Hey, just know this, the fact that you're here means you care about where you're going and that already sets you apart. You've heard of Tony Robbins, right? Well, this is about his mentor, Jim Rohn, a farm boy who became a millionaire by 31. His tool? Not luck, not hype, just one thing. Discipline. And that's what we packed into the self-discipline Master playbook so you can build what's next. Tap the link and let's grow together. We need to take a look into the
future. There are four things to consider in terms of attitude. 1 is how you feel about the past. Best advice I can give you on that is treat the past as a school. Let it teach you the mistakes you've made, the things that went wrong, the things that didn't work. Don't use the past as a burden to carry, and don't use the past as a club to beat yourself to death. Past losses, past failures, past mistakes. But let the past be a school. Tough school. Maybe we've all been through
some tough stuff. So if you feel good about the past, draw from it for experience and let it teach you. Then next is how you feel about the future. We've got to have the future well designed. The future is called the Promise and here's what we teach in our leadership series. The promise of the future can be an awesome force for your own future. The Promise of the future Designing the future. There's two ways to face the future. One is with apprehension and the other is with anticipation.
I promise you in my travels around the world, most people face the future with apprehension and here's why they don't have it well designed. They've sort of left that up to someone else to fix. But here's the best way to face the future with anticipation. And you can you can face the future with anticipation if the future is clear, if the future
is well designed. And I would like to have you consider some thoughts with me that help me to really change my future by giving it some thought and some consideration. And here it is in setting goals. It's very simple. Number one, decide what you want. You just take a little time. You sit down and say, what do I want? What kind of skills do I want? What kind of income do I want for the future?
What would I like? Where would I like to go, places I'd like to visit, habits I'd like to acquire, skills I'd like to have. You just take a little time to think about what you want. Economics, friendships, people you'd like to meet, places you'd like to go. You just take some time and then I suggest when you've thought about what you want for the future, make a list. Just jot it all down. It's a really a very simple process. And then here's #3 keep all the
old lists. I'm telling you, this served me so well, keeping my old list of goals. I look back now, 1020 years ago at goals. I set, lists I made, and I smile now because here's what I thought was so important, you know, 20 years ago. Now, some of those things aren't even on my list. I've got a new list. I've grown, I've changed, I've matured. But I give you that advice. Decide what you want #2 write it down #3 keep the old lists.
And then here's #4 when you get something that's on one of these lists, check it off. Part of the fun of having a list is checking it off. And then if you can, add some drama to checking it off. See, that's what really helps. I set a goal to go to Spain many, many years ago. And when I finally made my first trip to Spain, I had that journal with me that had that list in it.
And while I had my journal on my lap waiting for the wheels to touchdown in Madrid, I waited until the wheels touched the runway and I checked it off. Just adding a little drama. So part of the fun of having a list is checking it off. Now here's what's important about the list and designing your future. If the future gets clear, the price gets easier because you got to remember, for every promise, there's a price to pay. Everybody's got to pay the price. Everybody's got to do the deal.
Everybody's got to do the disciplines. Everybody has to pay. But here's what I've discovered. If the promise is clear and powerful, the price is easy to pay. The price is some classes, the price is a few books. The price is a few disciplines. The price is finding something that'll make your life better, make you grow, make you change, make you develop. So the first part of the key is to design the promise. Then what is the price to pay? I'm telling you, the price will
be easy. Anybody in my audience can pay. No matter where you are, where you come from, color doesn't matter, religion doesn't matter, where you grew up doesn't matter, Circumstances don't matter.
I'm telling you, if you'll make the promise of the future clear for yourself, the things you want, the places you want to go, the things you want to have, the person you want to become, the skills you want, the homes you want, the future you want, the friends you want, all of the values of life that you could possibly want. If you'll make that clear, make those lists and be serious about it. I promise you, it's an easy price to pay.
Anybody can pay it. And the best advice I can give you is if I can do it, you can do it. Farm boy from Idaho, raised in obscurity. I changed my life, turned it upside down, turned it all around, found economics, found future, found promise. And if I can do it, you can do it. So start setting your goals and see if you can't get a better excitement going for the things you want to accomplish for the future. Now, here's my third subject, and that's called financial independence.
Oh, by the way, before I get to financial independence, let me cover one more point. One of the major reasons for setting goals is for what they make of you in achieving them. My teacher advised me when I first got started at age 25, he said, Jim, why don't you set a goal to become a millionaire? He said it's got a nice ring to it. You know enough zeros to impress your accountant. And he said I'm here to help you. You're only 25 years old, you've been to one year of college,
you've got a beautiful family. Every reason to do it. Why don't you set a goal to become a millionaire? And he said here's why. And I thought he doesn't need to teach me. Why wouldn't it be nice to have $1,000,000? He said no, then you'll miss it. He said here's why for what it will make of you to achieve it. I'm telling you, that statement changed my life. Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve
them, he said. Now, once you've become a millionaire, what's important is not the money. I thought, that's kind of strange teaching. He said, honest, it isn't important. He said. You could just give the money away. Now. I did better than that. I lost it all. By the time I was 31, I was a millionaire. By the time I was 33, I was broke. And I'll tell you a little bit about that story later, but when I lost all my money, guess what? I found out Mr. Schoof was
right. What was valuable was not the money. What was valuable was what I became to earn the money. The skills I had, the knowledge I had about the marketplace, the values that I had going for me, they were more valuable than the money. And here's an important statement to remember. It's not what you get that makes you valuable. It's what you become. So part of the key here is to set the kind of goals that will make something of you.
Don't set them too low so that you don't have to grow and you don't have to read and you don't have to try and you don't have to stretch. Don't set them too low and then don't sell out. Don't go for something that's going to cost you your virtue or cost you your values or sell out your principles. There's a good middle Rd. here to follow. Goals that will inspire. Goals that'll help you grow, change, develop, and become better than you are. OK.