Leadership and Faith: Keys to Success and Progress

Leadership is about inspiring, teaching, and guiding others to deserve their success through faith, humility, and the law of averages.

### Jim Rohn: Keys to Wealth, Leadership, and Success
* 💡 Jim Rohn shares the keys to leading a wealthy life, focusing on **heritage, experiences, friends, knowledge, and the future**.
* 👥 Leaders must learn to work with people who **deserve help, not just those who need it**, and teach **life skills in addition to job skills**.
* 🛤 Faith is the ability to see things as they are, **better than they are**, and **make them better than they are**.
* 🦂 "Learn the story of the frog and the scorpion - you can't take chances with those who may be **harmful**."
* 🔢 The law of averages is a powerful concept that states that with enough attempts, you will get a **ratio of results**.
* 🎁 "Let others lead small lives, but not you. Make your life not just **acceptable, but memorable**."
* 🎁 "If you work on your gifts, they will **make room for you**. Work on your skills and make yourself **valuable enough to be invited to unique places**."

[Music] Here's the key to lead the way with what to do with your money, what to do with your time, what to do with your resources. Lead your family, help lead some people you know out of the oblivion of desperation into faith and security. Leadership is the great challenge of the last of the 90s and the first part of the new century. The challenges in science, the challenges in education. You know we got to straighten out our educational program where we'll fall behind among the nations of the world. It's going to take some incredible leadership. Politics, well it'd be great to be proud instead of embarrassed. Leaders in industry, sales, management, you name it, the leadership role is really challenging for the next century. Here's one of the greatest challenging roles in leadership, parenting. One of the greatest challenges of leadership is parenting. Unless we take our children to hand and strengthen the family foundation, I'm telling.

you the nation is shaky that's where it all 
begins to where finally we don't have children that go to school and blow everybody away this 
starts with parenting my father had a simple little rule son if you get in trouble in school 
when you get home it's called Double Trouble anybody ever have that method double 
trouble if you get in trouble with school we don't go sue the school 
if you get in trouble in school home double trouble School home double trouble 
is it not interested in Double Trouble so now here's what leadership is the challenge 
to be more than mediocre the challenge to step up to a new level a new dimension and here's 
what this new dimension has opportunity and responsibility but who wouldn't want the 
responsibility along with the opportunity if it builds an extraordinary life 
you wouldn't want it any other way here's some of the refinement of leadership 
now I've got to go through these notes rather

quickly, the refinement of leadership makes this list. Learn to be strong, but not rude. Some people mistake rudeness for strength. Rudeness we don't need, strength we do need. Here's the next one: learn to be bold, but not a bully. We need to boldly seize the day, boldly seize the opportunity, boldly seize the chance, but we don't need bullies, we don't need anybody to push anybody around. There's a whole new level of leadership, especially like in network marketing. You've got to learn it anyway if you want to succeed, but it'll work anywhere. A new method of leadership. Here's what it is: leadership by invitation, not leadership by threat, not leadership by aggravation, not leadership by intimidation. That now shows the weakness of the leader, that now shows ego at work instead of skills. But it's leadership by invitation, invite somebody to a better way of doing things. Here's what else: it's called leadership by inspiration, inspiring somebody to make the necessary changes to move.

up or to get the job done. As Leaders, we inspire. As Leaders, we entice. As Leaders, we invite, invite, entice, inspire, not threatened. New kind of leadership, be bold but not a bully, next be kind but not weak. Some people mistake weakness for kindness, and it's a great mistake. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain unusual strength, but don't say, I must be weak in order to be kind, and the answer is no. Sometimes you have to be unusually strong to be kind. Somebody coined the expression tough love, that really tells the truth and levels, sometimes with a broken heart, but whatever has to be said has to be said. Kind but not weak. Here's another one that's excellent, be thoughtful but not lazy. We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer, head in the clouds, yes, dreaming lofty dreams but feet on the ground. Here's two or three more, these are excellent, be humble but not timid.

some people mistake timidity for humility. Humility is a virtue, timidity is an 
illness. It can be cured, it can be managed, and if you are timid, you got to work on it. I'm 
telling you, it's a weakness, it's not a virtue, but you must turn your timidity into strength and keep 
working on it, and keep working on it until finally you have driven it into such a small corner 
that it does not devastate your life anymore. Now you use it as a source of teaching. I used 
to be so shy and so timid, but I worked on it, and I worked on it, and I've driven it into such a 
small corner it doesn't dominate my life anymore. It's still there, but it doesn't dominate, that's 
what's important. But humility is a virtue. Expand 
your ability to understand the vastness of it all 
and how small we are in relation to everything. Humility that causes you to get on your knees 
and talk to a child without any fear how you look.

humility to understand. Yes, humans are unique, but 
in the vast space of it all, we're all pretty small. Yes, we know, but what we don't know is 
so much greater than what we do know. Here's a couple more: be 
proud without being arrogant. There's something to be said for 
team pride and Community Pride, company Pride, personal Pride, but 
don't cross the line to where your   being proud now becomes arrogance. 
Pride we need, arrogance we don't. Arrogance is usually the childish 
attempt to make up for lack of self-worth. Childish attempt to make up for lack of 
self-worth has a tendency to create arrogance, and you know the worst kind of arrogance: arrogance 
from ignorance. That's the worst kind. If a guy's   smart and arrogant, we can tolerate that, but if 
a guy's dumb and arrogant, that's hard to take. So now all leaders must learn the basic laws 
so they can use them as illustrations as well   as use them for productivity. Here's the 
first of the basic laws: whatever you sow.

you reap now. Here's another way to put it on the positive side. In order to reap what you must sow, reaping is reserved for those who sow, who plant to deserve the Harvest. You must plant the seed, take care of it in the summer, carefully Harvest it, and then do wise things with the Harvest. Now, here's the rest of the law of sowing and reaping. If you're so good, you reap good. If you're so bad, you reap bad. You can't sow bad and hope for good. You can't plant weeds and hope for flowers. It works both positive and negative. Now, here's something else about the law of sowing and reaping. You don't reap what you sow. That's important to understand. You reap much more than what you sow. If you just reap what you sow, what's the exercise for? No, we don't reap what we sow. We reap much more than what we sow. Now, here's what's important to understand on that. It works both positive and negative.

the old Prophet said, If you sow to the wind, 
you don't reap a wind, you reap a whirlwind.   You've got to be careful sowing to the wind; it 
doesn't come back as a wind, it comes back as a   whirlwind. That's on the negative side, but now 
it also works on the positive side. If you plant   a cup of corn, how much do you get back? A cup? 
No, a bushel. For the cup you get back much more   than what you planned. That's the reason for 
planting for the increase, positive negative.   Now here's the next key to the law of sewing 
and reaping. Sometimes it doesn't work at all. Everybody has to understand. The farmer 
plants the crop in the spring, takes care   of it all summer, is an honorable man, 
loves his family, is a decent citizen,   but the day before he sends the combines 
into the field, a hail storm comes along   and beats his crop into the ground, and it's 
gone. It's lost. So this time it didn't work.

so now what must the farmer do? He's got to decide whether to do it again or not. Shall we take another chance in the next spring? We would advise him to do so, even though he lost everything in the last harvest and it didn't work. You didn't reap what you sowed, but here's the law of averages, here's the odds. More often than not, you reap what you sow. More often than not, you'll have a harvest if you plant in the spring. There's no guarantee, but more often than not. And guess what, more often than not is pretty good odds. It's better than Las Vegas. Incredible, the law of sowing and reaping. Next, one of the most important laws to learn is the law of averages. If you do something often enough, you'll get a ratio of results. Once you understand that, you know the world is yours. Learning to employ people in the unique thing called the law of averages is stunning in its result in terms of fortune future.

let's say you're in sales, and you talk to 10 people. Just getting started. If you talk to 10, you get one. We now have what we call the beginning of a ratio. Talk to ten, nine say no, one says yes. I'll buy your product, I'll take your service. Somebody says, well, one out of 10 isn't that good. Well, you're just getting started, because here's what happens with the law of averages. Once it starts, it tends to continue. If you talk to 10 and get one, chance is excellent. If you talk to 10 more, you'll get another one. In baseball, we call it batting average. Swing 10 times, get a hit. Swing 10 times, get a hit. Nobody bats 9 out of ten. You can make six million dollars a year and not bet nine out of ten or eight out of ten or seven out of ten or five out of ten or four out of ten or three out of ten. Some

of these guys are getting five, six, seven million dollars a year batting two, three out of ten. So you don't have to be perfect here, all you have to do is understand the law of averages. Now even if you're only getting one out of ten, you can now start to compete. If you've been here a long time, you can get nine out of ten. I just joined, I can only get one out of ten. I'm telling you, if we have a contest, I will beat you. Say, Well, you started, how could you beat me? It's very simple. If we have a 30-day run on a contest or a 60-day run, while you talk to 10 and get nine, I will talk to 100 and get 10. I win. Isn't that clever? Here's what I do. If I'm new, I make up in numbers what I lack in skill. I make up in numbers what I first lack in skill. Now when my skills increase, I don't have to do

a hundred to get 10. Once you understand 
the law of averages, I'm telling you, it's so exciting to work with the law of averages. 
The law of averages works on our little money plan here. You know, chances are excellent 
if you have this little plan. I'm telling you, chances are excellent, it'll work, it'll 
work, it'll work. The races will work for you. Here's what else is exciting: the law of averages 
can be increased. At first, you only get one out of ten, but the better you get, the more skills 
you develop. Now you get two out of ten, and then three out of ten, and you don't need more 
than about two, three out of ten to get rich. In working with people, there's a unique story 
about the law of averages. It says the sower went 
out to sow the seed. Number one, he had excellent 
seed or a great story to tell and a good product 
to sell. And it says the sower was ambitious, got up 
early in the morning, and went out to do the deal.

so good seed ambitious sower, and he starts to sow the seed. But here's what happens, make the notes: the first part of the seed that he sowed, the birds got, and the birds are going to get some. John said, Yes, I will come check out the meeting, see if that's an opportunity for me. He says, I will be there on Tuesday night. Tuesday night comes, John isn't there. Say, I wonder where he is. The birds, the birds, whatever form they come in, and he's not there. Somebody stole the seed, somebody robbed him of the opportunity. Guess what you can do about nothing. Well, you could chase birds, but I'm telling you it's not a good deal. You say, Well, I'll get a hold of John, whoever talked him out of coming, I'll go straighten them out. I'm telling you, you've asked for more than you can handle. Here's what you should do, here's what the sower did: he kept sowing the seed.

here's what you can do if you stay busy. So more than the birds can get just depend on the law of averages not trying to straighten out every problem. So the birds are going to get some. Now it says he kept selling the seed. And now the seed falls on Rocky ground for the soil is shallow. And the little plant starts to grow but the first hot day it withers and dies. So make the note the hot weather is going to get some. You recruit somebody and they join say hey I'm going to really do great here. And two days later somebody says boo and they quit. They quit the first hot day they're gone say what can you do about that nothing because if you start chasing trying to fix this. I'm telling you it's unfixable but here's what you can do to fix your future keep doing like the sower did. He kept on stolen and you can't be responsible for the shallow ground that's somebody else's responsibility.

so here's the third key now he's keep sowing the 
seed now. The seed falls on thorny ground and this   time the little plant starts to grow again 
but the Thorns choke it to death and it dies. So make the note, the Thorns are going 
to get some. Here's what it called the   thorns in this little story: The cares of 
Life, little duties, little distractions. I said, John, we had a meeting last night, how 
come you weren't here? John says, Well, I can't   make every meeting. I said, Why not? He said, 
Well, the screen door came off the hinges. You just can't let your house fall apart. You got 
to take time and fix, fix. I can hear the story, ah. He said, Some extra trash piled 
up in the garage. You just can't   let mountains of trash pile up in your garage. What can I do about that? People let little things cheat them out of big   opportunities, and sometimes it's a 
little heartbreaking to watch them.

especially if it's somebody you care about, but there are some things to remember. You can't straighten out, you just got to depend on something else for your fortune and your future. But now let's go to the rest of the story. Here's what it says: Finally, the sower keeps sowing the seed. Now it falls on good ground. Underline this: good ground. And it always will if you keep sharing a good idea. It will someday fall on good ground, productive ground, receptive ground, decision-making ground. Now what's interesting though about the ground, here's what it said about the ground: some of this good ground now produced 30 percent, some produce 60, and some produce 100. What's that called? The law of averages. Everybody's not going to do the same. Everybody doesn't have the same ambitions, and you can't straighten this out. Now you just have to take it like it comes. It's like the seasons. You can't rearrange them and say, I'll take two Springs, three Summers, and no, you

got to take them like they flow okay but now how, 
do you get 100 percenters some will produce 100. How do you get some 100 percenters? You got to go 
through the birds, and you got to go through the hot weather, and you got to go through the choking 
thorns, and you got to sort of put up with those. You know that haven't got much ambition. 30, 60 
percenters, and you'll get some hundred percenters. The law of averages is at work in the University. 
Are there as many seniors as they are freshmen? Why is that? It's a mystery. The inevitable 
erosion of Life says there's always going to be more freshmen than seniors. Not every 
race that started as everybody finished the enters know. Some people don't want to finish. Some 
people plant in the spring and leave in the summer, and you can't straighten that out. Here's 
what you can do: keep telling the story, keep sharing a good idea, and I'm telling you 
it will work for you. So here's what we say:

if you want a lot of graduating seniors, you must keep loading the Freshman Class. The law of averages is one of the greatest studies to make. It'll serve you well in your business career, your sales career, any kind of career. One more on the law of averages, there's an old rule that's been around a long time. It says 20% of the people do 80% of the business, and 80% do 20%. And this is something you don't try to change or rearrange. It's part of the deal. Somebody says, Well, I'll just fire the 80%, and I say no because whoever's left, 20% of them will do 80%, and 80% will do 20%. That's not something you mess with. Here's what these laws are: something you work with, something you understand, and you work with. 20% are going to do 80%, and it works everywhere. Ask the minister of the church who puts up the money here to support the church. He says 20% of the people pick up 80% of the tab.

and eighty percent pick up 20 percent Americans, paying taxes. What's the deal? 20 percent pay eighty percent of the taxes, and eighty percent pay twenty percent of the taxes to run the federal government. This is not something you mess with; this is something you work with until you understand it. Well, how do you work with the 80 20? Here's what you got to do: part of its time management. You can only give twenty percent of your time to the 80 percent because they're only producing 20 percent. Now you can give 80 of your time to the 20 percent. Now remember, the pull is in the opposite direction. Guess who wants eighty percent of your time? The wrong group. The wrong group. Now, this is not a moral question. The wrong group in terms of productivity and effectiveness in your business, your future. So what's the answer to that? Here's part of the answer: you can work individually with the 20, but you can only work by group with the 80 percent.

however guests who usually want your individual 
time the 80 percent and you cannot do that. Mary says, I've got a question, Mr. own. I 
say, Look, we're going to have a little training class on Saturday morning. Bring your 
question and I'll answer it for everybody. She says, Okay. Now, sometimes it's not that 
easy, right? It's a little more challenging than that, but you got the key. 
Now you've got the key. Now, this is the key. Okay, that's the law of averages. Here's the 
next important law called The Law of faith. We covered it a little bit earlier in a fairly simple form. Faith is the ability 
to see things that don't yet exist. Faith though can turn difficulty into reality, 
positive reality. And I just want to give you this quick little line up here because it's 
so important to ponder and then work it. Here's what faith is for. Number one, 
faith is the ability to see it as it is.

Faith doesn't mind seeing it as it is because faith is a miracle worker. Faith does not ignore the negative. Faith uses the negative because if there was no negative, there'd be no need for faith. If everything is okay, what would you need faith for? You need faith because it isn't okay. Now, what isn't okay? Who knows the situation that isn't okay isn't okay. So here's what faith does. Number one, Faith does not ignore the negative because Faith now stands as The Miracle Worker if you let it work. So, Faith sees it as it is. If it's ugly, it's ugly. If it isn't working, it isn't working. If it's a mess, it's a mess. It doesn't hurt to call a mess a mess. You don't need to fancy it up here. If it's broke, it's broke. If it's miserable, it's miserable. Faith doesn't mind admitting that. Faith doesn't mind seeing that. Here's why. Number one, you can see it as it is. That's the

beginning of Faith. Seeing it as it is now, here's 
the second step of Faith: see it better than it is. Couldn't you see beyond the mess, the messes for today? Couldn't you look into tomorrow? Dad says, Yes, I guess I could look into tomorrow. Humans have this incredible ability to look into tomorrow, to look into next week. So we not only have the ability to see it as it is, the beginning of Faith, but to see it better than it is, dream the dreams, make the plans, visualize, use your imagination, see it better than it is now. Here's the third step that turns Faith into reality: make it better than it is. Faith now must be invested in the muscle, but if you invest Faith now in the action, you can take any situation and make it better than it is. Next, in the beginning of Faith, seeing it as it is, don't see it worse than it is. Don't blow it out of proportion. Some people have this tendency to blow it all out of proportions. It

can't be that bad if it's this bad. That's how bad it is. You don't need to multiply how bad it is by 10. That's not necessary here. Just as it is, that's the deal as it is. Don't see it worse than it is. Now here's the next unique key to Faith. Don't see it for more than it can become. There's a thin line between faith and folly. Yes, it's possible to see yourself as a millionaire, but not overnight. Somebody says, Well, yes, I can see that. Don't see it for more than it can become in a reasonable period of time. Yes, if it dropped out of the sky overnight, but that's not likely. But it's still possible to be a millionaire. It's still possible to be rich and wealthy given a certain amount of time, working with the law of averages and all the rest of the stuff we've talked about today. So don't see it for more than it can become so that you move into Folly instead of faith.

Plenty is possible without being foolish in your faith exercise, but now here's two more cautions. Number one, it might be worse than you first see it. You better look underneath because sometimes you just look at the surface. You better take a look so that you can really see it as bad as it is, not to overblow it, but to make sure you see it as bad as it really is. Now here's the next one. Give yourself a chance to understand that it could be far more in the future than what you can first see by faith. Here's all you can see. Guess what the disciples were always saying, Increase our faith, increase our faith. The miracles that we see here gives us a certain amount of faith, but looks like we need some more. We need some more, but you take the first step. Take the first step of what you can see, but give yourself a chance to be able to see it for more than what you first see it.

on a foggy night, if all you can see is 100 feet, here's what you do: walk that first hundred feet. Now you can see another hundred feet. You can't see the 200 feet, but if you can see a hundred feet, you walk the first hundred feet. Now you can see another hundred feet. So I'm asking you to take the early steps of faith. Whatever you can see, it's possible to become. Start believing, have faith for that. And I'm telling you, as that starts to exercise, you'll be able to see it for more and for more and for more of the possibilities will start to increase in your own imagination. Now, make these notes in leadership, working with people. Make these notes. Learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it, because life operates by deserve. We studied that yesterday. Shouldn't the welfare people have said to Mary, Mary, look, you know I know you need the 400, but

from now on, when I come back here with the 
check for 400, here's a bucket of paint and a brush. This little fence around here and the post 
on the door have got to be painted, she says. Okay, now this little bit of paint's 
not worth 400, but it's a step to begin the process of what deserving 
it instead of just needing it. And you 
can start walking people away from need to 
deserve, just let them take the early steps. 
Next time she comes and says, now Mary, if this is 
done and the weeds are pulled and all this stuff 
is done and the painting is done and the weeds are 
done, then you get the next 400. And now she's 
starting to walk out, she starts to feel better 
because she's beginning to deserve it, not just 
need it. Wow, isn't that big-time philosophy? 
That's it, teaching people how to deserve it, 
work with the people who deserve it. You say, 
Mary, if you take this step, I take two steps.

and then if you take two more, I take four more, 
but if you don't take the first one, I don't step,   you step by step, right, you call, I 
call, you try, I try, you move, I move,   teaching people how to deserve it, it starts to 
accelerate self-esteem. You can't believe what   a high the beginning of new self-esteem is if 
a person hasn't had it for years and years, and   they've been beat down by their own philosophy, 
and they've been beat down by everybody else. If   you start them on the early steps, that starts 
this process of self-esteem. Self, the early   self-esteem, is even more valuable than the 
fortune because it comes at a necessary time,   leading people step by step into self-esteem, 
and self-esteem leads to action. Action leads   to progress. Progress leads to fortune. What else 
do you want? So work with the people who deserve   it. Now here's the next key: show people how 
to deserve your time, how to deserve your help.

next, don't expect the pear tree to bear apples. Let people do whatever they can do. You can hang apples on a pear tree, do all kinds of things, put up a sign This is an apple tree, and you get pears. So let people do whatever they can do, and let them change their mind, let them grow and develop. Here's what I found: you cannot change people, but they can change themselves. The best you can do is inspire and hope, inspire and hope, teach and hope, teach and pray, and hope, and teach and pray, and inspire, and pray, and hope. That's the best you can do. You can't get in there and change, but you can do your best to deliver the message that can create change if someone will accept it, if someone will do something about it, take the early baby steps to get started, and be happy with the smallest progress, and give some rewards and a pat on the back, and a big smile, and say, Mary, it's going to work for you. You've taken.

these two steps. I'm telling you, if you 
can take two steps, you could take 102. Wow, next, all leaders must teach the 
fact that there is both good and evil. Here's the challenge for all of us: to become the 
most of the good in us and the least of the bad, the most of 
the good and the least of the bad, because that resides in all of us. That's the beginning we talked about the 
other day of civilization becoming the most of the good and the least of the bad, but 
we must remember there is both good and evil. Remember the story about the frog and the scorpion. The frog and the scorpion appear on the bank of 
the river at the same time. The frog's about to 
jump in, swim to the other side. The scorpion sees 
what's about to happen, engages the frog in 
conversation, and says, Mr. Frog, I'm a scorpion and 
I can't swim. Would you be so kind to let me hop on?

your back. You swim across the river, just deposit me on the other side. I'd be grateful. Frog looked at the Scorpion and says, No way. Scorpions sting frogs and kill them. I'd get out there halfway, you'd sting me, not drown. Scorpion said, Mr. Frog, with your frog brain, you're not thinking. If I stung you out there halfway, you'd drowned, and I'd drowned. I'm not interested in committing suicide. I just want to get to the other side. Please do me the favor. Frog says, Okay, that makes sense. Hop on. Scorpion hops on the Frog's back. The Frog starts across the river. Sure enough, halfway across the river, the scorpion stings the Frog. They're now both in the water, about to go down for the third time. The Frog cannot believe what's happened, and he said, Why did you do that? I'm about to drown and die, but so are you. Why would you do that? And the Scorpion said, Because I am a scorpion.

make the note. You can't take a chance. You got to know. Scorpion chance a lot of these subtle invitations that kids have at school. This is the Scorpion and the Frog story. It seems to be okay. The promises seem to be all right. And it turned out to be disaster. So you must learn the story of the frog and the Scorpion. I learned in building an Enterprise there are some people you don't need their productivity. Better off without their productivity because they're scorpions in the fold. The old Prophet said, Beware of the foxes that spoiled the vines. The Vineyard looks good but you better look a little closer. The foxes, the foxes, the foxes are at work. And to be a good shepherd, to be a good father, to be a good mother, you got to learn the story of the frog and the Scorpion and the foxes that spoil the vines. Okay, make these notes and we're through.

I did a speech one time called today. I am a wealthy man. Didn't have much to do with money, but let me give you the list and we're finished. I said today I'm a wealthy man, number one because of my Heritage, all that I inherited that I didn't work for it, just I was blessed with it. One was my parents, one was my country. I was blessed by books I didn't write, I was blessed by libraries I didn't build, I was blessed by courts I didn't organize, I was blessed by airplanes and telephones, I blessed by all that I didn't create it, I inherited it. I inherited a country that believed in democracy and freedom. I mean once you start this list of Heritage it's just staggering. Next I said I'm wealthy because of my experiences. We even used the expression he has a wealth of experience, experience is wealth, it's commodity, it's coin, it's currency and if you'll use your experience it's Fortune making.

next, I said I'm wealthy because of my friends. Make you rich because of their support system. I just lost a friend, David, at 53. He was the friend I used to talk about. If I was stuck in some foreign jail accused unduly, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend, right? No questions asked, just come and get you. That's a friend. Now we've all got casual friends who would say, if you get back, call me and we'll get together. But we need those two. We need them all. Next, I said I'm wealthy because of my knowledge. Those that have passed their knowledge on to me has made me rich beyond belief. Here's what I asked for one time a long time ago: unusual awareness. I want to be sensitive to what's happening, unusual awareness. Not only the gift of knowledge, but what's happening, what's going on, so that I can use my knowledge to the best of my ability.

I only asked if my daughters two things, that's all. My daughters, I only asked two things. Here are those two things: number one, the highest respect for all life; number two, unusual kindness. That's all I ask: the highest respect for all life and unusual kindness. That'll take you anywhere. Next, I'm a wealthy man because of my future. I have the pledge of goods and services of people you wouldn't believe doing business around the world. Mega billions, you can imagine the extraordinary life I live. It's unbelievable. And the pledge of goods and services, the pledge of help and assistance, the pledge of camaraderie, the pledge of whatever. See, Mr., what else would you like to do? We'll just go do it. You know, we want to build your own country, we'll do that. I mean, you know, whatever you want, we'll just go do. Can you imagine what that feels like? Whatever you want to do, there's plenty of resources all around the world to just go do it. That is so staggering, it's just unbelievable for me. Next, I want to

leave you with this little challenge number one. Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let your life not be just acceptable, but memorable. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others waste their resources, but not you. And then here's two more, and I'm finished. Learn to help people with their lives, not just their jobs. We need to teach job skills, yes, but if you'll also teach life skills, weave it all into the teaching of job skills. Teach your children job skills, but then teach them life skills. And here's the last, my challenge for you. It comes from the old Prophet. Here's what he said: If you work on your gifts, if you work on your abilities, if you work on your skills, if you work on your gifts, they will make room for you, they will make a place for you. If you become attractive, you'll have an attractive place. If you work on your skills, they will put you in an unusual place. You don't have to worry about the

place. It is right now being prepared for you to qualify the place. And if you work on your gifts, gifts of language, gifts of intelligence, gifts of faith, gifts of helping others, gifts of influence, if you'll work on those gifts, you'll always have a place. I got to be one of the great examples. Look where my gifts have brought me to this place. I worked hard on my gifts. I worked hard on my skills. I worked hard on my delivery. I worked hard on my ability to affect other people with language and words and experiences. And then my gifts brought me to unique places now around the world, a unique place in Australia, unique place in South Africa, a neat place in Bangkok, a unique place in Singapore. You name the country and the city, unique places I've had because my gifts. I worked on my gifts and made myself valuable enough to be invited to these places. The same thing is going to happen for you without a doubt. So I now leave here, but I have a promise. I will not leave you.

behind, I'll take you with me in my heart 
and in my thoughts. God bless. [Applause] Thank you for listening to the weekend seminar 
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The Challenge of Leadership in the New Century

Leadership is identified as the great challenge of the current era, encompassing various aspects such as science, education, politics, and parenting.

The new dimension of leadership emphasizes opportunity, responsibility, and the refinement of characteristics like strength, boldness, kindness, and humility.

It promotes leadership through invitation and inspiration, rather than through rudeness, bullying, or intimidation.

The Importance of Humility and the Law of Sowing and Reaping

Humility is essential to avoid arrogance, especially arrogance from ignorance.

The law of sowing and reaping emphasizes the principle that you reap what you sow, both positively and negatively, often yielding more than what was initially planted.

The law of averages highlights that consistent effort will yield results over time, emphasizing the importance of persistence and repetition.

Maximizing Success Through the Law of Averages

Understanding the law of averages allows for the compensation of skill with numbers, increasing the chances of success.

It is important to persistently pursue opportunities, despite inevitable setbacks, in order to achieve future success.

The law of averages not only applies to personal success but also to the inevitability of facing distractions and obstacles along the way.

The law of averages dictates that not everyone will have the same level of ambition or productivity.

It is a fundamental principle that applies to business, sales, and careers.

The 80/20 rule emphasizes the importance of focusing more time on the most productive 20%.

Faith, as the ability to see things that don't yet exist, has the power to turn difficulty into positive reality and is crucial to ponder and work on.

The Power of Faith in Overcoming Challenges

Faith acknowledges the negative aspects of a situation and accepts them as they are.

It encourages people to envision a better future and take action to improve their circumstances.

Faith also requires a realistic outlook, avoiding exaggeration, and allowing for gradual progress.

A woman encourages others to deserve their rewards by taking small steps and building self-esteem.

She emphasizes the importance of inspiring, teaching, and hoping for change in people.

Additionally, she stresses the need to focus on the good and bad within everyone while sharing the story of the frog and the scorpion as a metaphor for human nature.

A scorpion asks a frog for a ride across the river, promising not to sting, but ultimately betrays the frog.

The story teaches the lesson of not trusting those who are inherently untrustworthy.

The speaker relates the fable to caution against unproductive or harmful individuals and emphasizes the wealth gained from heritage, experiences, friends, and knowledge.

The Power of Personal Development and Generosity

A wealthy man shares his philosophy of valuing all life and practicing unusual kindness.

He emphasizes the importance of personal growth, generosity, and making a positive impact on others.

The speech concludes with a message of taking his teachings to heart and offers contact information for his future events and products.