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
dr. 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 I mean you know 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
what do you hide first see you got to let the drama you 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 that the songs ring in your head but also let the minor-key let 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
Bill Bailey was entertaining us with some stories last night he knows the
names he knows the date he said it was raining there was a cloudy morning I
could see the storm coming from the east that's 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 Bill Bailey 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
I just follow him around and don't have to read so much
incredible reflect at the end of the week jot down take a few hours hey 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 happen to your 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 a while 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 the time
alone part of it up at the farm for me making wind and growing crops 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 signs
where life is simple and easy listen to the birds and watch the chipmunks a way
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 you know 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 alone 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't do it and animals can't 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 it 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 experience is
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've 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 in the hammer after you've taken the classes and after you've absorbed
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 the
hammer 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 a career
otherwise the rest of all of this serves and 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 a masterpiece of a good marriage is waiting for you a masterpiece of a
fortune is waiting for you what you're gonna do with it and 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 than you ever
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 popular 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 a cocoon 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 that 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 how 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
didn't cheat 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 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 that 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 the 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 jot this phrase down
don't settle for less than you can be I
asked mr. shuffle if I get to making 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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