Earl Nightingale - 20 Minutes That Can Change Your Life

Earl Nightingale - 20 Minutes That Can Change Your Life

released on LP in 1966

I spent 20 minutes of my life listening to this and I must say that those 20 minutes could indeed change my life. Sure I listened to a numerous amount of success-motivation life-improvement records in my life. However, I haven't felt as transformed into a new man as much as I have from listening to Earl Nightingale's 20 minutes. Good thing too as I cannot ever have those 20 minutes back.

Like many other humans, I have wondered why some people were successful in life while many more were not. Earl Nightingale certainly wondered about the same thing. From those 20 minutes, it becomes clear to me that I seem like such a loser in life because I have not been concerned with focusing my efforts towards obtaining more income and to be worth a lot of money by age 65. I have been wasting my time trying to contribute knowledge to society and helping people find information through my work in real life and in some ways my in my virtual life. I have tried to make the world a better place through education and enrichment. Alas, it turns out that I have been living life in the wrong manner.

Thanks to the smooth voice of Earl, I have righted the course of my life. From now on, I will strive to increase my income and therefore increase my wealth. I will be worth millions by age 65. I will have to put off my goal of becoming a professional librarian since professional librarians are underpaid therefore I will end up being worth only thousands by age 65 if I'm lucky. I suppose that I'll have to go get an MBA (Master's of Business Administration). That will be difficult because I can't afford to pay for more classes. Most of my paycheck is going towards paying student loans that were used for getting the Master of Library Science degree.

Then I remembered Earl talking about attitude on side 2. I need to change my attitude and emulate the attitude and personality of a person I want to be like. The person that Earl has in mind is someone who already has a high income and is projected to be worth a lot of dough at age 65. Gosh, there's no one like that in my chosen profession. Perhaps I need to read Fortune or Forbes to find a 1%er to emulate and admire. I'm sure the 1%ers have the right attitude while the rest of the people, who are being used to make more money for the 1%ers, seem to lack the right attitude.

Earl recommends coming up with at least 5 ideas per day on how to increase one's income. Earl says that one doesn't have to come up with any ideas on the weekend. He says that 25 ideas per week presents opportunities for achieving the goal of increasing income. He says some ideas are worthless while a few could be excellent. The point is to have a positive attitude and keep coming up with ideas to increase wealth, forget the rest of society, most of them are losers anyway who have a poor attitude. Earl says that the more one contributes to his efforts, the more rewards there will be for his efforts. It is implied that one must work more hours to get more money. BTW, the record is targeted at males meaning that the women are there to provide support for their men to increase their income while keeping the house clean and fixing meals. Another implication is that women don't need to increase their income. The top rungs of society must agree as they're still paying women less than men in the same jobs. Geez, if only those women weren't so darn uppity, they could go back to keeping house and serving the men in their quest for more income instead of striving for equality.

So, here are 20 minutes that too can change your life (or not you loser). At least, you get to hear the smooth voice of Earl.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1.  20 Minutes That Can Change Your Life  {9:38}

Side 2

1.  20 Minutes That Can Change Your Life [continued]  {11:02}

Denby Brandon - Power for Your Purpose/The Secrets of Leadership

Denby Brandon - Power for Your Purpose/The Secrets of Leadership

released on LP

I suppose that winning sales contests or selling the most of whatever product or service in your company qualifies one to put out records like this one. Denby Brandon certainly qualified himself to put out a record. His Memphis office won first place in a sales contest that took place during one month in 1961 that was initiated by Pan-American Life Insurance company. Not only did Denby run an insurance office that somehow convinced lots and lots of people to buy life insurance, Denby also hosted some TV program called Your Future Unlimited. I think the show was about self-improvement. Denby dispenses tips on this LP on how to get power and keep power, inspiring advice for business leaders and leadership advice.

I sure learned a lot from this LP. Not only that, I feel inspired to gain power over others and create my own destiny and destiny for others. I'm sure glad my copy of this LP was sitting among the flea market racks for only one dollar. Who knew that the way to success could be so cheap?


Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Power for Your Purpose {20:05}

Side 2

1. The Secrets of Leadership {19:32}

Tom Vu video clips

Come in. We're still having our birthday/anniversary party here in the Basement. There's a little cake and ice cream left. It's all chocolate, of course.

While I've been celebrating, I've been watching some inspirational video clips of a rich gentleman named Tom Vu. As you have seen from the video clip in the previous post, Tom wants to help people make money by conducting seminars explaining how he was able to make his millions and people can use his techniques to make millions too. He put out an infomercial back in the late 1980s advertising his services while displaying some of his possessions. Tom may have asked some of his female friends (which is quite notable that they conform to society's standards of beauty enabling them to have confidence for them to wear only bikinis) to help out on his infomercial just by hanging around with him. (Most likely, what really happened is that he paid them handsomely).

Tom Vu apparently made a killing in real estate investments especially from bankruptcies and foreclosures. He was able to buy yachts, cars, mansions, "waterfalls", polo shirts, etc. According to his infomercial, Tom used to be poor where he grew up with 9 siblings. Tom held low-status, low-paying jobs including one where he worked at a country club which he tells about in the video clip below. Then Tom ended up where he was because he is such a hard worker. I believe that Tom retired from real estate investing and is now a professional poker player. I also heard rumors that he's still doing real estate investments particularly with condos in Las Vegas.

The video clip below this paragraph is just Tom all by his lonesome. No young women in bikinis are present. It's just Tom by one of his luxury cars and in front of his "waterfall" installed in his front yard. Tom explains how he was determined to be successful. As mentioned already, Tom asked some old rich guy how he got rich and how Tom too can become rich. The old rich guy told Tom three words that is the secret to success. Of course, Tom does not tell what are those three words. Instead, Tom says that he will only tell those three words at one of his seminars. Tom goes on to say that his friends and strangers thought he was crazy for trying to be successful, to be rich. Those people who doubted Tom are losers while Tom is a winner. It seems he got some new friends when he became successfully rich.



The second video clip below this paragraph is more of Tom's infomercial. This time his friends, the women in bikinis, are in full display. Tom tries to inspire the viewers with his success stories and advertises his seminars. Tom says his course is not the same as everybody else's. If he brought along his friends in bikinis to his seminars, then he would be definitely be right. (I wonder if he actually did just that.)



I also have these clips and a few others available for the taking if anyone wants to watch these on their mp3/video players or not have to be connected online.

There will be the usual oddball LPs, tapes, and maybe CDs and Internet finds forthcoming. There's some "good" stuff in the pipeline. Also, sometime in the next few months, I may upload some videos myself from my collection rather than just posting other peoples' video uploads that are on YouTube. BTW, thanks to the folks who originally posted these video clips.

Tracklisting: (link will be back soon)

1. tom vu [waterfall clip in this post] {2:20}

2. Tom Vu commercial {4:51}

3. Tom Vu and his babes [clip from previous post] {1:39}

4. Tom Vu - another clip (with music) [also in this post] {3:20}

Bill Gove - Time: Its New Dimensions

Bill Gove - Time: Its New Dimensions

*special thanks to KL from NYC for this one

I've posted records by salesmen before. I have no doubt you already know that if you're a loyal visitor to this blog and paying attention or if you're a newbie and possess ESP powers. However, in over two years of this blog's existence, nothing by America's #1 salesman has ever been posted until today. That's right. I have the record by America's #1 salesman ready for you to listen to. I bet you that you woke up earlier in the day never guessing that you are about to listen to America's #1 salesman later in the day. Lucky you. It's almost as good as waking up on yet another ordinary day only to find out you won the lottery later in the day.

On this record is a recording of a speech given by the #1 salesman in America. From the title and cover, one would think that he talks about time which would be really cool especially if he talked about time travel and its possible effects on creating several alternate realities or something like that. That is not so. I think this record is about selling although it's sometimes hard to tell as he keeps cracking jokes.

A glance at the liner notes reveal what Bill Gove really means by the dimensions of time is:

We can't control the clock - but we can (if we want to) control the DIMENSIONS OF TIME: HABIT-ENERGY-ATTITUDE-and COMMUNICATIONS. Time is not a separate entity - it is merely an extension of habit - energy - attitude - and communications.

Um okay. If America's #1 salesman says so then so it is.


Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Time: Its New Dimensions {21:33}

Side B

1. Time: Its New Dimensions continued {22:40}

Bob Conklin - The Key to Motivation

Bob Conklin - The Key to Motivation

released on LP in 1965

People are losers in life because they do not have any drive or motivation to succeed. That is what Bob Conklin says on this LP. We should care what Bob Conklin says because not only is he successful enough in life to put out a motivational LP about motivation but he rose from a college graduate to a vice president and general sales manager of one of the nation's outstanding real estate companies in a short amount of time. That's what the liner notes say including the part where the real estate company is outstanding.

Not only did Bob Conklin accomplish that. He also built a sales force he directed (125 full time salesmen, six branch offices, six sales managers and somehow found the time to become a teacher in the Minneapolis Public School Education program. Wait, there's more. He is or was a nationally known speaker giving around 50 presentations a year. He was named the 1959 "Man of the Year" given each year by Minneapolis Sales Executives to the man making the greatest contribution to convincing people in Minneapolis and the surrounding area to consume stuff they likely won't need. To impress all of you even more, Bob Conklin was Member of the Board of Directors of the Minneapolis Board of Realtors and President of the Minneapolis Sales Executives.

Bob was a busy man and I have not even gotten to the part where Bob spends his spare time studying motivation of businessmen, thinking about motivation, and developing The Key to Motivation that is based on his research.

Now to quote the rest of the liner notes:

MOTIVATION - day-to-day - drive . . . energy . . . enthusiasm . . , CAN BE DEVELOPED!

... as you will realize when you open the door on this vast new insight of life and work - "The Key to Motivation!"
Hold it there. Before we get any further, I now have found another E in my E's that are the key to life success that I developed in the Neil Brahe post: energy. So it is now the three Es to life success: enthusiasm, energy and excellence.

Here is a dramatic new perspective of YOU . . . and a refreshingly different design for the foundation of your personal growth and improvement . . .

Here is a creative program conceived for the millions and millions of people who are dedicating their lives to service . . . and purpose . . . and loved ones . . .

For these people . . . the understanding and application of these principles of motivation will mean . . .

New vitality . . . energy . . . productive power.
Elimination of negative thinking . . . boredom . . . retarding forces . . . frustration . . . futility.
An insulation against the devastating effects of criticism, complaints, envy.
A new pleasantness, new feelings of satisfaction, progress, achievement.
A discovery of new YOU . . . meant to live a purposeful, exhilarating life.
Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. Motivation is Believing {5:02}
with an introduction by Bob Richards, an athlete who won two gold medals for pole vaulting in the Olympics and ran for President in some far-right wing party in 1984

2. Belief is Conviction {3:20}

3. Belief is Service {1:12}

4. Belief is Truth {2:04}

5. Belief is Faith and Confidence {2:24}

6. Belief is an Ability {1:16}

Side 2

1. How to Develop Belief {3:06}

2. Belief Versus Criticism {3:54}

3. The Effect of Belief {2:45}

4. Belief Activates {2:26}

Art Holst - The Challenge of a Pro

Art Holst - The Challenge of a Pro

LP released in 1969

This is a recording of motivational speaker Art Holst in front of a gathering of sales professionals at a sales conference in Chicago. Art, of course, is trying to encourage and motivate his audience to strive to seek opportunities and meet their goals of selling lots of stuff and making lots of money from sales of lots of stuff . Art uses humorous anecdotes especially during his time as an official in the National Football League, the highest level of tackle football in America. Art is self-deprecating which helps since his job as an official is the most disliked and least respected profession in professional sports despite their job to keep the game in order. Art sure does enjoy hearing himself talk about football. He uses a few football metaphors throughout his speech (BTW, did you know that football season is almost here?).

At the midpoint of his speech, Art assures the audience that hippies or as he likes to call them "bearded, long-haired, dirty, unshaven, stinkin beatniks" won't undermine the free enterprise system and influence over 220 million Americans to change their ways. Bearded, long-haired beatniks seems to sound cooler than hippies. I prefer beatnik over hippie.

Art inspires his audience to meet the challenge of a pro by competing to be a winner because winning is what matters most in the competitive society, the society that the dirty unshaven beatniks are trying to change. That means the listener of this recording, that is you, will be inspired to meet goals, score touchdowns (in sales that is) and be a winner.

Tracklisting:

Side 1

1. The Challenge of a Pro part 1 {23:55}

Side 2

1. The Challenge of a Pro part 2 {21:28}

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Success in the Classroom

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Success in the Classroom

We'll continue with the back-to-school series of posts. This guy explains on this tape (from 1970) how to prepare for tests and how to do well on tests as well as how to make good grades in classes. I think I should have posted this one first instead of Techniques for Academic Success. Basically, if you don't do the homework and flunk the tests, you fail the classes. Thus, you become a loser in the realm of formal education which means you'll most likely for the rest of your life be working for low pay in either a big-box chain store taking shit from prick managers and ill-mannered customers or serving high-cholestrol, fattening, greasy food for a fast food chain while taking shit from prick managers and ill-mannered customers. So you better get motivated to succeed and start listening and/or passing this on to someone who's attending school.

Tracklisting:  (link will be back soon)

Side A

1. Success in the Classroom {28:44}

Side B

1. Success in the Classroom continued {24:35}

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Techniques for Academic Success

Dr. J. Clifton Williams - Techniques for Academic Success

I know that the people out there want more druggie albums as well as more stuff about Satan and LPs of how to remove pimples from rear ends (I will be somewhat amazed if there is in existence of an LP of how to remove pimples from anywhere on the body). It's not that I am psychic that I know what people outside of my locality want (because I'm trying to find time to fully concentrate and listen to Russ Burgess again, yeah that's it.) It's that my visitors have asked for these kinds of albums.

I am sorry to disappoint any of you that the subject of this post does not deal with any of the topics mentioned in the above paragraph. No, I take that back. The cassette that is the focus of this post is very important, so you all really need this. You see, August is here and school usually starts in the middle of August here in the U.S. of A. Even if you are not going to school, no doubt you know someone who is going to school. If you are a visitor and fan of this blog, you are definitely acquainted with someone going to school. That person is yours truly.

This cassette by one Dr. J. Clifton Williams teaches listeners how to succeed in school which translates to how to be a success in corporate America. On side A, he explains how to effectively and efficiently write papers and give oral reports. I am fond of side B. Dr. Williams explains how the library is a very helpful resource for succeeding in school and how to use the library to its fullest advantage. That is awesome and here's the kicker. I am in library school right now. Library school is formally called School of Library and Information Studies (LIS). Library schools throughout the country have this name or something similar. Hopefully, I'll be employed in a library or archive somewhere soon.

There is not much information about Dr. Williams available. There is not even a Wikipedia entry for Dr. Williams although there is some composer who shares the same name who is apparently significant enough to have a Wikipedia entry. All I was able to find out is that he has degrees in psychology, does consulting in management and advises the president of Baylor University.

Nothing here about drugs, Satan or removing pimples, but you or someone you know will get an A or at least a B. Not to worry, druggie and Satan stuff as well as more stuff to make you a success in life are forthcoming.

Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Techniques for Academic Success {24:08}

Side B

1. Techniques for Academic Success continued {26:59}

Paul J. Meyer - Positive Expectancy to Win

Paul J. Meyer - Positive Expectancy to Win

People are winners because they expect to win. People are sorry losers because they don't expect to win, i.e. they lack courage and imagination and a positive attitude. Those are the key points from this lecture by the founder of Success Motivation International (SMI).

So, listen, then listen again, then think, then act so you too won't be a loser.

Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Positive Expectancy to Win side A {13:53}

Side B

1. Positive Expectancy to Win side B {14:12}

* The text above, especially the last sentence is intended to be somewhat sarcastic.

Earl Nightingale - Think and Grow Rich

Earl Nightingale - Think and Grow Rich

This is an adaptation from the book of the same title written by Napoleon Hill. Napoleon Hill makes an appearance at the end of the record. Meanwhile, the listeners are treated to the smooth and deep dulcet tones of Mr. Earl Nightingale, who was a pioneer in the human motivation/self-help field and precursor to Anthony Robbins and Zig Ziglar. Earl Nightingale has such a nice voice that he could easily have been a hypnotist or even a show-biz hypnotist like Dr. Dean (posted earlier in this blog). He could narrate the process of paint peeling from the walls and it would sound fascinating. It's quite understandable why Earl Nightingale is speaking on this record instead of Napoleon Hill. This will become evident when you listen to the last track.

The cover says "anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve". In the context of this record, that means conceiving, believing and achieving the activity of making lots and lots of money and owning lots of stuff. The folks behind this record apparently think that being rich is perhaps the greatest achievement for an individual over anything else. Becoming rich seems to be really difficult if not outright impossible as there are much fewer individuals who are rich. Nightingale and Hill believe that it is possible if an individual uses the mind. I'm sure it was most likely easier to get rich or at least achieve upward mobility when this record was released, which was somewhere around 50 years ago, than it is now as the gap between rich and poor is increasing. The rich are getting richer by the day and hardly anyone in the lower economic strata are gaining any wealth.

Back to the record, there are 13 principles laid out to use the mind to get rich. These include concepts such as desire, imagination, persistence, organized planning, power of the master mind (that sounds really awesome and powerful like some phrase out of a comic book or cartoon), etc. The listener is supposed to learn these principles and apply them so that being rich can be achieved. I found this record a few years ago at a flea market for only a dollar (makes you wonder how something that offers guidance to get rich could end up in a place like a flea market). I've seen a few other copies of this record during my time spent at the thrift stores and flea markets. Anyway, I've had a copy of this record for these past few years and I still have not gotten rich. If I had, this blog would not exist right now if that tells you anything. Maybe I just don't get it. A few of these principles are vague and maybe they're over my head. I don't quite get the idea of "the sixth sense". Perhaps my lack of understanding of the last principle is the last obstacle on my way to getting rich and owning three mansions with four-door garages, several Mercedes, Lexus, and BMW cars, a yacht, a below 10 mile-per-gallon Hummer, expensive wine over 20 years old, many shares in Fortune 500 companies, a private jet among other things with enough money left to buy, I mean donate to campaigns of members of Congress and the president so that I could get more tax breaks and the government could get rid of social programs for the peasants.

Maybe the people who got rid of their copies were frustrated and couldn't grasp the stuff on the record. Maybe they just didn't have enough ambition. Perhaps the plutocrats owned copies of this record and were able to apply the principles on this record to become successful and in effect indirectly run the USA. I know for most of you that you're not going to get rich listening to this record. But I think you'll have a better understanding of true contemporary American values. If you already do, you'll get a few minutes of entertainment providing you don't fall under the spell of Earl Nightingale's voice.

Tracklisting:

Side One

1. Introduction {5:36}

2. 1st Principle: Desire {4:22}

3. 2nd Principle: Faith {3:40}

4. 3rd Principle: Autosuggestion {2:33}

5. 4th Principle: Specialized Knowledge {0:55}

6. 5th Principle: Imagination {1:59}

Side Two

1. 6th Principle: Organized Planning {2:58}

2. 7th Principle: Decision {2:32}

3. 8th Principle: Persistence {1:48}

4. 9th Principle: Power of the Master Mind {1:23}

5. 10th Principle: Enthusiasm {0:59}

6. 11th Principle: The Subconscious Mind {4:02}

7. 12th Principle: The Brain {1:41}

8. 13th Principle: The Sixth Sense {1:49}

9. Personal Remarks by Mr. Hill {4:33}