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you [Music] good morning and welcome to the Jim Rohn weekend leadership event with special guests including Brian Tracy and Denis Waitley now let's meet your emcee for the weekend Chris Widener Chris has been speaking professionally since 1988 and assured the stage with u.s. presidential candidates nationally known television news anchors best-selling authors and

professional athletes is spoken on motivation and leadership to some of America's finest organizations including General Electric Cisco Systems and the Harvard Business School Chris has written over 350 articles and five books and has produced close to 30 audio programs on leadership and motivation his articles appear monthly in nearly 200 publications chris is also the

featured contributing editor of the Jim Rohn one year success program Chris's newsletter made for success has subscribers in 105 countries making it one of the world's most widely distributed newsletters on success and leadership his most recent book is the angel inside creating a life of power and beauty now let's welcome to the

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stage Chris Widener [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome to Anaheim how many of you are excited to be here today well welcome to the Jim Rohn weekend leadership event it's going to be an extremely exciting three days and the night suppose I don't have to tell you that we have people literally from all over the world of

course from the United States but then also all over the world I did a brief quick walk through and just took a look at where some folks were from and I wanted to just tell you where a lot of the people came from certainly this isn't an exhaustive list but it's a list

from outside the United States Nigeria Norway Australia Italy the UK Mexico Canada Finland Denmark Ireland Switzerland Belgium the Cayman Islands and I think we even have some folks from New Jersey so it's going to be a great three days and it's okay I can I can bust on the people from New Jersey

actually did three years in New Jersey well I mean I lived in New Jersey for three years today let's just give you an overview we have coming up shortly Jim Rohn then later on in the day the great Denis Waitley is going to be here with us and then later on after that we're

going to have Jim back on the stage and then of course we have the teenage session which is geared for teenagers but certainly everybody is invited to that and it's going to be an extraordinary time as well one thought I want to give to you as we begin this day and this weekend and it's around the

idea of ideas I love the concept of ideas because ideas are the seeds of what become our lives and over the course of the next three days with Jim and Dennis and Brian as well as a number of the other speakers you're going to get literally thousands of ideas and I think about the power of ideas you know

Microsoft started as an idea in someone's mind the automobile started as an idea in someone's mind space travel began as an idea in someone's mind in fact the very foundation of our country the United States of America began as an idea and a concept inside someone's mind truly amazing what happens when we allow an idea to grow

inside of us and then transform by action to begin to develop the kind of life that we want to live and that to me is the most exciting reason to be here today each and every one of you is going to be kind of on idea overload you're going to have little ideas that have pop

in your brain and what comes into one person's mind is going to be different than what really fits inside of someone else's mind but take those ideas and write them down you're going to take lots of notes and then begin to let them germinate inside of you begin to let them grow into something that when you

go home you can place into action the power of ideas is truly amazing and there's really no one better at ideas than our first speaker today over the last 40 years he spoken to about 6,000 audiences he's written in numerous books many audio tapes CDs of which most of you in here can probably name and have

experienced and really enjoyed and benefited from he is a gentleman who truly probably does not need an introduction to you but I'm happy to be able to be the one to do it it is my great privilege and my high honor to be able to introduce to you for this weekend Jim Rome please welcome

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thank you Wow save some for the end how many of you have never seen me before this is your first time Wow everybody so I'm not so famous after all anyway nice to have all of you here it's a long journey here for me from the farms of southern Idaho where I grew up - you

know next door to Disneyland with all the spotlights and cameras and all of you here it's just a bit much unbelievable I did my first for pay seminar in 1963 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills California called adventures and achievement so this now makes my year number 41

and my big purpose now is to keep my journey going I just got back from Argentina last week and next week I go to Venezuela toward the end of the month back to Italy in Europe little later in the year Asia South Africa and Australia and who knows where else so from my

travels around the world I just really dropped by to say hello and share some ideas but I'm thankful for the opportunity to share these ideas one more time the ideas I want to share with you so dramatically changed my life I'm always excited about the opportunity to share them you know one more time I

quit school at age 19 unfortunately my reasoning was I'm smart enough to get a job how much smarter do you need to be and with that bit of shallow thinking I quit school at age 19 little while later you know I went to work a little while later got married started this little

family and I'm out there working hard doing the best I could but falling a little bit behind every year finally the creditors once in a while are starting to call saying you told us the cheque was in the mail and I'm embarrassed by that and then I'm sure some of you if you've listened to my

cassette tapes or the CDs or heard some of my material the girl scouts story finally occurred age 25 I hear this knock on the door I go to the door and there's this Girl Scout about this tall selling cookies for the Girl Scouts man she gave me one of the finest sales presentations I've ever heard special

deal several flavors Girl Scouts best organization in the world only two dollars and with a big smile she very politely asked me to buy no problem I wanted to buy big problem I didn't have two dollars in my pocket I'm a grown man I live in America I'm married with a family I

to college one year and I've been working for six years from age 19 to 25 and I didn't have the two dollars in my pocket and I didn't want to tell her that that seemed too embarrassing so I did what I thought was next best I lied to her and I said look we've already

bought lots of Girl Scout cookies we've still got plenty in the house we haven't eaten 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 lying to a Girl Scout right I mean that's that's

the ultimate so I started my search that day and sure enough very shortly I met this extraordinary man by the name of mr. LLL show and my life was never the same after that Chris mentioned ideas and that's where this whole flow of unique ideas started for me age 25 I had the opportunity to go to work for this

extraordinary man I worked for him for five years then unfortunately he died aged 49 but the things he taught me during that five years transformed my economic life especially but my personal life my leadership chances all of that came from that unique experience so maybe it's true when the student is ready when someone says I've had it you

know this is it I don't want to live like this anymore and then you begin a new search so make this note now for the first of the notes we're going to share in my portion for today if you start the search the odds are excellent you will find good ideas if you search you will find finding is

reserved for those that search ideas are not reserved for those that hope they're not reserved for those that wish they're not reserved for those who complain you know good ideas are reserved for those that search so the first thing I want to do is congratulate all of you for being here continuing your search spending

and spending the time to come and spend a few days and see if you can't through the accumulation of hours and speakers that we have during this weekend go home with a harvest of good ideas for your business for your life for your marriage for your friendships for your economic future and you know for all of the rest

we've all heard the expression nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come how very true the walls came tumbling down about 15 16 years ago in Germany and the time had come for capitalism to finally reach those unfortunate countries that have been dominated by communism for so long and that idea now

is beginning to flourish I've been teaching capitalism now for the last ten years in Russia I've made five trips to all the major cities it's incredible when an idea finally comes and the time is right what can happen so ideas when an idea and its time is ready it can be incredible but now here's the next part

for your notes nothing so powerful as an idea that comes at the right time and hopefully today for you and the rest of this series of good trainings this would be a good time for you maybe you've got three numbers of the lock that needs four numbers and you've already got three already dialed in from you know

the sermons you've heard and the lyrics of the songs you've listened to and personal conversations and meetings and trainings and seminars and books you've read all of that right you got the three numbers and just maybe just maybe this weekend could well be that fourth number for you that you've been looking for and

the lock will open and the door will open and there could be some real new accelerated opportunity for you over the next few years of your life so I hope that's true from what I have to say and and from Dennis and Brian and other speakers that are going to share with you this could be a very important

weekend for you I hope it's one of those life-changing weekends where you look back and say wow I was never the same and the chances are excellent if you keep going keep going to as many things as you can get to in terms of information ideas seminars lectures because if you go continuously

and systematically some of them will be routine some of them may be ordinary and then just once in a while some may be extraordinary and you're never the same again and you look back on that experience and say that was one of the days that turned my life around so I hope this weekend from what I have to

share and the rest of the speakers this is one of those extraordinary weekends for you here's another note to make no one person has all the answers no one person has all the ideas we need to gather ideas from a variety of voices and from a variety of experience from social to personal to political to the

management of time the conservation of resources you know business entrepreneur career all of that being a good parent a good mother being a good father being a good friend a business colleague you got to have a whole variety of ideas so this weekend we're going to have a chance for that you know multiple speakers and a

chance from multiple ideas to come your way next is a little phrase that I'd like to have you memorized and if you memorize that I'm sure it will follow you for the rest of your life and if you're ready say I'm ready here is the phrase you can write it down as we memorize it here it is from

testimonials and personal experience repeat that for me from testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude I'll let you write it down we have enough information to conclude so repeat for me we have enough information to conclude if you were composing this I don't know what you would write after this we have enough information to

conclude that it's possible jot that down that it's possible so repeat for me that is possible and the rest to design and live an extraordinary life make that note to design and live an extraordinary life so repeat that for me to design and live an extraordinary life now let's repeat it from the beginning

here we go from testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that it's possible to design and live an extraordinary life I hope you will give that little phrase some consideration and here's what's next I hope you buy the idea that from testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that it's

possible to design and live an extraordinary life and what I want this weekend to be for you is the gathering of more ways and means to design and live for you and extraordinary life I don't know how far you want to go here's the first essence of life and that is self-preservation to produce enough to

take care of yourself the instructions given right to the to the couple that left the Garden of Eden one was to multiply it's a lonely place with only two people but here were the next instructions to be fruitful how fruitful how productive should one be and here's number one to produce enough to survive

to produce enough to take care of yourself and self-care is important if you're flying on an airplane the flight attendant says if for some reason we run out of oxygen these oxygen masks will fall from the ceiling and if you have children with you quickly take care of them then take care of yourself no no no

they say what put your mask on first put your mask on first see to your survival first then you'll be more capable of taking care of the survival of your children isn't that interesting my father had an interesting saying he said son right after me you come first I was in business with Bob coming to the

old movie star we were in the health and nutrition business together back in the sixty sixty one two three Bob had an interesting saying here's what he said I'll take care of me for you will you please take care of you for me so the first challenge in life is to take care of yourself it is to survive

so to produce enough to survive to take care of yourself but now what's next well all alone it's a lonely life so let's say the man now chooses a partner now he must figure out how to produce enough for himself and his spouse his wife his partner someone says well why do that why not just take care of

yourself and the answer is it's a very small life it's a very limited life we wouldn't call it flourishing we wouldn't call it abundant just taking care of yourself that is the first rule but that's only the beginning so the man gets married now he must produce enough for himself and for his wife and here's

the key phrase to make a note of to live the higher life a life of togetherness the story teller says it seems even God didn't want to be alone he created all of these angels so to join with someone now you must produce enough for yourself for your partner now is that it the

answer's no how about children let us have children that's a unique experience so now if the man has a wife and now he has children here's the challenge to produce enough for himself and his family now someone says well why take on all of that why not just take care of yourself you could yes but you couldn't

live this more extraordinary life without taking on the responsibilities of having a partner having some children and live that kind of extraordinary life so I think everybody would agree now is that the end of it no here's the next challenge to produce more than you need for yourself and for your family someone

says well now why start being ridiculous here yes produce enough for yourself well yes if you want to get married produce enough for yourself and for your spouse now with children produce enough for your family but why do more than that and jot down the answer to live a more extraordinary life so now the man

produces more than he needs for himself and for his children so that he can be a person of benevolence so that he can give and so that he can share that's the more abundance that's the more extraordinary life to produce more than you need for yourself and for your children is that it let's take it a

couple more steps how about producing much more than you need for yourself and for your family someone says well now you're off the scale I mean why work that hard why go that far why produce that much some would say just take care of yourself some would say just you know get a partner and

that's it and then children and that's it and be a bit benevolent method but why not go this next step and produce much more than you need for yourself and for your children and when someone says why do that all of us know the answer right why if you've got the talent and the skill

and the opportunity why not put all of that together and see if you couldn't produce much more than you need for yourself and for your family let's say you earned 10 million dollars this year and you and your family only need 3 million which would probably cover most families right some families are more

expensive than others as I discovered but let's say 3 million would you know cover a big high percentage so now if you and your family only needed 3 million for the year now you have 7 million to give and someone says what why do that and the obvious answer is what why not if you've got the talent

and the skill and the time and the opportunity and the occasion and all this stuff comes together why not let's go one more how about producing far more than you need for yourself and for your family and live the far more life we've heard the story of Andrew Carnegie right Andrew Carnegie said this he built the

big steel industry back in the 20s here in America here was Andrew Carnegie's goal I'm going to spend the first half of my life earning money I'm going to spend the last half of my life giving it all away isn't that extraordinary wouldn't you call that an extraordinary life and the answer is yes he got so

excited by that goal that the first half of his life he earned four hundred million dollars which back then was a lot of money I mean now right it doesn't seem to be that much but you know maybe back then it would total forty billion dollars like Bill Gates so forty billion dollars

he earned the first half of his life guess what he did with the last half of his life he gave it all away and the big question is why do that and the answer is why not if you've got the opportunity to live design and live an extraordinary life you know why not do that so here's

what I want this weekend to be for you plenty of ideas to take home chew on digest you know throw some away refine some you know accept some do some whatever that's what this weekend is really for to send you home with a whole new library of thoughts to ponder ideas to try disciplines to work out some

skills to learn and if we do that and do it well this weekend you will say hey it was certainly worth the time and the money to go to that weekend Jim Rohn seminar Jim Rohn and friends now make these notes what I hope you find here this weekend ideas plus in inspiration that's

the mixture that really turns things on you know sends a entrepreneur program into high gear ideas plus inspiration we need ideas for the goals and plans and we need inspiration for the emotional vitality to put it to work to make it grow make it multiply and here's what else I hope you'll find your guidelines

for translating response into results you've responded to the call com search look listen take notes get it to take home with you and I'm sure you're going to respond well to the you know seasoned teaching and training that is going to be delivered here this but here's the key guidelines for translating response into results

because results is the name of the game there's no purpose in learning just for learnings sake wisdom and faith as powerful as those components are serve no useful purpose unless they are deposited so make a note of the word deposited wisdom and face deposited into activity wisdom and faith put to work now produces a hotel produces a salt

vaccine produces a city produces an institution of learning produces a career produces a relationship right ideas and faith believing that it's possible that ideas can work miracles now put to work so the big job here is getting it all and so now make the next note next is going home and translating it into high

activity good health activity a better relationship activity an entrepreneur program activity a new burst of speed in your sales career all of that that's what I'm really interested in because here's what's important to me is for my name once in a while to appear in someone's testimonial make that note it's one of life's greatest experiences

is when your name appears in somebody's testimonial somebody says here's the person who found me here's this a person who got me started here's the person who wouldn't let me quit gave me more reasons for staying than for leaving here's the person who believed in me until I could believe in myself and then

they mentioned your name see you can't buy that with money and you don't have to give lectures and seminars to do it you don't have to have an audience like this for the weekend in order to deliver value to someone's life what if you had breakfast with a friend that Denny's four years

ago and you recommended this book that really meant a lot to you and you said to your friend you've got to read this book I think it'll make a major contribution to your life and your friend accepted the idea went and got the book now four years later he's giving his testimonial his business has

flourished his marriage is safe things are going extremely well and someone says where did this all begin for you and he will say four years ago at Denny's coffee shop I sat with my friend and he insisted that I read this book I went and got it and that book led to the

next book that led to the next class that led to developing skills I never had before and that led to some more seminars and lectures and now look at my business look at my life it's flourishing but it all began four years ago Denny's coffee shop when someone said you've got to read this book see

that's a person-to-person seminar and those are just as valuable as person to a thousand person to ten thousand right it doesn't matter the number if you have a chance to deliver you know quote a poem recommend a book here's a phrase like I gave you this one to memorize I think you'll remember this one maybe for

a long long time just something that's really extra meaningful to someone whether it's at breakfast or wherever it is whether it's for a child or whether it's for an adult a friend a business associate if you'll keep up that process I promise you your name will continually appear in people's testimonials and now

I've had this happy experience now for the last forty forty five years and so that's one of the reasons why I came here this weekend right I don't need the money you know I've long ago made my fortune I take the money but I don't I don't need the money but here's what I

do need continuing testimonials that say mr. own on a summer day in Anaheim California at the Marriott I was there that weekend and something clicked and the lights went on and I got the gift of some good ideas here's what's happened to me then they mentioned my name see that's what I want

continuing testimonials that come back to me saying thanks for sharing ideas ok to get the most out of this weekend jot these notes down now number one be thankful for what you already have Thanksgiving sets up you know the situation where ideas can flow here's what locks up the doors of opportunity for good ideas and that cynicism all you

have to be is a practice cynic cynical about the government and cynical about politics and cynical about the future cynical about the economy cynicism locks all the doors but if you'll be thankful for what you have however modest or however much it is I think that's the beginning of receiving a flow of new

ideas here's the next one be eager to learn there's already some extraordinary success stories in this room if we knew how successful we would give you the podium I would be happy to take notes no matter how successful you are be willing to learn some more we in the Millionaire's Club invite a billionaire

once in a while come talk to us and he says well you guys are doing okay but how about stepping up how about multiplying by two by three by five by ten come on you've just gotten started so no matter how well you're doing we could all use another idea a couple of other things that lick

together with what you already know could give you a whole new burst of productivity and extraordinary lifestyle then to get the most out of this session this weekend you have to do what we call some tough listening and sometimes it's easy together it's difficult to gather up everyone's you know attention because our lives really seem to be going on

outside this room you know a part of our life is going on here while we're here but you know some of us our kids are out there and our business is out there and our career is out there and our job is out there and everything is out there so sometimes it's difficult to bring

yourself within the you know framework you know inside these four walls and just really concentrate and do your best to get at all because I know how meaningful ideas can be the name url' show no still rings in my mind I'm 25 years old after the girl-scout story experience I'm introduced to a man who I

had a chance to go to work for and over the next five years the ideas he shared with me not only made me rich but gave me the foundation for a long term career of sharing ideas building business making profits hopefully wise investments made an extraordinary contribution to my life this unique man

he only went to the ninth grade in school so the things he shared with me over that five-year period were very simple very ABC but that's where I got all of those simple phrases let me just review some of them for you very quickly for things to change for you you have to

change I kept hoping the government would change and taxes would change and prices would come down things would get better and then he said for things to change for you mr. own you have to change Wow what a new revelation next he said don't wish it was easier wish you were better all of this started me on this unique

journey of what I now call personal development here's another one this is don't wish for less problems wish for more Skills it's not less problems that makes you successful it's more Skills that makes you successful I tried to convince him by showing you my paycheck that I wasn't doing well and I blamed it

on the company and I said this is all the company pays he said no that's all the company pays you I thought well that's a new way to look at it he says doesn't the company pay some people three four or five times this amount I said well yes he says well then this is

not all the company pays this is all you get until you recall if I accelerate your qualification for the bigger number see that was all great revelation to me I tried to convince him that things cost too much she said no you can't afford him all of these were new ways of looking at things

unbelievable and so I started listening to all this stuff now some of the things that really accelerated my learning curve so that I could do better quickly was learning the success equations here's three of them the first one comes from the Bible the question was asked you know 2,000 years ago in the Bible

according to the storyteller what is the key to greatness what's the key to self-esteem what is the key to getting honors and trophies to put on the mantle above the fireplace what is the key to receiving great respect what is the key to wealth and abundance what is the key to all of that an extraordinary life and

here's the answer that was given capsule form according to the storyteller the answer was find a way to serve many people find a way to serve find the ways and means start rendering service the more you serve the greater your fortune service to many leads to greatness he next John Kennedy speaking of politics today we're surrounded by

political speeches here was one of the best John Kennedy on his inaugural to be present in the United States all those years ago here's what he said don't ask Wow don't we wish that was the current political philosophy where is John Kennedy where is he John said don't ask what the country can do for you ignore

these promises of what everyone's saying what the country can do for you he said don't ask what the country can do for you but ask what what could I do for my country see that's the whole turnaround and philosophical thinking by asking you receive so little by serving you receive so much so rather than settle for the

pennies of what someone could do for you why not turn it around and find some way to serve it's a pretty simple process here's what I taught the Russians Johnny Mo's mrs. Browns lon she pays three dollars every time he mows her lawn he collects three dollars thinking in terms of what could I do for

my country surely mrs. Brown is one of the members of the country so he mows her lawn and collects $3 and starts what we call an income and a career now what's next and here's what the Russians were excited about what if Johnny gets Pete to mow mrs. brown's long she still pays the $3.00

but now Johnny gives Pete two dollars for mowing the lawn and keeps one dollar because he's the one that got the work now we have the beginning of an entrepreneur now we have the beginning of fortune here's a good note to make I started part-time on a little adventure learning skills and disciplines and

here's what I began to say with my little part-time job I said I'm working full-time on my job and I'm working part-time on my fortune and the reason is because I found the mechanics I found the philosophy I started working at serving other people one way to serve as 2mo mrs. Brown's lawn and get the $3 the

other way to serve is to get someone else to do it and you collect that extra money finding ways to serve that's the key to wealth and greatness then here's the next one and everybody knows this one I heard Zig say it over 40 years ago Zig Ziglar and when he said it I wrote it down and if

you haven't ever written down write it down if you help enough people get what they want you can have everything you want if you help enough people get what they want you can have everything you want when I heard sig say that I wrote it down and maybe you want to do this underline the

word everything that's what was intriguing to me about this sentence so these are the success equations this is the wealth formula from the Bible from John Kennedy from Zig Ziglar now make these notes in the journey of personal development one of the first things to learn is the lesson of the seasons let me cover as much as this as I can

before we take our first break for the day the lesson of the seasons for your notes life and business is like the changing seasons one of the best ways to illustrate what's happening in your business what's happening in your life is this illustration of the changing seasons Frank Sinatra used to sing life

is like the seasons now here's what's next you cannot change the seasons one of the things to you know come to grips with is what you can change in what you cannot change you cannot change the seasons but here's the next phrase but you can change yourself therein lies the chance to live an extraordinary life

learning to change yourself in economic sense my mentor put it this way to climb the ladder of success as high as you wish to climb here's the key work harder on yourself than you do on your job work harder on yourself than you do on your job he said if you work hard on your job

you can make a living which is fine but if you work hard on yourself you could make a fortune which is super fine then let's put it in philosophical language two things in economics philosophically here's the first one I learned your income is primarily determined by your philosophy you know I didn't learn that

until I was 25 years old they never taught it in high school I went to college one year never heard it your income is primarily determined by your philosophy not the economy then when I finally understood that I got excited about it because I knew I couldn't change the on me but I was assured that I certainly

could change my philosophy and I did that and here's the philosophy success is something you attract by becoming an attractive person success is not something you pursue it's something you attract so the key to the better economic future is to become an attractive person with an attractive personality an attractive list of skills

your knowledge of the marketplace your ability to deal with a variety of personalities all of those things that anyone can learn with a bit of study practice repetition so the key is you cannot change the seasons but you can change yourself but let's talk about the seasons just in a brief outline here

number one is the winter time I don't know where we've caught you this weekend maybe it's spring for you maybe it's summer you're toughing it out maybe it's harvest you're cashing it in if we knew the story with the cued lecture but maybe for some of you it's one of those winter times personal winter social

winters economic winters there's a variety so what about the winter make this note it always comes so you got to be prepared hopefully you've done your homework you're ready and prepared for this winter more than you were some others that have come into your life where you were less prepared make this note of a Bible story it's very

important because it's one of the great lessons of life I'm an amateur on the Bible but here's what the storyteller says there were two nice people so make the note now two nice people not one good and one evil but two nice people however and that is the drama of life however two nice people however one built his

house on the rock and the other built his house on the sand two nice people meaning it's possible for nice people to be casual it's possible for nice people to be careless and sometimes you can be careless and lose your life not evil just careless in Los Angeles now when the light turns green if you're in your

car and you're there at the intersection in the light turns green you better not go for two or three seconds waiting for the maniacs that are running the red light crossing in front of you even though the light is green that little extra bit of caution rather than being aggressive little bit of caution could

very well save your life here's a father who loves his family he's an honorable citizen he makes good money he contributes to the community his church he's a good man but this morning he's in a hurry in Los Angeles late for an appointment and he's pushing it and pushing it with his automobile he comes to the

intersection and the light turns red and a little voice in his head had just go ahead you're late you can make it and now he's dead you don't have to go to Iraq to lose your life you don't have to be evil to lose your life all you have to be is a little careless at an

unfortunate moment so the key is to be not over cautious but to be cautious don't build your house on the sand now I add this note now we're all tempted when I was growing up there was a cartoon of a little boy and it chilled this little boy with a little devil on one shoulder and a

little angel on the other shoulder both whispering in his ear and the little devil said go ahead and do it it'll be okay and the little angel says no no no no it won't be okay yes go ahead and do it no no how often does that occur for all of us every day go through the red

light it'll be okay we must be we're okay not to be careless not to be casual and build your house on the sand the same is true with your health don't build on the sand the same is true with your career don't build on the sand the same is true of being in business don't

build on the sand build on the rock because even nice people can make careless decisions casual decisions that accumulate over a period of time and those could be the winter now here's the note to make some winters are of your own making and some are not some are just the winter experiences maybe the

whole country goes through it it was a long time of winter for the Russians who lived through the communist system for about 80 years long winter of political despair lack of freedom but what's the key to the winter here it is in simple language hang in there I mean you know the winters don't last forever some are

difficult and some are easy but they never last forever the night always comes after the day but it doesn't last forever just a few more hours and if you hang in there say your prayers gather a little strength you can make it through the winter and the night so winter time here's the next season now the season of

spring make this note my definition of spring opportunity spring is not a guarantee that you're going to have a harvest but it's the opportunity to plant one it's not a guarantee that things are going to go well and you will accumulate what you need but it is an opportunity to do so springtime is opportunity now it's

usually a very short season especially where I was raised in farm country Idaho so here's what you must do with opportunity seize it quickly don't let it just come and go when the window of opportunity is open to borrow a little space language when they get ready to shoot the Rockets or off into outer

space there's a window they call it of opportunity to go not go when the weather's right whatever but if if you wait a little too long the window closes and it takes a while for it to open back up so this is the key take advantage of the spring such a short season in some

places they got those big tractors with the lights on them going around the clock in the short season of spring to make sure that the seeds are planted take advantage of opportunity take advantage of opportunity to meet someone who could be a colleague for your future career take advantage of the day when it

arrives because the day will soon finish take advantage of the year because it will soon close take advantage now here's the next season one of the greatest illustrations of life is in the third season called the season of summer and here it is in simple capsule form in the summer you must do two major things

here they are for your notes number one nourish and give life like a mother nourish and give life like a mother next protect and defend like a father this is called the work of summer

give life like a mother cake life like a father love like a mother hate like a father any father would say - whatever threatens his family take two more steps toward this family you'll cease to exist I'm father I protect I killed it's necessary so you've got to nourish your garden and then you've got to protect it

by fighting the weeds and the bugs that are out to destroy it as soon as you've planted the busy bugs and the noxious weeds are out to take it now put this line in your notes and they will take it unless you are extremely father like and vigorous you have to develop a hatred

for evil the old prophet said love good and hate evil because those twin forces are at work always even in the beginning of the beginning Lucifer according to the storyteller tried to take over God's throne didn't succeed and so began the story of the creator and the spoiler and so exists for all of us this great drama

of the ability to create but the destroyer not too far away in another seminar I give here's what I say and this is good philosophy it seems like opposites are in conflict and we are in the middle evil on one side good on the other side illness on one side good health on the other side darkness on one

side light on the other side and they're in conflict if you walk into a room that's dark and turn on the light the darkness disappears and goes away how far away does it go not very far waiting for a chance would come back in move in take over the territory as light begins

to lose its energy darkness moves in there's a war on it here's what it's called push as we sit here right good health plan is trying to defeat Hill 'no sand drive it into a small corner if you don't work on your good health plan illness will drive your health into a small corner it's

called push and shove in your bloodstream there are red corpuscles to nourish like a mother and white corpuscles to fight and kill like a father thank God for white corpuscles to think negative all day white corpuscle say just show me some infection I'll kill it because if I don't kill it what it kills you what comforts will say it's

my job today to make sure you don't get killed so I'm here to fight have you got that now red to nourish white to fight so here's the key now cooperate with the positive side of this war of health and illness what if in this struggle the body calls for a banana and you send it

a coca-cola

and now the body has the right to say what whose side are you on I'm working day and night to drive illness into a small corner and keep you healthy and you keep sending me the wrong stuff come on just a little cooperation here and we can win this game let's see if you don't

do your push-ups and what was that little voice in my hotel room this morning that said to me Jim Rohn you don't have to do your exercises this morning you're running a little late and this little creature on this shoulder almost talked me into it and the little angel says what no no no

no no no fall on the floor one more time do those push-ups a few crunches a little modified version yes because you are late but you got to keep up the pace see that's called what the work of summer now turn this around because it's also possible to love like a father and

hate like a mother just so you get the job done and if it's a single parent right you got to do both the work of father and mother it's extraordinary but mother is capable of hate and defense and protect because I think we years ago papa was off providing mama was home protecting so she developed

these instincts of danger in order to protect her family women are good women are unusual they have this antenna that picks up all the stuff especially danger in the middle of the night the baby cries Mama's awake Papa sleeps mother sleep near the surface and the least little movement are found there awake

it's built in the female mother at instinct she says to her husband go look go look something isn't right you know downstairs he says no everything's fine she says go look he says okay he gets up in the middle of the night stumbles down stairs and the front door is open how did she know they

just know I don't know how they know they've got this instinct especially for danger interesting story in the Bible it says there are sheep and there are shepherds and there are wolves fairly ordinary story shepherds and wolves and sheep but that's not the end of the story to illustrate a point the storyteller says there are also some

wolves that have learned to dress up like sheep now you need a woman man says looks like the Sheep talks like the Sheep woman says ain't no she have you got this now the work of summer here's what it's called high drama nourishing and protecting nourishing with one hand and protecting with the

other hand even the Battle of the mind here's a good note to make on the Battle of the mind don't become a victim of yourself in this battle of the mind should I shouldn't I let it go no don't let it go run the red light no be a little more cautious think of your

family see we have to continually do this 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 that little thief that says you're too short you're too tall you're too old you've never done it before what makes you think you can do it now nobody

in your family has ever done it in fact if you start they'll all make fun of you it's called the thief in the mind that steals the dream and steals the promise makes you less effective than you should be here's what you must do battle with the mind now what's the purpose of all

of this opposites in conflict here's what I think it is to create high drama God wishing it to continue on earth as it did in heaven I guess that's the best conclusion I've come to because here's the last of this now would it be possible to win if you couldn't lose and the answer is no it doesn't seem like it

if you took a football today and put it under your arm and we went with you to the nearest football stadium and with that football under your arm if you walked across the goal line would we call it a touchdown and the answer is no that's not a touchdown it's not a touchdown until you face the three

hundred and fifty pounders but want to smash your face in the turf and if you can muscle by them and if you can dance past the secondary with the football into your arm across the goal line now we call it a touchdown and maybe you won the game and maybe you won the championship so chop this down now

high-drama is the order of the day I guess so ordered by God himself high drama but that's what makes life so unique so challenging so much opportunity a chance for fortune and a chance for failure and you've got to defend yourself against one see if you can't maximize the other that's the game of life isn't this good

stuff I mean these few simple ideas started changing my life age 25 I was never the same what if you picked up a book and the book first chapter said everything's fine chapter two everything's fine chapter three everything is just fine chapter four everything is still just fine would you finish this book and the

answer is no what kind of a book is this so the book on your life story it's not going to be this it's going to be filled with the full dramas of the highs and the lows and the winter and the spring and the summer and the harvest so if you got that now the third season do the

work of summer be both optimistic and vigilant two great words of antiquity here they are number one is behold it's the word from antiquity the positive word is behold here's the other word beware one of the interesting be wears in the Bible is a little story that says beware of the little foxes that are

spoiling the vines it doesn't look you know I come from you know farm country Idaho where I make a little wine and grow a few crops and you could look at a vineyard hey it looks okay but this old old story says just because the vineyard looks okay you got to look a

little closer the little foxes may be eating the vine so whether it's a personal relationship or a business opportunity or your future or your life or the management of your time or your health or whatever I'm asking you to behold the possibilities and beware the dangers that's the key and all of that we call

personal development now here's the fourth season and I've got a lot more notes for you to cover how many I have what one page of notes already okay I want to send you home with a whole basket full from myself Brian this is going to be one of those extraordinary weekends Genesis here other speakers are here

you're going to have a full load to take home okay here's the next season now the season of harvest make this note now on harvest in due time and for those who qualify in due time and for those who have obeyed this extraordinary law that says life was not designed to give you

what you need life was designed to give you what you deserve if you didn't plant in the spring then no harvest comes your way if you planted little then you're not going to receive a lot and here's the key now for the harvest number one whatever it is offer no complaint and no apology if

it's a fantastic hog harvest you offer no apology if it's not much you offer no complaint that's the highest of maturity no apology no complaint but here here's what you can do no matter what it is go back to work in the spring because write this down now spring always follows winter if the harvest wasn't good and

the winter was tough the promise is another opportunity will come your way

now here's one more point now in the harvest and we'll talk a little bit more about it tomorrow here it is do wise things with your harvest build your financial security for you and your family on the rock and not on the sand we're going to talk about financial independence before we finish this

weekend there's so many things now you can do about gathering resources and wisely investing them so that you and your family are secure here's one thing to strive to become early in your life and career financially independent so that nobody or nothing has a claim on your assets accomplish that as quickly as you can

then all of the other wise things will talk more about Sarah Alfaro in Mexico came to my seminars and lectures ten years ago single mother for children no job no home no car no money and she only had one American dollar to invest now she makes about forty thousand dollars a month and she's rich and now quite

famous Sarah Alfaro in Mexico here's what I thought Sarah back there ten years ago don't buy the second car until you've bought the second house it's not cars that makes you rich it's houses that make you rich if you bought a condo in Carmel just a few years ago for 250,000 it's now worth $800,000 I got a

call the other day from Sarah thanking me one more time for my training and she said Mr Rohn you'll be happy to know I just finished paying off my third home here in Mexico so today I'm going shopping for my third car unbelievable remember how long ago is it when the idea finally dawned on somebody

if you paid one extra payment a year on your 30-year loan you could pay it off in 15 years and save more than the price of the house Wow just a little bit of information and then a little discipline to see it through and the change for your harvest can be unbelievable we'll

talk more about that later on in the program now cut these notes down personal development involves three parts first part is physical take care of yourself my momma studied and practiced health and nutrition when I was a boy growing up paid off extended my mother's life at least 20 years according to the doctor mama was a

fanatic mama was a health nut some of the stuff she mixed up for me and my father and for herself she would say if this stuff don't kill us I think I think it's going to help and we would gag this stuff down mama read mama searched mama tried back when you know vitamins and

all that stuff was fairly new when I was a kid growing up mama did all that research my father lived to be 93 never had a major illness mama extended her life 20 years my father never did retire when he died his paycheck was waiting for him thanks to my mother and I've

been in splendid excellent good health all my life and come September I'll be celebrating birthday number 74 right thanks to mama

if there's one thing to be a fanatic about it's your health take care of yourself the Bible describes it this way treat your body like a temple that's a good word treat your body like a temple not a woodshed a temple something you'd take extremely good care of here's one of the reasons

why the body and the mind work together the body is a is a physical support system so the mind can dream the dreams and the heart can believe that it's possible and then go to work and make it happen and for that you need a good physical support system to manage all of that one

will prophet said sometimes you know the Spirit is willing but the body is weak see don't fall into that you wake up in the morning the mind says let's go get them the body says I can't even get out of bed see one of these days you've got to say body this is the last time you

tell me you can't get out of bed I'll throw you on the floor and make you do push-ups until you're out of breath I'll make you read every book that's ever been written on good health I'll choke vitamins down you until your face turns blue this is the last time you say you're not going to vigorously support

me to make my dreams come true you just got to take action now on this stuff fear of the physical support system you need to pull off your dreams and your promise and your future make this note some people don't do well just because they don't feel well it's not that they haven't got the skills it's not that

they don't have all the rest they don't have the vitality the vigor vitality I travel all around the world if you saw my travel schedule work scheduled you would say impossible I'm probably the only one who can do it thanks to Mama and my own study in practice of health and nutrition see

that's the key I've got this unique physical support system and I'm it's gonna serve me you know another who knows 60 years now here's the next one first is physical second is spiritual then whatever you believe about spiritual I happen to believe humans are a unique creation spiritual is part of it but jut

this down now if you are a believer jot down these three words study practice and teach your belief in spirituality don't leave your spiritual conclusions unresearched unstudied and don't leave it unpracticed and whatever you do don't leave it on top study practice and teach if we all do that starting with our family will build the families necessary

to build a strong nation to compete among the nations of the world in these years of the 21st century now here's the next one it's a physical spiritual now the mental your mind exercises of the mind builds your library I say in one of my other seminars the books that can see you

through the books that can give you the ideas necessary to build a good career to build a strong enterprise relationships good health and all the rest the book you don't read won't help now here's part of the exercise of the mind a good debate right we're engaged now in the great political debate with

the election coming up in just a few months this is what we call healthy we don't believe in the one-party system communism is at one party everybody do what we say we say no more than one power party so we can discuss ideas here's the way the way to make an idea powerful is to discuss it and refine it

so that it fits your situation that's what I ask you to do when the seminar is finished debate all of these ideas discard some that don't make sense give considerations to some that do make sense put some on the shelf for later consideration and then but some into action that makes sense shut this down make sure what you do is

the product of your own conclusion do that thoughtful study one book on health and nutrition says do this you live forever the second book says if you do what that first book says you'll die young so what should you do which book should you follow and this is one of the important answers of the weekend

neither one read both books and make up your own mind you engage in the debate what makes sense what seems to be or not to be because as close as we can get to the truth is to say it seems like that's as close as all of us can get we can't say it is none of us can do that we can

say it seems like opposites are in conflict and we're in the middle it's what it seems like our experience proves and the storyteller says it started early that's what it seems like God is interested in high drama that's about the best we can conclude we can't actually state the truth except what it

seems like but engage in thoughtful study and vigorous debate sometimes you can debate with others right share ideas what a Jim role mean by this well I'm not sure that's important to our life someone else says no I think it is engage in this debate then here's the big one the debate in your own mind what's good what

isn't good finally you must come to your own conclusions read the best you can study the best you can take the best notes you can and then do then you decide out of all of that which is valuable enough to try valuable enough to do and add to the dimensions of your life that are already underway

that's the key for study exercising the mind here's the last part don't be afraid of the debate communism taught something we'll say well don't tell people what communism taught why not that's part of the debate communism says capital belongs to the state not the people we taught all these years no capital belongs to the people

not the state what a good debate how about the example of capital in the hands of the state well read the history of the Communist Empire that dominated Russia for all those 75 85 years that's what you want that philosophy to get that result when we say no that's terrible that's terror that's tyranny how about capitalism

makes a country like America flourish gives an opportunity where everybody wants to come and try it engage in the great debate whether it's your health or relationships or your future don't be afraid of the debate the Bible serves as a good book giving you stories on both sides of the ledger here's the story of someone to admire

here's the story of someone to despise you need both stories to help you as this debate ok now here's what's next develop these five abilities in your personal development quest to be the best you can be produce all you can far more than you need for yourself and for your family if that's your philosophy

and if that's what you want to do is something extraordinary it's possible to live an extraordinary life here's the challenge and it's going to be working here this weekend number one develop the ability to absorb the ability to get everything I don't know what all you've planned here but you know you know be in

every class you possibly can just stay as long as you can we're going to take enough breaks I think to make it easy for everybody we all recognize the mind can only absorb what the seat can endure I want you to know we are mindful of that but the key is not to be careless

in the gathering of knowledge not to be casual in the ideas that could double your health triple your income accelerate your career secure your fortune amplify your harvest so don't be careless in the gathering of ideas absorb everyone you possibly can here's the next ability develop the ability to respond let life touch you

let the stories touch you let the drama touch you 12 months ago I was in India I lectured in four major cities in India I was like my fourth visit to India once again I was touched by the drama of such extremes of poverty and wealth if I was given the assignment mr. Allen

see what you can do with India I would say what could I do what could I do where would you start let the drama of that affect you make you more sober in your reflections about life and then say a prayer that what you couldn't do by yourself maybe a collection of people can do maybe the

future will find some answers a prayer would help let life touch you but don't let it kill you let's add things make you sad let happy things make you happy don't shrug off always that you know those times of bitterness that come and sadness that comes and your heart is struck like a bullet hits

it I'm not saying give in to it I'm saying let it affect you because that's part of the drama the old prophet said what there's a time to laugh and there's a time to cry and then it said be so sophisticated that you learn to laugh with those who laugh and also learn to

cry with those that cry allow yourself to be touched moved by the drama be touched by good ideas be touched by opportunity be touched by someone's unique little sentence that might cause you to open your eyes to see things you never saw before here's the next ability develop the ability to reflect part of

this is in the challenge when you go home not to just put these notes away but to get them out maybe fairly often over the next 30 days 60 days 90 days just to review the notes to drive the ideas a little deeper but to come up with a little more refinement and if you

go back over these notes I promise you there is something you will discover that you just didn't have the time to discover while you were taking the notes because in taking notes you're working as hard as I am right taking the notes trying to listen trying to decide what to write down how to compose it in a

small sentence if I've you know set a long sentence how to edit it as you go that's why review is so important go back over it again go back over it again here's what I call it run the tapes again the tape in your mind and the tape from your notes and see if you can't

capture something you might have missed or to develop an extension of something you got now but by going back over now you can see now I see here's what I could do with that that might multiply the value of my life but two by three by five here's a good time to reflect when

the day is over how did it go and who did you see and what did you say what mistakes did you make and what did you leave out that you could correct tomorrow reflect at the end of the month 30 days that's when you usually do the accounting for your business and the

company and the corporation do the accounting for your health if you needed to lose weight how many pounds how many pounds have you lost just do a good reflective accounting I'm trying to do a little study now on the value of the seventh day here's another thought to consider on the value of the seventh day

it says Labor the sixth and the seventh is a special day rest relax spiritual church family friendships so jot this down for the seventh day multi-purpose seventh day after six days of work multi-purpose and here's one of the purposes of the seventh day I think is to review the previous six days how

did it go where did you stumble what did you miss what should you have thought of that you let pass who didn't you see just to review the last six days what went right what went wrong what's there what's missing then here's what you do now plan the next six days with this

information of the last six plan the next six I call it multi-purpose seventh day reflect go back over then design plan refine and deposit the experience of the past six days into the adventure and activity of the next six days you will be absolutely surprised at the value and the productivity of your weeks if you'll

start doing a little more of that now here's the last to develop now the ability to act activity now is the catalyst and the miracle piece of the process here's a little subject called how to turn nothing into something number one first imagine the possibilities imagination is the first step of the miracle of possibilities

reality first starts with imagination now it's hard to call imagination nothing but it's not something in terms of a podium it's not tangible so it's hard to say how to turn nothing into something because nothing is there isn't anything that's nothing everything is something even if it's the imagination it's it's something I'm Stein once said

there's nothing faster than the speed of light and Bill Bailey my one of my mentors current mentors and longtime friend said maybe here's something faster than the speed of light and that's thought it's possible that the thought could be faster than the speed of light how fast can you think back and think ahead I guess we can't say the

exact same instant but all we can say is it seems like the exact same instant you know if you don't know the truth you can't say that's true and if you're not a scientist it'd be you know a little out of order to say yes this is true but here's what it seems like

it's possible to think back in the head at the same time I mean how fast is that to think back and think ahead but it's one of those marvelous capabilities that we all have and in your personal development quest of getting stronger and more vital both physically and spiritually and mentally now use this exercise to sink sink back

and gather more experience think ahead how to apply it so that the experience now multiplies in value by by three by five by ten its key now how to turn nothing into something number one imagine the possibilities today if we had a chance to hear everybody's testimonial of how you got where you are

some of you went from nothing to something some of you went from pennies to fortune and if we had a chance to hear everybody's story here today took the time guess what those stories would conclude those stories would conclude the possibilities are absolutely endless and unlimited so number one imagine the possibilities read an inspiring book one more time how

someone went from nothing to something the story of a Sarah Alfaro who started with a dollar now she's rich Wow the possibilities the possibilities their unending now here's the next step imagine that some of the possibilities are possible for you we call this now faith now we start with imagination now we generate faith what generates faith

faith is generated sometimes when the testimonial closes like this if I can do it but you could do it I started behind I started under the basement not in the basement I started with debt not surplus I didn't start with pennies I had no penny gets up to here finally got it turned around

now everything's flourishing that's what I want to hear and then one in a testimonial like that fit hey if I can do it you can do it here's what that does reassures our faith keep reading keep listening to the testimonials one that excite the imagination as to the possibilities and number two helps faith to occur that

what's possible for one is possible for another now here's the third step of faith are the third step in the miracle process to deposit your imagination and faith into high activity disciplined activity not just activity but skillful disciplined take the classes to learn the skills get around people that will teach you the disciplines and then

deposit your imagining the possibilities and believing that it's possible for you deposit that now into what we call high activity make this note now activity finishes the miracle process of turning nothing into something activity finishes the miracle process I'm positive that's why the formula was given of six days of working miracles and one day of rest to ponder how it's

going how is my miracle working process working have I missed some devote six days to the working of miracles the seventh day to rest and reflect and go back over and a bit of study yes spiritual yes Church yes synagogue yes families yes so show yes friends but see if you can't now come up with a plan

to increase your activity or refine your activity sharpen it so that it produces major results here's the next one take joy in the work I couldn't wait to get here today to share my story one more time I'm already pondering the testimonials that may come out of a class like this next year a

year from now five years from now if I happen to meet some of you and you say on that summer weekend in Anaheim I finally got it the lights went on for me something you said and something someone else said finally made sense and I hooked it together and here's what's happened that's going to be

extraordinary right that's why we're here to do this work I was excited this morning about being here couldn't wait to hear what I've got to say a lady asked me one times he said mr. Owen over the last few years I've been to your seminars now several times every time I see you you're all excited

things seem to be going right great for you how do you stay so excited all the time and I said I think it's because I attend all these seminars

because this make this note now because it's very valuable if you struggle to make something clear for someone else it helps to make it more clear for you if one person listens and one person speaks there is the opportunity for transformation for both the listener to be enlightened to see something you never saw before but the

speaker to be better educated on how to present it by struggling with the language words are clumsy sometimes when you try to express what's going on in your head let alone your heart and the spirit but the more you struggle to make it clear that clearer it gets for you so that both the listener could be

transformed by what he hears and the speaker could be transformed by the exercise of speaking trying to make it clear we're going to talk later about communication it's almost a god-like quality communicating inspiring other people with your language now here's the last part and I'm finished and we're going to take then about a 1012 minute

break maybe 11 11 minutes here's the lesson are you ready say I'm ready or the last one develop the ability to share not just your money in your resources one of the biggest things to share of course is your time because you're limited on time you can't get any more time big decision previewed me to

make to come spend this weekend with you instead of with my children and my grandchildren right I'm already wealthy I don't need you know don't need the money so why would I come because my children and my grandchildren know this is part of our collective experience they enjoy the testimonials that come later as much as I do the letters I get

in the phone calls and the response that people say hey your grandfather came and made an extraordinary contribution see my children and my grandchildren thrive on that story so they were willing for me instead of being in Carmel sitting on the sand at the ocean where my grandchildren live I'm here in Anaheim California spending this time

with you but I gladly do it here's why it's an investment time for me to share so the later comes the harvest one the harvest is by working hard to make it clear for you I'm getting as much as you are but then later hearing the testimonials so I'm asking you to do the

same in every format possible whether you're asked to do training whether you're asked to do teaching whether you're asked to make a speech always say yes to the best of your ability so that you'll have one more time to share one more time to help somebody lift themselves from poverty to success from

doubt to faith from illness to health from skepticism to belief one more chance a person to person or class to class or a little Sunday morning class or a little home meeting or a personal conversation at Jenny's coffee shop tell somebody something good something valuable the payoff for you is in the attempt and the

learning experience and then the payoff later is to get someone's testimonial that's got your name included so I want to thank you for spending all this time this morning let us now look at your watch and let's be back at 10:31 okay just do the necessary quickly and come right back as we got a

[Music] hi my name is Jeff Roberti I live down in Sarasota Florida and I've been in network marketing now for 20 years I got introduced to Jim Rohn back then he's one of my original mentors and some of the things he shared with me just changed my life forever you know and I've been a big student I've kept myself

in that learning environment learning and growing with the books and the tapes and like this weekend being here at this live seminar you know I'm being able to spend 2 or 3 days with Jim and some of the other speakers is wonderful and it's changed my life I was a broke waiter and

in the last 20 years I've been able to earn excess of fifty million dollars in the network marketing industry so thank you Jim and thank you so many others my name is Lauren Hudson founder and president of ISA one.org oh it's like in the blank blank check on the future you know learn so much and some of the

customers that I've learnt the last 30 years that I've known Jim Rohn has really transformed my life I can remember when I was southern project I couldn't afford to his book so I went to the library and he ordered it from another library that they didn't have and just 30 years ago I'm living my dream because some some of

the concepts that I learned from Demerol my life to get better I had to get better that no one was coming to the rescue and when I learned this possible my whole life has changed and I started doing the things I need to do to be successful when I worked when I realized

that it was only me it could save myself I recommend anyone in the world to really visit Jim Rohn I bought all of his product and to distribute them to my brothers and sisters I think what he's doing is to the best teachers on the planet my name is Cindy Goodwin and I

live in New Hampshire and I educate others for a living and I'm constantly learning from Jim and his personal philosophy about taking care of yourself for others so others can take care of themselves for you is something that we talk about in my house and with my students and it's great I'm still

learning every day it's why I'm here hey my name is Frederick Colin and going from Belgium the reason why I've come here to watch the gym one because he is a great inspire we meet with many books of him we love him and I would like to inspire to have his knowledge to help

other people by reaching the maximum in their life and also want to follow them in his steps into the future hello I'm Suzanne from Belgium the reason that I come here is because we had a couple of trainings before them he already inspired me a lot our personal life is also exchanged about also the financial dreams are

coming true now in our life we can we have more financial freedom we have also a lot other people also getting improved their life in health but also a financial freedom and it's really changing a lot of people and that's what I what we like about chamber one and that's what we want to give that's the

reason why we're here hello I'm get wealth also from Belgium almost one year ago I started with the one year plan from general and the first three months already was incredible what happened just unbelievable 90 day so when we get the possibility just to attend the event I'm ready to say you was quickly made just I won't go to see

everything in life and see what happens out for it I was working one year hard work and nothing changed and now with 90 days already just first 90 days I've been playing from a 90 day I can use organizations the people who like to work with me I like to work with the other people it's

just incredible only the start already my name is Michael Bennett Phoenix Arizona and I'm in direct sales and I love Jim Rome when I first heard his tape about planting seeds us to like 15 times the semen person is awesome because he's one of those people who speaks right to the soul of people

whether you're new in this business buildings business a while it's an awesome guys like a mentor that you could put in a CD or tape he wanders 10 the cream of the crop a nurse Taylor all comes down comes tea general listen to Jim Rome because he's the guy that taught most other people that inspire

motivate us hi my name is Charles Kelley from London I've come here to see Jim Rohn the reason I wanted to come here and actually see here mister see if it was better live than he's on tape and I think the topo has been better live than on tape this morning I think I've got

out of the situation this morning he said it keeps him why not why not go for it why not do something extraordinary with my life and that's what I'm going to do thank you very much my name is James Blake more and I'm from Midland Texas about 8 years ago I had the

incredible opportunity to hear a gentleman speak his name was James Rhone and the two-day seminar that I attended changed my life completely I went from a person who was not even entitled to success to understanding why you become what you earn what you become and you become successful by what you become I

continue to listen I consume everything that Jim Rohn puts out I attend every opportunity at every opportunity I attend every seminar meeting anytime I can get in front of the land I do my name is Jeff Weisberg from Moorpark California I've been involved in my own business now for over 20 years had an opportunity many years

ago to first hear from Jim Rowan and I think it's very important that all the different growth that a person gets they need to have continuous education and Jim's amazing at his age now he's still running around the world helping and change in people's lives and I think that for people that haven't had an

opportunity experience when they need to and for people that haven't had an opportunity to learn and develop and grow from his teachings and people that he's taught and mentored it's definitely something you want to be part of hello everyone this is Jerry Clark of club Ronald net we're sitting here at the Jim

Rome leadership event in Anaheim California we have had a great time learning from some of the Giants of the industry such as Jim Rohn Brian Tracy and the individual I have with me today which is Denis Waitley and many of you know of Denis Waitley because you've listened to several of his programs just

like I did a number of years ago as a matter of fact in 1986 is when I picked up some of his first training materials that I actually start learning from the psychology of winning all-time best-selling classic you have seeds of greatness being the best empires of the mind I mean I can go on and on with the

programs that dentists have come out with and then is he also for 12 years has been Olympic coach like the mental toughness the mental training coach for the Olympic athletes and so we are fortunate to have him here today is taking some time out to share some insights and so forth so Denis we want

to welcome you here with us thanks Jerry it's great to be with you now the first question you're talking about mental toughness this is really important because a lot of people listening and watching right now they want to know how do they develop a mental toughness in life in business life as far as people

who are entrepreneurial minded they're out there doing things that are a little different than a regular population as far as you know they want to make things happen on their own how do they develop that mental toughness that it's really going to take in order to make it I think one of the first things is to

always be for a surprise and the surprise is likely to be a negative surprise every day something's going to happen to in your day whether you're going to be late behind a train your car's going to have a flat tire something's going to happen to you and the ability to be able to to

take mole hills and continue to make them mole hills instead of mountains to look at problems as being normal problems are a normal part of change so because we're changing so rapidly there's going to be a lot of problems you face and to look at failure as an event that's the important thing a

failure is not a person I'm not a failure I've had a failure I've had a temporary inconvenience I've had a stumbling block and the idea is to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone and step on it rather than stumble over it so I always say look at failure as the fertilizer of success Wow

fertilizers are stinks smells you know I mean you put it on your grass and say wow that guy's just fertilized his lawn sure you fertilize your life with your mistakes you don't wallow in them you don't lay in them you don't roll in them you pick yourself up off your mistake and you learn from it and try not to

repeat that same thing again but you look at it as a temporary inconvenience it's a detour the detour in life is a failure so are these the same principles that the athletes the Olympic athletes use when they are maybe they're in practice or so so forth and they do a routine and it doesn't work out the way

they really felt it should have worked out or they're actually in the Olympic Games and they don't win that gold medal typically they don't just give up and say I forget it you know typically they come back four years later and they go at it again and they're doing years and years of practice just to get back to

that point so are you saying it's the same type of mindset that it takes to be a champion in athletes and athletics that it takes to be a champion in business absolutely there's there's two times when you use it before you perform and right after so it's called simulation and then replay and the

replay after a failure is as important as a replay after a success so the idea is when you miss you say that's not like me I'm better than that that's not like me come on get with it so you teach an athlete to slap his thigh and say come on that's not like you let's get with it let's get

going now come on Miss get back on it let's get back on the ball and so I'm learning myself in my life I say come on Dennis that's not like you you're a lot better than this you're better than this so let's get back to where we belong here let's remember what we've learned let's slow

down take a deep breath focus relax concentrate and follow through next time we'll get it right the important thing is to look at a failure as an event a single performance that you must take and make lead back to the original goal the problem is most people say oh man I blew it what a G and they and they rest

on that and they reinforce that mistake instead of taking it and correcting it to the target so it's really important to do target correction so basically what you're saying is that is just all these are mental strategies mental tools that we can use is kind of like reforming our self-talk instead of saying the negative disempowering type

things say the positive and empowering type of things and so in order for a person to get to a point where they're used to doing that because initially it seems like they have to consciously think about them you know making sure that they say an empowering word or empowering phrase so to get to that

point does it require you know your regular reading books going to seminars like the Jim Rohn leadership event we're at right now listening to tapes and so forth does it require those type of things even get to that point or can anyone who hasn't even done a lot of personal development just say hey I'm

going to choose to have really good stuff talk well it's pretty hard to go cold turkey on anything mainly because you don't really stop a habit you replace a habit and if if it's habitual a habitual way of talking or feeling or explaining I call it the positive explanatory style versus a negative

explanatory style so I'll I can explain the explanatory Styles yeah well I like to interview people and I ask them how it's going and I ask them you know if it's what kind of day is it for you and if the weather enters into the picture then I know that that it's not mental because the weather

is an external factor so if the external is in life are the things that determine whether you have a good day or not your being if you will you're a thermometer a thermometer is a passive device that lays there and tell you how the world is doing on the outside a thermostat is

what you set on the temperature that you want then it controls the air conditioning and the heating if you look at your body and brain as the hardware in your computer and you look at the software as the things you put in your mind you have a software program that drives the hardware so the software is

what you need to program with the instructions to have the computer follow directions and so you tell a computer what you want it to do and the software program determines the outcome of what the computer does most people don't know how to program their software to get the outcomes they want and if that thing is

that most people's software has already been programmed by someone else no question and sold now there every day right every day it's been programmed by the evening news it's being programmed by sitcoms reality TV shows commercials they tell us what they eat they tell us what to buy they tell us how to dress

they tell us what to think they tell us who to vote for and we just listen and and we say wait a minute I'm too smart for that I'm not going to pay any attention that too late observation imitation repetition right habit practice secondhand smoke secondhand violence secondhand it goes in and sticks and even if we don't want to do

it we do it anyway it's called the perception to buy hmm the advertising manipulates perception so you buy what they want you and the same thing is true with self-talk and control thinking makes you control your habits so that you do maybe what's good for you and the question is who's putting what into your

mind is it junk food in your mind or you're putting in some stuff that really makes your mind work well mmm Wow and so basically what you're talking about is that even if someone says you know I'm not really watching TV to watch the TV just I have it on so you know they might

be sleeping and they have the TV on but what you're saying is if all that positive stuff going in it's like if you put something you got something your throat you have to coffee you got to get it out right okay and if you got to get it out and if you keep it in then what's

going to happen is you know it's just going to stay in it's still there so are you saying that no matter what it feel comes in even if you just have it like second hand TV so to speak well yeah it's true it does go in unless you're asleep there's been a a misnomer in

other words you really don't learn while you sleep so sleep learning the Russians tried it and the important thing about sleep is you need to dream and you dream about every 30 to 40 minutes you go down into a deep sleep come back up and have a dream so you have so many dreams per

night if you tried to learn stuff while you're asleep it would interrupt your dreams and you would be irritable and you would actually be a little bit paranoid so the best time to get inputs is when you're relaxed not painting attention to it and that's where television and commercials and radio and all these things have the biggest impact

on teenagers because they're really not paying that much attention to it what they say is look the lyrics don't mean anything to me I like the beat right I like the beat but the lyrics I don't pay any attention the truth is that's worse they don't have to pay attention because it's going

in and sticking anyway so in order to reprogram ourselves in it it's going to take just a constant you know injecting ourselves so to speak with you know like materials that you've come out with over the years see is a great a psychology of winning which is the one of the best-selling audio

programs of Nightingale Conan of all times going to events like this like the Jim Rohn event going to your different trainings that you do just constantly bombarding or saturating your mind it's kind of like a reverse brainwashing so to speak because everyone tells me it's a jury you just brainwashing people you know

where they come to my seminars your brainwashing people and so forth and I just say hey they've already been brainwashed no it's the opposite call it's called D hypnosis it's D hypnotizing what they've already been hypnotized because hypnosis means sleep hip no from sleep so hypnosis is when you learn when you're relaxed and you repeat

things but you didn't remember that you learned them so you D hypnotize people by helping them take in stuff that's good for them rather than not recognize or taking in stuff that's bad for them so obviously you have to read a lot of books listen to a lot of programs listen to positive

radio watch the Discovery Channel watch National Geographic listen to great music and go out to ethnic restaurants and watch people who are doing great things and you know really get involved with people who are trying to make a difference in the world the next thing you know you say wow some of that

stuff's rubbing off on me hmm now what do you say someone who's you know they're watching and they're listening right now understand you know one of the things is I listen to tapes and I read the books and so forth but when it comes to really taking action sometimes I might start to take an

action and then I kind of like stop so they're not able to be consistent with the action they know they should be taking and so they end up procrastinating what do you say to people like that I say that's a little voice inside you that tells you you can't do it it's the voice of fear we

all have that little voice inside of us so what you say to them is find someone who'll keep you honest by making you accountable by having a buddy and the buddy says wait a minute you and I said we were going to we say we're going to meet at 6 o'clock in the morning and I

showed you didn't come on you said you're going to be there and when you announce to somebody else that you're going to do something you kind of make a commitment back and forth to a friend so it's really important maybe not to try to do it alone because by ourselves I'm include like you know I'm a great

procrastinator I was going to go to the program but I put it off you know I went to the memory program but I forgot where I put the page now what about happiness that's the one key thing that people ask me all the time so you know how do I become happy you know it's like a lot of

people are chasing things in order to be happy they think they have to get something in order to be happy what's your take on happiness and where is what is happiness and where can people get it or find it for people that are chasing for it that's just it you can't drive it you can't wear it you

can't live in it you can't drink it smoke it snort it you can't travel to it happiness is the experience of the journey it's like brushing your teeth or driving your car it's a second nature kind of thing and it doesn't come as a result of anything because if you're waiting for results to make you happy

they're going to be good results and bad results so you'll be happy sometimes and sad other times the experience of happiness becomes a way of looking at everything and so I am happy because that's the way I am because that's the way I've been thinking but it isn't a result of anything that's happened to me

I just decided to be a happy guy and so when I look at something I say can do no problem that's not going to make me unhappy makes it come on you just came back from Africa there are four hundred thousand child refugees from AIDS over there don't tell me that doesn't make you sad

I said it makes me compassionate it makes me want to do something it makes me grateful that I live where I live it makes me not want to waste makes me want to help them but it can't make me unhappy because it makes me unhappy I wouldn't have the energy or the excitement to help them I wouldn't have

the passion because passion in my case comes from being excited and being happy and that's powerful is that it's a choice and that's a really happiness as a choice it really is a choice and people say come on how can I DZ how can I be happy you say well try it hmm

because for people thinking that it's going to take something else when they get that something else then they start to realize well maybe this is not it maybe it's going to take something else so they're always looking for something else to make them happy and that's probably one of the reason that actually

causes some of the addictions and some of the things that we have is because once they realize it's not that they start feeling depressed and how oh my goodness what is it and then they start all this addictive behavior a lot of there's an answer to a riddle - and the riddle is do we sing because we're happy

or do we come happy because we sing but yes the answer is true so let's say you're not happy I believe that if you sing a happy song the lyrics and Thun will create more happiness in you so as simple as it sounds if you're singing a happy song the mind doesn't know the difference that you're unhappy

you're happy so when I sing you know it's like whistling when you're afraid right yes because you say why you whistling well I'm afraid and I'm trying to whistle myself out of being afraid well that it really happens that way and so I try to sing a happy song in life even if I'm not really happy at the

moment and it gets me back into where I think I belong Wow so as we're wrapping up here why do you feel it's important for people to come to events like the general leadership event that we're at right now and all the different trainings that you do and Brian Tracy does and all the other trainers out

there that have great invaluable information to share why do you think that's important for people who are listening or watching right now to constantly engage himself in that type of activity because 90% of what you'll ever see in here is negative on a daily and nightly basis you have to do something to overcome that and I think

Zig says it best you know he and I started speaking together about 1974 and he said that just because you take a bath that doesn't mean you don't need to take one tomorrow Wow so one bath does not make you clean and therefore one seminar does not change your life Billy Graham and I are really good friends and

he said I don't change lives Dennis I give them information and I give them the maybe a little bit of input to cause them to think a little more but he said they'd have to come to hundreds and hundreds of meetings before they would decide to really make a change so I think we're just these meetings are

catalysts they're constant reminders that we can do this stuff if we just keep that more in mind than the evening news as excellent I know that people that are listening and watching right now they can go to Jim Rohn calm and find some of the materials that you have but you also have a website to have a

lot more materials that they're not gonna be able to find there is it Denis Waitley calm sure they can go to Denis Waitley calm or just Whateley calm just weit le why.com okay and if they go to dentist they spelled with one in yes yeah they go to dentist wait yeah I'm the one n dentist my mom lost it in

but then as we appreciate your time your energy and I thank you personally for over all the years of coming up with the empowering information that actually empowered my life and actually allowed me to create millionaire status and be able to produce great results of my life and go out there and share with other

people so on behalf of myself and all the other people at this Jim Rohn leadership event and all those people that are watching they're listening that don't happen to be at this event right now we want to thank you from the bottom of our heart and say keep up the great work out there and keep occurring people

like to do thank you very much and you've got the baton for the next generation thank you gladly hands it through I appreciate that thing thank you [Music] you