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Issue 224 - February 17, 2004 - Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine
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1. Ambitiously Pursuing Your Own Self-Direction by Jim Rohn What is the origin of true ambition? There exists really only one place to find true ambition and that is within you – in every thought, in every movement, in every motivation. Your ambition is an expression of who you truly are, your own self-expression. Self-expression. Isn't self-expression really self-direction? How you think, how you move, how you motivate yourself. Ambition is a result of self-direction and self-direction is one of the six key principles necessary for building ambition. Positive self-direction says, "I know who I am and I know where I want to go. I'm accumulating knowledge and experiences and feelings and philosophies that will help prepare me for opportunities that I know will show up without notice or any help on my part." Because you know where you want to go, you have already been working on the parts of your personality that will make you better. Working on your attitude, working on your health, working on your time management skills. Putting it all down on paper. And you constantly see yourself in the place you want to be, going in the direction you want to go. Direction determines destination. So here is a question you must ask yourself, "Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?" What an important question to ask yourself at the beginning of the month, the beginning of the week, the beginning of the day. Because here is what you don't ever want to do - kid yourself. Kid your neighbor, kid me and kid the marketplace, but don't kid yourself - fingers crossed - hoping you will arrive at a good destination when you're not even headed that way. You have to ask yourself often, Am I? Am I doing the disciplines that are taking me in the direction I want to go? Don't neglect to ask these important questions, questions that help determine your direction, the set of your sail, your destination. Is this the direction I want for my life? Ask yourself these questions and then debate them. After you have answered these questions within yourself, then take it one step further and ask, "What am I doing that is working or not working?" Debate it all. Work with your mind to figure out the best possible direction for you - your self-direction. And then ambitiously pursue your own self-direction. Let the power of your own ambition take you where you want to go, to do what you want to do, to create the life you want to live! To Your Success, ** To order Jim's best selling CD series The Power of Ambition (6 CD's) and Save, scroll down to #4, under Weekly Product Blowout Special (Denis Waitley and Jim Rohn). 2. Vitamins for the Mind Personal Philosophy by Jim Rohn Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more. If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy. The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter. Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out. Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy. Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy. The key factor that will determine your financial future is not the economy; the key factor is your philosophy. Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places. If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want. Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable. ================================================== 3. Self-Knowledge, The Key to Preparing for Competition by Denis Waitley Self-knowledge has always been the key to preparing for competition. Knowledge of your attributes, abilities, interests, strengths, weaknesses, and traits is essential to riding the front end of the wave of change into the new century. To fully assess your own talents, realize that studies confirm that what we love and do well as children continues as our latent or manifest talent as adults. Examination of your weekend or evening interests might reveal a gem of potential you can apply to your vocation. I strongly suggest you don´t unthinkingly relegate what you love to do for yourself solely to hobbies. You might make it, or at least integrate it into your life´s work. The acquisition of knowledge, which is the new global power, is a life-long experience, not a collection of facts or skills. Not long ago, what you learned in school was largely all you needed to learn to secure a career. With knowledge expanding exponentially, this is no longer true. Hundreds of scientific papers are published daily. Every thirty seconds, some new technological company produces yet another innovation. Your formal education has a very short shelf life. Life-long learning, once a luxury for the few, has become absolutely vital to continued success. Continue gaining expertise and avoid thinking like an expert. Action Idea: An excellent benchmarking exercise is to spend a weekend with key associates or family members and dust off your childhood memories. Remember what you really enjoyed and wanted to do most as a child. The next activity in assessing your interests is considering your current ones. What do you most enjoy after work? What do you most want to do on weekends and vacations? What are your hobbies? Can you bring more of what you enjoy into your business life? Action Step - Increase Your Reading, Writing and Vocabulary Proficiency. One of the most important qualities of successful leaders is an ability to express thoughts and knowledge. Research by management and human resource experts confirms that no matter what the field of employment, people with large vocabularies - those able to speak clearly and concisely, using simple as well as descriptive words - are best at accomplishing their goals. Well chosen, carefully considered words can close the sale, negotiate the raise, enhance relationships, and change destinies. In a world of e-mail, fax dispersal, voice mail, sound bites, concise reports, business plans, and meeting briefs, the individuals who can articulate their goals, substantiate their claims, and support their visions, will own the future. In the 21st Century, literacy will be the major difference between the haves and have-nots. Why do fewer than 10 percent of the public buy and read nonfiction books? One reason is that many would rather get home than get ahead. They are motivated to get by and get pulled along by the company, the economy, or the government. Another reason is that many individuals believe that information found in books, computer programs, and training sessions has no value in the business world. How self-deluding! As the new tools of productivity become the Internet, the Digital Versatile Disc, direct digital download of text, audio and video, and the combination of the interactive computer with telecommunications, the people who know how to control the new technologies will acquire power, while those who thought that education ends with the diploma are destined for low-paying, low-satisfaction jobs. In almost the blink of an eye, our society has passed from the industrial age to the knowledge era. Increase your reading by 100 percent. Decrease your television watching, and that of any children in your family by 50 percent. Surf the Internet and subscribe to book summaries, or download free chapters from different sources. By reading book summaries, you can gain the essence of all the top business books in a very brief period of time. Action Idea: Read at least one book each month, and listen to at least one additional audio book or education series during commute or down time. Knowledge is the new power. And literacy is the door to knowledge. Hopefully, listening to the "Psychology of Winning" program will be one of the keys that will open the door to your future for you. Denis Waitley is one of America's most respected authors, keynote lecturers and productivity consultants on high performance human achievement. He has inspired, informed, challenged and entertained audiences for over 25 years from the boardrooms of multi-national corporations to the control rooms of NASA's space program. Denis has been voted business speaker of the year by the Sales and Marketing Executives' Association and by Toastmasters' International and inducted into the International Speakers' Hall of Fame. With over 10 million programs sold in 14 languages, Denis Waitley's CD program, "The Psychology of Winning," is still the all-time best selling program on self-mastery. To order this Best-Seller and Save see below, #4 - The Weekly Product Blowout Special. ******************************************************** 4. Weekly Product Blowout Special - The Denis Waitley and Jim Rohn Combo Package! Would you like to Build Self-Esteem, Motivation and Self-Discipline while developing the 10 qualities of a Total Winner! If the answer is yes, then we would like to invite you to experience Denis Waitley's all-time, best-selling program "The Psychology Of Winning". Denis teaches the same qualities that have helped athletes shatter world-records and peak performers reach the top positions in their industries. Winning isn't just luck. You need a programmed mindset to become a champion. If you're looking for more success in your business, personal and family life, Denis Waitley has proven answers and action steps for you. His wit and wisdom have made a difference throughout the world and they can do the same for you. Below we are offering 3 individual products by Denis and Jim (including The Psychology of Winning) that are focused on helping you Win and Achieve in business and life. You can purchase individually at 30-50% off or you can purchase the entire package at 50% off, and for the first 100 to order receive either Denis Waitley's 458-page compendium hardback book, The Psychology of Motivation ($39 value) or Jim Rohn's 454-page compendium hardback book, Living an Inspired life ($39 value) - plus fr-e shipping. This package will not only impact you and your future success with timeless principles and ideas, but is also a must for any young adult and child. Product 1 The Psychology of Winning by Denis Waitley Developing the 10 qualities of a Total Winner! Imagine there are five seconds left to play, your team is down by one point, and the ball is in your hands. Thousands of people are cheering. It´s your chance to win. It´s a moment you´ve worked for all your life. Imagine the feeling. Is it too much pressure? Or is it tremendous excitement? Whether you realize it or not, you are in the game! And winning is only an attitude away. Pressure or excitement, the choice is yours. Being a winner is an attitude, a way of life, a self-concept. It´s a head-up, full-speed ahead way of living and being. It´s wanting the ball at crunch time because you believe in yourself. It´s an expectation of success that you can master with your personal coach, Denis Waitley. The Psychology of Winning is already one of the most acclaimed and popular CD programs of all time. And based on the thousands of personal "thank you" letters Denis has received from around the world, we know it has made a profound difference in the lives of those who have applied it. In the Psychology of Winning you´ll learn how to: - Make a habit of the Ten Steps to Winning taken by all Olympic champions, top sales stars and top executives. Nothing can stop you once you´ve mastered the material in this program. All the other victories you want to experience in life will flow from the change in mindset that makes you a winner. Don´t lose another moment. 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"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 learning your message of how discipline is so important and proving to myself that discipline is not a burden on my shoulders but rather by my side helping me to achieve great things. Thank you to all of you at Jim Rohn International - I know it must be a big team effort. Thank you Jim, Kyle, Chris and everybody else involved in making this a truly incredible journey. And to think, after 2 years of Life Mastery with Tony Robbins, I felt I had spent enough time on personal development - you have opened my eyes to the wonderful experience of continuous learning. On behalf of my family and all those whom I come into contact, Thank-you & God Bless you all." "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 jr1.jimrohn.com or call 800-929-0434. ******************************************************** 6. Jim Rohn Testimonials - February 10 - 16, 2004 Here are some of the dozens of testimonials and comments we received over the past week from E-zine subscribers.
Thank you Yveatte, a great possibility to be on track again with the Jim Rohn One-Year Success Plan. The first 90 days were so incredible (moved more forward in our business than in a whole year), but celebrated too long and got distracted... So from now on, the next target is for the end of this year... I think your offer is a great one and I look forward to receiving the 1-Year Silver package. Thank you for such good things I've gotten from you. I enjoy receiving your ezine for several years and they give me a lot of inspiration and ideas. I've developed myself from articles in ezine. I wish you to be happy and have good health. What a beautiful rose story, thank you. Cheers! Jim is one of my very favorite people. Hello, I just wanted to thank you for sending the article with the rose story in it. I enjoy reading positive articles and this one ended my day nicely. It is so easy to dwell on how customer service is going downhill, so it's nice to be reminded that there are exceptions. Tonight we had one. My dh has been shopping for a new computer for months. One store he has been to, were waiting on him… then they decided after countless trips to that store that he wasn't going to buy, but just look. So they stopped waiting on him. What they didn't know, he was only waiting for a check to come in to buy. They stopped helping him, meantime he found another computer store. He also visited it many times. Guess which one he finally bought from… the one with the customer service that kept listening to him and took time for him. Great customer service and they made a cash sale. It does matter. Thanks. Dear Mr. Rohn, Thank you for the "milkshake" story. It touches my heart with 100% real love and kindness. It brings tears of hope and happiness to my eyes every time I read it. It is also a good reminder that it is the "little" things in life that make the biggest difference. Love truly is what makes the world a better place. Thank you for being such a positive influence to my life. I'll be passing this story on to my two oldest daughters. God Bless You. The book, Seven Strategies for Wealth and Happiness is great, excellent we need more people like Mr. Rohn. It is a coincidence that I read it at the age of twenty-five, I have nothing much. At least I am still studying thankfully, but it really is possible. I am involved in web design, animation, interactive multimedia, and video. I passed my first and second year well; I then flunked a few modules on my third year semester, 5 that is when I got the book. I recharged and felt that I could still pick up my grades; I worked hard. Then suddenly I feel I want do a lot of other things apart from my multimedia course, I suddenly have the urge for self-education. I believe I can be anything I want. Hi Yveatte, thank you for your prompt reply. That's excellent customer service right there. Thank you for the offer. Thank you E-zine readers, for the sincere and kind words of encouragement and appreciation you sent us this week! -- JRI ******************************************************** 7. Copyright/Reprint Info - The contents of this E-zine may be copied, reproduced, or freely distributed for all nonprofit purposes without the consent of the author as long as the author's name and Credit Statement are included. Credit Statement
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