Now let's expand a little further now that it's called the
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In our own self-interest, if we wish to be rich and wealthy and
prosperous and healthy and all the valuable things we can think
of for the human experience, how could we get there?
It's understanding the law of enlightened self-interest and
the law of deserving. The question was asked in the
Bible. How can we be great?
What is the key to greatness, great wealth, great return,
great accolades, trophies to put on the mantle above the
fireplace? How can we get great respect,
great riches, great abundance for ourselves?
How can we get that? And the answer was given, and
here was the answer. Find a way to serve.
Find a way to serve the many. So I paraphrase it to read this
Service to many leads to greatness.
Someone says, well, about the best I can do is take care of
myself. That's OK. self-care, you know,
has its own reward, but it's very limited.
Somebody says, I can't be worried about other people's
problems. I got enough problems on my own.
That's OK. self-defense is OK, Self preservation is OK.
But it has a very limited reward.
If you wish to change that into abundance and prosperity and
uniqueness, then here's what you must do.
Help solve other people's problems.
Help find answers for someone else.
Not just for yourself, but for someone else.
And in that kind of service you now begin the process of
greatness. Someone asked the question, how
can I be ruler over many? How could I manage a lot of
people? How could I be the leader of a
vast movement or enterprise? Here was the answer.
Nothing wrong with that wish. We call that self-interest of
the highest kind, wishing to be the manager, the ruler, wishing
to be presiding over many people.
Here was the answer. Be faithful when the amounts are
small. Be faithful when there's just a
few. Be disciplined when there's only
a few. That starts to entitle you to
someday be ruler over many. You say, well, if I had a big
organization, you know, I'd really run it with a strong hand
and I'd be a fabulous leader. But I've only got a few, and I
don't know where they are. See that that's not going to
work. If you wish to preside over
riches, you must start when the amounts are small.
Someone says, oh, if I had a fortune, I'd really take good
care of it, but I've only got a paycheck.
I don't know where it goes. See, not knowing where it goes
disqualifies you now for presiding over the fortune.
We've all heard that, right? I don't know where it all goes.
Did you ever hear that expression?
Oh, we'd love to have you run the company.
You don't know where it all goes.
Somebody says, it just gets away from me.
Oh, we'd love to have you run the world right.
It just gets away from you. Somebody says it's only pennies
and it's only a few. Here's where you begin.
To qualify for abundance and riches and greatness and respect
is to be disciplined. When the amounts are small.
Someone finds it unique, right? That this many people would come
and hear what I've got to say for a whole weekend.
But this is not where I started. I started with just a few, but I
was so on fire with the few, trying to translate for them in
my awkward ways. Back then, what had happened to
me? My life got changed, my income
got changed, my health got changed, everything got changed
for the better. And now I've lived the most
extraordinary life. But it started with my passion
for just a few, to translate for just the few.
Someone says, well, they're just a few here, you know, does this
meeting matter when there's only a few?
And the answer is yes, jot this down.
You never know who's in the audience, whether it's a few or
1000 or whatever, but you got to be faithful.
When there's just a few, tell your story.
When there's just a few, be just as passionate about ideas that
can change someone's life. When there's just a few, now you
begin. You're not fully qualified, but
you begin the qualification to someday speak to many, someday
preside over a vast crowd, someday be the manager or the
leader of millions. It starts in those early days to
deserve it. Now jot this down.
Also give yourself a chance to change some things.
I held onto that. I thought this was it, this was
it. I'm telling you after a while I
gave it up, found out it wasn't it.
So give yourself a chance to change.
Refine your philosophy, refine your direction.
If you'll give yourself a chance to do that, here's what will
happen down the road a ways. A new door will open that you
haven't discovered before. Give yourself a chance to
change. Re evaluate.