Quotes

Build your life!

Building a life is like building a house. You wouldn't start building a house until you had it finished. Wouldn't you look foolish starting to build a house if it wasn't finished first? What if you are laying bricks and somebody came by and said "what are you building here" and you said "I have no idea"? They would take you away to a safe place. So building a life is a lot more important than building a house and yet people treat it so carelessly and so casually about making plans for what they want their life to work out to be.. I am asking you not to be casual any more. Start designing the future, for yourself, for your family, for your business, for your future. Decide what you want

I don't know what to do

"I don't know what to do" - That's okay, nobody does. Go do something. Do the best thing that you can think of. Put the best plan you have into practice. It's not going to be perfect and it will change along the way but it will change partly because you become disciplined pursuing the path and as you become disciplined you become wiser and as you become wiser you become able to formulate better and better plans so you can start vaguely and confused and develop a plan that's not so great and you start to implement it and then you accrue incremental wisdom as you implement your flawed plan and that enables you to fix the plan and so that's part of that process of incremental self-improvement as well

Where is the meaning to be found?

Life is hard. It's tainted by malevolence and betrayal. That can make you bitter. You need a meaning to offset that. Where is the meaning to be found? Not in rights, not in impulsive pleasure but in responsibility. You take responsibility for yourself so you take care of yourself.
If you're good at it you have some excess left over to take care of your damn family.
If you're good at both of those then you have some excess left over to take care of your community. Those are heavy burdens. You pick up the burdens and you find that's meaningful.
The best way to pick up the burden is to continually improve yourself. And that's where the meaning is to be found. That meaning is in the continual self transcendence. That's letting your old self die and the new self be reborn

WHY?

Why pay the price?
Why work this hard?
Why go this far?
Why try to learn this much?
Why try to do it all?
Why try to see it all?
Why try to have it all?
Why do it?
Why learn it?
Why study?
Why put yourself out?
Why try to take on this much responsibility?
Why develop yourself to the full?
Why try to become all that you can possibly become?
Why try to earn as much as you can earn?
Share as you can share?
Develop every skill you possibly can?
See every human you possibly can?
Go to every class you possibly can?
Touch everybody you possibly can?
Why do that much?
Why go that far?
Why share that much?
Why give that much away?
Why try to see everything?
Why try to do everything?
Why try to become everything?
What's a good question - WHY, and you are the only one personally that can answer the question for yourself. You've got to have your own list of WHYs.
Here's what I want you to do when you go home after you left this extravaganza - work on your list of WHYs.
One of the big thrust of success is to come up with a strong enough why. In leadership training here's what we learned if the why is powerful the how is easy