Beginning Of Live Seminar

This is the second post of a series of posts that intends to present a full transcription of Jim Rohn’s program “The Challenge to Succeed”. There are a total of 49 tracks, plus the introduction track. All tracks have been transcribed by my students, under my supervision. This is the transcript of track number one, called “Beginning Of Live Seminar”.

Should you spot any errors, please leave a comment and let me know of it. I really appreciate that.

Enjoy.

Edu

Anyway, pleasure for me to be here. How many of you have never seen me before, it’s your first time? Oh wow most of you. I keep thinking I’m more famous than that, but ahhh I guess that it is the truth.  Anyway, nice to see all of you. It’s gonna be a good day today, we’re gonna take a couple of brakes along the way so you don’t have to sit all the way through without stopping here. Somebody once said “the mind can only absorb what they seat can endure”. I think that’s true so we won’t make you endure too long before we take a little stretch break here.

Do we have any teenagers? We invite the kids to come. Where are you? Teenagers or younger… All right. Let’s give’em a hand. Welcome. Nice to see all of you…My favorite audience . I got a good story for you. Two little boys in a school, one was very bright, the other one wasn’t very bright. Teacher gave a test one day – ten questions – and she’s  looking at the two papers and, to her surprise, the little boy who was not very bright had answered nine of the ten questions perfect. And she thought: “well, that can’t be right”. So, she looked at the other paper… the little boy who was very bright, he had answered nine of ten questions perfect and the teacher thought: “Hey… something is wrong here.” Sure not the problem was the answers to tenth question. The little boy who was very bright… he got to the tenth question he didn’t know the answer… he was running out of time so he just wrote down I don’t know the answer to this one and turned his paper in. Teacher looked at the other paper… the little boy who wasn’t too bright… and he answered the tenth question: “I don’t know either” and ahh turned his in.  Which I guess means don’t cheat, right? It never seems to work out well.

Anyway, we are gonna get started here. This is a work section, OK? I’ve not come to entertain you as you can tell by my opening joke here. I wouldn’t make it in Las Vegas so no dog and pony show* here today, but I’ve got some serious ideas to share with you and I wanna get right to it. But just very briefly for you that are here for the first time. I grew up in Idaho, little small price levitra village in the southwest corner of Idaho. My father still lives in this little farm community where I grew up on the own homestead.  And he’ll be ninetieth his next birthday and he still hasn’t retired. I’m trying to get him to retire this year. I’m saying “hey Pappa, age 89! What a great year to retire!” And he is still saying “hey, talk to me in 10 years.. right? I may be ready” Ahh he’s amazing.

But anyway, I went to high school, graduated, went to college one year, halfway through my second year… I decided I was smart enough so I quit. A major mistake on my part. I should have stayed in school, but I thought, you know, here I come smart enough to get a job. And at the time I thought, you know, that’s about all the smarter you need to be, right? Smart enough to get a job. So age 19, I quit school went to work and, you know, my parents taught me to work hard, so that was no problem and, you know, if you work hard and keep your fingers crossed, stay outta trouble, pay your bills on time, do your best, hope for the future, that’s about it. And I proceeded to go do that.

A little while later, I met a beautiful young lady, put probably my finest sale presentation on her, I promised to her wealth and fame and fortune and world travels for starters. I said “it would probably be your life’s finest decision to marry me” and she bought the whole story, fortunately, for me she did. So we got married and now I’ve got my little family started pretty soon and out there doing the best I thought I could. But year by year I’m falling a little further behind, you Know, purchasing a little more than I conveniently pay for on time and about age 25, I am now really in the hole, right? Creditors are starting to call saying ‘Hey you told us the check was in the mail and I’m dancing around on that. I got pennies* in my pocket, I got nothing in the bank and I’m wondering where do I go from here. You know, I’m… I’m a nice guy and I love my family and I certainly willing to work hard, but I was just not making progress. And I thought “well maybe I should go back to school”, one year of college, right, is a little short on an application. But with a family, right, tough decision to make: go back the school, when you got your family started. So hey the best time to stay in the school,right, is when you’re there, going back usually doesn’t work. So I stared a discount on that. Then I thought, you know, if I had my own business, that would really do it, but, you know, I didn’t have the money. Too much month at the end of the money, that’s where I was ,right, age of 25. So in this pondering, wondering, what can I do to make my life better? Willing to work hard, but hadn’t found the answer.

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