Over the years I've been teaching kids about a simple but powerful
concept - the ant philosophy. I think everybody should study ants.
They have an amazing four-part philosophy, and here is the first
part: ants never quit. That's a good philosophy. If they're headed
somewhere and you try to stop them, they'll look for another way.
They'll climb over, they'll climb under, they'll climb around. They
keep looking for another way. What a neat philosophy, to never quit
looking for a way to get where you're supposed to go.
Second, ants think winter all summer. That's an important
perspective. You can't be so naive as to think summer will last
forever. So ants are gathering in their winter food in the middle of
summer.
An ancient story says, "Don't build your house on the sand in the
summer." Why do we need that advice? Because it is important to be
realistic. In the summer, you've got to think storm. You've got to
think rocks as you enjoy the sand and sun. Think ahead.
The third part of the ant philosophy is that ants think summer all
winter. That is so important. During the winter, ants remind
themselves, "This won't last long; we'll soon be out of here." And
the first warm day, the ants are out. If it turns cold again,
they'll dive back down, but then they come out the first warm day.
They can't wait to get out. And here's the last part of the ant
philosophy. How much will an ant gather during the summer to prepare
for the winter? All that he possibly can. What an incredible
philosophy, the "all-that-you-possibly-can" philosophy.
Wow, what a great seminar to attend - the ant seminar. Never give
up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
LOVE THE OPPORTUNITY by Jim Rohn
Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not
necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the
opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success
and fortune. Knocking on someone's door may not be something you love
to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind that
door.
For example, a guy says, "I'm digging ditches. Should I love digging
ditches?" The answer is, "No, you don't have to love digging ditches,
but if it is your first entry onto the ladder of success, you
say, 'I'm glad somebody gave me the opportunity to dig ditches and
I'm going to do it so well, I won't be here long.'"
You can be inspired by having found something even though you are
making mistakes in the beginning and even though it is a little
distasteful taking on a new discipline that you haven't learned
before. You don't have to love it, you just have to learn to
appreciate America, appreciate opportunity and appreciate the person
who brought you the good news; that found you.
Appreciate the person who believed in you before you believed in
yourself, appreciate the person who said, "Hey, if I can do it, you
can do it."
If you will embrace the disciplines associated with the new
opportunity you will soon find that your self-confidence starts to
grow, that you go from being a skeptic to being a believer. And soon
when you go out person to person, talking to people, you will find it
to be the most thrilling opportunity in the world. Every person you
meet - what could it be? Unlimited! Maybe a friend for life. The next
person could be an open door to retiring. The next person could be a
colleague for years to come. It's big time stuff. And sometimes in
the beginning when we are just getting started we don't always see
how big it is.
So, before you are tempted to give up or get discouraged, remember
all success is based on long term commitment, faith, discipline,
attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. You might not like
the stone you are on right now, but it's sure to be one of the stones
that lead to great opportunities in the future.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Sunday, September 23, 2007
DEVELOP THE DO-IT-NOW HABIT by Tom Hopkins
Self-Discipline really encompasses nearly everything in life. Do you
remember in school when you were given 30 days to write a term paper?
Did you start it that first night?
Most of us didn't. Instead, we thought about it every night. "Got to
get moving on that ratty project. But I've got almost a whole month
left--it can wait." As time goes by, worry about getting a failing
grade looms larger in our minds. At first the pain of starting the
term paper is greater than our concern about the failing grade, so
after a week we still haven't started. Two weeks go by. What are we
doing every night before we go to sleep? Worrying about that F. "I
better start. Tomorrow I'll get moving on it."
A week before the term paper is due, the F is getting larger--but
it's still not quite large enough to offset the pain of working at
preventing it. All of a sudden there are only three days left before
it's due, and at last the F looms larger than the pain of working on
the term paper. So we start.
As you lay it out you begin feeling some enthusiasm. "This isn't bad.
I may get an A if I do this and do that." When you walk in with your
paper you're happy, but you wasted 27 days worrying about starting.
In other words, you operated at a deficit emotionally for 27 days
when you could have been in the profit column the whole time. Move
into the emotional profit column right now; starting today, get your
priority tasks and actions handled promptly. Plan your actions, then
act on your plans. Apply this determination to every area of your
life and it will make an enormous difference in your income, growth
rate in business as well as your satisfaction and growth rate
personally.
The portrait of a man who was being called the Whiz Kid on Wall
Street appeared on the cover of a national magazine many years ago.
He was one of the first to put a conglomerate together, and some of
the federal laws affecting business in the early 70's came about
because of the trends that his creativity set off. At the time he was
42, he was running one of the largest industrial combines in the
country, the conglomerate he had built himself. So the magazine had
assigned a journalist and a team of researchers to do an in-depth
report on this entrepreneur.
One of the researchers went to the small city the dynamic executive
had left 15 years earlier. A few items turned up there about an
alcoholic with the same name who had been sleeping on park benches at
that time. The researcher passed this information along, and as the
journalist was concluding his interview with the Wall Street
powerhouse in his plush office, the journalist laughed and
said, "Believe it or not, a man with your exact name was sleeping on
park benches and getting ousted by the police when you lived in your
home town. I guess the poor guy was a real wino. Isn't that
something?"
The president looked up and smiled. "That was me," he said.
The reporter was flabbergasted. "This can't be. You're kidding."
The president of the conglomerate leaned back in his leather chair
and shook his head. "I'm not kidding. The wino sleeping off drinks on
park benches was me."
The journalist stared at him for a moment and realized that the man
was telling the truth. He also realized that now he had a whole new
story. When his apologies were waved aside, he said, "I have to ask,
what made you change?"
Listen to what he said because so many people fit this mold: "When I
was sleeping under newspapers in the park 15 years ago, I knew that
someday I would do what I'm doing now. I was just waiting until I was
ready to start."
Do you know how many people are like that? "Well, next year's my
year. I'm going to get to work then. You just wait and see--right
after the first of the year I'm gonna start shaping up." But of
course the time to get going never quite comes for most people. They
have good intentions, but are lacking the two most vital components
of any good deed: the motivation to begin and a strategic plan to
keep them moving forward.
You see, by not beginning, you're not risking failure, but you're
also confining yourself to the level of success you currently have.
If you're happy with that, fine. If not, make that plan and get fired
up!
If your potential for greater success is nagging at you, don't wait.
Time is flying by so fast. Start today to achieve the greatness you
know is within you.
Friday, September 21, 2007
I'd Pick More Daisies
" Of course, you can't unfry an egg, but there's no law against thinking about it.
If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I
would relax.I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would be less
hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and
swim more rivers. I would eat more ice-cream and less spinach. I
would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.
You see, I have been one of those fellows who live prudently, hour
after hour, day after day. Oh, I have had my moments. But if I had it
to do over again, I would have more of them - a lot more. I never go
anywhere without a thermometer, a map, a raincoat and a parachute. If
I had it to do over, I would travel lighter.
If I had my life to live over, I would start going barefoot a little
earlier in the spring and stay that way a little later in the fall. I
would have more dogs. I would keep later hours. I would have more
sweethearts. I would fish more. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I
would go to more circuses.
In a world in which practically everybody else seems to be
consecrated to the gravity of the situation, I would rise to glorify the levity
of the situation. For I agree with Will
Durant, who said, "Gaiety is wiser than wisdom." If I had my life to
live over, I'd pick more daisies."
--Don Herold
If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I
would relax.I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would be less
hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and
swim more rivers. I would eat more ice-cream and less spinach. I
would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.
You see, I have been one of those fellows who live prudently, hour
after hour, day after day. Oh, I have had my moments. But if I had it
to do over again, I would have more of them - a lot more. I never go
anywhere without a thermometer, a map, a raincoat and a parachute. If
I had it to do over, I would travel lighter.
If I had my life to live over, I would start going barefoot a little
earlier in the spring and stay that way a little later in the fall. I
would have more dogs. I would keep later hours. I would have more
sweethearts. I would fish more. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I
would go to more circuses.
In a world in which practically everybody else seems to be
consecrated to the gravity of the situation, I would rise to glorify the levity
of the situation. For I agree with Will
Durant, who said, "Gaiety is wiser than wisdom." If I had my life to
live over, I'd pick more daisies."
--Don Herold
Thursday, September 20, 2007
SUCCESS IS EASY, BUT SO IS NEGLECT by Jim Rohn
People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period
of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple:
The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do.
I found it easy to set the goals that could change my life. They
found it easy not to. I found it easy to read the books that could affect my
thinking and my ideas. They found that easy not to. I found it easy
to attend the classes and the seminars, and to get around other
successful people. They said it probably really wouldn't matter. If I
had to sum it up, I would say what I found to be easy to do, they
found to be easy not to do. Six years later, I'm a millionaire and
they are all still blaming the economy, the government, and company
policies, yet they neglected to do the basic, easy things.
In fact, the primary reason most people are not doing as well as they
could and should, can be summed up in a single word: neglect.
It is not the lack of money - banks are full of money. It is not the
lack of opportunity - America, and much of the free World, continues
to offer the most unprecedented and abundant opportunities in the
last six thousand years of recorded history. It is not the lack of books -
libraries are full of books - and they are free! It is not the
schools - the classrooms are full of good teachers. We have plenty
of ministers, leaders, counselors and advisors.
Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and
sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take
advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.
Neglect is like an infection. Left unchecked it will spread
throughout our entire system of disciplines and eventually lead to a complete
breakdown of a potentially joy-filled and prosperous human life.
Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty
and guilt leads to an erosion of self- confidence.As our self-confidence
diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity
diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results
suffer, our attitude begins to weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow
shift from positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes even
more ... and on and on it goes.
So my suggestion is that when giving the choice of "easy to" and
"easy not to" that you do not neglect to do the simple, basic, "easy"; but
potentially life-changing activities and disciplines.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple:
The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do.
I found it easy to set the goals that could change my life. They
found it easy not to. I found it easy to read the books that could affect my
thinking and my ideas. They found that easy not to. I found it easy
to attend the classes and the seminars, and to get around other
successful people. They said it probably really wouldn't matter. If I
had to sum it up, I would say what I found to be easy to do, they
found to be easy not to do. Six years later, I'm a millionaire and
they are all still blaming the economy, the government, and company
policies, yet they neglected to do the basic, easy things.
In fact, the primary reason most people are not doing as well as they
could and should, can be summed up in a single word: neglect.
It is not the lack of money - banks are full of money. It is not the
lack of opportunity - America, and much of the free World, continues
to offer the most unprecedented and abundant opportunities in the
last six thousand years of recorded history. It is not the lack of books -
libraries are full of books - and they are free! It is not the
schools - the classrooms are full of good teachers. We have plenty
of ministers, leaders, counselors and advisors.
Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and
sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take
advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.
Neglect is like an infection. Left unchecked it will spread
throughout our entire system of disciplines and eventually lead to a complete
breakdown of a potentially joy-filled and prosperous human life.
Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty
and guilt leads to an erosion of self- confidence.As our self-confidence
diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity
diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results
suffer, our attitude begins to weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow
shift from positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes even
more ... and on and on it goes.
So my suggestion is that when giving the choice of "easy to" and
"easy not to" that you do not neglect to do the simple, basic, "easy"; but
potentially life-changing activities and disciplines.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Laws Of Success
Do you want something ? -- Will you pay the price?
The great sin -- Gossip.
The great crippler -- Fear.
The greatest mistake -- Giving up.
The most satisfying experience -- Doing your duty first.
The best action -- Keep the mind clear and judgement good.
The greatest blessing -- Good health.
The biggest fool - The man who lies to himself.
The great gamble -- Substituting hope for facts.
The most certain thing in life -- Change.
The greatest joy -- Being needed.
The cleverest man -- The one who does what he thinks is right.
The most potent force -- Positive thinking.
The greatest opportunity -- The next one.
The greatest thought -- God.
The greatest victory -- Victory over self.
The best play -- Successful work.
The greatest handicap -- Egotism.
The most expensive indulgence -- Hate.
The most dangerous man -- The liar
The most ridiculous trait -- False pride.
The greatest loss -- Loss of self confidence.
The greatest need -- Common sense.
By Jack Yianitsas, Laws Of Success
The great sin -- Gossip.
The great crippler -- Fear.
The greatest mistake -- Giving up.
The most satisfying experience -- Doing your duty first.
The best action -- Keep the mind clear and judgement good.
The greatest blessing -- Good health.
The biggest fool - The man who lies to himself.
The great gamble -- Substituting hope for facts.
The most certain thing in life -- Change.
The greatest joy -- Being needed.
The cleverest man -- The one who does what he thinks is right.
The most potent force -- Positive thinking.
The greatest opportunity -- The next one.
The greatest thought -- God.
The greatest victory -- Victory over self.
The best play -- Successful work.
The greatest handicap -- Egotism.
The most expensive indulgence -- Hate.
The most dangerous man -- The liar
The most ridiculous trait -- False pride.
The greatest loss -- Loss of self confidence.
The greatest need -- Common sense.
By Jack Yianitsas, Laws Of Success
Sunday, September 16, 2007
THE DAY BEFORE YOU GO ON VACATION By Zig Ziglar
(Excerpted from the Jim RohnWeekend Seminar-Excelling in the
New Millennium)
How do you achieve employment security in a world where there
is no employment security? I start with a question. How many
of you consider yourself to be honest and at least reasonably
intelligent? Can I see your hands, please? Okay. How many of
you honest, intelligent people, as a general rule, get about
twice as much work done on the day before you go on vacation
as you normally get done? Can I see your hands, please?
Well…Glad to see so many honest folks. Now I am going to ask
you a long question, so stay with me all the way through. If
we can figure out why and learn how and repeat it everyday
without working any longer or any harder, does it make sense
that we will be more valuable to ourselves, our company, our
family and our community? Does that make any sense at all? The
answer is "Yes".
I want to make it crystal clear that I am going to be talking
to you about you, not going to be talking about anybody that's
not here, but to you about you. You have already confessed
that you are honest and intelligent. Now how many of you on
the night before the day before vacation, got your laptop out
or a sheet of paper out and said, "Now tomorrow, I've got to
do this and this…" How many of you did that? Can I see your
hand? We coined a very clever name for that. We call that goal
setting. So, you set your goal. Then you got them organized in
the order of their importance.
Let me encourage you to make one slight change there. If you
have got to go give Charlie the worst possible news, and he is
the 5th on the list of gotta do's, when you finish the first
one, the next order on your mind is "Gotta talk to Charlie."
Finish the second one, "Gotta talk to Charlie." See Charlie
first. Get the disagreeable things and difficult things out of
the way first. Free your mind, so you can concentrate on what
else you have got to do. You got it organized. You accepted
responsibility. You made the commitments. You know some people
are about as committed as a kamikaze pilot on his thirty-ninth
mission. They just don't make it a serious thing.
Now commitment is important whether it is to get your
education, make one more call, whether it's to keep the
marriage together, whatever. Commitment is important because
when you hit the wall, not if, when you hit the wall, if you
made a commitment, your first thought is, "How do I solve the
problem?" If you haven't made the commitment, your first
thought is, "How do I get out of this deal?" And we find
literally what we are looking for. When you make that
commitment, things happen. It shows that you really care about
the other people there. It demonstrates that you are
dependable. Even though you're leaving town, you're not going
to leave an unfinished task for the other people to do. Your
integrity comes through.
Now the beautiful thing about integrity, when integrity is
part of you as a person and is part of your life, you do the
right thing. When you do the right thing, you have nothing to
feel guilty about. With integrity you have nothing to fear
because you have nothing to hide. Now think about it, with
guilt and fear both removed from your back, doesn't it just
make sense that you can function more effectively? You will be
freer to do the right thing always. Not only that, but that's
the way you take steps up. You know Emerson said, "If you
would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground". And
truer words were never spoken. You also, when you look at
this, what you decide to do is you're going to work smarter;
and you're optimistic you're going to get it done.
How many of you ever participated in organized, team sports?
Can I see your hands? How many of you ever went home one night
and said to your parents, "Mom or dad, you can't believe the
game plan the coaches worked out. Man alive, it was
incredible. We're going to kill those suckers tomorrow. You
can count on it." You were optimistic simply because you had a
plan of action and so you were optimistic that the next day
you were going to be able to get all of these things done.
Now some of us are born optimistic, and some are born
pessimistic. For your information the 1828 Noah Webster does
not have the word pessimist in it. It has the word optimist.
Now I am a natural born optimist. I really am. I would take my
last two dollars and buy a money belt with it. That's the way
I'm put together; but the good news is if you are a natural
born pessimist, you definitely, emphatically, positively can
change. You are a pessimist by choice because you are what you
are and where you are because of what's gone into your mind.
You can change what you are; you can change where you are by
changing what goes into your mind.
Anyway, the next day, you not only got there on time, you were
a little early, and you immediately got started. You didn't
stand around and say, "Well, I wonder what I ought to do now."
You couldn't wait to get after it. You wanted to do the right
thing, so you really got started in a big hurry. You were
enthusiastic about it. You were highly motivated. You
decisively move from one task to another. Now I am going to
camp on this one for just a moment.
As a general rule, how many of you have noticed that people
who have nothing to do want to do it with you? Can I see your
hands? Okay. Now, on this day before vacation, when you finish
one task, you move with purpose to another one. And people
will not block you for that two-minute gossip session or
four-minute or five-minute or six-minutes. I am absolutely
convinced, no doubt about it that the listener has more to do
with the gossiping than the speaker because if you don't
listen, you're not going to have the guy or gal talking to
you. They just aren't. When you move with purpose, people will
step aside and let you go.
I will absolutely guarantee you, you will save a minimum of an
hour a day in two-minute, three-minute, five minute things. An
hour a day is five hours per week is 250 hours per year. That
is six weeks of your life that you've wasted and six weeks of
combination time that you have wasted with the people who were
giving the gossip to you. What could you do with six extra
weeks every year? You focus on the issue at hand. You are
disciplined to stay with it until you finish, and the neat
thing about discipline, Cybil Stanton gave me the best
definition of it I have ever heard in her book The Twenty Five
Hour Woman. "Discipline isn't on your back needling you with
imperatives. It is at your side encouraging you with
incentives."
New Millennium)
How do you achieve employment security in a world where there
is no employment security? I start with a question. How many
of you consider yourself to be honest and at least reasonably
intelligent? Can I see your hands, please? Okay. How many of
you honest, intelligent people, as a general rule, get about
twice as much work done on the day before you go on vacation
as you normally get done? Can I see your hands, please?
Well…Glad to see so many honest folks. Now I am going to ask
you a long question, so stay with me all the way through. If
we can figure out why and learn how and repeat it everyday
without working any longer or any harder, does it make sense
that we will be more valuable to ourselves, our company, our
family and our community? Does that make any sense at all? The
answer is "Yes".
I want to make it crystal clear that I am going to be talking
to you about you, not going to be talking about anybody that's
not here, but to you about you. You have already confessed
that you are honest and intelligent. Now how many of you on
the night before the day before vacation, got your laptop out
or a sheet of paper out and said, "Now tomorrow, I've got to
do this and this…" How many of you did that? Can I see your
hand? We coined a very clever name for that. We call that goal
setting. So, you set your goal. Then you got them organized in
the order of their importance.
Let me encourage you to make one slight change there. If you
have got to go give Charlie the worst possible news, and he is
the 5th on the list of gotta do's, when you finish the first
one, the next order on your mind is "Gotta talk to Charlie."
Finish the second one, "Gotta talk to Charlie." See Charlie
first. Get the disagreeable things and difficult things out of
the way first. Free your mind, so you can concentrate on what
else you have got to do. You got it organized. You accepted
responsibility. You made the commitments. You know some people
are about as committed as a kamikaze pilot on his thirty-ninth
mission. They just don't make it a serious thing.
Now commitment is important whether it is to get your
education, make one more call, whether it's to keep the
marriage together, whatever. Commitment is important because
when you hit the wall, not if, when you hit the wall, if you
made a commitment, your first thought is, "How do I solve the
problem?" If you haven't made the commitment, your first
thought is, "How do I get out of this deal?" And we find
literally what we are looking for. When you make that
commitment, things happen. It shows that you really care about
the other people there. It demonstrates that you are
dependable. Even though you're leaving town, you're not going
to leave an unfinished task for the other people to do. Your
integrity comes through.
Now the beautiful thing about integrity, when integrity is
part of you as a person and is part of your life, you do the
right thing. When you do the right thing, you have nothing to
feel guilty about. With integrity you have nothing to fear
because you have nothing to hide. Now think about it, with
guilt and fear both removed from your back, doesn't it just
make sense that you can function more effectively? You will be
freer to do the right thing always. Not only that, but that's
the way you take steps up. You know Emerson said, "If you
would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground". And
truer words were never spoken. You also, when you look at
this, what you decide to do is you're going to work smarter;
and you're optimistic you're going to get it done.
How many of you ever participated in organized, team sports?
Can I see your hands? How many of you ever went home one night
and said to your parents, "Mom or dad, you can't believe the
game plan the coaches worked out. Man alive, it was
incredible. We're going to kill those suckers tomorrow. You
can count on it." You were optimistic simply because you had a
plan of action and so you were optimistic that the next day
you were going to be able to get all of these things done.
Now some of us are born optimistic, and some are born
pessimistic. For your information the 1828 Noah Webster does
not have the word pessimist in it. It has the word optimist.
Now I am a natural born optimist. I really am. I would take my
last two dollars and buy a money belt with it. That's the way
I'm put together; but the good news is if you are a natural
born pessimist, you definitely, emphatically, positively can
change. You are a pessimist by choice because you are what you
are and where you are because of what's gone into your mind.
You can change what you are; you can change where you are by
changing what goes into your mind.
Anyway, the next day, you not only got there on time, you were
a little early, and you immediately got started. You didn't
stand around and say, "Well, I wonder what I ought to do now."
You couldn't wait to get after it. You wanted to do the right
thing, so you really got started in a big hurry. You were
enthusiastic about it. You were highly motivated. You
decisively move from one task to another. Now I am going to
camp on this one for just a moment.
As a general rule, how many of you have noticed that people
who have nothing to do want to do it with you? Can I see your
hands? Okay. Now, on this day before vacation, when you finish
one task, you move with purpose to another one. And people
will not block you for that two-minute gossip session or
four-minute or five-minute or six-minutes. I am absolutely
convinced, no doubt about it that the listener has more to do
with the gossiping than the speaker because if you don't
listen, you're not going to have the guy or gal talking to
you. They just aren't. When you move with purpose, people will
step aside and let you go.
I will absolutely guarantee you, you will save a minimum of an
hour a day in two-minute, three-minute, five minute things. An
hour a day is five hours per week is 250 hours per year. That
is six weeks of your life that you've wasted and six weeks of
combination time that you have wasted with the people who were
giving the gossip to you. What could you do with six extra
weeks every year? You focus on the issue at hand. You are
disciplined to stay with it until you finish, and the neat
thing about discipline, Cybil Stanton gave me the best
definition of it I have ever heard in her book The Twenty Five
Hour Woman. "Discipline isn't on your back needling you with
imperatives. It is at your side encouraging you with
incentives."
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
PROFITS ARE BETTER THAN WAGES by Jim Rohn
My mentor, when I was 25 years old, dropped a phrase on me
that changed my life forever when he said, "Profits are better
than wages. Wages will make you a living, profits can make
you a fortune." You know it is a bit difficult to get rich on
wages, but anybody can get rich on profits. Profits change
your whole attitude, even if you start part-time. Whether it's
part-time on your entrepreneurial business, network marketing
company or service business.
It can be a landscape business in the summer or hanging
Christmas lights in the winter. It can be training, consulting
or tutoring. It can be your hobby such as painting, writing,
crafts, woodworking, computers or cooking. But once you start
investing even part-time effort into your own business, you
will find how much more exciting it is to get up in the
morning and go to work on your fortune, even if you're only
spending a few hours a week doing it.
How empowering it is to be able to go to work on your fortune
every day rather than going to work to pay the rent. Now - it
is noble to go to work to pay the rent, but if you could also
parcel out part of your time - go to work to make your
fortune. Your whole attitude changes; your spirit changes. It
is in your voice. It is in your face. It is in your gestures.
And then you can say, "I am now working full-time on my job
and part-time on my fortune because I found a way to make
profits." Wow!
And I will know what you mean.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
CLICK HERE - classic.jimrohn.com
that changed my life forever when he said, "Profits are better
than wages. Wages will make you a living, profits can make
you a fortune." You know it is a bit difficult to get rich on
wages, but anybody can get rich on profits. Profits change
your whole attitude, even if you start part-time. Whether it's
part-time on your entrepreneurial business, network marketing
company or service business.
It can be a landscape business in the summer or hanging
Christmas lights in the winter. It can be training, consulting
or tutoring. It can be your hobby such as painting, writing,
crafts, woodworking, computers or cooking. But once you start
investing even part-time effort into your own business, you
will find how much more exciting it is to get up in the
morning and go to work on your fortune, even if you're only
spending a few hours a week doing it.
How empowering it is to be able to go to work on your fortune
every day rather than going to work to pay the rent. Now - it
is noble to go to work to pay the rent, but if you could also
parcel out part of your time - go to work to make your
fortune. Your whole attitude changes; your spirit changes. It
is in your voice. It is in your face. It is in your gestures.
And then you can say, "I am now working full-time on my job
and part-time on my fortune because I found a way to make
profits." Wow!
And I will know what you mean.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
CLICK HERE - classic.jimrohn.com
READ ALL THE BOOKS by Jim Rohn
All of the books that we will ever need to make us as rich,
as healthy, as happy, as powerful, as sophisticated and as
successful as we want to be have already been written.
People from all walks of life, people with some of the most
incredible life experiences, people that have gone from
pennies to fortune and from failure to success have taken
the time to write down their experiences so that we might
share in their wealth of knowledge. They have offered their
wisdom and experience so that we can be inspired by it
and instructed by it, and so that we can amend our
philosophy by it. Their contributions enable us to reset our
sail based upon their experiences. They have handed us
the gift of their insights so that we can change our plans,
if need be, in order to avoid their errors. We can rearrange
our lives based on their wise advice.
All of the insights that we might ever need have already
been captured by others in books. The important question
is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of
information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our
relationships, our health, our children and our careers for
the better, how many books have we read?
Why do we neglect to read the books that can change our
lives? Why do we complain but remain the same? Why do
so many of us curse the effect but nourish the cause? How
do we explain the fact that only three percent of our entire
national population possess a library card - a card that
would give us access to all of the answers to success and
happiness we could ever want? Those who wish for the
better life cannot permit themselves to miss the books that
could have a major impact on how their lives turn out. The
book they miss will not help!
And the issue is not that books are too expensive! If a
person concludes that the price of buying the book is too
great, wait until he must pay the price for not buying it.
Wait until he receives the bill for continued and prolonged
ignorance.
There is very little difference between someone who
cannot read and someone who will not read. The result of
either is ignorance. Those who are serious seekers of
personal development must remove the self-imposed
limitations they have placed on their reading skills and their
reading habits. There is a multitude of classes being taught
on how to be a good reader and there are thousands of
books on the shelves of the public libraries just waiting to
be read. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise
above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand
between us and the book that could change our lives.
A little reading each day will result in a wealth of valuable
information in a very short period of time. But if we fail to
set aside the time, if we fail to pick up the book, if we fail
to exercise the discipline, then ignorance will quickly move
in to fill the void.
Those who seek a better life must first become a better
person. They must continually seek after self-mastery for
the purpose of developing a balanced philosophy of life,
and then live in accordance with the dictates of that
philosophy. The habit of reading is a major stepping stone
in the development of a sound philosophical foundation.
And in my opinion it is one of the fundamentals required for
the attainment of success and happiness.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
as healthy, as happy, as powerful, as sophisticated and as
successful as we want to be have already been written.
People from all walks of life, people with some of the most
incredible life experiences, people that have gone from
pennies to fortune and from failure to success have taken
the time to write down their experiences so that we might
share in their wealth of knowledge. They have offered their
wisdom and experience so that we can be inspired by it
and instructed by it, and so that we can amend our
philosophy by it. Their contributions enable us to reset our
sail based upon their experiences. They have handed us
the gift of their insights so that we can change our plans,
if need be, in order to avoid their errors. We can rearrange
our lives based on their wise advice.
All of the insights that we might ever need have already
been captured by others in books. The important question
is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of
information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our
relationships, our health, our children and our careers for
the better, how many books have we read?
Why do we neglect to read the books that can change our
lives? Why do we complain but remain the same? Why do
so many of us curse the effect but nourish the cause? How
do we explain the fact that only three percent of our entire
national population possess a library card - a card that
would give us access to all of the answers to success and
happiness we could ever want? Those who wish for the
better life cannot permit themselves to miss the books that
could have a major impact on how their lives turn out. The
book they miss will not help!
And the issue is not that books are too expensive! If a
person concludes that the price of buying the book is too
great, wait until he must pay the price for not buying it.
Wait until he receives the bill for continued and prolonged
ignorance.
There is very little difference between someone who
cannot read and someone who will not read. The result of
either is ignorance. Those who are serious seekers of
personal development must remove the self-imposed
limitations they have placed on their reading skills and their
reading habits. There is a multitude of classes being taught
on how to be a good reader and there are thousands of
books on the shelves of the public libraries just waiting to
be read. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise
above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand
between us and the book that could change our lives.
A little reading each day will result in a wealth of valuable
information in a very short period of time. But if we fail to
set aside the time, if we fail to pick up the book, if we fail
to exercise the discipline, then ignorance will quickly move
in to fill the void.
Those who seek a better life must first become a better
person. They must continually seek after self-mastery for
the purpose of developing a balanced philosophy of life,
and then live in accordance with the dictates of that
philosophy. The habit of reading is a major stepping stone
in the development of a sound philosophical foundation.
And in my opinion it is one of the fundamentals required for
the attainment of success and happiness.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
Monday, September 10, 2007
ATTITUDE MAKES A DIFFERENCE by Tom Hopkins
Studies have proven that attitude is one of the traits that separate
average sales people from their highly-successful colleagues. I have
to believe that it's true in life in general, not just sales. Think
about the happiest, most successful people you know. How do you
usually find them? Are they depressed, negative, or even apathetic? I
doubt it. They're probably upbeat, smiling, and positive about life.
Why not take the same positive interested attitude you have toward
your hobbies and transfer your passion to your ability to sell
yourself, your ideas, or the end results of your hobby?
Instead of turning your selling job into a hobby, why not take the
hobby you love so much and figure out how to market it or yourself?
I'm not saying this change will make you a millionaire, but money
isn't the only measure of success. If you could support yourself
comfortably on the earnings from your hobby, I would deem you as
having a successful life.
Think about it! You already have the built-in enthusiasm, excitement,
and knowledge of your hobby. Now all you need to do is show others why
they need to feel the same way. If you do a little research, you'll
find that many successful business people started out by selling their
hobbies. Determine what you love to do, and then figure out a way to
get paid for it. What could be better?
average sales people from their highly-successful colleagues. I have
to believe that it's true in life in general, not just sales. Think
about the happiest, most successful people you know. How do you
usually find them? Are they depressed, negative, or even apathetic? I
doubt it. They're probably upbeat, smiling, and positive about life.
Why not take the same positive interested attitude you have toward
your hobbies and transfer your passion to your ability to sell
yourself, your ideas, or the end results of your hobby?
Instead of turning your selling job into a hobby, why not take the
hobby you love so much and figure out how to market it or yourself?
I'm not saying this change will make you a millionaire, but money
isn't the only measure of success. If you could support yourself
comfortably on the earnings from your hobby, I would deem you as
having a successful life.
Think about it! You already have the built-in enthusiasm, excitement,
and knowledge of your hobby. Now all you need to do is show others why
they need to feel the same way. If you do a little research, you'll
find that many successful business people started out by selling their
hobbies. Determine what you love to do, and then figure out a way to
get paid for it. What could be better?
Sunday, September 9, 2007
THE 30-DAY CHALLENGE by James Ray
One gentleman I consider to be a great mentor (although I have never
met him) is Wallace D. Wattles. Wattles wrote a trilogy of books in
the late 1800s entitled The Science of Getting Richs, The Science of
Well-Being, and The Science of Becoming Excellent. They are ALL
outstanding!
If you have read my book The Science of Success, it is probably
evident by the title that Wattles has had a strong influence on my
thinking.
I have a laminated quote from Wattles that has been sitting on my
desk for AT LEAST 2 years. This week I will give you the quote, along
with a 30-day challenge.
If you accept the challenge, it must be done first thing in the
morning before you start your day. Pick a goal and do EXACTLY what
the quote says. Then take action and EXPECT MAGIC to happen in your
life.
Here's the complete challenge:
1. Pick a goal that you want, and truly believe, you can achieve in
the next 30 days. Make it specific and clear. Create a "spiritual
prototype"/picture of this goal in your mind. Remember, you must be
IN the picture -- looking through your own eyes.
2. Commit to visualizing your goal first thing in the morning and
last thing at night every single day for the next 30 days.
3. As a part of your visualization process (either before or after)
read the Wattles quote OUT LOUD every single day for the next thirty
days.
4. It must be read FIRST THING in the morning before you begin your
day (if you want to read it at night as well -- more power to you).
5. This must be read with PASSION. In other words, on a scale of 1-10
you have to be at least at a 20!
6. Follow the instructions of the quote.
Are you ready? Are you committed? Do you have the spiritual prototype
of your 30-day goal? Here's Wattles':
"There is a thinking substance from which all things are made, and
which in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the
interspaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the
thought.
I can form things in my thought, and by impressing my thoughts upon
formless substance, can cause the thing I think about to be created.
In order to do this, I must pass from the competitive to the creative
mind. I must form a clear mental picture of the things I want. And, I
must hold this picture in my thoughts with the fixed purpose to get
what I want, and the unwavering faith that I will get what I want --
closing my mind to all that may tend to shake my purpose, dim my
vision, or quench my faith.
I am ready to receive what I want when it comes, and I AM ACTING NOW
upon the people and things in my present environment."
Have your best week ever! I look forward to your results,
James
met him) is Wallace D. Wattles. Wattles wrote a trilogy of books in
the late 1800s entitled The Science of Getting Richs, The Science of
Well-Being, and The Science of Becoming Excellent. They are ALL
outstanding!
If you have read my book The Science of Success, it is probably
evident by the title that Wattles has had a strong influence on my
thinking.
I have a laminated quote from Wattles that has been sitting on my
desk for AT LEAST 2 years. This week I will give you the quote, along
with a 30-day challenge.
If you accept the challenge, it must be done first thing in the
morning before you start your day. Pick a goal and do EXACTLY what
the quote says. Then take action and EXPECT MAGIC to happen in your
life.
Here's the complete challenge:
1. Pick a goal that you want, and truly believe, you can achieve in
the next 30 days. Make it specific and clear. Create a "spiritual
prototype"/picture of this goal in your mind. Remember, you must be
IN the picture -- looking through your own eyes.
2. Commit to visualizing your goal first thing in the morning and
last thing at night every single day for the next 30 days.
3. As a part of your visualization process (either before or after)
read the Wattles quote OUT LOUD every single day for the next thirty
days.
4. It must be read FIRST THING in the morning before you begin your
day (if you want to read it at night as well -- more power to you).
5. This must be read with PASSION. In other words, on a scale of 1-10
you have to be at least at a 20!
6. Follow the instructions of the quote.
Are you ready? Are you committed? Do you have the spiritual prototype
of your 30-day goal? Here's Wattles':
"There is a thinking substance from which all things are made, and
which in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the
interspaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the
thought.
I can form things in my thought, and by impressing my thoughts upon
formless substance, can cause the thing I think about to be created.
In order to do this, I must pass from the competitive to the creative
mind. I must form a clear mental picture of the things I want. And, I
must hold this picture in my thoughts with the fixed purpose to get
what I want, and the unwavering faith that I will get what I want --
closing my mind to all that may tend to shake my purpose, dim my
vision, or quench my faith.
I am ready to receive what I want when it comes, and I AM ACTING NOW
upon the people and things in my present environment."
Have your best week ever! I look forward to your results,
James
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