Now, I want to get busy on the first couple of subjects for today, every that's okay. Say, I'm okay. Here's the first subject that I've found. So interesting. I want to share with you that I want to talk about personal development of the subject that I started listening to age 25 that revolutionized my whole life from my mentor. Mr. Earl shoaf. Here's an interesting subject. Just jotted down. Oh, it's called enlightened self-interest.
Enlightened self-interest. It's a fascinating study to study the idea of self-interest. But just make this note, all of us, you know have self-interest the key. Is it for it to be enlightened? So that everybody wins and no one loses. Our first interest is to survive. What does it take to survive? Our second interest is to succeed. What does it take to succeed? What does it take for me personally to survive and to succeed? Can I legitimately be interested enough in the things that helped
me both succeed and survive. And here's what I discovered the answer is yes. It's possible to exercise self-interest but to do it in such a way that no one loses everyone benefits. Key phrase. Life was not designed to give us what we need. Life was designed to give us what we deserve. We did not reap a harvest in the fall because we need it. We reap a harvest in the fall because we deserve it. Not necessarily from a moral standpoint.
Of course, there are some moral laws as well, spiritual and moral laws. But just the basic laws that simply say, if you wish to reap, you must plan. So jot. This down. Reaping is reserved for the planters. And the reason they Reap is because they deserve it. They're the Planters, they deserve to read. Interesting Bible phrase, it says if you keep knocking you'll find open doors, good phrase to jot down.
If you keep knocking, you'll find open doors, doors of opportunity, doors of a chance to meet someone doors open for Association. Doors open to find someone special doors open to find a unique business. Colleague. If you keep knocking the door, the phrase says doors of opportunity. Are open to those who continually knock?
So we don't find open doors of opportunity because we need, we find them because we deserve only those who knock deserve to find an open Group. But the promise is, if you continually knock. You'll find doors of opportunity. It's as if you search you will find. So, make the note, it's good, finding is reserved for the Searchers. Because they deserve it. Now, at first, they may have needed it, but they now know that just needing it is not
sufficient. But if they need it now they must qualify for it. The reason why you're going to be blessed with good ideas, this weekend is because you've come searching gotten on an airplane. To come searching, got on your automobile to come searching, you got here searching. Now, you're ready to receive and for those who search, they will find answers. They will find plans imagination to stir yourself into action for future benefit.
So if you search to find a good idea, you must go looking and searching. You've got to go to church. You've got to go to class. You've got to go to the seminar. You've got to go to the library. You've got to go to the books. If you wish to find rarely, does a good idea interrupt you. Rarely. But if you will search, you will find. So we get not what we need, but we get what we deserve. It says, if you ask Someone has an answer, if you keep asking the answers belong to you.
Because by virtue of asking you have qualified. So we don't get what we need, we get what we deserve. The mother on welfare should be taught in some small manner, that hopefully, she can begin deserving. The welfare check not getting it because she needs it. But now starting to get it because she deserves it. If the welfare worker says to Mary Mary, I brought a bucket of paint and a paintbrush. And the next time I come, if the door is painted in the fence here in front is painted.
I give you the check for $450, not the painting, the door and painting the fence is worth $450. It's not worth that much, but it is the beginning of the process. So make that note. I want to begin the process of deserving. What would that be? What process should I begin engaging? Into deserve good health, to deserve a good relationship to deserve prosperity to deserve an Enterprise to deserve the opportunity to build a city. What must I do to begin the
process of deserve. So now the welfare worker comes back in the door, is painted in the fence, has faded, and now Mary gets the $450 to help take care of her children. Not because she needs it, because she's beginning to deserve it. Then the welfare worker thinks of some other project. She said, Mary, these weeds are gone, and this little garden is cultivated. When I come back. Now, that the door is painted in
the fence is baited. If the weeds are gone and this little garden is cultivated, you get the $450 and step-by-step a new Is emerging learning the process of deserving. It not just needed. We teach our children at home, right? Child says, I need ten dollars. So that language doesn't work here. There's plenty of money here and the vaults are full. But to say, I need ten dollars is not how you open the vault. So the child says what, wow, how can I get that $10 that I need?
So here's what they learned to say. How could I earn $10? Now the Vault opens up. Now the money starts to flow. How could I earn $10? What could I do to earn the money? Not to get the money because you need it before, maybe you need the money. That's all of us have needs
here. The key is to figure out how to open the vault, how to open the bank, how to open this unbelievable flow of resources, to come our way, and here's the key to deserve it. Not the deed, you can't walk out to the field and say to the field. I need a crop. Here's what the field says. Here's what the ground says. Who is this clown? That brings me. His need brings me no seed. So jot that down, take your seed to the marketplace, not your need, don't disclose your need to the marketplace.
Only your willingness. We'll talk about that a little later today because the marketplace is not interested in your knee, but they are interested in your seed. They're interested in your willingness to work. They're interested in your disciplines. They're interested in your eagerness. They're interested in Your vitality and your work ethic. That's what the marketplace is interested in. Not your need, but you see We get what we deserve.
Old Testament, God says, if you'll move toward me, I'll move toward you. See that's how you get those occasions to meet God. You must make the move. God could say you don't move. I don't move. You say well, that's arbitrary. Well when your God's you can make it that way. So the law says, if you wish to receive now, let's talk about enlightened self-interest. If you wish to receive and we would call the wish to receive self-interest, but if it's enlightened self-interest,
here's what it says. I understand that in order to receive I must give Receiving is reserved for those who give receiving is not reserved for those who need it. It's reserved for those who deserve it. We deserve the receiving, my giving. In fact, there's an extraordinary phrase in this little context, and here's what it says. It's better to give than it is to receive. Now. The uneducated person would find that difficult to ponder. Why would it be better to give
than it is to receive. So let me give you one of the bitter phrases for the day here. It is, giving starts the receiving process. So, of course it's better to give than it is to receive. How much receiving do you? Wish, you must start the giving process? For me to receive my additional fortunes for the future, not necessarily for the money because I don't need them. I take the money. I don't need them. But here's what I do need for someone to say, a year from now,
five years from now. Mr. Roane that seminar help to change my life. And for whatever reason I was brought here to this place for this time. And later. Someone says that see to receive that kind of, thanks. It's unbelievable. Here's what you cannot buy. That kind of thinks. You can't buy it with money. You have to earn it. And for whatever reason I was brought here to this place for this time. And later. Someone says that see to receive that kind of, thanks.
It's unbelievable. Here's what you cannot buy. That kind of thinks. You can't buy it with money. You have to earn it.