some of you in the past you've gotten momentum you've gotten passionate you've even made a
decision but a decision is the first step decision is like a war i got to do this or
that all right i'm gonna make myself do this but commitment is when you now after you've decided
you commit to do this for the long term whether it's hard or easy doesn't matter you're doing
this it takes it from this moment and it carries it into the future even when things are difficult
and the third state is resolve resolve means it's done it's like it doesn't even if you took
action it's done inside you so it's done out there there's no question whatsoever
money that's one thing like having financial abundance there's skills that's a science
but wealth it's a decision it's like you can be wealthy right now i i live in fiji
a good portion of time there are these villagers there they're the richest people i know they're
happy they laugh they love they don't give a damn about the economics other people say they're poor
when i first went there i was trying to do things for them like what are you talking about i'm so
happy wealthy people come over from the united states and they go travel around and try to
figure out what to do and they're going to spend nine month you know years to do this and this and
this so they can finally sit down and be happy and the jean guy goes why don't you sit on the beach
right now dude experience it why spend the nine years why not have it now that's my invitation
what's the most important key to success i think it's hunger it's it's not getting satisfied you
know if you look at a mark benny off at salesforce if you look at uh richard branson's friend of
mine or you look at um anyone you respect who's achieved at the highest level intelligence is
an incredibly important distinction and a valuable thing to have in life but i always tell people you
can find so many intelligent people can't fight their way out of a paper bag what matters is
hunger a hunger that doesn't go a hunger to learn a hunger to grow a hunger to serve a hunger to
give a hunger to great breakthroughs great ideas are never going to interrupt you they have to be
pursued and you if you don't pursue them you're going to get what everybody else has which is
all this fear all this uncertainty all this stuff it won't work because everybody's focused on what
won't work what can't happen why because they're afraid they're afraid to fail they're afraid to
try and feel like they're not enough so you've got to stay in guard of that mind by feeding your mind
you know jim rohn used to say to me success leaves clues if you want thing to get better you got to
get better if you want things to change you got to change but you got to do it deliberately and
consciously and he used to say to me constantly said tony you've got to constantly find a way to
feed that mind something that's got strategy in it philosophy something that's going to improve the
quality of your life and if you really learn it you can help the people you love with the things
you learn and so i got hooked and so i decided i'm going to read a book a day i took a speed reading
course and i didn't read a book a day but i read 700 books over the period of seven years all
in the area of philosophy physiology emotion the things to me that mattered most and what i really
try to do is each day try to use something i learn not just read not just let my learning lead
to knowledge you know jim used to say if you let your learning lead to knowledge you become a fool
if you let you learn to lead to action that's when your life changes so i started being aware of who
was saying what what i was taking in you know jim used to say you know success leaves clues
if someone's successful they're not lucky they're doing something different than you figure out what
they're doing different he said the first thing is find out what they're reading he said because
he said i remember he sent me something funny he said find out what poor people read and
don't read it and we said poor he didn't just mean financially poor he meant people that were unhappy
people that were had no sense of meaning in their life people that were financially strapped because
they weren't managing to add value to other people people that found themselves not taking your
relationships their body poor isn't just money wealth isn't just money it's emotional spiritual
everything he said so find out what successful people do what wealthy people read what happy
people and read that it's critically important to constantly put yourself in new environments and
meet new people because great ideas are not going to interrupt you they must be pursued
they're only going to be found if you go after it a new life requires constantly putting yourself
in new environments it requires risk it requires investing in yourself time energy money effort not
just keep doing what you're doing if you do what you've always done you'll get what you always had
if you want a new world you need to start to create it on your own most important decision
i believe of your life that i'm not going to suffer anymore life's too short to suffer and
i'm going to live in a beautiful state every day and the way i do it is i catch myself when
i start to get that sense of stress i let it go and i see the eye to go by so your thoughts
thoughts about this person messing up your business you're not following through
if i was in a room with ten thousand people i guarantee you sixty seventy percent of the
business owners have the same thoughts at times my point is it's not your thought it's the mind
not your mind when you think it's your mind you identify with it and it's you can't separate
from yourself but when you realize these thoughts been around for millions of years
and i'm just thinking the same thought so many people thought before like what i try to show
people is appreciation love and joy destroy suffering you can't be grateful and angry
simultaneously it's possible so i tell people gratitude is one of the emotions to cultivate
that'll destroy the suffering every moment of your life you're answering three questions
first question is what are you going to focus on so the most powerful decision we make and
most of us don't make it consciously is what are we going to focus on we don't
focus on everything we focus on a small number of things and that's what we experience in life
because you could be focusing right now on the blood rushing through your left ear
or the touch of your clothes against your skin but you don't most of what your brain does is distort
delete and generalize that makes life simple and the problem is you distort delete and generalize
you miss a lot of your life and focus right down equals feeling whatever you focus on you're going
to feel even if it's not true if i asked you there are two things you could focus on what you have
or what's missing which one do you spend more time focusing on if your brain is constantly
focusing what's missing how can you ever sustain happiness no matter how successful you become
it is impossible what happens when you focus on what you have you feel alive you feel no scarcity
you feel joy how many of you have lots of things in your life that if you focused on it you could
feel grateful for you could feel excited about how many got lots of things like this now say i
but it doesn't exist unless you focus on and we all have patterns of focus do you tend to
focus more on what you can control or what you can't control what's outside your control what
is someone going to feel is constantly focused on what's missing and what they can't control
sad frustrated angry depressed so why are they still depressed because they are still
focusing on what's missing and they're focused on what they can't control and i'll add one more
do you tend to focus more on things from the past the present or the future we all do all three but
if you're going to spend your predominant time and you want enjoyment it's the present if you
want to be create a great life it's the future so it's a balance between the present and future
these three patterns alone can change your whole life the second question
is what does this mean because the minute you focus on something you have to give it a meaning
is this the end or the beginning is god punishing me that's why this problem happened is god
challenging me or is this problem a gift from god see if you think it's the end of a relationship
are you gonna feel the same way act the same ways if you think it's the beginning of a relationship
yes or no no the meaning changes the answer to the third question which is what am i gonna do
because meaning equals emotion whatever you give a meaning you're gonna have a feeling
if you think god is punishing you you're gonna have a very different feeling from that meaning
then you think god is challenging you or this problem is a gift from god these three questions
are happening every moment of your life and if you're not careful they take control of you we
are the people that create the quality of our life the number one thing that's going to change your
life the only thing that will change your life change your business change your money change your
relationship because you must raise your standard now i know that sounds boring stupid basic
but it's the truth the only thing that changes our life long term is when we raise our standards
what does that mean that sounds so boring and dumb it means that all of us in life
have things we want we don't get what we want we get what we have to have remember i said earlier
we all get what we tolerate in ourselves and other people but when you're no longer willing to
tolerate something that's when your life changes the difference in people is their standards period
you