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1. Let It Be You by Jim Rohn
2. Vitamins for the Mind - Values by Jim Rohn
3. Persistence by Bob Proctor
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1. Let It Be You
by Jim Rohn
Each and every day, there are people all around the country and
world who are living their dreams. Millionaires are made every day.
Families are experiencing tremendous relationships. People are
becoming more and more healthy. Life-long learners are growing
intellectually and improving their chances for success.
The fact is that living the life of your dreams is possible. People
prove that every day. Someone somewhere is going to get rich, get
healthy and improve their life. My recommendation is this: Let it be
you!
Have you ever wanted to make more money? Have you ever looked at
someone who has money and wished that it could be you? People think
about getting wealthy all of the time, when only a small percentage
actually does. But any of the masses could. Someone is going to
start a business. Someone is going to make a great investment.
Someone is going to begin the journey to great wealth. So why not
let it be you?
Someone is going to decide to improve their relationships. Someone
is going to enjoy love with their family. Someone is going to
schedule some meaningful time with their friends. So why not let it
be you?
Someone is going to go back to school to improve their life. Someone
is going to become a life-long learner. Someone is going to set a
goal to read a book or listen to a CD each week for the next year.
So why not let it be you?
Someone is going to look in the mirror and see that they need to
lose a little weight and they will make the decision to become
healthy. Someone will run their first marathon. Someone will join an
aerobics class and improve their health. Why not let it be you?
I think that by now you get the point: Everyday people are improving
their lives. Whether you do or not doesn't matter to those who do.
They are going to do it, regardless. It is simply a matter of a
decision being made. Let that person be you!
You may be asking, "Okay Jim, but how?" Well, let's cover the very
simple actions.
The first and most important is to make a commitment to work on
yourself. Are you going to improve or stay the same? No matter what
you have achieved, you are at a certain point right now. What you
have achieved in the past is fine, but it doesn't make a difference
for the future. The decision about what you will become is made each
day and every day. Each day someone is making the decision to better
him or herself. Let that person be you!
The second is to make a plan. Once you have decided to become better
you will have to have a plan. It doesn't have to be a long,
intricate plan. It can be simple. Save a dollar a day. Walk a mile a
day. Read an article a day. That is a simple plan with achievable
goals. Someone is going to develop a plan that will take them into
the future of their dreams. Let it be you!
The third is to begin to act. All of the great ideas, without
action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into
reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen.
People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but
they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is
available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.
My encouragement to you is to stop looking at others who live the
good life, wishing that you were as well, and instead begin to
commit to your improvement, develop a plan and act on it. Someone is
going to. Let it be you!
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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2. Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn
Values
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value
in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for
every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes
something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won,
they must be defended.
Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think
you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung
himself because he was so unhappy with himself.
Values were meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably
wouldn't appreciate the value.
Count the cost first. Don't pay too big a price for pursuing minor
values.
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3. Persistence by Bob Proctor
If you were to choose just one part of your personality to
develop that would virtually guarantee your success, I'd like to
suggest that you place persistence at the top of your list.
Napoleon Hill, in his classic Think and Grow Rich felt so strongly
about this subject, he devoted an entire chapter to it. Hill
suggested, "There may be no heroic connotation to the word
persistence but the quality is to your character what carbon is to
steel."
Think about it. If you took a quick mental walk down memory lane and
reviewed some of your accomplishments in the past – large and small
– you would have to agree that persistence played an important role
in your success.
Napoleon Hill studied many of the world's most successful people. He
pointed out the only quality he could find in Henry Ford, Thomas
Edison or a host of other notable greats, that he could not find in
everyone else was persistence. What I found even more intriguing was
the fact that Hill made comment of the fact that these individuals
were often misunderstood to be ruthless or cold-blooded and that
this misconception grew out of their habit of following through in
all of their plans with persistence.
It's both interesting and sadly amusing to me that, as a society, we
would be quick to criticize people for realizing they had an
unshakeable power within them and were capable of overcoming any
obstacle outside of them. This power would ultimately move them
toward a greater chance of achieving any goal they set for
themselves!
Milt Campbell is a good friend of mine. He and I have shared many
hours together discussing the very topic of persistence. Milt was a
Decathlete in the Olympic Games held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952.
His goal was to capture gold for the US. Unfortunately, another
fierce competitor who had taken home the gold four years previous in
London wasn't satisfied with one gold, Bob Mathias wanted two; Milt
had to settle for silver. That did not deter Milt one bit. He had
formed the habit of persistence and four years later in Melbourne,
Australia, Milt won the gold medal, earning him the title of the
greatest athlete in the world.
On numerous occasions Milt has said, "There were many guys in school
who were far better athletes than me, but they quit." I can recount
story after story about individuals who overcame obstacles so great,
but only did so because they dared persist. These individuals are no
different than you and I.
Ultimately persistence becomes a way of life, but that is not where
it begins. To develop the mental strength – persistence - you must
first want something. You have to WANT something so much that it
becomes a heated desire... a passion in your belly. You must fall in
love with that idea. Yes, literally fall in love with the idea and
magnetize yourself to every part of the idea. At that point,
persistence will be virtually automatic.
Persistence is a subject I have studied all of my adult life and I
can tell you one thing I know for certain: very few people ever,
mentally or verbally, say to themselves... this is what I really
want and I am prepared to give my life for it, and thus, they never
develop the persistence to achieve it.
Persistence is a unique mental strength; a strength that is
essential to combat the fierce power of the repeated rejections and
numerous other obstacles that sit in waiting and are all part of
winning in a fast-moving, ever-changing world. As Napoleon Hill
found out, there are hundreds of highly successful men and women who
have cut a path for others to follow, while leaving their mark on
the scrolls of history … and every one of these great individuals
was persistent. In many cases it was the only quality that separated
them from everyone else.
It is generally believed that a lack of persistence is a consequence
of a weak willpower. That is not true. A person could have a highly
evolved willpower and still lack the persistence required to keep
moving forward in life. In more cases than not, if a person lacks
persistence, they do not have a goal that is worthy of them, a
desirable goal that excites them to their very core.
Though willpower is important in moving a person toward their goal,
if there is ever a war between the will and the imagination, the
imagination will win every time. What that means is: you're powered
by desire and fuelled by the dream you hold. Once you start to use
your imagination to help you build a bigger picture of your dream,
to define and refine it until you get it just right in your mind,
the emotion that is triggered by that desire far outweighs any force
that may be caused by sheer will alone. I am not suggesting the will
does not have to be developed, it does. It must become highly
developed in order to direct you toward the image with which you are
emotionally involved.
Your intellectual factors hold the potential for enormous good when
they are properly employed. However, you must remember that
everything has an opposite and any of your intellectual factors can
turn, without warning, into destructive lethal enemies when they are
directed toward results that are not wanted. It is easy to find
individuals who are persistently doing what they don't want to do
and achieving results that they do not want. A lack of persistence
is not their problem; that person is persisting to their own
detriment. Ignorance and paradigms are the enemy that we must
defeat. Everyone is persistent. Our objective must be to put
persistence to work for us rather than against us.
Vision and desire have to be the focus of your attention if you're
going to develop persistence into the great ally it can become.
Another excellent example of persistence was demonstrated when, in
1953, a beekeeper from Auckland, N.Z., Edmund Hillary and his native
guide, Tenzing Norguay, became the first two people to climb Mt.
Everest and return, after having tried and failed the two previous
years.
Hillary had two obvious character strengths that took him to the
very top —- vision and desire. Even despite the seemingly
insurmountable challenges, he had no trouble persisting with the
strenuous acts that were required because every act was hooked into
the image of him standing on top of the mountain. They were
expressed because of his persistence, but he was persistent because
he was emotionally involved with the image. Without persistence, all
his skills would have meant nothing.
Persistence is an expression of the mental strength that is
essential in almost every profession, where repeated rejection and
obstacles are part of a daily routine.
In closing, let me give you four relatively simple steps that will
help you to turn persistence into a habit. These steps can be
followed by virtually anyone.
1. Have a clearly defined goal. The goal must be something you are
emotionally involved with, something you want very much. (In the
beginning, you may not even believe that you can accomplish it --
the belief will come.)
2. Have a clearly established plan that you can begin working on
immediately. (Your plan will very likely only cover the first and
possibly the second stage of the journey to your goal. As you begin
executing your plan, other steps required to complete your journey
will be revealed at the right time.)
3. Make an irrevocable decision to reject any and all negative
suggestions that come from friends, relatives or neighbors. Do not
give any conscious attention to conditions or circumstances that
appear to indicate the goal cannot be accomplished.
4. Establish a mastermind group of one or more people who will
encourage, support and assist you wherever possible.
What do you dream of doing with your life? Do it. Begin right now
and never quit. There is greatness in you. Let it out. Be
persistent.
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