Well, you know a long and fulfilling life is possible
if you keep it simple
but it's not easy
but it is simple
Find out what you love to do
and do it as early as you can
If possible,
don't stop you childhood
Remember what you loved to do when you were 7 to 17
What really turned you on?
What were you excited about?
when you were little,
when you were in junior high and high school
And then what you love to do now most, in you work?
What really turns you on?
When you get to the office, or the factory,
or wherever you go to work.
But more importantly,
what do you love to do when you're not working?
What do you love to do after work?
and on Friday night,
and on Saturday,
and when you're resting on Sunday.
And if you didn't need money,
and if time was not a problem,
and circumstances allowed,
what would you begin doing?
that you love to do
The secret
to a long,
and fulfilling life
is to love what you do
by doing what you love
By delivering more than you promise
and making sure that you give more in value
than you receive in payment
And people will be
seeking you for what you're giving to them
And the secret then,
is your name and work will outlive you
and always command the highest price
When you give more, then you expect to receive
So the best way to go through life is always
looking at your failures
as learning experiences,
temporary inconveniences,
target corrections.
I looked at failures fertilizer
doesn't smell good,
don't wanna be around it,
don't wanna roll in it,
But if you plant your failures,
as a growing ground
your failures can become the seeds of greatness
Things not to repeat,
things that you can learn from
and therefore I looked at failures as the fertilizer of my life.
And it was easy for me to fail, I've had a lot of failures
and I wasn't afraid to fail because I knew that I'd fail
then it was something that I could do all the time.
But then I finally learned, that if you don't fail,
you won't know the meaning of success
And therefore you can't succeed unless you know how it feels
to fail because you wouldn't recognize it
if you had it.
So, failure is a detour, not a dead end.
And then one of the most important things of all
is to make sure that you chase your passion
not your pension
In other words, the passion--this intrinsic desire,
this fire that burns inside of you,
has to come out.
It's not the money you wanna chase, let money chase you
and that's the way you have money, let money be your slave
But never be a slave to money
Because money is only a transportation
and the fuel for your marvelous space shuttle.
Money is fuel, that it takes you where you wanna go,
does you no good to collect it,
only to use it especially for the benefit of people
other than yourself.
So again,
to live as long as you can because you always have something more
Another mountain,
another adventure, another idea
And that's what I do, I really learned from Gandhi
I live today
as if I might die tomorrow
But I learn,
and I yearn,
as if I'm gonna live forever
I always looking for the next opportunity, and by doing that
I always have another goal
Something more to do, and I think
that's one of the secrets of living long.
Never to retire, only to retry, re-inspire,
and look at yourself as a work of art always in progress.
Because you never arrive at success,
you're always under construction
on that road to the top.
That I think is the real secret, keep it simple
even though it's not easy.
Hello I'm Denis Waitley
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I've been training astronauts, Olympians,
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