Joe and Charlie giving their "Big Book Comes Alive" presentation

So we made a deal. 41st St. In Tulsa is kind of halfway between North and South

and Phyllis could have the South half of 41st St., 41st and South and I get 41st and north. And we would meet at home from time to time and visit

and do our drinking. She does hers there, I do mine over here. Got a good deal and that went on for a long time. And I had a little mobile home up on the lake West of our city and. And one night GAIL and Phyllis showed up there

3:00 in the morning and embarrassed me in front of my girlfriend and

staff. And that was a another situation. Just kill me. It's really just just kill me to have that system. How you going to make amends to a little girl for that? What are you going to say? I remorse from mumbling that I'm sorry. Is that going to do? No, she heard that from us before, but she got married when she's about 17 years old and begin to have her children. And, and Phyllis and I are getting sober now and early in our sobriety. And what we did was that we

we were there every time she had a child. We were at the hospital. We lived sober and did the right thing. See, I wasn't a very good father, but I'm a damn good grandfather, I can tell you that. And I'm that. And Phyllis is a great grandmother. And after two or three years of this, they move off to Ohio. Phyllis and I talked it over and we didn't mind GAIL and Jim moving, but they took her grandkids with them.

And up there, after a year or two up there, something happened to her sister-in-law, who was young,

32 years old and died and left three kids to her husband. And and GAIL called US1 night and she said Papa. I said, yeah, she showed me this story. She said it was something that was to happen to Jim and I Would you and mom take the kids?

That's what I know is OK with us. A remorseful mumbling that I'm sorry won't cut it. But living sober, doing the right thing, being there,

that will do it. The action is a whole lot more but better than words. And that happened with us and today we have a good relationship together.

They're back in Tulsa now. But after you've done all you can do to make amends,

there comes a day when you say I'm not making any more amends. So you see, we'll make each other pay forever if we'll pay

someday. You quit making amends. You quit being the feeling that guilt, shame, remorse, because we'll put it on each other and make each other feel bad forever someday. You say, hey, I'm not paying no more. That's it through

OK,

we've

you read way back in the book

getting a Step 4,

it said we're spiritually I'll

mentally ill and physically I'll

and that's referring to the three dimensions of life.

All human beings are born to live in three dimensions.

We have the dimension of the Spirit

and if God dwells within each of us,

and that means we're going to have to live with God whether we like it or not. Beside the point, the only question is do we live there in harmony

for disharmony? I don't know of any group of people in the world that ever got any more disharmony with God. Did we Alcoholics have?

We have also what they call the mental dimension.

We all have a mind

and we're going to have to live with our mind. Whether we like it or not is beside the point. We don't have any other choice. And when? The question is, do we live there in harmony or disharmony?

I don't know any group of people that ever got in more disharmony in their own minds than we Alcoholics have.

We also have what they call the physical dimension.

Now. For years I thought that dealt with my body only, but the physical dimension is the world and everything in it. The physical dimension is not just my body, that your body, my wife's body, my children's body, my job, my car, my bird dogs buy everything. We don't have any place to live except here on earth, whether we like it or not. Beside the point,

the only question is do we live here on earth in harmony or disharmony?

I don't know of any group of people in the world

that ever got in more disharmony

in the physical dimension, and we Alcoholics did. We were sick spiritually, mentally and physically.

There's also a statement in the big book which talks about this program is a design for living

that really works.

And one day we got to looking at that design for living, comparing it to the three dimensions of life, and it looks to us as though the 1st 9 steps

are designed to put us back together

as God intended for us to be in the first place.

Through steps 1-2 and three, we get right with God,

you know, because we were powerless.

We saw the need for the power

and we made a decision to go after that power

and that put us in the right relationship. God is going to be the director, He's the father, we're the children, He's the employee. We're the employee. First time we've had that relationship with God

for most of us. The first time in our lives.

Now that removed just enough self will

to let us start looking into our own minds

and see what was going to block us off

from carrying out this decision that we made in Step 3.

And through 456 and seven,

we found all those character defects that create our problems for us,

talked about them to another human being,

begin to work on them in six and seven.

We begin to get well in the mental dimension. 2 steps 456 and seven

that removed just enough self will

to let us start reaching out to our fellow man.

And through steps 8:00 and 9:00, we got right with the world and everybody in it,

and we are no longer sick people.

If you're right with God in 1-2 and three.

If you're right with yourself in four, 5-6 and seven.

If you're right with your fellow man in steps 8:00 and 9:00,

then you have put been put back together the way God intended for you to live in the first place.

A design for living.

It really works,

and if you're right with God and right with yourself and right with your fellow man,

you're probably going to feel pretty good.

And I don't think it's by accident. The very next thing in the big book

at the bottom of page 83

happens to be the promises that we're always reading.

Let's take a look at them for just a moment.

If we're painstaking about this phase of our development,

we will be amazed before we're halfway through.

We're going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.

We will not regret the past and wish to shut the door on it.

We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.

No matter how far down a scale we have gone, we can see how our experience will benefit others.

That feeling of useless system, self pity will disappear.

We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows.

Self seeking will slip away.

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change.

Fear of people of economic insecurity will leave us.

We will intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

Are these extravagant promises?

We think not. They're being full of filled among us, sometimes quickly spiritually,

sometimes slowly. Spiritual awakening. They will always materialize if we work for them.

Now I'm going to read them again.

Now read them the second time for two reasons. Number one, I love the way I read them.

#2 I'm going to add some words to,

and the words I'm going to add to them refer to a time when I was young

and when I could drink alcohol and be Fred Astaire on the dance floor

in the world's greatest lover in the backseat of a 36 Chevrolet.

This is the way alcohol used to make me feel

before it turned against being. Literally destroyed me

whenever I took a drink of alcohol and knew a new freedom, a new happiness.

Whenever I took a drink of alcohol, I did not regret the pastor which I shut the door on it.

Whenever I took a drink of alcohol, I would comprehend the word serenity and I'd know peace.

Whenever I took a drink of alcohol, no matter how far down the scale I'd gone, I could see how my experience would benefit others.

Whenever I took a drink of alcohol at feeling of use is just in self pity would disappear.

Whenever I took a drink of alcohol, I would lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in my fellows.

Whenever I took a drink of alcohol, self seeking would slip away.

Whenever I took a drink of alcohol, my whole attitude and outlook upon life would change.

Whenever I took a drink of alcohol, fear of people and of economic insecurity would leave me.

Whenever I took a drink of alcohol, I would intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle me.

Whenever I took a drink of alcohol, I would suddenly realize that alcohol was doing for me what I could not do for myself.

Now think about that for a minute.

My God, no wonder I became obsessed with the idea of drinking alcohol.

When you find something that will do this for you

over and over and over and over again,

you're becoming become absolutely obsessed with the idea of using it. And for several years, alcohol was my friend.

So for several years, alcohol allowed me to function in society.

I look back at it now, I don't believe I could have functioned in society without alcohol or something to give me these kind of feelings.

But then one day my friend alcohol turned against me

and all the things I was afraid would happen to be now begin to happen because of the alcohol.

And I became a very, very confused individual,

not knowing I was alcoholic,

not knowing I would never be able to recapture these things from alcohol. I spent the last five or six years of my drinking desperately trying to recapture these things,

and alcohol almost destroyed me.

And I came to a A and you handed me a book called Alcoholics Anonymous.

And I begin to apply that program in that book in my life.

And one day I woke up with these promises in my mind.

They don't deal with the body. They're all in my mind.

I woke up with these promises in my mind

and I said to myself, you know,

these first nine steps have given me everything good that alcohol used to give me.

That's why I don't drink.

If I hadn't found them here, I'd still be looking for him. I'd be dead somewhere. As you see, I don't need to drink because the first nine steps through these promises have given me everything good that alcohol ever gave me before. That's the miracle of Alcoholics Anonymous.

And when that thought came, another thought.

So for the first nine steps have never turned against me as alcohol did.

I've never been placed in jail because of the first nine steps.

No woman has ever drugged me through a divorce court because of the first nine steps.

I've never had to hell beat out of me because of the first nine steps,

damn near dinner time or two, but never really because of the first nine steps. You see, that's the miracle of Alcoholics Anonymous. And if you look at them, they all deal with the mind,

none deal with the body.

Now we come here restless, irritable, and discontented.

We come here filled with shame, fear, guilt and remorse.

We come here very selfish, dishonest, self seeking, frightened and inconsiderate people.

We come here, right? Very angry individuals.

Now, if we've gone from that state of mind

to the state of mind called out in these promises,

then surely we have undergone a great change in our personality,

a personality change sufficient to recover from alcoholism.

Surely we've had a spiritual experience or spiritual awakening right here

now. If that's true,

then what is the purpose of the last three steps?

And a lot of people will tell us they are maintenance steps.

I'll agree that they're going to help us stay sober,

but the word maintenance itself is a misnomer.

To maintain something means to keep it as is,

and another law in our universe applies here

that says nothing in our universe ever stays as is.

Everything in our universe is in a constant state of change. It's either growing or it's dying, it's progressing or it's regressing. You watch a beautiful tree grow, and it grows and grows and grows, and every day it gets more beautiful, till one day it quits growing, and the day it quits growing it begins to die and it reverts back to where it came from.

The human body is one of the most miraculous things that God has ever produced

and it grows and grows and grows till it gets to be about 19 years old and then it quits growing

and the day it quits growing it begins to die

and eventually reverse back to where it came from.

Everything is true in the material world is also true in the mental world, the emotional world and all areas of life.

If I tried to stop here

and maintain these promises in my life

and grow no further, then after a while I start slipping back. Next thing you know, I start having trouble with people.

Next thing you know, I start having trouble with me up here.

Next thing you know, I'm blocked off from God, and next thing you know, I'm drunk all over again. I am convinced in my mind this is what happens to people who have had a good program and they're 20 and 25 and 30 years sober and they quit coming to a A and they quit growing and they end up getting drunk out there too. We see it. We see it happen to people all the time

who are good members of a A They simply quit growing.

You can't coast uphill,

You can only coast downhill.

Let's look at the last three steps for just a few minutes and let's see if we can't see the growth factor rather than the maintenance factor. See if one thing we did as a fellowship is we took all the steps out of the book,

put them on these little cars, put them on the wall and I like them on the on these little cards and on the wall. Nothing wrong with that. The only thing is that we left the instructions on how to work the steps in the book. People come into a A and they try to take the steps off these cards or off the wall and miss the whole point. If you're trying to take the steps off the wall and you read come to step 10, it would say continue to take personal inventory. And when we were wrong, properly admitted it. It looked like if you were wrong and you promptly admitted it, you were doing the

10. Somehow or other we got the idea that step 10 to be done at night while in bed.

Well, I've talked this over a great deal with Charlie and I don't get in trouble at night

while in while in bed. The night time portion of the steps over step 11 and ends not even in step 10. So let's look at the the growth factor in Step 10.

So this thought brings us to Step 10,

which suggests that we continue to take personal inventory and continues that right any mistakes as we go along, we vigorously commence this way of living. As we cleaned up the past, we have entered the world of the spirit. We've had a spiritual experience or a spiritual awakening. Our next function is to grow, to grow, not maintain, not stay where we are, but to grow in understanding and effectiveness.

Now, this is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime. Continue to watch for selfish dishonesty, resentment and fear. What step did we use to do that in the 1st place? Anybody remember

step four? OK, when these crop up, we ask God it wants to remove them. What steps did we use there? Six and six and seven. OK, we discussed them with someone immediately. What step was that? Five and make amends quickly if we've harmed anyone. What steps did we use there? 8:00 and 9:00. Then we resolutely return our thoughts to someone we can help. Love and tolerance of others is our code. You know, it looks to me like

if we do Step 10 away, the big book says we're going to be doing Step 45678 and 9:00

on a daily basis for the rest of our life.

I would defy anybody in this room.

To do steps 456789 on a daily basis and stay the way you are,

you absolutely cannot do that.

See, I've got that little inventory sheet up here in my head. I can see it just as plain as day,

and if I get screwed up about 9:00 in the morning,

it doesn't make any sense for me to wait till I go to bed tonight to do something about it.

Because if I'm screwed up at 9:00, I've cut two or three people out by 11:00.

Two or three's cussed me out by 2:00. By night time I'm a basket case and I've wasted another day,

but I have finally learned to do. It's taken long time to do it, but I finally learned it. If I get screwed up about 9:00 in the morning to stop,

get off in the corner by myself.

OK, Charlie, who are you mad at?

What did they do to you?

Which part of self is affected?

What did you do, if anything, to set it in motion?

Which character defectors come back to the surface? I can't get really upset unless that old, selfish, dishonest, self seeking, frightened or inconsiderate human being has come back to the surface. I can spot it just like that.

I turn to God and say, OK, God, you know I don't want to be this way.

Please take this dishonesty away from me. With this in consideration, whatever it is, please take this away from me.

Discuss it with someone as soon as they can, he says immediately. Some kind. We can't do it immediately, as soon as I can. Preferably my sponsor if I can do so,

and then I make amends quickly if I'm harmed anyone.

1520 thirty minutes. The whole thing is gone

in the rest of the day is OK.

I've wasted all the time I want to waste in anger and resentment and fear and that kind of crap. I don't feel good when I'm that way. It blocks me off from God and my fellow human beings, makes me sick, and I don't have to feel that way anymore.

Now you absolutely cannot do step 45678 and 9:00

over and over and over again

and stay the way you are. You just can't do that twice. In the Big Book, Bill talks about 1/4 dimension of existence.

Once in his story, once in chapter 2.

Now, the normal three are the spiritual, the mental and the physical,

and we got right and well in all three of those through the first nine steps. But there's another dimension of existence

far, far beyond the normal 3.

Now we never dreamed existed,

and you can't explain it and you can't understand it.

You can only grow into it

and that's what this step is for and is our relationship with God gets better and better.

It's our relationship with herself gets better and better

is our relationship with our fellow man gets better and better. Then we move into an entirely different dimension of living. And thank God there's no end to it. Could you see if there was an end to it? I would get bored and I would quit doing it and I would be in trouble. But it's fascinating for me today to see just how far we can grow in this thing,

just how much better our relationship can become with God and ourselves and our fellow human being.

Very definite growth step to move us into another dimension of living. Now this is another reason you don't need to be too concerned about doing a perfect job in Step 4

because you're going to be doing this inventory thing the rest of your life. So do the best you can in four and get on with the rest of the program. And then you'll come to step 10 and we'll be re inventorying from now on. A definite growth step. Joe. Once we do this for a while, we get some more promises and our book said and we've ceased fighting anything or anyone, even alcohol, for by this time sanity will have returned. Remember it said on Step 2 that we came to believe

power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Where we get our sanity back on page 84. Now we restored to sanity. And once we have our sanity back, he says, we will seldom be interested in liquor. If tentative, we record from it as from a hot brain. We react sanely and normally, and we find this has happened automatically. We will see that our new attitude toward liquid been given us. Ryan thought our effort on our part,

it just comes. That's the miracle of it. We're not fighting it, neither are we avoiding temptation. We feel as though we've been placed in a position of neutrality, safe and protected. We're not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It did not. It does not exist for us. We're neither cocky nor are we afraid. That is our experience. That's how we relax, so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition. And remember back on page 45,

he said the main object of this book,

which enabled me to find the power greater myself, which would solve my problem, didn't say what helped me solve my problem, said would solve my problem was somewhere between page 45 and 85 that there's the steps. I worked the steps. And one day I looked up and looked around, said what happened to that great obsession that I used to have to drink? It was gone, just gone. That's the miracle of it. Those times prior to AAI had to enforce sobriety.

And I don't know about you, but sometimes I'd be sober and be thumbing through a magazine and I'd see a picture of a bottle of whiskey in there. Just a picture. Water running down the size, cold. My mouth would water, Phyllis said. I slobbered a lot

just looking at a picture. That's the kind of obsession to drink that I had. And what happened? It just went away. See, God removed that from me. Evidently I'm not tough like some people who could do it a day at a time and and stay sober one day at a time. And God had to remove the obsession to drink from me in order for me to stay sober. I'm just not that tough now, it says.

That's easy to let up on a spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels.

You know, by this time things are pretty good

time you get around to this part of the program. Things are good. If you're lucky, you may be back home.

If you're real lucky, the dogs not biting you anymore.

And if you're really, really lucky, you may be back in the bedroom. You see, things are pretty good. Going to work regularly, getting a full paycheck at the end of the week, making more money, doing good. Probably a lot of people move into a new house, buy new furniture, buy a new car, all on credit by the way.

And we find ourselves, things begin to kind of compete for our sobriety. We have to work more overtime to pay for them. You know, work nights and weekends. We kind of get too busy to go to a A. We rest on our laurels, Charlie said while ago. We can only coast downhill if we're not careful. Those things will compete for our sobriety, and they will get your sobriety too,

because you're too busy to go to a A. You're just too busy,

that's all. I can tell you.

We were headed for trouble if we do for alcohol as a subtle foe. We're not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance or spiritual condition. There's the word maintenance one day at a time. We can't maintain forever, but we can do it one day at a time. Every day is a day we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our activities. How can I best serve thee?

Thy will not mine be done.

These are thoughts which must go with us constantly. We can exercise our willpower along this line all we wish. It's the proper use of the will. We get our willpower back on page 85. We've been saying all weekend the willpower of no avail to us. God never gave us anything that was bad. He gave us willpower for a purpose. We get our sanity back on page 84 and a willpower back on page 85.

Wouldn't it be awful to have our willpower and no sanity

the way it was? Don't want to do with it? And again it says how can I best serve thee? Thy will not mine be done. These are thoughts which must go with us constantly. We can exercise our willpower along this line all we wish. It's the proper use of the will. God gave us willpower for a reason and that's it right there. It's the proper use of the will. Only thing that I misused the willpower and didn't know that.

Now, she's already been said about receiving strength,

inspiration and direction, not suggestion from Him who has all knowledge and power.

If we've carefully followed directions, not suggestions,

we've begun to sense the flow of their spirit into us. To some extent we become God, conscience. We begun to develop this vital 6th sense. But we must go further, and that means more action.

Now here we're talking about God consciousness

as being a vital 6th sense of direction. The

You know, everything I've learned on a conscious level,

I've learned through five senses of direction. I can see,

I can smell, I can taste,

I can hear and I can touch. Those are the five senses of direction,

and about everything we learn on a conscious level, we learn through one of those five senses.

Now you can take everything I know

and everything Joe knows

and everything you guys know

and everything every human being on Earth knows

and had it all together

and it's just a tiny, tiny speck of information

compared to the knowledge of the universe.

Now, if God has all knowledge and all power,

and I'm convinced he does because my book says so.

If God dwells within each of us,

I'm convinced he does. Our book says so,

and that means you and I have within ourselves

all the knowledge and all the power

that we can ever need to handle any conceivable situation which might come up in the future,

provided

we know how to tap into that knowledge and that power.

The Sixth Sense of direction or God consciousness.

It's been known for thousands of years how you do this.

You do it through prayer and meditation.

Most of us when we come to, hey, we're absolutely bankrupt in those areas.

I knew nothing about meditation.

Oh, I'd read in places where it might be lying down and listening to soft music,

or it might be chanting certain words over and over,

where it might be clearing your mind of all thought.

And I don't know about you, but I know about me. I've never been able to clear my mind of all thought.

I get up in the morning, that sucker turns on and it runs all day. I've never been able to stop it.

I knew nothing about meditation at all

and even being raised in church I knew very little about prayer.

When I got to AAI had two prayers. One of them went like this. Now lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. I don't even like that prayer anymore.

He's dealing with death and I'm not into that at all.

The other one I use, and I'm sure some of you used it too, went like this. God, if you'll Get Me Out of this damn mess, I swear I'll never do this again.

Now it would seem to be an impossibility for me to be able to develop a life of prayer and meditation.

Thank God Bill was a real alcoholic,

because Bill Wilson didn't know anything about prayer and meditation either.

And thank God he didn't.

Most people that are really knowledgeable in those areas,

when they write on them, they write Sephora over my head that I can't understand them. Bill couldn't do that,

so rather than try to tell us what prayer and meditation is, he was forced to give us a few little suggestions

that if we will follow those suggestions,

each of us will develop our own life of prayer and meditation,

and it'll be good enough that nothing or nobody can improve on it.

Mine may not be exactly like yours, and yours may not be exactly like Joe's.

Now we'll develop our own life of prayer and meditation where we can begin to tap in

to that sick sense of direction.

Bottom of page 85, he said. Step 11. Suggest prayer and meditation.

We shouldn't be shy on this matter of prayer.

Better men than we are using it constantly.

It works if we have the proper attitude and work at it.

It would be easy to be vague about this matter and saying I, you know, I wish I didn't have to ride on this.

Yet we believe we can make some definite and valuable suggestions.

Now he's going to tell us what we need to do. We go to bed at night. Here's the night time. It's in step 11. I know it's in 10 and 12:00 and 12:00, but it's in 11. In the big book,

he's going to tell us what to do upon awakening.

He's going to tell us what to do when we face indecision.

He's going to tell us how to pray.

He's going to tell us what to do when we are agitated or doubtful.

And if we will follow each one of these little suggestions,

then each one of us will begin to develop our own life of prayer and meditation.

Let's see what we do when we go to bed at night and look carefully. And his first paragraph on 86. You're going to see steps 45678 and nine once again

said when we retire at night, we constructively review our day where we resentful, selfish, dishonesty. You're afraid there, step forward. Do we owe an apology? There's 8-9. Have we got something to ourselves which we should be discussed with another person?

Will we kind and loving toward all? What could we have done better? Maybe that's column for we were thinking of ourselves most of the time. Column five. Or we think of what we should do for others, of what we could pack into the spring of life. But we must be careful not to drift into worry, remorse, or morbid reflection,

for that would diminish our useless to others. After making our review, we ask God's forgiveness require what corrector measures should be taken.

So really the night time thing when we go to bed is a repracting that's next 45678 and 9:00.

It's impossible to do 45678 or nine stay the way you are.

We made-up a little inventory sheet that you might want to use just as an example.

They simply could use anything you want.

But on one side of that sheet we put the personality characteristics of a self willed person.

We took the basic character defects out of the big book, selfish and self seeking, dishonest, frightened in consideration. Went to the 12 and failed. Picked up everything we could find there. And they're all offshoots of the top four. By the way,

on the opposite side, we put the parrot personality characteristics of God's will, tried to find the opposite and put it on the right side.

Now all we're trying to do is get from the left hand side of the sheet to the right hand side of the sheet.

It only takes just a few minutes

to rundown through this thing in the evening

and see where we've been that day.

I've never yet found myself on either side of the sheet completely.

I find that I change these checkmarks from time to time,

but what I do find is I'm gradually checking more on the right

than I am on the left.

This shows me what I need to continue to work on.

And as I continue to work on those things, it gets better and better and better and better.

Now I know one thing for sure.

I am going to inventory.

I am going to inventory.

I've got one or two choices.

I can wait until I'm so sick and so fouled up that I'm almost drunk

and start trying to dig myself out from under that mess

with the possibility of getting drunk.

Or I can take a few minutes each day

and keep myself in fit spiritual condition

without that possibility of getting drunk.

And I find that it takes less time to do it on a daily basis

than it does to wait till I'm almost drunk and then start doing it.

Very definite and valuable suggestion.

There was a philosopher called Carl Sandburg,

and Mr. Sandberg said when a society fails, there's always one thing present.

And that is, they forgot where they came from.

And he said. When I forget where they came from, they forget where they're going and they get lost out there somewhere.

If you and I fail, it'll be because we forget where we came from.

And if we forget where we came from, we're going to get lost up there too,

and we're going to end up drunk. You sure as anything?

I think this is one of the best suggestions in the book.

5 or 10 minutes, a little daily inventory thing in the evening

before we go to bed

now, then in the morning on awakening.

Now, he didn't say after we get up and have a cup of coffee.

He didn't say after we're in the car driving to work,

he said on awakening. I think that means just as soon as we wake up,

let us think about at the 24 hours ahead we consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self pity, dishonest or self seeking motives. Under these conditions, we can implore our mental faculties with assurance, for after all, God gave us brains to use

our thought. Life will be placed on a much higher plane. When our thinking is cleared of wrong movies,

most of us jump out of bed.

First thing we do is go to bathroom.

Had a guy tell me first thing he did was get on his treadmill and I said man, you got a better bladder than I did. I go to the bathroom,

we'll go to the bathroom. We relieve the body

when we go to the kitchen and we get a cup of coffee and maybe a little food and we feed the body.

And after we fed the body, we go back to the bathroom and you ladies fix your hair in your face. And we men do whatever we do, shave or whatever, taking care of the body.

After we get the head taken care of, we go to the closet

and we pick out the clothes that we're going to wear that day.

And we spent a lot of time on clothes. They've got to match. Everything just got to be perfect and we clothe the body.

We get ready to leave the house if we've got a cat or a dog. We feed the cat and dog before we leave

and we go out the door and we lock the door because I want to be sure nobody gets our material junk away from this while we're gone.

We go out to the car and we walk around the car and make sure the tires have all got air in them.

We get in the car and sit down and turn on the switch and check the fuel level

and we start the car and we take off down the road. Now we did all of those things that morning

to take care of our body and all of our material stuff.

What do we do about our mind?

My mind is going to run the whole show all day long. Thought he doesn't run it, the mind runs it.

If you and I spent 110th of the time on our minds as we spend on our bodies,

my God, there's no telling what we could become. But you see, most of us won't do that. They'll suggest, let's take just a few minutes in the morning early before we ever get out of bed and let's get us feed the mind a little bit.