Growth isn't automatic. You either decide to evolve or
drift into decline. Jim Rohn breaks it down.
The daily choices that shape your future.
Discipline, mindset, structure. These aren't just habits,
they're your weapons for elevation.
If you're serious about leveling up, not someday, but now, the
playbook is your next step. No hype, just principles that
build unstoppable people. Success is an accomplishment
whether. It be great.
Or small, and it's an understanding of the potential
and power of an entire human life.
Success is an awareness of value, and it's the cultivation
of value through discipline. It can be tangible or
intangible. Success is a process of turning
away from something in order to turn towards something else.
From no exercise to exercise, from candy to fruit, from not
investing to investing. Success is responding to an
invitation. An invitation to change, to
grow, to develop, to become, to move up to a better place with a
better vantage point. But most of all, success is
making your life what you want it to be.
Considering all the possibilities, considering all
the examples, what do you want for your life?
That is the big question. Remember, success is not a set
of standards from our culture, but rather a collection of
personal values clearly defined and ultimately achieved.
I. Learned the law of sowing and
reaping, and in the law of sowing and reaping is also the
story of the law of averages. Jot this down.
The story of the Sower comes from the Bible.
I'm an amateur on the Bible, but this is such a useful story.
Here's what the story says and take the notes because the
drama's in the details. The Sower was ambitious.
Evidently he was ambitious. When you read the whole story,
you'll conclude, yes, this was an ambitious sower.
Here was #2 he had. Excellent seed the.
Sower who sowed the seed had excellent seed, and the
excellent seed could be an excellent opportunity, an
excellent product, an excellent store.
So we've got an ambitious sower with excellent seed.
But now here's the rest of the details of the story for your
information, for the drama of your life so you can understand
things better. Learning some of this is how I
got rich by age 31. OK.
Number one, it says the sower goes out to sow the seed, but
the first part of the seed falls by the wayside and the birds get
it. So jot this down.
The birds are going to get some of the seed.
Now you say, well, Mr. And what does that mean?
Well, I invite John to come to a meeting.
He said he'd be there Tuesday night.
Tuesday night, I show up. John isn't there.
I say, John, I wonder why John didn't make it.
Now I know the answer. The birds, the birds.
John had this great idea of coming to the meeting to look at
an opportunity and somebody stole it and said you're not
going to go C network marketing and he says, well, maybe not.
So have you jot that down. Now the birds are going to get
some. Now when the birds get some,
you've got two options. Number one is to chase birds and
say, well let me get a hold of the person that talked him out
of come to the meeting. I'll tear him a new page, but I
wouldn't do this. Here's what happens.
If you go chasing birds, you leave the field.
If you go chasing birds now you leave the field, which is going
to distract from your future, not add so you can't chase birds
and try to straighten this stuff out.
Here's what it is. It's just one of those things.
And here's the best comment when things are a little
disappointing. Isn't that interesting?
He just, you just have to say, I thought sure he would be there.
He promised me promised, but I know it was the birds and you
just have to say, isn't that interesting?
Philosophy Philosophy is the chief cornerstone in the
foundation of the five major pieces to the life puzzle.
A major factor in determining how our lives turn out is the
way we choose to think. Everything that goes on inside
the human mind in the form of thoughts, ideas, and information
forms our personal philosophy. Our philosophy then influences
our habits and behavior. And this is really where it all
begins. How our personal philosophy is
formed. Our personal philosophy comes
from what we know and from the process of how we came to know
all that we currently know. Throughout our lives we receive
input from a multitude of sources.
What we know comes from school, friends, associates, media,
influences, home, the streets. It comes from books and the
process of reading, and it comes from listening and observing.
The sources of knowledge and information that have
contributed to the formation of our current philosophy are
virtually unlimited. As adults, all of the new
information that comes our way is examined through the filter
of our personal philosophy. Those concepts that seem to
agree with the conclusions we have already reached are added
to our storehouse of knowledge and serve to reinforce our
current thinking. Those ideas that seem to
contradict our beliefs are usually quickly rejected.
We are constantly in the process of checking our pre-existing
beliefs for accuracy or confirmation in the light of new
information. As we blend the new with the
old, the result is either the strengthening of our past
beliefs or the broadening of our current philosophy in light of
new and valuable information about life and people.
The same beliefs that form our personal philosophy also
determine our value systems. Do you know the people you
surround yourself with have a phenomenal impact on your life?
I think it was Carl Meniger from the Meniger Foundation one time
said environment is more important than heredity.
The people we're surrounded by have a greater bearing on our
life and our success in life than what's built into the genes
at birth. There's genetic conditioning.
There's environmental conditioning.
Well, this environmental conditioning goes on all the way
through life. You will find as you improve the
quality of your life, improve your thinking, you're going to
attract a different group of people into your life and they
are going to add to your life. See, the people we're surrounded
by, their thinking is going right into our mind.
We want to mix with people who are really making it happen.
Take a look at your five people that you're with most often and
ask yourself, if I have children, would I want them to
grow up be like that? If the answer is no, you better
start looking for some new friends.
If the answer is yes, you're already in the right circle of
people. Think about what I'm saying.
The people we're surrounded with have a phenomenal impact on our
life and help make us who we are.
And the majority of the fears that we have are not life or
death fears, and not those kind of fears, but through our
imagination, we blow them out of proportion and we give them more
power than they actually have or deserve.
And we permit them to govern our lives.
We permit them to determine how far we can stretch out on our
dreams and discovering our stuff.
And as we begin to look at ourselves and, and begin to wait
a minute, just getting to the point as you assess yourself
and, and begin to prove yourself and just say, wait, hold a
minute, hold a minute. I've been sweating this out.
What can, what's the worst thing that can happen to me on this?
Will it kill me? Will I die?
Why? Why am I going through all of
these changes over this? How much power does this really
have and am I the one that's feeding the power into it?
See, a lot of times we, we allow ourselves to be fed and to be
programmed into to being afraid of you watch the news and read
the newspaper, you'll be scared to come out the house, am I
right? You'll be afraid.
So what kinds of things, what kinds of thoughts are you
feeding your consciousness? What kind of things are you
putting in your mind that will enable you to either move
forward or to justify why you're staying where you are?
Another piece that I look at that when I finally decided that
I was going to go to the dentist, pain was so great I
couldn't hold out any longer. All of a sudden the fear didn't
matter. I give or take me now.
Some people need fear. You know, have a friend that,
that we told him, hey, man, you know, you need to lose some
weight. You're getting overweight and
out of shape and at our age, we need to have a regular program.
And Bud said, man, I, I've been fat since I was a little boy.
I'm you know, I'm, I'm big bone. I've never seen a fat skeleton
though, you know, well, Bud became I'll, how many of you
ever seen a fat skeleton right here?
All right, Bud became I'll passed out and I was there and
the doctor was talking to him and Bob I think was going to go
right back to same old eating habits and doing everything.
You know, I said, look here, you are a diabetic.
He said, now here's some of the side effects.
You know, you can go blind, you can become an amputee.
None of that touched him. He said you can become impotent.
He said, what did you say? Bob has lost weight.
He exercises every day. He's in the body sculptry, 28
years young. He looks great.
I can't believe. But just that one statement made
all the difference in the world. But as a new man today.
So what is it that has to happen to you?
Some people don't take corrective measures to improve
their health until they get a pronouncement that they're about
to die. Then this dot.
OK, all right. I'm ready to do whatever you
want me to do. But they won't do that.
They can see people drop it off like flies around them.
Well, that's them. You got to go from something.
We go through life really blocking ourselves constantly.
And fear is one of the the greatest instruments that we
could use to stifle our true potential.
When you begin to, to look at your life, you can decide to, to
use fear as a blocker, or you can decide to use it as building
blocks. But you decide, hey, look here,
I'm going to move in this direction.
I'm not going to allow anything to stop me from doing what I
want to do. Shake somebody's hand on your
right and left and say I'm unstoppable.
Persuasion at anything. So if you want to persuade your
children, if you want to persuade someone to take a look
at your faith, if you want to persuade someone in business, if
you want to persuade someone to help you in anything or help
them in anything, it's real simple for me monster belief.
And so you can't transfer to me that which you're not
experiencing yourself, right? So you can't give me a people
are always trying to come up with a magic word.
The magic clothes, the magic this.
And there are words you should and shouldn't use in persuasion.
No question about it, right? There are think there are words
that are more effective than other words.
And clearly, to be successful in any business, you need to know
what those words are in your business.
The best persuaders, the best motivators, the best speakers,
the best physicians, the best school teachers, the best
parents are incredible persuaders.
And what they do is they come from a monster place of
conviction and belief that they can transfer you to, because
people respond to energy much more than they do words.
They respond to what they feel, not what they hear and see, hear
and see. A real low level influencers,
energy spirit transfer of energy is what people respond to.
And so I'm cognizant all the time of getting in a state of
total belief and certainty about what it is that I'm going to
represent or speaking if I'm speaking on stage about a
particular topic and then transferring that energy into
people. And that seems generic or hokey,
but it's actually what great persuaders do.
In fact, if you're listening to this, you think of anybody that
you know who's incredibly persuasive, they may have great
words, they probably do, but it's something you feel from
them, right? And that's the difference
between a great doctor and a so, So doctor.
A great doctor says, here's the prescription, you're out of
here. Another one, Is this going to
work or not? I don't know.
Another one. You leave there feeling that
you're going to be healed, feeling you're in good hands.
You feel their certainty, you feel their confidence, say when
you hear a speaker, if you're buying real estate from
somebody. But it's not just buying things.
It's a great pastor in a church, a great person.
If you do TM, who's taught you TM, it's their certainty.
It's the energy you feel. And so for me, it's always
getting to, I have to really believe what I'm saying.
I have to really feel it to transfer to.