JIM ROHN ► now here's the next one we're affected
by what we know what you know what you
don't know the accumulation of knowledge
or the lack of knowledge affects your
dreams affects your future affect your
income affects your bank account affects
your associations affects everything
straight to your charlie talk about
reading books so important all the
speakers here have mentioned right
you've got to really be a student study
so you can learn how to make wise
decisions that will give you the best
chance to build for the future okay
here's what's next we're affected by
results whatever your current economic
results whatever project you've launched
the results up until now that affects
you the results you've had in the past
up until now that's affected you now
here's number five we're affected by our
dreams our dreams meaning our view of
the future for ourselves
now here's a note to me it's important
to make sure that the greatest tool on
your life is the pull of the future now
we talked yesterday about reviewing the
past which is fine but we're not to live
in the past some people let the past
pull them back pull them back the past
can be like gravity if you let it to
pull you back not just to think about it
to get advice from mistake to carry on
for the future but some people live in
the past they live in the darkness of
the past they live in the mistakes of
the past they live in the discouragement
of the past they didn't make it you know
and that affects them for the rest of
their life living in the past so we
don't want the future the path to pull
us back to live in the past and all
other kinds of things that affect us
it's going to affect us to some extent
but not to the extent that we should be
affected by the future so make this note
dreams and goals can become magnets
dreams and goals can become magnets
and the stronger the goal the higher the
purpose the more powerful the objective
the stronger this magnet is that pulls
you that direction now not only does
your goals and your objective objectives
pull you that direction here's what they
also do they pull you through they pull
you through all kinds of down days they
pull you through a difficult time it'll
pull you through some winter of your
life
some people get lost in the confusion of
the day simply because their goal is not
bright enough to pull them through one
writer of ancient times said we can walk
through the valley even though there's
shadows of death around we walk through
the valley and here's why it's possible
to walk through the valley even though
there's death and shadows and
difficulties is because we have a view
of the other side of the valley next its
goals that drive us to take advantage of
the spring why would the farmer put the
plow in the ground in the spring if he
couldn't see the vision of the harvest
when the summer is finished is it
possible to see the finished harvest and
the answer is yes we do that simply by
fading keyphrase faith is the ability to
see things that don't yet exist and
that's how things exist how did this
hotel get here someone saw it while the
property was vacant you say well Kenya
is it possible to see this hotel when it
isn't here and the answer is yes of
course
if somebody cannot see it when it is not
here then it will never be here so it's
possible to see things that don't yet
exist
interesting
it's also a little time management quote
but let me quote it now because it goes
so well with what we're talking about
here when should you start building this
hotel this is this is a good question
for your philosophical musings when
should we start building the house when
should we start and here's the answer as
soon as it's finished you wouldn't start
building the house until you headed
finished if you just started laying
bricks and somebody came around said
what are you're doing but I'm just
laying bricks and said what are you
building you said I have no idea see
they'll take you away to a safe place so
if you got that now it's possible to
finish something before you start in
fact it would be a bit foolish to start
until you had it finished so human
beings have this remarkable ability to
finish something and then started okay
we've heard the old expression don't
count your chickens till their hats they
know we have the ability to count our
chickens long before their hands because
we know we have faith we believe we use
the law of averages there's bound to be
at least so many out of every dozen out
of every hundred out of every 50 so it's
possible to see the end then begin so
here's what we want to do in our
goal-setting session is to start looking
into the future of what you would like
to accomplish where you would like to go
the person you would like to be and see
if you can't get a better picture of the
finished objective see yourself there
see yourself in possession of and was in
business with Bob Cummings the old movie
star for a while
he said decide what you want and then
act as if you already had it and being
an actor he could give us a few tips on
acting decide what you want and act as
if it was already yours now the reason
we can act
thinking that it's already ours is
because not only can we vision the end
results we can also vision the beginning
of making it real so we don't start till
it's finished but it is possible for
human beings to finish something before
they start just jump this down that's a
bit philosophical but we'll cover it
before we take our lunch break and
that's this human beings are the only
life on Earth that has this incredible
capacity to change the course of your
life no other life-form can do that
every other life-form except humans
seems to operate simply by instinct in
the genetic code in the winter the goose
flies out how often answer every winter
if you said to the goose hey it'd be
better this year to go west he ignored
that advice and the reason is because he
cannot make choices and listen to advice
of something that might be better he has
to obey instinct and the genetic code
but now jot this down not human beings
human beings can alter the course of
their life human beings can live one way
for five years tear up that script live
a totally different way the next five
years the first six years of my economic
life I wound up broke second six years I
wanted a bridge someone says how did you
do that here's number one I discovered I
was not a goose someone says don't you
have to do the second six years like you
did the first six years and jump this
down no no you don't have to live the
second six years like the first six you
can use all the information and all the
advice and repairing all of your
mistakes and adopting a new and refined
philosophy so that the next six years
can be totally different than the last
six no other life form can do this see
if you were to tree you'd be stuck
as a tree if you used up all the
nourishment that was around you and you
couldn't change location - you would die
but that's not true human beings can
change location go north south east west
live here for a while live somewhere
else for a while so that's a note - mate
you can greatly alter the course of your
life now here's the next note to make
five years from now you will arrive the
question is where this is for mature
people note if you keep up your prison
disciplines and keep up the present pace
that you're on where would you be in
five years I want to teach you to say eh
I haven't really thought about that so
now make this note in five years here's
the probability you will either arrive
at a well-designed destination or an
undesigned destination well designed or
undesigned and I promise you five years
ago you really don't want to arrive at
an undesigned
destination because you may very well
wind up wearing what you don't want to
wear driving which you don't want to
drive living where you don't want to
live maybe doing what you don't want to
do simply because you didn't design a
better destination key phrase upfront
the decisions are easy now sometimes
after we've lived a few years now to
repair our mistakes and get back on
track seems like a tough job if you've
messed up your health for ten years I'm
killing it takes more than ten days to
get it back but here's the key in the
soul exciting to talk to the teenagers
make the note if you start early the
fortune belongs to you if you start
early and we're going to talk later
today about the fortune of the money not
just the fortune of good health but all
fortunes that are available to humans if
you start early the promise looms large
and the odds are heavy in your favor now
yes it's possible to do some radical
thing starting late and still arrive
with some good treasures and some good
things but when you haven't got that
much time
left now sometimes the decision has to
be so drastic people are not willing to
make it they're too tired too weary and
too ill and say look I don't have much
time left it's not going to happen for
me anyway it's easy to take that
attitude but everyone here we've got the
time over the next 10 years we've got
the time the next 20 years we've got the
time the next 30 years to make some
repair now in our errors of the past and
set up some new disciplines and I'm
telling you that's going to change
everything so five years from now I wish
for you to arrive at a well designed
place a place of productivity place that
will make you feel good about yourself a
place that will give you honor and
respect a place that will give you
influence to touch other people five
years from now that you couldn't do
today where will you be in five years
key phrase we go the direction we face
we go the direction we face if you start
designing something at the end of this
direction sure enough you will start
going the direction you face and we face
the direction we design
next trade direction determines
destination destination is not
determined by hope it's not determined
by wish destination is determined by
directions now here's the good news and
we're going to take our break for lunch
you cannot change destination overnight
you cannot change destination overnight
which means you can arrive at a five
years from now place tomorrow but here's
what you can change today and overnight
you can change direction and it is so
fascinating what a little small change
of direction will do let's say that
you're here and you're headed this way
and five years from now you'll wind up
here but if you made just a few changes
and maybe those changes you've already
decided on this weekend I wish I had a
chance to hear all of the stories of
what's going to happen to all of you
after this weekend right the economic
decisions you've made the decisions
you've made about your family about your
health and about your future
I'm telling you decision-making on an
occasion like this where everybody's
committed to come and learn study and
read take notes and change and develop
it's going to be awesome what can happen
after this weekend and I wish I could
track everybody's progress and enjoy all
of that incredible productivity that's
going to happen for all of us
collectively I'm telling you no telling
how big that amount would be but here's
how we individually can arrive at a new
destination maybe right now by
discipline or lack of discipline or
direction you're headed this way but it
wouldn't take much to change direction
and head this way
so that in five years you wind up here
instead of here and the difference now
of getting off this track and getting on
this track
is not much a few decisions in
discipline a few decisions in learning a
few decisions and change of behavior
change of habit a few decisions in
setting goals that you've sort of let
drift before like I did at age 25 didn't
have a list I immediately started to
change that and I immediately started to
change my direction so that very quickly
I started heading this direction in less
than seven years I was a millionaire and
that was just my economics and sure
enough when I met my mentor I was headed
this way and here's where I would have
been in five or six years maybe okay you
know my kids probably wouldn't have been
starving and maybe you know we got close
to we're in a place to live but the joy
of productivity and the joy of becoming
valuable to the marketplace and more
valuable to my family and valuable to my
friends in my inner circle all of that
probably would have escaped me if I
would have kept going this way but I am
so thankful for the circumstances and
whatever else arranged it for me some
things are arranged we don't even know
how they've occurred for you to be here
you imagine the chain of circumstances
that caused you to be able to sit in
this auditorium today it's amazing this
had to happen and this had to happen in
this door had to closing this door had
to open and all those things for me to
be here for you to be here how come I
just didn't drop out of the sky right by
all kinds of turns and events I wind up
in Dallas on this June weekend like year
2001 and you arrived to you from all
kinds of directions here we are and so
we just say wow part of that's a mystery
and we let it be a mystery we don't even
try to figure it out we just say wow
it's incredible but now that we're here
how could we collectively and
individually affect each other's lives
it's by doing just what we've done study
learn teach shake hands trade stories
and do all the stuff so that we can help
other people as well as ourselves to
make that small journey to a new
direction so jot that down it's only a
small journey to
new direction yes how quickly you can
change your health by starting to eat an
apple a day mama said an apple a day
keeps the doctor away let's say you've
been ill long enough you had health
problems long enough and you say that's
it that's over I'm going to now start a
program you don't have to really
revolutionize your whole health life
just start with an apple a day you say
well is it that simple to change your
health life and the answer is yes the
key is just to start you know you pick
up a book on good health and you get
halfway through the book and it says now
dear reader set this book aside fall
down on the floor and see how many
pushups you can do and then it goes on
to say and if you have not done that why
not give this book away it looks like
you're not going to do it come on you
don't have to radically do something you
can gain momentum and make changes as
you go just start here's what happens
when you start a new direction
self-esteem starts to accelerate it
doesn't take much for you to feel good
about yourself just committed to a new
direction and you feel good and an apple
a day committed to finally having a
health program that will make you the
healthiest you've ever been in the next
20 years
all you got to do is munch on that first
Apple and nobody even has to be around
and you don't have to announce to the
world
but you munch on that first Apple and
say this is the beginning of developing
a health program that's going to make me
so help they all have the vitality to do
whatever I want to do for the next
thirty years of my life munch munch
happy happy self-esteem off the scale
now if you eat an apple the second day
you become almost delirious
saying wow I'm on my way
somebody said just to Apple says look
you don't understand not only did I do
it yesterday I've done it again today
this is really proving to myself with no
audience no microphones no nothing just
you and yourself you've convinced
yourself I'm on my way to the healthiest
I ever have been I'm starting a new life
this is the second day I'm on my way
that's how easy it is to change your
life you don't need some dramatic vision
just begin something and maybe by health
or by whatever other things we can think
of to do you just get back on a better
track okay it's a small journey to
changing direction and by the time we
finish our workshop right after lunch I
think you're going to have a concept of
how powerful it can be not only how easy
it can be
but how powerful it can be to change
every part of your life for the future
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