Now, I want to get busy on the first couple of subjects for
today, every that's okay. Say, I'm okay.
Here's the first subject that I've found.
So interesting. I want to share with you that 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 shoaf.
Here's an interesting subject. Just jotted down.
Oh, it's called enlightened self-interest.
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 plan.
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 read.
Interesting Bible phrase, it says 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 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, we
find them because we deserve only those who knock deserve to
find an open Group. 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 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 says, if you ask Someone has
an answer, if you keep asking the answers belong to you.
Because by virtue of asking you 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 brought a bucket of
paint and a paintbrush. And the next time I come, if the
door is painted in 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?
Into 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 in the door, is painted in the fence, has faded, and now
Mary gets the $450 to help take care of her children.
Not because she needs it, because she's beginning to
deserve it. Then the welfare worker thinks
of some other project. She said, Mary, these weeds are
gone, and this little garden is cultivated.
When I come back. Now, that the door is painted in
the fence is baited. If the weeds are gone and this
little garden is cultivated, you get the $450 and step-by-step a
new Is emerging learning the process of deserving.
It not just needed. We teach our children at home,
right? Child says, I need ten dollars.
So that language doesn't work here.
There's plenty of money here and the vaults are full.
But to say, I need ten dollars 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 before, maybe you need
the money. That's all of us have needs
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 the deed, 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 brings me no seed.
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 knee, 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 you see We get what we deserve.
Old Testament, God says, if you'll move toward me, I'll move
toward you. See 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 your God's you can
make it that way. 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, my 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
bitter 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 them.
I take the money. I don't need them.
But here's what I do need for someone to say, a year from now,
five years from now. Mr. Roane that seminar help 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 thinks.
You can't buy it with money. You have to earn it.
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 thinks. You can't buy it with money.
You have to earn it.