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"If kids clearly see the promise, they will gladly pay the price."  Jim Rohn

Today's issue includes:

1. Walking a New Road by Jim Rohn
2. Vitamins for the Mind - Health by Jim Rohn
3. Postcards from My Son by Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones
4. The Whole Enchilada
5. More Information
 

1.  Walking a New Road by Jim Rohn (excerpted from the Take Charge of Your Life 6-CD series)

Here is a good question to ask yourself. Ten years from now you will surely arrive. The question is, where? We don't want to kid ourselves about where; we don't want to kid ourselves about the road we're walking.

At age 25, I had a day shortly after I met Mr. Shoaff called "do not kid myself anymore" day. I didn't want to be disillusioned anymore. Up until then, I had been using the crossed-finger theory. But after meeting Mr. Shoaff, I finally decided that the crossed-finger theory was not going to get me what I wanted. That it wasn't where the treasure lies. That I was going to have to make sure which way I was headed

Then, with the help of Mr. Shoaff, I found with a few reading disciplines, and a few disciplines of mind, and a few disciplines of activity, that when exercised, can begin making all the difference in the world as to where you will arrive.

Just a few changes. Sometimes we get the idea that we're doing about 10% and there's about 90% more that we need in order to make the difference for our fortune but probably the opposite is true. We're doing enough things to have bought and shared in the good life so far. And maybe all we need is that extra 5% or 10% of intellectual change. Activity change. A refinement of discipline. A refinement of thought. And all we need is the ideas to make those simple changes and the equity starts gathering in one year, three years, five years, ten years.

I have a good comment for you: Now's the time to fix the next 10 years. Now, you may have to come to grips with reality and with truth; that's what was good for me when I met Mr. Shoaff, I was 25 years old, he was 44 years old. And he brought me a wealth of experience and he started asking me the tough questions. "Big question", he said, "Are you reading the books that are going to take you where you want to go in the next 5 years?"

Excellent question. See, you want to make sure. I would assume for all of you, to get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not. You're either engaged in the disciplines or you're not. But, here's what we don't want to engage in: disillusion. Hoping without acting. Wishing without doing.

The key is to take a look and say, "Where am I? What could I do to make the changes to make sure that I can take more certain daily steps toward the treasure I want, the mental treasure, the personal treasure, the spiritual treasure, the financial treasure? I don't want to make any more errors, now's the time to adjust my daily program to take me where I want to go."

In lecturing the last 39 years, I've gotten letters and personal testimonies of people that have done such remarkable things with just a few suggestions. And that is why seminars, tapes and books can be so valuable. Here's a key idea for us all to remember: We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's sometimes hard to see it all.

But the key is to start right now making these changes to walk this new road. And here's what's exciting to me, just a few daily disciplines makes a great deal of difference in one year, three years, five years. And before you know it, you will be walking a brand new road.  

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
 

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2. Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn

Health

 Some people don't do well simply because they don't feel well.

Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you.

Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there.

Take good care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
 

Vitamins for the Mind is a weekly sampling of original quotes, on a specific topic, taken from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn (TTOQ). TTOQ, a beautiful, burgundy hardbound book with gold foil lettering, is a collection of over 365 quotes on 60 topics gathered from Jim's personal journals, seminars and books spanning over 39 years. To order the TTOQ by Jim Rohn or Excerpts from TTOQ by Jim Rohn or Brian Tracy, please go to Jim Rohn's Online Catalog

 

3. Postcards from My Son by Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones (excerpted from Jim Rohn's 2001 Weekend Leadership Event with Zig Ziglar, Jeffrey Gitomer and more!)

My favorite saying about your associations and my way of saying it is, "You are the same today as you're going to be in five years except for two things, the people you meet and the books you read." Hang around thinkers; you'll be a better thinker. Hang around givers; you'll be a better giver. Hang around workers; you'll be a better worker. Hang around a bunch of thumb sucking, complaining, griping boneheads; and you will be a better thumb sucking, complaining, griping bonehead. Now, with that said… how many of you are under sixteen yet? Great. How do you like an idea that you might be driving a Cadillac when you're sixteen? I got it for you.

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. Now the first book I had him read was Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." The first day he came down and said, "Dad, dad, there's a whole chapter in here on smiling and shaking hands." And he shook my hand, shook my hand - first sign of life in fourteen years. Woohoo! And he smiled at me. Then I had him read a book named Joshua in the Old Testament on discouragement. And we were going to Sunday school one week, and I said, "Jerry, how are you getting along with Joshua?" He says, "Dad, dad." He hit my leg. Imagine that, he hit my leg. And he said, "Everybody ought to have to read that book." That was a sign he was beginning to think about somebody other than himself.

Well, he read 22 books. Did he buy a car? No. He kept the money, used my car and my gas. Now but wait a minute. Don't laugh. It was worth it. Then he went off to college, and I got one of the greatest experiences of my life. And the last chapter of my book "Life is Tremendous" is about Jerry Jones (my son), and there is the reading contract to negotiate with your dad to get it in writing, so he can't change his mind. So Jerry goes off to college and he writes me a "Dear Dad" postcard everyday for four years. You know what I used to do when I would get some of the cards? I would put my head on my desk and cry. Do you know why? He was thinking thoughts that I never dreamed a young person could think. Now he didn't have the full meaning of them, but he had read and he had the thoughts in his mind. So I would like to read you a couple cards from college to me.

"Dear Dad, It's tremendous to be able to know that when you are in a slump, just as a baseball player will break out in time, so will you break out of yours. Yes, time really cures things. Like you said, you don't lose any problems, you just get bigger and better ones, tremendous ones. Tremendously, too. Jerry"

"Dear Dad, Just started reading a hundred 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 had to be done. Love, Jerry."

"Dad, I just got done typing up little quotes out of the Bible and Napoleon Hill, so everywhere I look, I see them. When people ask me what they are, I tell them they are pinups. Tremendously."

"Dad, I am 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 that don't have them have a bad attitude and don't want to work."

"Dad, nothing new. Just the same old exciting thought that we can know God personally and forever in this amazing life."

"Dad, when you're behind two papers in the fourth quarter and you're exhausted from the game, you have to make up a set of downs in order to stay in the game, and you get up to the line and you see two, 250 pound tests staring you in the face, it sure is exciting to wait and find out what play the Lord will call next."

Well, the power of books. Now here is another one. Sammy is my nine year old grandson. I'd like to share something that I hope your dads will get for you. So last Father's Day a year ago, I'll just read you a paragraph that I wrote to Sammy on reading.

My dear Sammy, each word in this letter is bathed with my love and prayers for you. As you get older, you will discover that your mind doesn't always keep pace with your body. The food you eat can nourish your body, but the food you feed your mind and heart determines your good as a person. I am going to share a few principles I pray you will commit to memory. I could share many more, but I have tried to select ones that I wish I could have begun working on earlier in my life. Read, read, read, read. A proper diet is good for your body, and the best books are good for your mind. You're life will be determined by the people you associate with and the books you read. You will come to love many people you will meet in books. Read biographies, autobiographies and history. Books will provide many of the friends, mentors, role models and heroes you will need in life. Biographies will help you see that there is nothing that can happen to you that wasn't experienced by many who used their failures and tragedies and disappointments as stepping stones for more tremendous lives. Many of my best friends are people I've never met – Oswald Chambers, George Mueller, Charles Spurgeon, A.W. Tozer, Abraham Lincoln, Jean Gietzen, hundreds of others. Don't read the Bible, but instead study it. Digest it. Memorize it. Realize that God's greatest gift for our time on earth is His word. Well, know the word…"

Happy Reading!
Charlie "Tremendous" Jones


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"I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35." Jim Rohn

 

4. The Whole Enchilada

The Whole Enchilada

Recently, Jim spoke for a large group of entrepreneurs/sales people. The organizer of the event asked if we could put together a package of everything Jim had, because his group would Buy It All.

I wanted to know why he was so confident they would Buy It All. He said, "Because we have trained them to Buy It All. When you Buy It All, you put yourself in a unique category, and we've created a culture where if you want to be a top producer you consistently invest 3%-5% of your income back into yourself."

I had to agree. You can't argue with results, and the facts are that top producers are the ones who always Buy It All!

At least that has been my experience. I've been fortunate to build one of the largest personal development libraries of anyone I know (1,000's of books, CDs, DVDs, etc.), and yet to this day I almost always Buy It All when I'm at an event.

People who buy it all:  

  • Invest in themselves and their careers
  • Break mental barriers about investing in themselves
  • Create an environment to learn (as Jim says, when you have a big library, you feel smarter just walking in it)
  • Create a long term resource for themselves, their family and their staff to grow
  • Realize they improve their success rate by 20%-50% by consistently listening to and reading self-development CDs and books
  • Have a "no limits" mentality
  • Understand that just one or two new ideas a day/week/month can pay major dividends in results
  • Know that the power of influence (what we put into our head) is one of the most powerful factors in our daily decisions and disciplines, which ultimately affect whether we succeed or fail

Okay, back to the event organizer... I quickly mentioned that we had The Whole Package, which contains 18 sets of unique products, including 6 different 6 CD programs, a 12 CD program, 2 different DVD programs, 5 different books and 2 individual CDs. Then he asked, "Is that everything you carry, because this group is the kind of group that will Buy It All".

Then I mentioned we had the 2004 Jim Rohn Weekend Event (with Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, Chris Widener, Vic Johnson and more) that included 24 CDs, 24 hours on DVD and a 280-page workbook.

He said, "Is that all"? I added that we had the 2001 Jim Rohn Weekend Event (with Zig Ziglar, Jeffrey Gitomer, Bob Burg, Charlie "Tremendous" Jones and more) that included 20 CDs, 20 hours on DVD and a 254-page workbook.

"Is that all?" And I told him, "Yes, that is pretty much everything."

"What is the value?", he asked. I let him know that it was close to $5,000 retail.

Then he said, "Can you sell it ALL for less than a $1,000?" He assured me there would be at least 100 takers, so I sharpened my pencil and decided if he had 100 people who wanted it All, that yes, we could offer it for $997 each when they Buy It All (including free shipping). And, as it turned out, he hit his 100 Buy It ALL buyers!

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