Jim Rohn is the most inspirational motivational speaker I have ever seen. He appeals to me because he is very concise and his comments are extremely profound and digestible. More commonly referred to as a Business Philospher Jim Rohn has mentored millions of people via his seminars, books and videos aswell as personally mentoring hundreds of people including motivational speaker Tony Robbins.
Having listened to Tony Robbins for many months without results (they always led to him needing you to buy more of his products !!) I looked into Tony Robbins' background and heard that he was mentored by a man called Jim Rohn. I looked Jim up and came across his seminar called 'How to have the best life ever'. I watched it and it changed my life. Needless to say I never listened to another Tony Robbins CD again.
The seminar is jam packed with excellent information, reassurance, encouragement, fantastic quotes aswell as simple and powerful philosophies. Below is the video and the notes/transcript I made when I was listening to the seminar. The notes like Jim are concise and to the point !.
I hope that this seminar is as enjoyable and insightful as it was for me. I would love to hear your Jim Rohn stories in my comments section, so please share.
Without further ado the legend Jim Rohn.
How To Have The Best Life Ever - Jim Rohn Seminar
I hope that this seminar is as enjoyable and insightful as it was for me. I would love to hear your Jim Rohn stories in my comments section, so please share.
Without further ado the legend Jim Rohn.
How To Have The Best Life Ever - Jim Rohn Seminar
Seminar Notes Of Jim Rohn's Philosophy And Quotes
Time is more valuable than money, you can always get more money but you can never get more time.
Make sure what you do is the product of your own conclusion - Don’t be a follower be a student
Information or a person may be shown to a multitude of
people but you will always get a different reaction. Some people will believe,
some people will be confused, some people will mock and laugh. DONT try and
straighten this out, the mockers and laughers will always mock and laugh.
A persons personal philosophy is a major factor of how someones life turns out. - Each person’s personal philosophy is like the set of the sail
Definition of failure : A few errors in judgement repeated everyday. If you continue to do it, it will accumulate into disaster. Look at them (errors) as to what they will cost you in 6 months, 6 years etc.
Definition of success : A few simple disciplines practiced everyday.
Eliminate the errors and replace it with disciplines
practiced.
Don't wish things were easier, wish that you were better.
Start where its easy and then move onto the more complicated
disciplines.
Attitude – We’re affected by how we feel about the past. Use it as a school not a club that we beat ourselves with. How you feel about the future – set goals, promise of the future – without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.
How you feel about everybody else – you have to feel good
about people as it takes people to make a business, economy , country systems.
How you feel about yourself. Understanding self worth, if
anyone can do it, you can do it. IF HE CAN DO IT I CAN DO IT.
Life change does not start with inspiration, it starts with education. Education to see where you’ve messed up.
Question to ask as you make a list – “What am i not doing
that would be easy to do, that could greatly change my health and my wealth”.
If you handed a problem to a miracle worker what would he
say..... “No problem”. You’ve gotta hang out with people like that. People like
that would read as many books as it takes to solve the problem, they would do
whatever it takes.
Could + should + wont = disaster
Could + should + don’t = disaster
Could + should + will = Action (miracle)
Do what you can – Clean up the things that you should be
doing.
Results you have to take a measure and see how you are
doing. Results are all there is , the only thing that matters.
Success is a numbers game. Check your own numbers.
If you wish to be wealthy , study wealth. How good is your current economic plan. Why wouldn’t you have a superior financial plan that is going to take you to where you want to go.
If you wish to be happy, study happiness. Happiness isn’t something you postpone it is
something you design, it’s a study , a practice and an art. Don’t be lazy in
learning, how to do well and how to live well.
Its not what happens that determines your future, its what
you do about it - You cannot change the circumstances but you can change
yourself.
What you have at the moment you’ve attracted from the person
you’ve become. If you will change, everything will change for you. To have more
you simply have to become more.
Dont wish for less problems, wish for more skills.
We get paid by bringing value to the marketplace – marketplace is also described as “reality”. It takes time to bring value to the market place. We don’t get paid for time , we get paid for value.
If you’re not very valuable you don’t get much money.
You can’t get rich by demand.
Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you’ll make a living, if you work hard on yourself you’ll make a fortune.
Life and business is like the seasons. You cannot change the seasons but you can change yourself.
Human history – life = opportunity mixed with difficulty
- Learn how to handle the
winters. The downtime , the discouraging time , when things go wrong. In
winter, get wiser, stronger and better.
- Learn how to take
advantage of the spring. Spring follows winter. Spring is called
‘opportunity’, everyday is a new opportunity. Opportunity keeps coming but you need to
take advantage. Learn to plant in the spring. Sieze the day , seize the
moment, seize the opportunity.
- In the summer learn how to
nourish and protect. Become capable to nourish whats good and defend
yourself from threats. As soon as you plant your garden weeds and bugs
will try and take it and they will unless your protect it. Deal with the
weeds, kill the weeds. Take sword to your enemies. Love like a mother hate
like a father. Anything that is valuable to you, you have to nourish and
defend it.
- In autumn/ harvest. Learn
to reap without complaint. Take full responsibility for what you get. No
complaint and no apology. No complaint if you haven’t done badly and no
apology if you’ve done well.
Take care of yourself. Treat your body like a temple –
something you take extremely good care of. Its the only place you’ve got to
live. Vitality is a major part of
success.
Appearance is important. Never have a second chance to make
a first impression. God looks on the inside, people look on the outside. Makes
sure the outside is a major reflection of what is happening on the inside.
Spirituality – study it and practice it.
Personal development, mental development takes time.
Be ready to defend your virtues and your values. Information is the key, learning is the beginning of wealth, health, prosperity.
Casualness leads to casualties.
Learn to respond – let life touch you, don’t let it kill you but let is touch. Let sad things make you sad, let happy things make you happy. Give into the emotions. Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. Its important to know how to feel and how to respond.
Develop the ability to reflect, study it again – go back over
the notes, mp3s video. Go back over the day, keep a journal to capture that
day. Lock in the experience the knowledge, colour emotion and picture. Take a
few hours at the end of the week as time to reflect, go back over your
calendar. Take half a day at the end of the month. Solitude is important in reflecting especially
if there is alot going on and people are demanding your time.Its important to reflect because the aim is to make the past
more valuable so it serves you in the future. Its powerful to gather up the
past and invest it in the future.
Work on yourself and then you bring more value to every area
of your life. Self development is the best contribution. Not self sacrifice as
this only attracts contempt self development attracts respect. Self sacrifice
is not noble. “I’ll take care of me for you, if you please take care of you for
me”. Develop the strength and the power, so that we bring more and we do this
if you follow the absorb, respond and reflect.
Develop the ability to act- not hasty if it isn’t required
but don’t waste much time. The time to act is when the idea is hot and the
emotion is strong. Action as soon as possible, the law of diminishing intent.
If you don’t put the idea into action it diminishes over time. Set up a
discipline. Disciplines are how you capture capture the emotion and the wisdom
and transform it into equity. All disciplines affect each other. Everything
affects everything else. Everything matters.
Every let down affects the rest of your performance.
Every new disciplines affects the rest. Greatest value of
discipline is self worth, self esteem and self respect. When you do less than
your best it starts to erode your psyche. Neglect starts as an infection and if
you don’t take care of it, it becomes a disease and one neglect leads to
another it diminishes our self worth, self value and self esteem.
"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."
Poor people don’t talk like they talk don’t do what they do, don’t blame what they blame. Do the best you can.
Rest very little. Make rest a necessity not an objective. The purpose of life isn’t to rest its to act.
Invest your life in disciplines so its not wasted.
Develop the ability to share, if you get a good idea, pass it along. If you share with 10 different people they get to hear it once you get to hear it 10 times.
When someone shares everybody wins. If you share it makes
you bigger than you are. You should want your capacity to grow so you can hold
more of the next experience.
If you’re small you don’t get much, if you’re small in comprehension, think and wonder, appreciation it doesn’t matter how much prosperity is poured on you you wont get it.
Goals are your vision of the future. Two ways to face the future. 1. With apprehension 2. With anticipation.
People face life with apprehension because they don’t have their life well designed so they fall into someone else plans. And what do people have planned for you ‘not much’. You have to count on your own ability to design the future. If you are apprehensive and take hesitant steps for six years it will mount up in disaster. The price is easy if the promise is clear and powerful.
If you can’t see, you don’t want to pay the price.
Goals : Decide what you want and write it down. The reason why you set a big goal isn’t to get the goal its what it makes of you in your pursuit of it. The greatest value in life isn’t what you get, its what you become.
Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them. What will this make of me in this process.
Dont set your goals to low. Dont join an easy crowd you wont grow. Go where the expectation, pressure and demand is high.
Dont compromise and don’t sell out. Count the cost. The greatest source of unhappiness is self unhappiness. Doing less than you can thats where it starts, not feeling good about yourself.
Financial
These numbers are the ideal. Its not the amount that counts its the plan that counts. If you had a better plan you would have more money. This the philosophy it is the set of sail.
“ If your outgo exceeds your income then your upkeep becomes
your downfall”
Become profit minded - Leave a profit every where some are tangible some are intangible. Just leave something better than you left it. Dont leave it worse – touch something and leave it better than you found it. Become a person who leaves a profit don’t be a person that whatever you touch turns to trash, whatever you touch gets dirty, nothing you touch gets better , its poor philosophy no wonder it leads to poverty, small lives as one writer called it ‘living a life of quiet desperation’.
- Keep strict accounts this
is the best of disciplines.
- A new attitude. Get passed
hating to pay taxes. Taxes are how you feed and take care of the goose
that lays the golden egg. Better a fat goose than no goose. Not everyone
hates to pay there bills, it is possible to love to pay your bills, reduce
your liabilities increase your assets. Keep the money in circulation.
- Everybody must pay. We
must all pay a price.
Communication
Words can work miracles. Is it possible to create light with
words. Nothing more magical or powerful than words as they can affect people
lives.
Have something good to say. Communication starts with
preparation.
Interest – develop a new interest in life, in people, economics, politics religion.
Fascination – kids learn so much first 6 years because they are so fascinated. Turn frustration into fascination if you can, you’ll learn more.
Sensitivity – is so important. People that aren’t like you, where people are coming from where they’ve bin, people that have difficulties and challenges where they find themselves. He was touched and moved by where he found people. Remembering what its like to be in that situation that is the key to sensitivity. If i want to get in touch with other peoples difficulty i need to remember my own difficulty and let it hurt again. Emotion close to the surface and then well chosen words delivered with emotion.
Say it well
- Sincerity
- Repetition – it is the
mother of all skill
- Brevity – sometimes you
don’t need many words if you’re sincere. Jesus could attract followers
with few words because “OF ALL THAT HE WAS THAT HE DIDN’T HAVE TO SAY”.
- Vocabulary – definitely a
relationship between vocabulary and behaviour. The more limited the
vocabulary the more tendency for poor behaviour. Words are a way of seeing
and if you don’t have a good vocabulary you cant see very well. Words are
a way of expressing whats going on in your head and your heart. Stretch
your vocabulary.
- Read your audience – if
you’re talking to someone read there face body language to see if you
should come on a little stronger, ease back etc. Read by what you see –
body language. Read what you hear and listen to the response. Read what
you feel – read the emotional signals.
- Intensity – words mixed
with emotion. Words mixed with hate, love, faith, courage that is what is
powerful. Put more of you into what
you say. Don't be casual in words. Emotions must be measured, it can’t be
too much for the occasion if its not called for. Don't shoot a cannon at a
rabbit. “ WELL CHOSEN WORDS MIXED WITH MEASURED EMOTION”. The more you
care the stronger you can be.
There is a time to laugh and a time to cry. How can you
identify with people if you can’t feel their emotions. Learn to master the
negative, it makes us better than we are to wrestle with it.
The day that turns your life around
- Disgust – I’ve had it !.
The day you say enough is enough.
- Decision – Clean up a list
of decision it could furnish enough inspiration for the next 5 ten years.
- Desire – wanting to bad
enough. Sometimes desire waits for a trigger. Confrontation with an enemy
a friend that finally levels with you. Welcome every experience you never
know what is gonna turn everything on.
Break down the walls, the same walls that keep out disappointment
keeps out happiness.
- Resolve – says ‘i will’ two of the most powerful words in the language. Promise yourself that you will never give up. Promise yourself you will read and watch seminars UNTIL you get it. You’ll discover the worlds best treasure when you pay that price.
If you work on your gifts they will make room for you.
