Sometimes from a delightful experience or tragic experience,
it can be the day that changes everything for me.
It was the Girl Scout that knocked on my door.
When I was 25 years old and gave me the big presentation about
Girl Scout cookies and I wanted to buy she said it's only two
dollars several flavors and with a big smile, she politely asked
me to buy and I wanted to big problem.
I didn't have two dollars in my pocket.
Pocket. So I didn't want to tell her
that, right? I'm a grown, man.
I'm 25 years old. I've been to one year of
college. I've got a little family going.
So I decided next best to lie to her.
I said, look, I've already got lots of Girl, Scout cookies.
I bought some, we still haven't eaten all of them there in the
house. She said, oh, that's wonderful.
Thank you very much. And she leaves when she leaves,
I say to myself. I don't want to live like this
anymore. I mean, how low can you get
right lion to a Girl Scout? That's about as low as it gets.
So I promised myself that day, it would never happen again.
That was a life-changing day for me recognizing that.
I was not in a good position. I must start making my search a
guy climbs the stairs and there's about 40 stairs to climb
and he finally gets to the top sits down and he's out of
breath. And he says, wow, this is not
good. I've got to do something about
my health. So can be something that simple.
So he starts a little research program and decides to get his
health, in order to develop a good nutritional program,
whatever. And from that day on, he says,
I'm not going to be out of breath anymore.
Yesterday, I quoted the saying there's nothing so powerful as
an idea whose time has come. Then I quoted it another way.
There's nothing so powerful as an idea that comes at the right
time, so I said a little prayer before I left my hotel room
today and my prayer. As I hope today is one of those
right times for many in my audience and you never know when
for someone it's the first time or you're the first voice that
sort of awakens a search for a better life, meaning skills
disciplines or you're one of many voices.
Or they've heard many before and now yours sort of comes on a day
when the lights go on, they're never the same again.
One of my friends woke up one day David and he said sitting at
the Yacht Club, having a drink sitting sort of in a fog
something spoke to him and said put could you really have done
if you hadn't have been in this condition the last 15-20 years
of your life? You know, it wasn't like an
out-and-out alcoholic, but he just, you know, he drank too
much and he started thinking about that.
What could I have really accomplished?
You know, we live in a world where opposites are in conflict
and we're in the middle, there's the pull to do good in the pool
to do. Evil to do what's right or pools
across the line. That bit of warfare goes on,
Even in our own head, our own Consciousness when I was a
little kid growing up. I remember this cartoon of a
little boy. And it showed this little boy,
with a little devil on one shoulder and little angel, and
the other shoulder little devil said to the little boy.
Go ahead and do it. It'll be okay, it'll be fine.
Go ahead, go ahead and little angels saying, no, no, no, don't
do it, don't do it. Little devil said, yes, go ahead
little, angel voice. No, no, and I guess that's part
of our life experience. It's part of the adventure.
The old Prophet said, love good and hate evil.
And if we become educated in that way, knowing when the Voice
of Temptation is not the right road to take, we make some
better choices when I got up this morning, a little voice
said, you really don't have to do your exercises today.
You could skip today, you've got some work to do and I got in at
about one o'clock this morning on my Airline flight from
Colorado Springs. But as recently as this morning,
the little voice said, you don't have to do them this morning.
But I will know that if I postpone a day, sure enough.
I've got to make up for it somewhere, maybe do a modified
version and if I don't have quite enough time but don't let
it just go, but we all have that, you know, that's fairly
constant. What voice to listen to?
I guess part of the answer here is not to become a victim of
yourself, Beware of the thief on the street, that's after your
purse. But also, Beware of the thief in
your mind, that's after your promise, the little thief in
your head that says, you're too tall, you're too short.
You've never done it before. Not going to happen for you.
Others can find this book. You can't find it.
If you found it, you probably wouldn't read it.
If you read it, you probably wouldn't understand it.
This is a constant bit of warfare going on inside of our
head. So we all have to deal with that
but what I call that in these experiences is the Great
Adventure. Lady said to me that I met once
in New York, she was vice president of this company.
She made big money. I don't think she finished her
high school education. She was still young with a young
family and I said to her. How did you get here?
This is a tough business. You make big money.
You didn't graduate from high school.
What happened? And she said, well, let me tell
you part of the story. She said years ago, one day I
asked my Opened for $10. And he said, what for she said,
by the end of that day, I had promised myself that I would
never ever ask for money again and she said, yes I am vice
president. Yes, I do make big money.
Yes, I am young. Yes, I did not graduate from
high school but she said, I promise you mr.
Rowan from that day until this I have never asked for money
again. She said I started searching for
opportunity. And it started taking some
classes, learn the skills. Totally changed my life.
I'm sure she would say that was one of the days that turned her
life around. Thank you for watching, please.
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