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1. The Law of Sowing and Reaping by Jim Rohn
2. Vitamins for the Mind - Success/Failure by Jim Rohn
3. Your Brain is the Greatest Computer Ever Created by Ron White
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1. The Law of Sowing and Reaping by Jim Rohn
Now, here's the second law that changed my life forever in network
marketing. I learned the law of sowing and reaping. And in the law
of sowing and reaping is also the story of the law of averages.
Jot this down…the story of the sower. It comes from the Bible. I am
amateur on the Bible, but this is such a useful story. Here's what
the story says, and take notes, because the drama's in the details.
The sower was ambitious. Evidently, he was ambitious. When you read
the whole story you'll conclude yes, this was an ambitious sower.
Here was number two. He had excellent seed. The sower who sowed the
seed had excellent seed. And the excellent seed could be an
excellent opportunity, an excellent product, an excellent story.
So we've got an ambitious sower with excellent seed. But now here
are the rest of the details of the story. For your information, for
the drama of your life, so you can understand things better,
learning some of this is how I got rich by age 31.
The sower goes out to sow the seed, but the first part of the seed
falls by the wayside and the birds get it.
So jot this down. The birds are going to get some of the seed. The
birds are going to get some of the seed.
Now you say, "Mr. Rohn, what does that mean?"
Well, I invite John to come to a meeting. He said he'd be there
Tuesday night. Tuesday night I show up. John isn't there. I say, "I
wonder why John didn't make it."
Now I know the answer. The birds! The birds! John had this great
idea of coming to the meeting to look at an opportunity, and
somebody stole it and said, "You're not going to go see network
marketing." And he says, "Well, maybe not."
So have you jotted that down now? The birds are going to get some.
Now when the birds get some, you've got two options. Number one is
to chase birds. You say, "Well, let me get hold of the person who
talked him out of coming to the meeting. I’ll tear him a new page."
I wouldn’t do this.
Here's what happens if you go chasing birds. You leave the field. If
you go chasing birds now, you leave the field. Which is going to
distract from your future, not add? So you can’t chase birds and try
to straighten this stuff out.
Here's what it is. It's just one of those things, and here's the
best comment when things are a little disappointing. "Isn't that
interesting?"
You just have to say, "I thought sure he would be there. He promised
me. He promised me! But I know it was the birds." And you just have
to say, "Isn't that interesting?"
Now here's the rest of the story.
The sower kept on sowing. See, that was the secret to his success.
He kept on sowing. And if you keep sowing, you can sow more than the
birds can get because there aren't enough birds. If you keep sowing,
there are some birds but there's not enough, because the Law of
Averages will work for you.
My mentor taught me, "You know, Mr. Rohn, there are only nine or ten
real nasty miserable people in the whole world. Now you know they
move around a lot and you're liable to bump into one once in awhile,
but when you bump into one you say, 'There’s only 9 more like you--I
can handle that--in the whole world?'"
Now here's what else it says. The sower now keeps sowing the seed.
Now the seed falls, the story says, on rocky ground where the soil
is shallow. And the rocky ground where the soil is shallow is not of
your making, because you had excellent seed and you were an
ambitious sower.
So the rocky ground where the soil is shallow is not of your making.
But here what it says happened. This time, the little seed that
falls in the ground starts to grow and the little plant starts to
grow. But the first hot day, it withers and dies. Not an easy thing
to watch.
I finally get John started. Sure enough, three or four days later
somebody says "Boo!" and he's gone--doesn’t show up at the second
meeting. And I say, "I thought sure John would last a week."
What happened? Jot this down. The hot weather is going to get some.
And this is not of your making. Here's what you must say when that
happens. "Isn't that interesting?" What can you do? The answer is
nothing.
You say, "Well, I'm going to try to change this!" I wouldn't take
that class. You know, the sun comes up in the east and somebody
says, "Why is that?" I wouldn't spend much time on that. Just let
that happen.
Don't go for this why, why, why stuff. I'm giving you the answers
here. The answer is in the structure and in the consequences and is
in the deal. The answer is in the deal. Anything beyond that is not
worth studying.
You say, "Well, how come some just last a little while?" I wouldn't
sign up for that class. Here's the answer: Some don't stay. You just
have to jot that down. And when some leave you say, "That's one of
those that don't stay."
Now, you know what category to put them in, and you can't solve this
now. It's like rearranging the seasons. You can't fool with that.
All you can do is cooperate with the way things are set up. I didn't
set it up.
You say, "Well, it shouldn't be this way." Well, when you get your
own planet you can rearrange this whole deal, but on this planet
you're a guest. You've got to take it as it comes.
Now, here is the secret to the ambitious sower with good seed. It
said he kept on sowing. Now, here's what he had to do to keep on
sowing. He had to discipline his disappointment. This is a key
phrase now to use for the rest of your life. You must learn to
discipline your disappointment. Because you didn't set up the set
up, and some are not going to stay, and that is not of your making.
Now, if you made gross errors and you ran them off, see that'd be
different. Now you're responsible for that. But if it's in the
normal course of things, this is the way things are. Now, here's
what it says. The sower keeps on sowing. Now it says the seed falls
on thorny ground. And somebody says, "Well, how much of this do you
have to go through?”"
Well, hang on. It's not the end of the story now. Now the little
seed falls on thorny ground and now the little plant starts to grow
again but as the little plant starts to grow, the thorns choke it to
death and it dies.
So jot this down. The thorns are going to get some. And that's not
of your making. And what are these thorns? The story even called
these little thorns little cares, little distractions, little
something's. Who knows what all they are.
I said, "John, we had a meeting last night. You weren't here." And
John says, "Well, I can't make every meeting."
I say, "Why not? You're part-time."
He said, "Well, the screen door came off the hinges and you can't
just let your house fall apart. You've got to take some time and fix
things up."
And I can hear the thorns growing. He said, "Some extra trash had
piled up in the garage. You can't let mountains of trash take over.
You've got to keep your trash hauled out." People who let little
things cheat them out of big opportunities. People who let little
things cheat them out of big opportunities, and you feel almost
helpless. What could I do about that? And that's nothing. And you
say, "Well, why is this?"
I'm asking you not to sign up for that class. Don't sign up for
these, "Why is this?" classes. It's just the way it is--like winter
following fall and spring following winter.
So have you got that? The thorns are going to get some.
But now here's the good news. Let's read the rest of the story now
quickly. The sower now keeps on sowing the seed. Keeps on sharing
the story. Keeps on giving an invitation. Yes, the invitation can be
more powerful for me as it was one year later than it was the first
month, because now I'm saying I'm making twice as much money part
time as I'm making on my full-time job.
Yes, the story can be more powerful, but the Law of Averages is
still going to work. But now here's what the story says. Finally the
seed falls on good ground. Finally the seed falls on good ground.
Now put this in parentheses. It always will, if you keep sowing. If
you share a good idea long enough, it will fall on good people.
But now here's the rest of that story. Some of the good ground did
30%. And some of the good ground did 60%. And some of the good
ground did 100%.
You say, "Well, why the difference in numbers?" I wouldn’t sign up
for that class! Have I said that often enough now? Don't register
for that class. It's just the way it is.
Now I tried to get the 30's to do 60. Found out it was more than I
could handle. I used to say, "I'll make them successful if it kills
me." I almost died. No, you can't do that.
Here's what you do. Let the 30's do 30 to the best of their ability
and keep doing 30, because that's how they build their lifestyle and
get what they want out of life. And let the 60's do 60. And let the
100's do 100.
Now how can you get some to do 100%? You've got to go through all
these experiences and you've got to talk to all these people.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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2. Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn
SUCCESS/FAILURE
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the
person you become.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail
overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated
every day.
Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to
casualties.
Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious I
and Obvious II in school.
It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be
valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty
years, you've just got to say, "John, if I bring my journal and
promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?"
Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.
Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read,
but more importantly, what's your plan to read?
Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful
people look for ways of getting on with it.
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3. Your Brain is the Greatest Computer Ever Created by Ron White
Have you ever walked into a room and couldn't remember what you
went there for? Have you ever grasped the hand of a potential
client and then when the handshake broke, the name seemed to
disappear from your memory? Or have you ever left a prospect and
as you drove away remembered a key point that you should have
shared with them?
Of course you have... we all have. However, I have some great
news for you. Your memory is nowhere near as bad as you may
think it is. Recently, I was a guest at a radio station in Waco.
The disc jockey wrote a 50-digit number on a sheet of paper and
told his listening audience and then played a three-minute song
for his audience.
As the listeners enjoyed the song I memorized the 50-digit
number. When the song was over we went back live on the air and
I handed him the paper. I then proceeded to say the number
forwards and then I said it backwards. The disc jockey looked at
me in utter disbelief and stunned he said, 'Ron... you are
incredible!' I looked him straight in the eye and replied, 'You
know... you are right!' I said, 'Jay, the greatest computer ever
created does not come from Dell or Gateway. The greatest
computer ever created does not sit on the assembly line of a
computer factory. Instead, you and I are the greatest computers
ever created. And yes... you are right. I am incredible... but
so are you.'
The human memory has the ability to hear a 100 digit number or
more once and then repeat it forwards and backwards, it has the
ability to memorize a Shakespearean play word for word or
memorize the stats of every baseball player for the last 100
years, and the human memory has the capability to meet 100
people in 20 minutes and recall every single name!
Now, the question is, are you doing these things? If not, the
reason is simply that you have not been trained to. Two thousand
years ago a Greek named Simonedes developed a memory method
called 'Loci'. With this method, Simonedes numbered locations in
his home. He started in the doorway and then logically proceeded
around his home. He reviewed these items so many times mentally
that if you asked him what was number 25 then he could instantly
tell you what piece of furniture that number corresponded to.
These 25 objects were actually mental files for Simonedes. Then
if he had a list of items he wanted to recall he would place
them mentally on these objects in his home. Let's say that you
are a professional who wants to give a speech without notes.
Simply turn the key points into pictures and then file them to
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For example, recently I gave a one hour keynote in Atlanta at a
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picture, place it on your house files and get ready to be
amazed! YOU are the greatest computer ever created!
-- Ron White
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