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Each one time I came up with this. The four ifs that make life worthwhile. I think I got this when I was in the Carmel Library, Carmel, California, one of my favorite places to study and do a bit of research. And I remember that day when I put this together. The four ifs that make life worthwhile. Speaking of preparation, here's what I said. The four ifs are number one, if you learn, that makes life worthwhile. You've got to learn. You've got to learn what it's all about. You've got to learn what's going on. You learn by trying. You learn by error. You learn by doing it right. You learn by doing it wrong. You learn from other people's experiences. There's all kinds of ways to learn. Never cease your quest for learning. Never stop learning. It makes life worthwhile if you learn. Then I said the second if that makes life worthwhile is if you try. You've got to do something with what you've learned. See if you can raise a garden. See if you can start a business. See how quickly you can get promoted. See if you can move up in the next income bracket. See how much you can give away and still have plenty left. See how much you can do. Try it. Just try. We're always telling the kids, right? Try it. Try it. Kid says, well, I'm not sure. Say, well, how are we going to know you got to try?
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If I put these two poles up, put a bar across here, two feet high. Say to the kids who can jump two feet? Someone says, I don't know. Say, well, how are we gonna know? You just got to back up and take a run at it. Now, what if you knock the bar down? Does that mean you can't jump two feet? No. So then what do we say? Try it again. That's what Shoaff said to me. Keep trying. He said, there's more than one way up the mountain. Sneak up the back if you have to. Keep trying, keep trying. So that's the second if that makes life worthwhile, if you try it over, try it again, try it another way, but keep trying. The third if that makes life worthwhile is if you stay developing staying power. That's one of the big challenges of life. Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. They don't stay, or the guy builds foundation, right? Got a nice foundation. Then he goes off and builds another foundation, and then he leaves that one. Goes off, builds another foundation. He's got these foundations scattered all across the country. I've done my share of that. Not staying to finish it and put it together and put the roof on, put the last brick in place, light the fireplace, have a party, celebrate finishing something. Stay. You gotta stay. We asked one of my good friends, Jim Cardwell, in Phoenix one time. I said, jim, what are you good at? He said, starting over. That's one of my better things, is starting over. He's a character. Asked him if he was good at any particular sport, and he said yes. Skating on thin ice. Okay. Third, if that makes life worthwhile is if you stay. Here's the fourth one. Fourth, if that makes life worthwhile is if you care. The incredible capacity for humans to care. But if you care, if you care at all, you'll get some results. If you care enough, you'll get incredible results. Now, that wasn't too complicated a speech, right? Just four simple ifs that make life worthwhile. But it does take some time. Take some research, consciously. Get your notepad out, get your journal, read the books. But now then, even though you don't have a speech to give, just get ready for tomorrow's conversations today. Get ready for next month, this month, get ready for next year, this year. Always be a day ahead and a step ahead and a year ahead in your research and your development, in researching your own feelings and life and what's going on. So that no matter what conversation comes up, what chance to communicate comes up, whether it's a business communication or a personal communication, whether it's. Whether it's social, whatever it is, you'll be more ready for it a few months from now than perhaps you are now, just because you're doing it deliberately and consciously.