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I found out you can’t change people. They can change themselves, but you can’t change them. Lord knows some I’ve tried. People have to change themselves

Key to discipline

Now, here’s the key to discipline. Start with the little disciplines. Get excited over the little disciplines and get right on those, because those will lead to the big ones. You can’t handle the big challenges in life unless you take on the little ones.
Make a list of all the things you can do. Get right on those. Discipline yourself for those, both for the results and for the muscle and the practice, so that when life hands you some big challenges, you’ll be ready, you’ll have the muscle

Murder is a clear example that any one person any given day can forever alter the course of their life. It just happens to be a negative act. But just as sure as you can commit a negative act, you can also commit a positive act and forever alter your life. Whenever you wish. That's exciting

On any given day you can massively change the direction of your life

Discipline - major step to human progress. If there is one thing to get excited over - that's it. Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things

If you don't like your present address, change it, you are not a tree

If you don't like how it is for you change it!
If it doesn't suit you change it!
If it doesn't please you change it!
If it isn't enough change it!
And I challenge you to do that because you can change.
You don't ever have to be the same again after tonight only by choice

Reach down inside of you and come up with some more of those remarkable human gifts. They're there, waiting to be utilized and then change anything for you you want to change. And I challenge you to do that because you can change

What are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference?

Starting tomorrow what are you going to do that'll make a change in your life's direction?
Good question: what are you going to do starting tomorrow that'll make a difference?
If you don't do something starting tomorrow that'll make a difference guess what? - it's going to be the same. And see that way you can guess what the next five years are going to be like - look at the last five!
Because the next five are going to be like the last five unless you major key tomorrow change it all, or change a little, or change something, or don't change,.. it's choice time you can do whatever you want.
But it's nice to know any day you wish you can change your whole life

It's not what happens it's what you do

Disappointments are not special gifts reserved for the poor. Everybody has them. The difference is - what you do about them

Anything can happen

If anything can go wrong it will

It's not what happens, it's what you do

It's not what happens that determines the quality or the quantity of your life. It's what you do that changes everything. What happens is about the same. What people do - that's what's different

learn to reap in the fall without apology. without apology if you do well, and without complaint if you don’t. That’s maturity

Take full responsibility for what happens to you. It's one of the highest forms of human maturity. Accepting full responsibility

All values must be defended:
Political values
Social values
Community values
Family values
Marriage values
Friendship values
Business values
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Every garden must be tended all summer

All good will be attacked. Every garden will be invaded, not to think so is naive

Learn how to protect your crops all summer. You got to take care of what you start. Sure enough as soon as you've planted your garden in the spring, the busy bugs and the noxious weeds are out to take it. They'll take it, unless you prevent it. You've got to learn to prevent the Intruder from taking all the good you start

In fact you have to get good at one of two things in life - planting in the Spring or begging in the Fall or get somebody to do it for you. Those are about the only alternatives

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better;
Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills;
Don't wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom;
That's the key

You can't get rid of January by tearing it off the calendar. But here's what you can do - you can get stronger, you can get wiser and you can get better. The winters won't change but you can and that's how life changes for you

Learn how to handle the winters. They come right after Falls with regularity. Some are long and some are short and some are hard and some are easy but they keep coming.
You must handle the nights, they come right after days.
You must learn to handle difficulty, it comes right after opportunity.
You must learn to handle recessions, they always follow progressions.
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For the last six thousand see it's not going to change. The lesson you must learn is how to handle it!

You can not change the seasons but you can change yourself

Life and business is like the changing seasons. You can not change the seasons but you can change yourself. That's how life gets better for you - not by chance but by change