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 habits, most people work hard,
but they don't think hard. And show 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 the day 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 in 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.
Peter, 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 upwards I know for
a lot of it is trash. Can you imagine dumping a barrel
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 asked the kids. What would happen?
If somebody drops sugar in my coffee, they said, well, you'd
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 lesson 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 disease but this one
is deadly engage in this one. Indulge in it 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 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.