This is a success symposium.
This is a day that you've set aside.
I've set aside to,
to kind of be more successful and get our act together
and hit our potential and then climb a new level.
I think success, first of all,
is knowing my purpose in life.
As I have watched and observed successful people.
What I have discovered about them
is they really have figured out
Why they're here
They really do have their act together.
And knowing their purpose in life
is a stability for them.
So that when everyone else is rocking and rolling,
and things are a little unsteady
and people are kind of leaving the ship and
people are kind of abandoned their causes with
these people,
they hold steady right throughout the storm
because they have a true north star.
They truly are focused.
It becomes an, it comes an anchor in their life
that just holds them steady.
And the anchor
is a confidence
based upon
a knowledge of purpose.
I say to you that if you began to take a conscious effort
to find out what it is that you're supposed to do,
I say that it can literally save your life.
Life happens for you.
It happens for you.
Opportunities will come to you every day.
If It's easier for you
You can remain scared of the opportunities
or you can embrace them and take.
I think that many of us don’t go to the next step
because we don’t know what to do yet
And I say that , that the reason that we don’t even explore
the possibility of what to do
is because subconsciously
we don't believe that it can happen for us
and we don’t believe that we deserve it
So here is what I’m suggesting
how much time do you spend working on you?
how much time do you spend every day working on your dream?
You got to take ownership.
I take full responsibility
and I'll do whatever it takes.
I'll take ownership, I'll get up.
I'll stay late.
And that's when you point the finger.
That's when you say he did it, and she dit it,
because you don't like how the pain feels
and that's why you give the power away
Cause it hurt too bad to say
I did it, I'll take ownership.
It was my fault
You ain't ready for the pain.
You've never looked at yourself in the mirror and said
you let you down.
I am not phenomenally skilled,
but I'm phenomenally willed.
My IQ may never change,
but my will changes every year.
I get stronger and stronger
and more determined, why?
Because it's in my DNA.
Now I have found most people
want to improve their income.
You know, there's two things that you must know
If you really want to create wealth,
you have to know where you are
and you have to know where you're going
Now.
That is so simple and so obvious.
Why are so many people stuck?
Think about it for a moment.
Really give it serious thought.
Now I used to think, and I think most people do
these people don't have goals, but
Do you know, they may not have taken a pen
and really clearly defined their goal.
But I think they do have a target they want,
they want to make things better.
I don't think that's where the problem is.
I think the problems right down here
in where we are,
most people don't know why they're where they are.
I have found one thing.
Everyone knows how to do a
better job than they're doing.
That's not the problem.
We do know how
the problem is
We're not doing what we know how to do.
Why aren't we?
Well, there's an answer to that.
And there's your answer is paradigms.
Paradigms are the problem.
Why is it that paradigms
are holding us back?
Well, I think we have to ask ourself,
what is a paradigm?
A paradigm is a mental program
that has almost exclusive control
over our habitual behavior.
And almost all of our behavior is habitual.
Do you know, Joel Barker wrote a
book on paradigms way back around 1990.
He said to be able to shape your future.
You have to be willing and
able to change your paradigm.
Success is a doing,
you've got to actually do it.
Activity is high priority
in the life process
to try to get maximum benefit out of
what we have available
activity
Now here's an important question.
What is your philosophy about activity?
What about hard work?
What about long hours?
What about full days?
If you're doing something,
how hard did you go at it?
How much time did you put in?
Everybody has to develop their philosophy about activity
just by way of review.
Let me coach you old Testament says
six days activity.
One day rest.
That's called philosophy
of ratio of activity.
What is a good ratio of rest and activity
Old Testament says six days the one
one day of the other,
we've all got to have a philosophy about activity
because your philosophy of activity
will affect the rest of your life.
Not to think so is naive