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The Right Attitude Attracts Success: Think Positive, Act Big · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Enemies of the mind you got to do battle with
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  Speaker 1: in the summer. One is pessimism that tries to get
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  Speaker 1: you only to see the negative side. Of course, there's
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  Speaker 1: the negative side. Life is part negative.
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  Speaker 2: What else is new?
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  Speaker 1: If the glass is half empty, it is half empty.
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  Speaker 1: You say, well, I've been only taught to see that
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  Speaker 1: it's half full.
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  Speaker 2: Well, sure it's half full, but it's also half empty.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, can't you handle that? I mean, you know
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  Speaker 1: that's not too difficult. But here's what pessimism would try
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  Speaker 1: to get you to do. Believe that it's only half empty.
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  Speaker 1: And when pessimism comes to your mind, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: educate pessimism because pessimism is stupid. Pessimism tries to get
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  Speaker 1: you to believe that it's.
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  Speaker 2: Only half empty.
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  Speaker 1: You got to say, pessimism, you've never been to school,
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  Speaker 1: too dumb and stupid to know. Of course, it's half empty,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not only half empty, it's also half full.
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking you to be in charge, Be in charge
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  Speaker 1: of your own mind, be in charge of.
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  Speaker 2: Your own destiny.
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  Speaker 1: Do battle with your enemy in the summertime. In the summertime,
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  Speaker 1: you got to learn to love like a mother, hate
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  Speaker 1: like a father, Give life like a mother, nourish, take
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  Speaker 1: life like a father. Father says to whatever threatens his family,
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  Speaker 1: take two or three more steps toward this family and
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  Speaker 1: threaten them.
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  Speaker 2: You'll cease to exist. I'm father, I kill. Do battle
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  Speaker 2: with your enemies.
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  Speaker 1: Now. It's also possible to love like a father, hate
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  Speaker 1: like a mother.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that is impossible. Nothing more dangerous than
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  Speaker 2: an angry mother.
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  Speaker 1: Love like a father, hate like a mother, Give life
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  Speaker 1: like a mother, Take life like a father, or however
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  Speaker 1: you want to arrange it. Just so you nourish your values,
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  Speaker 1: Nourish your family, Nourish what's valuable for you. Nourish your organization,
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  Speaker 1: Nourish your distributors, nourish your customers, take care of your responsibilities,
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  Speaker 1: speed nourish. But then I'm also asking you to do
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  Speaker 1: battle with your enemies. Take sword to your enemies. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: is going to destroy those values, take sword to it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's worried, take sword to it if it's threat
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  Speaker 1: threaten back. You got to be like your bloodstream. Good
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  Speaker 1: illustration red corpuscles to nourish like a mother, white corpuscles
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  Speaker 1: to fight and.
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  Speaker 2: Kill like a fought.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta do some negative thinking and just think pozzive.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God for white corpuscles to think negative all day.
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  Speaker 2: Quhite corpuscles say, just show me some infection.
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  Speaker 1: I kill it. Whatever threatens this body and its future
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  Speaker 1: gets threatened. Whatever's not to kill this body gets killed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking you take sword to your enemies, whether they're
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  Speaker 1: on the outside or whether they're on the inside. Protect
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  Speaker 1: your family, protect your future, protect your values, love, nourish,
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  Speaker 1: but also do battle with whatever is out there to
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  Speaker 1: do battle with. You.
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  Speaker 2: Take some courage from some of those that have been
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  Speaker 2: through the battle.
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  Speaker 1: They've given you their stories on the stage.
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  Speaker 2: They've been through it.
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  Speaker 1: They know what it's all about. Take some courage from that,
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  Speaker 1: and in the summer do battle. And sure there wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be positive without negative. It's part of the life scenario.
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  Speaker 1: Ancient scripture says it best. There's a time to laugh
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  Speaker 1: and a time to cry. You've got to become so
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  Speaker 1: sophisticated and well educated that you don't laugh when it's
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  Speaker 1: time to cry.
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  Speaker 2: You've also got to learn to cry.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how are you going to identify with others if
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  Speaker 1: you don't cry with them? The negative side is very important,
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  Speaker 1: so don't ignore it. You need to let it be
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  Speaker 1: a part of the scenario. In fact, you need to
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  Speaker 1: learn to master it. Negativity is not to be ignored,
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  Speaker 1: it's to be mastered. It makes us better than we
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  Speaker 1: are to wrestle with it. It makes us better than
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  Speaker 1: we are to acknowledge and fight tyranny that moves into
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable countries, Ignorance that moves into your life, Procrastination that
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  Speaker 1: robs you of your fortune or poor health that it's
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  Speaker 1: the legacy of neglecting your health disciplines. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: do battle with the enemies, those outside of you as
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  Speaker 1: well as those within. So learn how to handle the negative.
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  Speaker 1: Negativity can actually be a powerful force for change. It
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  Speaker 1: plays a key role in the day that turns your
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  Speaker 1: life around. There are four stages to the day that
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  Speaker 1: turns your life around, and the first is discussed.
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  Speaker 2: Disgust is a negative.
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  Speaker 1: Emotion, but it can have a very positive motivating effect.
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  Speaker 1: Disgust says, I've had it. What an important day that
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  Speaker 1: could be. I met a beautiful, accomplished, extraordinary woman in
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  Speaker 1: New York. She was the vice president of a company
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  Speaker 1: I did some work for. I got to know her
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  Speaker 1: and I found out her story she never went to
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  Speaker 1: high school or college.
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  Speaker 2: I said, how did you get here?
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  Speaker 1: She said, well, when I was a young mother, I
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  Speaker 1: once asked my husband for ten dollars and he said
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  Speaker 1: what for. Before that day was over, I decided I
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  Speaker 1: would never ask again. So I started looking for opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: taking classes and putting myself through school. Now I'm a
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  Speaker 1: vice president and I make a lot of money. I
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  Speaker 1: kept my promise because I've never ever had to ask again.
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  Speaker 1: That was her life changing day, the day she said
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  Speaker 1: enough is enough. The next stage in a life changing
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  Speaker 1: day is decision. If you sat down today and made
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  Speaker 1: a list of changes you've decided to make, that list
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  Speaker 1: could furnish enough inspiration for the next five or ten years.
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  Speaker 1: What an inspiring day, the day you bring yourself to
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  Speaker 1: decide to change your life. The third stage is desire,
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  Speaker 1: wanting that change badly enough. Sometimes desire waits for a trigger,
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  Speaker 1: waits for something to happen. It may be a movie,
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  Speaker 1: a seminar, a sermon, a book, a confrontation with an enemy,
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  Speaker 1: or a conversation with a friend who finally levels with you.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the experience, it is so valuable. Here's my best advice.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome all experiences. You'll never know which one is going
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  Speaker 1: to turn your life around. Don't put up walls. The
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  Speaker 1: walls that keep out disappointment also keep out happiness. Take
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  Speaker 1: down the walls. Go for the experience. Let it teach you.
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  Speaker 1: The last stage of a life changing day is resolve. Resolve,
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  Speaker 1: says I will. These are two of the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: words in the language. The best definition of resolve I've
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  Speaker 1: ever heard came from a junior high school student in
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  Speaker 1: Foster City, California. I was addressing her class one day
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  Speaker 1: and we were discussing some keywords. I asked the kids,
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  Speaker 1: who can tell me what resolve means. Some didn't know
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  Speaker 1: the answer, and some tried to guess My answer I
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  Speaker 1: got was the best. This girl, about two rows back says,
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  Speaker 1: I think I know, mister Ron. I think resolve means
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  Speaker 1: promising yourself you'll never give up. I said, that's the
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  Speaker 1: best definition I've ever heard. She's probably giving her own
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  Speaker 1: seminars somewhere today. Promise yourself, You'll read the books until
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  Speaker 1: your skills change. You'll go to seminars until you get
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  Speaker 1: a handle on what they're teaching. You'll practice until you
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  Speaker 1: develop the skills. Never give up until you've gotten what
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  Speaker 1: you want, don't miss the chance to grow. Resolve that
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  Speaker 1: you'll pay the price until you learn, change, grow and
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  Speaker 1: become what you want to be. You'll discover some of
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  Speaker 1: life's best treasures when you pay that price. It's not
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  Speaker 1: what happens that determines the major part of your future.
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  Speaker 1: It's not what happens. What happens happens to us. All said,
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  Speaker 1: the key is what you do about it. It's not
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  Speaker 1: what happens, it's what you do about it.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, if you.
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  Speaker 1: Will start that process of change, do something different the
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  Speaker 1: next ninety days than you did the last ninety days,
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  Speaker 1: like picking up.
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  Speaker 2: The books to read.
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  Speaker 1: Do something different like the new health disciplines, relationship with
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  Speaker 1: your family, whatever it is, doesn't matter how small it is.
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  Speaker 1: If you'll start doing different things with the same circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: Since we cannot change the circumstances, but we can change ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: we can change what we do. And then he gave
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  Speaker 1: me another secret to success when he said, what you
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  Speaker 1: have at the moment, mister own, you've attracted by the
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  Speaker 1: person you've become. What you have at the moment, you've
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  Speaker 1: attracted by the person you've become few little simple principles here.
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  Speaker 1: Once you understand these, it starts to explain so much. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's a little tough.
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  Speaker 1: To take blaming yourself instead of the marketplace, taking responsibility
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  Speaker 1: instead of putting it off on someone else. That transition
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  Speaker 1: sometimes is a challenging mission, and this one was a
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  Speaker 1: little tough for me. He said, mister, you've got pennies
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  Speaker 1: in your pocket, you've got nothing in the bank.
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  Speaker 2: The creditors are calling.
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  Speaker 1: You're behind on your promises.
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  Speaker 2: And he says, here's how that occurs.
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  Speaker 1: You've attracted up until now, you've attracted the things to
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  Speaker 1: you because of the person you've become.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I said, well, how can I change all that?
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  Speaker 2: You said, very simple.
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  Speaker 1: If you will change, everything will change for you. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to change what's outside. All you've got to change
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  Speaker 1: is what's inside. There are two phrases i'd like you
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  Speaker 1: to ponder for a moment. The first is that life
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  Speaker 1: and business are like the changing seasons. That's one of
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  Speaker 1: the best ways to illustrate life. It's like the seasons,
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  Speaker 1: the change. Here's the second phrase. You cannot change the seasons,
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  Speaker 1: but you can change yourself. Now, with those two key
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  Speaker 1: phrases in mind. Let's turn to what I considered to
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  Speaker 1: be the four major lessons in life to learn. The
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  Speaker 1: first lesson is this, learn how to handle the winters.
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  Speaker 1: They come regularly right after autumn. Some are long, some
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  Speaker 1: are short, some are difficult, some are easy. But they
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  Speaker 1: always come right after autumn. That is never going to change.
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  Speaker 1: There are all kinds of winters. The winter when you
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  Speaker 1: can't figure it out, the winter when everything seems to
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  Speaker 1: go haywire. One writer called it the winter of discontent.
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  Speaker 1: There are economic winters, social winters, personal winters when your
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  Speaker 1: heart is smashed into a thousand pieces. Wintertime brings disappointment,
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  Speaker 1: and disappointment is common.
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  Speaker 2: To all of us.
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  Speaker 1: So learn how to handle the winters. You must learn
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  Speaker 1: how to handle the nights. They come right after days.
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  Speaker 1: You must learn how to handle difficulty. It always comes
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  Speaker 1: after opportunity. You must learn to handle recessions. They come
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  Speaker 1: right after expansions. That isn't going to change. The big
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  Speaker 1: question is what do you do about winters. You can't
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  Speaker 1: get rid of January simply by tearing it off the calendar.
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  Speaker 1: But here is what you can do. You can get stronger,
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  Speaker 1: you can get wiser and you can get better. Make
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  Speaker 1: a note of that trio of words, stronger, wiser, better.
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  Speaker 1: The winters won't change, but you can. Before I understood this,
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  Speaker 1: I used to wish it were summer when it was winter.
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  Speaker 1: When things were difficult, I used to wish they were easy.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know any better. Then mister Chaff gave me
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  Speaker 1: the answer from a part of his very unique philosophy
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  Speaker 1: when he said, don't wish it were easier, wish you
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  Speaker 1: were better. Don't wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills,
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  Speaker 1: don't wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the second major lesson in life. Learn how to
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of the spring. Spring is opportunity, and spring
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  Speaker 1: always follows winter. What a great place for spring right
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  Speaker 1: after winter. If you were going to put it somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: that would be the place to put it.
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  Speaker 2: God is a genius.
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  Speaker 1: Days follow nights, Opportunity follows difficulty, expansion follows recession, and
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  Speaker 1: this all happens with regularity.
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  Speaker 2: You can count on it.
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  Speaker 1: However, the mere arrival of spring is no sign that
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  Speaker 1: things are going to look good in the fall. You
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  Speaker 1: must do something with the spring. In fact, everyone has
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  Speaker 1: to get good at one of two things, planting in
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  Speaker 1: the spring or begging in the fall. So take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the day, take advantage of the opportunity, and read
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  Speaker 1: every book you can get your hands on to learn
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  Speaker 1: how to take advantage of the spring. Get busy quickly
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  Speaker 1: on your springs, your opportunities. There are just a handful
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  Speaker 1: of springs that have been handed to.
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  Speaker 2: Each of us.
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  Speaker 1: Life is brief, even at its longest. Whatever you are
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  Speaker 1: going to do with your life, get at it. Don't
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  Speaker 1: just let the seasons pass by. The third major lesson
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  Speaker 1: in life is this, learn how to nourish and protect
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  Speaker 1: your crops all summer. Sure enough, as soon as you've planted,
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  Speaker 1: the busy bugs and noxious weeds are out to take
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  Speaker 1: things over. And here's the next bit of truth. They
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  Speaker 1: will take it unless you prevent it. There are two
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  Speaker 1: key phrases to consider with the third major lesson. The
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  Speaker 1: first is all good will be attacked. Don't press me
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  Speaker 1: for a reason. I was not in on some of
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  Speaker 1: the early decisions, so I don't know why. I just
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  Speaker 1: know that it's true. Let reality be your best beginning.
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  Speaker 1: Every garden will be invaded. The second phrase is all
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  Speaker 1: values must be defended. Social values, political values, friendship values,
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  Speaker 1: business values. All must be defended. Every garden must be
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  Speaker 1: tended all summer. If you don't develop this skill, you'll
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  Speaker 1: never wind up with anything of value. The fourth major
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  Speaker 1: lesson in life is this, Learn how to reap in
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  Speaker 1: the fall without complaint. Take full responsibility for what happens
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  Speaker 1: to you. One of the highest forms of human maturity
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  Speaker 1: is accepting full responsibility. Learn how to reap in the
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  Speaker 1: fall without apology if you have done well, and without
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  Speaker 1: complaint if you have not. That's being mature. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying it's easy. I'm saying it's the best way to be.
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  Speaker 1: The seasons don't work for you or against you.
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  Speaker 2: They just are what they are.
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  Speaker 1: They are guaranteed to come every year, bringing both the
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  Speaker 1: positive and the negative. So it's up to you to
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  Speaker 1: remember the four major lessons in life, prepare for them,
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  Speaker 1: and make the most of everything they offer. Now I
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  Speaker 1: want you to answer this question. What kind of per
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  Speaker 1: person must I become to achieve all I want? And
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you time to write that down. Now, what
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  Speaker 1: kind of person must I become to achieve all I want?
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  Speaker 1: Now we've got two things working. What you become helps
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  Speaker 1: you to achieve, and what you achieve helps you to become.
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  Speaker 1: And the more you become, the more you can achieve,
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  Speaker 1: and the more you achieve, the more you can become.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows which affects the other the most? So now
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  Speaker 1: just write this exercise. Start with a few sentences. We
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  Speaker 1: won't have time for you to you know, take a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time, but just start with a few sentences
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  Speaker 1: your concept of the person you think you must become
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  Speaker 1: to achieve what you want. This is time for a
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  Speaker 1: little truth. Maybe you need to become much wiser than
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  Speaker 1: you are at the moment. You need to become stronger,
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  Speaker 1: you need to have better health. Maybe you need a
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  Speaker 1: little coaching to really become the person I want to become.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to have some coaching, physical coaching,
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  Speaker 1: spiritual coaching, developing skills coaching. To be the influence you
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  Speaker 1: want to be. You got to build an incredible repute.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of person must I be to attract all
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  Speaker 1: that I want warant in my life and the people
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  Speaker 1: that I want and the opportunities that I want. You
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  Speaker 1: knock on the door and opportunity opens. You must stand
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  Speaker 1: there as a very attractive person or you may not
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  Speaker 1: be invited. One of the most mysterious and unique phrases
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus ever used.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what he said.
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  Speaker 1: I stand at the door, and if you opened the door,
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  Speaker 1: would you probably invite him in.
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  Speaker 2: This extraordinary person.
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  Speaker 1: You say wow, yeah, And he said, if you invite me,
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  Speaker 1: I'll come in, sit down, talk things over. For you
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  Speaker 1: to be that kind of attractive person, if you knocked
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  Speaker 1: on the door of opportunity and it opened and you
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  Speaker 1: stood there, would you be the kind of person that
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  Speaker 1: opportunity would say, come right in and sit down and
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the future. What kind of person