From Making a Living to Creating a Lifestyle

An amazing newsletter from Jim Rohn this week on creating a lifestyle rather than making a living.
Thank you for your amazing wisdom Jim,
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 at age 25…
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December 2, 2013 From Making a Living to Creating a Lifestyle by Jim Rohn 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 at age 25, my mentor Earl Shoaff taught me to let it serve as a new inspiration for lifestyle. Take my family to dinner after I’d had two or three pretty good weeks and it looked like it was going to continue. I would say, “Today we get to order from only the left hand side of the menu—we don’t have to look at the right hand side.” It didn’t cost much, just a little extra. But you can’t believe the effect on the family. Wow—that these are new days. It’s called changing your life as well as changing your skills when earning more money. It’s best to invest some of that early money in lifestyle. Go to the movies. Go to the concerts. My parents said don’t miss anything. Don’t miss the play, the music, the songs, the performances, the movie—whatever is happening. When I started making some extra money I opened up an account for my wife and I called it the “No Questions Asked Account.” I said, “Here is the checkbook for a new account, and it’s called No Questions Asked. I’ll just keep putting money in there and you spend it for whatever you wish.” It was life changing. It wasn’t a fortune. But she didn’t have to ask for money any more. I could sense that it was a little embarrassing at times when she had to ask me for money. I thought, that’s not good, so the first time I get a chance, here’s what I’m going to do. And sure enough, I did it. The “No Questions Asked Account.” You can’t believe what that did. It was absolutely amazing.CONTINUE reading below Vitamins for the Mind by Jim RohnCommunication/Persuasion “Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.” *** “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. Good communication starts with good preparation.” *** “Learn to express, not impress.” *** “Effective communication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel about what you know.” *** Find more “Vitamins for the Mind” in The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn, a 124-page hardbound book available at JimRohn.com. “For every promise, there is a price to pay.” – Jim Rohn

From Making a Living to Creating a Lifestyle CONTINUED from above With that little extra money, work at creating lifestyle. Social friendships, church, community, country. All those things that make a composite of our overall life. Start furnishing that with new vigor, vitality, money, whatever it takes to expand your life into what I call the good life as well as economics.

When I discovered those kinds of concepts at age 25, you can imagine it was hard for me to sleep nights that first year. I got so excited about changing everything. And one discipline leads to another. One change leads to another. Feeling good about yourself and starting to make the turn to do something you’ve never done before, then it starts to work, wow, and then you get excited about changing other areas of your life as well. Now after you have made your fortune, the money might not seem as big a deal. Fortunately you can then create even more powerful opportunities, in particular, opportunities for benevolence, philanthropy and giving. Now I’m certainly not saying to focus only on external pleasures and rewards. Your relationships, health and spirituality are all of more consequence. But in the beginning, when the rewards of your hard work begin paying off, make sure and treat yourself and those closest to you to a new world of lifestyle and celebrations. If you know you want something in your life to change, you just need that one moment, that one episode, one realization, one action. Make that magical moment appear with The Day That Turns Your Life Around, available at JimRohn.com. “The most important question to ask on the job is not ‘What am I getting?’ The most important question to ask on the job is ‘What am I becoming?’” – Jim Rohn
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