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Discipline Yourself: Grow, Evolve, and Become Better Every Day · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: It's not the economy that's going to determine your next
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  Speaker 1: six years. It's your philosophy about labor and about activity,
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  Speaker 1: and about miracle and soil and seed and sunshine and rain,
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  Speaker 1: and the economy and the banks and the money and
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  Speaker 1: the companies and the schools and what's going on. It's
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  Speaker 1: your philosophy and your attitude, and then your ability to
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  Speaker 1: take action. All of that we call the process of life, change,
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  Speaker 1: miracle working. The objective of life is not the rest.
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  Speaker 1: The objective of life is to act. Think of more disciplines,
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  Speaker 1: think of more ways and means in which to use
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  Speaker 1: your own wisdom and your own philosophy, and use your
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  Speaker 1: own attitude, your own faith, your own courage, your own commitment,
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  Speaker 1: your own desires, your own excitement. Invest it, invest it, invested,
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  Speaker 1: invested in discipline so that it's not wasted the smallest
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  Speaker 1: of discipline. Thereby transform your life. Join the five percent,
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  Speaker 1: join the ten percent, Join the three person. We can
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  Speaker 1: learn to do the most incredible things. All we need
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  Speaker 1: to do is take the time to do it. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not a matter of capacity, it's a matter of judgment,
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  Speaker 1: it's a matter of excitement. It's a matter of will,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a matter of wanting too bad enough. So
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty exciting to know that any day you wish
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  Speaker 1: you can change your life. Any day you pick out,
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  Speaker 1: you can make major changes. It doesn't ever have to
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  Speaker 1: be the same again. And that's exciting knowing that intellectually
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  Speaker 1: and personally you can actually do the things that will
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  Speaker 1: make major changes in your life. Happiness is not something
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  Speaker 1: you postpone. Happiness is not something off in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Happiness is something you design. You've got to get the word.
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  Speaker 1: Happiness is something you design. Happiness is a study. Happiness
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  Speaker 1: is a practice. Happiness is an art. It's not an accident.
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  Speaker 1: It's an art, and anybody that wants to can study
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  Speaker 1: practice the art happy living. But here's how you get
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  Speaker 1: a miracle going for your life. Number one, do what
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  Speaker 1: you can. Get a list of the stuff you could
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  Speaker 1: do and you haven't done postpone, and start cleaning that up.
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  Speaker 2: You can't start at a better place for personal change.
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  Speaker 1: It'll affect your bank account, affect your future, affect your income,
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  Speaker 1: affect everything. You can't start a better life change process.
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  Speaker 1: Then cleaning up what you should be doing. Promise yourself
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  Speaker 1: you'll read the books until your skills change. You'll go
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  Speaker 1: to seminars until you get a handle on it. You'll
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  Speaker 1: listen to it until it makes sense. You'll go for
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  Speaker 1: it until you understand it. You'll practice it until you
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  Speaker 1: develop the skill. Never give up until however long. That is,
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  Speaker 1: step by step, piece by piece, book by book, word
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  Speaker 1: by word, apple by apple, Walk around the block, walk
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  Speaker 1: around the block, go for it. Don't miss the chance
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  Speaker 1: to grow and resolve that. You'll pay the price until
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  Speaker 1: you learn, change, grow, become. Then you'll discover some of
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  Speaker 1: life's best treasures when you pay that Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you the best of ancient script. Here's
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  Speaker 2: what it says.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever your hand's fine to do, do it with all
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  Speaker 1: your might, do it with all your strength, and do
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  Speaker 1: it with.
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  Speaker 2: All your power.
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  Speaker 1: Who don't wish for a better wind? The key is
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  Speaker 1: to wish for the wisdom to set a better sail.
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  Speaker 1: Utilize whatever wind that blows to take you where you
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  Speaker 1: want to go. That is the philosophy of success. I
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  Speaker 1: picked up at the age of twenty five, and it
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  Speaker 1: revolutionized my whole life.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what I found. I found it was easy.
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  Speaker 1: I was a millionaire at the age of thirty one
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  Speaker 1: and I found it wasn't difficult at all. Now here's
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  Speaker 1: my definition of easy something I could do. I figure,
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  Speaker 1: if it's something you can do, it's easy. But here's
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  Speaker 1: a little qualification. I worked hard at it. I made
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  Speaker 1: sure my disciplines were in line. I made sure my
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  Speaker 1: habits were good. I made sure I did all that
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  Speaker 1: I could. I found something that I could do, but
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  Speaker 1: I worked hard at it. I got up early and
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  Speaker 1: stayed up late, and worked hard from age twenty five
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  Speaker 1: to thirty one. But what I did was easy, meaning
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  Speaker 1: it was something I could do well.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Ron, you say.
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  Speaker 1: If it was so easy, why during those six years
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  Speaker 1: didn't those other people around you get rich? Here's why.
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  Speaker 1: It's also easy not to do. How else would you
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  Speaker 1: describe it.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy to.
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  Speaker 1: Keep doing the things that don't work. It's easy to
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  Speaker 1: keep the bad habits. It's easy not to develop the disciplines.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy not to So why did I get rich
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't? It all comes down to a philosophical phrase.
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  Speaker 1: The things that are easy to do are also easy
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  Speaker 1: not to do. That's the difference between success and failure,
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  Speaker 1: between daydreams and ambitions. Here's the key formula for success
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  Speaker 1: a few disciplines practiced every day. Those disciplines have to
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  Speaker 1: be well thought out. What should you spend your time doing.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to waste your time on things that
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  Speaker 1: aren't going to matter. But a few simple disciplines can
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  Speaker 1: change your whole economic future. A few simple disciplines can
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  Speaker 1: change your future with your family, your business, your enterprise,
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  Speaker 1: your career. Success is a few simple habits. Good habits
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  Speaker 1: repeated every day. Here's the formula for failure. Errors in judgment,
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  Speaker 1: repeated every day. All you've got to do is have
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  Speaker 1: a few errors in your judgment and repeat them every day.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you they'll spin out of control. In
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  Speaker 1: ten years.
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  Speaker 2: You'll end up.
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  Speaker 1: Driving what you don't want to drive. You'll be wearing
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  Speaker 1: what you don't want to wear. You'll be living where
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to live. You'll be earning what you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to earn. A few errors every day, a
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  Speaker 1: few bad habits can be disastrous. It's easy to repeat
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  Speaker 1: an error in judgment because failure doesn't f at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the first day. Bad habits don't show their
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  Speaker 1: horrible results at the end of the first day, or
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  Speaker 1: the first week, or even the first month.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy to get fooled.
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  Speaker 1: If disaster occurred at the end of the first week,
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  Speaker 1: we'd change our philosophy right away. But the slide downward
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  Speaker 1: is subtle. You get you a little off course, and
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  Speaker 1: you keep drifting until all of a sudden you're caught way.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you've got the choice right now of one
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  Speaker 1: of two easies, easy to do or easy not to do.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you in one sentence how I got
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  Speaker 1: rich by the time I was thirty one. I did
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  Speaker 1: not neglect to do the easy things I could do
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  Speaker 1: for six years.
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  Speaker 2: That's the key.
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  Speaker 1: I found something easy I could do that led to fortune,
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  Speaker 1: and I did not neglect to do it. The major
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  Speaker 1: reason for not having more of what you want in
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  Speaker 1: America more health, more money, more power, more influence, more everything.
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  Speaker 1: The major reason is simple neglect. If you who don't
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  Speaker 1: take care of neglect, it becomes an infection, and then it.
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  Speaker 2: Becomes a disease.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're in the habit of not doing it,
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  Speaker 1: get in the habit of doing it. Do all it takes,
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  Speaker 1: and before you know it, success will be yours for
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  Speaker 1: the having.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you go for your intellectual feast?
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  Speaker 1: Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant but not
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  Speaker 1: a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to
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  Speaker 1: feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place
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  Speaker 1: to feed his mind.
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  Speaker 2: One way to feed your mind.
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  Speaker 1: And educate your philosophy is through the writings of influential people.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you can't meet the person, but you can read
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  Speaker 1: his or her books. Churchill is gone, but we still
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  Speaker 1: have his books. Aristotle is gone, but we still have
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  Speaker 1: his ideas. Search libraries for books and programs, search magazines,
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  Speaker 1: search documentaries. They are full of opportunities for intellectual feasting.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to reading and listening, you also need a
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  Speaker 1: chance to do some talking and sharing. I have some
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  Speaker 1: people in my life who help me with important life questions,
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  Speaker 1: who assist me in refining my own philosophy, weighing my values,
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  Speaker 1: and pondering questions about success and lifestyle. We all need
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  Speaker 1: association with people of substance to provide influence concerning major
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  Speaker 1: issues such as society, money, enterprise, family, government, love, friendship, culture, taste, opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: and community. Philosophy is mostly influenced by ideas, and ideas
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  Speaker 1: are mostly influenced by education, and education is mostly influenced
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  Speaker 1: by the people with whom we associate. One of the
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  Speaker 1: great fortunes of my life was to be around mister
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  Speaker 1: Chouff those five years. During that time, he shared with
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  Speaker 1: me at dinner, during airline flights, at business conferences, in
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  Speaker 1: private conversations in groups. He gave me many ideas that
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  Speaker 1: enabled me to make small daily adjustments in my life,
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  Speaker 1: philosophy and activities. Those daily changes, some very slight but
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  Speaker 1: very important, soon added up to weighty sums. Big part
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  Speaker 1: of the lesson was having mister Schof repeat the ideas
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  Speaker 1: over and over. You just can't hear the fundamentals of
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  Speaker 1: life philosophy too often. They are the greatest form of nutrition,
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  Speaker 1: the building blocks for a well developed mind. It's easy
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  Speaker 1: when you finally find yourself in a good job to
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  Speaker 1: stop pursuing mental development. Have you heard about the accelerated
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  Speaker 1: learning curve? From birth up until the time we were
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  Speaker 1: about eighteen. Our learning curve is dramatic, and our capacity
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  Speaker 1: to learn during this period is just staggering. We learn
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous amount very fast. We learn language, culture, history, science, mathematics, everything.
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  Speaker 1: For some people the accelerated learning process will continue on,
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  Speaker 1: but for most it levels off when they get their
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  Speaker 1: first job. If there are no more exams to take,
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  Speaker 1: if there's no demand to get out paper and pencil,
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  Speaker 1: why read any more books? Of course, you will learn
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  Speaker 1: some things by experience, just getting out there, sometimes doing
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  Speaker 1: it wrong and sometimes doing it right.
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  Speaker 2: You will learn.
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  Speaker 1: But can you imagine what would happen if you kept
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  Speaker 1: up an accelerated learning curve all the rest of your life?
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine what you could learn to do, the
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  Speaker 1: skills you could develop, the capacities you could have. So
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  Speaker 1: here's what I'm asking you to do. Be that unusual
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  Speaker 1: person who keeps up his learning curve. Making the most
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  Speaker 1: of your life is not usual.
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  Speaker 2: It's unusual.
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  Speaker 1: You need to develop some unusual habits to earn the
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  Speaker 1: outstanding rewards. A friend of mine said, standard education will
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  Speaker 1: get you standard results. You want a lot more than
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  Speaker 1: standard results. You need to become a lot more than
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  Speaker 1: a standard person. Become a student of good ideas wherever
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  Speaker 1: they can be found. Always be on the lookout for
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  Speaker 1: a good idea, a business idea, a product idea, a
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  Speaker 1: service idea, an idea for personal improvement. Every new idea
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  Speaker 1: will help to refine your philosophy. Your philosophy will guide
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  Speaker 1: your life. And your life will unfold with distinction and pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: One of the keys to making the most of ideas
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  Speaker 1: is developing the ability to reflect. Reflect means to go
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  Speaker 1: back over to study again, go back over your notes,
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  Speaker 1: go back over your thoughts, and go back over your day.
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  Speaker 1: There are some particularly good times to reflect. One is
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day. Take a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: to go back over the day. Whom did you see,
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  Speaker 1: what did they say?
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  Speaker 2: What happened? How did you feel? What went on?
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  Speaker 1: By answering those questions, you capture the day. Every day
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  Speaker 1: represents a piece of the mosaic of your life. You
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  Speaker 1: need to capture the experience, the knowledge, the sites, the sounds,
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  Speaker 1: the panorama, the color and the emotion so it will
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  Speaker 1: serve you well for the future. Don't miss a day.
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  Speaker 1: Then take a few hours at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: week to reflect. Go back over your calendar, go back
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  Speaker 1: over your appointment book. Ask yourself the same questions, where
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  Speaker 1: did you go, Whom did you see?
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  Speaker 2: How did it feel? What went on?
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  Speaker 1: Capture that week. A week is a fairly substantial chunk
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  Speaker 1: of time. Next, take half a day at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the month to reflect. Follow the same process. Go
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  Speaker 1: back over what you read, go back over what you heard,
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  Speaker 1: go back over what you saw, Go back over your
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  Speaker 1: feelings and capture them so that they serve you. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: take a weekend at the end of the year to
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  Speaker 1: establish the year firmly in your consciousness so that it
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  Speaker 1: never disappears. The Old Testament describes a unique scenario that
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  Speaker 1: unfolded according to the law. At that time, people worked
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  Speaker 1: for nine years, and the tenth year was a sabbatical.
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  Speaker 1: The tenth year was probably used for relaxing, replenishing, getting
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  Speaker 1: in shape physically. We would call it a change of
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  Speaker 1: pace in modern society, but that was not the only
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  Speaker 1: objective for the tenth year. I'm sure that in ancient days,
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  Speaker 1: sabbaticals were used to go over the previous nine years
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  Speaker 1: to see what went right and what went wrong, what
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  Speaker 1: worked well, and what didn't work well. People would ask themselves,
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  Speaker 1: how did I grow?
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  Speaker 2: What did I learn? How did I change?
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  Speaker 1: What do I have now after nine years that I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have at the beginning. That time for reflection is
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  Speaker 1: what makes a sabbatical so effective and meaningful. At times,
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  Speaker 1: you'll want to reflect with somebody else. A husband and
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  Speaker 1: wife can reflect on the past year together parents can
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  Speaker 1: reflect with their children, colleagues can reflect with each other,
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  Speaker 1: but you've also got to learn to reflect by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Solitude is a powerful force. We all need to find
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  Speaker 1: some occasions to shut out the rest of.
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  Speaker 2: The world for a while.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a motor home and a motorcycle. That's how
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  Speaker 1: I find solitude. I head for the mountains and ride
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  Speaker 1: the trails where there are very few human beings. Or
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  Speaker 1: I go out into the desert somewhere it's my time
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  Speaker 1: to get away. When you live a very public life,
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  Speaker 1: you treasure solitude. When I have a chance to reflect alone,
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  Speaker 1: I go back over my life, go back over my skills,
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  Speaker 1: go back over my experiences.
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  Speaker 2: There are some things you.
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  Speaker 1: Need to do alone, such as ponder, think, wonder, read,
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  Speaker 1: study and absorb new ideas. Decide how you can become
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  Speaker 1: better this year than you were last year. Enjoy your solitude.
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  Speaker 1: Life is full of experiences touching and seeing and looking
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  Speaker 1: and doing and acting. But you're going to lose the
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  Speaker 1: lessons of those experiences if if you don't take the
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  Speaker 1: time to reflect. We can all learn to gather up
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  Speaker 1: the past and invest in the future. Gather up today
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  Speaker 1: and invest it into tomorrow. Gather up this week and
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  Speaker 1: invest it in the next week. Gather up this year,
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  Speaker 1: and invest it in the next year. Many people simply
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  Speaker 1: hang on one more year. They are just hanging in there,
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  Speaker 1: seeing what's going to happen. I am asking you to
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  Speaker 1: choose a different path to learn, study and reflect. This
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  Speaker 1: is a major part of personal development, the quest to
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  Speaker 1: become better than you are now.