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 We could do the most incredible things if you have enough reasons. See reasons will change your whole life. 

Mister Shaw said to me, he said, Mister Ron, I think you've got plenty of intel you've got plenty of talent, you've got plenty of ability, probably what you lack is plenty of reasons, he said. 

I don't think your current bank balance is a true indication of your level of intelligence. 

I was happy to hear that, he said. Uh, think you're much smarter than your present bank balance indicates. 

And, uh, that turned out to be true. I was much smarter. 

But, of course, my first question was, well, then why isn't it bigger? 

And he said, you don't have enough reasons. You've got enough intelligence, but not enough reasons. 

 So, see, reasons can change your life. Here's what else I found out. 

Reasons come first, answers come second. 

 You don't get the answers to do well till you get the reasons. 

Uh, life has a mysterious way of hanging on to all the answers and only gives them up to the people that are inspired by reasons. 

So reasons make the difference in how your life works out. 

Now what are some of the reasons for doing well? 

 Let's go through a, uh, quick list called reasons for doing well. First is personal reasons. 

Some people do well for recognition. Uh, some people do well for respect. 

Uh, they, uh, some people do well for the way it makes them feel. 

They love the feeling of being a winner. Those are good reasons. 

I have some millionaire friends that keep working 10, 12 hours a day, making more millions. 

And it's not because they need the money. 

It's because they need the joy and the satisfaction and the pleasure that come from being a constant winner. 

And see, it's not just the money anyway. It's the journey, not the money. 

Uh, once in a while, somebody says to me, boy, if I had $1,000,000, I'd never work another day in my life. 

That's probably why the good lord sees to it. They don't get their 1,000,000. Right? They'd quit. They'd quit. Okay. 

Next is family reasons. Some people do extremely well for other people, and that's powerful. 

 And beings can greatly affect each other. 

 Sometimes we will do things for somebody else we will not do for ourselves. 

 We are made that way. 

Uh, I met a man one time who said, Mister Rowan, to do all of the things I wanna do with my family around the world. 

He said I got to have at least 25 of $1,000,000 a year. I thought incredible. 

 Could a guy's family affecting that much? 

And the answer is, of course, how fortunate are the people that find themselves greatly affected by somebody for personal achievement, and we are affected. 

The writer of a recent song said. If not for you, the winner would hold no, spring. 

Couldn't hear a Robin thing. I just wouldn't a clue if not for you so we can be affected. 

That might be one of the most stimulating reasons to do well, finding somebody. 

When Andrew Carnegie died, the wee little Scotsmen that built the big steel industry. 

When he died, they opened up his desk. 

And in one of the straws, they found a slip of paper. 

On that piece of paper, Mister Carnegie had written his goal for his life, and he wrote it when he was in his twenties. 

 And on that piece of paper, it said, I'm going to spend the first half of my life accumulating money. 

I'm gonna spend the last half of my life giving it all away. What a goal he got. 

So inspired by that goal of that the first half of his life, he accumulated $450 a $1,000,000. 

In the last half of his life, he gave it all away. Good question, night. 

Uh, what's got you turned on? 

What's got you bummed out of sight to get up early and stay up late and hit it all day? 

Next question. What's got you turned off? 

When I found the answers to those 2 questions, my life exploded into change, finally found out what had me turned off, and I got that cured. 

And then I got me a long enough list of reasons to turn me on. 

And once the lights went on for me, age 25, they've never gone out. 

 I've fallen out of the sky a few times, but I never lost that drive to make something unique of my life. 

See, reasons altered my whole life. Now there's another list of reasons called nitty gritty, hard little reasons. 

Sometimes those little reasons are the most powerful reasons that can change your life. 

 Sometimes it doesn't take much. Uh, now it carries several $100 in my money clip. 

It's only a few $100, but it was one of those reasons turned my life around. 

 Just before I met Mister Shell, I heard a knock at the door. 

I go to the door, and there's a little girl standing there about this tall selling girl scout cookies. 

And she gave me one of the finest sales presentations I've ever heard special deals, several flavors. 

This whole package of stuff, $2, 0, and with a big smile. 

So very politely asked me to buy, and I wanted to. Big problem. I'm broke. 

I don't have 2 dogs. Until this day, I can remember the pain and the embarrassment. 

 I'm a father. I'm a husband. I've been to college. I'm working. I'm 25. 

I don't have $2.00, and I didn't wanna tell her that. For some reason. 

So I did what I thought was next best. I lied to it. I said, hey. Look. 

I've already bought lots of, uh, uh, girl scout cookies. 

 I've still got plenty stacked in the house, which was not true, but it seemed to get me off the hook for the moment. 

She said, well, gosh, that's wonderful. Thank you very much, and she went away. 

Uh, when she left, I closed the door, and that was the day I said to myself, I don't wanna live like anymore. 

Uh, I've had it with lying, and I've had it with being broke. 

I'm never going to let this happen to me ever again. 

I promised that day I would work as hard as possible. And would always carry plenty. 

It took me a little while, but now I do. It was one of those reasons. 

 And I guess I carry plenty for 2 reasons. 1 is the the way it makes me feel, but also in case I bump into another girl scout selling cookies. 

 Alright? I'm ready. I walked out of the Bank of America, one time up in Saratoga, California where I used to live. 

2 little girls selling candy right outside the bank. But play some girls organization they're working for. Right? 

I come walking out of the bank. This first little girl walk up to me. 

She said, Mister, would you like to buy some candy? I said, I probably would. 

What kind is it? She said, it's all Monroca. I said, my gosh. They my favorite. She said, wonderful. 

I said, how much is it? She said it's just $2.00. I thought incredible. 

I said, how many boxes of that candy have you got? 

He said 5 and her little friend was standing there. She was selling candy too. 

So how many boxes have you got? She said, uh, I've got 4 I said, that's 9. 

I'll take them all. They said, reeks. He said, yeah. It's my favorite. I've got some friends. 

I'll pass them around. They got so excited. Put all this candy together. 

I reached in my pocket and gave them the $18. 

But I've got the candy, and they've got the money. 

The first little girl looked up, looks up me. She says, Miss Byrd. You're really something. How about that? 

Can you imagine only spending $18? 

0 and have somebody look at you in the face and say you were really something. 

Now you know why I carry heavy, right? I'm not going to miss anymore. 

It was just one of those reasons helped to change my life. 

One of my nitty gritty reasons was budget finance. 

 Budget Finance used to grind my soul, uh, way back in those early days. 

I had fallen for one of those consolidation loans where you take all your hard to pay bills, put them into one big impossible to pay bill. 

Right? I would get 4 or 5 payments behind this. 

One guy used to call me day night, and I don't think they're allowed to do that anymore. 

Erast me threatened to run me in front of the judge threatened to ruin my credit, threatened to embarrass my family one day. 

He said, we're gonna come get your car. 

Drag it rear end up down the street in front of your neighbors. Bye bye. 

He called me a flake. And back in those days, I'm broke. I'm pitiful. 

There's nothing I can do, Dee, about it. But I never forgot how the guy treated me. 

And when I met Mister Shoe and I got my life started straightened out and the money started to flow, that was one of my first project's budget finance. 

I ported on day night. I finally put all the money together. I owed him, which was considerable. 

I picked a day for the payoff and win the payoff day. 

 Um, the payoff day came. 

I put the money in small bills in a big briefcase, and I walked into the budget finance office on Wilshire Bulte. 

 In Los Angeles, the guy who harassed me so often his desk was about 3 back. 

Walked right up his desk, startled. He wondered what I was doing there. 

It was the first time I've been there since I borrowed the money, right, without saying a word, I opened up this briefcase dumped this pile of money all over his desk. 

I said, count it. It's all there. I will never be back, and I turned around and stormed out. 

Now that might not be noble. 

If you haven't tried it, you've got to one time so that it can be the day that turns your life around. 

All you need is the reason that turns you on. 

One of my dear friends, Robert De Pew Bobby used to be a school teacher in Lindsey, Olive Capitol of the World. 

Bobby taught school several years, got a little weary teaching school one day, decided he wanted to get into sales. 

So without telling anybody, he'd just up and quit job teaching school and jumped into sales when he did. 

 His brother made fun of him laughed at him, put him down, said Roberts. 

Uh, lost his mind, had a good job teaching school. Now he thinks he's a sales. 

He's gonna go down the drain, lose everything. Just put him down something fierce. 

Bobby said, The way my brother acted when he got into sales, he said, that made me so mad. 

I decided to get rich. And my question for you tonight is, is possible to get that man. 

Of course, wealth is not a matter of intelligence. It's a matter of inspiration. 

 Today, Robert happens to be one of my millionaire friends. Bobby's rich. 

Frank Sinatra said one time, he best revenge is massive success. 

It gets you a long enough list of reasons so that after tonight, you never lack for inspiration. 

You might not have all the answers right away, but you can get the answers if you the reasons. 

 Your better future is a dream for yourself and for your family. 

Where do you wanna go? What do you wanna do? What do you wanna be? 

Uh, what do you wanna see? You gotta dream dreams. 

There's a Bible phrase that says without dreams and visions, people perish you've gotta have something to go for that inspires the heart ▪ and the soul. 

 And dreams from the children of Sanchez It says take the crumbs from starving soldiers. They won't die. 

Take the bread from hungry children. They won't cry. But without dreams, we all will die. 

You've got to dream. Don't lose your dream. For yourself, for your future. For your family. 

The dreams of love and enterprise and travel and doing things becoming something unique on your journey here. 

Don't lose your dreams. Do some dreaming. Here's the big challenge of life. 

 You can have more than you've got because you can become more than you are. That's the challenge. 

And, of course, the other side the coin reads. 

Uh, unless you change how you are, you'll always have what you got. 

I have found in my experience that income does not far seed personal development. 

You know, sometimes income takes a lucky jump, but sure enough, unless you grow out where it is, it'll usually come back where you are. 

 Life has strange ways. If somebody hands you $1,000,000 best, you become a millionaire quickly. 

 So you get to keep the money. Otherwise, sure enough, it'll disappear. 

Uh, somebody once said, if you took all the money in the world, divided it up equally among everybody, it would soon all be back in the same pockets. 

Incredible. Success is something you attract, not something you pursue. 

Success is looking for a good place to stay. 

Uh, so instead of going after it, you work on yourself, personal development. 

See, the major question to ask on the job is not What are you getting? 

The major question to ask on the job is what are you becoming? 

See, the big question is not what am I getting paid here? 

The big question is what am I becoming here? Because true happiness is not contained in what you get. 

Happiness is contained in what you become.