There's a subject, we don't have time to get into tonight called better thinking habits. One of the major things show of top me, when I met him, he said, poor thinking habits keeps most people, poor not poor working habits, most people work hard,
but they don't think hard. And show taught me that the mind is like a factory, a mental Factory, and whatever you think about all day long, pours ingredients into this mental Factory. And that's what bills, the economic social Financial fabric of your life. He quoted me a Bible phrase that says as you think. So you become How awesome? When he talked about poor thinking habits, he had me. I used to start the day reading
the morning newspaper. I mean, you can believe that or not, I'd get a cup of coffee and read the paper. I'd load up on Wars and riots and murders and stabbings and killings and bank robberies in muggings and car wrecks and tragedies. I've even read the back pages. I seem to like that stuff for some weird reason I'd load up on all that. And then I start the day. You can imagine the kind of days, I used to have you walk around on your financial knees, they call you economic PeeWee.
The guy says, I want to be a great leader. Peter, wonderful. The first thing we do is follow him to his house. When we get there, we walk in and check his library. Number one, somebody says, well, why check his Library? The reason is because what a man reads, pours, massive ingredients into his mental Factory and the fabric of his life is built. From those ingredients, you would not believe what some people have got in their house to read.
You would not believe one of the best-dressed upwards I know for a lot of it is trash. Can you imagine dumping a barrel of trash into this mental Factory every day and coming out with a rich Dynamic positive life? It can't be done you might as well try making a cake with cement. The kids back in Danbury Connecticut High School, they're asking me questions. One day. I'm talking to the kids kids got good questions these days. One of them said to me mr. Own, how do you build the good life?
I said it's simple, it's not easy, but it's simple. Here's how you build. Anything. Select the right ingredients, keep out the wrong ingredients and it starts with a thought. Everything starts with thought. So you must be wise and careful what you think about. Because that starts everything you got to be wise and careful. I asked the kids. What would happen? If somebody drops sugar in my coffee, they said, well, you'd be okay. I said, what?
If somebody drops strychnine in my coffee, they said, well, you'd be dead. I said, correct lesson. One life is both sugar and strychnine. You gotta be careful. I said what is my worst enemy drops in the sugar? They said will you be okay? I said what if my best friend even by accident drops in the strychnine? They said, well you'd be dead. I said correct lesson to watch your coffee. You got to be careful. See, it doesn't matter who hands
you the bad stuff. It doesn't matter where you get the bad stuff. It'll still do its damage on your bank account wherever you get it mr. Shelf, gave me one of the greatest phrases when I first met him when he said gym, everyday stand guard at the door of your mind. How important stand guard at the door of your mind and you decide what goes into your mental Factory? Don't let anybody just dump anything they want to in your mental Factory because you've
got to live with the results. Okay, here's the last disease and we're through with this list. Fact we're almost through hang on the last disease but this one is deadly engage in this one. Indulge in it even slightly and you might as well forget the future because it's going to forget you complaining. Crying whining, griping. A Bible word called murmuring. See that allais, your future. Spend five minutes complaining and you have wasted five and you
may have begun. What's known as economic cancer of the bone. Surely they will soon haul you off into a financial desert and they're let you choke on the dust of your own regret. I hope I said that. Well just be on the lookout of the things that can destroy all the good. You start. The war is on And this evening tomorrow, mentally personally, socially economically. You got to make sure you're winning the war.