Month: February 2014

a powerful friday story from Insight of The Day on lowering stresses and living in the moment, yet also allowing yourself to remove the chaos which is constantly within our daily lives.

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what a powerful newsletter from Jim Rohn filed with ideas to change our lives,
each is useful within our daily lives. yet these simple steps to success are so
easy to do, yet they are also so easy not to do.
what separates those who are successful and those are unsuccessful is what
they do and are prepared to do as a person in order to achieve that success
which they so desire.
wishing you every success, abundant health, life, love and a huge hug
Jenny and Ben
Let me pass on to you these four simple steps to success:...

February 10, 2014

Four Steps to Success by Jim Rohn Let me pass on to you these four simple steps to success: 1. Collect good ideas. My mentor taught me to keep a journal when I was 25 years old. I've been doing it now all these years. They will be passed on to my children and my grandchildren. 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.

2. Have good plans. Have a good plan for the day, a good plan for the future, a good health plan, a good plan for your marriage. Building anything is like building a house—you need to have a plan. Now here is a good time management question: When should you start the day? Answer: As soon as you have it finished. It is like building a house, building a life. What if you just started laying bricks and somebody asks, "What are you building?" and you say, "I have no idea." Don’t start the house until you finish it. Now, is it possible to finish the house before you start it? Yes, but it would be foolish to start before you had it finished. Not a bad time management idea. Don't start the day until it is pretty well finished—at least the outline of the day. Leave some room to improvise. Leave some room for extra strategies, but finish it before you start it. CONTINUE reading below

Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn Career/Marketplace “Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.” *** “My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.” *** “We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not the time.” *** “The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.” *** Share Jim Rohn’s “Vitamins for the Mind” with Excerpts from The Treasury of Quotes, an elegant gold-foil and burgundy leatherette booklet that contains over 140 quotes on 20 selected topics. It’s a great gift for family, friends and business colleagues. Quantity pricing available!

“Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious I and Obvious II in school.” – Jim Rohn

Four Steps to Success CONTINUED from above And here is the next piece that is a little more challenging: Do not start the week until you have it finished. Lay it out, structure it, then put it to work. Then the next one is a little tougher yet; do not start the month until you have it finished.

And finally the big one, don't start the year until it is finished on paper. It's not a bad idea, toward the end of the year, to sit down with your family for the family structure plans, sit down in your business for the business plans, sit down with your financial advisor for your investments and map out the year... properties to buy, properties to sell, places to go with your family, lay out the year. 3. Learn to handle the passing of time. It takes time to build a career, it takes time to make changes, so give your project time, give your people time. If you're working with people, give them time to learn, grow, change, develop, produce. And here is the big one... give yourself time. It takes time to master something new. It takes time to make altered changes and refinement in philosophy as well as activity. Give yourself time to learn, time to get it, time to start some momentum, time to finally achieve. 4. Learn to solve problems, business problems, family problems, financial problems, emotional –challenges for us all. Here's the best way to treat a problem: as an opportunity to grow. Change if you have to, modify if you must, discard an old philosophy that wasn't working well for a new one. The best phrase my mentor ever gave me was when he said, "Mr. Rohn, if you will change, everything will change for you." Wow, I took that to heart, and sure enough the more I changed the more everything changed for me. So learn to master good ideas, have good plans, handle the passing of time and solve problems, and you will be on your way to more success than you could ever imagine! Do you want to find success? Jim Rohn’s 2004 Weekend Leadership Event, available at JimRohn.com, provides you with 24 hours of powerful listening, featuring special guests Denis Waitley, Brian Tracy and more—all with advice to get you where you want to be in leadership and life, to get you to success.

“It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.” – Jim Rohn

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Here is your Friday story,

The following is an excerpt from Life's Journey - Professional & Personal Wholeness. In it is included a section titled "Life Stories." These are encouraging, uplifting, true stories "from the heart" told by one of the readers. The story is intended to inspire and lift others up to discover their own inner strength to move forward with confidence. Here is one such story:

Never Stop Dreaming

I started to show textbook signs of becoming an entrepreneur just after high school. I was the second youngest in a large family. All of my older brothers and sisters had jobs; all my friends were working, or going off to college.

It seemed college was the next logical step for me. After all, I had suddenly found myself in a good situation. We didn’t have a lot of money growing up so I qualified for grants, and combined with a partial athletic scholarship I was getting paid to go to college. What a great way to spend the next four years right? I was out in three! Three weeks that is.

I didn’t know what I wanted, but was sure that whatever it was didn’t require a college education. I was ready to join the working class. I’d get a good job, put in my 30 years and kick back with a nice pension before I was 50. I had life pretty much all figured out by then, right?

The longest I ever stayed at any job was about eight weeks. I was never fired from a job, I just never stuck around very long either. I was determined to do what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it.

Have you noticed a reoccurring theme? I make decisions from my heart and not my brain. Once again, I followed my heart and started a painting business even though I had no business skills, or painting skills for that matter. The only thing I was sure of was I wanted to be in control of my destiny – in others words I wanted to be an entrepreneur!

At age eighteen I looked only fifteen. Probably why so few people hired me for painting, but that was okay. Freedom was a blast. I was the only boss of me. It didn’t matter how much money I made at first, only that I was working for myself. The worst day as a business owner was 100 times better than my best day working for others.

I was 21 and my wife Lisa 19 when we decided to do what all young, jobless dreamers do in the middle of a recession. We walked arm in arm out of our wedding into our happily ever after… unemployed!  For some strange reason my in-laws just didn’t see the humor?

Times were tough in the beginning; I was bound and determined to be a painting contractor. The only problem with that plan, I didn’t have the slightest clue how to run a painting business. I had to make it work.

It was the lowest point in my life, with my back against the wall, but I never stopped dreaming of better days ahead. Even though I had nothing, I still remember feeling sorry for my friends and family because they had what I called “real jobs.” 

For eight years I blamed the economy, the president, where I lived; I blamed everyone for my troubles but the person responsible - the one in the mirror. My sign finally came, in the form of three little words from Lisa.

“Terry, I’m pregnant.”

I found my motivation.

In that moment I realized I had shaped our lives to that point, and that I had the power to change it. After all, that was why I wanted to be an entrepreneur in the first place. 

Those three little words inspired me to stop complaining and take responsibility for my life, to reinvent myself, to take control of my business – my future. I stopped thinking of my customers as just a pay check and started treating them like friends. I learned to communicate trust, and my business went crazy!

Over the next seven months, and by the time I watched our son Andrew take his first breath, I had quadrupled my income. I changed dreams to goals and I took action until my goals became my reality. In hindsight the hardest part of realizing my dreams was making that mental shift.

I stopped playing the blame game and took ownership for my mistakes and shortcomings. That was the game-changer for me because until then, in my mind, it was always going to be someone else’s fault. Change is uncomfortable, but necessary if you want to grow. The day I took responsibility for my life was the day I took control of my future.

For me now, no matter how tough things get, all I have to do is think back to a time when I bought a Christmas present with penny rolls, and remind myself that even though I was at rock bottom; I never stopped dreaming. I clearly saw myself living exactly the life I have today. Dreams do come true!

I used to be embarrassed to tell anyone about those sorry, pitiful times in my life. Now, I talk about it in the hope that it will inspire anyone who can relate to realize the power of dreams. To understand the strength behind having a clear vision of anything you want. Life will not deny the person who makes up their mind to give it their all. Remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, and above all else, don’t ever stop dreaming.

Terry Begue

Terry Begue is now a painting contractor and speaks professionally about building businesses. Go to www.terrybegue.com and download your free copy of “How to be in Demand.”

Life's Journey - Professional & Personal Wholeness magazine is a monthly on-line magazine. The January "Featured Guide" was Bob Proctor with an exclusive two-part interview on, "Purpose, Vision, and Goals." Part two of Bob's exclusive interview will appear in the February, 2014 issue. Please visit: www.lifesjourneymag.com

Darryl S. Doane, Rose D. Sloat
Publishers: Life's Journey - Professional & Personal Wholeness magazine

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Mentors with a servants heart

Does making a living interfere with living your life????

Click here to download our free eBook success in 10 steps

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+61294467366 Feel free to call anytime