Did I just bring back the old music? Yeah, I did. Just felt like it. Just felt like it.
At the end of yesterday's show, I alluded to something else that I wanted to talk about later in the week. Well, this is later in the week. So we're gonna talk about it today. I am so grateful that in 1977, man, that was a long time ago, my uncle George handed me a cassette tape package and he said, take this home and listen to it.
And I looked at it and it had the Reverend Robert Schuller, it's the name on it. I said a Reverend Robert Schuller. Now, understand I was not a religious person in 1977. I'm not sure I am now, kind of thing.
I am, but I'm not positive. But anyway, he says, take this home and listen to it. I said, okay, so I take it home and I did not listen to it. I had other things to do.
I was really going crazy on the career, things were moving ahead wonderfully. And I just, you know, I just did not do that. I just, you know, just didn't listen to it. And he said to me one day, he said, have you listened to that tape program yet?
I said, no, I just really haven't had time. He said, all right, Sunday, channel 10, local television channel, one o'clock on Sunday, turn it on. I said, he said, you can watch him on TV. I guarantee if you watch his church service on TV, you will then immediately want to listen to this tape.
I said, okay, Sunday came and went, I didn't look. Next Sunday came, and I knew I was going to be seeing my uncle George that afternoon, later that afternoon, at my mom's house. So I said, okay, I'm going to watch this TV show. So I watched this TV show, and it's called the hour of power with Robert Schuller.
And it was in this big church, not the Crystal Cathedral yet. They were building that, but they were in this big church that they had. And he comes out and he just, I don't know, his voice just captured me. And he started talking about something right away that I had never heard of before.
We've all heard about positive thinking. We've all heard about that. Well, Dr. Schuller had something else that he wanted to talk about.
And he said, I want you to learn. He says, and you've heard me say this before. I'd never heard him say anything before. But he said, you've heard me say this before.
What's going to get you through the world is possibility thinking. I said, what's that? What is that? And I remember this so well from the sermon on television, this TV evangelist, Robert Schuller, he said, one of the things he said is, I have a question for you.
And he had this deep, wonderful voice that I just fell in love with. I just loved his voice. And I love the way he enunciated. He was good.
You know, as I later moved into broadcasting, I kind of emulated him as best I could. But he first said, what great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? Oh, that was a question. Oh, that was a question.
What great thing would I attempt if I just absolutely knew I could not fail? That was a great example of possibility thinking. That wasn't Ron Rosh's goon Bob, go out and do it on. No, that was a possibility.
What just wonderful thing could I attempt if I knew I could not fail? And then the next thing he said was, problems are not stop signs. They're guidelines. Okay, I'm starting to understand this possibility stuff.
Problems are not stop signs. They're guidelines. All right, challenges and setbacks are just that. They're setbacks, but they're challenges and you just get through a challenge.
You turn it into something that you can do. And then when bad things happen to you, the next thing he said, just resonated with me. He said, turn your scars into stars. I said, Oh, and he said, yeah, you know, you have an inner strength.
You can overcome difficulties. Take those scars that you have and turn them into stars. Take the bad things that have happened to you and turn them around. And then the one thing that he is so famous for, he said, tough times never lasts, but tough people do tough times never last, but tough people do.
If you persist and you stay with it and you believe in yourself, you're going to last because you're a tough person. It's just just such a great idea. And then he said, the only place your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. So get away from that and go to possibility thinking.
Yeah, that made a lot of sense to me immediately when that show was over, I went and I found the cassette program, the cassette program, by the way, and then I realized besides being a pastor, he was also on the speaker's circuit and he traveled with all kinds of people. Yesterday I talked about Zig Ziglar, he traveled with Zig Ziglar and all these other people. And they all came up with cassette tape programs. And my uncle bought his cassette tape program about possibility thinking.
I had a cassette player, I plugged that thing in and I started listening to it. And one of the first things I heard, one of the first things I heard was believe in yourself. The first step to possibility thinking is believing you're capable of achieving those goals. You have to believe in yourself.
And you have to focus on the positive. That was the other thing that came out in that program. And then the other thing that he had a whole cassette just just set for this. And it was just never give up.
Okay, never ever ever give up. No matter how difficult things get, do not give up. And then the other thing that he this really was implanted deeply into my brain, this next one, be a risk taker. Yeah, don't stand by the side.
Don't stand by the side and be afraid. And then the one thing that he said, which really made a lot of sense to me, be a risk taker. People who are possibility thinkers are just never afraid to take a risk. You just go for it and you do it.
And then after that, after that, the one thing that he said that just really made a lot of sense is help others stop being selfish, go out and help people. When you go out and you help people, good things happen to you. My son Zachary is 28 years old. He's finding his way in life.
And we are together a lot during the week. We work together a lot during the week. And we have a rule. And the number one rule in the morning is what good deed are we going to do today?
And we go out of our way to find a good deed to do that good deed could be handing a $5 bill to somebody who's holding one of those signs on the side of the road. As a matter of fact, we rarely drive by those people without giving them money. If we're at the light and they're at the light, we're handing them money. And people have a lot of opinions on that.
I'm saying, if you are going to stand out in the Florida sun with a cardboard sign, I'm going to give you money. And that's a good deed. And every time we do a good deed, we feel better about ourselves. So yeah, Robert Schuller taught me that a long time ago, in 1977, he taught me that.
He was an amazing man. I could talk for hours about Robert Schuller. One of the things that really impressed me is he built this crystal cathedral. He was building it when I first found him.
And his goal when he built the crystal cathedral was to have it paid for with no mortgage before it opened. So long, if you ever seen the structure, it's gigantic. And it's all made of glass. And so he had all these fundraising things.
You could buy a star, you could buy a tongue from the ceiling, you could buy all kinds of things that you're donating. And he did it. By the time he was done with that, he had the whole thing paid for. The things that he taught literally millions of people about possibility thinking still stands clear today.
And I just totally believe in it. I absolutely totally believe in it. As I understand it, his grandson, Bobby Schuller, is now hosting the television show, the hour of power television show. It's not on where I live.
I have, I guess I could go on to the internet and find it, but I haven't done that. But I understand that he's rebuilding this whole thing. Maybe I'll check that out. I really wish I still have that cassette tape program.
I went on eBay today looking for it. Could not find it. But I encourage you, look into Robert Schuller, look into possibility thinking. And I think you will find your life.
We'll just get better. Okay, I think it'll just get better. Just remember, what would you do if you knew you could not fail? That's a possibility.
That is a real possibility. We'll see you tomorrow.