You may have weaknesses, you've made mistakes.
we all have.
But there's a lot more right with you
than there is wrong with you.
Dwelling on the negative
doesn't help you to do better.
Beating yourself up for past mistakes
doesn't move you forward.
The better you feel about yourself,
the better you'll do.
The more you like yourself, the further you'll go.
You can't give away what you don't have.
If you are in turmoil on the inside,
mad at yourself, critical, condemned.
That's what you have to give.
Love is not something that you do.
Love is something that you can become.
It's your quality.
If your mind is in a certain way, it's joyful.
If your emotions are in a certain way, it's loving.
This is the quality of sweetness of body.
If your body becomes sweet and pleasant,
it's called health and pleasure.
If your mind becomes very pleasant,
it's called peacefulness and joyfulness.
If your emotions become pleasant,
it's called love and compassion.
If your very life energy becomes pleasant,
it is called blissfulness and ecstasy.
Only if your surroundings become pleasant.
It's called success.
In Buddhism they say,
replace any negative thought immediately
with a positive thought.
And the neuroplasticity says the same thing.
Because neuroplasticity
is amazing, but it can be bad.
If you have a breakup and you obsess about the person,
you're wiring that deeply into your brain.
So you have to direct your neuroplasticity.
And if you do get that voice in your head,
which is normal for all of us,
you need to, you know, override that with
a positive statement.
So your forebrain is the builder,
it's the designer, it's the ceo.
And when you begin to speculate possibilities,
when you start to think about
a better way to do something
or something you want to experience,
or something you want to do, or some future event,
it's an amazing phenomenon
because our researchers are beginning to show
that not only do we remember a past,
but the brain actually can remember a future.
And so how does it do that?
Well, because the forebrain has connections
to all other parts of the brain,
it can take a little bit of that knowledge from a specific
neural network and a little bit of experience,
and another neural network of knowledge
and another neural network of experience,
And it can seamlessly piece it together
to create a new level of mind,
and then your brain gets a picture or an image,
and then you transfix your mind on
that image and those neurons string into place.
That begin to fire and wire together,
and every time you remind yourself
of what you wanna experience,
you're reinforcing the circuitry in your brain
to begin to install the hardware
for you to actually experience that future event.
In other words, the brain already
looks like it's already had the event.
Now that's super cool because it really says then
that we're remembering a future potencial.
The imagination is the most marvelous,
miraculous, inconceivably powerful force
that the world has ever known.
And you know, the average individual uses the imagination
if they use it at all against themself.
They imagine what they don't want.
They imagine problems.
Let's begin to use our imagination
the way God meant it to be used.
It's the greatest creative faculty
that we possess,
and we can build anything we want.
The mind is very strong, and one of the things the mind does
is develop methodologies ways of thinking
that let it interact with life and not get hurt and be more comfortable.
And it's the ego when we develop a self-concept
and we change it throughout our lives.
But in general, there's a self-concept sitting under there saying,
I was the one that did this, and I was the one that went to
this school, and I'm the one that went there, and the one that,
you know, my father left or stayed, or whatever the hell it is.
Excuse me.
And basically, uh, all of this unfolds and you end up developing
patterns of thinking based upon the experiences you've had.
Alright?
And what I'm saying, at least certainly in my experience,
is that's not what makes you wake up.
That's what keeps you from waking up.
All right.
And the fact that you're identifying
with these past experiences and saying, that's who I am.
Well, that's not who you are.
You are watching your ego.
You see it get upset, you see it fix things.
You see it have concepts and views and et cetera, et cetera.
And even, you're obviously very intelligent.
You can use your intellect to support the ego,
to support that and and so on, right?
Man's greatest burden is unfulfilled potential.
And I, and I say, when I look at the audiences,
and I know that maybe only 1% are gonna achieve their potential, not fully.
I still haven't fulfilled my potential.
But un uh, unfulfilled potential is man's greatest burden.
And it, it breaks my heart cuz I know what you kids are capable of.
I know I've had kids with 80 IQ to 180 IQ that I mentored.
That have, that have done big, big deals.
Actually, 80 IQ did better than the 180 iq.
Okay.
And I know what they're capable of, and I, I know how
10 million or a hundred million or whatever the number is, changes lives.
And then all of a sudden,
you know, uh, you believe that you can walk on water.
You believe that you can take a loaf of bread and feed
however many he was supposed to have fed and make water into wine.
And when you believe it, see the true test of a leader
is when you've trained other people to be leaders.
It's in you kids.
I mean, you can do it
if you want it bad enough, and
you stay focused and you're willing to, uh, maintain that commitment.
I have to go become more confident.
I have to go become a person capable of doing these things.
I have to change myself to get there.
I can't wait for circumstances to change so I can have my dream.
Then our, our dreams would never happen.
We have to get to the point of maturity in our lives where we say, okay,
two things are gonna change my life.
Something new is gonna come into my life and make me lucky and blessed,
and maybe I can't count on that forever.
And maybe now instead, I have to consciously design my life and say,
okay, now if I want to change,
if I want my dream, something new has to come from me.
I'm going to become a better person.
I'm gonna become a person who is more optimistic,
who is more confident, who is more driven.
Not because I'm that now, but because we can grow.
That you can become the type of person who needs to,
who you need to be to achieve your ideal life.
You can start today living from your highest ideals,
your highest sense of self, your strongest sense of self.
You don't need permission.
You don't need a guy like me to look at the video camera and say,
you have now permission, but if you've been waiting for it,
You have permission.
It's like at some point in your life, you just say, okay,
I have permission to become my best self.
And by becoming your best self, you start to achieve your best things.
You start to contribute better things.
You start to become a better human being.
You can do that now today.
So next time you're thinking about a big dream,
don't think about the things that, well, I don't know how to do that.
And stop.
Think, I don't know how.
So, set it up on your calendar to go learn those things.
I don't have that.
Then set it up step by step to go build that.
I'm not like that.
Then set it up step by step to go develop those skill sets
and those competencies so you can become that
and ultimately you can achieve that dream.
It's there.
It's waiting for you.
Don't stop.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
You are your most valuable asset,
your life, your potential, and your possibilities are the most precious things you have.
Thus, your great goal in life should
be to fulfill that potential and become
everything you are capable of becoming.
Your ability to learn, grow, and fulfill your potential is unlimited.
Today, people are graduating from high school
and college in their seventies, learning new subjects and developing new capabilities.
Your ability to learn and remember can continue throughout your life.
If you keep your brain alive, alert, and functioning at its best.
your most precious financial asset is your earning ability.
Your ability to work is your primary source of cash throughout your life.
You could lose your home, your car, your bank account, and everything you own.
But as long as you have your earning ability,
you can earn it all back
and more in the months and years ahead.
Your biggest investment,
most people don't realize this.
they take their earning ability for granted.
But it has taken you your entire life to develop your earning ability.
Every bit of education experience and hard work that you have invested in
learning your craft and developing your skills
has gone into building this asset.
Your earning ability is very much like a muscle.
It can increase in strength and power year by year as the result of regular exercise.
Likewise, the opposite is true too.
If left alone or ignored, your earning ability,
like your muscles can become weaker or even decline
because you have simply failed to upgrade it continue.
In other words, your earning ability can be
either an appreciating or a depreciating asset.
What got you here won't get you any further.
Some people are actually losing value each year,
declining in earning ability because they're not
continually upgrading their knowledge and skills.
They don't realize that whatever knowledge and skill they have today
is rapidly becoming obsolete.
It is being replaced by new knowledge and skills that.
If you don't have them and someone else does,
you will be in danger of being overtaken by your competition.
The achievement of personal excellence is a
decision you make or that you fail to make.
But in the absence of a commitment to excellence in your chosen field,
you automatically default to average performance or even mediocrity.
No one becomes excellent accidentally,
or by just going to work each day.
Excellence requires a definite decision and a lifelong commitment.
Knowledge and skill are the keys to the 21st century.
Becoming the best person you can possibly be
and moving to the top of your field require the application
of self-discipline throughout your life.
Mental fitness is like physical fitness.
If you want to achieve either.
You must work at it all your life
you can never let up.
You must be continually learning and growing
every day, week and month
throughout your career and in other areas of your life.
If you're going to join the top 20% and stay there
to earn more, you must learn more.
Abraham Lincoln once wrote,
the fact that some have become wealthy is proof that others may do it as well.
What others have done, you can do as well.
If you learn how
everyone who is at the top was once at the bottom.
Many people who come from average or poor families
with average incomes or who grow up in average circumstances
have gone on to become some of
the most prominent people in their fields,
and what hundreds of thousands and even millions of other people have done,
you can do as well.
Was philosopher Bertrand Russell once wrote
that the very best proof that something can be done
is that someone else has already done it.