To really achieve your dreams
to really have your future plans pull you
your dreams must be VIVID
A fuzzy future has little pull power
Well-defined dreams are not fuzzy
Wishes are fuzzy
To unleash this power though
your dreams must be well-defined.
If however your purpose is in terms of wants or desires
well then your wants and desires
will keep pushing you long after your needs are satisfied
and until your wants and desires are FULFILLED
But as long as you live,
don't ever forget that
while you may succeed
beyond your fondest hopes and your greatest expectations
if it's a big purpose
you'll be big in its accomplishment.
Learning to live well
because the ultimate essence of life is not a Ferrari
The ultimate essence is not a home
The ultimate essence is not a bank account
It's not a million dollars
It's not a fortune
Here it is
The ultimate essence of life is
learning to live a good life
THAT'S THE KEY
Whether you have modest resources
or whether you have mega millions
the real key
is learning to LIVE A GOOD LIFE
And after all
if you do really like what you're doing
it doesn't matter what it is
you can eventually turn it
you could eventually become a master of it
The only way to become a master of something
is to be really with it
and then you'll be able to get a good fee
for whatever it is
You cannot make it as a wandering generality
You've got to have a very
SPECIFIC TARGET
So the other point
if you're gonna do anything
you gotta break it into a daily basis
and you gotta GET STARTED
Hold on to your vision
but let go all the excuses that you can make
Don't depend on anybody else to see your vision
Don't depend on anybody else to
to believe in your goals
It's going to be hard
It's going to get tough
It's going to be bumps in the road
Leave the excuses
Leave the excuses YESTERDAY
Bring your passion, and your purpose
Bring your passion, and your purpose TODAY
If you take it by the balls
take life by the balls
and go out and try to make sh*t happen yourself
and work your ass off to get there
things will start happening for you
You'll start achieving that little thing
You'll start getting breakthroughs in life
You'll start feeling better, looking better
I'm talking about
you gotta think of everything
you've ever wanted in your life
And you gotta put it toward that goal
And there are things that you have been called to do
that no one on Earth has ever done.
Who do you know that you can compare yourself to?
That's easy.
You
yesterday.
So here's a good goal.
It's something like, well, aim high.
And I, I really mean that.
It's like, and we'll talk
about that a little bit too.
Aim high, but use as your control yourself.
It's like, so your goal is to make today some
tiny increment better than yesterday, and you
can use better, you can define better yourself.
This doesn't have to be some
imposition of external morality.
You know, you know where you're weak and
insufficient, where you could improve.
Think, okay, well this is what I'm like yesterday
if I did this little thing.
Things would be just an increment better
and well, that's a great thing
because you get the ball rolling and
incremental improvement is unstoppable.
You can actually implement it
and it starts to generate par distribution light consequences,
it starts to compound.
And I've seen that happen in people's lives
over and all, and people write me all the
time and tell me that they're doing that.
But I've seen that happen to
in people's lives continually.
They make a goal, a goal that, and the goal should be,
How could I conceive of my life
so that if I had that life, it would clearly be
worth living, so I wouldn't have to be bitter,
resentful, deceitful, arrogant, and vengeful.
It's hard to say what the soul means, metaly,
because, you know, say beyond the ...
beyond the confines of a single human being.
We do have this sense that the soil can
expand itself into something that's greater then
Well, greater than it has been.
It has this capacity for growth,
and we do have the sense that the soil can expand itself
to the point where it, it's enlightened for
lack of a better word, that it's working
as efficiently as possible to transform everything
that's unnecessarily painful and malevolent
about the world into what's positive and good.
And that it does that as a consequence
of confronting the world with courage and truth.
And I think that's right.
And I do think that that means that the
soul participates in something internal,
which is the attempt of being itself,
to transform what's unnecessarily
painful and malevolent into what's good.
And that human beings actually
do participate in that.
And that that's, The reason that
our ancient tradition insists that
were made in the image of God.
And I think that it's a mistake to underestimate
the importance of that because
I don't think that
you can live life, a life of sufficient profundity
to protect yourself from being corrupted
by suffering malevolence without adopting a
responsibility that's commensurate
with that set of ideas.
I think that you either
orient yourself upward,
you know, to the star above the horizon,
and try desperately to improve the structure of being,
or you work at counter
purposes to it and make things worse.
I don't think there's a middle ground
in fact, to the degree there is a middle
ground, it tilts towards the negative because
people who try to occupy the middle ground,
try to generally try to accrue the benefit,
let's say, without adopting any of the risk,
and that's not acceptable, not helpful, so,
That's a soul to me.
Those are people that have tried to change
their thinking but seem to be stuck.
And can you give them some advice to help them
to be more positive or to get through those?
Well, I don't think that, that
they've been trying and they're stuck.
I think they just haven't tried.
because if you will practice this even
a small amount, it makes a difference.
I have a simple exercise I give everybody,
and some people say, oh, that's so stupid.
It's so silly.
But I ask them to look in the mirror
Especially first thing in the morning
and just look in their eyes and
say their name and say, I love you.
I really, really love you.
And this is enormously hard for most people
to do, to begin with, but as you continue
to do it, it makes a big difference.
you see, life loves you.
Life really loves you, but if you don't love yourself,
it's very hard for life to bring you
the goodies because you've got this wall up.
So when you can learn to love who you are
And that's the way you were born
when you were a little tiny baby.
And when I say you, I mean everybody listening
to this . Uh, we all adored ourselves.
We loved our bodies.
We loved every part of ourselves.
And then we started to listen to other
people who told us we weren't good enough,
or we didn't do it right, or No, no, no.
And so we decided that maybe we weren't very good,
and that's where we get all mixed up.
But when we can get back to that point of
just adoring this marvelous critter in here.
then life says, oh, they've, she's got it.
She's got it.
Let's give her goodies.
And then the next step is to
be very grateful about it.
When you're really grateful,
then they want to give you more.