Motivation For Success In LIFE And BUSINESS ｜ This is my greatest advice to you!!!

Whatever you focus on, that's what you're going to continue to multiply and expand in your life

But if you focus on what you don't have, if all you can do is point out the negative things in your life

whatever you focus on, you're going to expand that. Some people, all they can do is complain

Do you realize that every day you thought you wasn't going to make it

Do you remember them days where you thought it was absolutely unbearable and you thought you wasn't going to endure that one

do you know that your survival rate for every last one of them bad days is 100%

You, your track record for surviving bad days is 100%. That's a fact

All you got to do is start changing the way you think. You can protect yourself from negativity

And that's what stops most people, negative thoughts. You can coat your mind from negativity

The way you can put a coating around your mind is with one simple thing, gratitude

Gratitude erases negative. The moment you start feeling abundant and worthy, you are generating wealth

The moment you're empowered and feel it, you're beginning to step towards your success

The moment you start feeling whole, your healing begins. And when you love yourself and you love all of life, you'll create an equal

Now you're causing, in effect. but I always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to

That's the only credit I will give myself is when other people break and give up and stop

I just don't, right? And it comes down to the story you tell yourself about yourself

If you don't know this quote, live by it. One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery over oneself

That's Da Vinci. Da Vinci did amazing things with his life. I wanted to do equally amazing things with mine

And if that's the game that we're playing, if I can construct my belief system

if I can choose at any moment to believe something that's more empowering

than I was believing the moment before and that that will actually find its way into my actions

allow me to do things that I couldn't do the moment before. Then it's like that moment in the Matrix

where Nia realizes he knows Kung Fu. And that's like, as funny as that is

that's how I think about life. the very fundamental purpose of life is to find out how many skills I can acquire that have utility

and then put that utility to the test in service of something greater than myself

How many skills can I acquire that have utility, put that utility to the test in service of something

greater than myself? That is for me the purpose of life. Now, I don't actually want to know

Kung Fu. That is not the mission that I'm here to live. live, but I knew that I had to identify my mission. So what was going to be my mission

Mother Teresa has an amazing quote. Nobody will act for the many, but people will act for the one

And that really struck me because I realized they were right. I was looking at this global

pandemic of ill health. And I wasn't moving into action. But thinking about my mom and my sister

or the uncle I had who ate himself to death when I was 12 years old That made me want to act Philosophy as I taught the last time I was here philosophy in my personal opinion

is the major determining factor in how your life works out. Philosophy, the major determining factor in how your life works out

Philosophy, to form our philosophy, you've got to think, got to use your mind

got to process ideas. This whole process over a lifetime, starting way back here when we were children, schools that we've attended, our parents, our experiences, all this stuff that we've processed by the thinking process helps to develop our philosophy

And in my opinion, each person's personal philosophy is the major factor in how your life works out

Here's what I called it in that last presentation when I was here. It's called the set of the sale

Each person's personal philosophy is like. the set of the sale. Now I used to think it was circumstances that ordered my life

If someone would have asked me at age 25, Mr. Owen, how come you're not doing well? Penny's in your pocket. Creditors calling. Nothing in the bank. Behind on your promises to your family

you live in America, 25 years old, got a beautiful family every reason to do well, and things are

not going that well for you. What is wrong here? It would not have occurred to me to blame my

philosophy. I mean it would not have occurred to me saying, well I got this lousy

philosophy and that's how come I got pennies in my pocket and nothing in the bank. Things

aren't working well. That would not have occurred to me. I found it much easier to

blame the government. Much easier to blame the tax problem. I used to say taxes are

too high. Top tax rate when I first started paying taxes, 91%. Back then when your

income reached a certain level, all your income over that, 91%. So I used to say that's two

Fine. Now the tax, top tax rate's about 33%, but people are still saying what

Taxes are two. See, but you can't use that anymore. If it's gone from 91 to 33, how could it be too high

Come on. I threw all that old excuse stuff away. Some people found it though, they're using it these days

My old list. I used to blame the traffic, the weather, used to blame circumstances, right

People say I'm too tall, I'm too short, I'm too old, I was raised in obscurity, raised on a farm

parents of modest means, all the stuff. If you were to ask me, how come you find yourself here, Mr. Rohn, age 25, living in America

land of abundance and opportunity, pennies, zero in the bank, not doing well, creditors' calling

It would not have occurred to me to blame my philosophy. I found it easier to blame the company, company policy

I used to say, if this is all they pay, how do they expect you to do with

So I figured that, you know, my future was going to be tied to what everybody else was arranging, the economy and, right

Interest rates, I used to say things cost too much. That was my whole explanation, not my philosophy

Until my teacher taught me better that this is where the problem was, my own personal philosophy

Here's what's exciting about each person's personal philosophy. That what makes us different than dogs and animals birds and cats and spiders and alligators That what makes us different than all of the life forms The ability to think the ability to use your mind the ability to process ideas and not just operate by instinct In the winter I telling you the goose can only fly south

What if south doesn't look too good? Tough luck. It can only fly south. But see, human

beings are not like a goose. It can only fly south. I mean, you can turn around, go north

You can go east, you can go west, you can order the entire process of your own life

And we do that by the way we think. We do that by exercising our mind

We do that by processing ideas and come up with a better philosophy, a better strategy for our life

Goals for the future. Plans to achieve those goals. All this comes from developing our philosophy

Philosophy helps us to process. What's available? Well, when we get here, we got seed and we got soil, and we got some

rain and we've got some what sunshine and we've got some seasons and what the miracle of life

now the key is what do you do with all this stuff how do you turn all this stuff that's available

here into equity and promise and lifestyle and dreams and future possibilities all

of this that's possible now with human beings, how do you take all this stuff and turn it into

this equities and values? Well, it starts with philosophy. What is the seed? What is the soil

What is the sunshine? What is the rain? Is it possible to take some of each of all the stuff

that's available and turn it into food and turn it into value and turn it into nourishment

turn it into something spectacular and unique that no other life form can do? And the answer is yes

But you cannot deal with all this stuff. in what to do with it unless you start refining your philosophy

Think, use your mind, come up with ideas and strengthen your philosophy

So the seat and the soil and the rain and the sunshine, this is called, you know

the economy and the banks and the money and the schools and everything that's available out there

processing, information, what to do with all that, and turn it into equity and value

That is the major challenge of life, my personal opinion. personal opinion

Listen to me, man. You have a great life in front. But your great life is in front of it

It's not behind you. What you did back there ain't got nothing to do with what God got for

What you did back there was learn the lessons to get you to where you are at this particular moment right here

But what God got for you? Do you know, man, that you can actually mess your life

completely up. You can jack it all the way up and you can turn around and get it right

We all have had experiences in our lives that if we permit these experiences to do so

we will allow them to weigh us down. If we permit them to do so, there will be luggage that

will be dragging through life, holding us down, stifling our potential to give and to contribute

life. If we continue to carry all of these things, we can never be open to the love and the

abundance and the opportunity that life has to offer us because we are so full with what we've got

When you showing the spirit of gratitude for what I got not that you satisfied with it but you grateful for what you got Develop a spirit of gratitude I thankful for life

I'm thankful to be an American. I'm thankful to be on this part of the planet

I'm thankful to see another day. No, things are what I want to be

No, I don't have all the things I want to have. But I'm thankful that I'm still here

I have another opportunity. Another day to live. Another chance to contribute

Another chance to make a difference in life. I feel very strong

That we can make an incredible difference in life. Phyllis Maugh said giving empowers you because taken to its ultimate, what you are really giving is love

Love is the motivating force behind the infinite supply of universal energy

Love truly makes the world go around. And as with anything circular, it's going

coming back. I think everybody is motivated by two different things. One, you have the beautiful things in your life, the things that are going well

the things that you're grateful for, the things you're moving towards instead of a way

you have a compelling vision of your future. It's something that you're very excited about

All of those things are the beautiful things. Now, the flip side of that equation are the things that, it's people that doubt you

It's haters. It's things you're moving away from. It's fear-based things. It's something that you absolutely refuse to let happen

So one that is incredibly potent to me are the people that want to see me fail

So it's very different than people who just think you're going to fail. I actually don't have a lot of aggression towards people like that, but people that want me to fail, those people I have a lot of aggression for

And I find in very acute moments, the darkness serves you better in very acute moments

Now, the light, the things you're moving towards, the things that are beautiful, the things that you're grateful for, all of that is the only winning strategy long term because the darkness becomes corrosive

You start to become bitter. You start to be angry. You stop being optimistic. You stop seeing things in a way that's empowering and positive

And I mean, just thinking about the deep limbic system. When it gets inflamed, you perceive things as negative

I think negativity stops people from making progress. there's a whole host of neurological reasons and sort of mindset reasons why I think that being negative

over the long run becomes very, very detrimental and holds you back. But from an acute standpoint

they've done studies on this. If you want someone to be able to endure more pain, the surest way

to get people to endure more pain is to let them get angry, let them be aggressive. And in doing that

people are able to withstand in the clinical trials. I'll say that it's probably more than this

but in clinical trials, they're able to withstand 30% more pain. So just straight being able to take more pain, anger and aggression lets you do 30% more

So that's why I think in acute ways and short term bursts that the darkness will serve you