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Jim: Choice. We all make a choice. Everybody is right where they want to be right now. I’ll give you several examples. A friend of mine Barry, from British Columbia. I am playing golf with him and he probably was a 25 handicap and he hadn’t broke a hundred yet. He was frustrated that he wasn’t getting better, and he said I want to get better. I said, “no you don’t.” He said, ” I don’t like playing like this.” And I said, “yes you do or you’ll do something different.” He said, “no I don’t, I want to play better.” And I said no, you want to be a piece of crap and this is what you choose to be. You’re a lousy golfer and you’re never going to be any better.
He says, “What do you mean?”
I said, “well do you have a coach? Do you have somebody who is constantly holding you accountable, teaches you how to swing the club better and are you taking lessons? I mean your swing is so out of plane and crooked there’s no way you’re going to hit the ball right every time. I said, well you got to go to the driving range and practice what he teaches you. How often do you practice your short game? And you do golfing once a week, I said to him, Barry I have a swing coach, I go to the driving range all the time and I have a putting green in my backyard. You know, that’s why I play like I do. Until you try to change and until you hire somebody who will teach you how to do it right, you’re not going to get better. You’re not.”
…and that’s what Bob was saying, people are going to write this down and they’re not going to call you and say I think I got the magic pill. The magic pill is that they have somebody like me hold them accountable, get in their face and challenge them. Call them every day and ask, What are you doing? Tell me why this didn’t work. What do we need to do differently to make it happen? And I’ll give you another great example. A number of people tell me they want to lose weight and I say, no you don’t, you enjoy being fat. No I don’t. Yes you do. No, you want to be fat. And they say why would you say that? I said if you wanted to be slim, you’d do something about it. That’s why it’s a 50 billion a year industry. There are more diets out there. Even Charles Barkley lost weight. I saw him on TV and you know the crowd pounder, well you know he can’t be called that anymore because he had lost weight. It’s a matter of making a choice and making a decision. Most people write their goals, write their thoughts down. I want to be better or I can be better, I will be better.
You know all these words imply, they imply you’re not there yet. So part of it is creating the discontent, creating so much disorder in your life by the way you write goals. One of the things that happen with Barry, my golfing buddy, he had discontent at that moment. He went back home to Vancouver, British Columbia hired a coach, went to the range on a regular basis and he is now a 10 handicapper. The guy goes to shoot at the low eighties or seventies now. I said to him, you’re amazing. He said, it wouldn’t have happened unless you called me out. And most of the people listening to this cd and I know you got other speakers out here with great messages; ah there’s a great idea. They write something down and they don’t do it and stay with it, okay.
You know just like a lot of people say, motivational speakers never last. I say that’s a bunch of crap. The speech lasts. The information lasts, you didn’t make it work. You know? It’s like New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s list of resolutions absolutely, 100 percent work. And 100 percent of the people that are committed in writing down and doing what it says…they work! The ones that don’t work are the people that choose not to make it work. It is clearly a choice, a 100 percent choice about how you want to live your life and be a better version of yourself.
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