Quotes

If you wish to be successful study success!
If you wish to be happy study happiness!
If you wish to be wealthy study wealsh!
Don't leave it to chance, make it a study!
Some people just go through the day with their fingers crossed. See that won't do it.
You've got to study the things that can change your economic, social, spiritual personal life!

The guy says - I want to be a great leader

The guy says - I want to be a great leader. Wonderful. The first thing we do is following to his house. When we get there we walk in and check his library number one. Somebody says well why check his library. The reason is because what a man reads pours massive ingredients into his mental factory and the fabric of his life is built from those ingredients

Anybody that wants to get paid

We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace.
The value you become like an entrepreneur, a leader, a teacher, supervisor, manager,.. what you become also pays much more than what you bring.
Go to work on yourself harder than you work on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you could make a fortune

The optimists that I hear say - well the pendulum swings and then it swings back - and I think yeah well, sometimes it takes a hundred years to swing back and it takes a hell of a lot of people out on the way and sometimes it never swings back at all.
Sometimes people go out to fight a dragon and it just eats them or it burns them, and that's the end of that

The question is - who should you defeat in the final analysis?
The answer is - you should defeat your former self. You should be constantly trying to do that. And you are the right control for yourself to because you're the one who's had all your advantages and disadvantages. So if you want to compete fairly with someone then you should be competing with you

What a behavior therapist should do when someone is afraid

What you try to do if you are a behavior therapist is you break down the thing they're avoiding into smaller and smaller peaces until you find a peace that's small enough so they'll do it. It doesn't really matter as long as they start it. Then they can put the next peace on the next peace and what happens is they don't get less afraid exactly, they get braver

Value distinctions between things

There's value distinctions between things. Some things are worth doing and some things are not and you can kind of discover what that is for yourself and then you should aim at the things that are most worth doing and what you'll find if you watch carefully is that the things that you find worth doing are almost always associated with an increase in responsibility

There's nothing worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad but being stupid is awful. And what's really bad is being broken stupid. That's about the end of the world. There is not anything much worse than that. Unless you're sick. Sick broken stupid... there is nowhere else to go. So make sure you get the information. It's key. You don't have to like it but learn it!

There's an idea in Christianity that you should pick up your goddamn cross and walk up the hill. Dramatically that's correct. That's the right answer.
It's like you've got a heavy load of suffering to bear and a fair bit of it's going to be unjust. So, what are you going to do about it? Accept it voluntarily and try to transform as a consequence. That's the right answer

Women outnumber men so the men hypothetically have more sexual opportunity but that's not what happens. What happens is that a small minority of men have all the sexual opportunity, a fairly large minority of men don't. The women are not happy because they can't find a committed relationship. It's bad for most of the men and the men who have all the sexual opportunity gets cynical

If you learn ...

If you learn that makes life worthwhile.
You've got to learn.
You've got to learn what it's all about.
You've got to learn what's going on.
You learn by trying.
You learn by error.
You learn by doing it right.
You learn by doing it wrong.
You learn from other prople's experiences.
There's all kinds of ways to learn.
Never cease your quest for learning.
Never stop learning.

Pay attention and speak the truth

Pay attention and speak the truth, your truth!
That's how you keep everything stacked up in order harmoniously
That's how you keep the balance between order and chaos
That's how you articulate your being
That's how you revivify the world
That's how you rescue your dead father from the bottom of the ocean
That's how you adopt responsibility as a citizen
That's how you love a proper life

Maybe all you have is this little rat hole of a room in some run-down place in the world. Fix it up! There is more there than you think. See what happens if you fix it up. And you'll fix yourself up simultaneously because you have to get disciplined in order to fix up the room. Then you have a fixed-up room and you will be a more fixed-up person. All hell will break loose as a consequence of that

What's the antidote to the tragedy and malevolence of life?

What's the antidote to the tragedy and malevolence of life? - The answer is to put yourself in the zone of proximal development because that's where the maximal meaning is and that actually does prepare you for life. So the question - why think? - is well you think before you act and you act to put yourself in the zone of proximal development and you do that as an antidote to the catastrophe of life

As you move towards the goal there are certain things that you have to accomplish that frighten you. Maybe you have to learn to be a better speaker, a better writer, a better thinker, you have to be better to people around you or you have to learn some new skills and you are afraid of that... whatever. Because it's going to stretch you if you pursue a goal and so that will put you up against challenges

It's one of life's greatest experiences - when your name appears in somebody's testimonial

It's one of life's greatest experiences - when your name appears in somebody's testimonial. Somebody says - here's the person who found me, here's the person who got me started, here's the person who wouldn't let me quit, gave me more reasons for staying than for leaving, here's the person who believed in me until I could believe in myself... and then they mention your name. You can't buy that with money

The game of life

The game of life is to minimize the dangers and maximize the opportunities and the more we know and the more we learn the more experience we gather in sessions like this, from the sermon on Sunday morning, to the books we read, and all the rest, helps us to keep continually adjusting our philosophical guidance system, so that we minimize more dangers, maximize more opportunities. That's really the game of life

You can't linger too long in the rest mode. You have got to go back to work. Six days of work, then rest and spirituality and friendship and change of pace. And then go back over the last six days - what did I do, what did I mess, who did I miss, what happened,.. so that I can invest those corrections in the next six days of higher productivity. Six days of work, one day of rest. Don't get the numbers mixed up

What do you want to do the next 10 years?

Take some time and decide what you want.
Where do you want to go?
What do you want to do the next 10 years, 20 years?
What would you like to become?
How many skills would you like to learn?
What are the books you want to read?
How about the people you want to meet?
The cities you want to visit, experiences you would like to have over this next period of time.
Start thinking about all of that.
Write it all down!

Pain of losing & Joy of winning

We all grow from two experiences. One is called the pain of losing. The other one is called the joy of winning. We need both of them. Amplify them as much as you can. Which also means - make losing painful. If you set up something fooled around didn't get it put it on yourself. On the other side if you did get it, congratulate yourself. Self congratulations is a sign of maturity. Seeking congratulations is the sign of immaturity

Set goals, write them down, design the future

It's difficult to be confident about the day if you don't have your future well designed. Here is one of the keys to do about your future - set goals, write them down, design the future
- Where do you want to go,
- What do you want to do,
- What do you want to be,
- What do you want to see,
- What do you want to have,
- What do you want to share
Even if it all changes 12 months from now the key is to start making a list now

Matthew principle

There's a statement in the New Testament, it's called the Matthew principle and economists use it to describe how the economy in the world works - "To those who have everything more will be given, from those who have nothing everything will be taken". It's like very pessimistic in some sense because it means that as you start to fail you fail more and more rapidly but it also means that as you start to succeed you succeed more and more rapidly

Reasons can change your life

He said - "I don't think your current bank balance is a true indication of your level of intelligence". I was happy to hear that. He said - "I think you're much smarter than your present bank balance indicates" and that turned out to be true. I was much smarter. But of course my first question was well then why isn't it bigger and he said - "you don't have enough reasons. you've got enough intelligence but not enough reasons". Reasons can change your life

When are you sick of yourself?

When are you sick of yourself? - Well, that's when you're being useless and irresponsible for yourself and for your family and for your community. You're not even taking care of yourself. You can't sleep with a clean conscience unless you are psychopathic if you're not taking care of yourself. Adopt a little responsibility for yourself and you can sleep with the clean conscience. What happens if you'd opted full responsibility for yourself and then for your family?