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Don’t Waste Another Year: Start Now, Finish Strong · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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Speaker 1: By not being prepared, you make the choice of getting
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Speaker 1: caught in some of life's unpleasant circumstances, be they reign failures,
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Speaker 1: economic losses, relationship losses, professional losses, personal losses by not
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Speaker 1: being prepared thinking ahead, it's your choice. What do you
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Speaker 1: want to do economically, where do you want to go,
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Speaker 1: what do you want to be, What would you like
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Speaker 1: to have, what would you like to share? How much
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Speaker 1: would you like to earn? How far would you like
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Speaker 1: to go? Those are some major questions to ask and
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Speaker 1: for that all to work out like you wanted to
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Speaker 1: for the next five or ten years. In my personal opinion,
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Speaker 1: you've got to get serious. Then you have to get
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Speaker 1: serious about another important subject, and that important subject is
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Speaker 1: called personal development. Personal development is striving hard to become
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Speaker 1: the kind of person that you want to be, and
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Speaker 1: to be come the kind of person you want to be.
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Speaker 1: You've got to work at it. Ten years from now
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Speaker 1: you will surely become someone. The big question is who.
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Speaker 1: Some people are always pulled aside by the distractions. The distraction,
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Speaker 1: but here's what's powerful. If you have a list of
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Speaker 1: high purpose in your life, it pulls you towards the
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Speaker 1: future and the more powerful. The purpose is the stronger poor.
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Speaker 1: And here's the other great advantage. If you have purpose
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Speaker 1: for the future, it pulls you through all kinds of
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Speaker 1: challenges and all kinds of difficulty. If you don't have
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Speaker 1: these strong purposes for the future, it's easy to get
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Speaker 1: swallowed by a bad day. It's easy to be almost
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Speaker 1: annihilated by a poor month. And it's easy sometimes to
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Speaker 1: almost disappear beneath the waves of a year that goes backwards.
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Speaker 1: If you don't have something to pull you beyond that year,
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Speaker 1: develop the ability to act. Take action, not hasty if
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Speaker 1: it isn't required, but don't lose much time. Here's the
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Speaker 1: time to act. When the idea is hot and the
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Speaker 1: emotion is strong. That's the time to act. So mis thrown,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to have a library like yours. See if
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Speaker 1: you feel strong about that, what you got to do
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Speaker 1: is get the first book and then get the second book.
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Speaker 1: Before the feeling passes and before the idea gets dim
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Speaker 1: action promto action, immediate action as soon as possible, because
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Speaker 1: if you don't, here's what happens. We call it the
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Speaker 1: law of diminishing intents. We intend to when the idea
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Speaker 1: strikes us and we intend to when the emotion is high.
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Speaker 1: But now if you don't translate that into action fairly soon,
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Speaker 1: now the intent starts to diminish. The mini diminish, and
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Speaker 1: a month from now it's cold. Year from now can't
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Speaker 1: be found. Let other people lead small lives, but not you.
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Speaker 1: Let everybody else cry over small hurts, but not you.
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Speaker 1: Let it over God. They else argue over non essentials,
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Speaker 1: but not to you. Deal in things that matter. Make
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Speaker 1: sure what you do is the product of your own conclusion.
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Speaker 1: Take advice, but not orders. Let everybody around you be helpful,
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Speaker 1: but then put that through your own mental computer, and
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Speaker 1: make sure what you do is the product of what
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Speaker 1: you've concluded based on all the input. All of us
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Speaker 1: should be students of inevitability. Without kidding myself, if I
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Speaker 1: keep up my current daily practices, where will it take
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Speaker 1: me in ten years without being disillusioned? I don't want
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Speaker 1: to just cross my fingers and walk the wrong road.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I think messes up the
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Speaker 1: mind the most. Doing less than you can it causes
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Speaker 1: all kinds of psychic damage. Being less than you can be,
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Speaker 1: trying less than you can try, somehow damages your mind.
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Speaker 1: Your self image. Here's what I've discovered. You turn the
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Speaker 1: cycle around and start motivating yourself, you'll see immediate rewards,
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Speaker 1: maybe not monetary ones, not yet, But it's how you
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Speaker 1: feel about yourself that's of the greatest value. Discover all
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Speaker 1: you can do. See how much you can earn, how
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Speaker 1: much you can share, how much you can start, how
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Speaker 1: much you can finish, how far you can reach, and
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Speaker 1: how far you can extend your influence. Some people out
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Speaker 1: there would have us believe that positive affirmation is more
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Speaker 1: important than activity instead of doing something constructive to change
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Speaker 1: their lives. They would have us repeating slogans and canned
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Speaker 1: affirmations like every day and in every way, I'm getting
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Speaker 1: better and better. Well, improving our lives doesn't just happen
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Speaker 1: with wishful thinking. Getting better and better only happens with
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Speaker 1: the discipline of doing better and better. Discipline is the
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Speaker 1: requirement for progress, and affirmations without discipline are in all
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Speaker 1: reality delusions. Affirmations can be effective as long as you
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Speaker 1: remember two very important rules. Number one, you should never
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Speaker 1: allow affirmation to replace action. Feeling better is no substitute
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Speaker 1: for doing better, and number two, whatever you choose to
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Speaker 1: affirm must be the truth. If the truth happens to
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Speaker 1: be that you're broke, the best affirmation would be to
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Speaker 1: simply say I'm broke, face it, accept it, be responsible
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Speaker 1: for it, and change it. By admitting that you're broke,
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Speaker 1: By saying it out loud, you'll probably be disgusted enough
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Speaker 1: to start thinking about how to change the situation. Anyone
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Speaker 1: saying I'm broke with any conviction will most likely be
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Speaker 1: motivated to take action. Confronting harsh realities has an incredible effect.
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Speaker 1: Confronting the truth and then disciplining yourself instead of failing
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Speaker 1: to take responsibility inevitably leads to positive change. Reality is
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Speaker 1: always the best beginning. You see. Within reality lies the
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Speaker 1: possibility to create your own personal miracle, and the power
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Speaker 1: of faith starts with reality. If you can bring yourself
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Speaker 1: to state the truth about a situation, then as the
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Speaker 1: saying goes, the truth will set you free. Here's another
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Speaker 1: old saying. Faith isn't faith unless it's all you're holding
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Speaker 1: on to. If your life and your circumstances have resulted
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Speaker 1: in a situation that is ugly, call it ugly. If
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Speaker 1: you've lost it all, admit that you've lost it all,
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Speaker 1: Be responsible for it, and if faith is all you've
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Speaker 1: got left, use it create your own personal miracle. Once
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Speaker 1: you understand and accept the truth, the promise of the
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Speaker 1: future is freed from the shackles of deception. Once you
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Speaker 1: accept the truth, the promise of the future will pull
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Speaker 1: you forward. For every disciplined effort, there are multiple reward words.
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Speaker 1: That's one of life's great arrangements. In fact, it's an
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Speaker 1: extension of that Biblical law that says that if you
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Speaker 1: sew well, you will reap well. Here's a unique part
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Speaker 1: of the law of sowing and reaping. Not only does
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Speaker 1: it suggest that we'll all reap what we've sown, it
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Speaker 1: also suggests that will reap much more. Life is full
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Speaker 1: of laws that both govern and explain behaviors, but this
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Speaker 1: may well be the major law we need to understand.
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Speaker 1: For every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards. What a concept.
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Speaker 1: If you render unique service, your reward will be multiplied.
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Speaker 1: If you're fair and honest and patient with others, your
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Speaker 1: reward will be multiplied. If you give more than you
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Speaker 1: expect to receive, your reward is more than you expect.
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Speaker 1: But remember the keyword here, as you might well imagine,
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Speaker 1: is discipline. Everything of value requires care, attention, and discipline.
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Speaker 1: Children require discipline. They must have a structure built for them.
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Speaker 1: They must have boundaries to work within so they feel
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Speaker 1: secure and comfortable to explore and grow. They must learn
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Speaker 1: to recognize what's right and what's wrong, what's acceptable behavior,
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Speaker 1: and what's not acceptable. Children require constant and consistent discipline,
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Speaker 1: otherwise they'll be confused as to how they're supposed to behave. Likewise,
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Speaker 1: our thoughts require discipline. We must consistently determine our inner
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Speaker 1: boundaries and our codes of conduct, or our thoughts will
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Speaker 1: be confused. And if our thoughts are confused, we will
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Speaker 1: become hopelessly lost in the maze of life. Confused thoughts
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Speaker 1: produce confused results. Remember the law. For every disciplined effort,
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Speaker 1: there are multiple rewards. Learn the discipline of writing a
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Speaker 1: card or a letter to a friend. Learn the discipline
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Speaker 1: of paying your bills on time, arriving to appointments on time,
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Speaker 1: or using your time more effectively. Learn the discipline of
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Speaker 1: paying attention, or paying your taxes, or paying yourself. Learn
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Speaker 1: the discipline of having regular meetings with your associates or
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Speaker 1: your spouse, or your child or your parent, learn the
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Speaker 1: discipline of learning all you can learn, of teaching all
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Speaker 1: you can teach, of reading all you can read. For
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Speaker 1: each discipline, multiple rewards for each book, new knowledge for
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Speaker 1: each success, new ambition for each challenge, new understanding for
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Speaker 1: each failure, new determination. Life is like that, Even the
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Speaker 1: bad experiences of life provide their own special contribution. But
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Speaker 1: a word of caution here for those who neglect the
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Speaker 1: need for care and attention to life's disciplines. Everything has
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Speaker 1: its price, Everything affects everything else. Neglect discipline, and there
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Speaker 1: will be a price to pay. All things of value
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Speaker 1: can be taken for granted with the passing of time.
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Speaker 1: That's what we call the law of familiarity. Without the
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Speaker 1: discipline of paying constant daily attention, we take things for granted.
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Speaker 1: Be serious. Life's not a practice session. If you're often
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Speaker 1: inclined to toss your clothes onto the chair rather than
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Speaker 1: hang them in the closet, be careful. It could suggest
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Speaker 1: a lack of discipline. And remember, a lack of discipline
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Speaker 1: in the small areas of life can cost you heavily
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Speaker 1: in the more important areas of life. You cannot clean
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Speaker 1: up your company until you learn the discipline of cleaning
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Speaker 1: your own garage. You cannot be impatient with your children
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Speaker 1: and be patient with your distributors or your employees. You
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Speaker 1: cannot inspire others to sell more or when that goal
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Speaker 1: is inconsistent with your own conduct. You cannot admonish others
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Speaker 1: to read good books when you don't have a library card.
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Speaker 1: Think about your life at this moment. What areas need
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Speaker 1: attention right now? Perhaps you've had a disagreement with someone
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Speaker 1: you love or someone who loves you, and your anger
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Speaker 1: won't allow you to speak to that person. Wouldn't this
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Speaker 1: be an ideal time to examine your need for a
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Speaker 1: new discipline. Perhaps you're on the brink of giving up,
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Speaker 1: or starting over or starting out, and the only missing
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Speaker 1: ingredient to your incredible success story in the future is
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Speaker 1: a new and self imposed discipline that will make you
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Speaker 1: try harder and work more intensely than you ever thought
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Speaker 1: you could. The most valuable form of discipline is the
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Speaker 1: one that you impose upon yourself. Don't wait for things
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Speaker 1: to deteriorate so drastically that someone else must impose discipline
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Speaker 1: into your life. Wouldn't that be tragic? How could you
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Speaker 1: possibly explain the fact that someone else thought more of
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Speaker 1: you than you thought of yourself, that they forced you
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Speaker 1: to get up early and get out into the marketplace
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Speaker 1: when you could have been content to let success go
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Speaker 1: to someone else who cared more about themselves. Your life,
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Speaker 1: my life, the life of each one of us is
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Speaker 1: going to serve as either a warning or an example.
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Speaker 1: A warning of the consequences of neglect, self pity, lack
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Speaker 1: of direction and ambition, or an example of talent put
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Speaker 1: to use, of discipline self imposed and of objectives clearly
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Speaker 1: perceived and intensely pursued. Engaging in genuine discipline requires that
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Speaker 1: you develop the ability to take action. You don't need
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Speaker 1: to be hasty if it isn't required, but you don't
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Speaker 1: want to lose much time. Let's say you would like
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Speaker 1: to build your library. If that is a strong desire
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Speaker 1: for you, what you've got to do is get the
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Speaker 1: first book, then get the second book. Take action as
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Speaker 1: soon as possible, before the feeling passes and before the
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Speaker 1: idea dims. If you don't, here's what happens. You fall
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Speaker 1: prey to the law of diminishing intent. We intend to
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Speaker 1: take action when the idea strikes us. We intend to
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Speaker 1: do something when the emotion is high, but if we
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Speaker 1: don't translate that intention into action fairly, soon the urgency
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Speaker 1: starts to diminish, and a month from now the passion
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Speaker 1: is cold. A year from now it can't be found.
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Speaker 1: So take action. Set up a discipline when the emotions
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Speaker 1: are high and the idea is strong, clear and powerful.
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Speaker 1: If somebody talks about good health and you're motivated by it,
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Speaker 1: you need to get a book on nutrition. Get the
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Speaker 1: book before the idea passes, before the emotion gets cold.
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Speaker 1: Begin the process, Fall on the floor and do some pushups.
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Speaker 1: You've got to take action, otherwise the wisdom is wasted.
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Speaker 1: The emotion soon passes unless you apply it to a
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Speaker 1: disciplined activity. Discipline enables you to capture the emotion and
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Speaker 1: the wisdom and translate them into action. The key is
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Speaker 1: to increase your motivation by quickly setting up the disciplines.
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Speaker 1: By doing so, you've start a whole new life process.
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Speaker 1: Here's the greatest value of discipline self worth, also known
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Speaker 1: as self esteem. Many people who are teaching self esteem
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Speaker 1: these days don't connect it to discipline, but once we
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Speaker 1: sense the least lack of discipline within ourselves, it starts
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Speaker 1: to erode. Our psyche. One of the greatest temptations is
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Speaker 1: to just ease up a little bit. Instead of doing
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Speaker 1: your best, you allow yourself to do just a little
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Speaker 1: less than your best. Sure enough, you've started in the
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Speaker 1: slightest way to decrease your sense of self worth. There's
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Speaker 1: a problem with even a little bit of neglect. Neglect
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Speaker 1: starts as an infection. If you don't take care of it,
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Speaker 1: it becomes a disease, and one neglect leads to another.
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Speaker 1: Worst of all, when neglect starts, it diminishes our self worth.
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Speaker 1: Once this has happened, how can you regain your self respect?
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Speaker 1: All you have to do is start with the smallest
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Speaker 1: discipline that corresponds to your own philosophy. Make the commitment,
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Speaker 1: I will discipline myself to achieve my goals so in
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Speaker 1: the years ahead I can celebrate my successes.