Let's talk now about setting goals of all the things that really helped
transform my life when I was 25 years old met my mentor that original mentor
mr. Roche off goal setting really did wonders for me the subject came up when
mr. chef said to me mr. own let me see your current list of goals and he said
let's go over them he said I've got some experience and let's talk about it maybe
I can give you some help and I said to him I don't have a list he said Wow if
you don't have a list of your goals he said I can probably guess your bank
accounts with in your bank account within a few hundred dollars which he
did and that got my attention so here was my response you mean to tell
me if I had a list of my goals it would make a difference in my bank account he
said a drastic difference so that got my attention I thought well I've got to
learn how to set goals and when I learned it it changed my life forever
now I've been teaching it now all these years trying to help people get a better
vision of the future okay so make this note the future is where we're going you
know the past is where we've been presence is where we are and the future
is where we're going and if we can capture this moment in time from our
past to now and then from now to a future more well designed with better
objectives and better purpose for ourselves our family our business our
investments everything else then this this moment in time
have become extremely valuable so let me give you first what really affects us
all number one were affected by the environment in which we live were
affected by the physical environment I
was challenged to it back in those early days why not make the environment better
everywhere you go I learned mama taught you know turn off the lights when you
check out of your hotel and you leave the room before you leave turn out the
lights and I thought why do that and here's what she said to make a
contribution that's so easy Wow and if you could make a contribution
that is so easy that didn't cost you any money and didn't cost you any time you
know didn't cost you a piece of your life why not make the contribution
that's easy because if everybody did it think of how much we would conserve
someone says well yes but the hotel benefits if you turn out all the lights
and here's the answer that sophisticated people always have who cares
who benefits if it benefits the hotel and if everybody did it probably the
cost of the hotel room would come down so every benefit you can give every
benefit you can share because here's what happens if you learn to give you
will what receive maybe not in the manner in which you gave maybe not in
like kind someone will save energy for you because you saved energy for them
but in some mysterious ways it always comes back to
plus if you give you will receive in fact here's what it says that for the
uneducated is a little bit strange it says it's better to give than it is to
receive now see if you didn't understand you would say that doesn't quite make
sense surely it would be better to receive than to give and the answer's no
it is much better to give than to receive
and here's why it's what we call being in having intelligent self-interest
nothing wrong with self-interest as long as you do it the intelligent way here's
the key giving it's better to give than it is to receive because giving starts
the receiving process so to act intelligently in your own self-interest
which is good it's much better to give than it is to receive because if all of
you do all you do is receive that may be very limited but if you give and giving
starts the receiving process coming your way from unknown resources from unknown
places back it comes around to you because you became a giver that's one of
the unique mysteries of life we give to receive and it's better to give than it
is to receive so that's what mama said turn out the lights
make a contribution why not make the easy ones here's what else we talked
about it at our lunch break today to those who were there it raises your
self-esteem plus your self-respect that you do things that the average person
doesn't do maybe if they were taught they would maybe if somebody mentioned
it they would but it's easy for most everybody to just go on their way and if
they're not interrupted by a good idea that says hey it's so easy to make a
contribution this one would be easy turn out the lights when you leave the
hotel room and make a contribution that's interesting
next is the phrase in terms of environment always leave something
better than you found it I talked to a man one time who rented out a long list
of of apartments and he said Mr on you wouldn't believe it but when somebody
rents an apartment they usually leave it worse than when they rented it I said
you've got to be kidding he said no a high percentage of people leave it
trashed if they stay six months or stay one year they leave it trashed not just
not better but trashed I said that's impossible why would
anyone do that mama said to me no leave it but better than you found it see
that's just a commitment to your own self-esteem and why not do it if it
makes a contribution to your self-esteem it's called intelligent self-interest
intelligent self-interest self-interest says I wish to be ruler over many and
intelligent self-interest says I understand how to do that be faithful in
the amounts or smile if you'll take care of the few we will someday give you a
position of very high importance over many but if you don't be disciplined
when the amounts are small why would we trust you when the amounts are large
Brian mentioned that earlier why would you why would life give you a fortune
man if you couldn't manage the gifts of a few interesting philosophy to consider
okay your own self-interest leave the contribution I'm even we're aware of it
when I leave a restaurant and I get me a toothpick right and you take off the
little cellophane off the toothpick it's easy to throw it by the cash register
right or somewhere where looks like other people have done the same mama
said put it in your pocket somebody says wow a little piece of
cellophane what difference does it make it doesn't make that much difference
only in your self-respect take your trash home and deposit it how much does
it cost to clean up the trash on the highways in America mega mega mega
millions wouldn't people take home their own trash and deposit it there rather
than scatter it on the highways across America and the answer is most people do
not it's so easy to throw it out the window
but now add this it's so easy to keep it in your car and have a few more points
in your favor on self-esteem feeling good about yourself doing things that
most people don't do if everybody differed did it what a different country
we would have but it doesn't really matter you say well if everybody's gonna
do it why shouldn't I do it and the answer is for your own dignity and for
your own self-esteem you do things that most other people allow themselves to do
that you don't do and so when I talk about the environment now we're affected
by the political environment and the social environment
we're affected by
the economy environment
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