[00:05] so we created this in our minds false
[00:08] evidence appearing real we made it real
[00:11] in our minds that's why churches said
[00:14] there's nothing to fear but fear itself
[00:18] that's the destructive monster so turn
[00:22] off things that can contribute to your
[00:24] fear turn a deaf ear to people that all
[00:28] they can do is talk about how negative
[00:30] things are because they have brought
[00:32] into the consciousness of the
[00:34] world start attending workshops seminars
[00:38] listening to tapes on a daily basis to
[00:40] begin to recondition your mind to
[00:42] retrain your thinking faith comes by
[00:45] what hearing and hearing and hearing
[00:47] listen to things that can Empower you
[00:49] that can enable you to create a new
[00:51] reality for yourself in a new life for
[00:53] yourself you might appear to be strange
[00:55] around most people you know most people
[00:57] think you're strange if you're happy
[00:59] today
[01:00] people say how you doing I said better
[01:01] than good whoa what's wrong with
[01:04] him just go around smiling and watch
[01:07] people look at is this a weird guy over
[01:09] here because most people don't smile
[01:11] watch him look at their faces in the
[01:13] morning here we go another Monday
[01:16] morning how you doing haven't had my
[01:18] coffee yet don't ask
[01:21] me see these people have not found their
[01:24] purpose in life that's why they're
[01:25] grumpy that's why they're miserable
[01:27] that's why they're so negative they're
[01:29] hurting and they want to hurt other
[01:32] people so start practicing using
[01:35] programs for your mind seminars books
[01:38] workshops keep a Journal Record your
[01:41] thoughts what's happening with you every
[01:44] day when you get up have a journal near
[01:47] you I use the Jack bowlan Journal so
[01:49] that I can write down my ideas I keep it
[01:51] by my bed so I can write down my
[01:54] thoughts see ladies and gentlemen we get
[01:57] three to four thoughts a year that if we
[01:59] would act those thoughts they can change
[02:02] our
[02:03] life when you don't have a true
[02:06] appreciation an acceptance for who you
[02:09] are and you allow yourself to be
[02:11] immobilized by fear what happens in the
[02:13] process is that you begin to abuse
[02:15] yourself you begin to sabotage your life
[02:18] you begin to sabotage your dreams you
[02:20] begin to unconsciously work against
[02:23] yourself you become Your Own Worst Enemy
[02:26] so what do you do about that well you
[02:29] you begin to realize that your dream and
[02:32] your gifts have so much meaning and so
[02:35] much value for you till your hunger for
[02:38] them will begin to push you past the
[02:41] fear your hunger to have them will give
[02:44] you a special
[02:46] drive as you work on yourself as you
[02:49] begin to acknowledge your true identity
[02:52] the true power that you have the true
[02:56] capacity you have to bring about change
[02:58] the miracle working power that you have
[03:01] within yourself to do the things that
[03:03] you want to do when you take them on I'm
[03:06] reminded of a man
[03:07] who this
[03:09] gentleman was doing a special study of a
[03:12] special tribe in Africa head hunters and
[03:16] he had difficulty in developing a
[03:18] relationship with these tribesmen
[03:20] because of the fact that he had fear he
[03:22] had fear they would take his head so he
[03:25] worked there for a long time with no
[03:26] effort no progress in developing
[03:29] relation ship and Rapport and being able
[03:31] to achieve a level of trust so finally
[03:35] one night while he was in bed he was
[03:37] thinking about I said what what is it
[03:39] that you came here to do what does your
[03:40] life work as a missionary he said I
[03:42] wanted to study these
[03:44] tribesmen said what's the worst thing
[03:46] that they can do to you kill you and he
[03:50] just decided hey this is what I came
[03:52] here to do I know that there's some risk
[03:54] involved and I'm going to do it come
[03:57] what me he said I'm not going to going
[03:59] to be afraid anymore he went back the
[04:02] next day and he started doing the work
[04:04] and trying to talk to and interview many
[04:06] of the members of this tribe and they
[04:09] begin to respond to him they threw out
[04:11] the welcome that to him and years later
[04:14] when people came to see what his
[04:16] progress was they asked him how were you
[04:20] able to do this how did you convert the
[04:22] relationship from being hostile to that
[04:25] of being positive and he said something
[04:28] I think has value for all of us
[04:30] he said when life can no longer threaten
[04:33] you with death he said what else is
[04:36] [Music]
[04:38] there and the majority of the fears that
[04:41] we have are not life or death fears
[04:44] they're not those kind of fears but
[04:47] through our
[04:48] imagination we blow them out of
[04:51] proportion and we give them more power
[04:54] than they actually have or
[04:56] deserve and we permit them to govern Our
[05:00] Lives we permit them to determine how
[05:03] far we can stretch out on our dreams and
[05:06] discovering our
[05:07] stuff and as we begin to look at
[05:10] ourselves and and begin to wait a minute
[05:13] just getting to the point as you assess
[05:16] yourself and and begin to prove yourself
[05:19] and just say wait hold a minute hold a
[05:21] minute I've been sweating this
[05:24] out what can what's the worst thing that
[05:26] can happen to me on this will it kill me
[05:30] will I die wh why am I going through all
[05:33] of these changes over this how much
[05:36] power does this really have and am I the
[05:38] one that's feeding the power into it see
[05:41] a lot of times we we allow ourselves to
[05:44] be fed and to be programmed to to being
[05:46] afraid of you watch the news and read
[05:48] the newspaper you''ll be scared to come
[05:50] out the
[05:51] house am I
[05:53] right You' be
[05:56] afraid so what kinds of things what
[05:58] kinds of thoughts are you feeding your
[06:00] Consciousness what kind of things are
[06:02] you putting in your mind that will
[06:04] enable you to either move forward or to
[06:07] justify why you're staying where you
[06:10] are I used to be a doorto door salesman
[06:13] I had X number of TVs I had a minimum
[06:16] amount that I knew I had to sell every
[06:18] day in order to provide for my mother
[06:20] who was Ill at the time who had lost her
[06:22] job at the Eminem cafeteria because of
[06:24] arthritis and I said I'm going to go
[06:28] door too and some sometimes I would not
[06:30] come home until 1:00 at night knocking
[06:32] on people door people closing what do
[06:35] you want would you like to buy a nice
[06:36] working month's television set no money
[06:38] down no what about an Emerson TV no
[06:42] thank you very much do you know anybody
[06:44] else that would be interested no thank
[06:46] you very kindly knock going another
[06:48] hello would you like to buy a nice
[06:50] working television set no money down no
[06:52] get away from our door thank you very
[06:53] kindly do you know anybody else would be
[06:55] yeah my cousin he lives $2 do down thank
[06:58] you very kindly I tell him you sent me
[07:00] when now hey your cousin told me that
[07:01] you wanted to buy television said told
[07:03] me to come here and talk to you we got a
[07:04] special discount for you yes come in I'm
[07:06] interested I would just keep right on I
[07:09] would not go home until I did it it's an
[07:13] interesting thing ladies and gentlemen
[07:15] that when we put ourselves in a
[07:17] situation where we say we're going to do
[07:20] it it it puts you in another
[07:23] Zone where the universe responds to you
[07:26] when you have that kind of Consciousness
[07:28] see the universe ver responds to the man
[07:31] or woman that refuses to be
[07:34] denied because that is your commitment
[07:36] that business that you want that book
[07:38] you want to write that dream that you
[07:40] have of controlling your destiny that is
[07:44] yours that power to create that and to
[07:46] manifest that that is yours that's
[07:49] available to you but you've got to be
[07:51] willing to stand there and face
[07:53] disappointment not have support be
[07:56] lonely doubt yourself sometimes be re
[07:59] rejected again and again and again
[08:01] become bankrupt if necessary again and
[08:03] again and again and refuse to turn
[08:05] around until life gives it up nothing
[08:09] can resist a person that has that kind
[08:12] of commitment the people that have made
[08:14] a difference on the planet when a John F
[08:16] Kennedy said we will go to the
[08:19] moon in the next decade he spoke it that
[08:23] was a commitment and people shared that
[08:25] Vision people bought into
[08:28] that we've had had all kind of examples
[08:30] in history where people have made
[08:32] declarations who have committed their
[08:34] lives to bring about a difference there
[08:35] are people who taking a stand today
[08:37] against hunger I guarantee you it will
[08:40] be a part of our past at some point in
[08:43] time someone took a stand against polio
[08:46] it no longer plagues us as it once did
[08:49] because someone said it is my commitment
[08:52] to eradicate it from the face of the
[08:54] Earth someone made the commitment the
[08:57] reason that we're here and enjoy joying
[08:59] a democracy that we have someone made a
[09:01] commitment that whatever is required if
[09:04] it means that I die I remember Paul
[09:06] Roberson here I stand for I can do no
[09:09] other and that's how you must be
[09:12] commitment means standing up for your
[09:14] life it means honoring yourself it means
[09:18] it means beginning to say and to to see
[09:21] and recognize your alignment and Oneness
[09:23] with the universe and that you are a
[09:25] channel for life to express through and
[09:29] we short circuit it with anger we short
[09:31] circuit it with
[09:33] fear we short circuit it with with Envy
[09:37] we shortcircuit it by being lazy or
[09:39] apathetic or giving up easily why why
[09:42] why we say oh it's too hard it's too
[09:44] hard we don't challenge our spirit
[09:46] ladies and gentlemen there's nothing as
[09:47] powerful as the human Spirit you can't
[09:50] destroy it you can pervert it but you
[09:53] can't destroy I I was reading Man's
[09:55] Search for meaning by Victor Frankle
[09:58] what a powerful book I'm reading it now
[10:00] for the seventh time and he gives so
[10:04] many graphic examples of of the power of
[10:07] the human spirit and so what are some of
[10:10] the things that can can fortify us and
[10:14] and give us the kind of inner strength
[10:16] that will allow us to forward ourselves
[10:18] into the future by manifesting our
[10:21] commitments number one commitment means
[10:23] in some cases going back to school
[10:26] getting some training sitting up in
[10:28] class with people younger than you
[10:32] putting yourself in a position where you
[10:33] don't know and that is awkward and
[10:35] uncomfortable but because of your
[10:37] commitment to develop yourself or to go
[10:39] back to school to get a high school
[10:40] diploma or to get a college degree that
[10:42] it doesn't matter feeling dumb and
[10:44] saying what am I doing here sitting up
[10:46] in some boring
[10:48] class commitment could mean a lot of
[10:50] things it could mean that you begin to
[10:52] go back you got to back up sometimes
[10:55] means to back up and not give up to
[10:57] regroup back up and regroup and come
[11:00] back again because life has way laay you
[11:03] because you got knocked
[11:05] down I think that it's very important
[11:08] that you start trusting yourself listen
[11:11] to
[11:12] yourself listen to that still Small
[11:14] Voice Within you don't try and make
[11:17] everything logical there are some things
[11:20] about life that defies logic that you
[11:23] just can't explain how the outcome is
[11:25] going to be that once you begin to trust
[11:28] yourself and your ideas and your
[11:30] instincts life takes in a whole new
[11:32] meaning because now I want you to do
[11:34] that feeling that you are LED just feel
[11:38] I am LED I remember the worst speech I
[11:41] had ever given in my
[11:43] life I let someone exploit a fear that I
[11:49] had for years I had a tremendous
[11:51] inferiority complex because I'm not
[11:54] college
[11:56] educated and this person knew this and
[11:59] she said let me write this speech for
[12:02] you you're going to speak at Ohio State
[12:05] University those people are very
[12:07] educated there and they're going to know
[12:09] when you make grammatical errors and
[12:10] they're going to know because of the
[12:11] substance of your speech that you are
[12:14] not literate I I care about you I don't
[12:17] want you to embarrass yourself so this
[12:20] person proceeded to write a speech for
[12:22] me I had a speech in my mind but this
[12:26] person was Stronger Than I Was
[12:28] negatively than I was positive about my
[12:30] own thoughts and I gave my power away
[12:34] with my permission I allowed this person
[12:38] to guide me to do something that I
[12:40] really didn't want to do but I didn't
[12:42] feel enough inner strength and
[12:43] conviction about my skills as a speaker
[12:46] and the message that I had to bring to
[12:48] stick by my guns and I got up there at
[12:52] the Ohio Union and I read this straight
[12:55] speech and did not move and did not take
[12:58] my eyes off the page because I'm not
[13:01] accustomed to
[13:02] reading and after I finished them people
[13:04] gave me a standing ovation because I
[13:06] read it extremely well and I was very
[13:08] tense and I was very nervous ladies and
[13:11] gentlemen don't give your power away you
[13:13] don't need anybody to approve your dream
[13:16] it was given to you if they can't see it
[13:19] it's because it wasn't given to them it
[13:21] was given to you hold it nourish it
[13:24] cultivate it work on it it's yours it's
[13:27] your baby work on it until it comes into
[13:30] fruition I gave away my power and I said
[13:34] I'm not going to do that no more here's
[13:36] something else for those who make it
[13:38] today do what you know is
[13:40] right treat people like you want to be
[13:43] treated don't try and take any shortcuts
[13:47] don't try and cheat pay your dues up
[13:50] front I believe ladies and gentlemen
[13:53] what goes around comes around you can
[13:57] pay now or or you will pay double later
[14:01] so do the right thing there might be a
[14:05] tendency sometimes because of the
[14:07] negative part of our Consciousness and
[14:10] our own programming for us to want to
[14:13] say well I just do it this time it won't
[14:15] matter won't nobody know ladies and
[14:17] gentlemen everything matters and you
[14:21] know you're somebody you
[14:23] know I rather lose out on my dream doing
[14:28] the right thing than the cheat trying to
[14:32] make a shortcut to get to my goal I want
[14:35] to be able to look myself in the mirror
[14:37] and that's what you want to do there's
[14:40] no saying judge a man not by what he
[14:41] does but by that that he doesn't have to
[14:43] do and to judge the true quality of a
[14:45] man is what do you do when nobody's
[14:47] looking see there's some good out there
[14:49] for you in the universe that has your
[14:51] name on it and nobody can get your good
[14:55] it has your name on it they can't take
[14:57] your stuff it's your
[15:00] stuff so when you know that when you
[15:03] know that whatever you're seeking it's
[15:05] also seeking you you don't worry you
[15:09] don't run scared you don't think
[15:11] somebody's going to take it from you you
[15:15] listen to your inner voice and you
[15:17] always take the high road there will be
[15:20] the tendency the natural inclination to
[15:23] take the low road you must resist that
[15:26] here's something else I encourage you to
[15:28] do if you want to make it to
[15:29] keep your
[15:30] agreements keep your agreements that you
[15:32] make and establish a network of people
[15:36] who will also do that establish a
[15:39] network of people in your life that you
[15:41] can count on that will be there for you
[15:44] when you need them and you be there for
[15:47] them here's the other thing is you're
[15:49] working on your dream a lot of people
[15:50] have been calling me saying hey man I
[15:52] read about you in Evony boy you're lucky
[15:55] ladies and gentlemen let me tell you
[15:56] something here's something else three PS
[15:59] to have in your life and working on your
[16:01] dream and doing your life work you must
[16:02] be patient persistent and positive no
[16:06] matter
[16:27] what