One of the people who’s teaching has had a profound impact on me is the late Jim Rohn. His humor and pithy insights about human nature and especially the impact personal development has on contribution, success, and self-directed happiness are worth taking note of and talking about that I flicked through several of my journals today and found a bunch of his sayings that I have written down over the last 10 years and I thought I’d share them with you. If you’re interested in his work visit www.jimrohn.com.
1. The future is easy to predict: it will be opportunity mixed with difficulty
2. For things to change, you have to change
3. Success is something you attract, not something you pursue
4. Success is what you attract by being the person you become
5. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal
6. Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better
7. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skill
8. If you want to have more you need to become more
9. Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world so if you want to change your outer world you need to work on yourself
10. Wisdom and faith need to be deposited in activity – ideas and faith put to work is what gets results
11. What’s easy to do is easy not to do
12. Don’t major in minor things
13. Successful people do the things unsuccessful people don’t want to do
14. Self protection leads to mediocrity, self service leads to fortune
15. There are only about half a dozen things that have an 80% impact on your life
16. Activity finishes the miracle process of turning nothing into something
17. Life doesn’t get better by chance, it gets better by change
18. Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value
19. Leaders are readers
20. You’re only one idea away from transforming your life
21. Continuous learning is your key to transforming your life
22. It’s not what a book costs that’s important, it’s what it will cost you if you don;t read it
23. You must take responsibility for your own education
24. You can have more than you’ve got by becoming more than you are; and, unless you change what you are , you’ll always have what you’ve got
25. Formal education will get you a job, self education will get you a fortune
26. Life is not designed to give you what you need, it’s designed to give you what you’re worth
27. Don’t suffer from possibility blindness
28. You become the average of the 5 people you spend most time with: choose carefully
29. If you want to be an above average earner, you need to become an above average person
30. Most things in the world are easy to learn but difficult to master
31. Whenever there’s a fork in the road most people take the easy route
32. Rarely does your income exceed your personal development
33. If you took all the money in the work and divided it equally to everyone, within a few years it would be back in the pockets it came from
34. It’s not what happens that determines the quality of your life because what happens, happens to everyone. It’s what you do about what happens that makes the difference.