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"The miracle of the seed and
the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only
available by labor." Jim Rohn
Today's issue includes:
1. One of Life's Great Lessons -
Learn to be Thankful for What You Already Have by Jim Rohn
2. Vitamins for the Mind - Discipline by Jim Rohn
3. Do You Want Me to Help You Buy That Car? by Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
4. Special Two-Year Anniversary Offer From Jim Rohn
5. Jim Rohn Testimonials- August 1 - 7, 2006
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1. One of Life's Great Lessons - Learn to be Thankful for What You Already Have by Jim Rohn (excerpted from the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Event DVD/CD series)
Is thankfulness a survival skill? Perhaps most of you would respond
with, "No, Jim, thankfulness is not key to survival", and I would
tend to agree with you. Most of us have probably already solved the
necessary problems of survival, gone beyond that and are now working
to achieve our desires. But let me give you this key phrase, "Learn
to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that
you want." I believe one of the greatest and perhaps one of the
simplest lessons in life we can learn is to be thankful for what we
have already received and accomplished.
Both the years and the experiences have brought me here to where I
stand today, but it is the thankfulness that opened the windows of
opportunities, of blessings, of unique experiences to flow my way.
My gratitude starts with my parents who raised me, gave me an
incredible foundation that has lasted me all of these years and
continues with the mentors that I've met along the way who
absolutely changed and revolutionized my life, my income, my bank
account, my future. I am also very thankful for the people, the
associations, for the ideas, for the chance to work and labor, and
to produce results, all of that has brought me to this place, to
this weekend. I'm grateful for it all.
What a unique opportunity each one of you here has, so many of us;
representing different countries, nations and cultures, to
appreciate the uniqueness of our own experiences that has brought us
all here, together, for these three days to learn new skills and
sharpen old ones. For the countries we represent; we have freedom
and liberty. These are extraordinary times, about eleven years ago
the walls came tumbling down, in Germany, and it started a wave of
democracy and freedom like the world has never seen before. We as a
country and as a world have so much to be thankful for. Always start
with thanksgiving; be thankful for what you already have and see the
miracles that come from this one simple act.
Now thankfulness is just the beginning; next, you've got to
challenge yourself to produce. Produce more ideas than you need for
yourself so you can share and give your ideas away. That is called
fruitfulness and abundance. Here's what I think fruitfulness and
abundance mean - to go to work on producing more than you need for
yourself so you can begin blessing others, blessing your nation and
blessing your enterprise. Once abundance starts to come, once
someone becomes incredibly productive, it's amazing what the numbers
turn out to be. But to begin this incredible process of blessing, it
often starts with the act of thanksgiving and gratitude, being
thankful for what you already have and for what you've already done.
Begin the act of thanksgiving today and watch the miracles flow your
way.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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2. Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn
DISCIPLINE
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or
the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while
regret weighs tons.
All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, "This is
the only area where I let down." Not true. Every let down affects
the rest. Not to think so is naive.
Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack
of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.
The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.
One discipline always leads to another discipline.
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of
difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how
your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12
months or the next 3 years.
The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.
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3. Do You Want Me to Help You Buy That Car? by Charlie "Tremendous" Jones (excerpted from 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Event Teenager Session)
How many of you are under sixteen? How do you like the idea
that you might be driving a Cadillac when you're sixteen? When
my son was your age, he wasn't quite as excited as you. I said,
"Jerry, do you want to have a car when you're sixteen?"
"Yes."
"Do you want me to help you buy that car?"
"Yes sir, dad."
"Alright, son, we're going to do it, but the free ride's over.
No more allowance. I'm going to give you a way to make a lot of
money. Here is the deal. I am going to pick out books for you to
read. There will be motivational books, history books,
inspirational books; and every time I give you a book, you give
me a book report. Every time I get a book report, I'll put money
in your car fund. Another book report; more money in the car
fund. In two years if you read in style, you'll drive in style.
But if you read like a bum, you're going to drive like a bum."
Overnight he developed a fantastic hunger for reading. The first
book I had him read was Dale Carnegie's, "How to Win Friends and
Influence People." Somebody said, "Why did you have him read a
book like that?" I'll tell you why. The first day he read that
book, he smiled and said, "Dad, there's a whole chapter in here
about smiling." And he smiled at me--he smiled at me. I couldn't
believe it--he's smiling and he's only 14 years old--smiling
already. Then he took my hand and he shook my hand and he said
"Dad, there's a whole chapter in here on shaking hands." He
shook my hand. I couldn't believe it--oh my.
Next, I had him read the book of Joshua. Oh, I love the book of
Joshua. It's on discouragement. We all have a right to be
discouraged, but none of us have the right to act discouraged.
So we're going to Sunday school one day, and I said, "Jerry, how
do you like that book on Joshua?" He said, "Dad, everybody ought
to have to read that book." And when he said that, he hit my
leg. He hit my leg! First sign of life in 14 years--he hit my
leg!
Well, let me tell you this. That may not sound like much, but
many people have read great books, and never once have they
said, "You've got to read this book." If you don't have a
passion and desire to share what you're reading, you may as well
not read it. But if you're not living your life out, you're a
dead sea. Well, he read 22 books. He didn't buy a car; he kept
the money and used my gas!
He went on to college; he wrote me a Dear Dad post card every
day for four years. And some of those cards--I'd like to read
you a couple--because they were tough years of my life. You
know, no matter how anybody looks on the platform, we all have
our ups and downs and hurts and what-have-you, but if you're
wise, you'll always keep your hurts to yourself and you grow
through and you never suck your thumb and complain and tell
people about them. And so here come these cards, and those years
I was going through tough times, and sometimes I would just put
my head on the desk and shed some happy tears. Because I was so
grateful to realize that it was a book he read where he got his
seed thought, to put it on a card and write to me every day. And
the other thing so beautiful about it, he may not have known the
meaning of some of these great truths, but the thought was in
his mind, and you have to get it in your mind, you have to
memorize it before you can start to realize it.
And here are a couple of cards:
Dad, the only happy man, successful man, confident man, or
practical man is the one who is simple. See it big--keep it
simple.
Unless his mind can crystallize all the answers into one
powerful punch of personal motivation, you live nothing but a
life of uncertainty and fear.
Tremendously too, Jerry
Dad, it's simple to be able to know that when you're in a slump,
just like that baseball player will break out in time, so you'll
break out of yours. Yea, time really cures things. Like you
said, you don't lose any problems. You just get bigger and
better ones--tremendous ones.
Tremendously, Jerry
Dad, I just started reading "100 Great Lives." Thanks for what
you said in the front, the part that every great man never
sought to be great. He just followed the vision he had and did
what he had to do.
Love, Jerry
Dad, I just got done typing up little quotes out of the Bible
and Napoleon Hill, so that everywhere I look I see these quotes.
When people ask what they are, I tell them, "They're my
pin-up's."
Dad, I'm more convinced than ever that you can do anything you
want to. You can beat anyone at anything, just by working hard.
Handicaps don't mean anything because often people who don't
have any handicaps, have a bad attitude and don't want to do
anything.
Dad, Nothing new. Just the same old exciting thought--that we
can know God personally and forever in this amazing life.
Dad, The mind of God is so unbelievable. He throws nothing at us
but paradoxes. He makes us completely and utterly helpless and
depraved, and then He takes our failure which normally knocks us
out, and makes it our greatest asset.
Dad, when you're behind two papers in the 4th quarter and you're
exhausted from the game, and you have to make up a set of downs
in order to stay in the game, and you get up to the line and see
5 250-lb tests staring you in the mug, you're too excited to
wait and find out what play the Lord is going to call next.
Wow! Well, anyway just imagine, if I had it to do over again,
I'd have paid him $1,000 a book report. How many have
grand-children here? Okay here's what you do. You tell your
grandchildren from now on you'll pay them $100 for every book
report, and they get $5 bucks and the rest goes into the college
fund. So that way, when they're 8 or 9, they'll have $10,000 or
$15,000 to put toward college education and they'll have the
satisfaction of paying for it. Plus they will have read books
that will truly make a difference in their lives.
Tremendously,
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
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