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Today's issue includes:
1. Life is Art by Jim Rohn
2. Vitamins for the Mind - Personal Development by Jim Rohn
3. Take a Turn at Tenacious! by Chris Widener
4. Live the Life You've Always Dreamed Of!
5. Jim Rohn Testimonials - January 3 - 8, 2007
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1. Life is Art by Jim Rohn
In my years teaching people to be successful, I have seen that
basically people break their lives down in to two major parts:
Wealth-building and the rest of their lives. Having done a lot of
reflection on these two topics - wealth and life - I am coming to
some new conclusions about how to perceive the two.
Until recently I thought that there was a significant difference in
how we should tackle the two areas. In fact, I thought that the two
topics should be addressed in almost opposite fashion.
You see, wealth-building is just math. While life -- Life is art.
Think back with me to high school. Most of us were required to take
math and most of us probably took art as well.
Now, think about your final exams in the two areas. Your math paper
was graded on hard facts:
Ten times ten is always one-hundred
Thirty divided by three is always ten
Seven plus seven is always fourteen
Fifty minus twenty-five is always twenty-five
There is always just one answer in math. The answers are hard fact,
set in stone. Math is a science. It is formulaic. You can know the
outcome before it happens, every time.
But what about your final art project? Art is much more subjective.
"Beauty," they say, "is in the eye of the beholder." There is no one
right answer.
Think of the different styles of the famous artists:
Renoir. Monet. Picasso. Rockwell. Warhol.
Different people find different styles beautiful, and that is what
makes art, art.
So how does this fit with Wealth-building and life? Wealth-building
is like
math:
If you add $1000 to your retirement account each month and gain
seven percent interest over twenty years, you can know now how much
you will have then. It is math. If you buy a rental property for
$200,000 now and it increases in value by three percent a year, you
know exactly how much you will be able to sell it for in ten years.
The beauty of math is in the knowing. You can work the system, set
it on auto-pilot and the math does the work for you, and you know
the outcome.
But life? Life is art. And that is the beauty of life. You do not
know how it is going to turn out. Life, like art, is always
changing. Different people provide different colors. When you make a
mistake you can go back, erase it or even paint right over it. You
can change the scenery. Life, like art, is ever evolving, and what
looks good to one person is of no interest to another. And that is
what makes life beautiful.
Another lesson I think we can draw is that in life we should do our
math, of course, but life isn't made up of just wealth-building.
Wealth-building should serve our ability to live our lives. Jesus,
the master teacher, said that our lives are not made up of the
abundance of our possessions. He didn't mean that possessions aren't
good, just that wealth isn't what life is all about.
So let me ask you: Are you spending more time on your math or your
art? Do your math. Everybody should do their very best at their
wealth-building plan so they can take care of themselves and their
families.
But life is about the art. What does your canvas look like? What
kind of picture are you painting? What kind of pot are you creating?
What kind of statue are you sculpting? Take your time, make bold
strokes, use brilliant colors, and make of your life the most
beautiful masterpiece that you can.
In other words, do your math so you can focus on your art.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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2. Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn
Personal Development
To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract
powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people,
you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to
work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.
We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we
are.
The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of
becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to
maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.
Pity the man who inherits a million dollars and who isn't a
millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful: If your income grew and
you didn't.
The most important question to ask on the job is not "What am I
getting?" The most important question to ask on the job is "What am
I becoming?"
It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal
development.
After you become a millionaire, you can give all of your money away
because what's important is not the million dollars; what's
important is the person you have become in the process of becoming a
millionaire.
Income seldom exceeds personal development.
What you become directly influences what you get.
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3. Take a Turn at Tenacious! by Chris Widener (excerpted from Chris Widener's book,
Live the Life You've Always Dreamed Of!)
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with
talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan
'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the
human race." Calvin Coolidge
I have worked with many successful people; people who have
achieved the kinds of lives they have dreamed about. I have also
worked with many people who are not anywhere near where they
want to be in life. Many times those who are not successful
resent those who are and believe that somehow success was handed
to those who have achieved much.
What I have found however is that actually the reverse is true.
Those who have achieved much have worked much HARDER than those
who are not successful. You wouldn't believe the stories of
struggle that I hear from those who now appear to be on "top of
the heap." Yes, they are successful, but no, it wasn't handed to
them! And I find that most of the unsuccessful people who come
to me actually haven't been tenacious at all. I find that with
many of the people I speak to who complain about their lack of
success simply haven't persevered and been tenacious. When I ask
them questions I usually get excuses. Yes, there are exceptions
on both sides, but I find this to be almost universally true.
If you are one who finds yourself dreaming of a better life, or
looking at someone who "has it made," I would ask you to take a
long, deep look inward and at your life to find whether or not
you have actually been tenacious in pursuit of your dreams. How
long have you gone for it? Many people who achieve much go for
YEARS before they achieve what their hearts long for? How hard
have you gone for it? Most people who achieve much have given up
much. They have sacrificed much. They strive valiantly for what
it is that resides deep in their dreams. They just plain ol'
work hard!
So what are the principles of tenacity? What do you need to know
in order to take your turn at the tenacious? Here are some
thoughts to start your fire and get you going!
1. Sometimes you just have to outlast the others.
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others
have let go." William Feather
I have found that many people start on their dreams but most
never finish. Then those who stop resent those who make it. The
truth is that most people who become successful have simply
mastered the art of keeping on keeping on! I myself can remember
early on in my career when I would get discouraged and I
literally said to myself, "One more week. Just give it one more
week." Quite frankly, this is what got me through a couple of
years of my work early on. I hung on as others let go.
It is easy to get disheartened. Ask those who have achieved
success if they ever got disheartened and you will find some of
the most amazing stories you have ever heard. Give it a try: Go
to the most successful person you know and ask them if they ever
thought about quitting. Ask them how they kept on going. You
will be amazed at what you hear.
2. Sometimes you just have to hold on at the end.
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin Roosevelt
I wonder how many people have quit just as they would have begun
their entrance into success? Sure there are many who quit at the
first sign of hard work, but what about those who, after the
tenth time of trial then give up, just as fate would have seen
them go through one last hurdle and then into the promised land?
How many people were on their last hurdle and decided not to
jump? How many people had just one more mountain pass to go? Or
just one more river to cross?
Of course we will never know, but certainly some of the people
who quit are doing so on what would have been their last trial,
right?
So what does this mean for you? For me it means I do not quit
because I would hate to find out later that all I needed was
just one last effort and I would have achieved my goal. What if
it isn't my last trial? That's okay because as long as I keep
going, eventually I will get to my last trial, I will overcome
it, and I will enter the Winner's Circle.
3. Sometimes the most beautiful results come from dull things
under pressure.
"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to
their jobs." Malcolm Forbes
If coal wasn't an inanimate object it would certainly scream,
"Stop! I want out!" But that coal, when facing incredible
pressure, is turned into one of earth's most precious
possessions. Ugly, dirty old coal is transformed into beautiful
diamonds.
Instead of looking at pressure and trials as the reason to quit,
get tenacious and see them as the very thing that will make your
life the beautiful thing that you desire it to be. See it as
your opportunity to learn, to grow, and to be transformed. See
these trials as the very things that will enable you to have the
life that dream of!
Trials will surely come. Life will get hard. You will want to
quit.
Then you will have a choice: Will you give up? Or will you take
your turn at tenacious. The choice you make will determine much
of the rest of your life.
My advice? Take your turn at tenacious. You will become
stronger, and you will end up living the life you dream of!
This article is excerpted from Chris Widener's book, Live the
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best you can." Jim Rohn
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