One of the Most Motivational Videos You’ll Ever See | SELF DISCIPLINE
dreams without goals remain dreams just
dreams and ultimately fuel
disappointment dreams without goals
yearly goals like those daily goals
monthly goals out of the gold
minute-by-minute goals dreams without
goals are just dreams
and they ultimately fuel disappointment
goals on the road to achievement cannot
be achieved without discipline and
consistency true desire in the heart for
anything good
is God’s proof to sit before hand to
indicate that it’s yours already
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do you know how powerful you are
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today is not my day today is your day
today is about the power you do you know
how powerful you are and one day you’ll
be sitting in the dark you gonna be
asking yourself what am I gonna do now
do you ask yourself you’re getting
slower down what I don’t do but in that
moment I want you to remember the power
of you you see when you’re in that
darkness you want to sit there and wait
for the light to come when you’re in
that darkness it feels uncomfortable but
you can’t wait
and sit in that darkness the only way
out is to step forward to face your
fears
to become your own life you can make the
commitment to your life but you don’t
like the results that you have and that
you’re going to do something about it
see that power is available to all of us
people who look at life and decide I
want something different for myself you
can only have two things in life reasons
or results the only thing that counts
the results and results don’t lie ladies
and gentlemen when you keep your
commitments you’re able to produce some
different kinds of results in your life
see most people you ask him hey lookee
I’d like you to do this they’ll say I’ll
try our tribe means that is my escape
clause when I don’t come through it’s
really a polite note I don’t have the
courage to tell you no sir I’ll tell you
I’ll try they don’t want to commit
themselves because commitment means
among many things no excuse is
acceptable that’s what it means no
excuse that if you decided that you want
to do this if it becomes hard than do it
hard
see whatever you’re doing however you
spend your time that tells you who you
are so think about what it is you like
to create in your life experience once I
look at how you commit your time once I
do an evaluation on how you spend your
time I can tell you exactly what you’re
committed to the only way forward is to
decide that you want that dream so bad
that you are going to work harder you’re
gonna get up earlier you’re going to
stay later you’re gonna push past the
people who doubted you and laugh that
you hated on you I want you to be
fearless I want you to be decisive I
want you to make a decision right now
that when you fail and you fall to your
knees I want you to remember the power
of you and I want you to get back up on
your feet make a decision today that
when you’re in the darkness you’ll
remember the power of you you are your
own you will change the world don’t you
sometimes wonder why so many immigrants
who come to America can build a new life
and a fortune while many of the people
who were born here are barely surviving
they have a dream a defined goal
ambition aside from the Pioneers that
crossed the prairies and the mountains
to reach their vision of hope and future
promises there are other amazing
examples of how ambition has shaped
America take Ben Franklin for instance
when most people think of Ben Franklin
they remember the kite and the lightning
bolt and the discovery of electricity
what a lot of people may not know is
that Ben Franklin was one of the first
riders to address self making when
Franklin started Poor Richard’s Almanack
in 1732
he used the blank spaces between the
crop data and the weather information to
insert clever bits of moral and
practical advice I’m sure you’ve heard
the saying fish and company start to
stink in three days well that was one of
hundreds of Ben Franklin’s comments on
life another was diligence is the mother
of good luck you know it’s amazing how
hard working smart working people have
all the luck we sometimes hear of a
brand-new musical group an overnight
success
they must have been in the right place
at the right time knew the right people
and a friend to help them out but if
you’ve ever watched an interview with
some of these folks you’ll probably hear
that their overnight success took
several years diligence is the mother of
good luck now in addition to these
witticisms Ben Franklin gave us three
principles of success and ambition that
have withstood the test of time
number one happiness doesn’t come from
big pieces of great success but from
small advantages hammered out day by day
what mr. Franklin is saying here is that
we must be happy with what we’ve got
when we’re in pursuit of what we want
too often we say oh I’ll be happy when I
just get that promotion I’ll be happy
when I just land that contract I’ll be
happy when I just have more money I’ll
be happy when I just just what you won’t
be any happier when you reach your goals
than you are right now it just doesn’t
work that way Abraham Lincoln said it
best he said you’ll be as happy as you
make up your mind to be right now
whether you’re on your way
whether you’ve already gotten there
you’ll be as happy as you make up your
mind to be now right now being happy on
the way doesn’t mean you can’t aim for
great things after all look at
everything Franklin accomplished in his
lifetime it means that big achievements
come one small advantage at a time it
means that you’ve got to enjoy the
journey it means that you must enjoy and
take pride in your little
accomplishments
it means enjoying who you are becoming
in pursuit of your eager desire every
day every single day Ben Franklin’s
second principle said that life is
plastic within each of us is the power
to mold mold ourselves and mold our
environment it is up to each of us to
begin this molding process with a final
product in mind and it is within our
power to work it and form it every
minute every day every month every year
by using your mind and your abilities
and your attitude to work a little each
day on molding your life you’ll soon see
how magnificent your power is to gain
those small advantages each day the
little steps it takes to build up to
success principle number three success
is a pleasure success is a pleasure if
what you are doing today isn’t
satisfying gratifying guess what you’re
really not successful if you are not
fulfilled with what you are doing today
you cannot possibly be successful it
doesn’t matter how many worldly
possessions you may have how many cars
how many toys how much money if you’re
not happy with your life as it is you
cannot be successful
now I know that success is a relative
term it means different things to
different people to a school kid success
may mean a star on top of his latest
test to a homemaker it probably means
that she has a well-run household and a
wonderful family to an outside
professional it’s most likely the thrill
of closing a major contract or the pride
in accepting a performance bonus or
being named the top producing
salesperson but the one thing you will
hear from everyone who is successful is
that they are happy with who they are
and what they are doing they are happy
content satisfied success is a pleasure
what have you done today that makes this
day successful think about it and write
it down if at the end of the day you can
jot down the things that have made it a
good day you will soon see patterns for
me this really is a good habit to get
into when you can see a pattern of
pleasure you’ll know you’re on the road
to success
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so take note of mr. Franklin’s three
principles of success and ambition
number one big achievements come one
small advantage at a time one step at a
time one day at a time
number two you have the power to mold
your life to make it whatever you want
to shape it and reshape it and number
three success is measured through
pleasure this is the key one success is
measured through pleasure you’ve got to
be happy along the way you’ve got to
learn to give yourself a pat on the back
good job you need to tell yourself I’m
proud of me today you’ve got to be happy
you’ve got to learn to enjoy the process
these are really common-sense ideas
they’re practical and William James
agreed he’s another American great one
of the most notable philosophers and
psychologists in our history and he
founded a philosophy called pragmatism
to be pragmatic is to be practical to
test the validity of a concept by its
practical results to actually question
something and rate its usefulness by
what it can do for you to hear a method
of doing something and figuring out if
it’s even worth your while one of the
issues mr. James dealt with in his
lifetime was what does it mean to be a
success
a significant person after years of
pondering this question William James
describes success as a combination of
two things number one an inner ideal
which is followed persistently with
courage and number two our achievement
related to that ideal let’s go back to
number one and inner ideal which is
followed persistently with courage
I take that to mean defining a goal and
having the resolve to complete it no
matter what I’ll do it or die promise
yourself you’ll read the books until
your skills change go to the seminars
until you get a handle on it do it until
it makes sense practice it until you’ve
got it right don’t give up until you get
where you want to be however long that
is step by step piece by piece
book by book seminar by seminar do it
until go for it until is a very
important word it’s magic it means that
you’ll never give up don’t miss the
chance to grow to pay the price until
you learn change grow you’ll discover
some of life’s great treasures when you
pay that price William James second part
to success dealt with the outer
achievement related to that ideal you
need both aspects to really be a success
but what dr. James realized about his
philosophy of success was that the first
part is indeed more important than the
second going for it as long as you’re
working toward your inner goal your
dream then success is possible but once
you give up your inner vision then you
can never become successful you never
will become successful until doesn’t
even matter
now maybe the person who’s been working
on a project for 10 years can be
successful in his own right if he’s
honestly working toward it doing
everything to make himself worthy of
reaching the dream really happy with
where he is according to the Christian
story the first couple Adam and Eve were
instructed to be fruitful fruitful
produced some results fruitful is kind
of an interesting word it sort of
denotes abundance here’s what I think
fruitful and abundance and productivity
and I think here’s what it means to go
to work on producing more than you need
for yourself go to work producing more
than you need for yourself
and I think we fulfill that command so
long ago given to be fruitful to be
productive to produce far more than you
need for yourself so that you could
bless others and bless your community
bless your nation bless your enterprise
produce more ideas than you need for
yourself that you could share and give
them all away produce more in terms of
substance and money and treasure and all
things valuable to human beings far more
than you need for yourself
RG Letourneau story the man who built
the big earthmoving machines it was his
goal to someday give away 90 percent of
his income giving away far more and
anyone could possibly imagine someone
says Wow 90 percent is an awful lot to
give away well you should have seen that
10 percent that was left I mean once
abundance starts to come once someone
becomes incredibly productive it’s
amazing what the numbers turn out to be
it’s amazing what it finally totals
so hopefully we’ll have guidelines for
you during this weekend so you can turn
the response you’ve created already by
being here then the response by
employing your mental activity and
taking notes and putting all this
through your mental processes so that
you can create this kind of results when
you leave here next best way to make the
most out of this weekend is just a few
things number one be thankful for what
you already have this looks like a
pretty prosperous audience already so
we’re already doing well which is okay
but what if we could multiply the value
of our productivity by two by three by
five by ten would that be valuable the
answer is yes of course it would but
first of all to have the mechanism or
the inspiration or whatever it takes to
really do extremely well first you start
with Thanksgiving to be thankful for
what you already have we have already
solved the problem of necessity in this
room we’ve probably already solved the
problem of survival so we’re no longer
concerned with just necessity and
survival we’re perhaps beyond that but
now that we have gotten beyond that no
telling what else we can do but first of
all let’s be thankful for what we’ve
accomplished up until now the years that
have brought me here in the experiences
that brought me here
starting with my parents who raised me
gave me an incredible foundation that’s
lasted me all of these years and the
mentors that I’ve met along the way
absolutely changing and revolutionizing
my life my income my bank account my
future all of that collectively has
brought me here I’m so grateful for the
people the Association for the ideas for
the chance to work and labor produce
myself all of that that brought me to
this place this weekend I’m grateful for
it for the countries we represent where
we have freedom
liberté make this note it’s one of the
best for the day these are extraordinary
times about eleven years ago the walls
came tumbling down in Germany and it
started a wave of democracy and freedom
like the world hasn’t ever seen before
it looked like communism was on the
march for so many years and the dark
shadow of that political philosophy fell
on so many countries that I’ve visited
even back in those early early days and
now those shadows are beginning to flee
away and the light of democracy and
freedom and capitalism is is now the
order of the day and there’s just a few
old dictators left and they will soon be
gone here’s the good news in our
lifetime they will all be gone that’s an
incredible thought to think the
dictators of the past will all be gone
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years and years ago and I went to South
America almost every country had a
dictator now they’re all gone I mean in
that whole hemisphere there’s only one
left and that’s Castro and he will soon
be gone and the Qaddafi’s will soon be
gone and the saddam hussein’s will soon
be gone and they will all be gone
because now once this wave of capitalism
and freedom and free enterprise and
spirituality now sweeping the whole
world once it started all those years
ago
I’m telling you it is such an incredible
sight to see I now have the opportunity
to lecture in East Germany in to lecture
in Czechoslovakia and Poland the last
time I was in Poland we had a bomb scare
it was incredible middle of the winter
and they said you know there’s a bomb in
the place so we all vacated and went out
in the winter and stayed for about I
don’t know 20 25 minutes while they
brought in the sniffing dogs to clear
the place and no one left everyone came
back in middle of the winter in Poland
so that means everything is changing Jim
Rohn teaching capitalism in Moscow and
in Siberia Novosibirsk
I’m one of the few that’s been sent to
Siberia that came back and now I’m going
again hoping I get back again incredible
these are extraordinary times
politically socially in every other way
there’s never been anything like it in
the history of the last 6,000 years of
the human race it’s extraordinary these
are extraordinary times politically with
freedom on the march socially
economically extraordinary times so make
this note
Jim Ron’s view of the 21st century
unprecedented opportunity every field
you can imagine every endeavor you want
to try unprecedented opportunity of
course along with all the challenges
that we faced forever this is a new day
this is a new wave this is a new scene
nationally and for each of us personally
it’s nothing like it
unprecedented opportunity now here’s
number two the 21st century keen
competition it’s called world
competition now not just person to
person not company to company not
industry to industry what happens on the
other side of the world now greatly
affects us on this side of the world so
it’s a world game to play this is one of
our chances now to play the world game I
travel all over the world I mean it’s
incredible I leave Los Angeles 14 hours
later I’m in Tokyo five meals three
movies and you’re there I mean this is
easy stuff I fly the Concorde right
three hours London New York these are
extraordinary times in about ten days
I’ll be down in South America Argentina
Venezuela incredible the Jets fly
everywhere and then all night long the
Jets fly to our countries bringing us
you know goods and services and fruits
and vegetables from anywhere in the
world
it’s unbelievable these are
extraordinary times unprecedented
opportunity between competition so
here’s what you need now to really be
successful in the 21st century number
one is multiple skills hopefully we’ll
talk about some of those skills this
weekend don’t be caught now in the 21st
century with just one skill if you want
to flourish be fruitful if you want to
grow produce more than you need for
yourself learn more than one skill this
is also my perception now I’m travelling
around the world it would be useful to
know more than one language learn more
than one language my father spoke German
when I was a kid growing up but he never
taught me my mother was English but she
also spoke French but she never taught
me I could have learned three languages
at the same time these extra languages
are so useful I asked a teacher one time
how many languages can a child learn
here’s what you said as many as you’ll
teach them they don’t lack capacity they
don’t like imagination they certainly
don’t lack curiosity they only lack a
teacher so if you think learning another
language is sort of passed you by make
this note give it as a gift to your
children another language and then
another language when I lecture in the
Scandinavian countries they all speak
several languages I do my seminars in
English because they can all understand
English in the Scandinavian countries
you’re required to learn four languages
during your educational process three
they assign and one you can choose so
when you finish the educational process
in the Scandinavian countries you now
know four languages which if you live in
Europe is a great advantage but it’s a
great advantage anywhere learning that
extra language some of my business
colleagues that make Mega Millions every
year many of them speak more than one
language several languages Michael Cole
speaks what seven languages it’s so much
fun to travel around the world with
Michael because he can talk to anybody
buddy he knows all the languages it’s a
gift a gift to give to your children
okay so anyway I said all that to say
this or one more learn all the
disciplines that make language and
skills worthwhile the disciplines of
good health the disciplines of staying
vital we’ll talk about that just a
little bit later so that’s your best
advantage for the 21st century so first
of all be thankful here’s the next one
now to make this weekend really powerful
for you be eager to learn and I hesitate
to say that because you know you
wouldn’t be here if you weren’t eager to
learn to pay the price of time and money
and it wasn’t the money that was really
the expensive part for this weekend it
was the time if you haven’t made that
note before make it now time is more
valuable than money you can get more
money but you can’t get more time so to
ask you for the price for the seminar
fairly modest but to ask you for the
price in time for the seminar incredibly
expensive to ask me for three days I
mean that’s it’s a heavyweight cost for
me but it’s exactly the same for you
three days is a chunk of time and so the
biggest investment for this weekend is
not the money the biggest investment is
the time so here’s what I want to happen
I want this investment to pay off for
you multiplied many times over what will
the seminar be worth not the price it
cost to get in and not the really the
price of time it may be worth a thousand
times more than
what if I tried to make this seminar
worth just exactly what you paid that
would be difficult but what if I tried
to work make it worth a thousand times
more than you pay I’m Jenna that might
be easier because I’m inspired by ideas
that have worked miracles in my life and
I want to share them with you so I want
you to be a lot richer when you walk out
than when you walked in so be eager to
learn take good notes you know no matter
how well you do no matter no telling
what else you can do you know if you’re
mega-rich you might become super mega
rich right after this weekend we in the
Millionaire’s Club often invite a
billionaire to come talk to us he says
well you guys are doing ok but you know
come on get your act together so no
matter how rich you are here’s what’s
possible it you can multiply it by two
by three by five by ten with the right
idea the right inspiration the right
collective association here this weekend
is gonna give you a good chance now
here’s the next one argue later with all
my stuff I wish we had time to open it
up so we could debate all this stuff
right on the spot debate later with all
of my ideas and the things I’m going to
share with you but make this note now
debate is important that’s why we have
at least two parties in Congress to
debate good ideas the communism said no
one party sufficient but see lacking
debate it’s easy to become tyrannical
power tends to corrupt absolute power
tends to corrupt absolutely so without
debate you know something can gather far
too much power so it’s important and a
lot of the issues I’m gonna raise this
weekend a lot of the stuff I’m going to
share with you is up for debate here’s
why it’s up for debate I can only share
with you my point of view and there’s
got to be more than one point of view if
I looked at something from over here and
I said it here’s what it looks like to
me and you were standing over there
looking
back this way at it you would say no
here’s what it looks like to me now if
I’d invited you from back over there to
come up here and look at it from where I
am you might say gosh you’re right mr.
Allen I never looked at it before from
this vantage point so that’s what I want
to do and the speakers we’ve got this
weekend are gonna gather all of us up
and share ideas from our point of view
but here’s what you must remember
there’s more than one point of view so
here’s what’s important to be a student
not a follower to be a student not a
follower and part of being a student is
to debate the ideas once you hear them
you say right or wrong could it work for
me not work for me is it is that a
little too heavy or isn’t it sufficient
enough now sometimes it’s useful to
debate with each other I’m a good
debater right if I choose one side I
don’t really care which side to choose
you know just pick a side go for it I
remember a great debate I really heard
someone in America was debating someone
in Canada that held a little more
liberal position and American was very
conservative and the Americans said
every man for himself
individual individualism rugged
individualism and on the other side the
liberal said well yes every man for
himself said the elephant as he danced
among the chickens I thought hey that’s
a pretty good point so whether it’s
liberal or conservative we need both in
America the Declaration of Independence
who is America’s great liberal document
and the Constitution of the United
States is America’s great conservative
document so it takes a bit of both
but to debate the idea now if you can’t
debate with someone here’s what you must
learn to do debate with yourself is it
valuable or isn’t it valuable is this
idea I’ve heard a bit off-track or is it
on track would it be useful or not be
useful to debate the merits of trying it
to debate the merits of putting it into
action
so debate is a way to refine a good idea
someone in Congress says I have an idea
for the country and the rest of them
saying wonderful put it on the table so
someone asks three questions and this
guy says wow I never thought of those
questions I withdraw my great idea well
it’s a good thing we didn’t try it on
the country so here’s why we learn from
multiple voices but we don’t become
followers we become students and that is
to refine ideas that can change our
health change our income change our
future change everything for the better
make us more productive to finally have
far more in productivity than we need
for ourselves
but eager to learn exercise good debate
now here’s the last part to make this a
valuable weekend and that’s to be a good
listener
and then well that’s not going to be
easy you know most of our life is going
on outside these four walls you know our
business is out there and our customers
are out there and you know the store we
run is out there and our children are
out there our family’s out there and our
friends are out there everything most of
the things that involve our life are out
there so sometimes when the big part of
our life that’s going on out there it’s
a little hard to sort of dismiss all of
that for a while put it in a place where
you can just push it aside for just a
little while and really listen intently
and gather up the information but I know
you’re gonna do your best
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