- Hello there and welcome.
It's Bob Proctor.
I'm going to tell you a story.
I was driving to Atlanta one time from Toronto,
and I was way down the other side of Detroit,
and I went in for something to eat,
and I come out, jump back on the highway, and away I went.
I bet I was driving for a good part of an hour,
and I saw a sign saying Detroit, 60 miles.
I thought, wait a minute, how could that be?
And all of a sudden, it started to dawn on me,
I was going in the wrong direction.
This is a true story.
Somebody was with me.
I don't remember who it was,
but we got laughing about it,
and we were saying this is how most people live.
They get on the wrong road, and they stay there.
I had to find a place that I could turn around.
It was those freeways, you know.
You just don't turn around in the middle of the road,
and I had all that ground to cover again.
I don't know how many hours I was out,
but I was a long ways out.
Well, you know, every now and then
in life we find ourself...
We're off track.
We're going down the wrong road, and usually when we are,
I have found that it's very easy to blame someone
or something because you're off track.
Unfortunately, when you start blaming them,
you stay there because they cannot change you,
and it's you that has to be changed.
I want you to think about this for a moment.
If you're blaming conditions, circumstance,
or another person for going in the wrong direction,
you're going to have to change them
before you can change your direction.
That doesn't work.
We've been given marvelous mental faculties,
and bang, like that, just like a snap of a finger,
we can change the direction and go in the other way.
We're not on a highway where we have
to wait when there's an exit to get over on the other side.
It's split-second decisions.
Whenever we find ourselves off track,
we've got to realize we're the cause of the problem,
never anything else, never anyone else.
If we are off track, we're the cause of the problem.
My very first mentor used to say to me,
Bobby, you are the only problem you'll ever have,
and you are the only solution.
When he first said that, I didn't want to correct him.
I mean, he was older than me, and he was wiser,
and I thought he just doesn't understand what he's saying.
Well, a couple years later, I started to realize
that he knew exactly what he was saying.
Bob is the only problem Bob will ever have,
and you want to know something?
Bob's the only solution.
I want you to think about that.
When you find yourself off track, change it right away.
You're not on a highway where you have
to wait for a proper exit.
You're in your marvelous mind,
and you got mental faculties like that you can turn around,
and get going in the right direction.
When you're going in the wrong direction,
you're always the cause of the problem.
This is Bob Proctor.
Thank you.
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