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0:01 I have a good comment for your notes Now's the Time to fix the next 10 years now sometimes you have to come to grips with reality and with truth that's what was good for me when I met Mr scha I was 25 years old he was 44 years old and he brought me a wealth of experience and he started asking me the tough questions big question he said are you reading the books that's going to take you where you want to go in the next 5 years excellent question so you want to make sure I would assume for all of you to get where you want to be in the next 5 years you're either reading the right books or you're not that's kind of a brilliant statement right you're either engaged in the disciplines or you're not but here's what we don't want to engage in disillusion hoping without acting you
0:46 know wishing without doing so the key is to take a look and say Where am I what could I do to make the changes to make sure that I can take more certain daily steps toward the treasure I want the mental treasure the personal treasure the spiritual treasure the financial treasure I don't want to make any errors Now's the Time to adjust my daily program to take me where I want to go you might draw a little circle this is where you are 10 years from now you could be here or 10 years from now you could be here and the difference in 10 years between here and here could be significant in money and lifestyle Treasures equity in 10 years an incredible
1:32 difference but right here a small difference in the change of discipline the change of thinking to start you on this journey versus this journey now it's also very important intellectually to know whether or not you're headed this way or this way and once you decide 10 years from now I think that the Gathering of my intellectual and personal and spiritual and moral and economic treasure may not be that great the key is to start right now making these changes to walk this new road but here's what's exciting to me just a few daily disciplines makes a great deal of difference in one year 3 years 5 years just a few daily disciplines whether you wind up here or here good question 10 years from now you
2:19 will surely arrive the question is where we don't want to kid ourselves about where we don't want to kid ourselves about the road we're walking I had a day shortly after I met Mr scha called do not Kid myself anymore day I don't want to go disillusioned anymore you know I was using the cross finger Theory back when I was 25 24 23 I finally decided that the cross finger theory was not going to get me what I wanted that isn't where the treasure lies that I'm going to have to make sure which of these ways I'm HED but a few reading disciplines and a few disciplines of mind and a few disciplines of activity and you can make all the difference in the world whether you wind up here or whether you wind up here but just a few changes sometimes we get the idea that we're doing about 10%
3:06 and there's about 90% more that we need in order to make the difference for our fortune and probably the opposite is true we're doing enough things to have bought and shared in The Good Life so far and maybe all you need is that extra 5% 10% of intellectual change activity change a refinement of discipline a refinement of thought and all we need is the ideas to make those simple changes and the equity starts gathering in 1 year 3 years 5 years 10 years so here's one of the key questions of the evening starting tomorrow what are you going to do that'll make a change in your life's Direction good question what are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference now see if you don't do
3:52 something starting tomorrow that'll make a difference guess what it's going to be the same and see that way you can guess what the next five years are going to be like look at the last five cuz the next five are going to be like the last five unless you major key tomorrow change it all or change a little or change something or don't change it's Choice time you can do whatever you want but it's nice to know any day you wish you can change your whole life what can you do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference good question what can you do with economic
4:38 chaos massive disappointment what can you do with a broken heart what can you do and it won't work good question if you want your life to change here's the source of it all ideas plus inspiration now ideas are not that far away everything you need is Within Reach the ideas you need for life change or business change is within reading reach it's within listening reach there's probably a library not too far from you the problem is right there's a library there but most people drive by very few Drive in do you know how many people own a library card in the United States 3% and guess how much they cost nothing
5:24 wow but see it's within reach now the key is who's going to reach there's a simple Bible phrase and I'm an amateur on the Bible but here's what it says if you search you will find but it's very important to know that finding is reserved for the Searchers we don't find what we need we find what we search for needing is not the prerequisite to getting value you can't be a needer you have to be a Searcher but if you'll search if you'll try if you'll go if you'll listen ideas are within reach and ideas are life-changing there's nothing so powerful as an idea whose Time Has Come a business idea a social idea an investment idea good health idea
6:10 all you need is just the refinement of an idea to make an impact on your life gather treasure gather Equity gather wealth because it doesn't take much to make a significant difference as the time passes a good note for you to take we could all use a little coaching listen to someone's experiences and see if it might cause for you a little moment of Correction so that you can make some changes that'll add up to some extra worth in the next 1 year 3 years 5 years all kinds of ideas Health ideas Enterprise ideas living the better life ideas now if you're excited and you're ready to change find out
6:58 how things work the first key to doing better is find out to change your life really you need ideas there isn't anything an idea can't change and schul taught me the major problem is lack of an idea not a problem at first I didn't have any money I said to Mr schop I don't have any money he said that's not a problem now see up until then I always thought it was right I was confused he said no no the problem is lack of an idea on how to create money and wealth it isn't lack of money it's lack of ideas so if you get the ideas so you can change anything now to get ideas you need a constant study of finding out now scha also said when you find out
7:44 something that works put the information in your Journal don't use your head for a filing cabinet put it in your Journal so that you can do the next best thing repetition repetition repetition go over it and if you repeat it go over it sure enough someday some mysterious day the idea takes root starts to grow and shows up in your bank account and your dress and your personality and your lifestyle but capture the ideas in your Journal find out how things work schul gave me this word for my life change he said study great word if you wish to be successful study success
8:29 if you wish to be happy study happiness if you wish to be wealthy study wealth don't leave it to chance make it a study some people just go through the day with their fingers crossed see that won't do it you've got to study the things that can change your economic social spiritual personal life become a good reader all of the successful people I know and work with around the world they're all good readers curiosity drives them to read they got to know become a good reader now that's my opinion listen to the other lecturers and listen to me and make up your own mind don't be a
9:16 follower be a student okay I say really for life change you got to read one way to learn is from your own experiences but another way to learn is from other people's experiences see one book might save you five years if you read it did you know there's books on how to be stronger more decisive be a speaker be a leader have a better effect on other people develop your personality did you know there's books on that and people don't read them how would you explain that and they can read did you know that hundreds of successful people people have written their stories in books and they wrote
10:02 down how they did it and people don't read it how would you explain that the guy's busy I guess you know you get tied up the guy says well yeah you work where I work but the time you struggle home it's late you got to eat a bite a supper watch little TV get to bed you can't sit up half the night reading reading reading reading and the guy's behind on his car payment good worker hard worker sincere but you got to be better than sincere and work hard otherwise at the end of your life you'll wind up cold Stony broke you got to be better than a good worker you got to be a good
10:50 reader you may not be able to do all you find out but you should find out all you can do see you don't want to wind up at the end of your life and discover that you've lived only one/ tenth of it and the other nine10 went down the drain not for lack of opportunity for lack of information now here's the best human virtue for finding out curiosity make a note of that Curiosity be curious you might add a word to it that'll help childish curiosity what will kids do if they want to know something bad enough bug you that's the phrase they can ask a thousand questions you think they're
11:35 through they got another thousand they'll drive you to the brink it's a virtue when you got to no be like a child in fact Jesus the master teacher said unless you can become like little children you might as well forget it you don't have a prayer excellent advice you got to be like children four ways in my opinion to be like a child number one's curiosity number two is excitement get excited like a child over your ability to make yourself do anything for change third is Faith have faith like a child adults are too skeptical and fourth is trust trust is a childish virtue but the
12:20 rewards are incredible so be like a child now there's millions of books so you can't read all the books but here's what I mean by read all the books read all the books you need to read to make your fortune become powerful influential healthy prosperous aware bright helpful partnership father mother grandparent read all the books you need for your life to flourish and become the best it can possibly be during the course of your lifetime read all of those books don't be short on
13:06 that list one of the greatest experiences any of us can have is the experience of influence to persuade somebody that we've got a good idea to persuade somebody to buy a product or consider a service to be able to influence somebody to a way of life a product an idea a company a corporation an Enterprise influence is one of the greatest of life's experiences the chance to influence somebody else their thinking their future maybe their lives is a great experience and all the way from being a manager to a executive to being a parent we all have in some respects the chance and the opportunity
13:52 to influence somebody else now the key is to develop the skills to do it there's one thing in doing it casually another thing in doing it Hazard and the other is to do it on purpose by learning the skills Gathering the skills to help influence people to a way of thinking to a product to an idea to an Enterprise or just to a better life I think first of all to get more we need to just be thankful for what we already have but let's be thankful for where we are because that's how good ideas start to flow Thanksgiving for what you've already got here's what blocks the flow of all good information cynicism it's not that difficult to be a practiced cynic feeling cynical about
14:38 circumstances cynical about Place cynical about opportunities cynical about people but if we turn that around turn cynicism into Thanksgiving now the ideas can flow information can flow refinement of ideas can flow so that's number one be thankful here's number two be eager to learn no matter what you know know there's always some more there's nothing like a good powerful discussion to refine an idea what we want is ideas that pass the test of the tough questions and it's good to be around people who can ask the tough questions debate has a unique way of refining ideas that can become of value but here's what I ask you to do argue with all this stuff later go back over your notes and relive the experience and
15:24 think about what we've shared with you here the key is to stimul at the mind to think thoughts and to think ideas to open up channels of information refinement of intellect is where the future Fortune lies but be eager to learn and the last comment is be a good listener which isn't easy these days everybody wants our attention radio voices and television voices and advertising voices and political voices and social voices and religious voices and Community Voices and family voices and how do you sort through all the voices and give extra time to a voice of substance it isn't easy but if you'll practice the art of good listening no telling what you can find in the way of ideas that can help change your
16:10 life the next key word is inspiration inspiration is a mystery why some people are inspired and some are not who knows what that mystery is emotional Vitality some people have this incredible zest for life and an appetite for living well and doing well and others seem to take the Ho Hum attitude let it slide hopefully it'll work out anyway I don't know what the difference of that is but it is exciting to watch people who are inspired but I think the key to it all is self motivation personal inspiration drawing emotional Vitality from life and the challenge going for it we all admire that now just a personal word I don't know where I've caught you in this
16:55 particular lecture series maybe this is Springtime for you you you got a new opportunity going and no telling what you're going to make of it and you're all excited maybe some of you we've caught you in Harvest time maybe you're celebrating maybe this is the summertime for you when sometimes the going is tough and the weeds are attacking your garden and the bugs are after your values summertime is an interesting time it's not that easy to last from Spring till fall Summer's a test and especially when the creditors are calling so I don't know maybe we've caught you in a testing time maybe this is challenging time for you the summer time maybe I've caught you in Winter and I'm sure we've all had some of those winter
17:41 times sort of desperate times decisionmaking times maybe I've caught you in this series at the fork of the road and some of the decisions you make in the immediate future are going to have everything to do with your next 5 years 10 years and I've been to a few of those called called Forks in the road I mean which way do you go what do you select now as your next PATH of opportunity and maybe these are trying times for you winter can be a source of trial when the push is on and the Press is on you got to get going you got to take action the disciplines is the miracle process and here's how to get the miracle of your future going as far as disciplines are concerned number one do what you
18:26 can you might go home and set a whole new pace for yourself and we call it cleaning up neglect should walk around the block could walk around the block for your good health don't walk around the block see you're on the wrong track should read could read don't read on the wrong track should call could call don't call on the wrong track could change should change don't change you're you're on the wrong track don't let neglect destroy your days destroy your life and destroy your future go back and do what you can and if you'll do what you can then life will give you some extraordinary
19:12 things to do you got to take care of the small disciplines before life will give you a chance to handle the more complicated [Music] disciplines
