To change your life, you need ideas. There isn’t anything an idea can’t change.
If you don’t have any money, it’s not a problem, the problem is lack of an idea on how to create money.
It isn’t lack of money, it’s lack of ideas. If you get the idea, you can change anything. To get ideas, you need a constant study of finding out how things work. Next, if you find out something that works put the information in your journal. Don’t use your head for a filing cabinet, put it in your journal so that you can do the next best thing.
Repetition! Repetition! Repetition!
Go over it. If you repeat it and go over it, sure enough someday, some mysterious day the idea starts to grow and shows up in your bank account. And then, your dress, your personality and your lifestyle, everything changes. Capture the ideas in your journal, find out how things work.
If you wish to be successful, study success.
If you wish to be happy, study happiness.
If you wish to be wealthy, study wealth.
Don’t leave it to chance, make it a study.
Some people just go through the day with their fingers crossed. That won’t do it, you’ve got to study the things that can change your economic, social, spiritual, personal life.
You may not be able to do all you find out, but you should find out all you can do.
You don’t want to wind up at the end of your life and discover that you’ve lived only 1/10th of it and the other 9/10th went down the drain. Not for the lack of opportunity but for lack of information.
The best human virtue for finding out is curiosity. Be curious like a child. What will kids do if they want to know something? They can ask a thousand questions and when you think they’re through, they’ve got another thousand. They’ll drive you to the brink. Be like a child.
Be curios like a child
Be excited like a child
Have faith like a child – adults are too skeptical
Trust like a child – the rewards are incredible
Become a good reader.
All of the successful people around the world are all good readers. Curiosity drives them to read. They got to know so they just read. Don’t be a follower, be a student. One way to learn is from your own experiences but another way to learn is from other people experiences. One book might save you five years if you read.
Do you know there are books on how to be stronger, more decisive. How to be a better speaker, be a leader, have a better effect on other people, develop your personality. There are books on all those topics and people don’t read them, and they can read – how would you explain that?
Hundreds of successful people have written their stories in books and they wrote down how they did they make it happen and people don’t read them.
How would you explain that?
They are probably busy and tied up! You may be a good worker, hard worker and sincere. You got to be better than sincere and work hard otherwise at the end of your life you’ll wind up cold stony broke. You’ve got to be better than a good worker, you’ve got to be a good reader. The whole world is governed by laws, the universe in fact. We call it the law of electricity, the law of gravity. There are mathematical laws, there are physical laws, speeding velocity laws, agricultural laws, there’s all kinds of laws. Life is a set up, we didn’t set it up but we’re here so you got to learn it.
We should learn the setup for two basic reasons:
a. To keep from getting hurt
It’s one of the major reasons for learning so you won’t get hurt. Economically, socially, personally, you can get hurt by just not knowing. Ignorant is not bliss, ignorance is poverty, ignorance is tragedy. You got to know or you’re going to get hurt. It’s good to know not to walk out the 10-story window, that’s actually information but if a guy didn’t know and he walks out?
“You don’t have to like the setup, but it is important to learn how it is. Make sure you get the information. What you think about it is up to you. What you’re going to do with it is up to you but make sure you know it. There’s nothing worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad but being stupid is awful. And what’s really bad is being broke and stupid. That’s about the end of the world, there isn’t anything much worse than that. Unless you’re sick. Well, sick, broke and stupid – there’s nowhere else to go.
So make sure you get the information, it’s key. You don’t have to like it but learn it.
b. To get on the good side of the way things work
Whatever you don’t use – you lose. Lack of use causes loss. If you tie your arm to your body and leave it there long enough, you’ll never use it again. It will be over for the arm. It may not be over for you, but it’s over for the arm. The only way to keep the use of this arm is to keep using it. If you quit, you lose automatically. They don’t bring it up for a vote, you lose automatically. The same thing that goes for your arm, goes for your brain mentality and the same thing goes for all the human virtues.
Ambition unused – declines
Strong feelings unused – diminish
Faith unused – decreases
Vitality unused – diminishes
Energy unused – decreases
If you don’t use your energy today you will need to work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for it. That’s foolish! You could have done that anyway today.
Unused talent is lost
Ability unused is lost
Take a new inventory of yourself starting tomorrow – new project, all of your talents and ability and mentality and ingenuity and vitality and strong feelings, faith, courage – make sure that all you’ve got is being used otherwise you lose.
