Jim Rohn… Thank You
Lyman Reed
May 16th, 2006
Uncategorized
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed that I’ve been posting ALOT about the various programs that I’m involved with over the internet lately.
Jim Rohn, “America’s Foremost Business Philosopher”, says something in his audio program The Art of Exceptional Living that has always stuck with me, but I’ve never really known how to practice.
“Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. Working hard on your job will make you a living; working hard on yourself will make you a fortune.”
I’m finally starting to understand what he means by that.
I’ve always been a “good employee.” I’m not a “that’s not my job” kind of guy. If someone asks me to do something for them, whether it’s a customer, the janitor, a co-worker, or the president of the company, I will do my best to help them out. No, not 100% of the time, but I will always give any request from anyone consideration.
But how about when I ask myself to do something, because it will make my own life better?
In the past, not so much…
I’ll bust my butt lugging a pallet of product by hand out of the warehouse for a customer who would only have to wait 10 mintes for a forklift driver to do it (and I’m a salesman, not a warehouse guy), but I wouldn’t take 10 minutes in the morning to before going to work to have a healthy breakfast.
I’ll spend an hour running around a jobsite doing everyone else’s job to make sure that a customer get’s what they want and need, but I won’t spend an hour a day learning how to design my life the way that I want it.
That was me, working harder on my job than I did on myself.
What I’ve been doing for the past couple of weeks is working harder on myself… and it feels great!
One of the dangers that I have, as Michael Dlouhy puts it in Success in 10 Steps, is becoming “a mile wide and an inch deep.”
“Weak everywhere instead of strong somewhere.”
I’m currently involved in 3 different daily activites while I work on myself:
1.) The Simpleology 102 Daily Exercises
2.) The 30-Day Mental Cleanse through Mentoring For Free.
3.) My daily EFT work on my smoking addiction.
That is more than enough. There are plenty of other things that I want to do as well, like sign up for Bob Doyle’s Six Figure Streams program, and work through Gary Vurnum’s Science of Success ebook, and participate in the daily training calls through Mentoring For Free, and… well, you get the idea.
But I’m doing enough now. If throw too much on, I’ll stop getting quality work done with what I’m involved in. Then I’ll start to slack off on something, and well, heck, if I can’t do it perfectly, why do it at all? But that’s for another post.
As long as I’m working on myself daily, making those small, incremental improvements, things are good, and they can only get better.
Does anyone out there identify with this?
| 3.2 |
Leave a Reply