Day: 12 February 2013

A wonderful article from Les Brown on seeking out those rite people, leaving those critics behind. Stop listening to them full time, yes you need a support crew of people who you trust. These people have to believe in you as a person until you can believe in yourself. As appeared in Jim Rohn’s Newsletter

Seeking Out Quality People
by Les Brown

It is important to align yourself with what I call OQP, Only Quality People. You should endeavor to surround yourself only with people who will enrich and empower you, people who will enable you to transcend yourself and to grow. This sort of support group, your pit crew for progress in your life, can strengthen you in moments of weakness and bring you up when you are down.

Surround yourself with people who share your vision and who also are willing to support you in pursuing that vision. You cannot make it alone in this journey. If you find relationships that are not mutually constructive, if someone brings you down rather than challenges and elevates you, then you must make a decision. Can you transform this into a healthy relationship or do you need to sever it?

That does not mean of course that all of the people around you should be your yes-men. You will never grow if you are surrounded by backslapping sycophants. Although I hate being criticized by friends, I do have some trusted critics. These are people who tell me the things I need to hear. I trust their judgment, I trust their vision of me. They challenge me and make me stretch mentally and intellectually, personally and spiritually.

I get feedback from them that I would not get anywhere else and even though it doesn't always feel good to hear their criticisms and challenges, I know they care about me and about my growth. So I listen and learn.

We all need someone to coach us now and then. We cannot grow in a vacuum. We have to be willing to seek out those with wisdom and say, "I don't know what to do; help me." The fighter and philosopher, "Smokin' Joe" Frazier, said, "All of us are like the blind man at some point in our lives, standing on the corner, waiting for someone to lead us across."

You are not joined at the hip with your friends. Be prepared to acknowledge when a relationship has soured and to go your separate way. It does not have to be an angry parting. Just say, "Look here, we are growing in different directions. Our values have changed. Our goals and objectives are different now. Maybe we need to shake hands and say good-bye." Being able to break away from toxic friend- ships can make the difference between living your dreams or living a nightmare

From Jim Rohn’s newsletter

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Some wonderful lessons from Vitamins for the mind by Jim Rohn. From Jim Rohn’s newsletter.

Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn

Lessons of a Lifetime

“Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you. It can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract and accumulate by the person you become.”

"If you could do better, should you? It’s not a bad question to ask. If I could do better, should I? If I could read more, should I read more? If I could try more should I try more? If I could expand my business and help more people, make my enterprise more successful, should I do that? And there’s always the contest of how far to go and how much to do….If you’ve got one little successful business going, should you double it? Should you triple it? Do not let expansion absorb all of your time or take away time that you should be devoting to in your life: your business and your friendships and your family. It is a never ending challenge: priorities and reordering priorities in your life."

"Be faithful when the amounts are small. If you wish to preside over riches, you must start when the amounts are small."

"Life is worthwhile if you try. Try to make a difference, try to make some progress, try to learn a new skill, try to learn a new sport. It's worthwhile if you try. Doesn’t mean you can do everything, but there's a lot of things you could do if you just try."

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From Jim Rohn’s newsletter on lessons of a lifetime.

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The following is from Jim Rohn’s newsletter on success and it being easy to and yet it is also easy not to do as a person. It takes work, time and patience and becoming that better person who is worthy of success. You have to develop into that leader weather it takes you 5 years, 10 years, 15 years. Eventually you are going arrive at that point and be a wonderful inspirational leader. Yet the question is what personal development are you doing to become that leader as a person.

Success is Easy, But So is Neglect
by Jim Rohn

People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple: The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I found it easy to set the goals that could change my life. They found it easy not to. I found it easy to read the books that could affect my thinking and my ideas. They found that easy not to. I found it easy to attend the classes and the seminars, and to get around other successful people. They said it probably really wouldn't matter. If I had to sum it up, I would say what I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. Six years later, I'm a millionaire and they are all still blaming the economy, the government, and company policies, yet they neglected to do the basic, easy things.

In fact, the primary reason most people are not doing as well as they could and should, can be summed up in a single word: neglect.

It is not the lack of money - banks are full of money. It is not the lack of opportunity - America, and much of the free World, continues to offer the most unprecedented and abundant opportunities in the last six thousand years of recorded history. It is not the lack of books – libraries are full of books – and they are free! It is not the schools – the classrooms are full of good teachers. We have plenty of ministers, leaders, counselors and advisors.

Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply neglect.

Neglect is like an infection. Left unchecked it will spread throughout our entire system of disciplines and eventually lead to a complete breakdown of a potentially joy-filled and prosperous human life.

Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results suffer, our attitude begins to weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow shift from positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes even more... and on and on it goes.

So my suggestion is that when giving the choice of "easy to" and "easy not to" that you do not neglect to do the simple, basic, "easy"; but potentially life-changing activities and disciplines.

From Jim Rohn’s newsletter, a wonderful article on becoming worth more and its easy to do. Yet its also not easy to do as a person.

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Friendly cooperation always pays off because this sort of teamwork creates a positive mental attitude, which does not recognize obstacles. | Napoleon Hill Foundation

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