Human emotions are powerful. They are so powerful that any
one of them can have a dramatic effect on your life in a single
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Emotions are tricky. They can go either way on you.
Emotions can build or destroy, weaken or strengthen, make or
break. It all depends on how you use
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Now back to Jim Rohn. We call civilization the
intelligent management of human emotion.
That's it. The power, given an intelligent
direction and objective, can accomplish spectacular things.
The power, the feelings, those surges of heart and soul, What
are they? What can they do?
Well, here are some. Let me just quickly give you a
list of four emotions that can change your life in one day.
Emotions are. Powerful.
Sometimes it doesn't take much to alter your whole life
direction. OK, here they are #1 disgust.
Powerful emotion. Disgust says I had had it.
See, that could be the day. The day you can say I've had it.
And whether you've had it with something small or something
major, the day you can say I've had it may not be the day it
ends, but the day it begins. That's what I said when that
little Girl Scout left my door when I'm 25.
I give her the big lie. She leaves.
I say I don't want to live like this anymore.
I've had it with Lion and being broke.
Powerful day. The man's finally had it with
mediocrity. He's had it with being a loser.
He's finally had it with those awful sick feelings inside
knowing his wife is at the grocery store looking at 2 cans
of beans, 1 mark, 37 cents, 1 mark $0.39 and the guy sick
inside knows his wife's going to buy the 37 cent can and she
doesn't even like the brand. Do you know why she's going to
buy the 37 cent can to save $0.02?
The guy sick inside finally says I've had it.
Being on my knees in the dust looking for pennies.
We're not living like this. Any moment could be the day that
turns your life around, the day you can say I've had it.
He walks into his closet and rips everything in it to shreds
and says I've worn this embarrassing stuff for the last
time and not only will I never wear it again, no one else will
ever wear it again. Come in an act that says I've
had it powerful. Here's the next one.
Decision and decision making is powerful and it's emotional.
That's those knots in the pit of your stomach, right?
Waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat trying to
decide. We sometimes call it inner civil
war. What shall I do?
Well, for progress, you must decide.
The best advice I can give you came from a wealthy friend of
mine who said if it's easy, do it easy, If it's hard, do it
hard. Just get it done If you went
home tonight and in the next few days cleaned up a whole list of
decisions that might furnish enough inspiration for the next
10 years. I found this out many times.
After you've decided, getting on with it is easier than deciding.
Sometimes decision is the toughest part.
Here's the next emotion. Desire.
Wanting too bad enough, and I don't know how to tell you to
want to. That's something you've got to
come up with. There's two things I know about
desire #1 it comes from inside, not outside.
You don't send off for it #2 I know desire can be triggered.
By something. Who knows what it might be?
Sometimes desire waits and sleeps for something to happen.
Maybe it's a book, maybe it's a song, Maybe it's a sermon.
Maybe it's a lecture, A seminar. Maybe it's the conversation of a
friend, a happening, an event. Who knows?
The best I can advice I can give you is what I give my staff.
It goes like this. Welcome every human experience.
You never know which one is going to turn it all on, even
the bad experiences. Sometimes from the bitterest
experience comes the greatest awakening.
So let down the barriers, take down the walls.
The same wall that keeps out disappointment, keeps out
happiness. Let life touch you.
Don't let it kill you, but let it touch you.
Here's the last one. This one's powerful.
Resolve. Resolve, says I will.
Two of the most powerful words in the language.
I will, Benjamin Disraeli once said.
Nothing can resist a human will that will stake even its
existence on the extent of its purpose.
Shortly put, I'll do it or die. See, that's powerful.
That could be the day that turns your life around.
The world has a strange way of stepping aside when somebody
says I'll do it or die. The man says I will climb the
mountain. They've told me it's too high,
it's too far, it's too steep, it's too rocky, it's too
difficult. But it's my mountain.
I will climb it. Pretty soon you will see me
waving from the top or dead on the side because I'm not coming
back. Hey, that's powerful Time and
faith and circumstance call a hasty conference and they all
agree we might as well let John have it.
He says he's going to get it or die.
Wow, that's it. Resolve.
The best definition of resolve I ever heard was from a junior
high girl in Foster City, CA. I'm talking to the junior high
kids and I asked the question. Who can tell me what resolve
means? I got several hands.
Some were pretty good, but the last one was the best, she said.
I think resolve means promising yourself you will never give up.
I said that's it, best I've heard.
Promise yourself you will never give up.
I asked the kids how long should a baby try to learn how to walk?
How long would you give the average baby before you shut him
off? You say That's crazy.
Any mother in the world would say my baby is going to keep
trying until it learns how to walk.
No wonder almost everyone walks. What a magic formula.
The until formula. Good question.
How long are you going to work to make your dreams of wealth
and happiness come true? I suggest the until formula.
It's the best emotions. Disgust.
Decision. Desire.
Resolve. Why postpone your better future
any longer? Get at it today.
Get some new books, make a new plan, set a new goal, ask some
new questions, lock on to a new resolve, make a new effort, and
do it all now. So if I had a word with you
tonight, 1:00 on. One just.
You and me. I think my personal advice to
you would be this year 1981 reached down inside of you and
come up with some more of those remarkable human gifts.
They're there waiting to be utilized and then change
anything for you. You want to change, and I
challenge you to do that because you can change.
If you don't like how it is for you, change it.
If it doesn't suit you, change it.
If it doesn't please you, change it.
If it isn't enough, change it. And I challenge you to do that
because you can change. See, you don't ever have to be
the same again after tonight. Only by choice.
If you don't like your present address, change it.
You're not a tree. What could you make yourself do,
starting tomorrow, that would change it all?
No tell. Now see, that's exciting.
On any given day, you can massively change the direction
of your life. Murder is a clear example that
any one person on any given day can forever alter the course of
their life. It just happens to be a negative
act. But just as sure as you can
commit a negative act, you can also commit a positive act and
forever alter your life whenever you wish.
Now that's exciting and whatever that might be that changes your
life. The guy finally takes a shotgun
to his car and blows out every window, destroys every tire,
puts 100 rounds in this shabby old thing.
And he says, I have driven this embarrassing thing for the last
time, and not only will I never drive it again, nobody else will
ever drive it again. And he lets that shuddering
thing stand there for a while as a monument to the day he said
today, my life changes. Now.
Who can do that? Anybody.
When can you do it? Whatever day you pick.