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now here's the next one respond the
ability to let life touch you don't let
it kill you but let it touch you here's
what's important let's add things make
you sad because we need to understand
the depths of sadness so we can
understand the incredible ecstasy of joy
you can't know the highs without the
lows you can't dismiss all the things
that need to burden your heart and your
soul the drama of Jesus life there were
two words that were so important here
they are it said he was touched and it
said he was moved I'm asking you to jot
down those words you've got to learn to
be touched and to be moved part of it is
to be moved out of complacency to be
moved out of just drifting but it's also
to be moved by the story to be moved by
what happened and to be touched by
someone's dilemma and to be touched by
someone's problem
respond I've learned how to do that I'm
the best guy in the world to take to the
movies I really get into it I want to be
taken on a journey make me laugh make me
cry take me high take me low shake me
over hell but don't leave me unmoved I
finally saw Doctor Zhivago
for the third time in Melbourne
Australia come see dr. Zhivago and saw
it for the third time
I'd always miss the significant ending
of the movie until this time finally I
got it
comrade general said Tania how did you
come to be lost and she said I was just
lost he said no how did you come to be
lost and she said well the city was on
fire the war had come and my father and
I were running through the city and he
let go of my hand and I was lost and
comrade general said no Tania kamarowsky
was not your father do you think your
father would have let go of your hand
this man dr. Zhivago the poet I'm
telling you he was your father I've been
searching for you and I found you this
was your father I finally got the
message the other times I'm eatin
popcorn waiting for the movie to finish
you mean you know this this this time I
got it I got it
he was not your father if my father
would have been with me would he have
let go of my hand
no what do you have died first see you
got to let the drama you've got to let
the emotional drama affect you because
here's what it does it fills up your
emotional bank so that when you get
ready to talk we're gonna discuss later
on today you draw not only from language
but from emotion and the mixture of both
language and emotion is some of the most
powerful force in the world so let
yourself be affected that yourself be
touched
let the positive make you positive let
the sad make you sad let the joyful make
you joyful let the songs ring in your
head but also let the minor-key but the
sadness affect you so that you'll be a
well-rounded person when you deal with
the marketplace your children and
everyone else
now here's the other three first learn
to absorb everything around you take it
all in don't miss anything next respond
let life touch you here's number three
we just briefly touched on it reflect
reflect means to go back over and
experience if you've been through
something when it's over just sit down
and think about it again you say well
some things are tough to relive I know
but if you'll go through a bit of the
emotional drama again
it'll drive that experience so deep in
your consciousness it'll never go away
now this is not to drag you back into
the past this is not to drag you down
into the sadness that if that all it was
all there was to life it would overwhelm
us all it's not to do that but it's to
make you a richer person in terms of the
full spectrum of emotional content it's
to make you a whole person to better
understand someone else's dilemma if you
let the dilemma of certain things affect
you as much as it can reflect back and
let the thought of it you know put your
head between your legs as you ponder Wow
here's some good times to reflect one at
the end of the day take a few minutes at
the end of the day so you lock that day
into your consciousness to serve you
well the rest of your life here's a good
phrase each day is a piece of the mosaic
of our life when you get ready to talk
about your past you don't want any of
these pieces to be missing if you can
help it you'll Bailey was entertaining
us with some stories last night he knows
the names he knows the date he said it
was raining it was a cloudy morning I
could see the storm coming from the east
so how old how young who what were they
wearing
who else would remember special people
remember the drama they reflect until it
becomes part of them you read a book and
then you reflect on the book Cobain is
unique because he can read a 300 page
book in about 45 minutes
and then he can tell you about this book
and make it more fantastic than if you
read it yourself so he I just follow him
around and don't have to read so much
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reflect at the end of the week jot down
take a few hours pay a week is such a
piece of your life you traded labor for
a paycheck you traded a piece of your
life for getting paid and compensated
and all of the other drama of the things
that happened to you social personal
spiritual physical a week is worth
pondering take an hour go back over your
notes and go back over your day-timer
and go back over everything and say
where have I been and what did I do and
who did I see and what did they say and
what did how did it feel at the end of
the month take half a day at the end of
the month at the end of the week a year
take a weekend time to reflect maybe
this is what was meant when the advice
was given here it is in Scripture every
once in a while you should go into your
closet it's an interesting word closet I
don't know if it's a closet like we have
today but what I think it means is a
place away go into your closet away and
then it said something interesting when
you get in there shut the door shut the
door not necessarily a physical door to
shut yourself in but to shut everything
out to shut everything out for all and
just in there in that place of solitude
for all of my public life traveling all
around the world
you know from hotels and limousines and
all the rest of the busy life I live
guess what I seek solitude
time alone part of it up at the farm for
me make the
wine and drooling props as part of it
but some of that sort of just like a
diversion doing something else versus
you know traveling and lecturing but
sometimes I have to get alone all alone
on the side of the river bank of the
river I've got a dirt bike I ride the
Jeep trails up at Clear Lake in
California where there's no stop sign my
life is simple and easy listen to the
birds and watch the chickens away and
when you get into your closet it says
shut the door and there you think about
your life and think about your marriage
and think about your friends think about
the past and think about the future what
could you do now once you come out of
the closet a place away solitude jot
this down some answers you must come up
with all by yourself and some solutions
you must come up with alone some
decisions your wife can help and your
husband can help in the family can help
and people around you can help and
friends can help and you can get input
from everywhere and finally finally when
it comes down to the final decision some
of that you have to do all along they
say the presidency of the United States
is a lonely job the general of the army
many times that's a lonely job sending
people into battle knowing some are
going to lose their lives that's a
lonely job making those lonely decisions
that's going to affect so many but
whether it affects your life personally
or someone else you got to take some of
this time and get used to the time to be
alone to make those decisions and think
things over
okay reflecting here's what it does
helps you to gather up the past and
invest it in the future
so you got to make that note because
only humans can perform this miracle
taking the past and investing it in the
future
dogs can do it and animals can do it
fish can't do it snakes can't do it only
humans can do here's what you can do
greatly alter the future by investing
the past into the future past errors and
judgment that you've now corrected past
errors and thought that you've now
corrected
past loss of time that you now know
better how to utilize now you begin to
invest all this into the future you
can't believe the productivity scale you
can't believe the learning scale you
can't believe what will start coming out
now into the future your promise will be
brighter than you ever thought possible
learning to gather up the past and
invest it in the future when my father
was about to turn 76 I said dear father
can you imagine what its gonna be like
to gather up the last 75 years and
invest him in your 76 year wasn't that a
good idea that's better than saying I
think I can hang on one more year I mean
come on gathering up the past and
investing it in the future
jot this down the past is currency we
sometimes use this expression this
person has a wealth of experiences
experience wealth and the answer is yes
it's wealth the past becomes currency
coin commodity available now from
lessons learned from emotions gathered
from things not missed from colors and
sights and sounds and highs and lows and
progress and deceleration all of that
combined now put into the next few weeks
the next few months the next year you
can imagine the accelerated progress
that comes from learning to do this
exercise it's very important now here's
number four we absorb we respond we
reflect number four now we must act we
must now put all of the learning and the
emotional content into activity why
without that reality eludes us it cannot
be created you can't create a career
unless you do these four steps absorb
what you can learn all you can respond
to it and let it affect you let the
emotional part of it drive you set your
goals let it touch you reflect until it
becomes real possible then act on it and
do it
activity is the vessel in which we pour
the drama of our life so that it
performs the miracle of creating reality
for you now to act on what you heard
felt thought seen the people you've met
and all of it now put it into action put
it into a health plan that won't quit
put it into a health plan that'll give
you a unique physical support system put
it into a career plan put it into a
relationship plan act upon it then you
can create a masterpiece Michelangelo
was a genius but it was not his genius
that created the masterpiece but his
genius was so strong in his belief and
it was so powerful that he picked up the
chisel and the hammer so I want you to
just make that an analogy now in your
notes you must now finally pick up the
chisel and the hammer after you've taken
the classes and after you've absord and
after you've thought and after you've
wondered and after you've set goals and
after you've come to a conclusion about
your promise in your future now you must
pick up the chisel
and it's the chisel and the hammer and
the sweat and the muscle and the chisel
and the hammer and the sweat and the
muscle that builds on the rear otherwise
the rest of all of this serves no
purpose why absorb and why respond and
why reflect and why gather up the
promise of the future there is no
purpose unless now you act but if you
act a masterpiece of a career is waiting
for you
masterpiece of the good marriage is
waiting for a masterpiece of a fortune
is waiting for you what you're gonna do
is have been who you're gonna where
you're gonna give it away benevolence
and all the rest now here's the last
part the ability to share
we absorb we respond we reflect we take
disciplined action start creating
reality now the key to make life really
unique and worthwhile is to share
sharing has a certain unique magic of
its own here's what I learned in sharing
ideas if you share an idea with ten
different people they get to hear at
once you get to hear at ten times so
here's part of self interest for
yourself getting you even better
prepared for the future share ideas
share with your family share with the
people around you share with other
employees share with your colleagues
because by sharing two things happen
here's what we call it I don't know how
to explain it but I do know it happens
and I don't know all about how it
happens or why it happens it just
happens when one person shares with
another two things happen the audience
could be transformed and so could the
speaker if you share with someone else
they could be transformed you may have
dropped in at the right time this may be
their moment they've got three numbers
dialed into the lock already and if you
say it well and say it right you'll be
the fourth number that they can dial
into the lock of their personal
experience and the door will come open
and there's opportunity they never saw
before the person who hears can be
transformed but here's what else is
exciting the person who speaks can be
transformed guess what we're all looking
for transformation for our new life the
new life tomorrow the new life this
month the new life next year the new
life this year the caterpillar one day
says I think I was made for more than
this crawling on the ground so the
butterfly climbs the tree attaches
himself to a leaf and spins the cocoon
who knows what disciplined effort it
takes to spin
cuckoo but something inside the
caterpillar says I was designed from
something more than being just a
caterpillar and then when the concern is
ready and it opens up out comes a
butterfly it flies away maybe singing I
think I can fly I think I can touch the
sky I used to be a caterpillar on the
ground now I fly I'm asking you to go
through such a metamorphosis
I'm asking you often to go through a
period where you say new skills new
things are waiting for me and part of
this will come if you'll translate for
other people what you feel in your heart
and in your soul as awkward as your
language might be at first don't
hesitate to do it here's what sharing
does makes room for more if this glass
is full of water Wow here's my coffee
I won't take as much time as Ziggler did
Keith's question if this glass is full
of water can it hold anymore if the
glass is full of water can it hold
anymore and the answer is yes yes if you
pour some out so jot that down if you
want more you've got to pour out what
you got then you have the opportunity to
receive more now unlike the glass that
remains the same size when you pour some
out not so consciousness in human beings
your capacity will increase the more you
share you'll get bigger and bigger and
bigger now why the self interest wish to
be bigger here's why to hold more of the
next experience some people can't hold
much happiness because they're too small
their thinking is too small their
activity is too small they're too small
and their ability to share they're just
too small can't hold much they're too
small but the bigger you get the more
you will receive when happiness is
poured out you'll get more when joy is
poured out on the nation you'll get more
when bounty is poured out from the
economy you will get more if you share
what you've got and become
bigger and bigger now some people are
not only small they have their glass
turned upside down hard to get anything
in but here's what you've done in coming
here this weekend you've come with an
open mind and open consciousness ready
to receive and I promise you we're gonna
pour everything we possibly can into
every ounce of time we've got here to
make it beneficial for you give you not
just your money's worth but your time's
worth now one last part under personal
development personal development leads
to all good things because it makes you
unique here's what my mentor said when I
first met him I'm 25 years old I'm broke
not destitute but broke here's what he
said to me mr. Owen now is the time to
set a goal to become a millionaire which
back there was a pretty good leap age 25
that was a long time ago he said set a
goal to become a millionaire and he said
here's why and I want you to jot it down
for what it will make of you to achieve
the purpose for setting goals is self
development purpose for setting goals is
to become the person that can achieve
them so the whole real major subject
here this whole weekend is personal
development seeing what all we can
become now chop this phrase down don't
settle for less than you can be
I asked mr. shuffle if I get to make it
money how much did I earn he said all
you possibly can
how many book should I read as many as
you possibly can how far should I go as
far as you possibly can how much should
I share as much as you possibly can in
the course of my lifetime how much
should I do you should do all you
possibly can go as far as you can reach
as high as you can touch everybody you
possibly can I made that commitment a
long time ago and it has served me so
well and it brought me to Dallas this
weekend there's no other place I would
rather be I committed to being here I'm
glad I came
let's take 20 minutes everybody for a
break and then come back
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