7 Success Principles of An Eagle | Dr. Myles Munroe.

I want to speak for a few moments on the eagle principle I'm going to give you a list of seven principles to approach this weekend with I'm going to talk about what I learned in my own life from the principle of the eagle that continues to expand and change my life as an investment in the human race I'd like for you to listen very carefully to these seven principles and apply them to your life I want to begin with a statement that I made last year to remind you that few of us really know who

we really are the wealthiest spot on this planet is not the diamond mines of South Africa it's not the gold mines of South America the wealthiest spot on this planet is not the oil fields of Iran or Iraq or Kuwait the wealthiest spot on this planet is not too far from your house it's matter of fact you probably passed it on your way to the airport the wealthiest spot on this planet is the cemetery you may ask why because buried in the cemetery are dreams that were never fulfilled books that were never written visions that

never became reality in the cemetery are paintings that were never painted songs that were never sung businesses that were never opened great men that died as poor men are in the cemetery my greatest dream and wish for you this weekend is that you will make a decision to not add to the wealth of the cemetery that you will go to the cemetery completely empty because you have fulfilled the dreams and accomplished the goals and fulfill the vision that you have in your heart before you die it is my hope that you as an individual will

die empty that you will be able to say I have done everything I dreamt of doing and I am ready to leave the planet fulfilled there's a story of a [Music] man in my country where I'm from in the Bahamas it's a beautiful country this old man lived in one of our Islands outside a plantation where they grew Cain one day he was passing SE the plantation and looked over the [Music] wall and the owner of the plantation had some men were cutting down a big tree and the old man looked at the men as

they chopped the tree in pieces and threw the logs in a heap to burn the old man stopped for a moment and as he watched them throwing the big pieces of log on the Heap of Fire he came to the gate and shouted to the owner of the plantation and said sir is it possible for me to ask you for a piece of that wood that you're throwing away and the man said to him this is nothing but junk and this tree is a nuisance we're cutting it down because it is in the way of

our progress and we want to throw this out of our Plantation it is nothing but junk and the old man with a twinkle in his eye said to the owner can I have a piece of your junk the plantation owner was irritated by the old man and says go ahead take it away I have no need for this junk and the old man picked up a large piece of that trunk of the tree and heisted it on his shoulders and he staggered back to the Village in our island with this heavy piece of junk on

his shoulder he walked into his little cabin and he placed a piece of junk in the middle of the floor then he did something that was very rare in most of our lives he picked up his chisel and his hammer and he walked around the piece of junk as if he was possessed with some spirit and and he kept stopping for a moment and he looked at the junk and he would seem as if he saw something in the piece of junk suddenly he took his hammer and his chisel as if he was possessed and

he began to beat the piece of junk with the hammer and the Chisel and as he's sing pieces flew from that piece of junk and he worked as if he was under a spell and he kept on sweating and beating and chisling the piece of junk when he was finished he freed from that piece of junk a beautiful golden eagle he was so tired and exhausted at 4:30 a.m. in the morning he fell among the chips of wood and fell asleep clutching tightly to the eagle he had freed from that piece of junk the next

morning he awoken and he took the beautiful Eagle that he had chisled from the junk and he placed it on the porch of his little Hut a few days later the owner of the plantation came by in his beautiful automobile chauffered by his driver and as he passed the cabin going toward his Plantation his eyes caught this beautiful bird and he told the driver to stop the car and they pulled into the little village yard and asked the old man where did you get that from the old man asked why do you want it he

said how much would you take for that beautiful eagle and the old man said for a few moments with twinkles in his eyes I would take $5,000 for that eagle the owner of the plantation was was so excited because he thought that is worth more than 5,000 he took out his wallet and he wrote a check for $5,000 gave it to the old man and he picked up the eagle and he ran to his car and he said with a great grin on his face I got treasure and as he rode away into the distance

the old man looked at the check and kissed it and said one man's junk is is another man's treasure I believe that that piece of stump that log is some of you in this room people think that your dreams cannot come to pass your friends and your family and those who work on your job have been asking you for the last 12 months why are you still with the eagle team why don't you get involved in something that is more secure why don't you do something that is more permanent there's no future in this kind

of sales business why don't you settle down and do something important but I want you to know that Miles Monroe has come tonight to walk around you because I see inside of you an eagle that they can't see I believe that ENT trapped in every person in this building is an awesome beautiful bird that no one else can see except the one who created you and I believe that inside of you is the ability to fly to Heights that no one has ever believed you could fly if you believe that I want you to give

yourself a hand cuz you are confident to believe that you see the poorest man in the world is The Man Without a dream and the most frustrated man in the world is a man with a dream that doesn't become reality most men dream but only a few wake up to fulfill that dream you are the few the world has 5.8 billion people on this planet today and 94,000 was born last night and most of that 5.8 billion will die never fulfilling their dream but you are the exception you have chosen to walk away from the

crowd and to not get get lost in the norm you have decided that you deserve the right and the obligation to give your dream a chance you have decided that you will not die wishing you had done it you have decided that you will leave the pack and you will become The Rare Breed called The Eagle I want to give you the seven principles that separate the eagle from every other bird these principles are for human application how do I know this because the eagle is the only bird in the entire Kingdom of animals that

has these seven characteristics strange enough the eagle is the only bird that the Creator Compares himself to as a matter of fact it is this bird that he says he relates to in regards to humanity years ago when I read that I decided if the Creator said that he is like an eagle and he wants us to be like him then I must study the eagle as a matter of fact I was attracted to Eagle team Industries when I got the invitation and saw an eagle on it because I said anybody and any group who

have decided to pursue the characteristics of an eagle they can be my friend are you ready for the weekend of the rest of your life then the first thing I want you to write down so you can leave the ranks of the pigeons is this principle Eagles Fly alone you will never find Eagles in a flock Eagles do not flock Eagles are lonely Birds scientists have studied Eagles for many years and there's one conclusion they came to you find Eagles one at a time that is why when you decide to fulfill your vision and to

fulfill your dream suddenly the people who used to run with you are no longer comfortable when you decide to become all you were born to be then your best friends become your problem because no longer can they make you who they want you to be that is why when you decide to be a success the way you were born to be you suddenly find yourself very lonely if you are going to rise above the clatter of ducks and the chirping of pigeons you're going to have to be willing to fly alone do not come and

join this company if you need the approval of your family if you need the approval of your community if you need the approval of your Social associations because if you're going to be successful the first decision you have to make is it's going to be lonely up here Eagles Fly alone because they fly at altitudes other birds are not built for are there eagles in this room then I want you to join me at the top because up here the air is thin up here where success lie the air is light you are built for

this altitude so get used to people disagreeing with you get used to people not approving your dream get used to your best friends turning their backs on you get used to people people not believing in your dream because a true leader and a true eag knows that loneliness comes with success but I got good news for you if one eagle flies at the altitude of an eagle then guess who he meets him there anytime an eagle meets a bird it's definitely not a pigeon that is why you have come here this weekend you've come here

this weekend because most of the people you live among are pigeons and in order for you to maintain your spirit of progress and your spirit of vision you have to meet with other eagles who will inspire you and encourage you because if you want to be a success you don't keep company with failures people who are going nowhere love for you to go with them people who are doing nothing with their lives they love for you to do nothing with them but if you are going to become all you were born to be then you've

got to find others who also have the same dream and this is exactly why this convention is so important because you become just like those you associate with you become like those you make your friends you cannot choose your brothers and sisters you are stuck with them by biological facts but you can choose your friends I want you to say the person next to you it's good to be sitting next to an eagle now say to them if you are a pigeon sit somewhere else Eagles Fly alone say it with me Eagles Fly alone one

more time Eagles Fly alone second principle of an eagle [Music] egos possess Vision there is no bird in the entire Animal Kingdom and there is no animal in the animal kingdom that has the vision of an eagle the eagle is a strange bird they say that an eagle has double sight but One Vision an eagle have been scientifically tested to be able to see 5 miles away in detail in other words an eagle 5 miles in the air can look to the Earth and see a rodent a rat or a snake from far 5 miles

above the Earth it's the only bird that can fly high and yet see in detail the eagle therefore is known as the most focused bird in the animal kingdom the eagle has the ability to be aware of everything but only see one thing write that down if you're going to be successful you must be aware of everything but only focus on one thing in order to be successful you must not become a jack of all trades an eagle is successful in its catch of pray because when it sees its Target even though there are millions

of other things around the eagle from five miles in the air the eagle focuses on the rat and he Dives like a bullet toward the rat and he never takes his eyes of that rat no matter what kind of clouds he passes through no matter what kind of wind come against him no matter what kind of rain that may be falling it doesn't matter what kind of trees that may be present it doesn't matter what kind of other animals are running around him he sets his focus and he targets his prey and he swoops down

like a bullet and doesn't leave the target until he strikes I want to say to you many Of You' have come here and you've lost your focus you've been discouraged the last 12 months since I saw you last some of the people in your downline left you some of your people who you thought were going to be faithful and going to be motivated they're the ones who didn't come through and you came here hoping that you would hear something to give you encouragement to go back and believe again but I got news for you Eagles

are not distracted by pigeons I challenge you tonight this weekend to put your vision back on paper and put your goal back in sight and leave this convention saying one thing and one thing only I won't quit until I strike don't allow things that are around you to distract you from that which is in you and your dream is in you the third principle of an eagle eagles only eat live food this is very important to us eagles only eat live food an eagle does not eat grapes it does not eat apples it does not

eat dead animals as a matter of fact vultures eat dead animals that's why they're so ugly tell your neighbor now I understand why I'm so beautiful come on tell her eagles only eat living food why is this important because an eagle demands fresh meat because of the its metabolism that means if you are going to ride at the height that God intends you to ride if you're going to be as successful as you were created to be become if you are going to maintain your height of experience in life then you cannot depend on Old

dead frustrated forgotten information you need every day to feed yourself new exciting refreshing information that is why this organization has provided cassette tapes and videos and booklets and magazines that you receive periodically why cuz they know that the people around you are dead food they the folks who say to you are you still in that business you ain't tired yet and your answer is oh no I just got a tape from Dr Miles Monroe and I'm ready to go you need to feed your vision fresh motivation an eag needs living food in order to survive

because your metabolism as a dreamer requires food that feeds your dream that is why I am very cautious about the people who keep company with me matter of fact there are many people I avoid because I consider them dead meat there are people in your life who have tried to talk you out of your dream and that is why it's so important for you to be more protective of your vision than you are in acquaintances because not everybody has the same passion for your dream as you do but there are people in this organization and

in this conference today this weekend who also have a dream you need to receive live food the fourth vision and principle of an eagle I like this one Eagles always test before they Trust [Music] Eagles always test before they trust please write that down y all may not know about how the eagle mates so I will give you a little historical review of an eagle's lifestyle you're going to like this this is very interesting before an eagle mates the eagle does something that no other bird does when a female eagle and a male Eagle come

together and they show interest in each other the female does something that I hope women will do and if you do this you'll probably get a better husband first of all the female eagle flies down to the ground she picks up a twig in a beak and she flies two to three miles up into the sky the male follows her then she reaches the height of about 2 to three miles and then she does something strange she drops The Twig and she just watches The Twig as The Twig Falls the male Eagle chases The Twig

and the faster it falls the faster he flies and the faster it falls the faster he flies and the faster it falls the faster he flies and he tries to Target The Twig and he catches The Twig in his claws before it hits the ground and then he takes it back up to the female and he throws it in the air the female catches The Twig and flies even higher and then she drops The Twig again and The Twig Falls and the male flies Behind The Twig he chases The Twig with all of his might

The Twig Falls the faster it falls the faster he flies the faster it falls the faster he flies and he comes and he catches it and he brings it back up to the female he throws it in the air she catches it with a peak and she drops it again and he flies out to The Twig and they do this for hours and when the female is convinced that the male is an expert in Catching Twigs then and only then does she allow him to make with her wouldn't that be great before you get married

some of you looking at me funny say oh please brother miles don't say that my wife may go out tonight and throw up a twig some of you men so stiff it out of wrers you can't even catch it here is the principle don't commit yourself to people who you haven't had the time to test if you're going to be successful you don't waste your energy on people who just have an interest but don't have a commitment to your business many of you have wasted much time selling your business to people and try to convince

them rather than they coming to you with an interest and you have spent hours working on some people and now they are no longer with you and you think sometimes if I had put those hours into someone else who was interested I could have had a diamond along with me when you go back to your town and your city and your workplace take this principle with you of the eagle if you're going to be a leader you must be a tester give people a project to test them give them an assignment and then watch see

how they catch it encourage them by giving them delegated authority to help you do some things just to check to see if they have the commitment because your energy is too important to be wasted on people who have no interest in your vision and in their own Vision just remember you cannot give people Vision you can only cultivate what they have already give them a test before you give them all your trust as a matter of fact trust is a result of time and test number five an eagle is a strange bird because of this

principle Eagles love storm Eagles love storms the eagle is the only bird in history and in the animal kingdom whenever a storm is on the horizon the eagle flies toward the storm it's the crazy bird every other bird when a storm is threatening They Run for Cover the pigeons find a hole and the Ducks find a nest but the eagle when it sees a problem or a challenge the eagle flies into the challenge rather than from it no wonder why God himself Compares himself with an eagle and then he says I will bear you up

as humans on wings of eagles cuz you too are eagles if your you're going to be successful all the way back there and if you're going to be successful over here and if you're going to be successful around here I got one reminder challenges are good for a leader challenges are good for a dreamer the question why does an eagle love storms guess why eagles grow to the size of 7 ft in wingspan when a storm approaches the eagle considers the storm an opportunity to relax strange bird every other bird runs away but the eagle

runs into the storm because he uses the storm's Fury to set his wings and his pinions and his pinions catches the wind of the storm and suddenly that eagle is pushed up by the storm and he is able to glide on the wings of the storm without having to work his wings and so he rests on what others run from can I challenge you tonight some of you are going through periods of discouragement maybe your business is slow maybe the economy in your country has not been doing as well as it should be or maybe

you have lost some downline or maybe you have come into a situation where your family has turned against you or maybe you've gone through a divorce or maybe you lost someone in your family through debt and it's it's Destro your concentration I want you to learn a lesson from the ego no matter what you're going through no matter how difficult life may seem no matter how challenging it may look that storm has come to make you better you can use it for depression or you can use it for altitude you can use it for discouragement

or you can use it to fly at a height you never flew before challenges test your resolve challenges test your ability to handle characteristics that make you a leader you will never be successful without problems today people think that I'm successful because of the things I've accomplished I am the founder of an organization that is now in 74 countries I am the director of of a Incorporated company that is worth millions of dollars I have been involved in helping people and governments and institutions to also understand that they can do the same but I got

something to tell you tonight if you see the front of me I look very beautiful don't I I'm handsome I am short dark and beautiful and that's what you see in the front but if I show you my back you will see scars you will see Cuts you will see sores that have been healed you would see the cost of success Eagles love a challenge because a challenge makes them strong an eagle is not afraid of difficulty because difficulty makes the eagle better you take a look at your problems this weekend look him in the

face and say to them I'm not going to run from you I'm going to show you what I'm made of and I'm going to use you to make me better an eagle is a strange bird because the sixth principle of an eagle is that an eagle prepares for training please write that down an eagle prepares for training an eag invests time in the development of others some of you wondering can a bird think that sophisticated the answer is yes listen to this the eagle is the only bird that builds his nest this way follow me

carefully when an eagle wants to build a nest the first thing an eagle does are you ready for this he finds a high CFT in the Cold Mountain he makes sure it is high he makes sure it's a cleft and he makes sure it is cold at that altitude he builds it on the bare rock then he flies away after he finds a spot and he picks up pieces of Twigs he takes them up to that cold spot and he lays them in a patn then he flies down to the Earth and he finds cloth

and rag he brings it back and he lays them on the top of the Twigs then he flies back to the Earth and he does the most unorthodox thing the eagle goes searching for thorns he finds the Thorns he brings them back to the nest and he puts the thorns on the top of the cloth thick sharp dangerous Thorns the eagle finds then he flies back to the Earth and he brings back cotton and cloth and puts on the top of the Thorns when that is completed he goes back to the Earth and he brings

straw and put on the top of the cotton and then he goes back to the Earth and he brings back Cotton On Top of the straw and when that Nest is soft and warm and comfortable then the female eagle comes and lays the eggs why did the eagle build a nest that way because the eagle invests in training others you cannot be successful in life unless you are willing to invest in the development of other people there's one thing you would design never to do and that is to live an isolated life this company is

built on people not on money this company is built on relationships not on an organization this company is built on trusting other people which your own word it's not built on some cold callous structure this company is built on your ability to train other people if you're going to train other people you have to prepare and invest the time to train them watch the eagle the eagle after he exelate she sits on the egg and when she's tired the male sits on the egg and they trade places by the way that's good advice for marriages

don't let your wife do all the work sit on the egg sometime Brothers we are in this together if we are married you cannot be successful in the eagle team if there is a division in your marriage if there's friction if there's disagreement because that environment is not conducive to focus Like an Eagle if your spouse does not agree with your dream you're going to find it very difficult to focus because the home is the nest so I encourage you if you are here without your spouse next year bring your spouse with you so they

can capture the dream I am so excited to see so many families here husband and wives because that's the way it was intended to be because the key to division is a strange key I'll give it to you now please write the word Vision down everybody say Vision say it loud a little louder now I want you to write another word down but it's not a word it's a prefix write the prefix d i the prefix die it has a meaning it means to T wo two whenever you see that prefix anywhere it means to

it splits the word for example the word vi means one if you put die in the front of it it's the word divide which means you split the one kotamy means one if you put the prefix die in the front of Coty it's the word dichotomy which means to split in two if you have the word v v o r c which is a word it means single power if you put the prefix die in the front of the word vce you have the word divorce which means means you split the power if you have

the word Vision the word vision is the word Optica and it means single sight if you put the prefix die in the front of the word Vision you have what what do you have come on shout it loud if you want to protect yourself from division in your family or division in your company or division in your downline or division in your business then you as a leader of your downline must constantly communicate and enforce and reinforce the vision of your company to the hearts of those people so that no one comes up with a

second Vision because wherever there are two visions there is division that is why this company is headed by one man they say that any animal with two heads is a monster if you're going to be successful in business you've got to remember that the company should have a single Vision the eagle together have one vision we are going to produce iglet so they both sit on the egg now here's the beauty when the eggs have hatched and the little eaglets come out that's your new recruits everybody say iglet I want 1998 to be the year

of eaglets I want 1998 to be the year that you hatch 50 to 60 new eaglets in your personal company good that's a good place to clap that means you got to sit down with your spouse or sit down with your friend and your partner and say 1998 we are going to deliver these babies we carry we have a vision of a downline of 300 by the year 2000 and this is going to be our Dream 1998 we're going to hatch 50 of them when they hatch the eagle does something strange the birds begin to

develop it takes time you got to encourage them you got to meet with them you got to show them the system of Eagle team you got a desire to be with them and talk to them and have meetings with them it takes a lot of commitment to prepare and train people to be leaders when they have grown their feathers and they've become strong and their wings have been filled out guess what they don't want to fly Eagles were born to fly but they are afraid of flight isn't that strange grown Eagles will stay in a

nest even though they are the king of birds and they were born to fly that sounds like most of us we were born to be successful we were born with dreams on the inside we were born with vision to accomplish great things that's why you're here tonight you were born to impact your community economically you were born to make a footprint in the S of history in your country you were born to be an impression on History you were born with that but you are afraid to step out why the greatest fear you know is

failure you afraid that if you leave your job and go full-time in Eagle team then you might not be successful and all your friends will laugh at you or maybe you you're afraid that if you do step out in Eagle team's commitment and you become a multi-millionaire in the next four years that you will lose your friends so you are afraid of success or maybe you are afraid that if you were to step out it will mean you got to work too hard so you're afraid of investing your energy or maybe you're afraid that if

you were to decide to go out and fulfill your dream it's going to take 10 years to make it happen and you don't want to wait that long so you're afraid to start but I got news for you even though you are afraid to start you still could fly what does the eagle do to make the eaglets fly this weekend consider me Mama eagle cuz my job this weekend is to do what the mother Eagle does some of you need some help to fly a little higher in 98 I have come to help you some

of you need a little help you need a little help to refocus your dream and get back on track mama has has come to help you this weekend some of you feel that you have made it you are now a diamond and you could relax don't you dare sit where I sit cuz I have come to turn your diamond into a gem don't be satisfied with what you've done don't believe you've made it because no one makes it until they are dead so the mama Eagles Mama Eagle does something strange the same eaglets that she

fed and the same eaglets that she cuddles and the same eaglets that she encouraged to develop suddenly the mother eagle goes crazy because it's time to fly everybody say it's time to fly oh come on save with me it's time to fly everybody do like this come on take your hands out tell your neighbor look out for my wings watch my wings all right are you ready everybody say it's time to fly one more time it's time to fly again it's time to fly give yourself a hand cuz you're going to fly this weekend okay

you said it so Mama Eagle's going to help you the mother Eagle suddenly takes her wings and she puts it next to the nest Big 7 feet wings of feathers and she begins to chirp and begins to hoot to tell the Eagles to come on her feathers because it's time to fly they don't move she goes to the nest she takes a beak and she pushes them out and she pushes them out and they fall out of the nest on the cold hard rock of the mountain and the cold Icy Mountain makes them uncomfortable so

they jump back into the nest she goes back and she pushes them out with a beak and she nudges them out with a weak she comes and they fall on the Cold Mountain it's cold and shivering they begin to scream and cry and they jump back in the nest The Nest is warn comfortable she comes back and she takes a beak and she shoves them out again they land on the cold Rock it's cold and they jump back in the Warmness and so Mama Eagle does something that seemed to be uncomfortable suddenly the beak that

fed them and the beak that protected them and the beak that covered them and the beak that was the source of their very lives the mom eagle takes that beak and she begins to rip away the cotton and rip away the straw and she rips away the grass and she rips away the cloth and she goes crazy and all the clot and feather is flying everywhere all over the mountain down the mountain it's all a frenzy she just tears up the nest and the Little Eagles are screaming and crying and shouting no uncomfortable leave me

alone but she's not even even listening to them she rips the nest and rips The Nest until she gets down to the Thorns when the Thorns are exposed the mother eagle takes a big wings and puts them on the Rock again next to the nest because she knows it's better to be on the wing than in the nest the little birds began to feel the Thorns Pierce their feathers and begins to pierce their skin blood begins to show as they move around on the uncomfortable thorns and they began to literally hurt themselves because it's time

to fly some of you some of you have come to this convention this year because your job is nothing but thorns some of you have come to the point where it's uncomfortable to go to work because Eagle team has become so much of a interest and success that it's now a contest between your vision and your job the Thorns that are piercing you on your job are actually messages that are telling you fly now or live on a pension forever you cannot be successful in a dream part time there comes a time when the part

has to turn into a hole stay on your job until you can't stay anymore but when you can't stay anymore don't stay on your job otherwise you will never learn the joy and the beauty and the freedom of flying like the eagle the Little Eagles jump out of the nest onto the wings of the mother oh they're so excited why it's soft and warm and it's comfortable and they hang on with their their claws and they and they begin to to just settle down on the wing and you got three eaglets on the wing it's

beautiful oo Mama thank you Mama it's so good to be so good to us they excited but then the mother Eagles does something very unorthodox when they are all on the wing and they have their grip in her opinions then the mother Eagle jumps from the mountain with the eaglets on her wings and she shoots up 3 miles in the air four miles above the mountain with the eaglets screaming on her wings when she reaches a point where she knows the air is thin she suddenly shuts the wings and the digets Begin to Fall as

they fall guess who's watching Remember the guy who caught the [Music] twig the guy who caught the twig now has his job he has been tested so the mother Eagle drops them and the father Eagle his eyes are able to see every detail as they fall they scream and they cry and they flutter and they fall over and there's no coordination why they are a young member of Eagle team some of you last year you pushed some people out with their own little tests their own little downline you gave them some assignments and they wled

and fumbled and they fell and and they weren't too steady and they didn't show up on time and didn't carry out this assignment but don't throw them away just watch them and don't help them all the time let them experience would you experience let them go through a measure of failure because success is a result of a series of failures Let Them Fall for a while but don't be too far from them cuz they need your help as a diamond or as a ruby they need to be close to you even though you don't need

to interfere all the time let them learn to fly as a matter of fact Eagle team will be as successful as your ability to teach others to fly if you have to be in touch with all of your down line you are not a successful ego your ability to release others in Flight is the future of this great company and so they fall and just before they hit the ground 50 60 yards up the mother Eagle is watching the father eager suddenly he dies like a bullet he catches them and he climbs up and he

goes up and they are so happy they hanging on say thank you Daddy thank you Daddy Oh Daddy we love you sounds like the diamonds coming to help huh that's that phone call you get sometime from your upline saying how you doing I'm working with you I got faith in you that's the wing come to catch you and the father eagle takes the eaglets up higher and higher they figure we're going back to the nest we're going back to the nest and she goes he goes past the nest oh no and she takes them back

to where the mother Eagle is and then he drops the Eagles again and they fall catches them again takes them up again he drops them they scream but now they're beginning to realize hey you know Daddy ain't going to stop doing this we better start using our way you see your diamonds and your rubies and your upline are not going to stop pushing you into responsibility so you might as well learn to run this business by [Music] yourself this weekend I want you to fly to a height you haven't flown before use some Vision you've

never used before begin to use the imagination God has given you to become the best you can be be like the eaglets who begin to realize it's time to fly if we never learn to fly we're going to keep going up and down life will never be a constant GL died if he never learned to fly some days your bills are paid some days your bills ain't paid some days your bills are paid some this you can't live like that forever you have ulcers and depression and growths and cancer and migraine if you try up

and down life decide today that you are going to make 1998 the year that you extend your wings to the Limit where you've never been before suddenly those little birds began to realize hey we could do this look at me I'm doing what Daddy did look at this hey we doing it oh there's the ground oh oh oh and they said hey I'm mounting up like my papa look at that I'm acting like a diamond that's why in this company we want you to dress like a diamond even if you ain't W yet he want

you to walk like a diamond we want you to talk like a diamond how you doing great how's life fantastic how's the business prospering diamonds talk positive but every Diamond used to be a [Music] rock don't be impressed with diamonds because all diamonds begin as a piece of wood that was petrified Under Pressure that was crystallized into crystalline compound that became a crystal and the pressure made it a diamond diamonds take a thousand years to form these people you see sitting up here who you are so maybe uh impressed with remember there's a price they've

been under pressure for years it has cost them many many hours and years and days days of frustration Under Pressure diamonds are made everybody begins as a piece of wood but only those who stay under the pressure become diamonds those Eagles have to learn to fly the day comes that finally the baby eagles are now up at the altitude where Mama and Daddy are now flying and they too have become what they were born to be highflying Eagles I want to close tonight on one reminder an eagle grows old and an eagle eventually dies but

there's something about an eagle that is the strangest thing in the world and I want to close on this point tonight because tomorrow is going to be a good day for you when an eagle grows old his feathers grow old the eagle finds a quiet place in the mountain listen carefully please and the eagle does something no other birds do the eagle goes to a quiet place in the mountain high up in the Cliff of the Rock by himself and the eagle begins to take his feathers and he would take his wings and put them

around the front of himself and he begins to take his Beak he begins to yank out his own feathers and throw them on the mountain and he does it with the other Wing he Yanks on his feathers and throws them on the mountain he begins to yank the feathers from his chest throws them on the mountain and he begins to yank himself free from every feather he could reach and the eagle stands there bare skinn and bloody this is a true Act of an eagle an eagle stays in that quiet place until New feathers grow

and as he stays there in that quiet place then you understand the statement of the great prophet Isaiah in the Bible Isaiah says wait on the Lord in other words all of us got to find a refuge in God in our business because we get tired we get frustrated ideas grow old the business becomes boring we feel that this ain't working this ain't going to be successful you feel old I have come to tell you in my own success in my own business experience that when that happens to me I always find a quiet place

where nobody is and I begin to beat my feathers and expose my fears and all of my frustrations I began to tell my Creator how frustrated I am and I pull out of my transparent weaknesses and and how depressed I am and how things ain't working and it ain't going the way I expected it and I began to confess my frustration in that quiet place you know what he does he begins to give me new courage he begins to give me New Vision he begins to revise my vision he begins to show me that the

temporary discouragement is only an opportunity to Have Courage because you cannot have courage without fear and he renews my strength and when the eagle surfaces again scientists say the eagle is stronger than he was before because his feathers are new go back to your quiet place when you feel frustrated go back to where your dream first started find the place of meditation from the source of your true potential and ability do not look just to human wisdom and I promise you you will be renewed like the eagle and like Isaiah said wait on the Lord

and He will strengthen your heart you will Mount up with wings as Eagles you will run not be weary you will walk and not faint and you will fly above the pigeons my desire and my challenge to you is join me at the top it's fun Where Eagles Fly see you thank you so much