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Issue 222 - February 3, 2004 - Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine
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******************************************************** Today's issue includes: 1. Article - Maintaining Honesty and Integrity by Jim Rohn2. Vitamins for the Mind - Change/Choice/Decision by Jim Rohn 3. Accept No Limits by Vic Johnson 4. Weekly Product Blowout Special! 5. Apply the 80/20 Rule and Achieve Your Desired Results in 2004! 6. Jim Rohn Testimonials - January 27 - February 2, 2004 1. Maintaining Honesty and Integrity by Jim Rohn (excerpted from Cultivating an Unshakable Character) For a leader, honesty and integrity are absolutely essential to survival. A lot of business people don't realize how closely they're being watched by their subordinates. Remember when you were a kid in grammar school, how you used to sit there staring at your teacher all day? By the end of the school year, you could do a perfect imitation of all your teacher's mannerisms. You were aware of the slightest nuances in your teacher's voice - all the little clues that distinguished levels of meaning, that told you the difference between bluff and "now I mean business". And you were able to do that after eight or nine months of observation. Suppose you had five or 10 years. Do you think there would have been anything about your teacher you didn't know? Now fast forward and use that analogy as a manager. Do you think there's anything your people don't know about you right this minute? If you haven't been totally aboveboard and honest with them, do you really think you've gotten away with it? Not too likely. But if you've been led to believe that you've gotten away with it, there might be a good probability that people are afraid of you, and that's a problem in its own right. But there is another side of this coin. In any organization, people want to believe in their leaders. If you give them reason to trust you, they're not going to go looking for reasons to think otherwise, and they'll be just as perceptive about your positive qualities as they are about the negative ones. A situation that happened some years ago at a company in the Midwest illustrates this perfectly. The wife of a new employee experienced complications in the delivery of a baby. There was a medical bill of more than $10,000, and the health insurance company didn't want to cover it. The employee hadn't been on the payroll long enough, the pregnancy was a preexisting condition, etc,etc,.. In any case, the employee was desperate. He approached the company CEO and asked him to talk to the insurance people. The CEO agreed, and the next thing the employee knew, the bill was gone and the charges were rescinded. Then he told some colleagues about the way the CEO had so readily used his influence with the insurance company, they just shook their heads and smiled. The CEO had paid the bill out of his own pocket, and everybody knew it, no matter how quietly it had been done. Now an act of dishonesty can't be hidden either, and it will instantly undermine the authority of a leader. But an act of integrity and kindness like the example above is just as obvious to all concerned. When you're in a leadership position, you have the choice of how you will be seen, but you Will be seen one way or the other, make no mistake about it. One of the most challenging areas of leadership is your family. Leadership of a family demands even higher standards of honesty and integrity, and the stakes are higher too. You can replace disgruntled employees and start over. You can even get a new job for yourself, if it comes to that. But your family can't be shuffled like a deck of cards. If you haven't noticed, kids are great moral philosophers, especially as they get into adolescence. They're determined to discover and expose any kind of hypocrisy, phoniness, or lack of integrity on the part of authority figures, and if we're parents, that means us. It's frightening how unforgiving kids can be about this, but it really isn't a conscious decision on their part; it's just a necessary phase of growing up. They're testing everything, especially their parents. As a person of integrity yourself, you'll find it easy to teach integrity to your kids, and they in turn will find it easy to accept you as a teacher. This is a great opportunity and also a supreme responsibility, because kids simply must be taught to tell the truth: to mean what they say and to say what they mean. "Praise is one the world's most effective teaching and leadership tools. Criticism and blame, even if deserved, are counter productive unless all other approaches have failed." Now for the other side of the equation, we all know people who have gotten ahead as a result of dishonest or unethical behavior. When you're a kid, you might naively think that never happens, but when you get older, you realize that it does. Then you think you've really wised up. But that's not the real end of it. When you get older, you see the long-term consequences of dishonest gain, and you realize that in the end it doesn't pay. "Hope of dishonest gain is the beginning of loss". I don't think that old saying refers to loss of money. I think it actually means loss of self-respect. You can have all the material things in the world, but if you've lost respect for yourself, what do you really have? The only way to ever attain success and enjoy it is to achieve it honestly with pride in what you've done. This isn't just a sermon, it's very practical advice. Not only can you take it to heart - you can take it to the bank. To Your Success, To order Jim's best selling CD series Cultivating an Unshakable Character (6 CD's) from our Inventory Blowout Product Special, go to http://jr3.jimrohn.com 2. Vitamins for the Mind Change/Choice/Decision by Jim Rohn One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do? You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. Decision making can sometimes seem like inner civil war. I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say, "If I can, I will." It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off! You cannot make progress without making decisions. We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
================================================== 3. Accept No Limits by Vic Johnson (excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen) "A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses." - James Allen, As A Man Thinketh You are not limited to the life you now live. It has been accepted by you as the best you can do at this moment. Any time you're ready to go beyond the limitations currently in your life, you're capable of doing that by choosing different thoughts. We each earn the income we do today because that is the amount we have limited ourselves to earn. We could easily earn 5, 10, 20 times more if we did not limit ourselves through the thoughts we maintain. Don't believe that's true? Surely you know people who earn much more than you who don't have your education, your skills, or your intelligence. So why do they earn more than you? I love the story of George Dantzig that Cynthia Kersey wrote about in Unstoppable. As a college student, George studied very hard and always late into the night. So late that he overslept one morning, arriving 20 minutes late for class. He quickly copied the two math problems on the board, assuming they were the homework assignment. It took him several days to work through the two problems, but finally he had a breakthrough and dropped the homework on the professor's desk the next day. Later, on a Sunday morning, George was awakened at 6 a.m. by his excited professor. Since George was late for class, he hadn't heard the professor announce that the two unsolvable equations on the board were mathematical mind teasers that even Einstein hadn't been able to answer. But George Dantzig, working without any thoughts of limitation, had solved not one, but two problems that had stumped mathematicians for thousands of years. Simply put, George solved the problems because he didn't know he couldn't. Bob Proctor tells us to "keep reminding yourself that you have tremendous reservoirs of potential within you, and therefore you are quite capable of doing anything you set your mind to. All you must do is figure out how you can do it, not whether or not you can. And once you have made your mind up to do it, it's amazing how your mind begins to figure out how." And that's worth thinking about. Vic Johnson is a St. Augustine, Florida-based Internet Infopreneur, author, speaker and founder of a host of personal development websites. To find out how to receive Vic's newest release, Day by Day with James Allen, as part of the Vic Johnson and Bob Proctor's Born Rich Tele-Seminar, scroll down to #4 Weekly Product Blowout Special! ******************************************************** 4. Weekly Product Blowout Special! In mid-December Vic Johnson was nice enough to send us a recorded taping of the 4-week Born Rich Tele-Seminar that he and Bob Proctor had conducted earlier in the year. The feedback they had since then registered a 9.9 on the Richter Scale - it was a home run event! I had originally wanted to be part of the tele-seminar when Vic and Bob recorded it, but was not able to schedule it, so now with the entire recorded version in hand, I was being given a second chance, and what great timing because I was already in the process of planning the 2004 year. I was able to complete the entire tele-seminar within a week. Throughout the process and for the next couple of weeks following listening to the tele-seminar, new ideas flowed, enthusiasm was at a new high and winning at life and work was the theme throughout our office staff. And as I shared new ideas coupled with bursts of new awareness, I was quick to credit the impact the Born Rich Tele-seminar had. Beyond the great ideas and strategies that Bob and Vic share, much of the effect it had on me was coming from the energy that Bob had in his Q and A sessions. At the end of each session Bob would take questions and his answers were not only insightful, but were faith building and inspiring - he challenged people to see themsel Then at Christmas, Vic Johnson sent us a copy of his new book Day by Day with James Allen. It contains 31 unique messages, one for each day of the month, and again this book seemed to be resonating and inspiring in just the right way at the right time. So, all that to say this. We want to offer as this week's Product Blowout package, the incredible 4-week tele-seminar along with Vic's new book, Day by Day, along with several additional bonuses (including Bob Proctor's best-selling e-book) to our readers - all for an unbelievably great price (and a huge value). For this Week's Special Product Blowout package we have: 1) All Four Weekly tele-seminar Sessions recorded live on 4 full-length CD's ($147 value) 2) Plus a Fifth Bonus CD which contains bonus files and: - Bonus #1 - A fully downloadable e-book copy of the international, best-seller by Bob Proctor that will open your eyes to the great reservoirs of talent and ability that lie deep within you. As one reader wrote, "I was given a copy of this book last year and it literally changed my life. I have been reading personal development books for over 20 years and have been impressed by quite a few but Born Rich knocks them all dead." - Bonus #2 - Making the Impossible Possible was recorded from a live Bob Proctor Tele-Seminar and includes a 16-page downloadable study guide. Learn how to live life on another level by turning your impossible thoughts into possible results! 3) Free Shipping in U.S. (*$10 International shipping) Plus for the first 100 to order receive as a free bonus: 4) A softbound copy of Day by Day with James Allen by Vic Johnson. The Entire Born Rich Tele-Seminar Package and Bonuses To order today go to http://bobb.jimrohn.com or call 800-929-0434. First 100 to order receive Day by Day with James Allen by Vic Johnson. Special Price good through February 10th: (*plus free shipping in US and Only $10 for International - International shipping fees do not include customs or duties charged by individual countries). One person who participated in the live sessions of this program said: "For all my life, and I'm pushing 70, I've had a poor image as far as money is concerned. I grew up in a very tight home and your seminar has led me to think I can earn $5,000 a week. And already things are coming to me just like you said. They're coming to my mind, how I can begin doing that." And he wasn't alone. Many others experienced similar eye-opening results: Millie Troth of Colorado wrote, "Through the entire program, I could relate to the "old" me and many family members/associates as to why we are the way we are. Everything in this program was so absolutely powerful..." This recently completed You Were Born Rich Tele-Seminar with international best-selling authors Bob Proctor, John Kanary and Vic Johnson, will help you learn how to use what you already have to achieve anything you want. Bob's book and the You Were Born Rich live seminar have already changed the lives of tens of thousands around the world. Recently, for the first time ever, this great training was made available in a convenient teleseminar format. Now the recordings of those four "extra strength" sessions are available. How powerful are the recorded sessions of this program? One participant missed one of the calls and later listened to the playback. He wrote, "I was able to listen to the replay a couple of times from last Thursday call. It was absolutely powerful! I was blown away by the content of the call." Some participants will earn more in a month next year than they earned in all of 2003 put together. Sound like hype? Don't say that to John Assaraf. "I got into real estate, and then I made $30,000 that year. And that's the year I was introduced to Bob Proctor. And the following year using these exact principles I made $151,000. And my income has gone from $151,000 to as much as $14 million in one year." Others will take what they learn from this tele-seminar and finally start the business they've always wanted to own. Like Polly Bauer, in Tampa: "One idea, one chapter, one thought pattern, created a new business for me...There was a time I was a struggling mother, and I was worried, and working two or three jobs to put my daughter through school. Bob's principles, his prosperity principles, his abundance principles, they're universal. So wherever you are in your life plan it's about what's next for you." And John and Polly are just two of thousands of examples (myself included) of people who Bob has helped "take the lid off" of self-imposed limitations. To order today go to http://bobb.jimrohn.com or call 800-929-0434. First 100 to order receive Day by Day with James Allen by Vic Johnson Yours in Achievement, Kyle Wilson P.S. As with all our products and special offers, we have a 180-day unconditional, satisfaction guarantee. So if you order this package and are not 100% satisfied that it will help make at least a 10% - 25% difference in your 2004 results, feel free to return for a 100% refund. ******************************************************** 5. Apply the 80/20 Rule to Achieve Your Results in 2004 by Enrolling in the Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan! What are the best methods for judging success? We'll I'm sure there are many, but if you were to apply the famous 80/20 rule, and tried to pick the best and most efficient and consistent way to determine if something is successful, you would probably look at the results or the fruit of that particular activity. And today, just a matter of weeks into this brand new year, that is what I would like to invite you to do, to look at your results, the fruit. Then I would like to ask you a question, "Would you like to be one of the top 1% in the marketplace (and world) who is committed to achieving their goals and creating a balanced, consistent approach to personal and professional success?". If the answer is yes, then I would like to ask you to take a few minutes to review "the results" and "the fruit" that is being experienced through our One-Year Success Plan - simply review the several testimonials below (out of hundreds and hundreds of unsolicited testimonials that have been pouring in over the past 14 months for The Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan). Then review the points we list related to the 52 Week Plan, the 12 Pillars of Success, the 12 Monthly Conference Calls, the New Millennium CD's and DVD's (for Silver and Gold enrollees) along with bonus books, downloadable workbook files, MP3's and ebooks. Again, if you are intent on deciding to make 2004 the year to overcome any and all self-limiting roadblocks in your life and to become the person you are designed to be, please read the invitation below. Looking forward to an incredible journey together! Sincerely,
"In addition to having been an enrollee in the Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan, I've also had the opportunity to be a contributor on the Month Two conference call on the subject of Goal-Setting (other guests have been Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Loral Langemeier to name a few). I can assure you that this 52-Week Plan, built on 12 Pillars of Success, is absolutely the best of its kind ever created!" "I cannot tell you what a difference this course is making in our lives. Though many difficulties and distractions (we are a little behind) but wow, what a difference to our lives already. This has been the best present to myself that I could have ever bought. Thank you!" "Wow! What else is there to say. This last 12 months has been a truly outstanding experience - the things I've learned, the improvements I've made - wow! I've had my ups and downs, my challenges and my successes and it feels as though you've all been by my side supporting me and giving me the courage to move forward. As we complete this incredible one-year journey, I am also completing goals and dreams that not so long ago were so daunting that my heartbeat would quicken with fear just thinking about them. Along the way, I have learned how to be a better husband, what it's like to be a father with the birth of my first born son in the middle of this program, to be a better friend to strangers and to those closer to me, stretched out to become a major shareholder in two companies that revolve around my definite chief aim, and much, much more. You have introduced me to incredible teachers along the way - branches that led off to people like Brian Tracy, Vic Johnson, etc., etc. I am so proud of myself for lear "Dear Yveatte, Jim and Kyle, thank you for the Jim Rohn One Year Success Plan. The Success Plan is fantastic. My life is changing and I know this is just the starter for the future. I have told my friends that this program is actually beginning now as I started to redo and evaluate all the weeks again. So I'm very glad to hear of Year Two for Jim Rohn One-Year graduates. I have decided to continue the ongoing journey into self-awareness and growth." "I have truly appreciated the mentorship of Jim, Kyle, Chris and the special guests over this past year. What a wealth of practical information to apply to my life. What a difference it has made. Please give my thanks to each of them. They have been a blessing to me." "Dear Mr. Jim Rohn, thus far, I have found the program to be awesome and very enlightening! I'm ashamed to think I allowed myself to back pedal so much in my life. I commend you for your help and the ability to have someone like you to help me back on the right road with your teachings. They certainly are inspiring." Again, we have had hundreds of unsolicited testimonials like those above. Simply stated, in 39 plus years, we have never witnessed or been able to match the success and opportunity that The Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan has experienced. Not anything that I have ever done or been part of! We have had 99% of our enrollees stay committed to a plan of consistent and continual growth in their personal and professional lives. The statistics and unsolicited testimonials are astonishing! To enroll online today go to http://jr1.jimrohn.com or call 800-929-0434. ******************************************************** 6. Jim Rohn Testimonials - January 27 - February 2, 2004 Here are some of the dozens of testimonials and comments we received over the past week from E-zine subscribers. To read more recent testimonials and the over 2000 we have received from readers over the past several months, please go to: http://www.jimrohn.com/ps.dll?b=4950829
Dear Crystal, thank you for your prompt reply. Crystal it is obvious by the style of your letter & how you have been able to resolve this matter so eloquently that Mr. Rohn employs the talents of only the best people. Best Wishes from a very happy customer. Hi Yveatte: Many thanks for your quick action in sending me the workbook. I am thrilled at this program and I am becoming a totally changed person as result of following it. Greetings and do have a successful day too. Yveatte - The Jim Rohn One Year series has been terrific! Thank you E-zine readers, for the sincere and kind words of encouragement and appreciation you sent us this week! -- JRI ******************************************************** ******************************************************** Thank You For Reading. Make it a Great Week!
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