Jim Rohn Motivational Speech | Enemies Of The Mind

Enemies of the mind you’ve got to do battle with in the summer: one is pessimism, which tries to get you only to see the negative side. Of course, there's the negative side; life is part negative. What else is new?

If the glass is half empty, it is half empty. You say, "Well, I've been only taught to see that it's half full. " Well, sure, it's half full, but it's also half empty.

I mean, can't you handle that? I mean, you know that's not too difficult. But here's what pessimism would try to get you to do: believe that it's only half empty.

And when pessimism comes to your mind, you've got to educate pessimism because pessimism is stupid. Pessimism tries to get you to believe that it's only half empty. You've got to say, "Pessimism, you've never been to school; you're too dumb and stupid to know, of course, it's half empty.

But it's not only half empty; it's also half full. " I'm asking you to be in charge—be in charge of your own mind, be in charge of your own destiny. Do battle with your enemy in the summertime.

In the summertime, you've got to learn to love like a mother, hate like a father, give life like a mother, nourish, take life like a father. The father says to whatever threatens his family, "Take two or three more steps toward this family and threaten them; you'll cease to exist! " I'm the father; I kill to battle with your enemies.

Now, it's also possible to love like a father and hate like a mother. I'm not saying that it is impossible. There's nothing more dangerous than an angry mother.

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] I saw an article in a magazine a little bit ago up in Canada. It showed a man with some claw marks on his back; he had his shirt off and big teeth marks in his neck. This man was out in the woods, had his flash camera, saw Mama Bear with a little cub, thought, "Oh, this is cute," and took a flash picture.

Mama Bear took unkindly to this flash picture, promptly chased the man, and almost killed him before somebody rescued him. So beware, Mama Bear! Okay, love like a father, hate like a mother, give life like a mother, take life like a father, or however you want to arrange it.

Just so you nourish your values, nourish your family, nourish what's valuable for you. Nourish your organization, nourish your distributors, nourish your customers. Take care of your responsibilities, feed, nourish, but then I'm also asking you to do battle with your enemies.

Take a sword to your enemies—whatever is going to destroy those values, take a sword to it. If it's worry, take a sword to it. If it's a threat, threaten back.

You've got to be like your bloodstream—good illustration: red corpuscles to nourish like a mother, white corpuscles to fight and kill like a father. You've got to do some negative thinking; you can't just think positive. Thank God for white corpuscles that think negative all [Music] day.

White corpuscles say, "Just show me some infection; I'll kill it! " Whatever threatens this body and its future gets threatened. Whatever's got to kill this body gets killed.

I'm asking you to take a sword to your enemies, whether they're on the outside or whether they're on the inside. Protect your family, protect your future, protect your values. Love, nourish, but also do battle with whatever is out there to do battle with you.

Take some courage from some of those who have been through the battle—they've given you their stories on this stage. They've been through it; they know what it's all about. Take some courage from that, and in the summer, do battle and nourish.

Now, here's the last one: in the harvest time—number four—take your harvest and all that comes your way with full responsibility. Don't [Music] complain! That fourth season, complaining, telling you, could ruin all of your [Music] chances.

Complaining sometimes starts as an infection; if you don't take care of it, it becomes a disease. Do battle with it in the harvest time. Reap your harvest without complaint; it's your crop.

You sowed it! You either made the calls or didn't make the calls. You wrote the letters; you didn't write the letters.

You were steady, or you weren't steady. You did it, or you didn't do it. You put together a good day, or you didn't put together a good day.

Take responsibility when the harvest time finally comes and say, "Hey, it's my crop! " You've got to take responsibility for it. I do not complain.

And then here's the next: do not apologize if you've done well. We offer no apologies! When these winners that walked across this stage here go back to their communities, we offer no apology for making the kind of money they make because of the lives they've touched and the people that they helped.

No telling what would have happened if these people had not touched many people's lives, who touched many people's lives. When you go back to the community, all of you who were winners here, I ask you to go back with no apology because you've done your job well, and you've given good hands to everybody you've touched. You deserve all the [Applause] [Music] money!