Jim Rohn - Ways to Build Your Best Future (Personal Development)

Jim Rohn ► here's one of the greatest things to
develop in your lifetime enough
influence you know it starts with our
family if we start having children but
it also starts in school teaching your
kids to be influential to try to
persuade you know others to do the right
thing go the right direction read the
right books you know forget the
temptations that might take you the
wrong direction ambassadors of good
thinking ambassadors of you know
positiveness ambassadors of virtue
ambassadors of you know building your
life laying the foundation for things to
come
ambassadors of developing purpose
objectives ambassadors of citizenship
community team spirit if children can
start early not just being themselves
but lending their influence on the
poverty side that's the key by helping
others we help ourselves there's an
ancient phrase years where it says if
you try to save your life you will lose
it but if you will lose your life
meaning if you will invest your life
that's the best way to save it and to
multiply it many times over so you do me
the greatest honor here by coming and
letting me invest the piece of my life
into your life so here's the phrase
investing life into life has the
potential of creating miracles investing
life into life investing life into life
creates a new baby but investing life
into life with ideas information
Association influence can create
Enterprise can create a corporation can
create a business can create a movement
can create something that benefits many
more people than just those few that
might have invested in each other's
lives so this is the grand opportunity
for me it's why I'm here
to make another investment and I do it
gladly and yes you know air travelled is
a little difficult and you know by the
time you stand in line and pack your
bags and check into the hotel and check
out travelling around the world is
really hard work for me lecturing is is
easy I call it work so that I get paid
but this is the easy part
really traveling is the difficult part
trying to get somewhere I love to be
there but you know getting there is it
takes a push and you have to exert you
know some good efforts and positive
thinking and everything else right to
finally get where you're supposed to be
so that's the hard work but now you know
getting here now and having the
opportunity for a couple of days to
three days to invest in other people's
lives
you know that's a unique opportunity so
that should be one of your goals is to
be valuable enough to invest in somebody
else's life starting first if you're
married with your children and then
invest in each other marriage and
friendship these associations are a
chance to invest in each other a
business enterprise bill Bailey and I've
been involved in other enterprises but
the enterprise you know fortunately was
successful and we had a chance to affect
a lot of other people's lives but guess
what happened over those years and which
continues to today we continue to invest
in each other I come up with a great
idea I get on the phone my colleague he
comes up with a book he's read they said
this is a masterpiece you've got to read
it so we have this chance to invest each
other and while we walk the farm country
of Kentucky we invest in each other we
walked the beaches of California he
helped me design a little test set
here's what it's called how to kick the
worry habit and Bill Bailey helped me to
put that together we'd walk the beach
and he has a habit of grabbing your arm
when you're walking and talking so he
would grab my arm until listen when we
get sore and then we'd trade places so
we could you know grab the other arm for
a while while we're walking and talking
but a chance to contribute to each other
and what I share with him he shares with
others in what
shares with me I share with you and
others around the world that
contribution of sharing with each other
being influential leadership making a
contribution to someone's life that no
telling how far it may go from the time
it starts so I'm just delighted to be
here thanks to all of those who have
made a contribution we're going to have
lunch in just a few minutes but let's
get started on goal setting if you're
ready say I'm ready
does anybody have five pages of notes
already from this weekend section
wonderful wonderful a man showed me
notes one time that he took 23 years
earlier and he says in the front I took
these notes 23 years ago now I want you
to sign them so I finally signed his
notes after 23 years he said I've used
them to build my business and my
personal life it's just been fantastic
and he said when I took these notes I
was 18 years old
incredible so make this note now you
never know who's in the audience he was
18 years old just a teenager we
shouldn't say just a teenager he was a
teenager so you don't know who's out
there that's going to make an impact on
the world it's going to do its drawer
Denari things so here's you must always
do always be sincere and always do your
best no matter who you talk to because
you just don't know all those years ago
in my audience in Orange County was
young Tony Robbins
17 years old just a teenager and he went
to work for the next day and joined one
of my offices and worked for me three
and a half years and finally at about
age 20 he ran one of my offices
helping to promote my seminars back
there incredible 17 so the man who have
signed had me signed his notes was 18
about the same time I met Tony I was
doing a seminar in Los Angeles and in my
audience was a young man 19 years old
his name was Mark Hughes and Mark Hughes
started an incredible company called
verbal life but these were teenagers now
Mark Hughes 19 Tony Robin
17 the man whose notes I sign 18 so it's
incredible
you just don't know who's there ready or
when the timing is right and I've just
hope that this weekend was the right
time for you so it's a chance to never
be the same again after this weekend
only by choice by choice you can still
go do the same old things but if this
weekend has touched you by what you've
heard the communication from several
voices it's been important so jut this
down it takes more than one voice to
help us to see help us to think help us
to make decisions help us to evaluate it
takes a variety of personalities
messages points of view the weight of
experience if it comes from several
sources it can be just incredibly valued
when you sum total it and I'm just happy
to be part of this sum total of good
voices for the weekend now let's talk
about setting goals when I first met her
will show not long after we had met each
other he asked me mr. own maybe here's
one of the best ways I can help you he
said let me see your current list of
goals and let's go over and talk about
it he said I've got the experience and
he said let's do it and I said to him I
don't have a list
he said well you don't have a list of
your goals I said no he said well if you
don't have a list of your goals he said
I can guess your bank balance within a
few hundred dollars which he did and I
thought is that something then I said to
him you mean if I had a list of goals it
would change my bank balance he said
drastically so that got my attention and
although years ago I learned how to set
goals and so we want to talk about that
today and we're just going to get
started before lunch and we're going to
finish after lunch when we come back but
now let's make these notes now on
goals the promise of the future is an
awesome force we look back for
experience but we have to look forward
now for inspiration and what gives us
inspiration to get up in the morning and
do our job
learn skills develop all that we can
possibly be is the promise of the future
and it can be so powerful that it can
overwhelm any adversary you might have
any difficulties you might have here's a
key phrase reasons make the difference
in how your life works out reasons make
the difference in your appetite and zest
for taking on the challenge doing the
job becoming successful mr. chef said if
you have enough reasons you can do the
most incredible things you can get
through the most difficult day you can
overcome the most unbelievable
challenges if you have enough reason and
so he said to me if you haven't got a
list of your goals mr. own it's probably
because you don't have enough reasons he
said I'm sure since I've met you you
have enough intelligence and he said you
have enough good health and he said you
have you know all of those things
working for you but here's what you must
work on now is to have enough reasons
looking into the future developing
reasons okay so now make these notes
we're primarily affected by five things
number one is the environment the
political environment the social
environment the physical environment
whatever surrounds us affects us the
city the country the countryside the
village the office the people we're
constantly affected and shaped by our
reaction and decision making a lot of it
depends on the environment and for the
physical environment we all need to pay
attention to that make every
contribution you can it's
little small planet remember those first
pictures from space
looking back on Earth it looks so
fragile look so small we thought wow so
many people live there how can that be
we must take care of it right now it's
the only planet we've got do everything
we can
my mama taught me those little things
right pick out don't leave your trash
you know if you a little thing like
remember I got a toothpick once at the
cafe and I took a little cellophane off
the toothpick and I just dropped it on
the floor mama said no no you wouldn't
do that at home I thought well she
should just put it in your pocket and
then when you get home he put it in the
trash in terms very well what difference
does that make you know the little fella
fane on the toothpick here's what makes
the difference the habit and the habit
makes the difference primarily for you
now yes it makes a contribution and a
little small contribution by not leaving
trash but here's what it does mostly
give you the incredible feeling of
self-worth because you have good habits
that's the deal
the habit of turning out the lights when
you're finished with your hotel room you
leave the hotel room turn out the lights
it just makes a small contribution but
what if everybody did it and I'm telling
it the energy requirements would be less
you say well the hotel gets the benefit
it doesn't matter to you who gets the
benefit guess what's the greatest
benefit being a person of unique habits
habits that not only right make you
perform as far as skills are concerned
but habits that make you feel good about
yourself and then sometimes we get the
question why do it and I got the best
answer to that why not do it if it's so
easy to do why not do all the easy
things that make a contribution and who
knows what the total contribution could
be if we all did it but even if
everybody doesn't
if you do it and if I do it it just
makes us better human beings it makes us
feel better about ourselves and if I
know you do it it makes me feel better
about you and if you know I do it I
think it makes you feel better about me
say why now this man was taught some
good things when he was growing up I did
a little television series not long ago
and here was the title of the talk
things my mother taught me it was kind
of interesting my mother taught me
always eat before you go to the band
clips so you won't appear hungry when
you get there and then you can do what
which is most important and that's to
socialize so rather than go to the band
court to make up for you know Emil you
haven't had and eating everything in
sight
not having any time to socialize and
mingle with the people mama said always
eat before you go to the banquet
wow that's really good advice little
thing she taught me mama said what sit
up straight
reason she said that is because she had
a vision of me sitting up straight
shoulders back right chin down look up
look everyone in the eye good posture
right feel good about yourself other
people feel good about you our parent
divisions of who they wanted us to be
gave us those little tips
it wasn't wrote the book everything I
needed to know I learned in kindergarten
thank you please some countries the
world show unique respect when I go to
Mexico I love to go to Mexico because
they don't just say hello Jim Rohn they
say hello mr. Jim Rohn when they
introduced me to say this is mr. Jim
Rowe they don't say this is Jim Rohn
it's just part of the custom was just
mr. Jim room when I first came to the
south I remember just as a kid and they
said yes ma'am yes sir no sir I mean
where I was raised we really didn't do
that but I think the more the south did
it the more it caught on and now I'm
beginning to hear that in the
a lot more places than just the sound
yes ma'am yes sir
things my mother taught me things we can
all earth help them with our lives
better helps make the world better helps
make people feel good about themselves
feel good about us incredible so the
environment whatever little thing you
can think of it gives you pride and joy
in doing to make the contribution as
small as it may seem you make it for
what it does to the environment for the
people but here's the biggest reason for
what it does for you I want to be the
best I can possibly be delivering the
message of good words so we keep working
on our skills to be the best we possibly
can never let me get back now to setting
goals first
we're affected by the environment next
we're affected by events some events
affect us all some affect the world
regionally nationally or by the state or
by the community but some events affect
us all how many of you go back to the
Cuban Missile Crisis how many of you go
back that far
go ahead admit it this is okay you're
among friends here okay quite a few of
you the Cuban Missile Crisis that was an
event that affected the whole world it
was unbelievable US government finally
wakes up one day and finds out that
Chris Jeff's got his missiles on the way
to Cuba and the sights are already
prepared so Kennedy calls Khrushchev and
says in the tithi you cannot put your
missiles in Cuba and John Kennedy hadn't
been president very long so this was a
unique occasion for the young president
Nikita Khrushchev says young Kennedy
this is Nikita Khrushchev
I'm from Russia and I promise you sir we
will put our missiles wherever we please
now people are starting to dig their
bomb shelters right in the backyard
things are starting to happen next call
John Kennedy calls mr. chairman mr.
Khrushchev you cannot put your missiles
90 miles from Florida that's impossible
mr. Khrushchev says well young president
I must inform you the ships are already
on the way Wow now we're getting nervous
next call John Kennedy calls with
Khrushchev says mr. chairman I promise
you sir this is such a serious matter we
will not let your ships arrive whoa
Khrushchev called Kennedy said mr.
Kennedy you must think this over because
if you mess with our ships and stop them
on the way it means war last call
Kennedy says no to Khrushchev I must
have hear you sir and this is for your
sober consideration if it is war Russia
will cease to exist there won't be any
more Russia last call Dean Rusk
Secretary of State at the time put it I
think very well it said Kennedy and
Khrushchev were staring at each other
unfortunately Khrushchev blinked and
decided he better take his missiles and
go back home
and so ended the missile crisis but it
was tense time I mean we were having
exercise as we went through and Google
right did none of the desk hiding
somewhere those were tough times so some
events affect us all

Jim Rohn - Ways to Build Your Best Future (Personal Development)

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