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