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And let’s get started. The first one is personal development. Now in illustrating personal development Mr. Shelf, my teacher started with money. No money is not the only place to start in talking personal development. But it’s where he started. So let me share the thoughts he shared with me back then let me share them with you. Here’s the best lesson I can give you. On economics, very simple, we get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. That’s about as simple as I can put economics, we get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. Now it takes time to bring value to the marketplace. However, we do not get paid for time. So we cross that out.
Mistakenly, the man says I’m making about $20 for an hour, not true. If that was true, you could just stay home, right? haven’t sinned your money. So that’s not true. We don’t get paid for time we get paid for value brought to the marketplace. Now, since that’s true, here’s one of the key questions of my talk to you today.
Is it possible to become twice as valuable to the marketplace? And make twice as much money in the same phone that possible? Answers? Yes. Could you become three times as valuable? As you might be right now to the marketplace and make three times as much money in the same time? And the answer is yes, five times 10 times, of course. America is unique. It’s a ladder decline. It starts down here, let’s say at $5 an hour, and it keeps going up. Top income last year $80 million. The guy who runs Coca Cola. Now, that’s a heck of a ladder. Why everybody wants to come here. Right? The boat, people are not headed for Vietnam. People haven’t plotted and schemed for 50 years saying if I could just get to Poland, everything would be okay. Not true. Everybody wants to come to America. And the reason is, because we’ve got the best wind ever blowing in our favour. We’ve got the best economic opportunity anybody’s had in six and a half, 1000 years.
Now all you have to do is understand it and take advantage of it. Now there’s some key questions to ask here. Why would the marketplace pay someone? Only $5? an hour? Very simple answer. They’re not very valuable to the marketplace. Now we must underline to the marketplace. This person might be a very valuable brother. Yes. Member the family valuable. Yes. valuable member of the church course. Valuable citizen of the country. Yes. valuable in the sight of God, no doubt. We’re all of equal value in the sight of God.
But if you’re not very valuable to the marketplace, you don’t get much money. You say well, it shouldn’t be that way. Well, then you got to start your own country. You know, this one has been in process for 200 years, and this is the best we’ve been able to come up with so far. But here’s the key. You don’t have to stay here. Now there was a big debate in Congress last year that this $5 is not enough should be six should be six should be six. But we don’t need legislation. Six is already on this ladder. The next step up, you know, if you work for McDonald’s, they’ll pay you $5 an hour to pick up the trash. If you whistle while you take up the trash, they’ll pay you $6 an hour. So we don’t need that legislation. You just need to take lessons on how to whistle have a good attitude. Now as you begin to climb this ladder, why would the marketplace pay some people $50 A new answer. Evidently, they must be more valuable to the marketplace. 10 times more valuable. And is that possible for someone to be 10 times more valuable and earn $50 An hour instead of five? The answer is yes. That’s what America is all about.
Now, why would the marketplace pay some people $500 an hour? Evidently, this person must be much more valuable to the marketplace. That’s what’s important to understand to the marketplace. And would the marketplace pay one person $80 million for one year’s work? And the answer is of course, if you help the company make a billion dollars, would they pay you 80 million. I’m telling you, it is possible. And that’s why America is so exciting. That’s why this financial ladder is so exciting. It’s possible for all of this to come through for all of you no matter where you start as a student in school, just getting started out there in the workplace. This is all possible for you. Now Mr. Shelf gave me the clue on how to climb this ladder as high as I wanted to climb. Now we’re talking primarily economics, a lot of other ways to become valuable to your family valuable to your friends valuable to the community, valuable to the team, right valuable to the, to the team effort valuable to the concert. But here’s what he said, in climbing this ladder economically, all you have to do is work harder on yourself than you do on your job. Once I heard that, it made sense. I kept hoping that everything else would change around me found out that if I went to work on myself, work on my skills, worked on my language. If I became better than I was, each year, if I grew in skills and language and vocabulary, and competence, then I would become attractive to the marketplace.
Not very long ago, a company called me and said, Mr. Owen, we’re expanding internationally. We’d like to have a bit of your expertise to help us. Would you give us a bit of your time, we’ll add some millions to your fortune. And I said, Okay. And I thought later, isn’t that interesting? They would call, then my second thought was, of course they’d call me. Who else would they call? I can get the job done. Now what a contrast for me, farm boy from Idaho raised in obscurity, parents with modest means broke when I was 25. How come I would get a telephone call and someone offered me a lot of money to help them in expanding around the world? Simple answer. Evidently, something happened to me between age 25. And where I am today. And I can tell you where it all started. From my teacher, Mr. Show, who said to me, you don’t have to change what’s going on out there. That’s the wind that’s low. All we have to do is change what’s going on in here. And now there are several ways to do that. on personal development, and let me give you those ways.
Here’s the first thing. We must learn from personal experience. Pretty simple. Learn from that mistake, you take a look back over the last few months. If you make some mistakes, how could you correct those for the future? Take a look back over the last year, have you’ve done it right or done it wrong? Let’s correct it for the next year. Learn from your personal experience. Mr. Chef asked me when I first met him. He said, Mr. Owen, how are you doing? You’ve been out there now six years. And I said I’m not doing very well. He said, I suggest you not do that anymore. What a simple swift analysis to my situation. He said, If you keep doing it, the next six years will be like the last six, you don’t want that to happen. Let’s make the change. So learn from your personal experience. Now, here’s number two, why I came to share this video experience with you today. And that I call it ope other people’s experiences. That’s me, other people. That’s your teacher, other people. That’s your friends, colleagues, other people, the people you meet, that can pass along to you their experiences, what’s happened to them the mistakes they made, how they corrected them, how they change their health, and change their bank account and change their income and change their future. That’s it, other people. Now there’s two kinds of people to learn from one is failures. It’s too bad failures, don’t give seminars, right, that would be valuable. Bring your notebook. Have them tell you how they lost it all and threw it all away through their health away and through their friendships away and things didn’t work out. Well, that would be valuable.
But now then we must also learn from positive people that have done well. They’ve got the health and so we asked them, How did you become so wealthy? You’ve got the skill. So we asked him, How did you become this skilful? They’ve got the income. So we asked him How did you get here in such a short period of time. So now here’s what’s important in personal development. In learning from other people, we learn number one by observation. We learn what we see we watch people that are successful in what they do. In sports, we watch their disciplines. In business, we watch their disciplines. By observation, what we can see, the reason I created this video was something that you could see someone’s experiences translated for you. Second, we learn by what we hear.
I’ve got some of my lectures on cassette tape, so you know you can take them with you wherever you go, and learn by listening. Turn your car into a mobile classroom, and listen, and then listen to the sermon on Sunday morning. Listen to the lectures, listen to the teacher. Listen to someone who’s got something good to say. And then number three is by vitally important on personal development, that is read all the books, all the books you can possibly read in your lifetime. It’s a shelf gotten started on my library, I’ve got one of the better libraries haven’t read everything in it, but I feel smarter just walking in it library, at least I was smart enough to buy it. Now I gotta be smart enough to read it.
Then of course, I gotta be smart enough to decide what’s valuable, and then do it. But this one is very important, become a good reader. The books that helped change my life, Mr. Shelf recommended, of course, the Bible. And my parents made sure I was a pretty good scholar, by the time I was 18. That’s been so beneficial for me drawing from those illustrations, reading about those stories, people who made it and who didn’t make it and what the difference was. And then other books that helped to really change my life, one called Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. And then a book that helped me become financially independent by the time I was 31. And that book is called The Richest Man in Babylon, by George Claisen. And I’m going to share a little bit of that book with you.
When I get to financial independence today, our third subject, but I started reading the books, attending the classes, making sure that I got in front of people that had something good to say. And then I started keeping a journal, one of the major things my teacher taught me was to keep a journal. He said, Don’t trust your memory. If you hear something good, just make a little note, write it down. Now at first, I took notes on pieces of paper and torn off corners and backs of old envelopes. And it didn’t serve me well, you know, thrown in a drawer, then I learned to keep a journal, a bound copy of all my notes. Well, I would suggest you do the same things that impress you a poem that impresses you, when you attend a class. Some of the ideas that impressed you jot them down, you read something in a magazine, write some ideas, take those out, put them in your journal, keep a good journal the rest of your life, this will serve you well.
My journals make up a significant portion of my own library. And if you saw my library and saw my journals, I tell you what you’d have to say. This is the library. And these are the journals of a very serious student. No wonder Mr. Owen is invited to lecture and speak on his experiences around the world, I want the same thing to happen to you value captured, which you can resort to later, go back over it and review it, and let it become valuable to you. So that’s my first step personally to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. develop the skill, learn the lessons, take the classes, absorb all that is being taught to you these days. And then later on, of course, you can sort it out what’s valuable to you and how to refine it, for your business and for your life and for your future. The main thing is to get it and start this process of personal change, personal development. And let me say it one more time, if you will do everything we think will never be the same.
You’ll keep growing. As you look back on a few months look back on a few years, you won’t believe the progress you can make economically, your relationship with your family, your friends, and whether you’re in sports or economics, whatever I’m telling you, that whole process of committing yourself for personal change personal value, and really make your life unique and worthwhile. Now let’s cover the second subject on setting goals. Mr. Shelf gave me some tips on setting goals that changed my life forever. Now I want to share those with you.
Let’s talk about setting goals. And I also want to tie it to personal development. And you’ll see how I’m going to do it as I progress here setting goals.
We need to take a look into the future. There are several things to consider in terms of attitude. One is how you feel about the best advice I can give you on that is treat the past as a school, let it teach you the mistakes you’ve made, the things that went wrong, the things that didn’t work. Don’t use the past as a burden to carry and don’t use the past as a club to beat yourself. Past losses past failures, past mistakes. Let the past be a school, tough school. Maybe we’ve all been through some tough stuff. So if you feel good about the past, draw from it for experience and let it teach you. Then next is how you feel about the future. We’ve got to have the future well deserved. The future is called the promise.
And here’s what we teach in our leadership series. The promise of the future can be an awesome tool
for your own piece of the pie. of the future, designing the future. There’s two ways to face the future. One is with apprehension. And the other is with anticipation. I promise you and my travels around the world, most people face the future with apprehension. And here’s why they don’t have it well designed, they’ve sort of left that up to someone else to say, here’s the best way to face the future with anticipation. And you can you can face the future with anticipation if the future is clear if the future is well designed. And I would like to have you consider some thoughts with me that helped me to really change my future by giving it some thought and some consideration. And here it is, in setting goals. It’s very simple. Number one, decide what you want. You just take a little time you sit down and say, What do I want? What kind of skills do I want? What kind of income do I want for the future? What would I like? Where would I like to go? places I’d like to visit habits, I’d like to acquire skills I’d like to have, you just take a little time to think about what you want. Economics, friendships, people just like to meet places you’d like to go, you just take some time. And then I suggest when you thought about what you want for the future, make a list. Just jot it all down. So really a very simple process. And then here’s number three, keep all the old list. I’m telling you, this served me so well. Keeping my old list of goals. I look back now 1020 years ago, goals, I said lists I made and I smile now, because here’s what I thought was so important, you know, 20 years ago.
Now some of those things aren’t even on when I’ve got to do this, I’ve grown. I’ve matured. But I give you that advice, decide what you want. Number two, write it down. Number three, keep the old lists. And then here’s the report. When you get something that’s on one of these lists, check it off, part of the fun of having a list is checking it off. And then if you can add some drama to checking it off the that what really helped. I set a goal to go to steam many, many years ago. And when I finally made my first trip to Spain, I had that journal with me that had that list in it. And while I had my journal on my lap, waiting for the wheels to touch down in Madrid, I waited until the wheels touched the runway, and I checked it off, just adding a little drama.
So part of the fun of having a list is checking it off. Now here’s what’s important about the list, and designing your future. If the future gets clear, the price gets easy. Because you got to remember, for every promise, there’s a price to pay. Everybody’s got to pay the price. Everybody’s got to do the deal. Everybody’s got to do the discipline. Everybody has to pay. But here’s what I’ve discovered. If the promise is clear, and powerful, the price is easy to pay. The price is some classes, the price is a few books, price is a few disciplines. The price is finding something that will make your life better make you grow, make you change make you develop. So the first part of the key is to design the promise, then what is the price to pay, I’m telling you, the price will be easy. Anybody in my audience, no matter where you are, where you come from, color doesn’t matter. religion doesn’t matter where you grew up, doesn’t matter circumstances don’t matter. I’m telling you. If you’ll make the promise of the future clear for yourself, the things you want the places you want to go things you want to have the person you want to become the skills you want. The homes you want the future you want the friends you want, all of the values of life that you could possibly want. If you’ll make that clear, make those lists and be serious about it. I promise you, it’s an easy price to pay. Anybody can pay it. And the best advice I can give you is if I can do it, you can do it. farm boy from Idaho raised in obscurity, I changed my life, turned it upside down, turned it all around, found economics found future found promise. And if I can do it, you can do so start setting your goals and see if you can get a better excitement going for the things you want to accomplish.
Now, here’s my third subject. And that’s called financial independence. Oh, by the way, before I get to financial independence, let me cover one more point. One of the major reasons for setting goals is for what they make of you in achieving them. My teacher advised me when I first got started at age 25. He said Jim, why don’t you set a goal to become a millionaire? He said it’s got a nice ring to it. Now enough zeros to impress your accountant And he said, I’m here to help you. You’re only 25 years old, you’ve been to one year of college, you got a beautiful family every reason to do it. Why don’t you set a goal to become a millionaire? And he said, here’s why. And I thought he doesn’t need to teach, why wouldn’t it be nice to have a million dollars? He said, No, then you’ll miss it. He said, here’s why, or what it will make of you to achieve.
I’m telling you that statement. Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve. He said, Now, once you become a millionaire, what’s important to note the money. I thought, that’s kind of strange teaching. He said, honest, it isn’t important. He said, you could just give the money away. Now, I did better than that. I lost it all. The time. I was 31. I was a millionaire. By the time I was 33. I was broke. And I’ll tell you a little bit about that story later. But when I lost all my money, guess what I found out Mr. shelf was right. What was valuable was not what was valuable was what I became the skills I had, the knowledge I had about the market, the values that I had going forward, they were more valuable than the money.
Here’s an important statement to remember. It’s not what you get that makes you valuable. It’s what you become. So part of the key here is to set the kind of goals that will make something of you don’t set them too low, so that you don’t have to grow and you don’t have to read you don’t have to try and you don’t have to stretch. Don’t set them too low. And then don’t sell out. Don’t go for something that’s going to cost you your virtue or coffee, your value or sell out your principles. There’s a good middle road here to follow goals that will inspire goals that will help you grow, change, develop, and become better than you. Okay, now let’s talk about financial independence.
How to become rich by 4035. If you’re extra bright, much sooner, if you find an opportunity like I did, let me show you how I did financial independence. First of all I like the phrase financial independence, some people are a little bit concerned about using the word becoming rich, or becoming wealthy. And I can understand that I struggled a little bit with this is it okay to go for becoming rich go for becoming wealthy. And maybe that’s a bit too strong the word strong the term. So here’s what I’ve come up with. But I think it’s comfortable for me. And that is how to become financially independent. I think it’s every person’s heritage here, especially in America, to become financially independent.
Now, let me give you my definition of financial independence. Financial Independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal research. financial independence. Now, it depends on how you want to live. If you need to $3,000 a month, if you need four or 5000 a month, if you need the money, some people may need you know, 100,000 a month. But whatever you would need to live. And you could earn that living from the income of your own personal resources. That’s what I call financial freedom, financial independence. And let me show you how to acquire if you start at age 15, between ages 15 and 35, is 20 years. And in my personal opinion, based on my own studies, and my own experience, 20 years, in my opinion, is enough time to become financially independent. If you’re not, you don’t live in the wrong country. Probably what’s happened is you have the wrong plan. And it’s easy to be a nice person with the wrong plan. I found that when I was 25 years old, I was broke at age 25. And I was a nice guy, you would have liked me, I’m telling you, my plans up until then, especially my financial plan left me broke. I totally changed it the next six years, and I became financially independent.
So I know what I’m talking about. It is possible in a reasonable amount of time 15 to 35, whatever, 20 years time, enough time, you can do it much shorter period of time, like I did, if you want to. But this is a reasonable enough time. But here’s number one, first of all, you got to have the right philosophy. Philosophy is our ability to gather knowledge, and sort through it and decide what value to develop a philosophy about life and philosophy about our health, a philosophy about our family relationships, a philosophy about economics. And if you develop the right philosophy, that’s what helps to set this sail. So that in six years, it takes you where you want to go, instead of winding up like I did that first six years of my economics broke no money, empty bank account. The right philosophy.
Now let me give you a couple of philosophies to consider. Here’s the first one called the philosophy of the poor. And here it is, poor people usually spend their money and invest what’s left. That’s the philosophy of now here’s the philosophy of the rich, rich people invest their money and spend what’s left. And here’s the startling answer. It really doesn’t matter what the amount is. What’s most important is not the amount. What’s really important, is the philosophy. So I would ask you to adopt this philosophy of spending, after you have invested invest first then spend, and I’ve got a little formula that I’m going to share with you. Now, what’s it a child do with adults? I mean, there’s a lot of debate going on, I’m sure across the country on what a child should do with the dollar. Here’s one opinion it’s only a child, and it’s only $1 difference does it mean?
Well, in my opinion, it makes all the difference in the world. A person’s economic future starts with a child of the dollar. Somebody says, oh, no, you’re only young once I didn’t spend it all. Well, when would you hope that would stop? Somebody says well wait really sticky and broke like me and you and then you’ll learn? Well, no, we didn’t want to wait that long. If I would have known earlier than age 25 I would have changed in high school if I if they would have had classes called wealth one wealth two, I’d have taken both classes, I would not have waited until age 25. So your earlier the better.
So what should a child do with $1? Here’s the simple premise to begin with don’t spend at all. And if a child wants to spend the whole dollar you got to say hey, don’t spend it all you know Don’t spend it all they’ll say why not? It’s my dollar. I earned it. Say, I know you earned it, but don’t spend it all. They’ll still say, why not say, let me show you. Why not. So you put them in your car, take him to the other side of town, and show him where people live that spend the whole day. Just drive them around kids learn best by visual. Just drive around and say, Would you like to live here? It says no. Would you like to live like these people? No, no, then you can’t spend the whole day. So it will get the message. So you know, taking the other side of town, show them around unless you already live there, and then just show him around. Anyway, don’t spend the whole dollar now let me give you my best view of what to do with $1. And I promise you if you started at age 15, if you’re over 15, right? You still got plenty of time, you still got 20 years, no, if you’re 30, you’re still got 20 years, you know, you still got plenty of time to start, what I’m about to share with you what to do with the dollar. Here’s my first bit of advice. Never spend more than 70 cents. Never spend more than 70 cents. Now you got to pick some number and the number you pick is going to be determined by your philosophy. It’s going to be determined by what you’ve been taught or your experience teaching yourself. When I first met my teacher, Mr. Show I was at about 110% of each dollar. You know, I’m down at budget finance Hawking my furniture in my car one more. And then I learned a whole better formula for financial independence.
Number one, don’t spend more than 70 cents. Now, kids say to me, Well, okay, what do I do with the other 30 cents. Here’s what I teach 10 cents for charity. Charity or church, helping people that can’t help themselves. 10 cents to support worthy projects, projects that you feel good about 10 cents out of every dollar It’s called being generous with part of what you’ve taken out of society. Now, in my opinion, nothing teaches us character better than generosity. No class, no teacher, no book, teaches generosity teaches character better than generosity. And the best time to start is when the amounts are small. And I know if kids learn these lessons, well they’ll give a dime out of the dollars help people who can’t help themselves support worthy projects. Or if you belong to a church, they teach tithe pizza. Very important.
Now, because when the amounts get larger, sometimes it’s a little more difficult. You know, giving 100,000 out of a million someone says oh, if I had a million I’d give 100,000 I’m not sure that’s a lot of money. So the time to start is when the amounts and since I was about okay, next 10 cents, I call active capital. Active capital means do something to make a profit. Active capital set aside a portion of your income. Wages are okay. But I’m telling you wages will make you a living profits will make you a fortune. So set aside part of your income as capital called active capital. Any kind of projects you can possibly think of you can possibly come up with. I’m gonna write a new book I think is I think the title is going to be of course, it should take
kind of an interesting title.
In California kids do pay tax. When a child walks into 711 Buy something that costs $1. The proprietor says give me seven more pennies. And the child says hey, what’s these seven pennies for the proprietor says that’s the taxes. kid says hey, I’m only eight years old. propriety says congratulations. You’re my youngest taxpayer. Give me the money. So in California where I live kids do think that the question is, should they? And my book will answer that question. It’s for kids you take that Nothing is for free. If you want to ride your bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud, you got to pay the seven team nothing is three so we all have to pay. So 10 cents out of your living out of the money you earn set aside for capital capital to try your best to show a profit and in my books gonna be all kinds of ways to make money right two bicycles one to ride one to rent.
You know, it doesn’t take long to figure out some enterprise it’ll start making a profit, then you must jot this down. If you’re taking notes profits are better than wages. One you can’t usually start wages until you’re about 16 1516. But you can make a profit long before you’re eligible to start. Earning wages, and then there’s no limit to profits. And they can they can double and triple and quadruple, you know, there’s no limit. It’s incredible how fast profits can grow.
So profits are better than wages, wages make you a living profits make you a fortune. Now, the third 10 cents is vitally important. I call it passive capital. Capital, you let somebody else use a financial institution, stocks and bonds, mutual funds, whatever, let someone else use it, you furnish the money, they use it to make a profit, but they pay you for the use of it’s called interest. And here’s one of the things that will make you financially independent fairly quickly. And that’s called compound interest. And this is how you get it, letting someone else use a portion of your honey, your substance, they show the profit, they pay you interest, and this passive capital and telling you over a sustained period of time, if you’ll develop this little 1010 10, and 70, especially starting at age 15, I’m telling you, by the time you’re 35, you will be financially independent, you’ll have the ability to live from the income of your own resources.
And then one more point on passive capital, there’s a Bible philosophy. I’m an amateur on the Bible. But there’s a Bible philosophy that teaches the borrower is servant to the lender. And if you want to be in a powerful position, as you grow older, finally, when you become mature, or maybe have your own business, things have worked out for you for the future, the position you always want to be in is the power position. And that’s called the lender. The lender is the power position. So if kids learn early enough, and then you ask them what they’d like to do when they grow up, I’m telling you, once they understand, they’ll say, well, one of the things I want to be is one of those lenders, that’s the power position, not the spender know, you’ll be pitied the rest of your life, you’ve got to become a lender. And I think this is what formulas to follow 10 cents out of every dollar that someone else uses the the lender power position, then try to show a profit.
Can’t we teach our children how to take $1 Search the neighbourhood, find a Broken wagon, pay $1 for it, bring it home, you know, clean it up, sand it until it’s clean, paint it red till it shines, straighten out the wheels till they’re true. Take it back to the neighbourhood sell it for $5. Anybody can do that. Now, does the child deserve $4 profit? And the answer is yes, society now has a mended wagon. That’s what America is all about. Finding something, making it better, making a profit. Taking part of your resources, helping people who can’t help themselves, let someone else use it to make a profit. Some projects require more capital than one person in exciting. And then let them pay you for the use of it. America’s had this philosophy now all these years, communism has taught all these years capital belongs in the hands of the state, not in the hands of the people. We’ve been teaching all these years capital belongs in the hands of the people, not in the hands of the state. And we turned out to be right capital in the hands of the kids capital in the hands of the people, enterprises that make a profit enterprises that grow. It’s the hope of our future. So that little simple formula, I hope will help you now one more key on financial independence and that is attitude. Attitude. Here’s number one. I used to say, I hate to pay my bills.
My teacher straightened me out on it. He said let’s see, Mr. Owen, what you hate to do is pay $100 on an account and reduce your liabilities and increase your and I said well, no, not if you look at it that way. He said Well, it all depends on how you looking at. So Wouldn’t you love to pay your bills, reduce your liabilities, increase your assets? You got to have that kind of I found out the same attitude about taxes. I used to say I hate to pay my taxes. Sophie Well, that’s one way to live. Don’t you understand taxes is how we care and feed the goose that lays the golden eggs. Wouldn’t you want to do your share? Someone says yes, but the goose eats too much. Probably true. But hey, we all need to learn. We all need to go on a diet better a fat goose than no goose. So I finally became a happy taxpayer.
Now I think taxes are too high. So I’m working to get taxes lowered for our economic future. But then whatever they turn out to be, I gladly pay do my part because that’s what makes the whole system earn each of us doing our part. Now I want these three subjects to be valuable. I want them to have meaning. I want you someday to be financially independent. I want you to have the personal development so that you feel good about I had a chance to meet you someday I’d like to have you show me The list of goals, starting things don’t, here’s some I’ve already checked off. Here’s the books I’ve read, here’s what’s happened, I’m developing the skills, I’m better this year, and I’ve got more self confidence My skills are developing. That’s what I want for you. And that’s why I took the time become share, in this video message. I do seminars all around the world, this is one way that I can reach out and touch you, if you can’t come to my seminar, wherever I am, maybe this video will reach you somewhere. And it’ll have an impact on your life. And what I’d like to do later here in that letter, or to have a chance to meet you in person. And now I’d like to leave you with these four questions called questions. These questions were valuable for me. And I want to make them valuable for you. Here’s the first one why we all ask why we should work this hard. Why take that many classes? Why go to school that many years? You know why? Take the notes?
Why read the books? Why work that hard? Why put yourself through the push ups and the disciplines? Why? Good question, well, best answer to why I think is the second book. Why not? Why not see how many books you can read how many classes you can take, how many skills you can do that? Why not see how valuable you can become to the marketplace to your friends, and you can? Why not see what you can make of yourself? Why not see how far you can go how much you can see how much you can earn, how much you can share? Why not? That’s the heritage all of us have in America especially is to see what we can make out of our lives. Now that we’ve been given this extraordinary opportunity. Now my third question, I’d love to ask you in person. But since I can’t do it in person, I want to ask it of all of you. But I want you to take it personally. And my third question is, why not use? Why not use with good self esteem? Why not use starting to change setting goals? Why not, you’re starting to make progress toward. If I can do it, you can. I wish I had a lot more testimonials here today besides mine, a whole steady stream that would come by and tell you they’re still someone who started with nothing.
Finally run a big enterprise. A mother who was on welfare, now she owns her own business. In addition to my story, I wish I had a lot more. And if all of them told their story, guess how they would probably wind up their story, they’d probably say just like me point of view. If we can read, you can read, we can change, you can change. If we can figure it out, you can figure it out. If we can turn it around, you can turn it around. There isn’t anything you can’t accomplish. That’s what those testimonials would say. So I want to say it to you personally. Why not you? You’ve got the brains, you’ve got the stamina, you’ve got the vitality, you’ve got the interest. You’ve got your life ahead of you, you’ve got the future. You can do it. Anybody can do it. You can do it. One of us can do it. Hey, we all can do it. Now, here’s my last point on this is a good time as the 20th century starts to wind down a few more years as we get ready for century 21. What a good time to set your goals. Work on yourself work on your skill. What a good time to get it together.
What a good time to start this process, personal development, growing, changing, developing, having a good plan for your money and for your life and for your future. Why not? And I hope I have a chance to see you one of these days and share with you the experience Reaction Response you might have had from my message today. And until I get a chance to see you on this side of the world or the other side of the world in some school or some seminar, or maybe I’ll come and speak for a company that you work for some day. I hope I get a chance to meet you filled in. I wish you the best. I want all that I have gotten to be yours and God bless