Why would the farmer put the plow in the ground in the spring if he couldn't see
the vision of the harvest when the summer is finished is it possible to see
the finished harvest and the answer is yes we do that simply by faith keyphrase
faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist and that's how things
exist how did this hotel get here someone saw it while the property was
vacant you say well is it possible to see this hotel when it isn't here and
the answer is yes of course if somebody cannot see it when it is not here then
it will never be here so it's possible to see things that don't yet exist
interesting when should you start building this hotel this is a good
question for your philosophical musings when should we start building the house
when should we start and here's the answer as soon as it's finished you
wouldn't start building the house until you had it finished if you just started
laying bricks and somebody came around said what are your doings and I'm just
laying bricks and said what are you building and you said I have no idea see
they'll take you away to a safe place
so if you got that now it's possible to finish something before you start in
fact it would be a bit foolish to start until you had it finished so human
beings have this remarkable ability to finish something and then started we've
heard the old expression don't count your kitchen till their hatch they know
we have the ability to count our chickens long before they're hinged
because we know we have faith we believe we use the law of averages there's
there's bound to be at least so many out of every dozen out of every hundred out
of every 50 so it's possible to see the end and then begin start looking into
the future of what you would like to accomplish where you would like to go
the person you would like to be and see if you can't get a better picture of the
finished objective see yourself there see yourself in possession of I was in
business with Bob Cummings the old movie star for a while he said decide what you
want and then act as if you already had it and being an actor he could give us a
few tips on acting decide what you want and act as if it was already yours now
the reason we can act thinking that it's already ours is because not only can we
vision the end results we can also vision the beginning of making it real
so we don't start till it's finished but it is possible for human beings to
finish something before they start human beings are the only life on Earth that
has this incredible capacity to change the course of your life no other
life-form can do that every other life-form except humans seems to operate
simply by instinct in the genetic code in the winter the goose flies south
how often answer every winter if you said to the goose hey it'd be better
this year to go west he ignores that advice and the reason is because he
cannot make choices and listen to advice of something that might be better he has
to obey instinct and the genetic code but now jot this down not human beings
human beings can alter the course of their life human beings can live one way
for five years tear up that script live a totally different way the next five
years the first six years of my economic life I wound up broke second six years I
went on the bridge someone says how did you do that here's number one I
discovered I was not a goose someone says don't you have to do the second six
years like you did the first six years and jot this down no no you don't have
to live the second six years like the first six you can use all the
information and all the advice and repairing all of your mistakes and
adopting a new and refined philosophy so that the next six years can be totally
different than the last six no other life form can do this see if you were a
tree you'd be stuck as a tree if you used up all the nourishment that was
around you and you couldn't change location see you would die but that's
not true human beings can change location go north south east west live
here for a while live somewhere else for a while
so that's a note to me you can greatly alter the course of your life now here's
the next note to make five years from now you will arrive the question is
where
this is for mature people now if you keep up your present disciplines and
keep up the present pace that you're on where will you be in five years
boy it's easy to say hey I haven't really thought about that so now make
this note in five years here's the probability you will either arrive at a
well-designed destination or an undesigned destination well designed or
undesigned and I promise you five years from now you you really don't want to
arrive at an undesigned destination because you may very well wind up
wearing what you don't want to wear driving what you don't want to drive
living where you don't want to live maybe doing what you don't want to do
simply because you didn't design a better destination key phrase upfront
the decisions are easy now sometimes after we've lived a few years now to
repair our mistakes and get back on track seems like a tough job if you've
messed up your health for ten years I'm telling it takes more than ten days to
get it back but here's the key and it's so exciting to talk to the teenagers
make the note if you start early the fortune belongs to you if you start
early all fortunes that are available to humans if you start early the promise
looms large and the odds are heavy in your favor now yes it's possible to do
some radical things starting late and still arrive with some good treasures
and some good things but when you haven't got that much time left now
sometimes the decision have to be so drastic people are not willing to make
and they're too tired and too weary and too ill and say look I don't have much
time left it's not gonna happen for me anyway it's easy to take that attitude
but everyone here we've got the time over the next ten years we've got the
time the next 20 years we've got the time the next 30 years to make some
repair now in our errors of the past and set up some new disciplines and I'm
telling you that's going to change everything so
five years from now I wish for you to arrive at a well designed place a place
of productivity a place that'll make you feel good about yourself a place that'll
give you honor and respect a place that will give you influence to touch other
people five years from now that you couldn't do today where will you be in
five years key phrase we go the direction we face
we go the direction we face if you start designing something at the end of this
direction sure enough you will start going the direction you face and we face
the direction we design
next phrase direction determines destination destination is not
determined by hope it's not determined by wish destination is determined by
direction you cannot change destination overnight you cannot change destination
overnight which means you can arrive at a five years from now place tomorrow but
here's what you can change today and overnight you can change direction and
it is so fascinating what a little small change of direction will do let's say
that you're here and you're headed this way and five years from now you'll wind
up here but here's how we individually can arrive at a new destination maybe
right now by discipline or lack of discipline or direction you're headed
this way but it wouldn't take much to change direction and head this way so
that in five years you wind up here instead of here and the difference now
of getting off this track and getting on this track is not much a few decisions
in discipline a few decisions in learning a few decisions and change of
behavior change of habit a few decisions and setting goals that you've sort of
let drift before like I did at age 25 didn't have a list I immediately started
to change that and I immediately started to change my direction so that very
quickly I started heading this direction in less than seven years I was a
millionaire and that was just my economics and sure enough when I met my
mentor I was headed this way and here's where I would have been in five or six
years maybe okay you know my kids probably wouldn't have been starving and
maybe you know we got close to we're in a place to live but the joy of
productivity and the joy of becoming valuable to the marketplace and more
valuable to my family and valuable to my friends in my inner circle all
that probably would have escaped me if I would have kept going this way but I am
so thankful for the circumstances and whatever else arranged it for me some
things are arranged if we don't even know how they've occurred for you to be
here do you imagine the chain of circumstances that caused you to be able
to sit in this auditorium today it's amazing this had to happen in this had
to happen and this door had to close in this door had to open and all those
things for me to be here for you to be here
I just didn't drop out of the sky right and you arrived here from all kinds of
directions here we are and so we just say wow part of that's a mystery and we
let it be a mystery we don't even try to figure it out we just say wow it's
incredible but now that we're here how could we collectively and individually
affect each other's lives it's by doing just what we've done study learn teach
shake hands trade stories and do all the stuff so that we can help other people
as well as ourselves to make that small journey to a new direction so jot that
down it's only a small journey to a new direction guess how quickly you can
change your health by starting to eat an apple a day mama said an apple a day
keeps the doctor away let's say you've been ill long enough you've had health
problems long enough and you say that's it that's over I'm gonna now start a
program you don't have to really revolutionize your whole health life
just start with an apple a day you say well is it that simple to change your
health life and the answer is yes the key is just to start you know you pick
up a book on good health and you get halfway through the book and it says now
dear reader set this book aside fall down on the floor and see how many
pushups you can do and then it goes on to say and if you have not done that why
not give this book away it looks like you're not gonna do it come on you don't
have to radically do something you can gain momentum and make changes as you go
just start here's what happens when you start a new direction self esteems
starts to accelerate it doesn't take much for you to feel good about yourself
just committed to a new direction and you feel good and an apple a day
committed to finally having a health program that will make you the
healthiest you've ever been in the next 20 years all you got to do is munch on
that first Apple and nobody even has to be around and you don't have to announce
it to the world but you munch on that first Apple and
say this is the beginning of developing a health program that's gonna make me so
healthy I'll have the vitality to do whatever I want to do for the next
thirty years of my life munch munch happy happy self-esteem off the scale
now if you eat an apple the second day you become almost delirious saying wow
I'm on my way somebody said just to Apple says look
you don't understand not only did I do it yesterday I've done it again today
this is really proving to myself with no audience no microphones no nothing just
you and yourself you've convinced yourself I'm on my way to the healthiest
I ever have been I'm starting a new life this is the second day I'm on my way
that's how easy it is to change your life you don't need some dramatic vision
just begin something and maybe by health or by whatever other things we can think
of to do you just get back on a better track okay it's a small journey to
changing direction you
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