All life forms strive to the max of its potential except human beings.
How tall will a tree grow?
As tall as it possibly can.
You never heard of a tree growing half as high as it could.
No! Trees don't grow half!
A tree drives its roots as deep as it can,
reaches as high as it can, produces every leaf it can, every fruit it possibly can.
To the max. Every life form
strive to the max except human beings.
Now why not human beings? Jot this down.
You've been given the dignity of choice.
You're not a robot.
You don't have to repeat this year the same as last year.
You can tear up last year's plan, develop a new plan.
So, the dignity of being a human being.
Now here's the choice on being a human being.
To be part of all we were meant to be.
Or to be all. To strive for all or half or part or some,
the choice is up to you.
Life is not just the passing of time.
Life is not just passing the time.
Life is a connection of experiences.
Their frequency.
And their intensity.
Life is not just watching the clock tick away.
Life is a collection of experiences.
Their intensity, their frequency.
When should you just start the day?
As soon as you have it finished.
Plan the day the best you can.
Leaving a planned room for improvising and surprises and all the stuff will happen in the course of the day.
But if you've planned a good productive day,
now you start that day. You can't believe how much valuable your turn will be.
Don't start the day until you have it finished.
Now here is it the next one don't start the week until you have it finished .
Now the lay out the week is a pretty good challenge.
Next, don't start the month until you have it finished. The places to go and the people to see the
productivity and the sales and the customers and the development and all
the rest of what you want to accomplish during the course of thirty days. Don't
start the month until it's finished and then here's the big one. This is really
challenging don't start the year until you have it finished.
To the best of your ability it can't be finished like minute by minute. And it
might get all upset. It might get torn up and you do a new and
you make so much progress the first 90 days that now you've got you multiplied
at all by two by three. Because that happened to me I thought wow here's how
this is gonna be a great year.By the time I'd finish the third month I'm
rolling. I'm sold so many things are happening I revise my whole year's plan.
I got better. I got better day by day and week by week and month by month and
I'm asking you to do the same thing until you can develop a long arm and a
long reach until you can develop influence that won't quit.
Touch people next year you couldn't touch this year touch before now. You
couldn't touch before conduct the meeting now you couldn't conduct before.
Hardly sold now mixed in there that wasn't there.
Missing the before. I'm asking all of you to get better in spite of the winter. In
spite of the downturn the money downturn, the social downturn the personal
downturn whatever it is. Just get strong. Get better.
I'm asking you to drive worried into a small corner you got a worrisome. All
this negative stuff serves, serve some purpose but the key is for you to be the
master not the servant. Here's what I'm asking you to do you be the master of
worry. Drive it into a small corner don't let it loose. And I'm asking you to go
home with some new faith and some new courage I'm asking you don't worry drive
it into a small corner. We've all got concerns and sometimes we all wonder and
sometimes there's a little crack of doubt .We worry a little but I'm telling
you drive it into a small corner. Drive your worries into a small corner.Enemies
of the mind you got to do battle with in the summer. One is pessimism it tries to
get you only to see the negative side of course there's a negative side. Life is
part negative what else is new. If the glass is half empty it is half empty. You
say well I've been only taught to see that at a full. Well sure it's half full.
But it's also half empty I mean can't you handle that no that's not too
difficult.
But here's what pessimism would try to get you to do. Believe that it's only
happened and when pessimism comes to your mind you've got to educate
pessimism because pessimism is stupid pessimism tries to get you to believe
that it's only half empty. Of course it's half empty but it's not
only half empty it's also half full. I'm asking you to be in charge. Be in
charge of your own mind be in charge of your own destiny.
Do battle with your enemy. Do battle with your enemies take sword to your enemies
whatever is going to destroy those values take sword too. If it's worry take
sword too. Give a threat threaten back.
Take your harvest and all that comes your way with full responsibility. Don't
complain.
That fourth-season complaining telling you could ruin all of your chances. complaining sometimes
starts as an infection if you don't take care of it it becomes a disease. Do
battle with it. In the harvest time reap your harvest without complaint
it's your crop you sold it. You either made the calls or didn't make the call.
If you wrote the letters you didn't write the letters you were steady or you
weren't steady. You did it or you didn't do. You put together a good day or you
didn't put together a good day. Take responsibility when the harvest time
finally comes and say hey it's my crop got to take responsibility for it. I do
not complain.
I'm asking you to be touched with the smallest of people's challenges.
Don't just be touched with the challenge I'm asking you to be touched with the
problem. Let people's problems get to you. Let people's problems touch your heart
this year like never before. Be touched let life touch it don't let it kill you
but let it touch you. The problems that are out there people struggling with
their economy, struggling with their health, struggling with their future. I'm
asking you to let that get around your heart. Let it do something to you. Don't go on
touch. Don't go on move when you walk out of here open yourself up. Don't build up
the wall the same wall that keeps out disappointment keeps out happiness and
opportunity. Take the walls there and let yourself be touched by what's going on
out there. Let's sad things make you sad. As well
as happy things make you happy. Let your heart get touched.
What a next year you could have if you pay more attention this year soak it up,
gather it up and reflect at certain times what's going on and what's
happening and this year we'll take a more powerful place in your experience,
People will not believe the words you've chosen they will not believe them heart
and soul that you've mixed with words. They won't believe the power you've got.
We've got this extraordinary opportunity now let us not keep it. Let us share it,
let us reach out for the long, reach strong, reach an unprecedented, reach. Let
us reach out and touch people not just with our opportunity. Let's touch people
with our lives. Let's touch people with our experiences.
Let's touch people with our heart and soul. But here's what I did I worked
around the clock around the clock. So that I would make up in numbers what I
lacked in skill. When you're new you make up in numbers which you lack in skill.
Now when you become more skillful the numbers can go down but at first if you
want to compete or if you want to really get good you've got to put in the
numbers. I'll tell you what's really going to serve you well and that's the
excitement you feel inside that isn't even probably expressed on the outside.
The excitement that runs deep, the excitement that stirs commitment. The
excitement that stirs courage give me the chance and I will get the job done.
That kind of excitement