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PART 2

Ideas plus inspiration can do incredible things for your life, your career, and your future. We need ideas for goals and plans to design our lives for the future.

Emotional vitality—without that, the ideas won't progress very far.

First, we must learn to survive. Second, we learn to succeed, which is beyond survival. But most people settle in just sort of the survival mode, enough to get by. They've got all these resources to tap, and they don't tap them because, you know, they're getting by. You know, their kids aren't starving. They’ve got a roof over their head, some clothes to wear, food to eat. But to go way beyond that, to flourish, not just to survive but to flourish—that’s why all of us are here for these two days.

Here's what we have to do with most mysteries: leave the mysteries and learn to be curious instead of dismayed. Why two different reactions to the same seminar? Just make a note: it's a mystery and I haven't tried to solve it. Am I gonna make everybody walk out and say, "I'm gonna change my life"? No, you can't do that. It's gonna be however it's gonna be, and the key is to be curious and not dismayed. Let the mysteries be mysteries.

It’s said some believed, and that's who the speaker was looking for: the believers out of this massive audience of a multitude.

You can have a good day in spite of the mystery.

Just give it a try. See if it'll work for you. And then, here's what's next: refine it all as you go. First, you learn. Then, you try. Then, you refine. Then, you evaluate. Then, you pass it on.

Turn response into results. Results is the name of the game.

One is philosophy: we're affected by what we know. Next is attitude: we're affected by how we feel. Third is activity or disciplines or work or labor: we're affected by what we do. And number four is results: learn to measure and count to see how you're doing, making progress.

Measurable progress in reasonable time. We don't study philosophy just for philosophy, or attitude just for attitude, or discipline just for discipline. These things by themselves serve no purpose. But these three items, invested in labor, in the work, produce results. Now we measure our results to see how our disciplines are working, how our attitude is working, and how our philosophy is working. And if the results aren't to your liking, there are only three places to check:

Check what you know—you may need more knowledge. Check how you feel—you may need to adjust your attitude. And check your discipline—you may need to add a couple to the ones you're already engaged in. That'll start immediately to change the results.

Be thankful for what you already have. Guess what? You already have more than the other 99% of the world. You sit in an enviable seat. Appreciation opens the door to receive even more. Here's what closes all doors: cynicism. You become cynical about the past, cynical about the future, cynical about everybody, and even cynical about yourself. That locks up all the doors, closes all the channels and the windows of opportunity and ideas to flow. So, if we cancel out cynicism and replace it with thanksgiving for every little thing, every small thing—not just freedom to live in a fabulous country, but every little thing that comes your way—be thankful. Be thankful for what you already know. It brought you here, living the best life in the top 1% of the people who inhabit the world.

I'm asking you to do the same: an accelerated learning curve to maximize the time to learn as much now in one year as you used to learn over five years.

The great fortunes of the world were made, what, after someone turned 50, 60? Because now they've got all this experience. Now, when an idea comes, they invest 50 years, they invest 60 years in this idea, and it explodes into fortune. So as maturity comes along, what a great time now to come up with good ideas. Because now you can maximize their possibilities because of your maturity in what you already know.

Debate all major issues. Be a student, not a follower.

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

No one voice has all the answers.

Become a good listener.

Part of human nature is self-protection. Part of human nature is self-survival, self-development so that we can defend ourselves and explore the possibilities in ourselves. Self-interest. Now here's the big question: is that okay—self-interest? And here's my best answer: if it's enlightened, yes. Otherwise, it turns to selfishness.

If our self-interest becomes educated, it can be uniquely served so that everyone benefits and no one loses. How could it be possible to work in your own self-interest and still no one else loses?

What is the key to greatness? You can't describe life, human life, any better than that: the full development of all of our potential and the wise use of all of our resources. Greatness could be defined in many ways: great wealth, great power, great influence, great self-esteem, great self-respect. There's many kinds of greatness. But how could we achieve all of that greatness? How could we achieve that? Here was a simple answer: it said this, "Find a way to serve the many."

Here's what we teach kids: do what you have to as quick as you can so you can do what you want to as long as you can.

Service to many leads to greatness.

If you become disciplined in giving your best attention and the best you've got to the few, now you begin to qualify. Now to have the many to preside over, the many will come if you pass the test of the few.

"If I had a fortune, I'd really take good care of it, but I've only got a paycheck. I don't know where it goes."

Giving starts the receiving process. Life was not designed to give us what we need. Life was designed to give us what we deserve. It says that in order to reap, you must plant.

Finding is reserved for those that search. If you search for it, you'll find everything you need for your health, everything you need for a flourishing lifestyle, everything you need for a good marriage, everything you need to strengthen your friendship, everything you need for economics. You will find if you’ll do like you did today: spend a couple of days searching.

All things are conditional. What you move toward tends to move toward you.

I taught my daughters how to swim and to dive. And my daughters would say, "Daddy, watch! Watch! Look! Look! Watch! Look what you've created here! I mean, you've spent the time with me! And, you know, I didn’t go well at the beginning, but now look at me.” This is my payoff. Service to others

In your own self-interest, it's better to pay. It's better to pay than to get it for free. The development I must achieve to be able to pay—that’s more valuable than to just pay and to receive.

It's important not to have a savings account. Here's what's important: to have an investment account. You want an account that pays.

The magic language around the house with the kids: "How can I earn five dollars?" Not "I need five dollars." Not "Give me five dollars." But "How could I earn five dollars?"

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