Take Charge of Your Life & Future | Jim Rohn

human beings are the only life on earth that has this incredible capacity to change the course of your life no other life form can do that every other life form except humans seems to operate simply by instinct in the genetic code in the winter the goose lies south how often answer every winter if you said to the goose hey it'd be better this year to go west he ignores that advice and the reason is because he cannot make choices and listen to advice of something that might be better he has to obey instinct and the genetic code but now jot this down not human beings human beings can alter the course of their life human beings can live one way for five years tear up that script live a totally different way the next five years the first six years of my economic life i wound up broke second six years i wound up rich someone says how did you do that here's number one i discovered i was not a goose someone says don't you have to do the second six years like you did the first six years and jot this down no no you don't have to live the second six years like the first six you can use all the information and all the advice and repairing all of your mistakes and adopting a new and refined philosophy so that the next six years can be totally different than the last six no other life form can do this see if you were a tree you'd be stuck as a tree if you used up all the nourishment that was around you and you couldn't change location see you would die but that's not true human beings can change location go north south east west live here for a while live somewhere else for a while so that's a note to make you can greatly alter the course of your life now here's the next note to make five years from now you will arrive the question is where this is for mature people now if you keep up your present disciplines and keep up the present pace that you're on where will you be in five years boy it's easy to say hey i haven't really thought about that so now make this note in five years here's the probability you will either arrive at a well-designed destination or an undesigned destination well designed or undesigned and i promise you five years ago you you really don't want to arrive at an undesigned destination because you may very well wind up wearing what you don't want to wear driving what you don't want to drive living where you don't want to live maybe doing what you don't want to do simply because you didn't design a better destination key phrase up front the decisions are easy now sometimes after we've lived a few years now to repair our mistakes and get back on track seems like a tough job but here's the key and it's so exciting to talk to the teenagers make the note if you start early the fortune belongs to you if you start early all fortunes that are available to humans if you start early the promise looms large and the odds are heavy in your favor now yes it's possible to do some radical things starting late and still arrive with some good treasures and some good things but when you haven't got that much time left now sometimes the decision has to be so drastic people are not willing to make and they're too tired and too weary and too ill and say look i don't have much time left it's not going to happen for me anyway it's easy to take that attitude but everyone here we've got the time over the next 10 years we've got the time the next 20 years we've got the time the next 30 years to make some repair now in our errors of the past and set up some new disciplines and i'm telling you that's going to change everything so five years from now i wish for you to arrive at a well-designed place a place of productivity a place that'll make you feel good about yourself a place that'll give you honor and respect a place that'll give you influence to touch other people five years from now that you couldn't do today where will you be in five years key phrase we go the direction we face we go the direction we face if you start designing something at the end of this direction sure enough you will start going the direction you face and we face the direction we design next phrase direction determines destination destination is not determined by hope it's not determined by wish destination is determined by direction you cannot change destination overnight you cannot change destination overnight which means you can't arrive at a five years from now place tomorrow but here's what you can change today and overnight you can change direction and it is so fascinating what a little small change of direction will do a few decisions in discipline a few decisions in learning a few decisions in change of behavior change of habit a few decisions and setting goals that you've sort of let drift before like i did at age 25 didn't have a list i immediately started to change that and i immediately started to change my direction in less than seven years i was a millionaire and that was just my economics and sure enough when i met my mentor i was headed this way and here's where i would have been in five or six years maybe okay you know my kids probably wouldn't have been starving and maybe you know we got close to wearing a place to live but the joy of productivity and the joy of becoming valuable to the marketplace and more valuable to my family and valuable to my friends in my inner circle all of that probably would have escaped me if i would have kept going this way but i am so thankful for the circumstances and whatever else arranged it for me some things are arranged we don't even know how they've occurred for you to be here do you imagine the chain of circumstances that caused you to be able to sit in this auditorium today it's amazing this had to happen and this had to happen and this door had to close and this door had to open and all of those things for me to be here for you to be here i just didn't drop out of the sky right and you arrived here from all kinds of directions here we are and so we just say wow part of that's a mystery and we let it be a mystery we don't even try to figure it out we just say wow it's incredible but now that we're here how could we collectively and individually affect each other's lives it's by doing just what we've done study learn teach shake hands trade stories and do all the stuff so that we can help other people as well as ourselves to make that small journey to a new direction so jot that down it's only a small journey to a new direction guess how quickly you can change your health by starting to eat an apple a day mama said an apple a day keeps the doctor away let's say you've been ill long enough and you've had health problems long enough and you say that's it that's over i'm gonna now start a program you don't have to really revolutionize your whole health life just start with an apple a day you say well is it that simple to change your health life and the answer is yes the key is just to start you know you pick up a book on good health and you get halfway through the book and it says now dear reader set this book aside fall down on the floor and see how many push-ups you can do and then it goes on to say and if you have not done that why not give this book away it looks like you're not gonna do it come on you don't have to radically do something you can gain momentum and make changes as you go just start here's what happens when you start a new direction self-esteem starts to accelerate it doesn't take much for you to feel good about yourself just committed to a new direction and you feel good and an apple a day committed to finally having a health program that'll make you the healthiest you've ever been in the next 20 years all you got to do is munch on that first apple and nobody even has to be around and you don't have to announce it to the world but you munch on that first apple and say this is the beginning of developing a health program that's going to make me so healthy i'll have the vitality to do whatever i want to do for the next 30 years of my life munch munch happy happy self-esteem off the scale now if you eat an apple the second day you become almost delirious saying wow i'm on my way somebody said just2apple says look you don't understand not only did i do it yesterday i've done it again today this is really proving to myself with no audience no microphones no nothing just you and yourself you've convinced yourself i'm on my way to the healthiest i ever have been i'm starting a new life this is the second day i'm on my way that's how easy it is to change your life you don't need some dramatic vision just begin something and maybe by health or by whatever other things we can think of to do you just get back on a better track okay it's a small journey

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Length: 10min 9sec (609 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 15 2020