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"Some people have learned to earn well, but they haven't learned to live well." Jim Rohn
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Today's issue includes:

1. Article - Four Words that Make Life Worthwhile by Jim Rohn
2. Vitamins for the Mind - Health by Jim Rohn
3. The Day Before You Go on Vacation By Zig Ziglar
4. Weekly Blowout Product Offer!!
5. Frequently Asked Questions
6. Jim Rohn Testimonials - June 10 - June 16, 2003
7. Copyright/Reprint Info

1. Four Words that Make Life Worthwhile by Jim Rohn
(Excerpted from the Jim Rohn Weekend Event - June 22 and 23, 2001)

Over the years as I've sought out ideas, principles and strategies to life's challenges, I've come across four simple words that can make living worthwhile.

First, life is worthwhile if you Learn. What you don't know WILL hurt you. You have to have learning to exist, let alone succeed. Life is worthwhile if you learn from your own experiences - negative or positive. We learn to do it right by first sometimes doing it wrong. We call that a positive negative. We also learn from other people's experiences, both positive and negative. I've always said that it is too bad failures don't give seminars. Obviously, we don't want to pay them so they aren't usually touring around giving seminars. But that information would be very valuable – we would learn how someone who had it all then messed it up. Learning from other people's experiences and mistakes is valuable information because we can learn what not to do without the pain of having tried and failed ourselves.

We learn by what we see so pay attention. We learn by what we hear so be a good listener. Now I do suggest that you should be a selective listener, don't just let anybody dump into your mental factory. We learn from what we read so learn from every source; learn from lectures; learn from songs; learn from sermons; learn from conversations with people who care. Always keep learning.

Second, life is worthwhile if you Try. You can't just learn; now you have to try something to see if you can do it. Try to make a difference, try to make some progress, try to learn a new skill, try to learn a new sport. It doesn't mean you can do everything, but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try. Try your best. Give it every effort. Why not go all out?

Third, life is worthwhile if you Stay. You have to stay from spring until harvest. If you have signed up for the day or for the game or for the project - see it through. Sometimes calamity comes and then it is worth wrapping it up. And that's the end, but just don't end in the middle. Maybe on the next project you pass, but on this one, if you signed up, see it through.

And lastly, life is worthwhile if you Care. If you care at all you will get some results, if you care enough you can get incredible results. Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to start a new enterprise. Care enough to change it all. Care enough to be the highest producer. Care enough to set some records. Care enough to win.

Four powerful little words: learn, try, stay and care. What difference can you make in your life today by putting these words to work?

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2. Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn

Some people don't do well simply because they don't feel well.

Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you.

Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there.

Take good care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

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Vitamins for the Mind is a weekly sampling of original quotes, on a specific topic, taken from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn (TTOQ). TTOQ, a beautiful, burgundy hardbound book with gold foil lettering, is a collection of over 365 quotes on 60 topics gathered from Jim's personal journals, seminars and books spanning over 39 years. To order the TTOQ by Jim Rohn or Excerpts from TTOQ by Jim Rohn or Brian Tracy, please click on Monthly Specials.
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3. The Day Before You Go on Vacation By Zig Ziglar
(Excerpted from the Jim Rohn Weekend Event - 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."
 
Zig Ziglar

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"You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills." Jim Rohn
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Becoming Indispensable in the literal sense is unlikely: few people have such unique knowledge or gifts that enable them to do work that no one else can. There are 12 principles, however, that when incorporated into our work and living habits, can set us apart. Developing these habits will increase both our job security and our opportunities for advancement.

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Portraits in Courage: Extraordinary Lessons from Everyday Heroes by Dave Dravecky
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Again, this is a must for every company - for less than a dollar a day, own the most comprehensive personal development product ever created and an invaluable employee lending library resource that includes over 41 hours total of DVD and CD on disk, a 250-page comprehensive workbook and a signed and numbered Jim Rohn Journal. In addition to the complete Jim Rohn Weekend Event, you receive over 8 bonus sessions including topics on leadership skills, selling skills, time management skills and communication skills by Zig Ziglar, Jeffrey Gitomer, Bob Burg, Charlie "Tremendous" Jones and more.

And yes, we said FREE SHIPPING!  This applies to ground UPS in the United States (Only $25 for International - International shipping fees do not include customs or duties charged by individual countries).
 
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"Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom." Jim Rohn
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5. Frequently Asked Questions

Each week or so we take one or two specific or frequently asked questions about or addressed to Jim Rohn and provide the answer!

Q: A question for Mr. Rohn: I've read your books, listened to your tapes, enjoyed them immensely and agree with your philosophy. My question is as you move along in life and start to realize that maybe you are not going to be what you thought you were going to be and age becomes a determining factor, what do you tell yourself? I think you will agree that it becomes more difficult to be motivated the older you get. So a person who is older (say age 50), but still wants to become successful – does he realistically have a chance? I believe I read in one of your books or heard on one of your tapes that if you haven't become financially secure by the age of 50 you were not going to be. As you can tell, I'm struggling with my age and feel I haven't accomplished my goals and feel as if time may be running out. I would appreciate any comments you may have for me. Best Regards, Mark

A1. I truly believe that it is possible to start at any time in our life and begin moving toward success. Sometimes we get so caught up on having a certain dollar amount or retirement date that it seems impossible to reach. But the truth is that there is no set amount or person to compare yourself to. You just start doing what you can today to make good decisions that move you closer to success in each of the areas of your life that you want to improve. And the wonderful thing is that success begets success. In just a few short days, then weeks, months and years you will see the positive accumulation of good habits, disciplines and decisions that start to add up. Just like when clearing the weeds out of your garden and planting and tending the new crops, you will start to see how just the application of the simplest disciplines when applied consistently over a period of time will produce the most amazing results.

Do I believe it is ever too late to achieve this kind of success in life? Of course not, in fact one of the basic sources of happiness and joy that we experience in life is the stewardship of all that our creator has given us to rule over. And odds are that while just applying these basic principals to your daily life you now put yourself in line for future  opportunities that in the past might have overlooked you -- often without even your awareness.

So start putting together the future story that will be yours to share of how, just like so many hundreds of thousands of others who started well beyond their 40's, 50's, 60's and even 70's, you started the miracle process that led to true success and fulfillment in your own unique life. JR

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"The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things." Jim Rohn
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6. Jim Rohn Testimonials - June 10 - June 16, 2003

Here are some of the dozens of testimonials and comments we received over the past week from E-zine subscribers.

“Excelling in The New Millennium’ series -- Excellent!!!
-- Nigel Fowler

WOW - I got to hear Jim Rohn in person in Las Vegas - what an incredible experience :-)
-- Lynn Wood

"How to Have Your Best Year Ever" -- Love it
-- Harold Waymon Sheats, Sr.

“The 5 Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle’ -- Excellent… Excellent, Thank you Jim Rohn.
-- Clyde Hall

I have listened to Mr. Rohn's audiotape "PPL and your Future", but a friend of mine recently saw Mr. Rohn speak in Texas and he returned to New York a changed man. His transformation has only increased my interest in Mr. Rohn and added more fuel to my personal quest for success. Thank you Mr. Rohn
-- Kerry-Ann L Elliott

I was fortunate to hear Jim Live in Tampa FL. I also purchased many of his products. I am ordering this Bob Proctor package because of his endorsement.
-- Harry Ogletree

I've liked the way Jim talks. It's nice to listen at the way he explains something. I always listen in my car, while I'm driving to my full time job, to the tape of Jim. One day I'm able to listen during the day, while I'm full time working at my  part time job!! Jim, thanks a lot!! Maybe someday I'm able to shake your hand as a Diamond Manager!! Good luck to you all!!
-- Jeanne Langens

Mr. Rohn, you are highly respected and quoted by people I respect, so I look forward to hearing what you have to say and learning from you.
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