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If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent. I call leadership the great challenge of life.

What's important in leadership is refining your skills. All great leaders keep working on themselves until they become effective. Here are some specifics:

1) Learn to be strong but not rude. It is an extra step you must take to become a powerful, capable leader with a wide range of reach. Some people mistake rudeness for strength. It's not even a good substitute.

2) Learn to be kind but not weak. We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength. We must be kind enough to tell somebody the truth. We must be kind enough and considerate enough to lay it on the line. We must be kind enough to tell it like it is and not deal in delusion.

3) Learn to be bold but not a bully. It takes boldness to win the day. To build your influence, you've got to walk in front of your group. You've got to be willing to take the first arrow, tackle the first problem, discover the first sign of trouble.

4) You've got to learn to be humble, but not timid. You can't get to the high life by being timid. Some people mistake timidity for humility. Humility is almost a God-like word. A sense of awe. A sense of wonder. An awareness of the human soul and spirit. An understanding that there is something unique about the human drama versus the rest of life. Humility is a grasp of the distance between us and the stars, yet having the feeling that we're part of the stars. So humility is a virtue; but timidity is a disease. Timidity is an affliction. It can be cured, but it is a problem.

5) Be proud but not arrogant. It takes pride to win the day. It takes pride to build your ambition. It takes pride in community. It takes pride in cause, in accomplishment. But the key to becoming a good leader is being proud without being arrogant. In fact I believe the worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. It's when you don't know that you don't know. Now that kind of arrogance is intolerable. If someone is smart and arrogant, we can tolerate that. But if someone is ignorant and arrogant, that's just too much to take.

6) Develop humor without folly. That's important for a leader. In leadership, we learn that it's okay to be witty, but not silly. It's okay to be fun, but not foolish.

Lastly, deal in realities. Deal in truth. Save yourself the agony. Just accept life like it is. Life is unique. Some people call it tragic, but I'd like to think it's unique. The whole drama of life is unique. It's fascinating. And I've found that the skills that work well for one leader may not work at all for another. But the fundamental skills of leadership can be adapted to work well for just about everyone: at work, in the community, and at home.

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
 

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3.  The Law of Correspondence by Brian Tracy (excerpted from Brian Tracy's Success Mastery Academy)

One of the turning points in my life, and one of the most important principles I have ever learned, is the Law of Correspondence. The Law of Correspondence goes back to 3000 years before Christ, and it says: "As within is the same as without." It says your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. Or as we say today: "Where ever you go there you are."

This is one of the great truths of all of human history. This is the basis of all religion, of all metaphysics, all psychiatry, psychology, philosophy. It says that if you can change your inner world; if you can change what is going on inside your mind, then you can dramatically change what is going on, on the outside. There is no other way. Your outer world "mirror" expresses your thoughts, feelings, hopes, goals, dreams and so on.

Well, what do we know about successful people? Successful people are very clear about who they are and what they want. In contrast, unsuccessful people are fuzzy and confused. And this is something we will talk about over this CD series. In later CDs, we'll spend an enormous amount of time on goal setting, but right now we'll spend an enormous amount of time getting our thinking so it parallels on where we want to be when we get to the goal setting portion.

But let me get back to what this Law of Correspondence says... that your relationships, your health, your income, every part of your life merely reflects on a one-to-one basis back to you the way you think. Everything you have in your life you have attracted to yourself because of the person you are. You can change the aspects of your life because you can change the person that you are. William James of Harvard in 1905 said, "The greatest revolution of my generation is the discovery that the average person, by changing their attitudes of mind, can change the outer aspect of their mind."

But the flip side is there is no other way. We cannot change out external world except by changing our internal world, and you have 100% total control over your internal world. As a result, you have total control over your future destiny. You can become anything that you really, really want to become if you simply change what you think on the inside, to be completely in harmony with what you want to enjoy on the outside. You cannot be angry, frustrated and ignorant on the inside and have a successful, happy affluent life on the outside. But if you are fully integrated internally, your outer world will change. I promise you before this course is over you will begin to see the profound changes in your external world. Because in this course you will change because your thinking will change, and as the result other things will change in the "mirror."

The world is full of people who go to the "mirror" of life and they don't like their reflection so they pound the mirror. They try to change the mirror. They're frustrated; they curse the mirror, which is the equivalent to trying to change the external world, instead of going to work on yourself. So when you look the "mirror" use it to put the Law of Correspondence to work for you. Look at what is in your "mirror" that you don't want to see and then work to change the way you think internally, and watch your outer world change and become what you truly want it to become.


A Word From Brian Tracy:

"I really consider The Success Mastery Academy one of my all-time, best programs. Kyle Wilson and I sat down and said if we could condense everything that we've learned on leadership, communication, setting goals, selling, negotiation, financial independence, etc. -- all the different subjects that people needed to know to be really successful -- what would they be? So we worked together. I spent many, many months writing this program and created a workbook that went with it. It covers time, money, relationships, leadership, family, every type of communications, self esteem, personal growth, secrets of self made millionaires, setting goals -- 16 subjects in all. We put it all together into a two-day live event and then I gave it to thousands of people all over the country and it just literally blew people away. And then we took the four best recordings, from our two day seminars, 16 hours each, and spent 6 months combining the very best sessions from each of these four seminars, into a seminar that is virtually a personal treat on personal success and achievement. I truly consider the SMA a masterpiece!" -- Brian Tracy

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"Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers." Jim Rohn

4. Success leaves tracks for you to follow!

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Shalom!, Thank you so much for your teachings. I'm a Deputy Sheriff who has been blessed with the opportunity to stand before students who have gotten themselves into trouble with the law. Four years ago I co-developed a program named Success, Motivation, and Responsibility Training (SMART). It is a Juvenile Alternative (to family court) Program. The age group is 10-16.

The first lesson the students get are on goal setting which I believe is the foundation. Your teachings and philosophies have been key in the success of my program. I give the book (Twelve Pillars) to a student in each class. I then follow-up with these students with discussions and brain storming the different pillars. One of the students "Luis" an eighth grader read the book, applied what he read, went back to his school, ran for president of student council, and Won! Mr. Rohn, I speak of you before my students as one of my mentors. Again thank you so much for your wisdom. Shalom!
-- Isaac Fripp


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