Conversations With Millionaires - Jim Rohn

I’m starting to like Jim Rohn more by the day. Above is a video collection of his most inspirational quotes. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE them. I know you will too!

CWM bkMike Litman is one of my favorite coaches online.

He co-authored the book Conversations With Millionaires
with Jason Oman, which I think is worth every penny.

Mike Litman asks questions that make the mentors reveal
their secrets to success.

Today I want to share with you the conversation Mike had
with Jim Rohn.

There’s so many golden nuggets in this conversation so I
want you to brace yourself for this will be quite a long
and valuable entry to you.

Not for the faint of heart.

I’ve recently started practising the “one hack a day”
concept taught by Mr Jack Canfield, but sometimes my
ego gets in the way when I think that doing a bit more
than I am willing to won’t make any difference in the
grander scheme of things.

I mean, it’s so easy to do!

It couldn’t be of any consequence!

Which is why these words jumped out of the page right
at me:

“I also teach that the things that are easy to do
are easy not to do.

If you want to learn a new language, three words
a day, at the end of the year it gives you a
vocabulary of a thousand words.

It’s just easy to, but it’s easy not to.

It’s easier to hope it will get better than to start
the process of making it better.

That is really the theme of my seminars.”

Makes you think doesn’t it?

365 x 3 = 1095

What if you were to learn a bit more daily.

I’m not talking abt 3.

Not even 2.

Just ONE more word per day:

365 X 4 = 1460

That’s right!

One word more per day will yield you a stronger vocabulary
by almost 400 words!

But then again, it’s always easier not to learn that one
more word.

Run 1 minute longer.

Save 1 more dollar.

Jim Rohn has some words on this too:

“We suffer one of two things. Either the
pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
You’ve got to choose discipline, versus regret,
because discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs
tons.”

Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.

Wow! How’s that for pain?!

“But SaiF! I DREAM BIG!”

“You know, if mom said, ‘an apple a day’, and the
guy says, ‘well, no. I’m not into the apple a day, I’ve
got my fingers crossed and I think everything is
going to be okay.’, you’ve just got to say, ‘this is a
foolish person.’

It doesn’t matter what it is. You don’t have to take
giant steps at first.

To have an incredible increase in self-esteem, all
you have to do is start doing some little something.
Whether it is to benefit your health, benefit your
marriage, or to benefit your business, or your career.
You can eat the first apple of the new apple a
day philosophy along with some other things you
have decided to do… I’m going to have all the vitality I
need. I’m munching on the first apple.

You don’t have to revolutionize all at once. Just
start.

It doesn’t take a revolution. You don’t have to do
spectacularly dramatic things for self-esteem to start
going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any
easy discipline. Then another one and another one.
It doesn’t take but just a collection of those new
easy disciplines to start giving you the idea that
you’re going to change every part of your life:
financial, spiritual, social.

A year from now, you’ll be almost unrecognizable
as the mediocre person you may have been up until
now. All of that can change.

It doesn’t change over night. But, it does change
with a change in thought and philosophy.

Pick up a new discipline and start it immediately.”

“But it’s just so hard… There’s so many big
obstacles in front of me!”

“Start with the easy ones first. It doesn’t matter.
Like making the necessary contacts in whatever
business you’re in.

If you make three phone calls a day, in a year
that’s a thousand.

Three does not sound like much. But, in a year
it’s a thousand.

If you make three positive calls a day, if you
make a thousand positive calls, something
phenomenal is going to happen to your life.”

“Ok I get it Saif..

Small things add up.

That’s common sense..”

GREAT!

But I got one question for you:

Is it common practice?

Ahhh….

I got you there didn’t I?

;)

“You’ve got to practice. You have to do the deal.
You read this book on good health, right? It talks
about nutrition and it talks about exercise.

Then in the middle of the book the author says,
“Now reader, set this book aside. Fall on the floor
and see how many push ups you can do.” Then, of course,
you don’t do that.

So, you read on and the author says,
“If you didn’t set this book aside and if you didn’t
fall on the floor to see how many push ups you can do,
why don’t you just give this book away? Why bother
yourself with reading if you’re not going to pick an
idea and try it?”

That’s such great advice.”

WORD.

Ok, I have something to confess. This makes me regret
reading the books and listening to audio tapes of
similar nature.

You know the part where they say,”Do this exercise before
moving on to the next chapter”.

Because I know the MAGIC is in taking action.

It’s so easy to do, but it’s also easy not to.

You know how sometimes million dollar companies
start with no intention of becoming one.

Jim Rohn said something that might give us a clue
as to why people like Tyler Dikman are millionaires.

“Set a goal to become millionaire for what it
makes of you to achieve it.”

He said, “Do it for the skills you have to learn and
the person you have to become. Do it for what you’ll
end up knowing about the marketplace, what you’ll
learn about the management of time and working
with people. Do it for the ability of discovering how to
keep your ego in check. For what you have to learn
about being benevolent. Being kind as well as being
strong. What you have to learn about society and
business and government and taxes and becoming
an accomplished person to reach the status of
millionaire.

All that you have learned and all that you’ve
become to reach the status of millionaire is what’s
valuable. Not the million dollars.

If you do it that way, then once you become a
millionaire, you can give all the money away.
Because it’s not the money that’s really important.

What’s important is the person you have become.”
That was one of the best pieces of philosophy I
have ever heard in my life.

I first heard this philosophy at National Achiever’s
Congress 07 from T Harv Eker, author of “The Millionaire
Mind” and I think it’s one of those concepts that
are hard to believe but prove time and again to be true.

Just like the law of attraction.

You don’t have years, you have times

‘In ninety years you have ninety spring times. If
some guy says, you know, “I got twenty more years.”

You say, “no. You got twenty more times.”

If you go fishing once a year you only have
twenty more times to go fishing. Now that starts to
make it a bit more critical.

Not that I have a whole twenty more years, but just
twenty more times.

How valuable do I want to make these twenty times?’

That just BLEW ME OFF my high horse!

Now that he puts it that way, the “live in the moment”
advice suddenly becomes so wow!

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL PARADIGM-SHIFTING!

I know this is a bit too much information to take in
one day but I’ve got one last one for you:

Don’t start the day until you have it finished.

Plan the day to the best of your abilities.

Because each day is a piece of the mosaic of
your life.

You can either just cross your fingers and say, “I
hope it will work out okay,” or you can give it some
attention and say, “here’s what I would like to
accomplish in the next twenty four hours.”

Just look at it that way and do a lot of it up front
or maybe the night before. Start the day after you
finished it.

SaiF Improvement For The Day: GOSH! There’s
so many for today.

GO THE EXTRA MILE.

WIN THE INCHES EVERY DAY.

LIVE IN THE MOMENT KNOWING YOU ONLY HAVE A
FEW TIMES LEFT.

CREATE YOUR LIFE BY CREATING YOUR DAYS IN ADVANCE.

To CANI,

SaiF

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2 Comment(s)

  1. Wow! Fantastic stuff!! Makes me want to plan my days better, counting the times I have to accomplish more in my life.

    Rina | Feb 23, 2008 | Reply

  2. Yes DEFINITELY!

    You just have a few times more to comment on SaiF Improvement, too! lol ;)

    To CANI,

    SaiF | Feb 23, 2008 | Reply

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