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Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate the welcome, and it's nice to come by and have a chance to visit with you.

Claude and I do go back a few years, and it's nice to be invited back.

I did three lectures here last year, and it says something to be invited back.

Maybe it doesn't say everything, but it says something.

Maybe it says let's give him one more chance, see if he can pull it out this time.

It's nice to see all of you.

How many of you this is the first time you've seen me?

Can I see your hands?

Okay, most of you

Some of you I recognize have been back a few times the last few years that I've been coming to Phoenix

But I appreciate being invited to come and spend some time with you.

I just got back from Australia my ninth lecture tour of Australia and got to see the America's Cup in Perth.

Unfortunately, it's in Perth but

in 1987 we're gonna go back and get it right

but life's been good to me

and after being single 10 years last year at the crystal cathedral in Garden Grove California

I got married got somebody now to share the rest of my life with

so what a fascinating journey for me

and now to have the opportunity to be invited to come by

and share some of my thoughts with you and see

if I can't invest some of my ideas in in your better future and then

if I meet you a year from now ten years from now you might say the day you came by

and talked to us was a good day for me it gave me some ideas to try and

so that's what I'd like to do in the next few minutes in the time

we've got is to give you what I think are some major things

that can help in putting your life together some things at least to consider

I don't have all the answers on how to do well

but I've got some I'm using and I'm practicing and it's working well for me

So let me just share with you my experience and then you can decide if it's valid for you

Give it a try if it doesn't make sense.

Just throw it out, right?

You don't have to buy everything any one person says

Here's the key be a student not a follower

Be a student not a follower

Somebody says I read this book should I follow

and the answer is no read at least two books and make up your own mind Right?

Don't be a follower.

Be a student. Be independent.

Take advice but not orders.

Only give yourself orders.

Make sure what you finally do is the product of your own conclusion.

That's what university is for, to debate all the ideas, not just to buy them all, debate them all, and then decide what's best for you,

where to go from there.

But university is a great place to hear an exchange of ideas on a wide variety of major life topics and

That's what it's all about taking the time to go through it

Now what I'd like to give you is what I think are the five major pieces to the life puzzle

Five major pieces to the life puzzle

If we can study each of the pieces and then put it all together

The chances of it running well are just a lot better

Mr. Shove gave me a simple formula when I first met him and let me give it to you

He said there's usually about a half dozen things makes 80 % of the difference.

I Thought that was a good formula.

I've applied that to a lot of things

There's usually about a half dozen things makes 80 % of the difference

There's about a half dozen wealth things about a half dozen health things

That can give you the 80 % solution to the problem

Then mr. Shoaf said be a student of those half dozen basic things

Pretty good advice

Success is not doing extraordinary things success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well

So if you just learn to do it well key things well learn to speak well poor people can talk

and rich people can talk

Looks like rich people talk better

It's just learning a skill with a high degree of of precision

Learning to speak is called survival.

Learning to speak well is called success.

So we can speak well enough to survive or we can speak the extra well enough to succeed.

So let me give you what I think are fundamental pieces to life and we'll take it from there.

Here's the first one philosophy pretty well -known word on the

university campus philosophy philosophy in very simple terms is simply what you know

and what you know greatly affects how your life works out

we might also add what you don't know greatly affects how your life works out

The idea you miss could be the missing number in trying to put the numbers in the lock.

So what you don't know will hurt you, to correct an old cliche.

And to correct aspiring entrepreneurs, weigh everything before you do it.

before you buy it before you try it make sure

you weigh it everything you get ready to do you get to decide whether it's a major

or a minor and you don't want to give minor things major time

you don't want to give something insignificant significant amounts of your energy

so we simply use the phrase way before you pay sophisticated people learn to weigh everything

and what we all need is a good set of mental scales to weigh everything.

What if you got information and your mental scales were off and insignificant things to you were significant?

Wouldn't that be a major handicap the rest of your life?

When you weighed something, important things weighed unimportant, we would call that a great handicap.

So it's very important to weigh everything properly.

And that's the reason for sermons and songs and lyrics and lectures and seminars and conversations and professors and teachers.

It's one of the reasons why we converse with each other

and we debate and we think about and we ponder

and we perceive and we weigh

and we try to find out where the values are

because you don't want to proceed and give big chunks of your life to something that's insignificant.

Okay, so we get in from big question informing your life, where are the values?

What is important?

What should weigh heavy on my mind and I should give it significant time and significant energy and significant money.

So all of this stuff, this is our thinking process.

Shove said to me, poor thinking habits keep most people poor.

Not poor working habits.

Most people work hard, but they don't think hard.

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They don't use their mind to really try to perceive where the values are so that they don't waste any time.

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It's easy to spend big chunks of your life on insignificant things unless you can weigh it better our mind

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so all of this stuff is called major

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it's one of the major pieces of the life puzzle what you think about knowledge how you weigh

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it the conclusions you come to the values you've perceived thinking

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if you really want to help somebody change their life

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you have to start changing their mind change their philosophy change

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how they think somebody says well just motivation that'll do

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and the answer is no motivation won't do it

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if a guy's an idiot then you motivate him

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you got a motivated idiot say no that's not what it takes now it's very easy to make errors in judgment

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errors in judgment i'm now the teaching people even out even after they're out of school university college,

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they should read at least one or two books a week.

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It's easy when you get out of school, right, and get a job to just sort of let that all slide,

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not keep up the learning process.

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But if you don't keep up the learning process, a lot of values become fuzzy if you don't keep trying to perceive what's important,

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what's not important, and then start spending major effort on minor things.

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So we have to keep learning.

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What if a guy spent his book money on donuts?

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Right?

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We would call him greatly deprived mentally.

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In 10 years, the guy's bought two tons of donuts and only two books, right?

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Mostly with pictures, right?

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And he wonders why his life isn't working well.

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Reason.

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After he got out of school, he didn't keep up the flow of ideas

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that can help to refine your business and help to refine your decisions and help you come to better conclusions.

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You've got to keep up the learning curve, even after you're out of school, to make sure that you're not making errors in judgment.

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The reason why most people wind up average at age 40

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instead of rich is simply an error in judgment about what to do with your money.

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What would you suggest a 15 -year -old start as a plan to do with their money

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so that by 40 they're rich instead of average.

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You got to have a good plan, right?

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If you start making errors early with your money, those errors can make your life mediocre instead of rich.

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You wind up with pennies instead of fortune, and you wind up with crumbs instead of a feast simply

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because early you made errors on what to do with your money.

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The guy says, well, it's only $10.

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So what does it matter what I do with it?

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And the answer is, that's when it really matters is when you don't have much.

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The guy says, oh, if I had a fortune, I'd really take good care of it, but I've only got a paycheck,

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so I don't know where it goes.

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We call those great errors in judgment.

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It's so important to make sure you've got a good plan when the amounts are small.

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But it's easy to make errors.

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It's easy not to know

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It's easy to miscalculate and if you miscalculate some things keep adding and adding and adding

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I got a good phrase for you life is accumulative

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Good phrase to know life is accumulative

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Our errors either accumulate into what we don't get

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Or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get

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Now the key is to correct the errors as early as possible

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Fortunately, Mr. Shove caught me at age 25, started asking me major questions.

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At age 25, he said, Mr. Owen, how long have you been working?

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And I said, I've been working six years.

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I started working when I was 19.

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Right, full -time job.

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He said, well, six years, how much money have you saved and invested in the last six years?

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I said, not any.

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He said who sold you on that plan?

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Wow six years is enough time now to check and see if you've got a good financial philosophy

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And the time to catch the errors is early early

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So mr. Sho started asking me those tough questions at age 25.

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How about your money?

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How about your resources?

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How about your investments?

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And you say well, I've got plenty of time to worry about that and be concerned about that later

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And the answer is probably not.

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Now's the time to fix it.

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Wherever you hear the good information, that's the time to start fixing it.

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So we're teaching kids now a good wealth philosophy.

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Starting at age 15 will make you wealthy by age 45 at the latest if you're a little slow.

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Start doing wise things with your resources.

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When would you suggest people should do wise things with their resources?

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Answer, as soon as they get the better information.

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Now, you can't do what you don't know.

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But the key is to keep learning so that good ideas keep occurring to you.

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Now you can do more wise things

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Okay, but philosophy is where it all begins what you know

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Now to know wise things you simply have to study as you're doing keep up the reading keep up the

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conversations keep up the Listening to lectures keep going through the information keep Stashing it away taking the notes, right?

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There's no better way to adjust your philosophy than to have a continual flow of ideas.

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But that's the first piece of the life puzzle, our life works out.

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Now, it's how you feel about a variety of things.

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Let me give you that list.

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Number one, it's how you feel about the past.

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Now, when you're young, you haven't got that much past to feel about.

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But I'm sure you've had some ups and downs.

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You've had some wins and losses.

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You wouldn't have arrived here if you hadn't have done fairly well.

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And I'm sure everybody has also arrived here with some

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Already pretty tough things you've had to face and decisions you've had to make

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Who knows what a variety of stories are are here?

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I'm sure if we knew some of the stories we'd you know shut mine down listen to yours

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There's probably some fascinating stories here already some things you've been through

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So part of our attitude is based on how we feel about the past.

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Some people are still carrying the burdens of the past

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They're affected by some difficulties, some losses, whatever, and they're carrying it around like a burden.

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Instead of using the past as a school, they're using it as a threat to their life.

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So part of it is solving the attitude about the past, how you feel about it.

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Number two, it's how you feel about the future.

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Facing the future, very important key part of our life.

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Now there's two ways to face the future.

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Here they are one anticipation.

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That's one way to face the future anticipation.

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Here's the other way apprehension.

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Now most people face the future with apprehension primarily because they bought somebody else's view

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They don't have their own future well designed

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So in the absence of having your own future well designed

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you have a tendency to be persuaded to buy somebody else's future

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Here's what's going to happen.

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Here's what's going to happen

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Boy, it's easy to let your days be clouded by all of that

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So some days somewhere along the line you've got to start settling for sure how you feel about the future

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And how you feel about it greatly determines what you do

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If you don't feel good about the future by having goals set you take what we call uncertain steps

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It's difficult to be confident about the day if you don't have your future well designed

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So here's one of the keys to do about your future set goals write them down

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Design the future

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Where do you want to go?

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What do you want to do?

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What do you want to be?

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What do you want to see?

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What do you want to have?

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What do you want to share?

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Even if it all changes 12 months from now, the key is to start making a list now.

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The cities you want to visit, the people you'd like to meet, your health goals, your investment goals, all that stuff, start writing it,

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putting it in a journal somewhere.

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And let it all change as time unfolds.

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Something that you think is very important right now, two years from now, you'll say, that was kind of foolish.

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How come I thought that was so important, right?

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Because you'll grow beyond that.

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But right now it's important to get as clear a picture as you can of the future.

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Set your dreams, set your goals.

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Because it's important.

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How the day goes is greatly determined by your confidence about the future.

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Now here's another attitude.

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It's how you feel about each other.

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It's how you feel about society and the community and the country.

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It's very important.

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It's not that difficult to be a cynic

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And cynicism greatly influences how your life works out

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But it's also important to understand

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That if you want to do well, it takes all of us to help each of us

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Good phrase It takes all of us to help each of us do well

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You can't succeed by yourself

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It's hard to find a rich hermit

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You can't succeed by yourself you need a market you need a society

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We need each other's ideas.

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We need each other's collective ideas

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Collective participation in the marketplace society

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Okay So how we feel about each other very important

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Now here's the big one.

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It's how you feel about yourself

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How you feel about yourself

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Self -esteem, understanding your own value.

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Boy, if new discovery starts to unfold for you, that you've got the brains, you've got the talent, all you need is instruction,

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all you need is some coaching, all you need is some help, all you need is some advice, some experience.

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If you're headed down the wrong road, hopefully somebody's already been down that road where the bridge is out.

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And they come back saying, don't go this way anymore, the bridge is out.

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So we take somebody else's advice and we say, wow, I'm glad you came along.

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I'm heading down this road.

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So learning from other people's experiences, picking up all the ideas so that we can feel good about ourselves.

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You've got the talent, you've got the skill.

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That's what university is for, school is for, is to help guide all this available potential.

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And there isn't anybody here that hasn't got the potential to become wealthy and powerful and sophisticated and influential and live uniquely.

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That's all within all of your reach.

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Some people live unfortunate lives of tragedy and despair, but that's not here.

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You've become those few percentage points that have the unusual gift of association

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and awareness and exposure to the best that the country has to offer.

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And here you are at a well -known university with all the chances

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and all of the opportunities within your reach and with your brains

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and with your potential and your power and and your drive and your incentives no telling what

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Miracles you can go do and what unique things you can accomplish

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You'll look back on these days saying those were good days that

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Exposed me to ideas and philosophies and people and gave me chances and opportunities to come become somebody unique

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But everybody here's got the potential but you've got to feel that you've got to think well about yourself

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Now self -esteem primarily becomes from, comes from engaging in the disciplines that lead to value.

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Self -esteem comes from engaging in the disciplines that lead to value.

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We don't lack potential, but to bring value from potential, we need the disciplines.

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Now, one of the major things that makes us not feel good about ourselves is not engaging in the disciplines.

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If you keep letting yourself off the hook

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Or just ho -humming it and letting it all slide

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Then you don't feel good about yourself

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Best is the ant philosophy

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Right, to feel good about yourself, do your best

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Gather all you can during the summer

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We call that the ant philosophy

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Ants don't settle for half, they go for all

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All you possibly can, do the best you can

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It's the greatest lift of self -esteem is doing the best you can

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Okay, so attitude plays such an important part in the five pieces of the life puzzle

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Now what's next number three?

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First is philosophy second is attitude philosophy and attitude determines activity

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Activity is what you do

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Key phrase success is a doing you actually now have to do it

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It seems as though God has designed

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that the major part of the value of our life is left to our own mental genius.

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You've got to decide what you want to become.

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Then you simply have to go do it, engaging in the disciplines.

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Now, the activity part is so important.

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How hard should you work when you get ready to labor, when you get ready to try to be successful in the marketplace?

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How many days should you spend?

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How hard should you work?

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Well, let me give you an Old Testament phrase to consider.

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It says six days activity one day rest

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Now that's called a philosophy on activity

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Right, what should be the ratio of rest activity

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Old Testament suggests six one

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Now I know that goes back a long ways

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Some people said no six six ones old -fashioned five two is better

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Well, you got to take a look at 5 .2 and see if it's okay.

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You don't just want to buy somebody's philosophy without seeing if it leads to fortune and if it leads to unique things.

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Wonderful.

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It's probably good.

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But you have to check out if 5 .2 is okay.

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Would 4 .3 be better?

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I don't know.

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You got to check everything.

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I do know this.

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Good phrase.

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Don't rest too long.

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And the reason you can't rest too long is because we live in a push -up world.

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Key phrase, it's a push -shove world.

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We live in a world of conflict, and the conflict, at the higher levels, it's called the conflict between good and evil.

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That's one way to describe it.

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It's the conflict between health and sickness.

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Health is simply conquering the territory and defending it against the encroachment of illness.

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Guess where illness always seems to be?

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Testing the outer edges of your health plan.

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It's push of world.

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So you can't relax too much and you can't rest too long.

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If you rest too long, the weeds take the garden.

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And if you don't think so, we call you naive.

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I got a good point for you.

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Make rest a necessity, not an objective.

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The objective of life is not to rest.

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The objective of life is to accomplish, to growth, full growth, full accomplishment, test the outer limits of your abilities.

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That's what life is all about.

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See what all you can do.

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That's what life is all about.

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See what you can do with the seasons and the soil and the seed.

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See what you can do with your brain.

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See what you can do with your talent and your gifts and your skills.

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That's what life's all about.

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See what you can do.

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Now we need rest, but you must make rest a necessity not an objective.

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If you make it an objective you start falling into what we call the average syndrome.

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Right people who live mediocre lives are always looking forward to getting off.

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Successful people are always looking forward to getting on.

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Successful people don't want off.

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They want on.

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They want to get on with the job.

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They rest only enough to gather strength

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So consider that in your argument in your debate on how hard should you work?

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Let me give you another Bible philosophy.

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I'm My parents made sure I was a pretty good scholar by the time I was 18

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And I'm an amateur on the Bible.

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But here's another good philosophy

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Whatever your hands currently find to do do it with all your might

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Whatever you're doing, do it with all your might.

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We call that philosophy on activity.

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How hard should you work?

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As hard as you can in the time allotted to labor.

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In leadership management lectures we teach, when you work, work.

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When you play, play.

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Don't play at work.

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And don't work at play.

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Make best use of your time.

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When you're working, pour it on.

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And when you're playing have a good time, but don't play at work

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Okay So activity very important piece in this whole life puzzle in working

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So you've got to test

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How hard you can work

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Part of it is physical your own physical limitation.

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Some people can take 14 hours.

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No problem Some people ten stretches pretty much their physical limitation

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So everybody has to sort of decide how hard you can work how much time you can put in

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when you come to university, right?

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You got to sort of find out how much workload

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you can handle how many classes can you go through how much can you unravel?

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How many study hours do you need how much effort have you got when you're gonna run out of gas, right?

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And you need to replenish the supply so we all have to study our own activity habits

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But let me give you what I think is the best philosophy.

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It is simply do the best you can

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In activity, we call it doing your best.

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That's all we ask.

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Simply, your best.

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If you want to put together a championship team, one simple requirement for all those who participate, just do your best.

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If everybody does their best, whatever that brings us to, number one, number two, wherever we arrive

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when the final count is made is okay if we all know when it's over we did our best.

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A man asked me one time, he said, I'm making about $50 ,000 a year.

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Isn't that enough?

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What would you tell somebody?

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A businessman said to me, he said, my kids aren't starving.

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And he said, I got my bills paid.

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And he said, we're doing pretty good.

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And I'm making about $50 ,000 a year.

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Isn't that enough?

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He asked me, what do you suppose I told him?

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I said, yes, it's enough if it's the best you can do.

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We don't call an amount enough.

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We call your best enough.

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I said, if you're capable of making a half million dollars a year and you make $50 ,000 a year, we call you loser.

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And we don't call you loser because of the difference between 50 ,000 and a half million,

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we call you loser because you're not doing your best.

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If you do your best and you make 10 ,000 a year, that's enough.

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If you do your best and you make a million dollars a year, that's enough.

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Enough is not the difference between 10 ,000 and a million.

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Enough is simply doing the best you can.

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So that's the key to the good life.

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When the day is finished, if you say, did I do my best?

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And if I'm not doing my best, why not?

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Do I have I got some errors in my philosophy that says hey half efforts?

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Okay, just slide by ho -hum it cross your fingers and everything will work out

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Hopefully say no, I don't want to take those kind of chances.

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I don't want to drift

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Okay, so activity

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Just put a big question mark on activity and say here's a major piece of life to keep checking

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Make sure I'm doing my best.

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That's all I require my best a

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A group of psychiatrists asked me to come and lecture for them in Los Angeles one time,

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which I thought was interesting since I only went to one year of college.

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And then in the middle of my lecture, I had the audacity to say,

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ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you what I think most messes with the mind.

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They said, what do you think most messes with the mind?

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I said, I think what most messes with the mind is simply doing less than you can.

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It sets up all kinds of psychic problems, doing less than you can.

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Guess when you really feel good about yourself?

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When you've done the best you can.

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You don't even have to win the full prize if you do the best you can.

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We call that the ultimate winning, doing the best you can.

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Wow, there's nothing like the soaring self -confidence that comes from putting out what we call full effort.

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In whatever you do, it's called full effort.

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Okay. So, activity.

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Now, activity leads to what?

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Number four, philosophy, activity, attitude leads to number four, results.

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And that's what life is all about, putting the first three together,

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good philosophy, attitude, high activity to get the ultimate called results.

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I got a good phrase for you, results is the name of the game.

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Productivity.

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Now, the challenge of life is a very simple phrase.

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Let me give it to you.

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I think you'll find it interesting to at least ponder.

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The challenge of life is to make measurable progress in reasonable time.

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Measurable progress in reasonable time.

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First we don't want to be unreasonable with time

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If you and I agree to do something five minutes later, I'm asking you how are you doing you say I haven't left the building yet

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You can't ask in five minutes five minutes is too soon.

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That's unreasonable Now if I don't ask you for five years

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We call that too late

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You can't wait five years and you can't go five minutes

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Right you we all have to learn what is reasonable time

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to expect somebody to make progress to grow to change to develop

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So all of us have to learn, especially if you're going to become leaders, entrepreneurs, if you're going to have management responsibilities and work with people,

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you've got to understand what is reasonable time.

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We don't want to be unreasonable with time.

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But here's what else we expect.

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Measurable progress in reasonable time.

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How many years should the child spend in fourth grade?

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Approximately. About one.

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You say, well, if they're nice kids, would you give them three or four?

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You say, no, you can't spend four years in fourth grade.

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It's unacceptable.

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We put on the family pressure.

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We put on peer pressure, right?

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We put on all kinds of pressure.

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You can't spend four years in fourth grade.

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Now wouldn't that be interesting if we applied the same kind of social pressure all of our lives?

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What would be acceptable to society for wise investments to have been made by age 30?

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So that you can really properly take care of yourself and your family.

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Somehow we've missed those standards, right?

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Shouldn't it be popular to be wealthy by age 40?

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And shouldn't we look at somebody who by age 45 is not at least financially independent saying, where have you been?

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Tibet?

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Bangladesh you probably have spent.

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You mean you've been here all this time?

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Right?

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Shouldn't we make it a bit unacceptable not to be well off in what we call reasonable time?

478

But what if a guy spent his potential fortune on non -essentials from age 15 to age 45?

479

Shouldn't we call that unacceptable?

480

Shouldn't teenagers ask their parents, how come we're not rich?

481

We live in a rich country.

482

This is America.

483

Aren't those good questions?

484

How about the wisdom of a good plan versus a poor plan?

485

What if a man was a farmer and he ate his seed corn?

486

Instead of planting it, he ate it.

487

Wouldn't we make arrangements to go get his children?

488

And say, the kids aren't safe.

489

The man's insane.

490

He eats his seed corn.

491

He doesn't plant it.

492

Wow.

493

I just offer that as kind of an interesting question if we make such pressure demands for fourth grade,

494

why shouldn't we make those same pressure demands for the rest of life?

495

Interesting question, right?

496

Good debatable question.

497

Now, part of it is we simply, society eases back on us as far as ongoing demand of results.

498

But here's what I'd ask you to do.

499

Make the demands on yourself.

500

I'm asking you not to let yourself off the hook.

501

Society will let you get by with far less than you want to be.

502

When you get out of university, how many books will the community demand that you read every month?

503

Approximately. About none.

504

So if you're going to do the extra reading, guess what?

505

You got to develop that philosophy and put that pressure on yourself

506

But what I'm asking you to do is take a good look at results

507

now another reason why we look at results results at age 25

508

Results at age 30 on a wide variety of things health and wealth and culture and and sophistication and lifestyle and uniqueness

509

We keep checking all those results.

510

Here's why to see if there's any errors in activity

511

Guess how easy it is to make errors in activity.

512

It's easy.

513

We teach in our leadership series, don't mistake movement for achievement.

514

Boy, sometimes it's easy to be faked out by being busy.

515

Guy's busy 10 hours a day, but he's going in figure eights.

516

The guy's not making progress.

517

He's stalled, but he's busy.

518

And he thinks being busy is going to do it.

519

Say, no, you got to be busy doing the right things.

520

So maybe you need activity fixed.

521

Maybe you need attitude fixed. Who knows?

522

The guy who says, since they don't pay well, I come late and leave early.

523

We say, John, that's going to affect you all your life.

524

And you've probably got the results to show it.

525

Or maybe we need a correction of philosophy.

526

That's why we check results.

527

Now, here's the last piece in the life puzzle.

528

It's called lifestyle.

529

Lifestyle is simply how you choose to live.

530

We call lifestyle the genius of living well.

531

Now, here's what's exciting about lifestyle.

532

As a subject of one of the major pieces of the life puzzle, all of us can choose,

533

especially in this country, all of us can choose how we wish to live.

534

Guess what you can get from your money?

535

Joy? or animosity.

536

However you wish to live.

537

A father takes a $10 bill and wads it up and throws it at his son and says,

538

if you need the darn stuff that bad, take it.

539

We call it money without style.

540

The father's got the money, but he doesn't have the style.

541

He studied economics, but he didn't study happiness.

542

So let me give you the phrase happiness is an art not an accident

543

Some people have figured out things economically, but they haven't figured out lifestyle to live well

544

Culture is a study

545

It's not an amount somebody says if you have an amount of money, you'll be cultured and answers no cultured is a study cultured

546

Culture is a refinement of the mind

547

to be cultured you must study culture and practice culture money doesn't solve the culture challenge

548

money doesn't solve the happiness challenge to be happy you got to study and practice happiness

549

and mr shove taught me all the simple ways to get joy from substance a sophisticated gentleman knows

550

that a rose on time is more valuable than a thousand dollar gift too late it's not the amount that counts.

551

It's the genius that counts.

552

It's the ideas that count.

553

So here's what I'm challenging you to do.

554

How to be happy with what you've got while you pursue what you want.

555

And I'll give you time to make a note of that phrase because I think it's so important to wrap it up.

556

How to be happy with what you've got while you pursue what you want.

557

So I would challenge you in the last piece of the life puzzle, find ways to live uniquely.

558

Now, if you look at your life on all these five pieces,

559

this is why I'm asking you to just go back through and review these notes.

560

How am I doing on philosophy?

561

Are there some things I don't know?

562

Am I making some errors in judgment that's going to bring me to

563

No good end right three years from now five years from now

564

Key phrase ten years from now you will arrive the question is where?

565

Good question where and the follow -up is now's the time to fix the next ten years

566

now is the time to fix the next ten years and

567

hopefully with the discussion of these five subjects we've given you some viewpoints, at least from my experience.

568

And hopefully I've done a little coaching here today

569

and you can take these subjects and debate them

570

and talk about them and think about them and they'll help you with life in the future.

571

Thank you for your attention.

572

I appreciate you inviting me to come by.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Do the Best You Can”. This video has 572 sentences and 6093 words to shadow. The speech runs for 38:14. The speaker talks at a natural 159 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
phrase noun	/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/	A short written or spoken expression.
weigh verb	/weɪ/	To determine the weight of an object.
puzzle noun	/ˈpʌzəl/	The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in…
lecture noun	/ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/	A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
greatly adverb	/ˈɡɹeɪ̯t.li/	To a great extent or degree.
lifestyle noun	/ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/	A style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group.
judgment noun	/ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/	The act of judging.
objective noun	/ɒbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪv/	A material object that physically exists.
discipline noun	/ˈdɪsəplɪn/	A controlled behaviour; self-control.
shave verb	/ˈʃeɪ̯v/	To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
happiness noun	/ˈhæpinɪs/	The emotion of being happy; joy; elation.
engage verb	/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/	To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
fortune noun	/ˈfɔːtjuːn/	Destiny, especially favorable.
esteem verb	/ɪˈstiːm/	To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
perceive verb	/pɚˈsiv/	To become aware of, through the physical senses, to see; to understand.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
keep up verb		To maintain; to preserve; to prevent from deteriorating or falling.
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
look forward to verb		To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure; to be excited or eager to.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

How many of you this is the first time you've seen me?
You mean you've been here all this time?
Shouldn't we call that unacceptable?
Wouldn't we make arrangements to go get his children?
Are there some things I don't know?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been coming · have you been working · I've been working
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if I had a fortune, I'd really · if they're nice kids, would you
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	you've seen · have been · life's been
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be invited · being invited · is called

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 183 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you've, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, ninth /naɪnθ/, cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, conclusion /kənˈkluːʒən/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/, anticipation /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: insignificant /ˌɪnsɪɡˈnɪfɪkənt/, unacceptable /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/, unreasonable /ʌnˈɹiːz.(ə)nə.bl̩/, primarily /ˈpɹaɪ.mə.ɹə.li/, motivation /ˈmoʊ.tə.veɪ.ʃən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like phrase, weigh, puzzle.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?