Dan Pena Edinburgh Talk Q & A

One of the most enjoyable activities I do is checking the internet for inspirational, experienced and genuine people that want to impart some wisdom.

Dan Pena definitely ticks all of the boxes. When I first watched a clip of him I thought he was an absolute maniac, almost to direct and at times aggressive to watch. However, it didn't take long for me to realise that what he was saying was right on point.

I have watched countless clips and I will probably produce notes for all of them but I thought I would start with a Q & A he did in Edinburgh as it had some points I really wanted to capture.

The video - Edinburgh Talk Q & A

Notes

Student teaches himself how to program over a weekend and then gets job as a developer. Working 60 hours a week and 60 hours week cold calling and finding businesses. 

Sometimes you get a little success and subconsciously you say to yourself, how long can I keep doing this, has it been an accident, am I a one trick pony, what are people going to expect of me after this success. You start to question yourself and you stop pulling the trigger so it becomes a negative self fulfilling propecy

"I may be wrong but I'm never in doubt". You never hear Bill Gates, Elon Musk being in doubt. They can be wrong but they are never in doubt. When you surround yourself with people that are never in doubt and you demonstrate doubtless leadership. Success becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. 

The glass is half full, its never half empty. When you get used to pulling the trigger and taking action it becomes normal.

Sometimes you will wind up by yourself but its lonely at the top and Eagles fly alone your either going to want success and figure out whether it is worth the sacrifice. If your significant other isn't on board you cant fight a war on two fronts. You have to ascertain whether its worth it. Surround yourself with people that want success like you want success.

Most successful people

• Work out 5 times a week - weights and cardio
• Eat well
• Don't drink hardly at all
• Shut down all social media except LinkedIn

Toastmasters, Rotary and improve classes are good for learning how to speak better. Professional associations for industries. Join the clubs you can afford.

Words are important because your subconscious doesn't know you are lying. Don't say "I will give it my best shot" say " I will do it". Do affirmations and goal setting.

If you don't know what to do with your life. Try a bunch of things. You don't try things because you are afraid of failing. Afraid of the stigma. Just try and learn some lessons and then succeed.

Its not as difficult as you think it is to rub elbows with people who are high performance.

Affirmations - Are based on your goals and there is no time limit on goals. EVERY goal is as soon as humanely possible.

Business - find motivated sellers where the cashflow is higher than the debt service.

28 million apps in the world, only 25 have made any money. Do not think an app is going to make money.

Test an idea with £500-£1000. If it doesn't make money they kill it and move on.

Healthcare, Telco and now cyber security are the hot industries to make money.

Book recommendation - The common sense book of baby and childcare. Benjamin Spock

16 Personalities Personality Test Result Logistician (ISTJ) Condensed And Categorised

Changing career is something that everyone has thought about at least once or for some it is something they think about daily !. Having recently left a job due to illness I needed to find a career that tied in with my new (reduced) physical capabilities. Rather than seeing this as a negative situation I decided to use this as an opportunity to stop and think about the work I would actually enjoy doing with a view to achieve new levels of fulfillment.

In order to do this I had to reflect on my previous work experiences, likes, dislikes and interests but as part of the process I also decided to do a personality test at www.16personalities.com .

The test only took a few minutes to complete and I found it very accurate and insightful. It identified that my personality was 'LOGISTICIAN - ISTJ' (Introvert, Sensing, Thinking, Judging)

I enjoyed reading the information but the format it uses on the website was very long and interspersed with graphics. It also had personality traits, likes and dislikes spread over different topics whereas I wanted a format that grouped everything together so I could refer back to them quickly. Having quite large images and big blocks of texts also made for quite a hefty printout.

It was such useful information, I decided that I would take some time to re-arrange and condense it into categories that were meaningful for me.

Here is the original 'Logistician' explanation : www.16personalities.com/istj-personality

Condensing process

Here is the process I followed :

1. Copied all Logistician text from the webpage into Microsoft word and printed it.
2. Then selected categories that would be most useful to me and my job search going forward :

• Characteristics (Personality traits)  - What you are like as a person (1)
• Approach - The approach that you take towards your work (2)
• Enjoy - What I enjoy with regard to work (3)
• Others - Relationships with others in work, what works well and what are the challenges (4)
• Dislikes - What I dislike about work (5)
• Problems to work on - I am strong believer in personal development so if the personality test highlights weaknesses and I agree, I see them as areas I need to work on and become better. (6)
• Self harm - Strong title but the reason why I became ill was because I was a workaholic and overworked despite my body protesting. Having learned such a valuable lesson I obviously didn't want to repeat this error so I put a category in to highlight any potential for re-occurance.(7)
• Work structure - Clarifying what work environment suits my personality type and will cause me the least amount of stress. (8)

3. I went through the printout and numbered the different sentences with a pencil that corresponded to each category and underlined them.
4. Opened up a new (blank) word document in addition to the existing word doc with all the Logistician text.
5. Added the category heading into the new blank word document
6. Using the printout that I had marked with pencil to identify the categories, I then copied and pasted text from the full Logisitician word document into the relevant categories on the new word document.

The result is key information from the 16 Personalities Logistician result broken down into my personal categories.

LOGISTICIANS (ISTJ)

1.     Characteristics

§  Calm

§  Practical

§  Logical

§  No-nonsense

§  When ISTJs say they are going to get something done, they do it, - word is a promise, and a promise means everything

§  Possess sharp, fact-based minds

§  Dependable with impeccable personal integrity

§  Passion for duty

§  Honest

§  Dedicated

§  Productive

§  Hard working

§  Patient and determined

§  Proud repositories of knowledge, though the emphasis is more on facts and statistics than concepts and underlying principles

§  Jacks-of-all-trades 

§  Crave and love responsibility and the power resulting from it.

§  Loyal

§  Meticulous

§  Value peace and security in the workplace

§  Respect authority and hierarchy, and have no problem following orders and instructions. People with the ISTJ personality type take on roles as the defenders of these ideas, in big ways and small, and are rightfully proud of it.

§  ISTJs may need clearly set steps and well-defined responsibilities

§  Among colleagues, no one can be trusted more to ensure that projects are finished on time and by the book

Negatives

§  Honesty is far more important than emotional considerations, and their blunt approach leaves others with the false impression that ISTJs are cold, or even robotic

§  Stubborn – The facts are the facts, and ISTJs tend to resist any new idea that isn’t supported by them. This factual decision-making process also makes it difficult for people with the ISTJ personality type to accept that they were wrong about something – but anyone can miss a detail, even them

§  Often Unreasonably Blame Themselves – All this can combine to make ISTJs believe they are the only ones who can see projects through reliably.

2.     Approach

§  Stay focused on their goals

§  Take pride in the work they do

§  Have strong opinions about how things should be done

§  Adhere to established rules and guidelines

§  Have a tireless dedication to duty

§  Hold back none of their time and energy completing each relevant task with accuracy and patience.

§  Don’t make many assumptions, preferring instead to analyse their surroundings, check their facts and arrive at practical courses of action and clear rational decisions

§  Prefer to work alone, or at least have their authority clearly established by hierarchy, where they can set and achieve their goals without debate or worry over other’s reliability (autonomy and self-sufficiency

§  Honesty is far more important than emotional considerations, and their blunt approach leaves others with the false impression that ISTJs are cold, or even robotic

§  Seek stability and security, considering it their duty to maintain a smooth operation

§  Emotional manipulation, mind games and reassuring lies all run counter to ISTJs’ preference for managing the reality of the situations they encounter with plain and simple honesty.

§  Word is a promise, and a promise means everything

§  Loyalty is a strong sentiment for ISTJ personalities, and they fulfil their duties to the people and organizations they’ve committed themselves to.

§  The primary goal of any ISTJ is to be effective in what they’ve chosen to do, and they believe that this is accomplished best when everyone involved knows exactly what is going on and why. Unclear guidelines and people who break established rules undermine this effort, and are rarely tolerated by ISTJs. Structure and rules foster dependability; chaos creates unforeseen setbacks and missed deadlines

§  Can apply themselves to a variety of situations, picking up and applying new data and grasping the details of challenging situations as a matter of course.

§  Uphold the hard standards

§  Quiet and methodical, people with the ISTJ personality type keep cool when the going gets tough, but expect their colleagues to share their approach

§  Pressing themselves hard to meet their obligations, ISTJs regularly go above and beyond their duties

3.     Enjoy

§  Enjoy taking responsibility for their actions – It demonstrates trust that has been placed in them, an opportunity to prove once again that they are the right person for the job. They love the power resulting from it.

§  Prefer to work alone, or at least have their authority clearly established by hierarchy, where they can set and achieve their goals without debate or worry over other’s reliability

§  If they can find coworkers and spouses who genuinely appreciate and complement their qualities, who enjoy the brightness, clarity and dependability that they offer, ISTJs will find that their stabilizing role is a tremendously satisfying one, knowing that they are part of a system that works.

§  What they crave is dependability, and that is reflected in their choice of work

§  Seek structure, clearly defined rules, and respect for authority and hierarchy

§  Peace and security in the workplace

4.      Others

§  When they’ve made a decision, they will relay the facts necessary to achieve their goal, expecting others to grasp the situation immediately and take action.

§  Have little tolerance for indecisiveness, but lose patience even more quickly if their chosen course is challenged with impractical theories, especially if they ignore key details – if challenges becomes time-consuming debates, ISTJs can become noticeably angry as deadlines tick nearer

§  they are baffled by people who don’t hold their own word in the same respect

§  Combining laziness and dishonesty is the quickest way to get on ISTJs’ bad side.

§  Honesty is far more important than emotional considerations, and their blunt approach leaves others with the false impression that ISTJs are cold, or even robotic

§  ISTJs’ dedication is an excellent quality, allowing them to accomplish much, but it is also a core weakness that less scrupulous individuals take advantage of. ISTJs seek stability and security, considering it their duty to maintain a smooth operation, and they may find that their coworkers and significant others shift their responsibilities onto them, knowing that they will always take up the slack. This can create an emotional strain that can go unexpressed for years, only finally coming out after it’s too late to fix

§  Emotional manipulation, mind games and reassuring lies all run counter to ISTJs’ preference for managing the reality of the situations they encounter with plain and simple honesty.

§  Peoples’ preferences are a factor to consider in this process, and ISTJs work to make the best use of individual qualities, but these decisions are made with effectiveness in mind more so than empathy. The same applies to criticisms, for others and themselves.

§  Unclear guidelines and people who break established rules undermine this effort, and are rarely tolerated by ISTJs. Structure and rules foster dependability; chaos creates unforeseen setbacks and missed deadlines

§  Insensitive – While not intentionally harsh, ISTJs often hurt more sensitive types’ feelings by the simple mantra that honesty is the best policy. ISTJ personalities may take emotions into consideration, but really only so far as to determine the most effective way to say what needs to be said.

§  Judgmental – Opinions are opinions and facts are facts, and ISTJs are unlikely to respect people who disagree with those facts, or especially those who remain wilfully ignorant of them.

§  As they load themselves with extra work and responsibilities, turning away good intentions and helpful ideas, ISTJs sooner or later hit a tipping point where they simply can’t deliver. Since they’ve heaped the responsibility on themselves, ISTJs then believe the responsibility for failure is theirs alone to bear.

§  Nothing is quite so challenging for a ISTJ as ongoing debates about who is responsible for what.

§  ISTJs have strong opinions about how things should be done, and if things are shuffled too often, people with this personality type can become surprisingly vocal about their opposition. It’s important for ISTJs to remember that even the most traditional and stable career paths can and need to change as time goes by. It is much better to accept this with grace than to develop reputations of being enemies of new ideas

§  Keep cool when the going gets tough, but expect their colleagues to share their approach

§  Innovations, brainstorming, theories and new ideas all disrupt this comfortable state, and it takes a great deal of respect on ISTJs’ part to acknowledge their validity

§  ISTJs regularly go above and beyond their duties, and expect their subordinates to act with the same level of dedication

§  Are very intolerant of their subordinates’ failures to meet their obligations, and one of those obligations is to stick to the plan. Subordinates stepping out of bounds must be backed up with just the facts, and results to justify it.

§  Are capable of laying down hard criticism, and their willingness to make tough decisions can make perceived insubordination the final trespass

5.     Dislikes

§  Indecisiveness

§  Impractical theories, especially if they ignore key details

§  Time-consuming debates, ISTJs can become noticeably angry as deadlines tick nearer

§  People who don’t hold their own word in the same respect

§  Laziness

§  Dishonesty

§  Worrying over other people’s reliability

§  Dependending on others at it is seen as weakness

§  Co-workers and significant others shift their responsibilities onto them, knowing that they will always take up the slack

§  Emotional manipulation, mind games and reassuring lies all run counter to ISTJs’ preference for managing the reality of the situations they encounter with plain and simple honesty.

§  Unclear guidelines and people who break established rules undermine this effort, and are rarely tolerated by ISTJs. Structure and rules foster dependability; chaos creates unforeseen setbacks and missed deadlines

§  Facts are the facts, and ISTJs tend to resist any new idea that isn’t supported by them.

§  Opinions are opinions and facts are facts, and ISTJs are unlikely to respect people who disagree with those facts, or especially those who remain wilfully ignorant of them.

§  Since they’ve heaped the responsibility on themselves, ISTJs then believe the responsibility for failure is theirs alone to bear.

§  Unclear roles, responsibilities and work environments.

§  Have clear ideas on how things should be done and don’t like things shuffled too often

§  The seriousness in ISTJs’ approach to their work makes them surprisingly sensitive to criticism, leading to a sometimes vexing level of inflexibility.

§  Emotional types baffle ISTJs with their need for emotional support and openness, or capacity for dropping something, half finished. To ISTJs, either something’s been done right or it’s been done wrong, and sugar-coating it or walking away isn’t going to fix it.

§  People not sticking to the plan.

§  Insubordination

6.      Problems to work on

§  Have little tolerance for indecisiveness

§  They report their own mistakes and tell the truth even when the consequences for doing so could be disastrous.

§  Lose patience if their chosen course is challenged with impractical theories, especially if they ignore key details – if challenges becomes time-consuming debates, ISTJs can become noticeably angry as deadlines tick nearer

§  They are baffled by people who don’t hold their own word in the same respect

§  Dependency on others is often seen by ISTJs as a weakness

§  Honesty is far more important than emotional considerations, and their blunt approach leaves others with the false impression that ISTJs are cold, or even robotic

§  People with this type may struggle to express emotion or affection outwardly, but the suggestion that they don’t feel, or worse have no personality at all, is deeply hurtful.

§  Core weakness is that less scrupulous individuals take advantage as co-workers and significant others shift their responsibilities onto them, knowing that they will always take up the slack

§  ISTJs tend to keep their opinions to themselves and let the facts do the talking, but it can be a long time before observable evidence tells the whole story.

§  Peoples’ preferences are a factor to consider in this process, and ISTJs work to make the best use of individual qualities, but these decisions are made with effectiveness in mind more so than empathy. The same applies to criticisms, for others and themselves.

§  Stubborn – The facts are the facts, and ISTJs tend to resist any new idea that isn’t supported by them. This factual decision-making process also makes it difficult for people with the ISTJ personality type to accept that they were wrong about something – but anyone can miss a detail, even them

§  Insensitive – While not intentionally harsh, ISTJs often hurt more sensitive types’ feelings. ISTJ personalities may take emotions into consideration, but really only so far as to determine the most effective way to say what needs to be said.

§  Always by the Book – ISTJs believe that things work best with clearly defined rules, but this makes them reluctant to bend those rules or try new things, even when the downside is minimal

§  Judgmental – Opinions are opinions and facts are facts, and ISTJs are unlikely to respect people who disagree with those facts, or especially those who remain wilfully ignorant of them.

§  They load themselves with extra work and responsibilities, turning away good intentions and helpful ideas. Since they’ve heaped the responsibility on themselves, ISTJs then believe the responsibility for failure is theirs alone to bear.

§  Nothing is quite so challenging for an ISTJ then ongoing debates about who is responsible for what.

§  ISTJs have strong opinions about how things should be done, and if things are shuffled too often, people with this personality type can become surprisingly vocal about their opposition. It’s important for ISTJs to remember that even the most traditional and stable career paths can and need to change as time goes by. It is much better to accept this with grace than to develop reputations of being enemies of new ideas

§  Struggle with the increasingly open and social requirements of modern work life

§  ISTJs’ "just the facts" attitude can be downright alienating when it comes to more sensitive personality types.

§  The change that comes with assuming those new responsibilities, or in losing old ones, is often a significant struggle for ISTJs.

§  They reluctant to give up responsibilities even when they are overburdened, or when there are better people for the job

§  The seriousness in ISTJs’ approach to their work makes them surprisingly sensitive to criticism, leading to a sometimes vexing level of inflexibility.

§  To ISTJs, either something’s been done right or it’s been done wrong, and sugar-coating it or walking away isn’t going to fix it.

§  They are very intolerant of their subordinates’ failures to meet their obligations, and one of those obligations is to stick to the plan

§  ISTJ personalities are capable of laying down hard criticism, and their willingness to make tough decisions can make perceived insubordination the final trespass

7.     Self harm

§  When ISTJs say they are going to get something done, they do it, meeting their obligations no matter the personal cost,

§  They report their own mistakes and tell the truth even when the consequences for doing so could be disastrous.

§  Major weakness is co-workers and significant others shift their responsibilities onto them, knowing that they will always take up the slack

§  ISTJs need to remember to take care of themselves – their stubborn dedication to stability and efficiency can compromise those goals in the long term as others lean ever-harder on them, creating an emotional strain that can go unexpressed for years, only finally coming out after it’s too late to fix

§  ISTJs would rather run themselves into the ground with extra days and lost sleep than fail to deliver the results they said they would

§  Since they’ve heaped the responsibility on themselves, ISTJs then believe the responsibility for failure is theirs alone to bear.

§  ISTJs crave responsibility, which makes them the go-to subordinates for odds and ends and unpopular projects

8.     Work structure

§  Have their authority clearly established by hierarchy, where they can set and achieve their goals without debate

§  Truly unstructured environments leave ISTJs all but paralyzed

§  They crave dependability, and that is reflected in their choice of work

§  Institutions of respected tradition, authority, security, and established consistency

§  ISTJs working alone, which is usually their preference, but when teams are necessary, they are best defined by clearly outlined roles, responsibilities and work environments.

§  ISTJ personality type seeks structure, clearly defined rules, and respect for authority and hierarchy

§  The change that comes with assuming those new responsibilities, or in losing old ones, is often a significant struggle for ISTJs.

§  ISTJs value peace and security in the workplace

§  Pressing themselves hard to meet their obligations, ISTJs regularly go above and beyond their duties so a depressurized environment is preferred

I hope you found this information helpful and it would be great to hear from you so please leave a comment below.

Amazing Motivational Speaker Jim Rohn's How To Have The Best Life Ever Seminar And Notes

Jim Rohn is the most inspirational motivational speaker I have ever seen. He appeals to me because he is very concise and his comments are extremely profound and digestible. More commonly referred to as a Business Philospher Jim Rohn has mentored millions of people via his seminars, books and videos aswell as personally mentoring hundreds of people including motivational speaker Tony Robbins.

Having listened to Tony Robbins for many months without results (they always led to him needing you to buy more of his products !!)  I looked into Tony Robbins' background and heard that he was mentored by a man called Jim Rohn. I looked Jim up and came across his seminar called 'How to have the best life ever'. I watched it and it changed my life. Needless to say I never listened to another Tony Robbins CD again. 

The seminar is jam packed with excellent information, reassurance, encouragement, fantastic quotes aswell as simple and powerful philosophies. Below is the video and the notes/transcript I made when I was listening to the seminar. The notes like Jim are concise and to the point !.

I hope that this seminar is as enjoyable and insightful as it was for me. I would love to hear your Jim Rohn stories in my comments section, so please share.

Without further ado the legend Jim Rohn.

How To Have The Best Life Ever - Jim Rohn Seminar

Seminar Notes Of Jim Rohn's Philosophy And Quotes

Time is more valuable than money, you can always get more money but you can never get more time.

Make sure what you do is the product of your own conclusion - Don’t be a follower be a student

Information or a person may be shown to a multitude of people but you will always get a different reaction. Some people will believe, some people will be confused, some people will mock and laugh. DONT try and straighten this out, the mockers and laughers will always mock and laugh.

A persons personal philosophy is a major factor of how someones life turns out. - Each person’s personal philosophy is like the set of the sail

Definition of failure : A few errors in judgement repeated everyday. If you continue to do it, it will accumulate into disaster. Look at them (errors) as to what they will cost you in 6 months, 6 years etc.

Definition of success :  A few simple disciplines practiced everyday.

Eliminate the errors and replace it with disciplines practiced.

Don't wish things were easier, wish that you were better.

Start where its easy and then move onto the more complicated disciplines.

Attitude – We’re affected by how we feel about the past. Use it as a school not a club that we beat ourselves with. How you feel about the future – set goals, promise of the future – without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.

How you feel about everybody else – you have to feel good about people as it takes people to make a business, economy , country systems.

How you feel about yourself. Understanding self worth, if anyone can do it, you can do it. IF HE CAN DO IT I CAN DO IT.

Life change does not start with inspiration, it starts with education. Education to see where you’ve messed up.

Activity – Taking action -  Is the miracle working piece – The labour. God says if you plant the seed i’ll make the tree. Do what you can – Do the best you can.

Question to ask as you make a list – “What am i not doing that would be easy to do, that could greatly change my health and my wealth”.

If you handed a problem to a miracle worker what would he say..... “No problem”. You’ve gotta hang out with people like that. People like that would read as many books as it takes to solve the problem, they would do whatever it takes.

Could + should + wont = disaster

Could + should + don’t = disaster

Could + should + will = Action (miracle)

Do what you can – Clean up the things that you should be doing.

Results you have to take a measure and see how you are doing. Results are all there is , the only thing that matters.

Success is a numbers game. Check your own numbers.

If you wish to be wealthy , study wealth. How good is your current economic plan. Why wouldn’t you have a superior financial plan that is going to take you to where you want to go.

If you wish to be happy, study happiness.  Happiness isn’t something you postpone it is something you design, it’s a study , a practice and an art. Don’t be lazy in learning, how to do well and how to live well.

Its not what happens that determines your future, its what you do about it - You cannot change the circumstances but you can change yourself.

What you have at the moment you’ve attracted from the person you’ve become. If you will change, everything will change for you. To have more you simply have to become more.

Dont wish for less problems, wish for more skills.

We get paid by bringing value to the marketplace – marketplace is also described as “reality”. It takes time to bring value to the market place. We don’t get paid for time , we get paid for value.

If you’re not very valuable you don’t get much money.

You can’t get rich by demand.

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you’ll make a living, if you work hard on yourself you’ll make a fortune.

Life and business is like the seasons. You cannot change the seasons but you can change yourself.

Human history – life = opportunity mixed with difficulty

1. Learn how to handle the winters. The downtime , the discouraging time , when things go wrong. In winter, get wiser, stronger and better.  
2. Learn how to take advantage of the spring. Spring follows winter. Spring is called ‘opportunity’, everyday is a new opportunity.  Opportunity keeps coming but you need to take advantage. Learn to plant in the spring. Sieze the day , seize the moment, seize the opportunity.
3. In the summer learn how to nourish and protect. Become capable to nourish whats good and defend yourself from threats. As soon as you plant your garden weeds and bugs will try and take it and they will unless your protect it. Deal with the weeds, kill the weeds. Take sword to your enemies. Love like a mother hate like a father. Anything that is valuable to you, you have to nourish and defend it.
4. In autumn/ harvest. Learn to reap without complaint. Take full responsibility for what you get. No complaint and no apology. No complaint if you haven’t done badly and no apology if you’ve done well.

Take care of yourself. Treat your body like a temple – something you take extremely good care of. Its the only place you’ve got to live.  Vitality is a major part of success.

Appearance is important. Never have a second chance to make a first impression. God looks on the inside, people look on the outside. Makes sure the outside is a major reflection of what is happening on the inside.

Spirituality – study it and practice it.

Personal development, mental development takes time.

Be ready to defend your virtues and your values. Information is the key, learning is the beginning of wealth, health, prosperity.

5 Abilities

Develop the ability to absorb – most people are just trying to get through the day, you must become committed to get from the day. Commit yourself to learning and absorbing.

Casualness leads to casualties.

Learn to respond – let life touch you, don’t let it kill you but let is touch. Let sad things make you sad, let happy things make you happy. Give into the emotions. Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. Its important to know how to feel and how to respond.

Develop the ability to reflect, study it again – go back over the notes, mp3s video. Go back over the day, keep a journal to capture that day. Lock in the experience the knowledge, colour emotion and picture. Take a few hours at the end of the week as time to reflect, go back over your calendar. Take half a day at the end of the month.  Solitude is important in reflecting especially if there is alot going on and people are demanding your time.Its important to reflect because the aim is to make the past more valuable so it serves you in the future. Its powerful to gather up the past and invest it in the future.

Work on yourself and then you bring more value to every area of your life. Self development is the best contribution. Not self sacrifice as this only attracts contempt self development attracts respect. Self sacrifice is not noble. “I’ll take care of me for you, if you please take care of you for me”. Develop the strength and the power, so that we bring more and we do this if you follow the absorb, respond and reflect.

Develop the ability to act- not hasty if it isn’t required but don’t waste much time. The time to act is when the idea is hot and the emotion is strong. Action as soon as possible, the law of diminishing intent. If you don’t put the idea into action it diminishes over time. Set up a discipline. Disciplines are how you capture capture the emotion and the wisdom and transform it into equity. All disciplines affect each other. Everything affects everything else. Everything matters.

Every let down affects the rest of your performance.

Every new disciplines affects the rest. Greatest value of discipline is self worth, self esteem and self respect. When you do less than your best it starts to erode your psyche. Neglect starts as an infection and if you don’t take care of it, it becomes a disease and one neglect leads to another it diminishes our self worth, self value and self esteem.

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."

Poor people don’t talk like they talk don’t do what they do, don’t blame what they blame. Do the best you can.

Rest very little. Make rest a necessity not an objective. The purpose of life isn’t to rest its to act.

Invest your life in disciplines so its not wasted.

Develop the ability to share, if you get a good idea, pass it along. If you share with 10 different people they get to hear it once you get to hear it 10 times.

When someone shares everybody wins. If you share it makes you bigger than you are. You should want your capacity to grow so you can hold more of the next experience.

If you’re small you don’t get much, if you’re small in comprehension, think and wonder, appreciation it doesn’t matter how much prosperity is poured on you you wont get it.

Goals are your vision of the future. Two ways to face the future. 1. With apprehension 2. With anticipation.

People face life with apprehension because they don’t have their life well designed so they fall into someone else plans. And what do people have planned for you ‘not much’. You have to count on your own ability to design the future. If you are apprehensive and take hesitant steps for six years it will mount up in disaster. The price is easy  if the promise is clear and powerful.

If you can’t see, you don’t want to pay the price.

Goals : Decide what you want and write it down. The reason why you set a big goal isn’t to get the goal its what it makes of you in your pursuit of it. The greatest value in life isn’t what you get, its what you become.

Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them. What will this make of me in this process.

Dont set your goals to low. Dont join an easy crowd you wont grow. Go where the expectation, pressure and demand is high.

Dont compromise and don’t sell out. Count the cost. The greatest source of unhappiness is self unhappiness. Doing less than you can thats where it starts, not feeling good about yourself.

Financial

Out of a pound (or dollar) – never spend more than 70, with the other 30 – 10 charity – 10 active capital i.e trying to make a profit yourself buy and sell render service. Profits are better than wages. 10 passive capital – you provide the capital and they use it to make money and then they pay you interest. You are passive and they are active.

These numbers are the ideal. Its not the amount that counts its the plan that counts. If you had a better plan you would have more money. This the philosophy it is the set of sail.

“ If your outgo exceeds your income then your upkeep becomes your downfall”

Become profit minded - Leave a profit every where some are tangible some are intangible. Just leave something better than you left it. Dont leave it worse – touch something and leave it better than you found it. Become a person who leaves a profit don’t be a person that whatever you touch turns to trash, whatever you touch gets dirty, nothing you touch gets better , its poor philosophy no wonder it leads to poverty, small lives as one writer called it ‘living a life of quiet desperation’.

1. Keep strict accounts this is the best of disciplines.
2. A new attitude. Get passed hating to pay taxes. Taxes are how you feed and take care of the goose that lays the golden egg. Better a fat goose than no goose. Not everyone hates to pay there bills, it is possible to love to pay your bills, reduce your liabilities increase your assets. Keep the money in circulation.
3. Everybody must pay. We must all pay a price.

Communication

Words can work miracles. Is it possible to create light with words. Nothing more magical or powerful than words as they can affect people lives.

Have something good to say. Communication starts with preparation.

Interest – develop a new interest in life, in people, economics, politics religion.

Fascination – kids learn so much first 6 years because they are so fascinated. Turn frustration into fascination if you can, you’ll learn more.

Sensitivity – is so important. People that aren’t like you, where people are coming from where they’ve bin, people that have difficulties and challenges where they find themselves. He was touched and moved by where he found people. Remembering what its like to be in that situation that is the key to sensitivity. If i want to get in touch with other peoples difficulty i need to remember my own difficulty and let it hurt again. Emotion close to the surface and then well chosen words delivered with emotion.

Say it well

1. Sincerity
2. Repetition – it is the mother of all skill
3. Brevity – sometimes you don’t need many words if you’re sincere. Jesus could attract followers with few words because “OF ALL THAT HE WAS THAT HE DIDN’T HAVE TO SAY”.
4. Vocabulary – definitely a relationship between vocabulary and behaviour. The more limited the vocabulary the more tendency for poor behaviour. Words are a way of seeing and if you don’t have a good vocabulary you cant see very well. Words are a way of expressing whats going on in your head and your heart. Stretch your vocabulary.
5. Read your audience – if you’re talking to someone read there face body language to see if you should come on a little stronger, ease back etc. Read by what you see – body language. Read what you hear and listen to the response. Read what you feel – read the emotional signals.
6. Intensity – words mixed with emotion. Words mixed with hate, love, faith, courage that is what is powerful.  Put more of you into what you say. Don't be casual in words. Emotions must be measured, it can’t be too much for the occasion if its not called for. Don't shoot a cannon at a rabbit. “ WELL CHOSEN WORDS MIXED WITH MEASURED EMOTION”. The more you care the stronger you can be.

There is a time to laugh and a time to cry. How can you identify with people if you can’t feel their emotions. Learn to master the negative, it makes us better than we are to wrestle with it.

The day that turns your life around

1. Disgust – I’ve had it !. The day you say enough is enough.
2. Decision – Clean up a list of decision it could furnish enough inspiration for the next 5 ten years.
3. Desire – wanting to bad enough. Sometimes desire waits for a trigger. Confrontation with an enemy a friend that finally levels with you. Welcome every experience you never know what is gonna turn everything on.  Break down the walls, the same walls that keep out disappointment keeps out happiness.
4. Resolve – says ‘i will’ two of the most powerful words in the language. Promise yourself that you will never give up. Promise yourself you will read and watch seminars UNTIL you get it. You’ll discover the worlds best treasure when you pay that price.

Learn to help people with their lives not just their job. Help people with their lives, dreams , mistakes.

If you work on your gifts they will make room for you.