Mentor mr.
Roche of goal-setting really did wonders for me.
The subject came up when mr. Shoaff said to me, mr.
Own, let me see your current list of goals and he said, let's
go over it. He said I've got some experience
and let's talk about it. Maybe I can give you some help.
And I said to him, I don't have a list.
He said, wow, if you don't have a list of your goals, he said I
can probably guess your bank accounts within your bank
account, within a few hundred dollars which he did and that
got my attention. So, here was my response.
You mean to tell me if I had a list of my goals, it would make
a difference in my bank account. He said a drastic difference.
So that got my attention. I thought well I've got to learn
how to set goals, and when I learned it, it changed my life
forever. Now, I've been teaching it now.
All these years trying to help people get a better vision of
the future, Okay, so make this note, the Futures where we're
going, you know, the past is we've ever been present is where
we are in the future, is where we're going.
And if we can capture this moment in time, from our past to
now, and then from now to a future more will designed with
better objectives, and better purpose for ourselves, our
family, our business, our investments, everything else
Then this this moment in time, will have become extremely
valuable. So, let me give you first What
really affects us all number one were affected by the environment
in which we live. Were affected by the physical
environment. I was challenged way back in
those early days, why not make the environment better
everywhere you go. I learned mama taught, you know,
turn off the lights when you check out of your hotel and you
leave the room before you leave, turn out the lights.
And I thought why do that? And here's what you said to make
a contribution, that's so easy. Wow and if you could make a
contribution to is so easy that didn't cost you any money and
didn't cost you any time you know didn't cost you a piece of
your life. Why not make the contribution
that's easy because if everybody did it think of how much we
would conserve Someone says well yes but the hotel benefits if
you turn out all the lights, and here's the answer that
sophisticated people always have who cares who benefits if it
benefits the hotel. And if everybody did it,
probably the cost of the hotel room would come down.
So, every benefit you can give every benefit, you can share,
because here's what happens. If you learn to give, you will.
What receive maybe not in the manner in which you gave?
Maybe not in. Like kind someone will save
energy for you because you saved energy for them, but in some
mysterious ways it always comes back to us.
If you give you will receive information.
Here's what it says that for the uneducated as a little bit
strange, it says it's better. To give than it is to receive
now. See if you didn't understand.
You would say that. Doesn't quite make sense.
Surely, it would be better to receive into given the answers
and know. It is much better to give than
to receive and here's why it's what we call being in having
intelligent self-interest. Nothing wrong with
self-interest. As long as you do it, the
intelligent way, here's the key giving is better to give than it
is to receive because giving starts the receiving process, So
to act intelligently in your own self-interest which is good,
it's much better to give than it is to receive because of all of
you knew. All you do is receive that may
be very limited but if you give and giving starts the receiving
process coming your way from unknown resources, from an
unknown places, back at comes around to you because you became
a giver that's one of the unique mysteries of life, we give to
receive And it's better to give than it is to receive.
So that's what mama said, turn out the lights.
Make a contribution, why not make the easy ones?
Here's what else we talked about it at our lunch break today to
those who were there, it raises your self-esteem.
Plus your self-respect. That you do things that the
average person doesn't do maybe if they were talked, they would
maybe if somebody mentioned it they would but it's easy for
most everybody to just go on their way and if they're not
interrupted by a good idea that says, hey it's so easy to make a
contribution. This one would be easy, turn out
the lights when you leave the hotel room and make a
contribution, that's interesting.
Next is the phrase in terms of environment, always leave
something better than you found it.
I talked to a man one time who rented out a long list of of
apartments. And he said Mr. On, you wouldn't
believe it. But when somebody rents an
apartment, they usually leave it worse than when they rented it.
I said, you've got to be kidding.
He said, no, a high percentage of people leave it trashed.
They stayed six months or stay one year, they leave it trashed,
not just not better, but trashed, I said that's
impossible. Why would anyone do that?
Mama said to me, no, leave it. What better than you found it.
See, that's just a commitment to your own self esteem.
And why not do it. If it makes a contribution to
your self-esteem, it's called intelligent self-interest
intelligent self-interest. Self-interest says, I wish to be
ruler over many. And intelligent self-interest
is, I understand how to do that be faithful.
When the amounts respond, if you'll take care of the few, we
will someday give you a position of very high importance over
many. But if you don't be disciplined,
when the amounts are small, why would we trust you?
When the amounts are large? Brian mentioned that earlier why
would you why would life give you a fortune to man, if you
couldn't manage the gifts of a few Interesting philosophy to
consider, okay? You our own self-interest.
Leave the contribution. I'm even we're aware of it.
When I leave a restaurant and I get me a toothpick, right?
And you take off the little cellophane of the toothpick.
It's easy to throw it, but the cash register, right?
Or somewhere. Where looks like other people
have done the same mama said put it in your pocket.
Somebody says wow a little piece of cellophane.
What difference does it make it doesn't make that much
difference. Only in your self-respect, take
your trash home and deposited. How much does it cost to clean
up the trash on the highways in America?
Mega mega mega millions wouldn't people take home their own trash
and deposited there rather than scatter it on the highways
Across America? And the answer is, most people
do not it's so easy to throw it out the window but now add this
it's so easy to keep it in your car.
And have a few more points in your favor.
On self-esteem, feeling good about yourself, doing things
that most people don't do. If everybody never did it, what
a different country we would have, but it doesn't really
matter. You say, well, if everybody's
going to do it, why shouldn't I do it?
And the answer is for your own dignity and for your own self
esteem, you do things that most other people allow themselves to
do that, you don't do. And so, when I talk about the
Environment now were affected by the political environment and
social environment. Were affected by.
The economy environment. The economy environment.