Something bad might happen to you in order to teach you a lesson to prepare
you for something better later on I know it's hard to think like that in the
moment of the bad thing happening but if you really think about it all the
negative things and the positive things that led you to where you are today
got you to where you are today and if not for those negative and positive
things you might not be here you might not have the great job you just got or
the little girl sitting next to you on anything like you can't
you can't live with any regrets you know I'm saying cuz it's all I saw I
learning process from the beginning to where you are now to where you will be
you're learning the whole-way and you gonna drop some stuff you're
gonna fall on your face you gonna break some eggs and that's just part of what
it is to be alive
You should seek failures see if you're playing it safe
you're not gonna win if you're playing it's safe like that old saying you know you
were taught being a little girl its better to be safe than sorry well that's a
bunch of crap it's not better be safe than sorry it's by trying things that
you figure out how far you can go you got to get outside the box like it's
reported Edison tried 3000 ways before he built the incandescent light he said
he didn't fail 3,000 times he said there was 3,000 different steps to building a
light bulb well there's different steps to get to where you're going and I
really do treat winning and losing exactly the same I do not let it upset
me if I'm into an idea the idea of losing never enters my mind see I have
worked with Giants I had the good fortune of working with Sir Edmund Hillary
he was the first man to stand on top of the world and I worked with him
on three different occasions and the only difference in Ed Hillary and Bob Proctor
is in his size now he's gone now but he was a big man when he shook
hands with me his hand wrapped right around mine I felt like a dwarf you know
and he talked into him like it never entered his mind he wouldn't get to the
top of the mountain but he failed in 1951 he failed in 1952
it wasn't until 1953 that he got to the top of the mountain though people had died
for centuries trying to do that he said I knew if I could see it in here I could
hold it out here Stellar Man wrote that in the book
You can see it in your head you can hold it in your hand
and that's right
and if you're not prepared to lose you're never gonna win because you're
always playing it safe and there's no reward in that
Be so good at what you do to paraphrase Steve Martin's words
that you create your own personal economy
right because the marketplace always pays for mastery so the best in
world BIW say you know in a world where most people resign themselves to
mediocrity in their work you go into hotels or taxi drivers or whatever it is
it's like so many people are an average the card-carrying members of the
cult of mediocrity so it's a gorgeous opportunity to say I'm gonna play it
mastery and be so good at what I do that when people witness me working at what I do
tears come to their eyes like tears come to your eyes if you go to the
Sistine Chapel and see Michelangelo's work
You want to get your routines right what made the great athletes not their
natural talents but the right routines right so you've got to nail your habits
and the best in world leaders they really have great habits so many of them
5:00 a.m. Club so many of them they go to the learning every quarter so many of
them have masterminds so many of them are in a personal development they'll
never tell you about it but they're into personal development so
many of them are runners are in the fitness I'm not as a game changer you
want to get fit like a professional athlete watch what happens to every
other period of your life.
final thing I'd say is that great leaders
are cause driven if you if your source of motivation and engagement is money
you're never going to sustain the ups and the downs the pain and the failure
that you need to get to world class you have to find a cause that touches you at
a heart level or an emotional level so you start living for a cause bigger than
yourself and that's not some platitude or romantic you're looking at Steve Jobs
He didn't care about money, even when he had money all he had in his
mansion or his house was a futon and a beautifully designed lamp he wanted to
bring beautiful products into the world that made people's lives better
How Much is a lot of Money to you?
Thats a good question have you made say millions of dollars
NO
are you a rich man?
when you say rich, what do you mean?
you have a lot of possessions
lot of money in the bank?
Do possessions make you rich, then I don't have that type of richness
my richness is life forever
There's so much knowledge out there so much information so many ways to get
better and we make so many mistakes whether were the product of our
mistakes and oftentimes the lesson is sitting there right in front of our face
it's there to be learned but we miss it or we don't pay attention to it or we
think we know better until it punches us in the face and the most important thing
to learn is that we have so much to learn we all do and we can learn from
school and from people and from experience and we learn from life but
you have to process the information you have to absorb it you have to accept it
you have to open your mind you've got to free your mind so that you can learn and
make real progress
and as far as regrets and things I wish I would have done differently of course
hindsight is twenty-twenty and looking back of course who wouldn't want to take
another go at something and improve on the first try by doing it again
and then why not do it again and again and again and why not just do it
over and over again until you have it perfect
but the fact is you don't get that chance
you get one shot, one shot at this gig right here, life
One life that's all you've got, and regret in and of itself it's worthless it does nothing
for you in fact the only valuable thing in regret is the lesson you learn the
knowledge that you gained but walking around filled with regret gets you nothing
so learn and move on, don't let regret beat you down
don't be a slave to regret no, let it teach you let it make you better let the fear of
regret fuel you to take action
TODAY!
NOW!
to take action now to become a better person not filled with regret
but filled with knowledge filled with knowledge and strength and power and filled with life