Take full responsibility for what happens to you.
It's one of the highest forms of human maturity.
Accepting full responsibility. It's the day you know you've
passed from childhood to adulthood.
The day you accept full responsibility.
Quick question, ever feel like you know what to do but just
can't make yourself do it? You're not lazy, you're stuck in
a system that never taught real self-discipline.
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And another note, learn to reap in the fall without apology,
without apology if you do well, and without complaint if you
don't. That's maturity.
I used to have that long list of reasons why I wasn't doing well
to explain. You got to explain, right?
Otherwise you're going to look bad.
I used to have this funny list called Reasons for not looking
Good. I used to blame the government.
I mean you can believe that or not.
It was at the top of my list. I had a lecture second to none.
The government that was on my list.
I used to blame taxes. Look what you got left after
they take everything and they expect you to do well.
That was on my list. There.
Prices. That one's easy, right?
You walk into the supermarket with $20, come out with a little
half bag. So I had that on my list.
I used to blame the weather, I blame the traffic.
I used to blame my car. I blame the manufacturers.
I used to blame the company. I blamed company policy.
I used to blame the training program.
I blame my negative relatives. They were always putting me
down. I blame my cynical neighbors.
They're just selfish. Looking out for themselves,
won't loan you money. They were on my list.
I used to blame the economy. I blame the community.
That's a pretty good list for not doing well, isn't it?
I thought it was good. I'll never forget one day.
Mr. Shelf is very kind, but he was also very blunt, and this
was no exception. And I'm glad he was blunt.
There's a lot of things I'd have missed if he hadn't have been
blunt. One day, with sort of a curious
look on his face, he said. Jim, just out of curiosity, tell
me, how come you haven't done well up until now?
Excellent question. I thought, well, so I won't look
too bad. I'll go through my list and this
list I just gave you. I put that on him and he was
very patient. He let me go through the whole
thing. The government, the weather, I
went through this whole thing. When I finished, he looked my
list over very carefully. He said, Mr. Own big problem
with your list, you ain't on it. How brilliant.
When I went to work for him a few months later, I learned very
quickly to tear up my list reasons for not doing well.
And I threw it away and I got me a fresh piece of paper and I put
one word on it. Me.
There's a black heritage spiritual that says it's not my
mother nor my father nor my brother nor my sister, but it's
me, Oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer.
See, I used to blame everything outside.
And then let me give you a little philosophy that helped
turn my life around for your notes.
Here it is. It's not what happens that
determines the quality or the quantity of your life.
It's not what happens. And the reason is because what
happens, happens to about everybody.
No different. The sun went down on all of us
last night. A common event, a happening.
And I found out that the same things can happen to two
different people. One gets rich and one stays
poor. Why is that?
It's because it's not what happens, but rather it's what
you do that changes everything. So that's a key phrase.
It's not what happens, it's what you do.
What happens is about the same. You might put that in
parenthesis here. Same what people do.
That's what's different. Anything can happen, right?
Everything can happen. I've heard all the stories.
I've been one of the stories. Hey, we could all tell stories
all night long, right? Happenings.
Anything can happen. Have you heard of Murphy's Laws?
Anybody here heard of Murphy's Laws?
OK, most of you have. Murph had these laws.
One of them was. If anything can go wrong, it
will. That's one of Murphy's laws.
He was not one of the great positive speakers of the day.
But anyway, it's still true though, right?
Anything can go wrong. Everything can go wrong for
sure. I've fallen out of the sky so
many times. Once to the tune of a couple of
million. Devastating.
Took me a while to survive that one.
Now. It wasn't all that much, but it
was all ahead. I mean, that's when it's much,
right? When it's all you got.
If you got 3 to go, you got one left.
You ain't looking that bad. But when it all goes, has
anybody been there when it all went?
Anybody. Come on, Rescue liars.
Hey, we've all been there, right?
When it all went, of course, used to be a long time ago,
right? When you ran out of money, got
to zero, you were all through heck.
Now, you can whistle right on by zero, right?
I mean, they will bury you. That's what they will do.
But see, those are the happenings, right?
Everything can happen. Anything can happen.
But it's not the happenings. It's what you do about it.
Somebody says, yeah, but you don't understand the
disappointments I've had. Come on, Everybody's had their
share. Disappointments are not special
gifts reserved for the poor. Everybody has them.
The difference is what you do about It's not the weather.
I used to blame the weather and I discovered it rains on the
rich. So see, that won't help.
Two men wake up 1 morning, there's a rainstorm on one of
them. Looks out his window, sees the
rainstorm and he says, wow, what a storm.
With weather like this, they can't expect you to go out and
make sales. He stays home.
Same morning the other guy looks out his window, sees the same
storm, says wow, what a storm. But he says, you know what, with
weather like this, what a great day to go out and make sales.
Most everybody will probably be home, especially the salesman.
See, that's the difference in how your life works out.
It's not what happens, it's what you do.
So here's one of the key questions of the evening.
Starting tomorrow, what are you going to do that'll make a
change in your life's direction? Good question.
What are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a
difference? Now see, if you don't do
something starting tomorrow that'll make a difference.
Guess what, it's going to be the same and see that way you can
guess what the next five years are going to be like.
Look at the last five because the next 5 are going to be like
the last five unless you major key tomorrow.
Change it all or change a little or change something or don't
change. It's choice time.
You can do whatever you want, but it's nice to know any day
you wish you can change your whole life.
What can you do starting tomorrow that'll make a
difference? Good question.
What can you do with economic chaos?
Massive disappointment. What can you do with a broken
heart? What can you do and it won't
work? Good question.