Before we begin, Jim Rohn taught us that the things that are easy
to do are also easy not to do. And that's where fortunes are
quietly decided. Not in dramatic moments, but in
small daily disciplines. We created the Self-discipline
Hacks Playbook to help you remove, neglect, and execute
those simple actions consistently.
If you want the next six years to look different from the last
six, you'll find it in the description.
Now let's begin. I found an opportunity.
That's all you got to do in America.
Search for an opportunity. Take the first one right.
Try it. That isn't it leads to another.
One door closes. Another door opens.
This is what's exciting about America.
It's full of opportunity. A chance to try, and then what?
Try again, and then what? Try again.
Never, never run out of opportunity to try.
See if you can't better your life and your health and your
future and your bank account and your income.
Make your fortune here. I lived in America #1 found an
opportunity #3 #2 here's #3 I found a teacher.
What a grand and glorious unique thing that was for me at that
time in my life. I found a teacher willing to
teach me, and his teaching came in two parts.
Here's what it was very simple #1 Mr. Ron, you have evidently
messed up between ages 19 and 25.
Now I could understand that, but he didn't leave me there.
He said. Now here's the answers on how to
change it all the next six years so that the next six years won't
be like the last six. What an incredible teacher.
Taught me how to have a whole brand new six years, 1st 6 what
I messed up second six what I got it right.
Second six years, I became a millionaire.
During that second six years, the government was about the
same. I'm telling you, interest rates
were about what? The same.
The pay scale was about what the same.
Lord knows my negative realities were the same.
Circumstances were about the same, the economy was about the
same, the unions and their philosophy was about the same.
What was going on around me was about the same.
Then how come I got rich that second six years I was not the
same. I changed.
You said, well, Mr. Own, if you can do that, can anybody do it?
Yes. I invite you on that journey
anytime you want to. You can stay the same so that
the next six years to be like the last six.
Take a look at the last six years and I'm telling you the
next six years of your life is going to be like the last six.
Or unless you want to count on this short list that we call not
much list. Most everybody's counting on
this not much list. What if all of your negative
relatives turn positive? What would that do for your
future and your fortune? What?
Not much, not much? What if prices came down a
little? What'll that do for your future?
I'm telling you, not much. If the economy gets a little
better, what'll that do? Not much.
Now that the Democrats are in power, what's that going to do
for your future? Not much.
We got it. We could get a good debate going
here. If the Republicans would have
stayed in power, what would that have done?
Not much. Hey, we could get a good debate
going here. I'm telling it's a not much
list. If you don't make plans of your
own, guess what? You'll probably always fit into
someone else's plans. Guess what someone else may have
planned for you. Then what's going to make the
difference? You're going to have to make the
difference. You're going to have to take
charge. Now, Mr. Schoaf, my teacher gave
me a promise and I want to give you that promise.
Now. Here was the promise I got and I
bring it to you. Here's what my teacher said.
If you will change Mr. Own, he said if you will change,
everything will change for you. You don't have to change the
government, you don't have to change prices, you don't have to
change taxes, get all that, he said.
If you will change, everything will change for you.
And the first thing you start changing is what your
philosophy. You start changing your mind,
You start changing how you think.
You start picking up new ideas and information, gather new
knowledge, make better decisions about what's valuable.
And I'm telling you, if you'll do that, your whole life will
change. Your health will change, your
relationship with your family will change, your ability to
cope with challenges and problems will change.
I'm telling you income, promotions, all of it will
change. If you will change, it'll all
change. If you won't change, it isn't
going to change. You can keep your fingers
crossed if you want to and hope they'll straighten it out.
You can wish for the wind not to blow quite as severe.
But I'm telling you, wishing for the wind to change in your
favour, we, we call naive at best, don't do this any longer.
Wish for a better wind. The key is to wish for the
wisdom to set a better sail. Utilize whatever wind that blows
to take you wherever you want to go.
That is the philosophy I picked up at age 25 and it
revolutionized my whole life. And here's what I found.
I found it was easy. I got rich by the time I was 31
and it was easy. Now here's my definition of
easy. Got to jot this down.
My definition of easy meaning something I could do.
I figure if it's something you can do, it's easy.
Now here's a ( (. I worked hard at it.
I found something I could do which was easy, but I worked
hard at it. I got up early and stayed up
late, worked hard that six years.
But what I did was easy, meaning it was something I could do.
You say, well, Mr. Own, if it was so easy, how come everybody
else around you during that six years?
How come they didn't get rich? Here's why it's easy not to.
How else would you describe it? That's it.
You say no, No, for all of the rest of them.
It was hard for them and it was easy for you.
That's not true. You couldn't debate me on that
in front of this intelligent audience.
But here's the challenge. Let me give it to you in the
philosophical phrase. I tend to be a little
philosophical. Here it is.
The things that are easy to do are also easy not to do.
That's the difference between success and failure.
So you've got the choice here today of one of two Easys Easy
to or what? Easy not to.
I can give you in one sentence how I got rich by the time I was
31. Here it is in one sentence.
I did not neglect to do the easy things I could do every day for
six years. Underline, I did not neglect.
That's the key. I found something easy I could
do that led to fortune and I did not neglect to do it.
Major reason for not having everything you want in America.
Major reasons we're not having more of what you want in
America. More health, more money, more
power, more influence, more everything.
Major reason why you don't get it.
Simple answer. Neglect.
And here's the problem with
neglect. It starts as an infection and if
you don't take care of it, it becomes a disease.
And here's what else is the problem. 1 Neglect leads to
another. Neglect to do wise things with
your money. You'll probably neglect to do
wise things with your time. Neglect to do wise things with
your time. You'll probably neglect to do
wise things with your business. One leads to another leads to
another. Pretty soon neglect has you by
the throat, emptying your purse, emptying your heart, emptying
all of your chances for equities and power and all the good
things. Neglect.
What if you should be walking around the block every day for
your good health and you don't? I'm telling you, you're on the
wrong track. You should do it.
You could do it. You don't do it.
That's called formula for disaster.
All you've got to do is let that and a few other things
accumulate for six years, and now you're driving what you
don't want to drive, wearing what you don't want to wear,
living where you don't want to live, doing what you don't want
to do, maybe having become what you really didn't want to
become. I'm telling you that's it.
Just neglect along, drift along, and it's got you by the throat.
It'll take all your values, leave you with just a little bit
of dust in a summer wind, and it'll soon be gone.
I hope I said that. Well, that's it.
It's where I found myself at age 25 until my teacher came along
and said, Mr. Owen, up till now, you've messed up.
Let's see if we can't clean that up, Change it.
All I did changed my life, not just the money, all the rest of
the values that came pouring in when I understood that it was
me, it was me. So take the easy approach.
This stuff's easy to figure out. Getting rich is easy.
I teach it to teenagers how to be rich by 4035.
If you're extra bright, this stuff is not difficult.
I love to teach kids enterprise.