The Journal
Timeless wisdom for a life of purpose, wealth, and fulfillment.
Why Most People Quit in February (And How to Be the Exception)
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Learn why February defeats most people and how daily disciplines create lasting success.
The Discipline of Details
Success isn't about the big swing; it's about the small, daily disciplines. Use the story of the ant. Jim Rohn often started with the fundamentals. When we look...
The Discipline of Disconnecting
We live in a noisy world. The notifications never stop. The emails never end. The screen is always bright. It is easy to be busy. It is hard to be effective. Th...
Leadership in a Remote World
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. It was true in the factory, it was true in the office, and it is true on the video call. The tool...
The Seasons of Your Career
Life and business are like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. There is a season for everything. In your career, y...
How You’re Killing Your Productivity
Consider your day right now. What’s getting done that needs to get done—and what’s not? Do you find yourself at the end of a long day without your most importan...
4 Powerful Little Words That Make Life Worthwhile
You’ve no doubt heard the phrase, a muscle never stretched never grows. The big challenge we all face is how to become all that we can be. That’s why Jim Rohn o...
Why Successful Habits Breed Success
When you are doing all that you can possibly do, and you are successful at reaching your expectations, keep doing it. Success is one of the best forms of motiva...
3 Ways to Turn Nothing into Something
In order to turn nothing into something, you’ve got to start with ideas and imagination. Ideas that become so powerful in your mind and in your consciousness th...
How to Lead in 2021
To achieve great things in life, you’ll need people to buy into your vision. Heed this timeless advice from personal development and leadership icon Jim Rohn. T...
15 of Jim Rohn’s Most Motivational Quotes
For more than 40 years, Jim Rohn honed his craft like a skilled artist, helping people all over the world sculpt life strategies that expanded their imagination...
Finding Hope in Tragedy
I am struck by something that seems to be ever-present and never-ending wherever and whenever the human race is faced with tragedy. I think it can be summed up ...
Why Attitude Matters
Our lives are greatly affected by what we know, since what we know determines the decisions we will make. Just as we are affected by what we know, we are also a...
What Basketball Can Teach Us About Responsibility
During the years when professional basketball was just beginning to become popular, Bill Russell, who played center for the Boston Celtics, was one of the great...
Are You Using the Seasons of Life?
One of the difficulties we face in our industrialized age is that we’ve lost our sense of seasons. Unlike the farmer whose priorities change with the seasons, w...
You Don’t Have to Love What You Do… You Have to Love the Opportunity
You have to love what you do, that’s what people say. But that’s not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity—the opportunity to ...
Remembering Jim Rohn: 17 Remarkable Quotes to Inspire You
Jim Rohn was a major force in the personal development world. He taught us that being successful is a choice, and even further, he taught us how to achieve it. ...
9 Things More Important Than Money
We all know the value of having plenty of money, especially as entrepreneurs. But we also know there are people who started enterprises with no money, who went ...
3 Ways to Face Your Fears With Courage
Here are a few techniques to help you build your courage and face your fears. 1\. Put all remote possibilities out of your mind. Don’t worry about things you ha...
The One Thing That Determines How Successful You Can Be
The one thing that determines the level of our potential, produces the intensity of our activity and predicts the quality of the result we receive—our attitude....
10 Unforgettable Quotes by Jim Rohn
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The Real Value in Setting Goals
What goals did you set at the start of this year? Have you accomplished them? Personal development legend Jim Rohn says the most valuable lessons lie not in the...
Why You Need Discipline to Achieve the Good Life
What’s at the core of achieving the good life? It is not learning how to set goals. It is not learning how to better manage your time. It is not mastering the a...
Feed Your Mind With Good Ideas, and Refine Your Philosophy
For some people, the accelerated learning process is continuous. But for most, it levels off when they get their first job. If there are no more exams to take, ...
4 Things You Can Learn From Your Child
Remember the master teacher once said 2,000 years ago, “Unless you can become like little children, your chances are zero; you haven’t got a prayer.” This is a ...
How Do You Want People to See You as a Leader?
For a leader, honesty and integrity are absolutely the keys to success. A lot of people don’t realize how closely they’re being watched by others. But do you re...
The Formula for Success and Failure
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To ...
Don’t Wait Until Tomorrow
The problem with waiting until tomorrow—to do anything—is that when it finally arrives, it is called today. Today is yesterday’s tomorrow, so the question is th...
Character Is Your Masterpiece to Build
Could creating your character be likened to an artist creating a sculpture? I believe that character is not something that just happens by itself any more than ...
13 Jim Rohn Quotes to Motivate You to Succeed
It is the inherent nature of success to be both puzzling and elusive, and to withhold its rewards from all but a handful of those who pursue it. It is by an int...
3 Keys to Becoming Wealthy
A man I knew had an MBA from Harvard and an engineering degree from MIT. Smart guy. When he retired, he started doing what he liked best: teaching college cours...
Why You Should Be a Student of Your Own Life
Let me share with you two of the best sources of information available. 1\. Your Own Experiences Become a good student of your own life. It’s the information yo...
Wherever You Are, Be There
One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being. While we are home our...
Spring Is the Season of Opportunity—Don’t Waste It
I know the following things to be true: Life is about constant, predictable patterns of change. The only constant factor is our feelings and attitudes toward li...
How Patience Makes You Rich
A patient man is always richer than an impatient one, even if the patient man has less money. What do I mean by that statement? Well, riches and wealth can take...
How to Keep Yourself Encouraged
Here is a familiar scenario for all of us: You have an exciting goal in mind, you’ve done your homework, you think you’re amply prepared… and things just don’t ...
The 4 Powerful Ways to Change a Bad Habit
What feelings truly push people outside their comfort zone? No one understands as I do the inherent difficulty in changing old and persistent habits. But habits...
The Biggest Challenge You’ll Face as a Leader
Once you’ve set a goal for yourself as a leader—whether it’s to create your own enterprise, energize your organization or lead your small team—the challenge is ...
You Have the Power to Do Remarkable Things
When it comes to meeting and conquering the negativity in your life, here is a key question: What can you do, starting today, that will make a difference? What ...
Better Is Something You Become
A wise and resilient old gentleman who used to dine every month in his club downtown—sitting at a long table covered with a white linen tablecloth and sporting ...
The 6 Emotional Enemies Inside Your Mind
What can destroy our ambitions, our fortunes, our relationships—our lives? The enemies lurking inside us, the ones we face from within, the ones we’ve got to de...
5 Tips for Using Your Time Wisely
Let me give you some thoughts on time management. Here is a list of things you should consider to make the most of your time: 1\. Run the day or it will run you...
How to Create Magic With Those Around You
What is a good lifestyle, really? It’s style over amount. So what is style? It’s an art, the art of living. You can’t buy style with money, and you can’t buy go...
A Good Life Contains These 6 Essentials
The ultimate expression of life is not a paycheck. The ultimate expression of life is not a Mercedes. The ultimate expression of life is not a million dollars o...
Stop Wishing for the Life You Want
To many people, ambition is kind of a mystery. The dictionary says it is “an eager desire for distinction, power or fame.” But what does that really mean? Let’s...
Change Begins with Choice
Any day we wish, we can discipline ourselves to make important changes in our lives. Any day we wish, we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowle...
How to Create a Master Plan for Your Life
Wouldn’t you prefer a life of productivity rather than a life of endless tasks with little accomplishment? Of course! When you carefully set your goals and keep...
4 Tips for Setting Powerful Goals
The most important benefit of setting goals isn’t achieving your goal; it’s what you do and the person you become in order to achieve your goal that’s the real ...
Why You Need to Learn to Share What You Know
A strong relationship is a reciprocal relationship. That’s why you need to develop the ability to share. When you pass something along to someone else, whether ...
These 5 Questions Will Define Where You’re Going in Life
Goals are important for a genuinely success-oriented person. Without them, you’re just playing around. The difference between a goal-directed individual and som...
How to Build a Library Worth Having
We all need a good library. My mentor, Earl Shoaff, got me started on mine. Here’s one of the books he recommended: Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill. Mr. Sh...
The Powerful Combination of Words and Emotion
What is it that makes language powerful? I can give you a simple answer: words filled with emotion. Words themselves are powerful, but not nearly as powerful as...
5 Simple, Practical Ways to Become More Grateful
_ “Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want.”_ I believe one of the greatest lessons in life we can learn is to be tha...
Happiness Is Not in the Getting, Happiness Is in the Becoming
George Leonard, in his book Mastery, talks about “enjoying the plateau.” This is an important point. So often, we find ourselves racing to get ahead, thinking s...
The Result of Your Life Is Determined by a Few Simple Disciplines
The time for practice is over. Practice time was while we were growing up. Practice time was while we were in school. We are now full participants in the game o...
How to Stop Listening to the Negative Voice in Your Head
Why are we so frequently inclined to do the things that are least important but so reluctant to do the essential things that success and happiness demand? What ...
6 Essential Traits of Good Character
The following are what I believe to be the basics of good character. Miss one of these, and you’ll find a weak link in your character—one that might be your lea...
Being Successful Is a Personal Choice
Success is not a stereotype. Success is not an automobile. It’s not a house. It’s not a plan. It’s not money in the bank. That’s not success. Success is the con...
Your Lifestyle Is a Reflection of Who You Are
Our lifestyle communicates a clear message about who we are and how we think. Lifestyle is where we go, what we do and how we feel once we are there. Lifestyle ...
How to Start a New Discipline
Everyone has a mental list of “I should have’s”: I should have written to my mother this weekend. I should have told her how much I really care long before now....
Why Some People Fail and Others Succeed
What if we converted our dreams into plans and our plans into refined activities that would lead toward the achievement of our goals? If we have a sincere desir...
How Do You Attract Success?
Personal value is the magnet that attracts all good things into our lives. The greater our value, the greater our reward. Since the solution for having more is ...
How to Deal With the Negative Influences in Your Life
If you were to evaluate the major influences in your life that have shaped the kind of person you are, this has to be high on the list: the people and thoughts ...
8 Ways to Master the Art of Communication
“The art of communication”—I like that phrase. Because communicating is an art. When we’re attempting to get our message out to others, it’s as though we start ...
5 Simple Steps to Plan Your Dream Life
I’ve often said that the major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes you do to accomplish it. This will always be a far greater value than what you get...
5 Money Principles You Need to Know
Portrait of woman making online purchase at home Although finances shouldn’t be the highest priority in our lives, I will say money plays a major role and we ne...
5 Undeniable Reasons to Leave a Legacy
You know, I have had an amazing life. I have traveled the world. I have shared my heart with so many wonderful people. I have been fortunate enough to make a gr...
7 Books Everyone Should Read
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives. Re...
The 3 Parts of Personal Development
One day my mentor, Mr. Earl Shoaff, said to me, “Jim, if you want to be wealthy and happy, learn this lesson well: Learn to work harder on yourself than you do ...
The 4 Building Blocks of Good Communication
Effective communication is a critical component of mastering success. By mastering the art of communication, you’ll increase every level of performance in your ...
5 Things That Affect You and Your Life
Goal setting is a fantastic skill to develop—knowing how to design your own future. A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walk...
The Major Key to Your Best Future Is You
Of all the things that can affect your future, personal growth is most important. In other words, the major key to your better future is you. Now, there are man...
How to Turn Your Ideas Into Action
Being genuinely disciplined requires that you develop the ability to take action. You don’t need to be too hasty, but you also don’t want to lose much time. The...
6 Ways to Act on Your Ambition
Building your ambition is building your enterprising skills: To consistently create new opportunity, to consistently take advantage of the opportunity you’ve cr...
How to Live a Life of Value
One of the major reasons people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day. We...
How to Make Yourself More Valuable
I’m a very big proponent of activity, labor and discipline. In fact I devoted one of the five major pieces of the life puzzle to the subject of activity and lab...
How to Bounce Back From Failure
Here is a familiar scenario for all of us: You have a powerful goal in mind, you’ve done your homework, you think you’re amply prepared—but things just don’t wo...
The Best Ways to Beat Procrastination
Perseverance is about as important to achievement as gasoline is to driving a car. Sure, there will be times when you feel like you’re spinning your wheels, but...
The Power of Sharing What You Know
The key to make your life really unique and worthwhile is to share what you know, because sharing has a certain unique magic of its own. If you share an idea wi...
How to Live a Beautiful Life
In my years teaching people to be successful, I have seen that people break their lives down into two major parts: wealth-building and the rest of their lives. ...
Nitty-Gritty Reasons to Change for the Better
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be motivated to succeed by such a lofty goal as benevolence? Related: Do These 7 Things to Get (and Stay) Motivated In the early yea...
Where Do You See Yourself in 10 Years?
Here is a good question to ask yourself: Where are you going? Ten years from now you will surely arrive. The question is, where? We don’t want to kid ourselves ...
If You Change Yourself, You Can Change Your Life
Life is about constant, predictable patterns of change, and the only constant factor will be our feelings and attitudes toward life. We as human beings have the...
8 Traits of Healthy Relationships
Nothing can bring more joy to life than beautifully fulfilling relationships. The depth of meaning, understanding and appreciation that these kinds of relations...
The Qualities of Enterprising People
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives thro...
4 Reasons to Take Control of Your Destiny
One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” For you, that means that your success, your course is up t...
You Can Have More—If You Become More
Here’s the great challenge of life: You can have more than you’ve got because you can become more than you are. I have found that income seldom will exceed your...
It Only Takes 6 Steps to Plan Your Success
Our results are only as good as our plan. My mentor Earl Shoaff taught me that it’s not what happens that determines the major part of our future—because what h...
The Greatest Gift You Can Give Is Self-Improvement
I’m often asked the question, “How can I help someone else change, improve, be better?” My answer often comes as a surprise, and here it is: The key to helping ...
6 Secrets for Thriving (Not Just Surviving) Through the Holidays
The holiday season has officially graced us with its presence. It’s a time of celebration and bliss, and the pure magic of these December days is something I an...
We All Have 2 Choices in Life
Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To...
Begin With Gratitude and Watch the Miracles Flow Your Way
Is thankfulness a survival skill? Maybe most of you would respond with, “No, thankfulness is not key to survival,” and I would tend to agree with you. Most of u...
Whatever the Project Is, Start Today
Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action. Action is the ingredient that ensures results. Only action can cause reaction—and only positive action can cause posi...
How to Solve Any Problem That Gets in Your Way
You know the importance of applying discipline and effort to overcome any problem that stands in your way. But some problems call for more than steely determina...
4 Keys to Unlock the Power of Your Mind
Take care to feed and stimulate your brain and you will expand your mind. The two are inextricably connected. We need to see the human brain and mind with wonde...
What Does It Take to Live Your Dreams?
Each and every day, people are living their dreams. Millionaires are created. Families form and create tremendous relationships. Individuals get healthier day b...
Creating the Right Attitude for Success
Can you picture yourself living your dream? Some people will tell you that getting a clear vision of your success is all you need to do to realize it. By now, y...
How Your Words Impact Your Success
Sometimes the subtle difference in our attitude, which can make a major difference in our future, can be as simple as the language we use. It’s the difference i...
4 Reasons You Should Think Like an Ant
When was the last time you saw ants reach an obstacle and give up with their heads down and head back to the ant hole to relax? Never. Here’s another question. ...
4 Straightforward Steps to Success
I’ve said it before, that success is the study of the obvious—but sometimes we need someone to remind us and show us the simplest way to get there. Here are fou...
Why Some People Fail and Others Succeed
What if we converted our dreams into plans and our plans into refined activities that would lead toward the achievement of our goals? Related: Today is your day...
7 Traits of the Most Resilient People
Resilience is the ability to return to the original form after being bent, stretched or compressed. It’s the ability to readily recover from illness, depression...
Read All the Books to Rise Above the Ordinary
All of the books that we will ever need to make us as rich, as healthy, as happy, as powerful, as sophisticated and as successful as we want to be have already ...
7 Tips for Developing Your Personal Philosophy
At 25, there was nothing in my bank and I needed to provide for my family. As I was considering what to do, I met John Earl Shoaff, a wealthy entrepreneur who b...
Why Personal Development Is Critical to Success
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. Well, the late Jim Rohn aimed for the inspiration, always emphasizing the impo...
This Is How You Leave a Legacy
Jim Rohn, the philosopher who has left an indelible legacy of time-proven principles and wisdom, shares his secret for making an impact. “You know me, I am a ph...
Why You Should Keep a Journal
If you’re serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal—don’t trust your memor...
How to Build Character
Personal success is built on the foundation of character, and character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you a...
How to Build Good Relationships
Achieving genuine success is not a solo effort. You simply can’t be successful by yourself. With that in mind, I’d like to offer some tips that have been effect...
The Key to Getting All You Want? Discipline
For every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards. That’s one of life’s great arrangements. If you sow well, you will reap well. Life is full of laws tha...
You Have the Power to Do Remarkable Things
When it comes to meeting and conquering the negativity in your life, here is a key question: What can you do, starting today, that will make a difference? What ...
How to Go From Making a Living to Designing a Life
After having struggled for so long, it took a shift in attitude for my family and me when success started to happen. When I started making a little extra money ...
How Do You Attract Opportunity Into Your Life?
Someone once asked me the question, “How can I have more opportunities come into my life?” It is a good question—but I think my answer might have surprised them...
How to Access the Power of Ambition
What is the origin of true ambition? There exists really only one place to find true ambition, and that is within you—in every thought, in every movement, in ev...
7 Personality Traits of a Great Leader
If you want to be a great leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to...
3 Money Habits That Separate the Rich From the Poor
Here is an exciting thought! Why not work full time on your job and part time on your fortune? And what a feeling you’ll have when you can honestly say, “I’m wo...
13 Ways to Improve Your Life
How dramatically we can change our results is largely a function of imagination. In 1960, it was a technological impossibility for man to travel into outer spac...