Jim Rohn's seven simple strategies for a rich life: goals, learning, change, money, time, people, joy.
Rohn's own line: the major reason for setting a goal is to compel you to become the person it takes to achieve it. Write your long-range goals down - the becoming is the real prize.
Strategy One opens here: if your reasons for a goal are strong enough, you will find the answers, people, and resources. Weak reasons are why most goals quietly die.
All leaders are readers. Standard education brings standard results; self-education is how you pass them. Miss a meal if you must, Rohn says, but not your thirty minutes of learning.
Rerun the tapes: review each day, week, and year, and write what you learn in a journal. Experience only turns into wisdom - and value - when you record it and ponder it.
Shoaff's lesson that turned Rohn's life around. What you become is far more important than what you get - income rarely rises above personal development.
The rest of this summary — and the one thing to do this week — is in the PDF.
Download the free PDFJim Rohn grew up on an Idaho farm and, at twenty-five, was broke, behind on his bills, and earning fifty-seven dollars a week. Then he met Earl Shoaff, the mentor who taught him a philosophy of fundamentals over the next five years. This book is that philosophy, organized into seven strategies. It opens by defining five key words - fundamentals, wealth, happiness, discipline, and success - and insists that success is nothing exotic: it is the natural result of applying a half-dozen fundamentals, consistently.
The first two strategies build the inner engine. Unleash the power of goals: set long-range goals in writing, get your reasons straight first, and let each goal compel you to become the person it takes to achieve it. Then seek knowledge two ways - from your own life, by reflecting on your days and keeping a journal, and from the lives of others, through books, tapes, and watching winners and losers. Thirty minutes of learning a day, never missed, is the minimum dose.
