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bjbjLULU Warren: If you can change the way that you see the world, you can literally
change the world. But to me, it s not really about climbing mountains. Basically, it s
about reaching your full potential. Things are changing faster and faster all the time
where we can sit back and get all freaked out and go, Whoa, I don t really like change.
I like my world to stay the same thanks very much. Well, guess what, that s not going to
happen. We ve got to have to be able to step back say, Okay, things are changing, what
good can I come out of this? s so well and good to recognize your weaknesses, but it
s also nice to recognize that you might have some strengths. Every time someone hands us
a choice, and it probably happens a couple of hundred, a couple of thousand times a day,
when you stop and think about it, that every choice, the decision we make decides where
we re going to go. Recognizing a situation for what it is, whether it contains an obstacle
or an opportunity. s not what you see, it s how you see. How you see it is what you
get. How you see is what determines your results. It s how you see that determines your reality.
Geert tells me of his plan to climb to the island s tallest peak. (How long do you reckon
it ll take to climb it? I think a day, day and a half. And we haven t found that clearing.
So at this point, I hesitated to say that I thought we were lost. I think that s too
strong a word. I like to say that we were geographically embarrassed. We both spent
a lot of time outside. We ll just stick up a rain fly here and we ll spend the night
here and head down the next morning. Geert hops into his sleeping bag. I m just about
to hop into mine. I mean, hang on a minute, before I do this, I need to well, you can
t say use the washroom because we re outside I need to take a leak. I ve got two options.
I can bash my way through the bush or I can climb up a rock base about 12-foot high and
get a way from the creek that way. Oprah Winfrey: Courage comes in all shapes and sizes. Warren,
who was trapped under a 2,000-pound boulder and lost both of his legs and went on to climb
Mt. Kilimanjaro. Warren: If I had to change to go back and relive that moment and not
have that boulder fall into my lap, I wouldn t change it. We as human beings, we got this
incredible capacity to want to survive. Let me tell you, we want to stick around. d only
met this guy the day before, but I don t think I ve ever, ever felt so lonely as I watched
him walk away. Larry King: How long were you alone? Warren: In total 45 hours. People would
often say to me after the accident, wow, I don t know how the hell you survived two days
under that rock. They follow that up with, I couldn t have done it. My standard response
has been oh, that s interesting, what do you reckon you might have done? But I knew that
as long as I focused on where I wanted to go rather than each and every little obstacle
that popped up, I knew I had to deal with it but my focus was on absolutely where I
wanted to go. s our individual realities that create those realities that we see. So the
next question I asked, How high? He says, Pretty high; up above your knees. At the point,
I basically cried myself to sleep and said whatever. Whatever. The next afternoon, I
woke up to a pretty much a whole new reality. Larry King: I guess you don t go hiking anymore.
Warren: That s not entirely true. I look back now and I realize every single day, all of
us make hundreds, dozens hundreds, or maybe thousands of individual little decisions and
I tell you mate, make no mistake, every one of those heads you down a different path.
Have I mentioned yet that I m a restless kind of a guy? Seriously, how can we call ourselves
disabled when we can do everything that we want to do? Oprah: That is astounding. Relax
a bit. Warren: I m not that good at relaxing, you know. I ve always been fairly (active).
Oprah: See, I was saying to Warren during the commercial break how outstanding this
is and that you were saying that you believe people have a power beyond what they know.
Warren: Well, that s really what I ve learned; is just that how ultimately more powerful
we are and how responsible we for creating our reality has being one of the big lessons
for me. It wasn t in my reality, the same as it s not in most people s for a guy with
no legs to climb to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. I set out to create that reality. Oprah: To
change that; to create your and do you feel the same way? Well, this is inspirational
to anybody who hears your story. Thank you. Warren: Thanks. To learn that lesson and how
important it is, is that every choice that we make and how important it is, you don t
have to spend a couple of days under a rock like I did. That s the good news. I think
the first part is just recognizing it; recognizing how important it is to take control of our
own reality. Let me share a little secret with you guys, but only if you promise that
it won t leave this room. Are we good with that? Wow, I don t think I can trust you guys!
Wow. Getting through life without legs has become for me not that big a deal. I d almost
go as far to say that it s got easy Now, that may take some of you by surprise, I know,
it did me, but I ve got to the point now where I figured out how to deal wit this to the
point where, let s put it this way, if I had to draw up a list for you of the top 10 hardest
things for me to do on an everyday basis, not one of those top 10 things would have
anything to do with having no legs. Not one. I d probably go as far to saying the top 50,
top challenges for me on the everyday basis. There is nothing in that top 50 that have
got anything to do with having no legs. It has become easy for me s not for everybody
obviously, but for me, because I ve worked out systems and ways to do what I need to
do. How did I get to that point? One word: Perception. Perception is the key. Perception
is where the rubber hits the road. If we can t see where it is that we need to go, how
much chance do you think we ve got of getting there? Not much. A lot of people told me that
what you see is what you get. That to me doesn t go far enough because I ll tell you what,
when people saw me turn up at the beach that day, they just saw a guy with no legs. When
they saw me turn up at the swimming pool and actually start swimming, they saw a guy with
no legs. It s not what you see, it s how you see. How you see is what you get. How you
see is what determines your results. It s how you see determines your reality. I say
it once, I ll say it again. You can change the way you see the world, you literally change
the world. I want you to remember it s up to each and every one of you guys to create
whatever reality it is that you want to create. I sit up here now and I see you guys in a
position to be part in creating an awesome reality with a company to double its assets
over the next four years. You get to be a part of that, which is huge. What an opportunity.
Afraid that there might be some obstacles pop up along the way? You bet. But I want
you to remember when you come up against that wall, not if, but when, just remember, how
you see is what you get. How you see that s going to determine your reality whether
you move forward or not. When you change the way you see the world, you literally can change
the world. I want to thank you guys for having me this afternoon. It s been awesome. Thank
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