“Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have
set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal,
landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.”
―
Victoria Addino
"Goals
are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can
be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others
dropped." Christopher Columbus
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Secret of Magnetic People
“When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project
positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every
constellation, and people want to be near you.”
― Shannon L. Alder
"Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults." John F. Kennedy
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." W. Clement Stone
“A positive attitude is most easily arrived at through a deliberate and rational analysis of what’s required to manifest unwavering positive thought patterns. First, reflect on the actual, present condition of your mind. In other words, is the mind positive or not? We’ve all met individuals who perceive themselves as positive people but don’t appear as such. Since the mind is both invisible and intangible, it’s therefore easier to see the accurate characteristics of the mind through a person’s words, deeds, and posture.
For example, if we say, “It’s absolutely freezing today! I’ll probably catch a cold before the end of the day!” then our words expose a negative attitude. But if we say, “The temperature is very cold” (a simple statement of fact), then our expressions, and therefore attitude, are not negative. Sustaining an alert state in which self-awareness becomes possible gives us a chance to discover the origins of negativity. In doing so, we also have an opportunity to arrive at a state of positiveness, so that our words and deeds are also positive, making others feel comfortable, cheerful, and inspired.”
― H.E. Davey
― Shannon L. Alder
"Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults." John F. Kennedy
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative." W. Clement Stone
“A positive attitude is most easily arrived at through a deliberate and rational analysis of what’s required to manifest unwavering positive thought patterns. First, reflect on the actual, present condition of your mind. In other words, is the mind positive or not? We’ve all met individuals who perceive themselves as positive people but don’t appear as such. Since the mind is both invisible and intangible, it’s therefore easier to see the accurate characteristics of the mind through a person’s words, deeds, and posture.
For example, if we say, “It’s absolutely freezing today! I’ll probably catch a cold before the end of the day!” then our words expose a negative attitude. But if we say, “The temperature is very cold” (a simple statement of fact), then our expressions, and therefore attitude, are not negative. Sustaining an alert state in which self-awareness becomes possible gives us a chance to discover the origins of negativity. In doing so, we also have an opportunity to arrive at a state of positiveness, so that our words and deeds are also positive, making others feel comfortable, cheerful, and inspired.”
― H.E. Davey
Sunday, April 21, 2013
The Best of Jim Rohn
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ~ Jim Rohn
”If you hear a good health idea, capture it; write it down. Don’t trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review–going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.” ~ Jim Rohn
“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.” ~ Jim Rohn
”Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.” ~ Jim Rohn
“You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Don’t spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting value, or something that will give you rich memories for a lifetime. Remember, all that candy money can add up to a small fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.” ~ Jim Rohn
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” ~ Jim Rohn
“The pain of discipline weighs ounces whereas the pain of regret weighs tons.” ~ Jim Rohn
“For things to change you’ve got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change.” ~ Jim Rohn
“You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” ~ Jim Rohn
“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” ~ Jim Rohn
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” ~ Jim Rohn
“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” ~ Jim Rohn
“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” ~ Jim Rohn
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Labor gives birth to ideas.” ~ Jim Rohn
“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” ~ Jim Rohn
“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” ~ Jim Rohn
"If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” ~ Jim Rohn
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn
“How long should you try? Until.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” ~ Jim Rohn
”If you hear a good health idea, capture it; write it down. Don’t trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review–going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.” ~ Jim Rohn
“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.” ~ Jim Rohn
”Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.” ~ Jim Rohn
“You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Don’t spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting value, or something that will give you rich memories for a lifetime. Remember, all that candy money can add up to a small fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.” ~ Jim Rohn
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” ~ Jim Rohn
“The pain of discipline weighs ounces whereas the pain of regret weighs tons.” ~ Jim Rohn
“For things to change you’ve got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change.” ~ Jim Rohn
“You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” ~ Jim Rohn
“You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” ~ Jim Rohn
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” ~ Jim Rohn
“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” ~ Jim Rohn
“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” ~ Jim Rohn
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Labor gives birth to ideas.” ~ Jim Rohn
“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.” ~ Jim Rohn
“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” ~ Jim Rohn
"If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.” ~ Jim Rohn
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn
“How long should you try? Until.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Give so much to the improvement of yourself, that you don’t have time to criticize others.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” ~ Jim Rohn
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
How to Turn Nothing into Something
by Jim Rohn
Have you ever wondered how to turn
nothing into something?
First, in
order to turn nothing into something, you’ve got to start with some ideas and
imagination. Now, it might be hard to call ideas and imagination nothing; but
how tangible are those ideas? That is a bit of a mystery. I don’t believe that
ideas that can be turned into a hotel, ideas that can be turned into an
enterprise, ideas that can be turned into a new vaccine or ideas that can be
turned into some miracle product, should be called nothing. But tangibly, you
have nothing. Interesting! Think of it, ideas that become so powerful in your
mind and in your consciousness that they seem real to you even before they
become tangible. Imagination that is so strong, you can actually see it.
When I built my first home for my
family in Idaho all those years ago, before I started construction, I would
take my friends and associates out to the vacant property and give them a tour
of the house. Is that possible? Is it possible to take someone on a tour
through an imaginary house? And the answer is, “Yes, of course.” “Here is the 3
car garage,” I used to say, and my friends would look and say, “Yes, this
garage will hold 3 cars.” I could really make it “live”. I would take them on a
tour throughout the house… “Here is the fireplace, and look, this side is brick
and the other side is stone.” I could make it so real… “Follow me through the
rest of the house. Take a look through the picture window here in the kitchen,
isn’t the view great?” One day, I made the house so real that one of my friends
bumped his elbow on the fireplace. I mean, it was that real. So, the first step
of turning nothing into something is to imagine the possibilities. Imagine ALL
of the possibilities. One of the reasons for seminars, sermons, lyrics from
songs and testimonials of others is to give us an idea of the possibilities; to
help us imagine and to see the potential.
Now here is the second step for
turning nothing into something, you must BELIEVE that what you imagine IS
possible for you. Testimonials like, “If I can do it, you can do it” often
become a support to our belief. And we start believing. First we imagine it’s
possible. Second, we start to believe that what’s possible is possible for us.
We might also believe because of our
own testimonial. Here is what your testimonial might say, “If I did it once, I
can do it again. If it happened for me before, it could very well happen
again.” So we believe not only the testimonials of others who say, “If I can do
it, you can do it. If I can change, you can change. If I can start with
nothing, you can start with nothing. If I can turn it all around, you can turn
it all around.” Then we also have the support of our own testimonial, if we’ve
accomplished something before. “If we did it once, we can do it again. If we
did it last year, we can do it this year.” So those two things together are
very powerful. Now, we do not have actual substance yet, although it is very
close.
Again, step one is to imagine the
possibilities. Step two is to imagine that what is possible is possible for
you. Here is what we call step two - faith to believe. In fact, one writer said
this, “Faith is substance.” An interesting word: “substance”, the powerful
ability to believe in the possibilities that are possible for you. If you have
faith to believe… that faith is substance, substance meaning “a piece of the
real.” Now it’s not “the real”, it’s not this podium, but it is so powerful
that it is very close to being real and so the writer said, “The faith is a
piece of, the substance of”. He then goes on to call it evidence, substance and
evidence. It is difficult to call substance and evidence “nothing”. It is
nothing in the sense that it cannot be seen except with the inner eye. You
can’t get a hold of it because it isn’t YET tangible. But it is possible to
turn nothing, especially ideas and imaginations, into something if you believe
that it is now possible for you. That substance and evidence becomes so
powerful that it can now be turned into reality.
Monday, October 31, 2011
It Is a Challenge to Succeed
by Jim Rohn
It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I'm sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex and elusive secret that must be found if ever success is to be enjoyed. While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily engaged in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them. While the much larger group sits in awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated and unjust.
"I am a nice person," the man says to himself. "How come this other guy is happy and prosperous and I'm always struggling?" He asks himself, "I am a good husband, a good father and a good worker. How come nothing seems to work out for me? Life just isn't fair. I'm even smarter and willing to work harder than some of these other people who just seem to have everything going their way," he says as he slumps into the sofa to watch another evening of television. But you see you've got to be more than a good person and a good worker. You've got to become a good planner, and a good dreamer. You've got to see the future finished in advance.
You've got to put in the long hours and put up with the setbacks and the disappointments. You've got to learn to enjoy the process of disciplines and of putting yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. You've got to be prepared and willing to attack the challenges if you want the success because challenges are part of success. Now that may sound like a full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune isn't really all that difficult.
Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes and the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can promise you that the challenges you'll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.
I've often said that to have more, we must first become more, and to become more, we must begin the process of working harder on ourselves than we do on anything else. But in addition to gathering new knowledge, new skills and new experiences, it is also important to discover new emotions. It is how we feel about what we know that makes the biggest difference in how our lives turn out. How we feel about the chances we have and the choices we have determines the intensity of our effort. Whether we try or don't try. Join or don't join. Believe or don't believe.
I'd like for you to discover some strong feelings about your life and about what you want to do with that life. You probably have much of the knowledge and a lot of the experience and perhaps most of the skills that it takes to become successful. What you may be lacking in are the strong feelings about what you want and what you want to do. You may be one of those who have become so involved in the process of earning a living that you've forgotten about the choices and the chances you have for designing your own life.
Let these strong feelings help you take a second look at your life and where you're headed. After all, you've only got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make it an adventure in achievement? Why not discover what all you can do and what all you can have? Why not discover how many others you can help and in the process how that can help you?
Why not now take the Challenge to Succeed!
—Jim Rohn
It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I'm sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex and elusive secret that must be found if ever success is to be enjoyed. While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily engaged in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them. While the much larger group sits in awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated and unjust.
"I am a nice person," the man says to himself. "How come this other guy is happy and prosperous and I'm always struggling?" He asks himself, "I am a good husband, a good father and a good worker. How come nothing seems to work out for me? Life just isn't fair. I'm even smarter and willing to work harder than some of these other people who just seem to have everything going their way," he says as he slumps into the sofa to watch another evening of television. But you see you've got to be more than a good person and a good worker. You've got to become a good planner, and a good dreamer. You've got to see the future finished in advance.
You've got to put in the long hours and put up with the setbacks and the disappointments. You've got to learn to enjoy the process of disciplines and of putting yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. You've got to be prepared and willing to attack the challenges if you want the success because challenges are part of success. Now that may sound like a full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune isn't really all that difficult.
Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes and the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can promise you that the challenges you'll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.
I've often said that to have more, we must first become more, and to become more, we must begin the process of working harder on ourselves than we do on anything else. But in addition to gathering new knowledge, new skills and new experiences, it is also important to discover new emotions. It is how we feel about what we know that makes the biggest difference in how our lives turn out. How we feel about the chances we have and the choices we have determines the intensity of our effort. Whether we try or don't try. Join or don't join. Believe or don't believe.
I'd like for you to discover some strong feelings about your life and about what you want to do with that life. You probably have much of the knowledge and a lot of the experience and perhaps most of the skills that it takes to become successful. What you may be lacking in are the strong feelings about what you want and what you want to do. You may be one of those who have become so involved in the process of earning a living that you've forgotten about the choices and the chances you have for designing your own life.
Let these strong feelings help you take a second look at your life and where you're headed. After all, you've only got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make it an adventure in achievement? Why not discover what all you can do and what all you can have? Why not discover how many others you can help and in the process how that can help you?
Why not now take the Challenge to Succeed!
—Jim Rohn
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Take Control of Your Attitude
By Jim Rohn
Your happiness is in your hands.
We all have tremendous potential. Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But 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 is our attitude.
Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and infl uences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us, or providing us with negative sources of infl uence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.
No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose; not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.
If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path, and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confi dently into a better future.
If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value that must be protected accordingly.
When you have the right attitude, you can do the remarkable.
When you recognize your gifts, you can change anything for yourself that you wish to change. If you don’t like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn’t enough, change it. If something doesn’t suit you; change it. If something doesn’t please you, change it. You don’t ever have to be the same after today. If you don’t like your present address, change it—you’re not a tree!
Having the right attitude is an essential prerequisite for success and happiness. The right attitude is one of the fundamentals of the good life. That is why we must constantly examine our feelings about our role in the world and about our possibilities for achieving our dreams.
It is our emotional nature that governs most of our daily conduct in our personal and business world. It is the emotional aspect of our experiences that determines our behavior. How we feel about life’s events is a powerful force that can either freeze us in our tracks or inspire us to take immediate action on any given day. With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.
About the Author
Jim Rohn is a legendary business philosopher, entrepreneur, speaker and author whose works include the best-sellers The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle and 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness, as well as numerous audio programs.
Your happiness is in your hands.
We all have tremendous potential. Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But 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 is our attitude.
Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and infl uences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us, or providing us with negative sources of infl uence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.
No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose; not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.
If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path, and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confi dently into a better future.
If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value that must be protected accordingly.
When you have the right attitude, you can do the remarkable.
When you recognize your gifts, you can change anything for yourself that you wish to change. If you don’t like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn’t enough, change it. If something doesn’t suit you; change it. If something doesn’t please you, change it. You don’t ever have to be the same after today. If you don’t like your present address, change it—you’re not a tree!
Having the right attitude is an essential prerequisite for success and happiness. The right attitude is one of the fundamentals of the good life. That is why we must constantly examine our feelings about our role in the world and about our possibilities for achieving our dreams.
It is our emotional nature that governs most of our daily conduct in our personal and business world. It is the emotional aspect of our experiences that determines our behavior. How we feel about life’s events is a powerful force that can either freeze us in our tracks or inspire us to take immediate action on any given day. With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.
About the Author
Jim Rohn is a legendary business philosopher, entrepreneur, speaker and author whose works include the best-sellers The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle and 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness, as well as numerous audio programs.
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Denis Waitley is a productivity consultant on human achievement and a best-selling author of Seeds of Greatness. Waitley has coached astronauts, Super Bowl champions and Olympic athletes.
Jim Rohn is a legendary motivational speaker, business philosopher and has numerous best-selling audio programs and books including The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle.
Chris Widener is a radio host, motivational speaker and the best-selling author of The Angel Inside and The Art of Influence.
Q: What is a small change I can make in my life that could result in a big change for my financial future?
Denis Waitley: The most important change you can make is in your attitude. Wealth flows to breakthrough ideas and an abundance mentality. Pessimism and a scarcity mentality look backward and support the status quo. Change your mindset from a problem economy to an opportunity economy. All wealth has been created by solving problems with concepts that save people time and money, and that make life easier during trying times. Many of the most successful growth companies like Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Federal Express were founded during down cycles.
Q: What is the best balance to strike between taking risks to grow my business and playing it safe?
Jim Rohn: I think the distinction to be made here is between simply taking risks and taking calculated risks. Calculated risks are when you’ve done the research, your “homework,” and you’ve got an understanding of the risk you are taking. Simply taking risks would be foolish and negligent. Warren Buffett says that one of his investing philosophies is to never invest in something he doesn’t understand. Wouldn’t the same apply to your business?
Chris Widener: There is a big difference between taking risks and being risky. Here are some tips for making sure you take risks without placing yourself in a risky situation:
Surround yourself with wise counselors who can help you consider the opportunities that present themselves to you. We should all have many people in our lives who know more than us, who have gone before us and have more experience than us. Taking advantage of their wisdom will save us a lot of trouble and help us consider things we wouldn’t have otherwise seen.
Don’t risk it all at once. Just as in investing, we should diversify when taking risks. Yes, we should regularly take risks, but we shouldn’t place all our eggs in one basket. The amount of risk you take depends on your life situation, of course, and your wise counselors can help you decide what is appropriate for your situation.
Q: I want to give back more to the people in my life who matter most—family and friends. What are some everyday ways to give back?
D.W.: The greatest gift you can give another person is to be there in person when it counts. Spontaneously invite friends or family members for lunch. Don’t wait for holidays. Attend your children’s practices as well as big games, recitals, plays and events.
Give your children “roots and wings” instead of “loot and things.” In this timestarved world, we attempt to purchase our children’s affection, which is a guilt trip to justify our lack of quality time together. Spend more time with them and less money on them.
Take the time to send handwritten notes to those you care about. Text messages, voice mails and e-mails are convenient, but expedient. Be different. Send a card or note by regular mail. Put a love note in the briefcase, purse, backpack, lunchbox or book at least once a month as a reminder of your affection.
Live a legacy, rather than leave a legacy. What you give to your family and friends as values is much more important than valuables you accumulate in your estate. Don’t spend your life putting points on the board hoping that your last will and testament will be your legacy to loved ones. Make every day a L.O.V.E. letter to those you really care about: Listen, Overlook little flaws, Voice praise and make a constant Effort to spend the time.
Q: How can I assess when to disassociate myself from people who are too toxic or too negative?
J.R.: Take a look at each of the people you spend major time with, and ask yourself if that time is positive and constructive or negative and destructive. Ask yourself:
What have they got me doing?
What have they got me thinking?
What have they got me feeling?
What have they got me saying?
And, ultimately, is that OK?
One final question: Are my current associations helping me grow in the direction I want to go? If the answer is no, then you’ve got to work to disassociate yourself from those relationships and people.
Q: In what ways can I harness the power of gratitude, and what are the benefits of doing so?
C.W.: One of the best things we can do to improve the quality of our lives is to be grateful and develop an attitude of thankfulness. Spending some time thinking about how good you have it will shape and mold your attitude and develop healthy thought patterns that will make you more thankful. Here’s how:
Look down the socioeconomic chain instead of up. Focusing our thoughts on the things we don’t have, while being a motivator, can also be a source of envy and greed. Remembering those who have less than us causes us to be thankful for what we have.
Donate money to others on a regular basis.
Simplify. When we simplify, we realize how we can make do on so much less. It makes us thankful for all the extras.
Article Source: http://www.successmagazine.com/1on1-Living-Out-Front/PARAMS/article/616/channel/19
Denis Waitley is a productivity consultant on human achievement and a best-selling author of Seeds of Greatness. Waitley has coached astronauts, Super Bowl champions and Olympic athletes.
Jim Rohn is a legendary motivational speaker, business philosopher and has numerous best-selling audio programs and books including The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle.
Chris Widener is a radio host, motivational speaker and the best-selling author of The Angel Inside and The Art of Influence.
Q: What is a small change I can make in my life that could result in a big change for my financial future?
Denis Waitley: The most important change you can make is in your attitude. Wealth flows to breakthrough ideas and an abundance mentality. Pessimism and a scarcity mentality look backward and support the status quo. Change your mindset from a problem economy to an opportunity economy. All wealth has been created by solving problems with concepts that save people time and money, and that make life easier during trying times. Many of the most successful growth companies like Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Federal Express were founded during down cycles.
Q: What is the best balance to strike between taking risks to grow my business and playing it safe?
Jim Rohn: I think the distinction to be made here is between simply taking risks and taking calculated risks. Calculated risks are when you’ve done the research, your “homework,” and you’ve got an understanding of the risk you are taking. Simply taking risks would be foolish and negligent. Warren Buffett says that one of his investing philosophies is to never invest in something he doesn’t understand. Wouldn’t the same apply to your business?
Chris Widener: There is a big difference between taking risks and being risky. Here are some tips for making sure you take risks without placing yourself in a risky situation:
Surround yourself with wise counselors who can help you consider the opportunities that present themselves to you. We should all have many people in our lives who know more than us, who have gone before us and have more experience than us. Taking advantage of their wisdom will save us a lot of trouble and help us consider things we wouldn’t have otherwise seen.
Don’t risk it all at once. Just as in investing, we should diversify when taking risks. Yes, we should regularly take risks, but we shouldn’t place all our eggs in one basket. The amount of risk you take depends on your life situation, of course, and your wise counselors can help you decide what is appropriate for your situation.
Q: I want to give back more to the people in my life who matter most—family and friends. What are some everyday ways to give back?
D.W.: The greatest gift you can give another person is to be there in person when it counts. Spontaneously invite friends or family members for lunch. Don’t wait for holidays. Attend your children’s practices as well as big games, recitals, plays and events.
Give your children “roots and wings” instead of “loot and things.” In this timestarved world, we attempt to purchase our children’s affection, which is a guilt trip to justify our lack of quality time together. Spend more time with them and less money on them.
Take the time to send handwritten notes to those you care about. Text messages, voice mails and e-mails are convenient, but expedient. Be different. Send a card or note by regular mail. Put a love note in the briefcase, purse, backpack, lunchbox or book at least once a month as a reminder of your affection.
Live a legacy, rather than leave a legacy. What you give to your family and friends as values is much more important than valuables you accumulate in your estate. Don’t spend your life putting points on the board hoping that your last will and testament will be your legacy to loved ones. Make every day a L.O.V.E. letter to those you really care about: Listen, Overlook little flaws, Voice praise and make a constant Effort to spend the time.
Q: How can I assess when to disassociate myself from people who are too toxic or too negative?
J.R.: Take a look at each of the people you spend major time with, and ask yourself if that time is positive and constructive or negative and destructive. Ask yourself:
What have they got me doing?
What have they got me thinking?
What have they got me feeling?
What have they got me saying?
And, ultimately, is that OK?
One final question: Are my current associations helping me grow in the direction I want to go? If the answer is no, then you’ve got to work to disassociate yourself from those relationships and people.
Q: In what ways can I harness the power of gratitude, and what are the benefits of doing so?
C.W.: One of the best things we can do to improve the quality of our lives is to be grateful and develop an attitude of thankfulness. Spending some time thinking about how good you have it will shape and mold your attitude and develop healthy thought patterns that will make you more thankful. Here’s how:
Look down the socioeconomic chain instead of up. Focusing our thoughts on the things we don’t have, while being a motivator, can also be a source of envy and greed. Remembering those who have less than us causes us to be thankful for what we have.
Donate money to others on a regular basis.
Simplify. When we simplify, we realize how we can make do on so much less. It makes us thankful for all the extras.
Article Source: http://www.successmagazine.com/1on1-Living-Out-Front/PARAMS/article/616/channel/19
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