But here's what else? I hope you'll find your today
and that is inspiration. And who knows the mystery of
inspiration, why some people are inspired and some are not, you
were inspired to get here, some were not who knows the mystery
of that, I don't know. How come you made it rest of
them. Didn't make it, we don't know.
But that mystery is some people turned it down.
Some people said costs too much. Some people say it's going to
take too much time. Some people are too busy.
Right? A lot of different excuses.
Why some are inspired to take advantage of something that
comes to town others pass it up, we don't know them.
We do that. Here's what I call it Mysteries
of the mind, and I just leave it at that.
Some things I don't try to figure out.
I take the simple approach now, right?
Some people do and some people don't.
I mean, that's about as profound as My Philosophy is, some by an,
I'm don't buy some, go forward and some, don't some change, and
some don't, and if you've been around for a while, you can
usually work out the numbers right out of 10, you know,
three, do seven do. Whatever business you're
involved in pretty soon. You got this ratio going, the
ones that do the ones that don't you say, well, why don't the
ones that don't how come they don't?
We don't know. I just leave it as a mystery.
I used to try to understand all that, I just take the simple
approach down. The guy says, this happens to
me. This happens to me, this goes
wrong for me, and all this stuff goes wrong for me.
How come all this stuff happens to me?
I say, I don't know. Beats me the best.
I've been able to figure out, is those kind of things always
happen to people, like you, I mean, right?
The best. I got, I don't know.
I'm an amateur on this stuff. What do I know?
So just take the simple approach, right?
That's how it is. Who knows?
Interesting story says, the day the Christian church was
started. Now I'm an amateur on the Bible
but best account, I can remember the day, the Christian church
was started, a magnificent, sermon was preached, great
presentation. And if you're a student of all
at all of good communication, it was one of the classic
presentations of all times. The sermon first day Christian
Church was started. And it said the sermon does
presentation was given to a multitude meaning a lot of
people, but it was interesting as the account gives us the
record. It says, when the sermon was
finished, there was a variety of reaction to the same sermon.
Isn't it fascinating? I find it fascinating.
It said some that heard. This presentation were perplexed
and I read the presentation. Sounded pretty straightforward.
To me said, why would somebody be perplexed with a good sincere
straightforward presentation? Best answer?
I've got, they are the perplexed.
I mean you know what other explanation is that?
It doesn't matter who's preaching.
It said some that heard this presentation mocked and laughed.
Made fun of the presentation. I thought, hey, this looks
pretty sincere to me if you give a sincere honest presentation,
why would somebody Mock and laugh?
Easy explanation. They are the mockers and the
laughers. What else would you expect them
to do? Right?
I used to try to straighten all that out.
So they shouldn't do that. I don't do that anymore.
I've got peace of mind now. I sleep like a baby, not try to
straighten all the stuff out. I used to be so naive.
I used to say, well, I ER shouldn't lie.
See, how naive can you? Be course, they're supposed to
lie. That's why we call them.
Liars, they lie. Why don't straighten this stuff
out anymore? Anyway, it said some that heard
this magnificent presentation didn't know what was going on
and there are usually easy to spot.
They're usually saying what's going on, right?
And they don't know what's going on, but interesting, right?
A variety of reaction, to the same sincere, honest
presentation. Now, it also says in wrapping it
up some that heard the presentation believed.
And I think that's who the speaker was looking for the
Believers interested. Now, it said, the number of
Believers was about 3,000, so pretty good.
First day 3,000, I've had some first days, I never had 3000.
Some people never will have much there to cautious.
Now, you can also be too Reckless, but you can also be
too cautious. This is called the timid
approach to life. And my caution was always the
risk risk used to drive me right up the wall.
I used to say, what if this happens it's called the language
of the poor. What if this happens?
And on top of that, if this was to happen, look at the fix IB
and I better not try, I could always ask myself out.
Then I'll tell you what, changed my whole life.
When I finally discovered it's all risky The minute you were
born at gut risky. If you think trying is risky,
wait till they hand you, the bill for not trying.
If you think investing is risky wait till you get the tab for
not investing. See it's all risky.
Get married as risky having children is risky going into.
Business is risky, investing your money is risky, it's all
risky. I'll tell you how risky life is,
you're not going to get out alive.
That's risky. The Englishman says, well if
that's the way it's going to work out, let's give it a go,
right? That's what it's for.
Give it a go. Somebody says, yeah, but I'm
looking for Safety and Security fine.
Then huddle in a corner. We'll cover you with a sheet.
Bring you three meals a day. And we'll protect you feed.
You look after you care for you. We won't let anything happen to
you and you'll probably live to be 100.
The guy said well, yeah, I live to be 100 but what?
A way to live, right? What.
A way to live safe and secure. Don't ask for security, ask for
an adventure. Better to live 30 years, full of
Adventure than 100 years safe in the corner.
And see it's not important. How long you live what's
important is how you live. Here's the next attitude
disease. We're almost through with this
Motley list. In fact, we're almost through
hang on. The next one is pessimism.
Pessimism the deadly disease of always, looking on the bad side.
The problem side, the difficult side.
Checking all the reasons, why it can't be done.
The poor pessimist leads an ugly life.
He doesn't try to figure out what's right?
He tries to figure out what's wrong.
He doesn't look for virtue. He looks for false.
And when he finds him he's delighted How uh This is the
poor guy looks through the window doesn't see the sunset.
He sees the specs on the Wind. And this is the poor guy, right?
Who rushes up? Take such leave of his senses.
This guy rushes up and he says, I've got five.
Good reasons why it won't work. He's so dumb.
He doesn't know. All you needs one, it's got the
five. To the pessimist, the glass is
always half-empty. To The Optimist, the glass is
half-full. Why would the same measure
affect people? Two different ways, answer, it
all. Depends on how you look at it.
Our lives are mostly affected by the way.
We think things are not the way they are.
The way we think they are affects us.
Most There's a subject, we don't have time to get into tonight
called better thinking habits. One of the major things show of
top me when I met him, he said, poor thinking habits keeps most
people, poor not poor working happens, most people work hard
but they don't think hard. And she'll taught me that the
mind is like a factory, a mental Factory and whatever you think
about all day long, pours ingredients into this mental
Factory. And that's what bills the
economic social Financial fabric of your life. he quoted me a
Bible phrase that says, as you think, so you become How awesome
when he talked about poor thinking habits, he had me.
I used to start today. Reading the morning newspaper.
I mean, you can believe that or not, I'd get a cup of coffee and
read the paper. I'd load up on Wars and riots
and murders, and stabbings, and killings and bank robberies, and
muggings and car wrecks and tragedies.
I've even read the back pages. I seem to like that stuff for
some weird reason I'd load up on all that.
And then I start the day. You can imagine the kind of
days, I used to have you walk around on your financial knees,
they call you economic peewee. The guy says, I want to be a
great leader, wonderful. The first thing we do is follow
him to his house. When we get there, we walk in
and check his library. Number one, Somebody says, well,
why check his Library? The reason is because what a man
reads, pours, massive ingredients into his mental
Factory and the fabric of his life is built from those
ingredients. You would not believe what some
people have got in their house to read.
You would not believe one of the best dressed up words.
I know for a lot of it is trash. Can you imagine dumping a bill
of trash into this mental Factory every day and coming out
with a rich Dynamic positive life?
It can't be done. You might as well try making a
cake with cement the kids back in.
Danbury Connecticut High School they're asking me questions one
day. I'm talking to the kids kids got
good questions these days. One of them said to me mr.
Own, how do you build the good life?
I said it's simple, it's not easy, but it's simple.
Here's how you build. Anything.
Select the right ingredients, keep out the wrong ingredients
and it starts with a thought. Everything starts with thought.
So you must be wise and careful what you think about because
that starts everything. You got to be wise and careful.
I ask the kids. What would happen?
If somebody drops sugar in my coffee they said, will you be
okay? I said, what if somebody drops
strychnine in my coffee, they said, well, you'd be dead.
I said, correct lesson. One life is both sugar and
strychnine. You gotta be careful.
I said what is my worst enemy drops in the sugar?
They said will you be okay? I said what if my best friend
even by accident drops in the strychnine?
They said, well, you'd be dead. I said correct less than to
watch your coffee. You got to be careful.
See, it doesn't matter who hands you the bad stuff.
It doesn't matter where you get the bad stuff, it'll still do
its damage on your bank account wherever you get it.
Mr. Shelf gave me one of the greatest phrases when I first
met him when he said gym, everyday, stand guard at the
door of your mind. How important stand guard at the
door of your mind. And you decide what goes into
your mental Factory? Don't let anybody just dump
anything they want to in your mental Factory because you've
got to live with the results. Okay, here's the last disease
and we're through with this list.
Fact, we're almost through hang on.
The last subject is very brief. The last disease.
But this one is deadly engage in this one indulgent of even
slightly and you might as well forget the future because it's
going to forget you complaining. Crying whining, griping.
A Bible word called murmuring. See that allais, your future.
Spend five minutes complaining and you have wasted five and you
may have begun. What's known as economic cancer
of the bone. Surely they will soon haul you
off into a financial desert and they're let you choke on the
dust of your own regret. I hope I said that well, so you
won't forget it's a deadly disease.
If you don't think it's bad, ask the children of Israel of Old
Testament. Fame, typical of us all their
story. Just happened to get in the
book. Story says, children of Israel
were slaves. God performed a series of
dazzling Miracles and got him out and now they're heading for
the promised land. Remember, the story headin for
the promised land tragedy of the story.
They never got there. Reason from day one, they
started to complain. They griped about the water.
They griped about the weather, they wind and cried and griped
about the food. They griped about the
leadership, they wind and cried because it was too far, too cold
to hot too difficult to miserable.
I mean, they widen wind and cried for years.
Finally, God said, I've had it Insult or something like that.
The story says, they died in the desert, never got to the
promised land, which I think these two things indulgent is
long enough, you get your future tenses and I guess it also means
even God himself can only take so much.
Just be on the lookout of the things that can destroy all the
good you start? The war is on, And this evening
tomorrow, mentally personally, socially economically.
You got to make sure you're winning the war and this is part
of it.